Theatre direction and production Books
Dalkey Archive Press A Story that Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood,
Book SynopsisDrawing on O’Brien’s experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens—first written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the US Air Force Academy—offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, "afraid and hopeful," we begin to tell them.
£11.63
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Systemic Dramaturgy A Handbook for the Digital
Book SynopsisWorking theatrically with technology, Systemic Dramaturgy offers an invigorating, practical look at the daunting cultural problems of the digital age as they relate to performance.Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Dedication Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Thinking and Making Systemically Chapter 1.Sokyokuchi INTERLUDE 1.Kill Your Darlings: Marianne Weems on Collaboration and Devising Chapter 2. Play INTERLUDE 2.Play Matters: Elizabeth Swensen on Theatricality and Gaming Chapter 3, Empathy INTERLUDE 3:Empathy for Whom?micha cÁrdenas on Activism and Digital Performance Chapter 4: Towards a Dramaturgy of Video Games INTERLUDE 4:SHTEAM:Noah Wardrip-Fruin on Storytelling in the Digital Age Chapter 5: A Case Study ofNeighborhood 3: Requisition of Doomby Jennifer Haley INTERLUDE 5:Generations:Jennifer Haley on the Theatre Game Chapter 6. Systemic Dramaturgy Roundtable Bibliography
£30.71
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Standby
Book SynopsisProposes a practical philosophy of contemporary theatrical design that addresses all design disciplines, all theatrical collaborators, and all forms of theatre, from the traditional to the avant-garde. Joshua Langman celebrates design as a transformative force with the power to elevate a performance.Table of ContentsPreface 1. House to half: A beginning 2. Design for theatre: Why we attend theatre; why we make theatre; why we design theatre 3. The concept: How designers make meaning 4. Acts of creation: Navigating art, craft, and trade in the theatre 5. Guiding principles and practical advice: Nine hints for theatrical designers 6. On magic and mechanics: A theatrical designer’s spell-book 7. The limits of design: Two lessons in humility 8. What it takes: A character analysis of the designer 9. Curtain call: An ending Postscript Recapitulation Notes A designer’s library Acknowledgments Credits Index
£26.06
