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Taylor & Francis Jasmin Vardimons Dance Theatre Movement memory and metaphor
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Taylor & Francis Stanislavsky in Focus An Acting Master for the TwentyFirst Century Routledge Theatre Classics
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Taylor & Francis Directions for Directing
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Taylor & Francis The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed
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Taylor & Francis Vsevolod Meyerhold
Book SynopsisVsevolod Meyerhold considers the life and work of the extraordinary twentieth-century director and theatre-maker. This compact, well-illustrated volume includes: a biographical introduction to Meyerholdâs life a clear explanation of his theoretical writings an analysis of his masterpiece production Revisor, or The Government Inspector a comprehensive and usable description of the âbiomechanicalâ exercises he developed for training the actor. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today's student.Trade Review'Pitches' skill ... is impressive.' Aleks Sierz, The Times Higher Education Supplement'A useful entry point.' Theatre Research InternationalTable of ContentsA LIFE OF CONTRADICTIONS Apprenticeship (1874–1905) St Petersburg (1906–17) Meyerhold and the Revolution (1917–22) The Meyerhold Theatre (1922–31) The death of Meyerhold and his theatre (1932–40) Meyerhold today MEYERHOLD'S KEY WRITINGS Don’t (always) believe what you read! The key theoretical principles Naturalism Stylisation Rhythm and music The mask The grotesque Biomechanics and the actor of the future Chaplin and Eisenstein: a theory of montage CONTENTS MEYERHOLD’S KEY PRODUCTION: THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR Gogol’s challenge Meyerhold’s response Nikolai Gogol: the comet Gogol’s Government Inspector Meyerhold’s Government Inspector PRACTICAL EXERCISES Practice: the living link with Meyerhold So what are the basic skills of a biomechanical actor? The exercises Skills-based exercises Back to the basic skills Improvisation exercises Work on text Conclusions Bibliography Books and articles Films and videos
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Taylor & Francis Vsevolod Meyerhold Routledge Performance Practitioners
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Taylor & Francis Ariane Mnouchkine
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Taylor & Francis Jerzy Grotowski Routledge Performance Practitioners
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Conversations with Women in Musical Theatre
Book SynopsisMost writers, composers, librettists, and music directors who make their careers in musical theatre do so without specific training or clear pathways to progress through the industry. Conversations with Women in Musical Theatre Leadership addresses that absence by drawing on the experiences of these women to show the many and varied routes to successful careers on, off, and beyond Broadway. Conversations with Women in Musical Theatre Leadership features 15 interviews with Broadway-level musical theatre music directors, directors, writers, composers, lyricists, stage managers, orchestrators, music arrangers, and other women in positions of leadership. Built around extensive interviews with women at the top of their careers in the creative and leadership spheres of musical theatre, these first-hand accounts offer insight into the jobs themselves, the skills that they require, and how those skills can be developed.Any students of musical theatre and stagecraTable of Contents1. The State of Things 2. The Writers 3. The Music Team 4. The Director-Choreographers 5. The Producers 6. The Management 7. The Resources
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Performance
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks.Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure, from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born after 1915. This is the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of contributorsIntroduction11. KANTOR (1915–1990)12. HALPRIN (1920–)13. LECOQ (1921–1999)14. BOAL (1931–2009)15. GROTOWSKI (1933–1999)16. BARBA (1936–)17. MNOUCHKINE (1939–)18. BAUSCH (1940–2009)19. WILSON (1941–)20. ABRAMOVIC (1946–)21. LEPAGE (1957–)Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Directing for Community Theatre
Book SynopsisDirecting for Community Theatre is a primer for the amateur director working in community theatre. With an emphasis on preparedness, this book gives the amateur director the tools and techniques needed to effectively work on a community theatre production. Covering play analysis, blocking, staging, communication, and working with actors, designers, and other theatre personnel, this how-to book is designed to have the community theatre director up and running quickly, with full knowledge of how to direct a show. The book also contains sample forms and guidelines, including acting analysis, character analysis, rehearsal schedule, audition form, prop list, and blocking pans. Directing for Community Theatre is written for the community theatre participant who is interested, or already cast, in the role of the director.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Obsession3. Blocking Notes4. Stages of Rehearsal5. A Directing Primer6. Play Analysis7. Production Organization8. Directors and Design9. The Visual Tools10. Acting Exercises11. Playwrighting12. Memorization13. Ethics and Behavior14. Diversity15. The Stage Manager
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Taylor & Francis Ltd DreamWork A Training for Directors
Book SynopsisDreamWork: A Training for Directors provides a theoretical basis and a highly detailed, practical, step-by-step blueprint for developing a directorial concept for a play.Directing is a complex, multi-staged artistic process which, for the most part, is a collaborative work of art. The director works with designers, composers, choreographers and actors to create the performance that is eventually shown to an audience. In this process, there is one stage of the director's work which is uniquely personal and individual: the creation of a directorial concept. This book concentrates on this crucial stage of the director's work, offering a template for the creation of a directorial concept prior to embarking on the collaborative stage of the director's work. The book follows the process from the choice of the text, through a series of clearly documented and structured sets of strategies with attendant examples, up to the creation of the director's version of the original pla
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Taylor & Francis Theatrical Violence Design
Book SynopsisTheatrical Violence Design offers the reader a complete education in the theory and practice of designing violence for the theater. From swordfights to exchanges of gunfire to domestic violence, the theater abounds in physical conflict. The artists who design that violence, sometimes called fight directors or choreographers, will find in this book an invaluable resource for becoming more expert at their craft. In the chapters of this book, they will encounter the core principles of creating violent effects, the body of knowledge with which they should be familiar, and the nuts and bolts of the process of design work from the first meeting with a director through closing night.This book is written for the student of stage combat to transition into violence design and will also be of interest to experienced violence designers and choreographers.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sarah Kanes 4.48 Psychosis
Book SynopsisEverything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls 4.48 PsychosisHow on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note? The question comes from a review of 4.48 Psychosis' inaugural production, the year after Sarah Kane took her own life, but this book explores the ways in which it misses the point. Kane's final play is much more than a bizarre farewell to mortality. It's a work best understood by approaching it first and foremost as theatre as a singular component in a theatrical assemblage of bodies, voices, light and energy. The play finds an unexpectedly close fit in the established traditions of modern drama and the practices of postdramatic theatre.Glenn D'Cruz explores this theatrical angle through a number of exemplary professional and student productions with a focus on the staging of the play by the Belarus Free Theatre (2005) and Melbourne's Red Stitch Theatre (2007). Trade Review"D’Cruz offers a compelling argument for the theatrical possibilities of the play, its place in the field of postdramatic theatre, and its ability to resonate with audiences twenty years after its first performance. Succinct and engaging, this short book [...] is a useful source for educators teaching Kane’s work, or theatre practitioners bravely considering the challenge of producing it."Sarah Peters, Flinders University, Australia, in Australasian Drama StudiesTable of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Contextualising 4.48 Psychosis: 'Everybody loves a dead girl' – Sarah Kane as innovator and iconChapter 2: Reading 4.48 Psychosis: The flaw in love (and psychiatry)Chapter 3: Theorising 4.48 Psychosis: 4.48 Psychosis as postdramatic theatreChapter 4: Teaching 4.48 Psychosis: Performance and pedagogyChapter 5: Performing 4.48 Psychosis: From Minsk to MelbourneChapter 6: Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Changing Direction A Practical Approach to Directing Actors in Film and Theatre
Book SynopsisThe second edition of this elegant and accessible primer offers a helpful reference and resource for directing actors in film, television, and theatre, useful to both directors and actors alike. Combining underlying theory with dozens of exercises designed to reveal the actor''s craft, Lenore DeKoven discusses constructing the throughline, analyzing the script, character needs, the casting and rehearsal processes, film vs. theatre procedures, as well as the actor and the camera. Distilling difficult concepts to their simplest form, DeKoven explains how to accurately capture and portray human behaviour, offering creative solutions to issues she has encountered or anticipated after decades of experience. Excerpts from interviews with acclaimed actors offer insight on their work with directors, what inspires them, and what they really want from the director. This second edition incorporates the film Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins) as a contemporary prTrade Review"The updated edition of Changing Direction is an even more lucid, useful guide for directors, performers, and spectators drawn to the craft of acting. Lenore DeKoven has distilled decades of rich experience—as both a creator and a teacher—into an accessible book that illuminates text, subtext, collaboration, and the recreation of human behavior."—Annette Insdorf, Professor of Film; Author of Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes"The essence of Lenore's distinctive methods, developed over many years, can be found in the pages of this excellent, clearly written book." —Ang Lee, Director, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Life of Pi (2012)"Lenore DeKoven says in her introduction to her book, Changing Direction, that ‘everyone wants to be in show business.’ Well I am, but I've never wanted to direct. After reading Lenore's book, I may reconsider my career choice."—Edward Asner, Actor/Producer"I was one of the many people who, over the years, asked Lenore to write her book, and finally she has. It's a thrill to read, as well as a reminder of her great gift—her deep understanding of drama, directing, actors, everyday life, and most importantly her wealth of experience and huge heart. I will draw from this every time I work."—Kimberly Peirce, Writer/Director of Boys Don't Cry (1999), Stop-Loss (2008); Former student of Lenore DeKoven"Lenore DeKoven has written a great book for the director searching for practical advice on the techniques of directing actors. Her work as a teacher has already affected a generation of young filmmakers. One would be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive and clear approach to working with actors."—Bette Gordon, Director; Professor of Professional Practice, Film, School of the Arts, Columbia University"This book is much needed on the shelves for students and individuals interested in directing actors for film and theatre. Very few books offer this approach with such specific and practical steps laid out in detail, step by step."—Sheldon Schiffer, Professor of Communication, Georgia State University"The updated edition of Changing Direction is an even more lucid, useful guide for directors, performers, and spectators drawn to the craft of acting. Lenore DeKoven has distilled decades of rich experience—as both a creator and a teacher—into an accessible book that illuminates text, subtext, collaboration, and the recreation of human behavior."—Annette Insdorf, Professor of Film; Author of Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes"The essence of Lenore's distinctive methods, developed over many years, can be found in the pages of this excellent, clearly written book."—Ang Lee, Director, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Life of Pi (2012)"Lenore DeKoven says in her introduction to her book, Changing Direction, that ‘everyone wants to be in show business.’ Well I am, but I've never wanted to direct. After reading Lenore's book, I may reconsider my career choice."—Edward Asner, Actor/Producer"I was one of the many people who, over the years, asked Lenore to write her book, and finally she has. It's a thrill to read, as well as a reminder of her great gift—her deep understanding of drama, directing, actors, everyday life, and most importantly her wealth of experience and huge heart. I will draw from this every time I work."—Kimberly Peirce, Writer/Director of Boys Don't Cry (1999), Stop-Loss (2008); Former student of Lenore DeKoven"Lenore DeKoven has written a great book for the director searching for practical advice on the techniques of directing actors. Her work as a teacher has already affected a generation of young filmmakers. One would be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive and clear approach to working with actors."—Bette Gordon, Director; Professor of Professional Practice, Film, School of the Arts, Columbia University"This book is much needed on the shelves for students and individuals interested in directing actors for film and theatre. Very few books offer this approach with such specific and practical steps laid out in detail, step by step."—Sheldon Schiffer, Professor of Communication, Georgia State UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction2. The Actor and Training3. The Actor's Vocabulary4. The Text and the Throughline5. Anaylsis of Script6. The Character Outline7. The Casting Process8. The Rehearsal Process9. The Actor and the Camera10. Film and Theatre: Differences and Similarities11. What do the Actors Say?12. Tips to the DirectorAppendix: Additional Exercises for Workshop or ClassAppendix: Suggested Reading and Viewing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jacques Lecoq
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a concise guide to the teaching and philosophy of one of the most significant figures in twentieth century actor training. Jacques Lecoq''s influence on the theatre of the latter half of the twentieth century cannot be overestimated.Now reissued Jacques Lecoq is the first book to combine: an historical introduction to his life and the context in which he worked an analysis of his teaching methods and principles of body work, movement, creativity, and contemporary theatre detailed studies of the work of Theatre de Complicite and Mummenschanz practical exercises demonstrating Lecoq''s distinctive approach to actor training. Table of ContentsTHE LIFE OF JACQUES LECOQ Jacques Lecoq (1921–99) Jacques Lecoq: actor, director and teacher Jacques Lecoq and the Western tradition of actor training Jacques Lecoq: the body and culture Summary and conclusion THE TEXTS OF JACQUES LECOQ Lecoq’s pedagogy: from practice to principles (and back) Acting for the theatre of the future End words TRACES OF JACQUES LECOQ: THÉ TRE DE COMPLICITÉ’S STREET OF CROCODILES AND THE WORK OF MUMMENSCHANZ The case of Théâtre de Complicité The Street of Crocodiles The case of Mummenschanz PRACTICAL EXERCISES Aims Background and context Approach Preparatory exercises I push . . . I pull: towards the dynamics of melodrama I am pushed . . . I am pulled: towards the dynamics of tragedy I push myself . . . I pull myself: towards the dynamics of commedia dell’arte Debrief CONCLUSION
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Theatre of Katie Mitchell
Book SynopsisThis first volume in the 4x45 series investigates the work of theatre director Katie Mitchell. Pausing to reconsider a career in progress, it engages with some of Mitchell's most recent work in the UK and Europe across theatre, opera, and Live Cinema. It also takes a longer view, considering the early turns that Mitchell took at the start of her career in the late 1980s.This volume gives full scope to the voice of the practitioner, alongside scholarly perspectives, in order to understand the work from within. Interviews with Mitchell's collaborators get inside her process and inside the thinking of key artists who help craft the distinctive visual, aesthetic and technological forms of Mitchell's productions. Three major concerns criss-cross these contributions: the political implications of aesthetic form; the meaning of Mitchell's interest in the radical project of early Naturalism; and the influence of Europe on Mitchell's avant-garde experimentalism, which often draws on Table of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroduction | Benjamin Fowler1. Immersive Worlds: Designing Katie Mitchell’s Theatre | Alex Eales in conversation with Benjamin Fowler 2. Katie Mitchell and the Politics of Naturalist Theatre | Dan Rebellato and Kim Solga3. Willful Distraction: Katie Mitchell, Auteurism and the Canon | Tom Cornford4. Stages and Screens: Katie Mitchell’s Theatre Aesthetics | Leo Warner in conversation with Janis Jefferies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Errol Johns Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
Book SynopsisErrol John wrote Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (1958) after becoming disillusioned about the lack of good roles for black actors on the British theatre scene. While this situation has only slightly improved since, his response has become the most revived black play in Britain, from its original production at the Royal Court in 1958, to the National Theatre in 2012. It depicts the lives of a black community living in poverty in a shared tenement yard in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in the mid-1940s, showing how each of the characters carries dreams of escaping to create better lives for themselves and their families. Lynette Goddard focuses on how the play articulates the narratives of migration that prompted many Caribbean people to uproot from their homes on the islands and move to the England in the post-war era. For some of them, these dreams of a new life became a reality, but they were experienced differently across genders and generations.&nTable of Contents1. Frontlines and Backyards: The Post-War Caribbean Yard Play 2. Migration Stories: Island Lives, Hopes, Dreams, and Escapes 3. Text and Character: Gender and Generation 4. Production Histories: Staging, Directing and Reviewing 5. A Caribbean Classic? Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Physical Dramaturgy
Book SynopsisWhat is physical dramaturgy? While the traditional dramaturg shares research intellectually, the physical dramaturg does so viscerally and somatically. By combining elements of text, history, dramatic structure, and the author's intent with movement analysis and physical theatre pedagogies, the physical dramaturg gives actors the opportunity to manifest their work in a connected and intuitive manner and creates a field that is as varied and rich as the theatre itself.Physical Dramaturgy: Perspectives from the Field explores the ways in which this unique role can benefit the production team during the design and rehearsal phases of both traditional and devised productions. Individual chapters look at new ways of approaching a wealth of physical worlds, from the works of Shakespeare and other period playwrights to the processes of Jerzy Grotowski, Lloyd Williamson, Richard Schechner, and Michael Chekhov, and devising original works in a variety of contexts from PiTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Historical styles and case studies from the Greeks to contemporary theatre; Chapter 1 Embodying Greek period style: Physical dramaturgy in staging Euripides’ Medea; Chapter 2 Festina Lente and Sprezzatura in action: Unlikely sources of physical dramaturgy in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and As You Like It; Chapter 3 Shakespeare’s text in the body of the character in The Winter’s Tale; Chapter 4 Period style: The physical dramaturgy of Loyd Williamson’s Salon; Chapter 5 Understanding the world of the play through period movement; PART II Inner landscapes: Dramaturgy from within; Chapter 6 Dramaturgy as litany; Chapter 7 A dramaturgy of embodiment: The study and practice of experiential anatomy; Chapter 8 The augmented body; Chapter 9 Mining the imagination: A physical approach to the creation of story with Action Theater; PART III Acts of translation: Physical dramaturgy in the rehearsal room; Chapter 10 Devising Brechtian moments: The transformation of traditional dramaturgy into physical dramaturgy; Chapter 11 "Lit from within": Non-traditional casting in Chekhovian realism through physical dramaturgy; Chapter 12 The alchemy of re-composing history in Iphigenia and Other Daughters; 13 Quadruple threat musical theatre: Adding the physical dramaturg; Chapter 14 Kinetic analysis and gesture mapping in The Government Inspector and Anton’s Shorts; PART IV Physical dramaturgy in the devising process; 15 The search for synecdoche: Insight into Pig Iron Theatre Company’s physical dramaturgy. Quinn Bauriedel interview, July 29, 2016; Chapter 16 Devising ‘madness’: Physical dramaturgy in The Ophelia Project and Asylum; Chapter 17 The phenomenon of silence. Bill Bowers interview, September 9, 2017; Chapter 18 Butoh, landscape theatre, and the physical dramaturgy of Gale GAtes et al.; Chapter 19 Moment Work: Exploring the full potential of the stage. Moisés Kaufman interview, July 20, 2017; Chapter 20 Physical dramaturgy: Reflections for the actor, director, designer, and deviser; Index
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 74
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Cambridge University Press The Theatre of Louise Lowe
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Cambridge University Press Theatre in Market Economies
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Cambridge University Press WakingTheFeminists and the DataDriven Revolution in Irish Theatre
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Cambridge University Press The Rebirth of Satire in Revivals of European Operettas
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Cambridge University Press The Theatre of Louise Lowe
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Cambridge University Press Ibsens Houses
Book SynopsisMark B. Sandberg explores the architectural metaphors that Henrik Ibsen introduced into mainstream Western thought - embodied by the titles of his plays A Doll's House, Pillars of Society, and The Master Builder. His book will appeal to those interested in architectural theory, literary and theater history, and Scandinavian studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Ibsen's uncanny; 2. Facades unmasked; 3. Home and house; 4. The tenacity of architecture; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Globalization of Theatre 18701930
Book SynopsisBetween 1895 and 1922 the Anglo-American actor and manager, Maurice E. Bandmann (18721922) created a theatrical circuit that extended from Gibraltar to Tokyo and included regular tours to the West Indies and South America. With headquarters in Calcutta and Cairo and companies listed on the Indian stock exchange, his operations represent a significant shift towards the globalization of theatre. This study focuses on seven key areas: family networks; the business of theatrical touring; the politics of locality; repertoire and publics; an ethnography of itinerant acting; legal disputes and the provision of theatrical infrastructure. It draws on global and transnational history, network theory and analysis as well as in-depth archival research to provide a new approach to studying theatre in the age of empire.Trade Review'The theatrical enterprises of Maurice E. Bandmann played, at the start of the twentieth century, a highly significant role in promoting Western plays, musical comedies and revues throughout Asia, but they have been hitherto overlooked by historians. Christopher B. Balme has, through ingenious and thorough research, reconstituted the manifold activities of this pioneering manager. More importantly, he has situated them as a hub from which to explore such matters as global networks, transnational commerce, intercultural relations, playhouse architecture, and the diffusion of taste. His enquiries open out into thought-provoking analyses that stretch far beyond theatre itself. The result is an engrossing and intellectually stimulating study which is bound to open up new directions in theatre scholarship, much as Bandmann blazed trails in India and the Far East.' Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory, Tufts University'This ground-breaking study provides new insights into theatrical touring in an age of globalization, particularly across the Asian continent, and the networks that made it possible. Focussing on the circuit developed by Maurice E. Bandmann in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, it charts the impact of economics and politics on touring theatre and its structures, while also investigating managerial practices, performer and spectator experience, and the types of repertoire presented. Balme's informative and carefully researched book is an important addition to our understanding of transnational theatre practices and networks in a period of significant change and increasing internationalisation.' Jim Davis, University of WarwickTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Family networks; 2. Mobile enterprises; 3. The micropolitics of locality; 4. Repertoires and publics; 5. Transported actors; 6. Contested contracts; 7. Infrastructure: from theatre to cinema; 8. Legacies.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Our Town and Wilders Classic OneActs
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The University of Michigan Press The Sixties Center Stage
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Sixties, Center Stage expands our vision of this critical decade, reminding experimental-theater partisans that Broadway, established Off Broadway, high-profile festivals, and the nascent regional theater were sites of equally challenging innovation. Even more important, Harding and Rosenthal aim to dismantle the boundary between the mainstream and the fringe—to demonstrate that there was far easier exchange of ideas, preoccupations, and methods between the two camps than we usually acknowledge."" - Marc Robinson, Yale University""The editors successfully tackle the dichotomy that has long existed in the scholarly literature about American theater during the turbulent 1960s. Well-written, readable, entertaining, well-organized, and convincing, this book inspires readers to continue their search for ways in which false dichotomies can be exploded in other writings."" - Elizabeth L. Wollman, Baruch College
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The University of Michigan Press The Sixties Center Stage
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Sixties, Center Stage expands our vision of this critical decade, reminding experimental-theater partisans that Broadway, established Off Broadway, high-profile festivals, and the nascent regional theater were sites of equally challenging innovation. Even more important, Harding and Rosenthal aim to dismantle the boundary between the mainstream and the fringe—to demonstrate that there was far easier exchange of ideas, preoccupations, and methods between the two camps than we usually acknowledge."" - Marc Robinson, Yale University""The editors successfully tackle the dichotomy that has long existed in the scholarly literature about American theater during the turbulent 1960s. Well-written, readable, entertaining, well-organized, and convincing, this book inspires readers to continue their search for ways in which false dichotomies can be exploded in other writings."" - Elizabeth L. Wollman, Baruch College
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Faber & Faber Thinking Like a Director
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Kite Runner Play Script
Book SynopsisComing to Broadway July 2022!The script for the stage production of Khaled Hosseini's first and internationally bestselling novel, The Kite Runner, as adapted by playwright Matthew Spangler. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. Now adapted for the stage, the story is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and is an exploration of the influence of fathers over sons--their love, their sacrifices, their lies.A sweeping saga of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful story that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.This adaptation was first performed at W
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Project Planning for the Stage Tools and
Book SynopsisRich Dionne reframes the theatre production as a project and provides essential tools for understanding and managing it efficiently, whether it be a stage play, an opera, a dance piece, or other performance that requires the collaboration of the artists and artisans creating the visual and aural landscape for it.
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Wesleyan University Press Wings of Night Sky Wings of Morning Light
Book SynopsisJoy Harjo's play Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light is the centerpiece of this collection that includes essays and interviews concerning the roots and the reaches of contemporary Native Theater.
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Iter Press Women Playwrights of Early Modern Spain 49 Other
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis timely edition of three women playwrights of Spain’s Golden Age fills a gap in the study of early modern Spanish theater. The plays have never been translated in any language and they have the potential to be taught in undergraduate and graduate courses. A biographical sketch and plot summary introduce each of the three authors, while the introduction elaborates on the varied experiences of these playwrights and their works. An overview of the different sites of theater and performance (corral, palace, and convent) effectively contextualizes the whole. Sarah Owens Professor of Spanish, Department of Hispanic Studies, College of Charleston"This timely edition of three women playwrights of Spain’s Golden Age fills a gap in the study of early modern Spanish theater. The plays have never been translated in any language and they have the potential to be taught in undergraduate and graduate courses. A biographical sketch and plot summary introduce each of the three authors, while the introduction elaborates on the varied experiences of these playwrights and their works. An overview of the different sites of theater and performance (corral, palace, and convent) effectively contextualizes the whole." -- Sarah Owens, College of CharlestonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiIntroduction 1A Note on the Translations 27Four Comic Interludes to The Tragicomedy of the Sheban Gardens and Fields 29Count Partinuplés: A Comedia 89Four Loas and a Spiritual Coloquio 193Bibliography 261Index 269
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Silman-James Press,U.S. Production Stage Management for Broadway From
Book SynopsisGetting a new show up and running? Planning a revival? Taking over a long-running show? Going on the road? On Broadway, off Broadway, in regional repertory, or on tour, the only book you need as your professional companion is Peter Lawrence''s comprehensive and definitive Production Stage Management for Broadway. With this book, Tony Award-winning Peter Lawrence has turned his decades of experience on Broadway into a thoroughly modern approach to the art and business of production stage managing and successfully pursuing a stage manager''s career. Written for a wide range of readers -- from the beginning stage manager with high school or college experience to the professional assistant stage manager already working in commercial theatre to seasoned Broadway professional this book is, at its heart, an invaluable map of how to get from the beginning through the end of a production. Filled with industry-savvy advice, including: Who''s who on a stage production and how they all interact; Trade Review"At last! This is the book stage managers everywhere have been waiting for. Written by one of the greatest stage managers of our time, it is informative, wise, humorous and real. Peter Lawrences book will definitely be required reading. Frank Lombardi, Director of Stage Management Program, University of North Carolina School of the Arts"Skilled stage managers bring structure, flexibility, humor, and theatrical knowledge to their complex work. We expect nothing less from lifer Peter Lawrence. It is a must-read text for all serious stage and production management students. Elsbeth M. Collins, Associate Professor of Theatre Practice, Director of Production, University of Southern California1
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BookBaby The Magic of the Olympia Theater A Peek behind its Curtain Drama On and Off Stage at Gusman Center
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Aurora Metro Publications How to Put on a Community Play
Book SynopsisA useful, practical handbook for local community groups, youth theatres, amateur players, universities and colleges, students of Community Theatre/Theatre Studies and others wanting to stage a successful community play. Drawing on a wealth of personal accounts, and useful historical background information, How To Put On A Community Play is full of detailed advice concerning the preparation, planning and execution required to achieve success. Including essential tips on: • the creative process • administrative hurdles • technical headaches that must be overcome This is an invaluable guide to the myriad tasks and decisions facing any community play organiser.Trade ReviewAbout the author's previous work: "This is a delightful book, crisply written, well-researched, common-sensical in approach and perceptive in attitude." Evening Standard This is a wonderful subject, cleverly presented." Mail on Sunday - a brilliantly written book, impossible to put down. Amazon customer reviewTable of Contents1. Getting Started 9 2. Getting Funded 29 3. Core Team, Venue and Dates 62 4. Writing the Script 71 5. Casting and Rehearsing 99 6. The Production 125 7. Administration 151 8. Publicity 176 Useful Contacts 185 Bibliography 187
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Triarchy Press TNT The New Theatre: lessons, techniques and
Book SynopsisFrom a first-hand account of working with Jerzy Grotowski to an analysis of the art of writing for the stage; from the hazards of touring in the Emirates to the dramas of touring behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980s; from an analysis of the role of the set and stage music to the story of taking Shakespeare to China... this is an extraordinary, wide-ranging, funny, clever account of 40 years in the life of TNT The New Theatre: the most successful touring theatre company of all time. This long-awaited new book is an extraordinary, wide-ranging, funny, clever account of 40 years in the life of the most successful touring theatre company of all time. The authors dance between magical storytelling... offering a masterclass on the skills and practice of acting, directing and writing for theatre... considering the role of theatre in different countries and continents... and offering a eye-opening history of TNT.Trade Review"This extraordinary memoir of a theatre company is actually many stories. It is the story of the impact of a university lecturer, Edward Braun, on two young men in the 1970s. It is the story of their location in theatrical lineages and genealogies that include Vsevolod Meyerhold and Music Hall, Jerzy Grotowski and Jonathan Pryce. It is the story of one of the few small-scale British touring companies of the 1980s to survive into the 21st century through a combination of happenstance and pragmatic utopianism. It is the story of adaptation and assemblage resulting from open-ended journeys, encounters and the crossing of borders between what was once known as East and West. But perhaps more than anything, it is a love story – and the object of love is theatre itself." Roberta Mock, Professor of Performance Studies, University of Plymouth "I've known TNT since 2003, and I took them to China for the first time in 2005 for performance. The first play was 'Macbeth' and it was very successful. Since then, Paul has been invited to Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center and other theatres in China to direct plays. We had a very happy cooperation with him. TNT is also very famous in China now, they have a large audience in China and are loved by them." Nick Rongjun YU, Artistic Director, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center "A glorious mix of fine, precise detail and broad sweep commentary and reflection on the last four decades. A model of writing which allows for feeling and passion to co-exist alongside and become intertwined with ‘cold’ consideration and incisive scrutiny of how to position TNT within the cosmology of theatre and performance both within Europe and beyond. ... If categories matter this book is impossible to position: part travel writing, part (auto)biography, part political and cultural history, part philosophy, part theatre and performance studies, part poetry and always story-telling." Simon Murray, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Glasgow UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction The Visual Chapter One: ‘Harlequin’, ‘1945!’, ‘The Mystery’ Travel Chapter Two: Germany, the Saving Grace Stage Imagery Chapter Three: ‘Cabaret Faust’, ‘Wizard of Jazz’, ‘Moby Dick’ Some Thoughts on Music Theatre Chapter Four: Poland Letter to Katie The Body Chapter Five: ‘Video & Juliet’, ‘Don Quijote’ and ‘Le Petit Prince’ Theatre Fetishes: technical rehearsals and press nights Chapter Six: Japan Chapter Seven: Company Politics What is Acting? Writing for TNT The Writing Process Chapter Eight: ‘The Murder of Sherlock Holmes’, ‘Frankenstein’, and ‘Dracula and the Eco-Warrior’ Chapter Nine: La Belle France Young Audiences Popular Theatre Chapter Ten: ‘Oliver Twist’, ‘Lord of the Flies’ and ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ Actor Training The Elephant in the Room Chapter Eleven: ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, ‘The Crucible’, ‘Death of a Salesman’ and ‘Pygmalion’ Chapter Twelve: China Failure Directing Theatre Chapter Thirteen: Latin America Actors and Spies Chapter Fourteen: TNT and Islam Comedy The Gulf Chapter Fifteen: ‘Brave New World’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’ Brave New Theatre Chapter Sixteen: Israel Race Chapter Seventeen: Martin Luther King, General Fatima Kassab, and Winnie and Nelson Mandela Prisons, Palaces and Fragments What was it all about? What is it now? Some Conclusions? Epilogue
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J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Born Ready
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Eine Theaterlandschaft für Belgrad:
Book SynopsisIn the 19th century, Belgrade developed from an Ottoman-influenced provincial town to the capital of a nation-state. In this cultural history of the Belgrade theater landscape of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Marija Đokić shows that Serbian and European theater practices entered into a productive exchange and contributed to the formation of a national identity, the Europeanization of the Western Balkans and the emergence of the Yugoslav idea. The innovative study is based on a broad concept of theater, which not only focuses on the Serbian national theater, but also on music theater, variety shows or the circus. Đokić also explores the transnational interdependencies of the Belgrade theater world and the importance of the microcosm of theater for the cultural history of the young Balkan state. In this way, she manages to paint a fundamentally new picture of the Belgrade theater landscape and Serbian society between 1841 and 1914.
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NUS Press Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind: The Javanese
Book SynopsisJavanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with important contemporary resonance in fields like religion and politics. How to make sense of the shadow-play as a form of world-making? In Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind, Bernard Arps explores this question by considering an all-night performance of Dewa Ruci, a key play in the repertoire. Thrilling and profound, Dewa Ruci describes the mighty Bratasena’s quest for the ultimate mystical insight.The book presents the Dewa Ruci as rendered by the distinguished master puppeteer Ki Anom Soeroto in Amsterdam in 1987. The book’s unusual design presents the performance texts together with descriptions of the sounds and images that would remain obscure in conventional formats of presentation. Copious annotations probe beneath the surface and provide an understanding of the performance as a highly sophisticated and multi-layered creation. These annotations explain the meanings of puppet action, music, and shifts in language; how the puppeteer wove together into the drama the circumstances of the performance in Amsterdam, Islamic and other religious ideas, and references to contemporary Indonesian politics. Also revealed is the performance’s historical multilayering and the picture it paints of the Javanese past. Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind not only presents an unrivalled insight into the artistic depth of wayang kulit, it exemplifies a new field of study, the philology of performance.Trade Review"This voluminous and meticulously crafted book is different from the currently 'normal' books in the Indonesian Studies that are often revised versions of PhD theses. Rather, it represents the result of almost thirty years of work [...] Annotations and appendices make up the remaining roughly 200 pages. It is these annotations, together with the Introduction, that make the book so valuable, as they contain in-depth explanations and references to the rich body of scholarly knowledge of Javanese philology. [...] In other words, Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind might represent an example of a sub-field of Indonesian studies that is increasingly rare. — Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG)
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