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Popular Theatre

A Sourcebook

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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013

Bertolt Brecht turned to cabaret; Ariane Mnouchkine went to the circus; Joan Littlewood wanted to open a palace of fun. These were a few of the directors who turned to popular theatre forms in the last century, and this sourcebook accounts for their attraction. Popular theatre forms introduced in...
Cover of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Going to the Theatre (But Were Too Sloshed to Ask, Dear)
by West End Producer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the West End… West End Producer, the masked man of Theatreland and author of the definitive guide to acting*, returns with the ultimate guide to the theatregoing experience – for anyone who’s ever been to the theatre, or who thinks they...
Cover of The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
by Paul Allain, Jen Harvie
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? What events, people, practices and ideas have shaped theatre and performance in the twentieth and twenty-first century? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance offers some answers...
Cover of Postdramatic Theatre
by Hans-Thies Lehmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006

Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre. In looking...
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Contemporary Theatres in Europe

A Critical Companion

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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. From Théatre du Soleil to Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, the authors...
Cover of Theatre and Cultural Struggle under Apartheid
by Robert Mshengu Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

In this book, South African performer and activist Robert Mshengu Kavanagh reveals the complex and conflicting interplay of class, nation and race in South African theatre under Apartheid. Evoking an era when theatre itself became a political battleground, Kavanagh displays how the struggle against...
Cover of World Theories of Theatre
by Glenn A. Odom
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017

World Theories of Theatre expands the horizons of theatrical theory beyond the West, providing the tools essential for a truly global approach to theatre. Identifying major debates in theatrical theory from around the world, combining discussions of the key theoretical questions facing theatre...
Cover of On the Art of the Theatre
by Edward Gordon Craig
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008

First published in 1911, On the Art of the Theatre remains one of the seminal texts of theatre theory and practice. Actor, director, designer and pioneering theorist, Edward Gordon Craig was one of twentieth century theatre’s great modernisers. Here, he is eloquent and entertaining in expounding...
Cover of Theatre and Nation
by Nadine Holdsworth, Nicholas Hytner
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010

How has theatre engaged with the nation-state and helped to formulate national identities? What impact have migration and globalisation had on the relationship between theatre and nation? Theatre& Nation explores how theatre institutions, playwrights, theatre-makers and performance artists...
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Script Analysis for Theatre

Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production

by Professor Robert Knopf
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017

Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production provides theatre students and emerging theatre artists with the tools, skills and a shared language to analyze play scripts, communicate about them, and collaborate with others on stage productions. Based largely on...
Cover of The Theatre of Societas Raffaello Sanzio
by Joe Kelleher, Nicholas Ridout, Claudia Castellucci
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007

The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio chronicles four years in the life of an extraordinary Italian theatre company whose work is widely recognized as some of the most exciting theatre currently being made in Europe. In the first English-language book to document their work, company founders,...
Cover of Theatre and Feeling
by Anne Bogart, Erin Hurley
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010

How does a tragedy arouse pity and fear? How do music and lighting set a mood or convey an emotional tone for an audience? Why does theatre move us? Theatre& Feeling explores the idea that, for many people, theatre is a passion. It provides an intellectual framework for the range of emotional...
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Makers of Modern Theatre

An Introduction

by Robert Leach
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

Who were the giants of the twentieth-century stage, and exactly how did they influence modern theatre? Robert Leach's Makers of Modern Theatre is the first detailed introduction to the work of the key theatre-makers who shaped the drama of the last century: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod...
Cover of Theatre Studies: The Basics
by Robert Leach
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Now in a second edition, Theatre Studies: The Basics is a fully updated guide to the wonderful world of theatre. The practical and theoretical dimensions of theatre – from acting to audience – are woven together throughout to provide an integrated introduction to the study of drama, theatre and...
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