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Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative
Book SynopsisThis book brings together a collection of leading international experts to explore the lessons learnt through implementation and the future directions of crime prevention policies. Through a comparative analysis of developments in crime prevention policies across a number of European countries, contributors address questions such as: How has 'the preventive turn' in crime control policies been implemented in various different countries and what have its implications been? What lessons have been learnt over the ensuing years and what are the major trends influencing the direction of development? What does the future hold for crime prevention and community safety? Contributors explore and assess the different models adopted and the shifting emphasis accorded to differing strategies over time. The book also seeks to compare and contrast different approaches as well as the nature and extent of policy transfer between jurisdictions and the internationalisation of key ideas, strategies and theories of crime prevention and community safety.Trade Review'This book comprises a collection of essays by some of the leading experts in the field of community safety and crime prevention from across Europe (with a contribution from a Canadian academic) and provides an extremely informative and useful comparison of the implementation and future direction of crime prevention policy.' - Donald Urquhart, Retired Police Officer and Chair of the Scottish Community Safety Network in SCOLAG, May 2011'Adam Crawford brings together a collection of readings on models of European crime prevention that is relevant for both policy makers and academics. ... Crawford presents a borad, yet detailed, collection, constructed around themes of convergance and divergance, implementation and the interplay between private and public prevention.Overall, this is an important book for scholars and policy makers of crime prevention in Europe, especially those concerned with the transferance, transformation and implementation of prevention policies in differing political and cultural contexts.' - Amy E. Nivette, PhD Candidate, Institute of Criminology, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Preventive Turn in Europe 1. Situating Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative Perspective: Policy Travels, Transfer and Translation 2. The Political Evolution of Situational Crime Prevention in England and Wales 3. The Preventative Turn and the Promotion of Safer Communities in England and Wales: Political Inventiveness and Governmental Instabilities 4. The Development of Community Safety in Scotland: A Different Path? 5. The Evolving Story of Crime Prevention in France 6. Forty Years of Crime Prevention in the Dutch Polder 7. 'Modernisation' of Institutions of Social and Penal Control in Europe: The 'New' Crime Prevention 8. Crime Prevention at the Belgian Federal Level: From a Social Democratic Policy to a Neo-liberal and Authoritarian Policy in a Social Democratic Context 9. Going Around in Circles? Reflections on Crime Prevention Strategies in Germany 10. Crime Prevention in Hungary: Why is it so Hard to Argue for the Necessity of a Community Approach? 11. International Models of Crime Prevention
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Nick Hern Books World Scenography 1990-2005
Book SynopsisWorld Scenography 1990-2005 is the second volume in a series of large-format, lavishly illustrated books documenting for posterity a collection of significant and influential theatrical set, costume, and lighting designs. This volume covers 1990-2005 and presents designs for 409 productions from 55 countries representing the work of hundreds of designers as researched by a group of more than 100 dedicated volunteers from around the globe. Like all performance-based art, stage design is ephemeral. If it is not recorded, it disappears. And if the designs are not contextualized through scholarship, their meanings will become obscure. World Scenography provides an outstanding visual and contextual record of the art of designing for the stage. The World Scenography series is an official project of OISTAT, the International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians.
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Indiana University Press The Memory Marketplace Witnessing Pain in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important contribution that pushes the existing scholarship further in a number of fields."—Lisa Fitzpatrick, University of Ulster"A brilliant contribution to knowledge and a really enjoyable, accessible, and thought-provoking read."—Anna Reading, King's College"Emilie Pine's The Memory Marketplaceis that remarkable and rare thing: a compelling, rigorously-researched academic book that is also beautifully written. Its analysis of performance modes representing trauma, abuse and violence – from 'docu-verbatim' theatre and autoperformance to site-specific performance – traces complex lines of enquiry about the idea of witnessing, the role of affect, and the types and exchanges of labor in the 'memory marketplace.' This work is a major contribution not only to memory studies and to Irish theatre studies, but also functions as an exemplar of the ways in which transnational literary studies can illuminate broad themes while tending to distinctions across cultures, spaces and times."—Oona Frawley, editor of Memory Ireland series"Emilie Pine's important new book expands our understanding of the public performance of painful stories, suggesting that they exist in a 'memory marketplace' that has to be considered in economic as well as cultural terms. Drawing on examples from Irish and international theatre, the study challenges the reader to fully appreciate the relationship between witnessing and consuming in contemporary performance. In doing so, it offers exciting perspectives on major theatre-makers (including Yael Farber, Samuel Beckett, Anna Deavere Smith, and Ariel Dorfman), important Irish theatre companies (such as Anu Productions, Kabosh, and the Abbey Theatre), and much more. Scholars of Irish drama, documentary theatre, and memory studies will find Pine's work inspiring and provocative in equal measure—just as general readers will be deeply stimulated by its relevance to many contemporary debates, notably the #metoo movement."—Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland, GalwayTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Market for Pain1. Tell them that you saw us: Witnessing Docu-Verbatim Memory2. The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory3. The Commissioned Witness, Theatre and Truth4. The immaterial labour of listening: Presence, absence, failure and the commodification of the witness5. Consumers or witnesses?: site-specific performanceConclusion: Activism in the Marketplace
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Indiana University Press The Memory Marketplace Witnessing Pain in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important contribution that pushes the existing scholarship further in a number of fields."—Lisa Fitzpatrick, University of Ulster"A brilliant contribution to knowledge and a really enjoyable, accessible, and thought-provoking read."—Anna Reading, King's College"Emilie Pine's The Memory Marketplaceis that remarkable and rare thing: a compelling, rigorously-researched academic book that is also beautifully written. Its analysis of performance modes representing trauma, abuse and violence – from 'docu-verbatim' theatre and autoperformance to site-specific performance – traces complex lines of enquiry about the idea of witnessing, the role of affect, and the types and exchanges of labor in the 'memory marketplace.' This work is a major contribution not only to memory studies and to Irish theatre studies, but also functions as an exemplar of the ways in which transnational literary studies can illuminate broad themes while tending to distinctions across cultures, spaces and times."—Oona Frawley, editor of Memory Ireland series"Emilie Pine's important new book expands our understanding of the public performance of painful stories, suggesting that they exist in a 'memory marketplace' that has to be considered in economic as well as cultural terms. Drawing on examples from Irish and international theatre, the study challenges the reader to fully appreciate the relationship between witnessing and consuming in contemporary performance. In doing so, it offers exciting perspectives on major theatre-makers (including Yael Farber, Samuel Beckett, Anna Deavere Smith, and Ariel Dorfman), important Irish theatre companies (such as Anu Productions, Kabosh, and the Abbey Theatre), and much more. Scholars of Irish drama, documentary theatre, and memory studies will find Pine's work inspiring and provocative in equal measure—just as general readers will be deeply stimulated by its relevance to many contemporary debates, notably the #metoo movement."—Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland, GalwayTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Market for Pain1. Tell them that you saw us: Witnessing Docu-Verbatim Memory2. The Witness as Commodity: Autoperforming Memory3. The Commissioned Witness, Theatre and Truth4. The immaterial labour of listening: Presence, absence, failure and the commodification of the witness5. Consumers or witnesses?: site-specific performanceConclusion: Activism in the Marketplace
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Indiana University Press Albee in Performance
Book SynopsisA premiere playwright, Edward Albee is also a gifted director. This work details Albee's directorial vision and how that vision animates his plays. It reveals how Albee has shaped his plays in performance, the attention he pays to each aspect of theatre, and how his conception of the key plays he has directed has evolved over a five-decade career.Trade ReviewAlbee in Performance is an impressive documentation of Albee's rehearsal practices that, along the way, reveals countless insights into the characters and play worlds of one of our most celebrated living playwrights.Sept 2012 * Theatre Survey *For theatre professionals as well as academics, this book is a quick and useful glimpse into the theatrical practices of Edward Albee as they reveal his own aesthetic principles. * Text & Presentation *Albee in Performance is a fascinating volume. Solomon's writing is lively . . . It is an important contribution to our understanding of Edward Albee as a man of the theatre. * Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism *Albee in Performance provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of Edward Albee's work directing his own plays, a topic which has received far less attention than it deserves. . . . [It] will prove of lasting benefit to literary scholars and theatre professionals as they attempt to capture Albee's original intent and interpretation of his plays. Fall 2010 * Valley Voices: A Literary Review *Rakesh Solomon's insightful study Albee in Performance appeals to a broad spectrum of readers. Scholars, teachers, and Edward Albee fans will want to read it for interpretations of characters and themes in Albee's plays. Directors and deigners will enjoy the book from the standpoint of theatrical production. Theatre students at all levels can learn about their craft from case studies of how Albee himself solved production problems. Vol. 21, No. 1, March 2011 * Theatre Topics *Fully documents Albee's choices and decisions, frequently shedding a corrective light on texts as Albee imagined them. A valuable portrait of Albee as an actor's director, influenced by, but not bound to, the American method-acting tradition. Highly recommended. * Choice *Solomon usefully contextualizes Albee in relation to Beckett, Pinter, and other dramatists for whom such totality of vision is (or was) a significant dimension of their practice. At the same time, though, one of the strengths of this book is in demonstrating just how collaborative a theatre artist Albee is. -- Stephen Bottoms * New Theatre Quarterly *A book of stunning revelations. . . . Solomon's extraordinary thirty year documentation of Albee's plays in production . . . is a major gift to directors, actors, designers, and others. . . . Albee scholars, in particular, would ignore this new study at their peril. . . . It will prove to be an indispensible source and catalyst for future Albee scholarship, and a highly influential creative guide to understanding one of America's greatest and, perhaps, most mysterious playwrights. -- David A. Crespy * Theatre History Studies *Table of ContentsContentsForeword by Edward AlbeeAcknowledgments1. Albee in the Theatre2. Casting Practices and Director's Preparation3. The American Dream4. The Zoo Story5. Fam and Yam and The Sandbox6. Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?8. Marriage Play9. Three Tall Women10. Albee's Double Authoring11. Albee and His Collaborators on Staging Albee: From The Zoo Story to The Goat, or, Who Is Sylvia? 1. Albee Directs Albee 2. The Lady From Dubuque 3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 4. Albee Directs Beckett 5. Marriage Play 6. Three Tall Women 7. The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia?NotesWorks CitedIndex
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University of Texas Press Making the Scene
Book SynopsisA lively, beautifully illustrated history of theatrical stage design from ancient Greek times to the present, coauthored by the world’s leading authority, Oscar G. Brockett.
£59.50
University of Texas Press Making Faces Playing God Identity and the Art of
Book SynopsisIn this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills the fundamental human fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the otheTrade Review"This book is entirely unique, very well written, dramatic, and, at the same time, philosophical. It is likely to appeal to a very large audience, including anybody interested in the visual arts, in film, in theater, in philosophical problems of transformation, and in the unconscious generally." -Melvin R. Lansky, M.D., UCLA Medical School and Los Angeles Psychoanalytic InstituteTable of Contents Introduction Part I: The Culture and Art of Transformation 1. The Significance and Invention of Faces 2. The Culture of Transformation 3. The Art of Transformation Part II: The Practice of Transformation 4. The Demonic 5. Aliens 6. Disguise for Its Own Sake 7. Variant Selves 8. Impersonation 9. Beyond Human Afterthoughts Photo Credits
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University of Washington Press Theatre Backstage from A to Z
Book SynopsisTaking into account technological developments, this edition of a classic guide (last, 1989; first, 1967) to theatrical scenery and lighting practices in the US adds some 200 terms and new equipment illustrations. Lists manufacturers and distributors. Expanded by Boulanger (emeritus, theatre, EasteTrade Review"Arranged alphabetically with more than 300 drawings, diagrams, charts, and photographs, Theatre Backstage from A to Z is a quick source of information on construction, design, lighting, painting, properties, sound, and stage managing." * Newsletter of the International Theatre Institute of the United States *"Because of the wide range of material covered, both student and professional theatre technicians will find this inexpensive, well-designed volume useful." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface to the Fourth Edition Preface to the Third Edition Introduction: Scenery and Lighting Practices in the United States Theatre Backstage from A to Z Selected List of Manufacturers and Distributors Bibliography
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Staging Place
Book SynopsisReimagines the content and continuities of theatre history and exposes underlying dialogues between ""home and homelessness, belonging and exile"" - a century-long struggle with the meaning and power of place, which the author terms ""geopathology"".Trade ReviewThis is a book of real originality. Its treatment of space in modern drama is elegant and powerful. . . ." —William B. Worthen, Northwestern University"Staging Place is a powerfully written book, deft in its handling of familiar and unfamiliar plays alike and eclectic in its use of theatrical sources." —Essays in Theatre/ Études théâtrales"This sophisticated and well-written study for graduate students and their teachers explores modern drama's preoccupation with the seemingly irreconcilable discontinuities between the notions of home and homelessness, belonging and exile. . . . The readings of individual plays are fresh and invigorating. . . ." —Choice
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The University of Michigan Press The Stage Life of Props
Book SynopsisFresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
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The University of Michigan Press Taking It to the Streets
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Visual Life of Romantic Theater 17801830
Book SynopsisExamines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book reenvisions traditional approaches to artistic and social production.Trade Review“The volume’s thesis, that a substantive investigation of spectacle and the visual elements of Romantic theatre force us to reconsider the primarily textual theses that govern the idea of Romanticism, is both timely and needed. Its transdisciplinary approach, rooted jointly in performance studies and theatre history, promises to reassess the oft-denigrated 6th category of Aristotelian dramatic analysis and unpack spectacle’s aesthetic, political, and cultural significance, both on and off the stage. These are the most important voices in later-eighteenth-century and Romantic theatre studies, and to have them assembled promises readers that this will not just be a collection but a field-defining conversation.” —Misty G. Anderson, James R. Cox Professor of English, University of Tennessee“A field-shaping collection of essays that unveil the lost delights of Romantic-era theatre culture: playbill typography, costume trimming, souvenir fans, toy theatres, stage makeup, mimodrama, and scene maquettes. Through their wide-ranging analyses, the contributors reanimate the stage productions that thrilled Romantic theatre-goers.” —Judith Pascoe, George Mills Harper Professor of English, Florida State UniversityTable of Contents Introduction: Romanticism, Visuality, and the Theater Diane Piccitto and Terry F. Robinson I. Imagined Scenes 1. The 1794 Macbeth and Its Conjuring Effects: Rethinking Romantic-Era Spectatorship Terry F. Robinson 2. “Mind-forg’d Manacles”: The Scenography of the Romantic Prison Joseph Roach 3. Some Versions of Spectacle: Worldmaking and the Regency Toy Theater Daniel O’Quinn 4. Conjuring the Space and the Right to Appear in Obi; or Three-Fingered Jack (1800) Dana Van Kooy II. Spectacular Bodies 5. “I saw Othello’s visage in his mind”: Visualizing Othello in Nineteenth-Century British Theater Atsede Makonnen 6. Playing “Alive”: Performing Sculpture on the Romantic Stage Sophie Thomas 7. “Dresses in Hand”: Mary Rein’s Costume Workshop and the Spectacle of Romantic Theater Susan E. Brown 8. The Singing Cat: British Audiences, Angelica Catalani, and the Threat of Opera Uri Erman III. Performances in Print 9. The Stage in a Page: A Visual Life of Romantic Playbills Michael Gamer 10. Between Media: Harlequinade’s and Melodrama’s Visuality in Print Deven M. Parker 11. Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie, Londina Illustrata, and the Visual Life of Regency Theater Gillian Russell 12. Staging Satire: Gillray and “Caricatura-Sublime” Heather Mcpherson 13. Theatrical Spectatorship in Byron’s Cain and Blake’s The Ghost of Abel: From Oblivion to Redemption Diane Piccitto Afterword: Romanticism is Seeing Ghosts Jonathan Mulrooney Contributors
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University of California Press Great Directors at Work
Book SynopsisThe four directors-Konstantin Stanislavsky, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, and Peter Brook - all were monarchs of the profession in their time. Without their work, theatre in the twentieth century - so often called the century of the director - would have a radically different shape and meaning. This deals with the work of the four directors.
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University of Toronto Press Hans Christian Andersen and the Romantic Theatre
Book SynopsisThe romantic theatre, with all its imaginative vigour and eagerness for experimentation, appeals to those who like total theatre – unabashed, unashamedly spectacular, unforgettably pathetic. Critics who take a purely literary approach the drama often neglect or malign the theatre of the nineteenth century. Yet even in terms of literary, influence it is a hazardous to ignore the debt the exponents of naturalism owed to the drama of the prenaturalistic period. Despite universal critical agreement about the significance of Ibsen and Strindberg as creators of modernism, no attempt has previously been made to describe and delineate the theatrical context from which these major Scandinavian playwrights emerged. Hans Christian Andersen stands squarely astride the romantic period in Scandinavia. His plays, appearing from 1829 to 1865, span the important transition from the actor-dominated theatre to the naturalist theatre controlled by the director. Although recognized as a great
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University of North Texas Press,U.S. The Performing Set: The Broadway Designs of
Book SynopsisThe large-scale Broadway musical is one of America's great contributions to world theatre. Bill and Jean Eckart were stage designers and producers at the peak of the musical, and their designs revolutionized Broadway productions. At a time when sets were meant to remain simply backdrops that established time and place but not much else, an Eckart set became part of the performance on stage, equal at times to an actor. Anyone who has seen Phantom of the Opera or Les Miserables has seen the innovations that the Eckarts brought to the large Broadway-style musical production. They were best known for their designs for Damn Yankees (1955); Once Upon a Mattress (1959), in which Carol Burnett made her Broadway debut; and Mame (1966) with Angela Lansbury. Andrew B. Harris uses production stills and the Eckarts' sketches from every show they worked on to illustrate the magic behind an Eckart design. This lavishly illustrated book, with more than 500 full-color illustrations, is a fitting tribute to both the great American theatre and the couple who helped make it great.
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University Press of Mississippi Pedro Almodovar: Interviews
Book SynopsisIn full command of both Hollywood stylistics and camp aesthetics, Spain's Pedro Almodóvar (b. 1951) has become a master of the audacious and the unorthodox, of the permissive and the polemical. Pedro Almodóvar: Interviews documents the 22-year-long cinematic career of the most internationally celebrated Spanish art-film director since Luís Buñuel. Many of these interviews, from French, Italian, and Spanish periodicals, appear for the first time in English. Almodóvar's early cinematic ventures in Super 8 and 16mm in the 1970s marked and memorialized the rise of the Movida, Madrid's underground vanguard artistic movement. Almodóvar's critical success in his native Spain came with What Have I Done to Deserve This? Almodóvar made his mark in the United States with his kitschy, melodramatic comedy and Academy Award nominee Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and his outlandish and irreverently funny Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! For all its taboo-breaking plots, eccentric characterizations, and explosive palettes, Almodóvar's cinema of excess has matured into one of tender compassion. All About My Mother, winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and of Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, and his fourteenth feature to date, Talk to Her, winner of the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, 2003, cement Almodóvar's commitment to characters on the margins and to social critique. Covering more than two decades, the interviews collected here trace Almodóvar's journey from the small village of Calzada de Calatrava to Madrid, from his humble and Catholic provincial upbringing to his superstar status as Spain's leading postmodern auteur. Originally published in Spain, France, Italy, and the United States, these conversations disclose as much about Almodóvar's personal biography as they do about his thematic universe, his directorial personality, and his maturing style. Paula Willoquet-Maricondi is assistant professor of media arts at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie, New York. She is the co-editor of Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema.
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New Village Press Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance,
Book SynopsisThe experiences of a diverse range of progressive theater and performance makers in their own words. Curated stories from over 75 interviews and informal exchanges offer insight into the field and point out limitations due to discrimination and unequal opportunity for performance artists in the United States over the past 55 years. In this work, performers, often unknown beyond their immediate audience, articulate diverse influences. They also reflect on how artists are educated and supported, what content is deemed valuable and how it is brought to bear, as well as which audiences are welcome and whether cross-community exchange is encouraged. The book’s voices bring the reader from 1965 through the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020. They point to more diverse and inclusive practices and give hope for the future of the art.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Remaking the Comedia: Spanish Classical Theater
Book SynopsisLeading Golden Age theatre experts examine the ways that comedias have been adapted and reinvented, offering a broad performance history of the genre for scholars and practicioners alike. This volume brings together twenty-six essays from the world's leading scholars and practitioners of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Examining the startlingly wide variety of ways that Spanish comedias have been adapted, re-envisioned, and reinvented, the book makes the case that adaptation is a crucial lens for understanding the performance history of the genre. The essays cover a wide range of topics, from the early stage history of the comedia through numerous modern and contemporary case studies, as well as the transformation of the comedia into other dramatic genres, such as films, musicals, puppetry, and opera. The essays themselves are brief and accessible to non-specialists. This book will appeal not only to Golden Age scholars and students but also to theater practitioners, as well as to anyone interested in the theory and practice of adaptation. Harley Erdman is Professor of Theaterat the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Susan Paun de García is Professor of Spanish at Denison University. Contributors: Sergio Adillo Rufo, Karen Berman, Robert E. Bayliss, Laurence Boswell, Bruce R.Burningham, Amaya Curieses Irarte, Rick Davis, Harley Erdman, Susan L. Fischer, Charles Victor Ganelin, Francisco García Vicente, Alejandro González Puche, Valerie Hegstrom, Kathleen Jeffs, David Johnston, Gina Kaufmann, Catherine Larson, Donald R. Larson, Barbara Mujica, Susan Paun de García, Felipe B. Pedraza Jiménez, Veronika Ryjik, Jonathan Thacker, Laura L. Vidler, Duncan Wheeler, Amy Williamsen, Jason YanceyTable of ContentsPreface Terms and Concepts: The Adaptation of Classical Texts for the Stage "Los senderos qu se bifurcan": Adaptation, Appropriation, and the Proliferation of Possibilities Interpretative Directing Games for the Golden Age Repertory Re-Make, Re-Mix, Re-Model Refundación Redux: Revisiting the Rewritten Comedia Pepe Estruch and the Performance of Golden Age Drama: International Relationships under Franco and Democratic Theatrical Cultures Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, and Performing Nationalism: Local, National, and Global Remakes of the Comedia Four Decades of the Chamizal Siglo de Oro Drama Festival and the Evolution of Comedia Performance Early Modern Dramaturgas: A Contemporary Performance History Adapting Lope de Vega for the English-Speaking Stage The Dog in the Manger: The Continuum of Transformation El Caballero de Olmedo: Los Barracos's Baroque Gentleman Corpus Lorqui: Transformation and Transubstantiation in Los Barracos de Federico's El caballero de Olmedo The Phoenix of Madrid: Calderón's No hay burlas con el amor Reborn in Bath A Prince in Pittsburgh: "Recasting" a Contemporary Staging of The Constant Prince Directing Marta the Divine: Provocative Choices in the Service of the Story The Dramaturgy of Absence: Minding the Gaps in Tirso de Molina, Ana Caro, and Feliciana Enríquez Translations and Transgressions: Twenty-First Century Questions Regarding Zayas Comedia Actresses, Then and Now: The Case of Ana Caro's Valor, agravio y mujer "Kinesthetic Empathy" and the Comedia Refundición Porous Boundaries: Novela or Comedia? Lope de Vega and Lenfilm: The Dog in the Manger's Cross-Cultural Journey Classical Theater and Puppetry: La Máquina Real Remaking Moreto's El Desdén con el desdén: From Author's Text to Director's Text Lope's Peribáñez on the Lyric Stage A Musical Marta Appendix: Play Titles Cited Works Cited
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University of Washington Press Architect of Dreams
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De Gruyter Instruments in Art and Science: On the Architectonics of Cultural Boundaries in the 17th Century
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a collection of original papers at the intersection of philosophy, the history of science, cultural and theatrical studies. Based on a series of case studies on the 17th century, it contributes to an understanding of the role played by instruments at the interface of science and art. The papers pursue the hypothesis that the development and construction of instruments make a substantive contribution to the opening of new fields of knowledge, the development of new cultural practices, but also to the delineation of particular genres, methods, and disciplines. This perspective leads the authors to reflect anew on what actually defines an instrument and to develop a series of basic questions to determine what an instrument is - which actions does the instrument incorporate? – which actions does the instrument make possible? - when do the objects of examination themselves become instruments? – what skills are required to use an instrument, which skills does it produce? With its combination of new theoretical models and historical case studies, its detailed demonstration of the mutual influence of art and science with the instrument as the point of intersection, this volume enters new territory. It is of great value for all those interested in the history of our perception of instruments. Besides the editors, the authors of the papers are: Jörg Jochen Berns, Olaf Breidbach, Georges Didi-Huberman, Peter Galison, Sybille Krämer, Dieter Mersch, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, and Otto Sibum.
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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking text returns in its second edition, unlocking the insider secrets and proven, time-tested methods to succeed as a professional assistant lighting designer.This definitive guide outlines, step-by-step, the daily challenges that assistant lighting designers face during every phase of production, and the solutions for overcoming them. Furthermore, intermingled among the highly detailed paperwork techniques and essential procedures, top industry professionals reveal tips for success in this challenging career. This fully updated second edition features: All new advice, real-world stories, and current paperwork examples from over 120 working professionals. Updated industry practices with case studies from the professionals themselves, such as how to create a video network to record previews for the lighting department; how much printing is done in an increasingly paperless world; how to produce a set electrics package; anTrade Review"The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit is a book the lighting world needs and should be required reading for all new – and not so new – lighting designers." Ken Billington, Tony Award-winning Broadway Lighting Designer Table of ContentsPart I: The Profession 1. Understanding Assisting 2. The Tools Required 3. Production Personnel 4. Unions Part II: The Process 5. Design Prep 6. Load-in 7. Tech 8. Previews and Performances Part III: The Paperwork 9. Pre-production Paperwork 10. Tech Process Paperwork Part IV: The Industry 11. US-based Employment Opportunities 12. Working Internationally 13. Working in Related Industries Part V: The Life 14. Working as an Independent Contractor
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Taylor & Francis How to do Shakespeare
Book Synopsis'Adrian Noble vigorously highlights the extraordinary rhythmic, linguistic patterns Shakespeare gives the speaker. Any actor will find this book invaluable. For any student of Shakespeare it should be essential.' (From the Foreword by Ralph Fiennes)'How can I bring the text alive, make it vivid, how do I make people hear it for the first time? How can I enter into that world and not feel a stranger. How can I not feel clumsy and inept? ... How can I speak it without sounding artificial or actory? In other words, how can I make it real ...?'Adrian Noble has worked on Shakespeare with everyone from oscar-nominated actors to groups of schoolchildren. Here he draws on several decades of top-level directing experience to shed new light on how to bring some of theatreâs seminal texts to life.He shows you how to approach the perennial issues of performing Shakespeare, including: wordplay â using colour and playing plain, wit and comedy, making language muscTrade Review'Noble, who has worked with Kenneth Branagh and Ralph Fiennes, achieves a winning mix of the theoretical and the practical' - WhatsOnStage.com Table of ContentsPart 1 - Principles 1. Apposition 2. Metaphor 3. Metre and pulse 4. Line endings 5. Word play 6. Vocabulary 7. Shape and structure Part 2 - Practice 8. Early, middle and late 9. Prose 10. Soliloquy 11. Comedy 12. Dialogue 13. Building a Character 14. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Environment on Stage
Book SynopsisThe Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter? investigates a pertinent voice of theatrical performance within the production and reception of ecotheatre. Theatre ecologies, unavoidably enmeshed in the environment, describe the system of sometimes perverse feedback loops running through theatrical events, productions, performances and installations. This volume applies an ecoaware spectatorial lens to explore live theatre as a living ecosystem in a literal sense. The vibrant chemistry between production and reception, and the spiralling ideas and emotions this generates in some conditions, are unavoidably driven by flows of matter and energy, thus, by the natural environment, even when human perspectives seem to dominate. The Environment on Stage is an intentionally eclectic mix of observation, close reading and qualitative research, undertaken with the aim of exploring ecocritical ideas embedded in ecotheatre from a range of perspectives. Individual chaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Setting the Ecotheatrical SceneChapter One: The Environment on Stage in Production and ReceptionChapter Two: Natural Disasters as Ecotheatrical ShapeshiftersChapter Three: An Ecotheatrical Perspective on Dearth in PerformanceChapter Four: The Environment in Performance – Stage Invasion or Deus ex Machina?Chapter Five: Environmental Theatre, Site Specificity and Theatre EcologiesChapter Six: Frugal Modes of Story-telling as EcotheatreChapter Seven: Bicycles on Stage – Shapeshifters or Scenery?Chapter Eight: Reperforming Reception – The Skriker in 1994 and 2015Chapter Nine: On the Importance of Intrinsic Environmental Responsibility
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