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Taylor & Francis SuzanLori Parks in Person
Book SynopsisThis collection of interviews offers unprecedented insight into the plays and creative works of Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as being an important commentary on contemporary theater and playwriting, from jazz and opera to politics and cultural memory.Suzan-Lori Parks in Person contains 18 interviews, some previously untranscribed or specially undertaken for this book, plus commentaries on her work by major directors and critics, including Liz Diamond, Richard Foreman, Bonnie Metzgar and Beth Schachter. These contributions combine to honor the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in drama, and explore her ideas about theater, history, race, and gender.Material from a wide range of sources chronologically charts Parksâs career from the 1990s to the present. This is a major collection with immediate relevance to students of American/African-American theater, literature and culture. Parksâs engaging voice is brought to the fore, making the book esTrade Review'Will definitely fill a wide and gaping lacuna in this field of theatre scholarship.' - Dr Alison Forsythe, University of Aberystwyth, UK'This volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in American Drama.' - Soyica Colbert, Dartmouth College, UK'This collection will serve as a very helpful co-text for readers of Parks’s notoriously “difficult” plays, as it gives background and context, as well as possible readings of some of the more cryptic lines and figures.' - Deborah Thompson, Colorado State University, Modern Drama'Suzan-Lori Parks in Person: Interviews and Commentaries is an essential addition to dramatic literary scholarship, in that it provides a textured, critical--if penultimate--interactive means through which to meet Parks, as a dramatist, a thinker, and as a person whose work continues to probe human relations historically and presently, thoughtfully and dynamically.' - Jaye Austin Williams, California State University, Long Beach, Text & Presentation 'In total, Suzan-Lori Parks in Person is an engaging work that offers insights into the playwright's mind and work, from her undergraduate thesis to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog and her international project 365 Days/365Plays. Kolin and Young provide texts that explore not only how she works but also how she develops seeds of ideas into fully realized productions.' - Valerie M. Joyce, Villanova University, Comparative DramaTable of ContentsTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsWatch Me Work: Reflections on Suzan-Lori Parks and Her Canon PART I: Interviews Theater’s Vibrant New Voice (1992)Patti HartiganIs Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks the Voice of the Future? (1993)Erika MunkSuzan-Lori Parks (1994)Han OngAlien Nation (1994)Michele PearceMaking History (1996)Tom SellarFor Posterior’s Sake (1996)Una ChaudhuriAdrienne Kennedy (1996)Suzan-Lori Parks Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks (1996)Shelby Jiggetts Love and War Seen in Black and White (1997)Ronni GordonSuzan-Lori Parks (1999)David SavranAn Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks at Cal Arts (2000)Lisa CollettaA Better Mirror (2000)Kathy SovaMythology, History, Family, Performance (2001)Rick DesRochersA Moment with…Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright (2003)John MarshallInterview with Suzan-Lori Parks and Bonnie Metzgar (2006)Joseph RoachIt’s an Oberammergau Thing (2007)Kevin J. Wetmore An Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks (2010) Shawn-Marie GarrettConversation with Suzan-Lori Parks (2011)Dave Steakley PART II: CommentariesRemarks on Parks I (2004)Jonathan Kalb, Robert Brustein, Shawn-Marie Garrett, Mark Robinson, Alisa SolomonRemarks on Parks II (2004)Jonathan Kalb, Richard Foreman, Liz Diamond, Leah C. Gardiner, Bill WaltersThe Birth of The Death of the Last Black Man: Recollections of the First Staging (2013)Beth SchachterAn Interview with Liz Diamond (2013)Philip C. KolinBonnie Metzgar on Suzan-Lori Parks (2013)Harvey Young
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures
Book SynopsisProduce professional level dialogue tracks with industry-proven techniques and insights from an Emmy Award winning sound editor. Gain innovative solutions to common dialogue editing challenges such as room tone balancing, noise removal, perspective control, finding and using alternative takes, and even time management and postproduction politics.In Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures, Second Edition veteran film sound editor John Purcell arms you with classic as well as cutting-edge practices to effectively edit dialogue for film, TV, and video. This new edition offers: A fresh look at production workflows, from celluloid to Digital Cinema, to help you streamline your editing Expanded sections on new software tools, workstations, and dialogue mixing, including mixing in the box Fresh approaches to working with digital video and to moving projects from one workstation to another AnTrade ReviewDialogue Editing for Motion Pictures, Second Edition is the indispensable reference source for learning the concepts and processes involved in transforming the words of the script into the most important element of the motion picture sound track. It contains an entire career's worth of insight and detailed practical knowledge explained in straightforward, easily understandable language. This book is essential reading not just for prospective dialogue editors, but also for working directors, picture editors, sound mixers and those engaged in numerous other filmmaking disciplines.- Gary Gegan, rerecording mixer and sound editor, In Treatment; Being John Malkovich I have always emphasized the crucial role of dialogue editing as the basis of film sound design. This is a book that I will keep coming back to and share with my students for years to come. I only wish I wrote it myself! - Svetolik Zajc, film sound designer and dialogue editor, Black Cat, White Cat; Super 8 Stories Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures, Second Edition is the indispensable reference source for learning the concepts and processes involved in transforming the words of the script into the most important element of the motion picture sound track. It contains an entire career's worth of insight and detailed practical knowledge explained in straightforward, easily understandable language. This book is essential reading not just for prospective dialogue editors, but also for working directors, picture editors, sound mixers and those engaged in numerous other filmmaking disciplines.- Gary Gegan, rerecording mixer and sound editor; In Treatment; Being John Malkovich I have always emphasized the crucial role of dialogue editing as the basis of film sound design. This is a book that I will keep coming back to and share with my students for years to come. I only wish I wrote it myself! - Svetolik Zajc; film sound designer and dialogue editor; Black Cat, White Cat; Super 8 Stories Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition, Preface, Acknowledgments, 1. What Is Dialogue Editing?, 2. The Story of Production Sound, 3. Film Sound Workflows: Then and Now, 4. On the Set, 5. The Sound Department, 6. A Quick Look at Picture Editing, 7. Moving the Film from Picture to Sound, 8. Working with Picture, 9. The First Screening, 10. Setting Up Your Editing Universe, 11. Editing Dialogue Tracks, 12. Image, Depth, and Perspective, 13. Dialogue Editing Tips and Tricks, 14. Dealing with Noise, 15. ADR, 16. Managing Your Time, 17. Editing Production Sound for Documentaries, 18. When the Picture Changes, 19. Preparing for the Mix, 20. The Dialogue Premix, Afterword, Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Ballet in Western Culture A History of Its
Book SynopsisBallet in Western Culture is a history of the development of ballet designed for dance history courses. After a brief discussion of the origins of dance through the middle ages, the author then traces the beginnings of ballet to Renaissance spectacle in Italy and the beginnings of ballet in France. In the second part of the book, the maturation of ballet as a style is studied, from the 1600s through the 1800s, in France, Russia, and other major European countries. Finally, the last part of the book focuses on the changes in ballet through the 20th century, including major movements in the U.S. and Europe. Nicely illustrated with historic prints and photos, the book is easy to read and ideally suited to the dance history student, addressing both historical issues and the evolution of ballet technique.Trade Review"Serves well as a basic foundation for my course devoted solely to ballet history." -- Angelika Gerbes, Professor of Ballet, Ohio State University"The text is a good introduction to ballet history . . . it's a great reference source." -- Amy Stoddart, Professor of Dance History, University of Oregon"An excellent ballet history book." -- Judith Bennahum, Department Chair, Dance History Program, University of New MexicoTable of ContentsPart One: From Folk Expression to Seventeenth Century Court Dance 1. Origins of Dance 2. Renaissance Spectacle in Italy 3. The Ballet de Cour in France. Part Two: Emergence of Ballet as an Art Form: Seventeenth to Ninteeenth Century 4. Baroque Ballet 5. The Advamncement of Professional Ballet 6. Growth and Refinement of Classical Ballet 7. The Foundations of Romantic Ballet 8. The Romantic and Post-Romantic Ballet 9. The Evolution of Ballet in Russia 10. Imperial Russian Ballet Part Three: The Flourishing of Ballet in the Twentieth Century 11. Sergie Diaghilev and the New Dance 12. The Ballet Russes from the Pursuit of the Avant-Garde to Neoclassicism 13. Ballet in the Twentieth Century 14. The Development of Ballet in the United States. Chronology. Glossary. Bibliography. Ballets. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Mama Dada
Book SynopsisMama Dada is the first book to examine Gertrude Stein''s drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. Since the publication of Stein''s major writings by the Library of America in 1998, interest in her dramatic writing has escalated, particularly in American avant-garde theaters. This book addresses the growing interest in Stein''s theater by offering the first detailed analyses of her major plays, and by considering them within a larger history of avant-garde performance. In addition to comparing Stein''s plays and theories to those generated by Dadaists, Surrealists, and Futurists, this study further explores the uniqueness of Stein via these theatrical movements, including discussions of her interest in American life and drama, which argues that a significant and heretofore unrecognized relationship exists among the histories of avant-garde drama, cinema, and homosexuality. By examining and explaining the relationship among these three histories, the dramTable of ContentsGeneral Editor's Note Acknowledgments Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Chapter 2 EYES ARE A SURPRISE: THE ORIGINS OF GERTRUDE STEIN'S DRAMA IN CINEMA Chapter 3 LISTEN TO ME: STEIN AND AVANT-GARDE THEATER Chapter 4 ATOM AND EVE: DOCTOR FAUSTUS LIGHTS THE LIGHTS Chapter 5 MY LONG LIFE: FINAL WORKS Chapter 6: AMERICA IS MY COUNTRY: GERTRUDE STEIN AND THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE Appendix A A Chronological List of Gertrude Stein's Plays Appendix B A Chronological List of Professional Productions Appendix C A Chronological List of Dramatic Adaptations Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Beyond Dance Labans Legacy of Movement Analysis
Book SynopsisBeyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis offers students of dance and movement a brief introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Laban, and how this work has been extended into the fields of movement therapy, communications, early childhood development, and other fields.While many dance students know of Laban and his work as it applies to their field, few know the full story of how this technique has developed and grown. For many who enter into the fields of dance movement therapy, performance, and communications, there are valuable lessons to be learned from Laban and his follower's works. Beyond Dance offers a concise introduction to this world. Refreshingly free of jargon and easy to understand, the work offers dance students â and others interested in human movement â a full picture of the many possibilities inherent in Laban's theories. For many who will pursue careers 'beyond dance', this work will be a useful guidebook into related areas.This will be ideally suited to students of Laban movement theory in dance and movement therapy, and will be used in advanced courses in these areas as useful, brief introduction to the field.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Foreword Introductio n Chapter One: Laban in Europe His early life Ascona and After Labanotation Chapter Two: Laban's War Effort His arrival in England - Dartington Lisa Ullmann and Education Laban and F. C. Lawrence Lilt in Labour Chapter Three: Shape and Effort Warren Lamb and the Art of Movement Studio Choreutics Eukinetics Laying Down the Rules of Movement Analysis Shape - The Three Planes of Movement Effort - The Three Qualities of Movement Laban's Eight Basic Efforts The Importance of Flow Chapter Four: Arriving at Aptitude Assessment Working on the Factory Floor The Laban Lawrence Effort Assessment Aptitude Assessment The 3-Stage Decision-Making Process Adding Shape to the Formula Posture and Gesture Into Team-Building Chapter Five: Action Profilers International Broadening the Base: Pamela Ramsden The Body-Mind Connection The Motivation to Interact The Overall Factors Sharing and Private Behavior Training Profilers Research and Validation Problems for Action Profiling Chapter Six: Movement Analysis and Personality Childhood Development - Judith Kestenberg Some Basic Personality Types The Communicator The Confronter Action Man / Woman Chapter Seven: Movement and Gender The Gender War Male and Female in Movement The Importance of Flow - Again Some Interpretations Putting on the Pressure Caring and Sharing Making Decisions Vive la Difference Chapter Eight: All the World's a Stage Movement and Politics Movement Analysis and Therapy Ritualized Behavior Social Considerations of Movement and Gender Personal Relationships Punishment and Rehabilitation Movement as a Common Denominator Appendix I: Warren Lamb's Profile of Rudolf Laban Appendix II: The Laban Lawrence Effort Assessment Appendix III: An Aptitude Assessment for a Marketing Director Bibliography
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The University of Michigan Press In the Lurch
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The University of Michigan Press Performance Constellations Networks of Protest
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The University of Michigan Press Provocative Eloquence
Book SynopsisBrings together notions of intertextuality and interperformativity to understand how the confluence of oratorical and theatrical practices in the antebellum period reflected the conflict over slavery and deeply influenced the language that barely contained that conflict.Trade ReviewAn excellent book, grounded in rhetorical styles and strategies, dramatic genealogies and debates, theatrical conventions, and performance theories, while actively contesting these fields and conventions and reshaping how we view them. Her imbrications of 19th-century theater, oratory, and print culture, in service to anti-slavery and pro-slavery positions are thoroughly convincing."" - Marvin McAllister, Winthrop University""A historical excavation of all the inherited conflicts and inconsistencies that have come to define our present social moment . . . an indispensable accounting of how American culture performed its own divided loyalties, uncertainties, and unspoken internal contradictions about race, freedom, and national allegiances."" - Peter Reed, University of Mississippi
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The University of Michigan Press Spectral Characters
Book SynopsisTheatre's materiality and reliance on human actors has traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of aesthetic autonomy and depersonalization. Spectral Characters argues that modern dramatists in fact emphasized the extent to which humans are fictional, made and changed by costumes, settings, props, and spoken dialogue.Trade ReviewAimed at scholars of theatre and of comparative literature, Spectral Characters convincingly argues that the modern stage, through its roots in nineteenth-century melodrama, inherited a number of features related to the supernatural that deeply influenced the making of character in this period." - Giuliano D'Amico, Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo"Spectral Characters offers a fresh way to think about realism and modernism, about literary and dramatic character, and about the relationship between narration and performance. It both situates those aesthetic concerns within the ideas of the authors' day and relates them to present-day theories that are shaping scholarship across the humanities and social sciences." - Sharon Marcus, Columbia University
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The University of Michigan Press Open Wounds
Book SynopsisThis volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914-2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Although his illustrious career spanned a century, two continents, several languages, and a variety of literary genres, Tabori’s work has received scant attention in American letters.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre
Book SynopsisThis paperback edition of the lauded Guide to Asian Theatre contains more information on the performing arts and artists of 20 countries, from Pakistan, through India and Southeast Asia, to China, Japan and Korea.Trade Review'Thoroughly informed, hugely enjoyable.' The Times'Superbly detailed but reader-friendly sweep of Asian and Oceanic theatre histories.' Theatre Research International'Well researched, nicely presented, and accessible.' American Reference Books AnnualTable of ContentsIntroduction; Bangladesh; Burma; Cambodia; China; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Japan; Korea; Laos; Malaysia; Nepal; Oceania; Pakistan; Philippines; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Thailand, Vietnam; Index to artists and genres.
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Cambridge University Press Players of Shakespeare 4 Further Essays In
Book SynopsisThis 1998 book is the fourth volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Twelve actors describe the Shakespearian roles they played in productions between 1992 and 1997. The contributors are Christopher Luscombe, David Tennant, Michael Siberry, Richard McCabe, David Troughton, Susan Brown, Paul Jesson, Jane Lapotaire, Philip Voss, Julian Glover, John Nettles, and Derek Jacobi. The plays covered include The Merchant of Venice, Love's Labours Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter's Tale, and Romeo and Juliet, among others. The essays divide equally among comedies, histories, and tragedies, with emphasis among the comedies on those notoriously difficult 'clown' roles. A brief biographical note is provided for each of the contributors and an introduction places the essays in the context of the Stratford and London stages.Trade Review' … excellent reading … The fluency and wit with which all of these actors discuss the texts they perform puts us professional academics to shame. The book is thoroughly to be recommended.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Introduction Robert Smallwood; Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice and Moth in Love's Labour's Lost Christopher Luscombe; Touchstone in As You Like It David Tennant; Petruccio in The Taming of the Shrew Michael Siberry; Autolycus in The Winter's Tale Richard McCabe; Richard III David Troughton; Queen Elizabeth in Richard III Susan Brown; Henry VIII Paul Jesson; Queen Katherine in Henry VIII Jane Lapotaire; Menenius in Coriolanus Philip Voss; Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet Julian Glover; Brutus in Julius Caesar John Nettles; Macbeth Derek Jacobi; Production credits.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Asian American Theatre Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 26
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Faber & Faber Untold Stories
Book SynopsisHere, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett''s classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews and comic pieces. Bennett, as always, is both amusing and poignant, whether he''s discussing his modest childhood or his work with figures such as Maggie Smith, Thora Hird and John Gielgud. Since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s Alan Bennett has delighted audiences worldwide with his gentle humour and wry observations about life. His many works include Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, Talking Heads, A Question of Attribution and The Madness of King George. The History Boys opened to great acclaim at the National in 2004, and is winner of the
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Samuel French Ltd The Girl On The Train
Book SynopsisRachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she''s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.
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Samuel French Ltd Hansard
Book SynopsisHansard; noun The official report of all parliamentary debates. Hansard is an intimate domestic drama about a long and troubled marriage. It is also a comedy about politics and identity and the failings of the ruling class. Set around the passing of the Section 28 legislation in 1988, which banned the promotion of homosexuality. It is funny, tender, brutal, and ultimately devastating. Hansard premiered at the National Theatre, London, in August 2019.
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Samuel French Ltd Mary Jane
Book SynopsisAs Mary Jane navigates both the mundane and the unfathomable realities of caring for Alex, her chronically ill young son, she finds herself building a community of women from many walks of life. Mary Jane is Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog’s remarkably powerful and compassionate portrait of a contemporary American woman striving for grace.
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Samuel French Ltd Plot Points in Our Sexual Development
Book SynopsisTheo and Cecily want to be honest about their sexual histories, but what happens when telling the truth jeopardizes everything? A contemporary queer love story, Plot Points in Our Sexual Development explores gender, intimacy, and the dangers of revealing yourself to the person you love.
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Samuel French Ltd No One Is Forgotten
Book SynopsisLali and Beng are hostages. No one knows where they’ve been taken or if they’re alive. Or, maybe their story has been broadcast to the world? A story about intimacy, surrender, and the will to live for someone else.
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Concord Theatricals Rodgers Hammersteins Carousel
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Concord Theatricals Leveling Up Virtually
Book SynopsisNew virtual version!From the award winning playwright ofEnd Days Deborah Zoe Laufer comes a story about three twenty-something roommates who are glued to their video games. They are masters of the virtual worlds behind the computer screens in their Las Vegas basement. When one of them uses his gaming skills to land a job with the National Security Agency launching actual drones and missiles online battles begin to have real consequences.Leveling Upis a fresh contemporary look at how we navigate the blurry line between worlds both virtual and real and what it means to grow up.
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Rodney Kleber Playing for Time
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Pearson Education Speaking Your Mind
Book SynopsisTory Young, Department of English, Polytechnic University Cordella Bryan, Freelance Educational ConsultantTable of Contents1. Conversations and Seminars 2. Introduction to Rhetoric and Argument 3. Shakespeare and Renaissance Rhetoric 4. Everyday Rhetorics 5. Making your Case 6. Presenting your Case. Appendix 1: Sample Criteria Sheet for Peer Oral Assessment. Appendix 2: Sample Practice Presentation Scenarios. Further Reading. Glossary.
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Manchester University Press Hamlet Shakespeare in Performance S
Book SynopsisThis analysis of the performance history of "Hamlet" recreates many productions from three centuries. The final chapters extend the analysis to a number of film versions, and to important European stage productions. It is intended both for students of Shakespearean theatre and for playgoers.Table of ContentsList of PlatesSeries editor’s prefaceAcknowledgements1. Performing Hamlet’s meanings2. Hamlet on stage 1600-19003. The 1920s: old ways meet new stagecraft4. Gielgud and Olivier in the 1930s5. Post-war Hamlets at Stratford-upon-Avon: 1948 and 19656. Royal Shakespeare and Royal Court in 19807. Hamlet at the movies: Olivier and Kozintsev8. Through the looking glass: Zeffirelli and the BBC9. TranslationsNotesAppendixBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Hyde Park
Book SynopsisHyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights into the shifting nature of the genre and early modern conceptions of London and courtship.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroductionHYDE PARKAppendix
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Manchester University Press The Family of Love
Book SynopsisThe Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONThe TextLording Barry: Playwright, Pirate, GentlemanThe ‘Moment’ of The Family of Love, 1605-1606 The Authorship DebateSources and IntertextsStaging and StagecraftThe Play Genre ‘I hope my body has no organs’ (3.2.25): Language and Style ‘Efficacy in carnal mixtures’ (3.2.45): Marriage and Sexuality The Death of MelancholyTHE FAMILY OF LOVEAPPENDICES A Marginal Annotations in The Familie of LoveB ‘ “Marstonian? ’ Features of The Family of Loveidentified by Charles Cathcart C Representations of the Family of Love in King James I, Basilicon Doron (1603) and John Rogers, The Displaying of an Horrible Sect (1578). INDEX
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Manchester University Press Screen Plays
Book SynopsisScreen plays is a ground-breaking volume thatchronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and today. The collection makes a compelling case for the centrality of the theatre to the past and present of British television drama.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Amanda Wrigley and John Wyver 1 Stages and the small screen: theatre plays as television drama since 1930 – John Wyver2 A duchess, a shoemaker and a knight: early modern drama, early British television – Lisa Ward 3 ‘This genuine theatre condition’: Basil Dean and the 1938 BBC outside broadcast of J. B. Priestley’s When We Are Married – Victoria Lowe4 ‘Our other Shakespeare’: Middleton’s tragedies on television, 1965–2009 – Susanne Greenhalgh5 A revival, a reworking and an original: the Harold Pinter season on Theatre 625 (BBC2, 1967) – Amanda Wrigley and Billy Smart6 Regional drama from stage to screen: television adaptations by Peter Cheeseman’s Victoria Theatre company – Lez Cooke7 Granada Television’s experiment with The Stables Theatre Company, 1969–70 – John Wyver8 From radical Black theatre production to television adaptation: Black Feet in the Show (BBC, 1974) – Sally Shaw9 Cedric Messina: producing theatrical classics with a decorative aesthetic – Billy Smart10 Abigail’s Party: ‘It’s not a question of ignorance, Laurence, it’s a question of taste’ – Ruth Adams 11 Screen and stage space in Beckett’s theatre plays on television – Jonathan Bignell12 Television’s natural disposition? An analysis of Naturalism and performance in relation to BBC productions of Ibsen’s plays – Stephen Lacey13 Remediating the real: verbatim plays on television in the new millennium – Cyrielle Garson14 The impact of television on scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays – Neil TaylorIndex
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Manchester University Press Dick of Devonshire
Book SynopsisThe first ever critical edition of Thomas Heywood's 1626 play, Dick of Devonshire, presented for the first time with an anthology of its source material. -- .
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Pluto Press Scenes from the Revolution
Book SynopsisAn exploration of radical political theatre in Britain from 1968 to present day.Trade Review'This is an indispensable archive of resistant performance practice, combining memoir, dramatic and critical writing. Wiltshire, Cowan, and their collaborators confront Project Austerity's culture of contempt and despair by recovering and asserting British theatre's history of critical refusal' -- Victor Merriman, author of ' 'Because We are Poor': Irish Theatre in the 1990s''Believe that 1960s theatre making is dead duck pass? Reader, best start re-thinking. Editor/authors Kim Wiltshire and Billy Cowan forge an original and powerfully mind-bending take across 50 years of radicalised performing. Essential territory for driving future performance toward politicised hope' -- Baz Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Theatre and Performance, University of Warwick'Recommended' -- CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: A Very Brief History of Political Theatre in the Twentieth Century up to 1968 - Kim Wiltshire and Billy Cowan Prologue by Lyn Gardner Scene 1: Agitprop and Political Theatre Introduction - Kim Wiltshire Interview with Rod Dixon (Red Ladder) and Kathleen McCreery (Red Ladder and Broadside Mobile Workers' Theatre) - Kim Wiltshire Apartheid: The British Connection (Extract), Broadside Mobile Workers' Theatre - Kathleen McCreery Contemporary Protest Theatre in South Africa - David Peimer The Lost Art of Agitprop and the Return of Socialist Praxis - Rebecca Hillman Scene 2: Working-Class Theatre Introduction - Kim Wiltshire Blood Red Roses at the Liverpool Everyman - Bob Eaton Ways of Seeing: Class, Gender and the Universal, from Blood Red Roses to The Sum - Lizzie Nunnery Plugging into History: Time Travel with John McGrath and 7: 84 - Lindsay Rodden Scene 3: Theatre in Education Introduction - Anthony Jackson Farewell to Erin (Extract), Belgrade TIE Company Interview with Tony Hughes (M6 Theatre Company) and Justine Themen (Belgrade TIE Company) - Billy Cowan Everyone's Got a Story to Tell ... and Their Own Way of Telling It - Julia Samuels (20 Stories High) Scene 4: Women's Theatre Introduction - Kim Wiltshire Interview with Sue Parrish (Sphinx) and Mica Nava (Women's Theatre Group) - Kim Wiltshire Work To Role (Extract), Women's Theatre Group The Work of Open Clasp and Why Women-centred Theatre is Still Relevant Today - Catrina McHugh (MBE) and Jill Heslop Forty Years of Women-centred Theatre-Making - Anna Hermann with Kim Wiltshire A Conversation on Sexual Assault in Theatre - Mighty Heart and Kim Wiltshire Scene 5: Queer Theatre Introduction - Billy Cowan Men (Extract), Don Milligan and Nol Greig Interview with Julie Parker (Drill Hall, 1981-2011) - Billy Cowan Interview with Ruth McCarthy (Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast) - Billy Cowan We Who are Here Together: (Re-)making Queer Theatre - Chris Goode Scene 6: Theatre and Race Introduction - May Sumbwanyambe A Tainted Dawn (Extract) - Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith The Personal is Always Political - Sudha Bhuchar Pokfulam Road Productions: A Political Theatre Company? - Jingan Young Epilogue: Where Next for Political Theatre? - Billy Cowan and Kim Wiltshire Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index
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The History Press Ltd Haunted West End Theatres
Book SynopsisIn researching these theatrical ghost stories the authors have held vigil in dark auditoriums, lonely stairwells and melancholy boxes, behind the scenery and underneath the stages in the search of the theatrical phantoms. From the Lyceum to the Lyric, the astounding results demonstrate the historical links between spirits and the stage. It will captivate anyone who is interested in the shadowy past of London''s haunted West End theatres.
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Running Press,U.S. The Tony Awards
Book SynopsisCommemorating over 75 years of Broadway greatness with never-before told stories, rare photos from the American Theatre Wings'' archives, and interviews with major honorees like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, and Hugh Jackman, The Tony Awards is the official, authorized guide to Broadway''s biggest night.The Tony Awards: A Celebration of Excellence in Theatre pays tribute to the magic that happens when the curtain goes up and Broadway''s best and brightest step onto center stage. Supported by the American Theatre Wing, the arts organization that founded the Tony Awards in 1947 and continues to produce the Tony Awards live telecast each year, author Eila Mell has interviewed a cavalcade of past and present Tony winners, including actors, producers, writers, costume designers, and many many others. Their voices fill the pages of this book with fascinating, behind-the-scenes stories about what it''s like to win the theatre world''s highest honor.
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) AIDS and American Apocalypticism The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic SUNY series in the Sociology of Culture
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Johns Hopkins University Press Being and Becoming Visible Women Performance and
Book SynopsisInstructors in feminist, cultural, and media studies who are looking for global perspectives will find that this fresh and provocative volume encourages students to see new connections among a variety of trends in contemporary scholarship.Trade Review"Being and Becoming Visible is a remarkable compilation of previously published articles that examine female representation from feminist perspectives in a variety of performative and visual media across geographical and disciplinary boundaries. The collection is a valuable text for use in courses that focus on visual culture, representation, gender identity, and the media." - Jill Bystydzienski, The Ohio State University"Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Feminist Exhibitionism: When the Women's Studies Professor Is a CuratorPart I: Spectators, Spectacles, and Cultural IconsChapter 2. Diana Doubled: The Fairytale Princess and the PhotographerChapter 3. Alice Neel's Portraits of Mother WorkChapter 4. Practical Perfection? The Nanny Negotiates Gender, Class, and Family Contradictions in 1960s Popular Culture Chapter 5. Millions "Love Lucy": Commodification and the Lucy PhenomenonPart II: Explicit Selves, Explicit BodiesChapter 6. Fractured Borders: Women's Cancer and Feminist TheaterChapter 7. Representing Domestic Violence: Ambivalence and Difference in What's Love Got to Do with ItChapter 8. The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poor Women, Power, and the Politics of Feminist RepresentationChapter 9. Fashion Photography and Women's Modernity in Weimar Germany: The Case of Yva Part III: Iconographies of Communal IdentityChapter 10. Iconographies of Gender, Poverty, and Power in Contemporary South African Visual CultureChapter 11. Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Gendered Collective Action: The Case of Women of the Storm Following Hurricane KatrinaChapter 12. The Representation of the Indigenous Other in Daughters of the Dust and The PianoList of Contributors
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Northwestern University Press Site Unscene
Book SynopsisExplores the key role of dramatic episodes that occur offstage and beyond the knowledge-generating faculty of playgoers' sight. Does Ophelia drown? Is Desdemona unfaithful to Othello? Does Macbeth murder Duncan in his sleep? Site Unscene considers how the drama's non-visible and eccentric elements embellish, alter, and subvert visible action on the stage.
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Northwestern University Press Encounters on Contested Lands
Book SynopsisEmploys a performance studies lens to examine how instances of Indigenous self-representation in Québec challenge the national and identity discourses of the French Québécois de souche - the French-speaking descendants of white European settlers who understand themselves to be settlers no more but rather colonized.
£34.95
Northwestern University Press The Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall Newspapers
Book SynopsisNew media are often greeted with suspicion by older media. The Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall explores how, when the commercial press arrived in France in 1836, popular theatre critiqued its corruption, its diluted politics, and its tendency to orient its content toward the lowest common denominator.
£28.46
Northwestern University Press The Crooked Mirror
Book SynopsisAs a cultural phenomenon of the Silver Age, the Crooked Mirror deserves critical attention, yet it has received only fleeting mention in histories of Russian theatre. This anthology fills a gap in our understanding of that heady era by bringing together key plays with short biographies of their authors and robust commentary and annotations.Trade Review“This is a dynamic, distinctive, and meticulous examination of a modernist Russian cabaret, written elegantly and authoritatively. The original translations beautifully capture the stylistic differences of each work and colloquialisms imbedded in their context.” - Julia Listengarten, author of Russian Tragifarce: Its Cultural and Political RootsTable of ContentsIntroduction Anchar Mantsenilov (Prince Mikhail Volkonsky), with music by Vladimir Erenberg Biography and IntroductionVampuka, or the Bride of Africa (1909) The Guest Star (1910) Leonid Andreev Biography and IntroductionLove Thy Neighbor (1909)The Lovely Sabine Women (1911) Aleksandr Kugel’ Biography and IntroductionA Little Night Music (1910). Pyotr Potyomkin Biography and IntroductionShall We Let Down the Curtain? (1911) Boris Geyer Biography and IntroductionThe Evolution of the Theatre (1910)Memories (1911) The Water of Life (1911) What They Say, What They Think (1914) Nikolay Evreinov Biography and IntroductionBackstage at the Soul (1912) The Inspector General (1912) The Fourth Wall (1916) Nikolay Urvantsov Biography and IntroductionMan’s Fate (1915) Afterword Notes List of Sources
£24.65
Northwestern University Press Travesty Actors
£24.29
Scarecrow Press The Broadway Musical
Book SynopsisTo see a Broadway musical is to experience how a drama, using melody, harmony, and rhythm, evokes the emotion needed to perpetuate a story line. Without music, many of these plays would not succeed, failing to convey the intended message. This new edition of Swain''s classic text, winner of the 1991 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, reveals how a musical drama achieves plot movement, character development and conflict through strategic placement of song and music in 20 musical plays. Unlike critical literature that has simply explored theatrical style and production histories, this survey focuses mainly on the power of music. Illustrated with more than 150 musical excerpts and essays, Swain includes the latest research and viewpoints of contemporary critics, offering insight into dramatic expression and how renowned composers including Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Jerry Bock, Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber influenced the Broadway musical. This provides insights into the many impresTrade ReviewSwain's valuable survey contains a great deal of perceptive musical and dramatic criticism and analysis. -- Geoffrey Block, Author of Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to SondheimSwain's study should convince even the sceptic that the musical can be seriously and usefully analysed….an essential book for those concerned with drama, song and popular arts. * Popular Music *Swain's study should convince even the skeptic that the musical can be seriously and usefully analysed...an essential book for those concerned with drama, song, and popular arts....Swain has not only advanced the critical analysis of the Broadway musical, but has developed techniques that will enable the great composers of musicals to be given appropriate critical recognition. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface to the First Edition Chapter 2 Preface to the Second Edition Chapter 3 1 Introduction Chapter 4 2 First Maturity Chapter 5 3 America's Folk Opera Chapter 6 4 Second Maturity Chapter 7 5 Morality Play as Musical Chapter 8 6 Shakespeare as Musical Chapter 9 7 The Pure Love Story Chapter 10 8 Myth as Musical Chapter 11 9 Tragedy as Musical Chapter 12 10 The Ethnic Musical Chapter 13 11 Religious Experience as Musical Chapter 14 12 History as Musical Chapter 15 13 Frame Story as Musical Chapter 16 14 Thriller as Musical Chapter 17 15 Epic as Musical Chapter 18 16 Epilogue Chapter 19 Endnotes Chapter 20 Index Chapter 21 About the Author
£57.00
Wayne State University Press Staging Fairyland
Book SynopsisExamines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-century histories of folklore and the fairy tale. In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as âœpantomimeâ was part of a shared cultural repertoire and a significant medium for the transmission of stories, especially fairy tales.
£31.95
Taylor & Francis Inc A Working Costume Designers Guide to Fit
Book SynopsisA Working Costume Designerâs Guide to Fit explores the concept of fit in theatrical costumes â what it is, how to assess it, and how to achieve it.Being able to assess whether a costume fits or not is a learned skill, which takes practice as well as information about what the fit standards are for different types of garments. Filled with detailed step-by-step illustrations, this book provides all the knowledge readers will need in order to achieve the perfect fit for their costumes, including: How costumes can support actors onstage when they fit correctly How to take measurements and how to assess them How to conduct a fitting and what materials are needed How to resolve a number of issues that may arise during a fitting How to fit a mockup test garment in preparation for building a costume from scratch How to adjust a garment or mockup to fit better Chapters 8-14 also explore different categories of garments and discuss how to check them against the wearerâs measurements before trying them on, what the standards of fit are for each category, and how to fit an existing garment.This is an essential guide for students of Costume Design courses and professional costume designers of any experience level.Table of Contents1. "Fit" and Why It Matters 2. Measurements 3. Obtaining Garments for Costume Use 4. Preparing to Conduct a Fitting 5. Standards of Good Fit 6. General Method for a Fitting 7. Interpreting What You See 8. Bodices 9. Sleeves 10. Tailored Shirts and Blouses 11. Suit Jackets, Sports Coats, Blazers, and Period Indoor Coats 12. Fitted Garments without a Waistline Seam 13. Skirts 14. Trousers and Jeans
£27.51
Taylor & Francis Marina AbramoviÄ
Marina AbramoviÄ is the creator of pioneering performance art which transcends the formâs provocative origins. Her visceral and extreme performances have tested the limits of both body and mind, communicating with audiences worldwide on a personal and political level. Updated and revised throughout, the book combines: a biography, setting out the contexts of AbramoviÄâs work an examination of the artist through her writings, interviews and influences a detailed analysis of her work, including studies of the Rhythm series, Nightsea Crossing and 512 Hours practical explorations of the performances and their origins. 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 todayâs student.
£36.99
The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2021 Volume 40
Book SynopsisA peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre ConferenceTable of Contents Introduction—LISA JACKSON-SCHEBETTA, WITH ODAI JOHNSON, CHRYSTYNA DAIL, AND JONATHAN SHANDELL PART I STUDIES IN THEATRE HISTORY Un-Reading Voltaire: The Ghost in the Cupboard of the House of Reason—ODAI JOHNSON Caricatured, Marginalized,and Erased: African American Artists and Philadelphia’s Negro Unit of the FTP, 1936–1939—JONATHAN SHANDELL Stop Your Sobbing: White Fragility, Slippery Empathy, and Historical Consciousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate—SCOTT PROUDFIT Asia and Alwin Nikolais: Interdisciplinarity, Orientalist Tendencies, and Midcentury American Dance—ANGELA K. AHLGREN PART II WITCH CHARACTERS AND WITCHY PERFORMANCE Editor’s Introduction to the Special Section Shifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances—CHRYSTYNA DAIL To Wright the Witch: The Case of Joanna Baillie’s Witchcraft—JANE BARNETTE Nothing Wicked This Way Comes: Shakespeare’s Subversion of Archetypal Witches in The Winter’s Tale—JESSICA HOLT Of Women and Witches: Performing the Female Body in Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom—MAMATA SENGUPTA (Un)Limited: The Influence of Mentorship and Father-Daughter Relationships on Elphaba’s Heroine Journey in Wicked—REBECCA K. HAMMONDS Immersive Witches: New York City under the Spell of Sleep No More and Then She Fell—DAVID BISAHA PART III Essay from the Conference The Robert A. Schanke Award-Winning Essay, MATC 2020 New Conventions for a New Generation: High School Musicals and Broadway in the 2010s—LINDSEY MANTOAN
£28.45
Seagull Books London Ltd The Radio Family
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The most intelligent and important woman writer our land has produced this century." -- Thomas BernhardTable of ContentsEpisode 1: Lending Money | Guido Episode 4: Birthday | Wolferl, Liesl Episode 9: Holiday Plans Episode 10: Lumbago Episode 15: Back to School Episode 18: Horoscope Episode 20: The D. P. Episode 21: Archduke Guido Episode 24: The Tedious Dr. Panigl Episode 29: The Last Sunday before Christmas Episode 32: The Florianis Go to the Theatre Episode 41: A Birthday Surprise: A Child is Coming from Holland Episode 45: Psychology in Purkersdorf Episode 54: The Art Exhibition Episode 63: Puppet Show II Afterword Joseph McVeigh Appendix A: Those Involved Appendix B: List of Episodes Appendix C: Notes on the Typescripts
£12.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Zen and the Art of StandUp Comedy Theatre Arts
Book SynopsisA practical, hands-on guide for actors and performers, written by an experienced stand-up comic. Covers writing, character, delivery, performance, set structure, audiences, professional work and includes helpful tips.Trade Review"Jay Sankey offers aspiring stand-up comics a career's worth of wisdom in Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy. His advice [is] both thought provoking and practical." -- Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsChapter One Stand-Up; Writing; Chapter Three Character; Delivery; Performance; Set Structure; Audiences; Professional Stand-Up; Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy
£35.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Staging A Musical
Book SynopsisIn Staging a Musical, Matthew White describes all the elements involved in putting on a musical production, including: how to choose the right show, budgets and schedules, auditions, rehearsals, and performances.Trade Review"This concise volume will be an excellent tool for any general practitioner or amateur wishing to glimpse the process of producing a musical. Recommended for two-year technical program students, beginning professionals and practitioners, and amateurs; especially helpful for community-theater practitioners." -- Choice, Apr 2000"Using a clear, concise format that includes explanations, diagrams and photographs from professional and university shows, White walks the would-be producer or director through all the steps of a production...If you are interested in putting on a show, this book ought to be on your reference list." -- Dramatics January 2000"Offers some intelligent insights on dealing with actors; including the impotranc of treating auditioners with respect, invigorating and including the ensemble, working with childrn and encouraging experimentation. Alison Root, Theatre Journal, October, 2001."Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Where does it all begin?; Chapter 2 The creative team; Chapter 3 Stage management and technical support; Chapter 4 Budgets, schedules and publicity; Chapter 5 Research and design; Chapter 6 Casting the show; Chapter 7 The first day of rehearsals; Chapter 8 Rehearsals – creating a company; Chapter 9 Rehearsals – songs, scenes, choreography and staging; Chapter 10 Rehearsals – stage management responsibilities; Chapter 11 From the Rehearsal Room to the Stage; Chapter 12 The first night and beyond;
£43.79
The University of Chicago Press The Theatrical Baroque
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the dialogue between the newly-invigorated European theatre of the late 16th and 17th centuries, and the plastic arts. The interactions between the spectator and the spectacle, social performance and the staging of the individual are discussed.
£16.50
Cambridge University Press Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire
Book SynopsisDesigned for music scholars, historians, and those interested in music of the 'Classical era', Glatthorn's book explores the contexts in which Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven lived, going beyond these individuals to uncover the musical figures, processes, and materials that shaped the world of Central European music theatre c.1800.
£25.64
