Theatre category: 6638 books
Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II
The Time of Joseph Haydn: From Sultan Mahmud I to Mahmud II (r.1730-1839)
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The Time of Joseph Haydn: From Sultan Mahmud I to Sultan Mahmud II (r.1730-1839), the second volume of Ottoman Empire and European Theatre, explores the relationship between Western playwrights, composers and visual artists of the eighteenth-century and Turkish-Ottoman culture, as well as the interest...
by Alan Perks, Jacqueline Porteous
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
AS Drama and Theatre Studies: The Essential Introduction for Edexcel is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the new specification. The textbook covers all aspects of the AS year in depth, from exploring play texts to demonstrating skills in performance and theatre design. The detailed guidance...
Re-Dressing the Canon
Essays on Theatre and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Re-Dressing the Canon examines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical analysis. Alisa Solomon discusses both canonical texts and contemporary productions in a lively jargon-free style....
Performing Asian Transnationalisms
Theatre, Identity, and the Geographies of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This book makes a significant contribution to interdisciplinary engagements between Theatre Studies and Cultural Geography in its analysis of how theatre articulates transnational geographies of Asian culture and identity. Deploying a geographical approach to transnational culture, Rogers analyses...
Engaging Stages
Best Practice in Creative Audience Development for the Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Engaging Stages is a hands-on guide for theatre makers and creative leaders to inform and inspire about strategic approaches to public engagement. Published by the Theatron Engaging Stages Network Europe, it contains 30 contributions and case studies from 17 leading performing arts organisations...
Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama
Acts of Seeing
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere seed of modernism, a crude attempt to reproduce an exact copy of reality on stage. Art, Vision & Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama redefines realism as a complex and under-examined form of visual modernism, one that positioned theatre at the...
British Realist Theatre
The New Wave in its Context 1956 - 1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
The British `New Wave' of dramatists, actors and directors in the late 1950s and 1960s created a defining moment in post-war theatre. British Realist Theatre is an accessible introduction to the New Wave, providing the historical and cultural background which is essential for a true understanding...
Between a Man and a Woman & F*ckingLifeMate
The Plays of Scott James
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Different ways of life aren't so far away from ours...
***"Between a Man and a Woman"***is a gripping, thrilling and heartbreaking story of domestic abuse. A fast paced drama that questions if abuse is a learned behavior or something that is within us? It gives us an insight into...
John Lowin and the English Theatre, 1603–1647
Acting and Cultural Politics on the Jacobean and Caroline Stage
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Even for scholars who have devoted their careers to the early modern theatre, the name John Lowin may not instantly evoke recognition-until now, the actor's life and contribution to the theatre of the period has never been the subject of a full-length publication. In this study, Barbara Wooding provides...
by Michael V. Pisani
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre—accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Lady Audley’s Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller—than they...
New Theatre in Italy
1963–2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms of performance that have emerged in the 21st Century. Starting in the Sixties, young artists and militants in Italy reacted to the violence in their streets...
The Silenced Theatre
Czech Playwrights without a Stage
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
Since the Soviet occupation of 1968 censorship has closed the curtain on free expression in Czechoslovakia. But plays continue to be circulated in typescript within the country, are regularly smuggled out for publication abroad, and continue to be produced without restriction in the West. This book...
by Francis Reid
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Now in its second edition, Designing for the Theatre has established itself as the authoritative introduction to the processes of design for the theatre. Covering the contribution which can be made by costume, sets, props and lighting to a stage production, the author explains the purpose and process...
by Christopher Innes
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Edward Gordon Craig's ideas regarding set and lighting have had an enormous impact on the development of the theatre we know today.
In this new and updated edition of his well-known study of Edward Gordon Craig, Professor Christopher Innes shows how Craig's stage work and theoretical writings were...