Theatre category: 6638 books
International Theatre Olympics
The Artistic and Intercultural Power of Olympism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This pivot examines how the Theatre Olympics, born in 1995, have served to enrich each host country’s culture, community, and foreign relations. Looking at the host country’s political, social, and cultural circumstances, it considers how the festival expands the notion of Olympism beyond its...
by O. Johansson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Applying research into assessments of community theatre, epidemiology, and young people's shared and private stories using a wide range of methodologies, this book explores the potential efficacy of community theatre to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania with reference to several other comparable sites in Africa.
Directing Greek Tragedy
Carrie Cracknell on Electra
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Follow acclaimed theatre director Carrie Cracknell throughout preparation and rehearsals for her production of Sophocles' Electra at the Gate Theatre, London, translated by Nick Payne and praised by the Evening Standard as an 'urgent new version'. First published as part of Getting Directions: A Fly-on-the-Wall...
Modern Architecture in Theatre
The Experiments of Art et Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
If the city is the theatre of urban life, how does architecture act in its many performances? This book reconstructs the spatial experiments of Art et Action, a theatre troupe active in 1920s Paris, and how their designs for theater buildings show how the performance spaces interacted with actors and spectators according to their type.
Performing China on the London Stage
Chinese Opera and Global Power, 1759–2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This book details the history of Chinese theatre, and British representations of Chinese theatre, on the London stage over a 250-year period. A wide range of performance case studies – from exhibitions and British Chinese opera inspired theatre, to translations of Chinese plays and visiting troupes ...
Writing Music for the Stage
A Practical Guide for Theatremakers
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The definitive guide to writing music for the stage, by the Composer-in-Residence at the Donmar Warehouse.
Music has played a vital part in drama since the earliest days of theatre. For composers, writing music for the stage is an opportunity to exercise their utmost creativity and versatility:...
Theatre, Youth, and Culture
A Critical and Historical Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances (social, cultural, economic, ideological, and political) under which theatre for children and youth is generated and perceived. This book explores different aspect of theatre for young audiences using examples from theatrical events globally.
by Professor Andrew James Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
What makes a Shakespeare production political? Can Shakespeare's plays ever be truly radical?
Revealing the unspoken politics of Shakespeare's plays on stage, Andrew Hartley examines their nature, agenda, limits and potential. In considering key theoretical issues, analysing a wide range of...
National Theatre Connections 2017
Three; #YOLO; Fomo; Status Update; Musical Differences; Extremism; The School Film; Zero for the Young Dudes!; The Snow Dragons; The Monstrum
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology features work by some of the most exciting and established contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays collected offer young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Forty fantastic male speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today.
Whether you’re applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it’s likely you’ll be required to perform one...
Unearthing Shakespeare
Embodied Performance and the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
What can the Globe Theatre tell us about performing Shakespeare?
Unearthing Shakespeare is the first book to consider what the Globe, today’s replica of Shakespeare’s theatre, can contribute to a practical understanding of Shakespeare’s plays. Valerie Clayman Pye reconsiders the material...
by Keith Sturgess
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987, the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre. Most of the best plays written after 1610, including Shakespeare’s late plays such as The Tempest, were written for the new breed of private playhouses – small, roofed and...
Theatre History and Historiography
Ethics, Evidence and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This collection of essays explores how historians of theatre apply ethical thinking to the attempt to truthfully represent their subject - whether that be the life of a well-known performer, or the little known history of colonial theatre in India - by exploring the process by which such histories are written, and the challenges they raise.
by Glenn D'Cruz
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
"Everything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls" – 4.48 Psychosis
How on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note? The question comes from a review of 4.48 Psychosis’ inaugural production, the year after Sarah Kane took her own life, but this book...