Theatre category: 6638 books
Theatre & Stage Photography
A Guide to Capturing Images of Theatre, Dance, Opera, and Other Performance Events
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Documenting theatrical and stage events under the often dramatic lighting designed for the production provides a number of specific photographic challenges, and is unlike most every other branch of photography. Theatre & Stage Photography provides an overview of basic photography as it applies...
Certain Fragments
Texts and Writings on Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
What is the relationship between performance and play? Between performance and technology? Between performance and death?
Certain Fragments is an extraordinary exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, acknowledged...
Performance and Cognition
Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2006
This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work,...
Church and Stage
The Theatre as Target of Religious Condemnation in Nineteenth Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Throughout nineteenth century America, religious officials often condemned the theatre as an inversion of the house of God, similar to the church in architectural structure and organization but wholly different in purpose and values. This book explores the many ways in which religious institutions...
Through the Body
A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
A step-by-step guide to Physical Theatre in both theory and practice - full of detailed exercises and inspiring ideas.
In Through the Body, based on twelve years of teaching physical theatre, Dymphna Callery introduces the reader to the principles behind the work of certain key 20th-century...
by James Seabright
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
A comprehensive guide to every aspect of producing a show, from raising the money to creating a hit.
This unique guide offers comprehensive, clear advice to anyone producing or selling a show, whatever the venue or scale. Packed full of insights and tricks of the trade, it will give you the...
Elizabethan Jacobean Drama
The Theatre in Its Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1998
The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to diaries and letters. Part I, The Theatre and the...
The Drama's Patrons
A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. —Samuel Johnson, 1747 Democratic ferment, responsible for political explosions in the seventeenth century and expanded power in the eighteenth, affected all phases of English life. The theatre reflected...
Unmaking Mimesis
Essays on Feminism and Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
In Unmaking Mimesis Elin Diamond interrogates the concept of mimesis in relation to feminism, theatre and performance. She combines psychoanalytic, semiotic and materialist strategies with readings of selected plays by writers as diverse as Ibsen, Brecht, Aphra Behn, Caryl Churchill and Peggy Shaw.
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by Alexander Leggatt
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Jacobean Public Theatre recovers for the modern reader the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. It relates this drama to the popular culutre of the day and concludes with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear, which emerge in an unexpected light as the products of popular tradition.
by Philip Butterworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This volume brings together important records of medieval theatre practice between 1400 and 1580. The records are drawn from a wide range of spheres including civic, ecclesiastical, trade and guild records and consist of payments for materials, techniques and services; also included are some eye witness...
The London Stage 1890-1959
Accumulated Indexes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Theatre in London has celebrated a rich and influential history, and in 1976 the first volume of J. P. Wearing’s reference series provided researchers with an indispensable resource of these productions. In the decades since the original calendars were produced, several research aids have become...
Contemporary Theatre Review
Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
First published in 1999, 'Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today' is an important contribution to Performance.
by Patrice Pavis
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake politically and aesthetically when cultures meet at the crossroads of theatre.?
A series of major recent productions are...