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Contemporary Duologues Collection
Two Men | Two Women | One Man & One Woman
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES:
Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills
This collection, available only as an ebook, combines the material available in the separate print volumes, Contemporary Duologues: Two Men, Contemporary Duologues:...
by Trilby James
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES:
Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills
As an actor at any level – whether you are doing theatre studies at school, taking part in youth theatre, preparing for drama-school showcases, or attending professional...
Performing Noncitizenship
Asylum Seekers in Australian Theatre, Film and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This exacting study examines the theatre, film and activism engaged with the representation or participation of asylum seekers and refugees in the twenty-first century. Cox shows how this work has been informed by and indeed contributed to the consolidation of ‘irregular’ noncitizenship as a cornerstone...
by Corinne Saunders, David Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.
by Falk Heinrich
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience’s agential participation and that is often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations.
After considering established theories of beauty, for example,...
by Emilia Barbosa, Patricia Bolaños-Fabres, Olga Colbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature. The contributors analyze the relationship between the historical and social contexts of various Hispanic countries—including Argentina, Colombia,...
Studying Disability Arts and Culture
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
In this practical introduction to the study of Disability Arts and Culture, Petra Kuppers draws on a wide range of examples, exercises and activities to introduce the key artists and theoretical concepts in this diverse field. Comprehensive and accessible, this is an essential handbook for anyone interested in the disabled body in performance.
Staging and Performing Translation
Text and Theatre Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This exploration of the territory between theory and practice in contemporary theatre features essays by academics from theatre and translation studies, and delineates a new space for the discussion of translation in the theatre that is international, critical and scholarly, while rooted in experience and understanding of theatre practices.
Performing National Identities
International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
A collection of eighteen original essays on contemporary Canadian theatre by scholars and drama specialists in Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Australia, Hungary, and Japan. The international scope of the volume, reflected in its co-editors (Sherrill Grace from Canada, Albert-Reiner Glaap from Germany), confirms the new importance of Canadian plays on the world stage.
by S. Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre.
by Marlis Schweitzer, Joanne Zerdy
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutinizing and theorizing the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives.
by Alison Maloney
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
For the last 70 years, the guests of Woman’s Hour have been entertaining listeners with their compelling combination of wit, warmth, insight and humour**.** Woman’s Hour has interviewed many of the biggest female names from entertainment, politics, the arts and beyond.
Words from Wise,...
Must-Read Theater Arts Handbook
This Amazing Handbook Will Definitely Teach You Theater Types And Information Which Include The History Of Opera, Various Dance Forms, Kabuki Theater, Shakespear Plays And A Whole Lot More!
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Writers, directors and producers play a vital role in the building of the storyline of a play. The script modeled by them encompasses various kinds of arts to be taken into consideration to bring out the true essence of the story. The various factors considered helps to classify the genre of theater...
by Jingsi Christina Wu
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This book advances research about China by providing an updated narrative of its entertainment life in the beginning of China’s twenty-first century. As the rest of the world continues to pay keen attention to developments in China’s politics, economy, and culture, the book provides insights on...