Theatre category: 6638 books
by Austin E. Quigley
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Modern plays are strikingly diverse and, as a result, any attempt to locate an underlying unity between them encounters difficulties: to focus on what they have in common is often to overlook what is of primary importance in particular plays; to focus on their differences is to note the novelty of...
Tip of the Tongue
Reflections on Language and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
A thoughtful and deeply personal book by master theatre-maker Peter Brook, described by the Independent as 'our greatest living theatre director'.
In Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, playful and wise look at topics such as the subtle, telling differences between French and English,...
Adapturgy
The Dramaturg's Art and Theatrical Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Dramaturg Jane Barnette has put together an essential guide for theatre scholars and practitioners seeking to understand and participate in the process of adaptation for the stage. Employing the term “adapturgy”—her neologism for the art of adaptation dramaturgy—Barnette redefines the dramaturg’s...
by Alfred Harbage
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Here is a book to hearten playgoers, stimulate young actors, lead theatrical executives to reconsider methods of management, and encourage benefactors to open their wallets. In this new book (containing the Alexander Lectures for 1954-55), Mr. Harbage, distinguished critic and scholar, advocates a...
Staging Modern American Life
Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimental
Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre
An Olive in the Cocktail
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) was the most successful and prolific dramatist of his time, producing nearly sixty plays in a twenty-year career. He wrote witty comedies, chaotic farces, homespun dramas, star vehicles, historical works, stark melodramas, and adaptations of European successes, but he was best...
Madam Walker Theatre Center
An Indianapolis Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
As they watched construction of the block-long flatiron building brick by brick throughout 1927, African American residents of Indianapolis could scarcely contain their pride. This new headquarters of the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, with its terra-cotta trimmed facade, was to be more...
Heritage, Nostalgia and Modern British Theatre
Staging the Victorians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The stage portrayal of the Victorians in recent times is a key reference point in understanding notions of Britishness, and the profound politicisation of that debate over the last four decades. This book throws new light on works by canonical playwrights like Bond, Edgar, and Churchill, linking theatre to the wider culture at large.
Contemporary British Theatre
Breaking New Ground
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This edited collection brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre - redefining what the dramatic stands for today. Each chapter of the collection focuses on influential contemporary plays and playwrights.
The Model as Performance
Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
The Model as Performance investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present. Employing a scenographic perspective and a performative paradigm, it explores what the model can do and how it is used in theatre and architecture. The volume provides a comprehensive...
Yorùbá Performance, Theatre and Politics
Staging Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This book explains the connections between traditional performance (e.g. masked dances, prophecy, praise recitations), contemporary theatre (Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Tess Onwueme, Femi Osofisan, and Stella Oyedepo) , and the political sphere in the context of the Yorùbá people in Nigeria.
The Old Vic
The Story of a Great Theatre from Kean to Olivier to Spacey
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The Old Vic, one of the world's great theatres, opened in 1818 with rowdy melodrama and continued with Edmund Kean in Richard III howled down by the audience. One impresario, among the first of thirteen to go bankrupt there, fled to Milan and ran La Scala. In 1848 a chorus girl tried to murder the...
Dramaturgy and Architecture
Theatre, Utopia and the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Dramaturgy and Architecture approaches modern and postmodern theatre's contribution to the way we think about the buildings and spaces we inhabit. It discusses in detail ways in which theatre and performance have critiqued and intervened in everyday spaces, modelled our dreams or fears and made proposals for the future.
by Rosemary Klich, E. Scheer
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
How do performers and artists use media technologies to create live events? How have developments in audio-visual technology changed the relationship between the spectator and the performer? How can performance respond to the technology-saturated consciousness of contemporary culture? What are the...