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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Dramaturgy of Commedia dellArte
Book SynopsisThis book examines Commedia dell''Arte as a performative genre, and one that should be analysed through the framework of dramaturgy and dramaturgical practice.This volume examines the way Commedia has been explored in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and details its reinventors' dramaturgic approaches, both focusing in on specific examples such as Jacques Lecoq, Dario Fo and Antonio Fava, and also suggesting how modern discoveries may aid the study of historical performance practice. It also discusses how audiences read and receive masks; the relationship between the different masked and unmasked roles; the range of performance activities that come under the umbrella term improvisation'; the performative construction of a role performed live' from a scenario; the role of language and embodied locality in performance; and the performative relationship between performative commedia and literary tragicomedy.Its focus is dramaturgy, and so it may be read bothTable of Contents1. The founders of Neo-Commedia 2. The second and third generation of reinventors 3. Commedia archetypes 4. Fixed types and stock roles 5. Actors, parts and roles by Sergio Costola 6. Improvisation and Commedia 7. Grammelot and the performance of language (Alt. Grommelot/Grumelot) 8. Neo-Commedia and the ensemble 9. Masks in Neo-Commedia 10. Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Dramaturgy of Commedia dellArte
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theatre and Internationalization
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Taylor & Francis Ltd DOyly Carte
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Rehearsal Practice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Politics of the Oberammergau Passion Play
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dancing Motherhood
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dancing Motherhood
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theatre of the Sphere
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Taylor & Francis Performance in a Time of Terror Five Sinhala Plays from Sri Lanka
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Commercial Dance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rabindranath Tagores Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rabindranath Tagores Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Performing Human Rights
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethical Agility in Dance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Butoh as Heard by a Dancer
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Taylor & Francis Butoh as Heard by a Dancer
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Experiments in Immersive OnetoOne Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Plays of Our Own
Plays of Our Own is the first anthology of its kind containing an eclectic range of plays by Deaf and hard-of-hearing writers. These writers have made major, positive contributions to world drama or Deaf theatre arts. Their topics range from those completely unrelated to deafness to those with strong Deaf-related themes such as a dreamy, headstrong girl surviving a male-dominated world in Depression-era Ireland; a famous Spanish artist losing his hearing while creating his most controversial art; a Deaf African-American woman dealing with AIDS in her family; and a Deaf peddler ridiculed and rejected by his own kind for selling ABC fingerspelling cards. The plays are varied in style a Kabuki western, an ensemble-created variety show, a visual-gestural play with no spoken nor signed language, a cartoon tragicomedy, historical and domestic dramas, and a situation comedy. This volume contains the well-known Deaf theatre classics, My Third Eye and A Play of
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Kinetic Atmospheres
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Kinetic Atmospheres
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Staging Detection
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Staging Detection
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Taylor & Francis Circus for Social Change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How Greek Tragedy Works A Guide for Directors Dramaturges and Playwrights
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Floating Bones
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Taylor & Francis Performance and the Culture of Nationalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd French Theatre Orientalism and the Representation of India 17701865
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Consent in Shakespeare
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwik Flaszen
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Forms of Emotion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Opera in Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 17701860
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Taylor & Francis Commedia dellArte its Structure and Tradition
Book SynopsisCommedia dell'Arte, its Structure and Tradition chronicles a series of discussions between two renowned experts in commedia dell'arte â master practitioners Antonio Fava and John Rudlin. These discussions were recorded during three recent visits by Fava to Rudlinâs rural retreat in south west France. They take in all of commedia dell'arte's most striking and enduring elements â its masks, its scripts and scenarios, and most outstandingly, its cast of characters. Fava explores the role of each stock Commedia character and their subsequent incarnations in popular culture, as well as their roots in prominent figures of their time. The lively and wide-ranging conversations also take in methods of staging commedia dell'arte for contemporary audiences, the evolution of its gestures, and the collective nature of its theatre-making. This is an essential book for any student or practitioner of commedia dell'arte â provocativTable of ContentsChapter 1 The Mask; Chapter 2 The personnages; Chapter 3 Performance location; Chapter 4 The scenarios; Chapter 5 Collective creation; Chapter 6 Gestural evolution; Chapter 7 Closed forms; Chapter 8 Multilingualism; Chapter 9 Anachronism; Appendices
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Jukebox Musical
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Taylor & Francis Jonson the Poetomachia and the Reformation of Renaissance Satire
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Galaxy of Things
Book SynopsisA Galaxy of Things explores the ways in which all puppets, masks, makeup-prosthetic figures are material characters, using iconic Star Wars characters like Yoda and R2-D2 to illustrate what makes them so compelling.As an epic franchise, Star Wars has been defined by creatures, droids, and masked figures since the original 1977 movie. Author Colette Searls, a theatre director and expert in puppetry studies, uncovers how non-humans like Chewbacca, semi-humans like Darth Maul, and even concealed humans like Boba Fett tell meaningful stories that conventional human characters cannot. Searls defines three powers that puppets, masked figures, and other material characters wielddistance, distillation, and dualityand analyzes Star Wars' most iconic robots and aliens to demonstrate how they work across nearly a half-century of live-action films. Yoda and Baby Yodatwo of popular culture's greatest puppetsuse these qualities to transform their human companions. SimilarlyTable of Contents1. The Things in the Galaxy 2. Distance, Distillation, and Duality 3. Powerful, Puppetry is: How two Yodas make meaning 4. I Find Your Lack of Face Disturbing: The mask performance of Darth Vader (and friends) 5. Climbing Out of the Sarlacc Pitt: The problematic side of material character powers
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Taylor & Francis ReReading Ishis Story
Book SynopsisRereading Ishiâs Story offers a manifesto of sorts through a critical reading of an anthropological classic, Theodora Kroeberâs 1961 book, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America.The heart of the analysis involves a five-play cycle, built around Gerald Vizenorâs trickster-survivance model. It gives Ishi a voice he never had in Kroeberâs book and imagines an Ishi who was not the happy warrior in Kroeberâs book. The author follows the story line in Kroeberâs book, focusing on key events as recounted by Alfred Kroeber and his associates Saxton Pope and Thomas Waterman. Chapter 1 tells Ishiâs story in his own words; Chapter 2 retells Ishiâs capture narrative, which includes the recording of his story of the wood ducks; Chapter 3 builds on stories told about Ishi by Zumwalt Jr.; Chapter 4 criticizes Kroeber and associates for making Ishi return to his homeland, asking him to âplayâ Indian; and Chapter 5 takes up his death and the recovery ofTable of ContentsPart One Chapter 1. You Can Call Me Ishi: The Story of a Trickster Chapter 2. Ishi and the Wood Ducks, Part 2, or Ishi, the Assimilated Indian Chapter 3. Ishi the Happy Warrior in Golden Gate Park Chapter 4. Ishi in the Wilderness: Anatomy of a Life and a Death (1861-1916) Chapter 5. Ishi’s Brain: The Trickster’s Revenge; Part Two Chapter 6. Ishi’s Ethics Chapter 7. Ishi Comes Home
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Taylor & Francis Ltd 20 Seasons Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century
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Taylor & Francis A Reader on Audience Development and Cultural Policy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Commedia dellArte for the 21st Century
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music
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