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The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio
Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experiment, a script and photos from Gary Taylor's recent production, and essays by respected early modern scholars, this book will make a definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio.
The Politics of Irish Memory
Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a new analysis of theatre, film, television, memoir and art, and interrogates the anti-nostalgia that characterizes so much of contemporary Irish culture.
British Theatre and the Great War, 1914 - 1919
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
British Theatre and the Great War examines how theatre in its various forms adapted itself to the new conditions of 1914-1918. Contributors discuss the roles played by the theatre industry. They draw on a range of source materials to show the different kinds of theatrical provision and performance...
Cracking Shakespeare
A Hands-on Guide for Actors and Directors + Video
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Cracking Shakespeare serves to demystify the process of speaking Shakespeare's language, offering hands-on techniques for drama students, young actors and directors who are intimidated by rehearsing, performing and directing Shakespeare's plays.
For some artists approaching Shakespeare, the ability...
by Catherine Hindson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Today’s celebrity charity work has deep historical roots. In the 1880s and 1890s, the stars of fin-de-siècle London’s fashionable stage culture—particularly the women—transformed theatre’s connection with fundraising. They refreshed, remolded, and reenergized celebrity charity work at a...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Nationalism and Youth in Theatre and Performance explores how children and young people fit into national political theatre and, moreover, how youth enact interrogative, patriotic, and/or antagonistic performances as they develop their own relationship with nationhood. Children are often seen as excluded...
Selling the Silver Bullet
The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Originating as a radio series in 1933, the Lone Ranger is a cross-media star who has appeared in comic strips, comic books, adult and juvenile novels, feature films and serials, clothing, games, toys, home furnishings, and many other consumer products. In his prime, he rivaled Mickey Mouse as one of...
Managing Performance Stress
Models and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Over the past 16 years, new theories and models have emerged in the stress and anxiety knowledge base regarding the unique forms associated with performance. Existing theories have been applied in creative and helpful ways to better explicate relationships between stress and anxiety with performance....
Book of Sides: Original, One-Page Scenes for Actors and Directors
Original, One-Page Scenes for Actors and Directors
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Looking for fresh, original scenes for your fast-paced acting or directing class? Tired of the same old material everyone recognizes? Want the flexibility to play any character in any scene?
Book of Sides: Original, Short Scenes for Actors and Directors offers scenes that are considerably shorter...
by Jane Wood
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Protesting songs have been around for years. Unlike Jane and Mike who have only been performing as a duo since 1982. Still, for most of that time they have been singing Protesting Songs, amongst other ditties, including many that they've written themselves. Some of them are included in this book,...
Television on Demand
Curatorial Culture and the Transformation of TV
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Since 2010 "curation†? has become a marketing buzzword. Wrenched from its traditional home in the world of high art, everything from food to bed linens to dog toys now finds itself subject to this formerly rarified activity. Most of the time the term curation is being inaccurately used to refer...
How and Why We Teach Shakespeare
College Teachers and Directors Share How They Explore the Playwright’s Works with Their Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods and the reasons why they teach Shakespeare. The collection is divided into four sections: studying the text as a script for performance; exploring Shakespeare...
Scripted Affects, Branded Selves
Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
In Scripted Affects, Branded Selves, Gabriella Lukács analyzes the development of a new primetime serial called “trendy drama” as the Japanese television industry’s ingenious response to market fragmentation. Much like the HBO hit Sex and the City, trendy dramas feature well-heeled young sophisticates...
The Singer at Penn Station
A Script Based on a True Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Back in New York, Sergeant Samuel is demoted to work in the traffic police. He is teamed up with Huang, an experienced and deeply religious police officer. At Penn Station in New York, Samuel comes across Olis, a brilliant but illegally performing street singer with no memory of his past. As the goodhearted...