Theatre category: 6638 books
by Donatella Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The central importance of the actor-author is a distinctive feature of Italian theatrical life, in all its eclectic range of regional cultures and artistic traditions. The fascination of the figure is that he or she stands on both sides of one of theatre's most important power relationships:...
Electoral Guerrilla Theatre
Radical Ridicule and Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Praise for the First Edition:
'A major contribution to performance studies*.* If cynicism and political quietism have quelled your impulse to rage against this sorry state of affairs, Bogad demonstrates, with wit and verve, that it is possible to expose the sham and, through a variety of performative...
Lustgarten Plays: 1
A Day At the Racists; If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep; Black Jesus; Shrapnel: 34 Fragments of a Massacre; Kingmakers; The Insurgents
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The first play collection from Anders Lustgarten, "perhaps Britain's most visible and visibly engaged political playwright" (Time Out London), containing plays from the start of his career up to 2015with the most recent play in the collection, Shrapnel, and one previously unpublished play.The...
The Second Birth of Theatre
Performances of Anglo-Saxon Monks
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This book presents a new approach to early English theatre by exposing a genuine relationship between monastic performances and theatricality. It argues that modern theatre was reinvented in Anglo-Saxon monasteries by monks who were required to transform themselves by disciplining their bodies and...
Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage
Post-Millennial Adaptations in British Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This book investigates the development of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in British theatre since the turn of the millennium. Sherlock Holmes has become a cultural phenomenon all over again in the twenty-first century, as a result of the television series Sherlock and Elementary, and films like Mr Holmes...
by Joel Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Examining the relationship between theatre and photography, this book shows how the two intertwine and provide vantage points for understanding each other. Joel Anderson explores the theory and practice of photographing theatre and performance, as well as theatre and photography's mutual preoccupation with posing, staging, framing, and stillness.
Tragedy in the Age of Oprah
Essays on Five Great Plays
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
In an era of Twitter and televised therapy, it may seem that classic theatre has little place in contemporary society. Accustomed to the indulgences of a celebrity-driven culture, how can modern audiences understand and interpret classic works of drama?
In Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays...
by Karin Barber, John Collins, Alain Ricard
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 1997
"... a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature... " —Research in African Literatures
"Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin
"A seminal...
A Practical Guide to Greener Theatre
Introduce Sustainability Into Your Productions
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Protecting the environment should be a priority of every theatrical production, but it can be challenging to mount an environmentally-friendly show with limited time, resources, and information. A Practical Guide to Greener Theatre: Introduce Sustainability Into Your Productions not only gives you...
by Nick Worrall
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Unprecedented in its comprehensiveness, The Moscow Art Theatre fills a large gap in our knowledge of Stanislavsky and his theatre. Worrall focuses in particular detail on four of The Moscow Art Theatre's best-known productions:
* Tolstoy's Tsar Fedor Ioannovich
* Gorky's The Lower Depths
* Chekov's The Cherry Orchard
* Turgenev's A Month in the Country
by Ian Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
*Winner of the 1989/90 Tonight/AA Life Vita Award for Comedy in Theatre*
"The play is brilliant."(Weekly Mail) "A very fine, thoughtful piece of writing that has both a message and is very very funny." (The Star)
An award-winning South African theatre play, written...
Samhain (Routledge Revivals)
October 1901 - November 1908
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
First published in 1970, this book includes all of the annual editions and also a final pamphlet of Samhain: October 1901 – November 1908, a literary magazine edited by W. B. Yeats. Samhain was one of the several magazines that the Irish Literary Theatre (later to become The Abbey Theatre) produced...
Birch Plays: 1
Where the Shot Rabbits Lay; Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall; The Brink; Black Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Birch Plays: 1 celebrates the work of Welsh writer Brad Birch. Winner of the 2016 Harold Pinter Commission for the Royal Court Theatre Birch is the writer in residence at Undeb Theatre and is currently on attachment at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. His work has been produced...
by Mirella Schino
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The Odin Teatret Archives presents collections from the archives of one of the foremost reference points in global theatre.
Letters, notes, work diaries, articles, and a wealth of photographs all chart the daily activity that underpins the life of Odin Teatret, telling the adventurous, complex...