Theatre: technical Books
De Gruyter Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion
Book SynopsisDespite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and cinema traditions. Nonetheless, as a form of physical humor slapstick has a long history across various areas of cultural production. This volume approaches slapstick both as a genre of situational physical comedy and as a mode of communicating an affective situation captured in various cultural products. Contributors to the volume examine cinematic, literary, dramatic, musical, and photographic texts and performances. From medieval chivalric romance and nineteenth-century theater to contemporary photography, the contributors study treatments of slapstick across media, periods and geographic locations. The aim of a study of such wide scope is to demonstrate how slapstick emerged from a variety of complex interactions among different traditions and by extension, to illustrate that slapstick can be highly productive for interdisciplinary research.
£21.85
De Gruyter Erwin Piscators Theater gegen das Schweigen: Politisches Theater zwischen den Fronten des Kalten Kriegs (1951-1966)
Book SynopsisDas politische Theater der zwanziger Jahre, als dessen zentraler Vertreter Erwin Piscator (1893-1966) gilt, wurde in den Inszenierungen der Berliner Piscatorbühnen zwischen 1927 und 1931 zum theatergeschichtlichen Ereignis. Nach Piscators Rückkehr aus der New Yorker Emigration in die Bundesrepublik im Jahr 1951 erscheint ein bruchloses Anknüpfen an seine spektakulären theatralen Verfahren der Weimarer Republik ausgeschlossen. Als Piscator in den sechziger Jahren die Intendanz der Freien Volksbühne in West-Berlin übertragen wird, leitet er mit einer Serie couragierter Inszenierungen die Ära des Dokumentartheaters ein. Mit der Uraufführung von Rolf Hochhuths umstrittenem »Stellvertreter« und der Werke Heinar Kipphardts und Peter Weiss' wird das Theater abermals zum Brennspiegel seiner Zeit. Die erhebliche Provokanz des politischen Theaters der sechziger Jahre besteht dabei nicht in einer parteinahen Inszenierungspraxis, sondern vielmehr in Piscators beharrlicher Fürsprache für eine Aufarbeitung der NS-Vergangenheit und für eine Deeskalation während des Kalten Kriegs. Ausgehend von den Umständen, unter denen der Regisseur 1951 die Vereinigten Staaten verlassen muß, zeichnet die vorliegende Untersuchung ein präzises Profil von Piscators interventionistischer später Theaterarbeit und vergleicht diese im Sinne inszenierungsorientierter Theatergeschichtsschreibung mit Piscators stilbildenden Inszenierungen der zwanziger Jahre.
£98.32
European Interuniversity Press The Wooster Group and Its Traditions: 2004
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection of critical essays to appear about the Wooster Group. Since the 1970s this groundbreaking, New York-based performance company has led the way in crystallizing the conditions of contemporary stage practice at the intersection of several cultural and artistic traditions. As demonstrated by the assembled critics, each of them an authority in the field, these traditions extend into the past as well as into the future, through the Wooster Group's impact on the latest generation of performance artists. The company's consequent institutionalization is posited and challenged in the essays constituting Part I of the collection. Part II tackles the work-in-progress, mapping its idiomatic stage vocabulary and providing case studies, ranging from Frank Dell's The Temptation of St. Antony to To You, The Birdie! (Phèdre). Part III presents productions by kindred artists such as Elevator Repair Service, the Builders Association, Cannon Company, and Richard Maxwell. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, this collection should prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in the current theatrical scene and its place in the wider institutional, artistic, and historical contexts.
£49.68
Stockholm University Press Performing the Eighteenth Century: Theatrical Discourses, Practices, and Artefacts
£22.00
Independently Published Beyond the Console
£32.35
Independently Published The Ultimate Eyeshadow Application Guide
£14.04
Independently Published Viral Halloween Aesthetics From Folk Masks to Meme Era DIY Scares
£14.11
Independently Published Mastering Comedy Magic
£10.74
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The FourFifteen Express
£12.20
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp La Nariz Enorme
£12.39
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Apokapalooza Maya Lookin Dead Now....Oops The
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£14.05
Tomahawk Press Greasepaint and Gor The Hammer Monsters of Roy
Book SynopsisRoy Ashton was one of the cinema's greatest make-up designers. He designed most of Hammer's most famous monsters. Inside Greasepaint and Gore you will enter Ashton's own private world, featuring: never-before-seen original drawings and test photographs; Ashton speaking in his own words plus interviews with key actors and crew -- many speaking for the first time about a man the press dubbed The King of Horror! Greasepaint and Gore is a behind-the-scenes insight into the creative processes of the golden years of Hammer Films through the eyes of the people who made the Horrors possible!
£7.46
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
£60.00
University of California Press Deviant Opera
Book SynopsisThe first book to use subversive sexuality as a lensthrough which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handel's Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber dress, beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane, suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her dungeon. Mozart's peasant girl Zerlina, meanwhile, is tying up and blindfolding her fiancé to seduce him out of his jealousy of Don Giovanni. And how about Wagner's wizard, Klingsor, ensnaring his choir of flower maidens in elaborate Japanese rope bondage? Opera, it would appear, has developed a taste for sadomasochism. For decades now, radical stage directors have repeatedly dressed canonical operasfrom Handel and Mozart to Wagner and Puccini, and beyondin whips, chains, leather, and other regalia of SM and fetishism. Deviant Opera seeks to understand this phenomenon, approaching the contemporary visual code of perversion as a lens through which opera focuses and scrutinizes its own configurations of sex, gender, power, and violence. The emerging image is that of an art form that habitually plays with an eroticization of cruelty and humiliation, inviting its devotees to take sensual pleasure in the suffering of others. Ultimately, Deviant Opera argues that this species of opera fantasizes about breaking the boundaries of its own role-playing, and pushing its erotic power exchanges from the enacted to the actual.Trade Review"An erudite analysis of sadomasochism (SM) in opera." * Opera Now *“Englund’s academically disciplined discussions of opera direction and sex become meaningful far beyond the portrayed sadomasochistic situation. They also concern the conditions of opera’s fundamental aesthetic laws and expressions.” * OPERA (Sweden) *"[Axel] Englund’s study of deviant opera is penetrating and extremely thoroughly researched, persuasively argued, abundantly documented, and well written." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction. Staging Deviance 1. Opera and Sadomasochism 2. Sex in Excess: Rinaldo, Alcina, and the Contemporary Baroque 3. Schools of Libertinage: Don Giovanni with Sade 4. In-House Allegories: Enactment and Actuality in Parsifal and Tosca 5. More or Less Human: Wozzeck, Lulu, and the Soprano Conductor Epilogue. The Actuality Effect and Opera’s Quest for Authenticity Notes Works Cited Index
£25.20
Globe Pequot Press Transforming Space Over Time
Book SynopsisTransforming Space over Time: Set Design and Visual Storytelling with Broadway''s Legendary Directors tells the stories of six diverse productions: five on Broadway and one Off-Broadway. Beowulf Boritt, theater designer and Tony Award winner, begins with the moment he was offered each job and takes readers through the conceptual development of the set, in collaboration with the director, the challenges of its physical creation, and the intense process of readying it for the stage. Since theater is at heart a collaborative art form, he includes details of his work with the many professionalsdesigners, technicians, producers, stage managers, and actorswho contribute their talent and ideas to each show. Boritt offers insight into the sometimes frustrating but unavoidable realities of the biz part of showbiz: budgets, promotion, reviews, and awards, and he provides enough detail to interest aspiring and seasoned theater professionals and enough spice to satisfy passionate theatergoers.
£27.00
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design
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£71.25
Nick Hern Books Russian Avant-Garde Theatre: War, Revolution &
Book SynopsisA sumptuously illustrated survey of the remarkable flowering of radical, visionary and experimental design for performance in Russia in the twenty years between 1913 and 1933. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian theatre produced an unprecedented period of creative radicalism and collaborative experimentation. Against the turbulent backdrop of the First World War and the Russian Revolution, the avant-garde movement transformed Russia’s cultural landscape as visionaries from several disciplines generated a vortex of innovative performance and design. The astounding body of work produced by Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Sergei Eisenstein and Liubov Popova, among others, overturned traditions in art, music, literature and theatre. This book explores the importance and influence of a seminal moment in twentieth-century culture – one that still resonates today. Published to accompany a major exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in association with the Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum in Moscow, this book includes essays by experts from Russia, Britain and America illustrated with over 150 images from leading artists and designers, many of which are previously unpublished. Edited by John E. Bowlt, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California, the result is an astonishing record of a period of creative innovation that redefined not only what was possible in theatre and the avant-garde, but in wider artistic practices too. It will be of interest both to theatregoers and art historians, as well as current and future designers seeking inspiration for their own work.
£22.50
Manchester University Press Digging Up Stories Applied Theatre Performance
Book SynopsisJames Thompson's book explores the problems of theatre practice in communities affected by war and exclusion. It is compellling reading for anyone interested in applied theatre, theatre practice and performance studies, and provides an invaluable commentary on the interface between practice and its context.Table of Contents1. Words of introduction/words of caution2. Going nowhere3. Arriving in Sri Lanka4. A previous workshop example: an archaeology of theatre in war5. Hatton workshops6. Batticaloa7. Seeing is believing? Three more workshop examples 8. Finding Kooththu9. Another aside on games10. Burning the drums11. Dance Class12. Sitars13. Memorials14. Forum Kooththu15. A public workshop16. Malaria maps17. Human rights/cultural rights18. A theatre of attack: visit to Suriya19. In the presence of the leader20. Refugee camp theatre 21. On watching children’s theatre22. Memorials 2: wearing the poppy23. Nowhere again24. Finding Kolam25. A final aside on games26. Anti-diagnosis: theatre, not case-histories 27. Open ceremony: development performed28. The Thin Strip29. Arts projects and Christmas lights: a final turn in the theatre of war30. Inconclusivity
£23.83
Watson-Guptill Publications Back Stage Guide to Stage Management 3rd Edition
Book SynopsisThe Most Widely Used Manual For Aspiring And Veteran Stage Managers - Now Revised and ExpandedThe next best thing to shadowing a Broadway stage manager, this detailed, behind-the-scenes book as been brought completely up to date. First published in 1991, it is widely used and has been lauded as the most comprehensive, educational book on stage management available. From preproduction planning and first rehersals to opening night and final strike, all the essentials of the profession are presented here in a friendly, engaging style.Blending how-to information with anecdotes from his own career, author Thomas A. Kelly explains the entire theatrical process, including:- Organizing all rehearsals and performances- Maintaining the working script, cue sheets, and daily records- Supervising the technical aspects of the show- Running shows outdoors and at other non-theatrical venues- Dealing with performers and crew members on all levelsThis new edition reflects all the latest developments and innovations in the industry and adds a totally new chapter on opera stage management, complete with an in-depth breakdown of the challenges this style of production presents. The text is supported by sample documents, diagrams, and charts that straddle time-honored approaches with what can be generated by today's computer software. All the latest stage machinery is discussed, along with tips on finding employment. This guide remians the first choice for anyone who works in any branch of the profession, whether amateur, educational, or professional.
£17.85
Christian Publishers LLC Costumes, Accessories, Props & Stage Illusions
Book SynopsisTransform common people into superheroes, movie stars, witches -- whatever illusion you want to create. Creative costuming is all in the details. One garment can take on many totally different looks depending on how you accessorise it. Over the years, the author has learned all the tricks about how anyone can turn leftover clothing into fabulous costumes. This book''s numerous drawings explain in detail the costuming process of ''turning straw into gold''. It shows you how to design illusions that you never thought possible. Yes, you can easily do all this -- and at a minimum expense! This is another Barb Rogers must have book for your library of costume ideas.
£21.59
Silvana Corbella Milano: The First Italian Manufacturer
Book SynopsisThe history of jewellery manufacturer Corbella Milano, one of the most renowned excellences of Made in Italy. The Corbella company, 'the first Italian manufacturer of jewellery and weapons for the theatre', was founded in the heart of Milan in 1865. Through reproductions of weapons, jewels and accessories, it soon became one of the first official suppliers of the Teatro alla Scala, as well as signing contracts with prestigious institutions including La Fenice di Venezia, the Costanzi in Rome and the Colón of Buenos Aires. The industrious Milan after the Unification of Italy, of the National and International Expositions, of the years between the two world wars and of the economic boom has seen the owners of Corbella always acting as protagonists, first in the theatrical sector, with specific supplies to the great lyrical interpreters, from Margherita Carosio to Renata Tebaldi, then in the field of the great Italian producers of costume jewellery, up to the production changes due to the globalisation of the 21st century. Text in English and Italian.
£24.00
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited The Scenes We Made: An Oral History of
Book SynopsisThis book, the first to document the significant work carried out in these places, transports us back to a time of fearless experimentation in theatre.
£17.50
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers A Body Across the Map The FatherSon Plays of Sam
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£17.86
Christian Publishers LLC Face to Face: An Amateur's Video Guide to
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£106.48
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Scene Design: Rendering and Media
Book Synopsis Scene Design: Rendering and Media is intended to help students or practitioners improve their skills at making finished renderings of scene designs for theater. The book demonstrates the process of creating the renderings through real world methods and techniques. Chapters are dedicated to a detailed discussion of various tools including drawing, light and shadow, color mixing, painting, figures, and other media, and the book is rife with colorful and inspirational examples.
£43.34
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.
£64.00
Actar Publishers Mobile Theater: Architectural Counterculture on Stage
£27.55
Peter Lang AG Performing Arts Collections on the Offensive Les
Book SynopsisThe 26th SIBMAS Congress was held in Vienna from August 28 to September 1, 2006. It was hosted and organized by the Austrian Theatre Museum. The theme of the congress was Performing Arts Collections on the Offensive and focused on the need for institutions with theatre collections to engage actively with their audiences and to promote their activities in order to make their collections more accessible to the public. Le 26ème Congrès de la SIBMAS s'est tenu à Vienne du 28 août au 1er septembre 2006. Il était accueilli et organisé par le Musée autrichien du théâtre. Le thème du congrès Les collections d'arts du spectacle passent à l'offensive entendait souligner la nécessité, pour les institutions possédant des collections en arts du spectacle, d'aller à la rencontre de leur public et de promouvoir leurs activités afin de rendre leurs collections plus accessibles.
£56.60
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
£28.80
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
£33.98
Penguin Publishing Group Short Films 101 How to Make a Short for Under 50k and Launch Your Filmmaking Career
Book SynopsisWhere does a young filmmaker begin? With the right short-film concept and this book!The right short can be a filmmaker's business card in Hollywood. Here's the authoritative handbook by one of Hollywood's most connected insiders that offers a step-by-step guide through the entire creative process of shooting a short film, as well as expert advice from established filmmakers, and a final game plan for promoting and selling the film once it's in the can.Topics covered include: € Concept € Budget€ Finding equipment € Assembling a crew€ Casting€ Arranging for location€ Locating festivals and ancillary markets € Working with the unions€ Film vs. digital videoPlus:€ A list of film schools € Oscar-winning shorts and nominees€ A selection of short-film festivals€ Actual short-film budgets€ Sample scripts and shooting schedules € A helpful short-
£15.19
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.
£24.30
Phaidon Press Ltd Directing a Play
Book SynopsisA guide to directing, covering all the stages of theatrical production.Trade Review"Not only are the manuals attractive, they are practical, concise and free from theories."—Times Educational Supplement
£9.45
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Guiding the Plot Politics and Feminism in the
Book SynopsisThe theatre of Ana Diosdado and Paloma Pedrero in Spain, and Aida Bortnik and Griselda Gambaro in Argentina, written between 1960 and 1990, reveals an increasing preoccupation with women''s issues together with a continuing awareness of problematic political realities. Whether they challenge the strict separation between the private and the public, or whether they choose to uphold that distinction, these authors make the personal political by appropriating the public space - the stage - for the stories of women.
£37.81
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers Elastizitaet
Book SynopsisFrequenting circuses in Paris and Berlin, Frank Wedekind, best known for Spring Awakening and the Lulu plays, learned that trapeze artists and tightrope walkers rely on different artificial reference points in space, in order to maintain their balance and orient themselves and to create their own sensorial and phenomenal worlds. This lesson in radical perspectivism and constructivism is a key to Wedekind's practice as a playwright, and it links the Munich dramatist's work to the thought of Schopenhauer, who first used the term Elastizität in a philosophical sense; Darwin, who considered adaptability to be a primordial characteristic of life; Nietzsche, whose commentary on acrobats in Also sprach Zarathustra announces the Overman; and Freud, who used the term to describe the reactive, conservative nature of the instincts. Taking Elastizität and the modern notion of adaptability as its point of departure, this book explores Wedekind's construction of space, mo
£50.04
Taylor & Francis Ltd Sewing Techniques for Theatre
Book SynopsisSewing Techniques for Theatre: An Essential Guide for Beginners distills the intimidating art of sewing down into simple, quick, and effective lessons to prepare readers for an entry-level position in a costume shop. The lessons follow an hour-by-hour structure, offering detailed instructions to creating 11 sewing samples, a scrub shirt, and a tote bag. Embedded in the projects' directions are lecture materials on safety, irons, fabric, and patterns. With a wealth of hands-on exercises, review questions, photographs, and step-by-step instructions for compiling a portfolio, this guide teaches aspiring costume technicians about the culture and machinery of the costume shop, and equips them with the necessary skills to begin their career as members of a costume shop team.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Introduction to the Costume Shop, Shop Safety, Fabric, Introduction to the Overlock Sewing Machine, Introduction to the Portfolio 2. Overlock Machine, Sewing Notions, Irons, Right and Wrong Side of Fabric, Hemming Stitches 3. Introduction to Sewing Machines, Maching Stitching Projects, Curved Seams, Dart 4. Introducing the Scrub Shirt, Constructing the Shirt, Finishing the Neck Edge, Pinning and Attaching the Sleeves, Hemming the Sleeves 5. Tote Bag, Portfolio Master Supply List Chapter Review Answers Index
£135.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Stage Lighting Second Edition
Book SynopsisStage Lighting: The Fundamentals is written specifically for introductory stage lighting courses. The book begins with an examination of the nature of light, perception, and color, then leads into a conversation of stage lighting equipment and technicians. Lamps, luminaries, controls/dimming, and electricity form the basis of these chapters. The book also provides a detailed explanation and overview of the lighting design process for the theatre and several other traditional forms of entertainment. Finally, the book explores a variety of additional areas where lighting designers can find related future employment, such as concert and corporate lighting, themed design, architectural and landscape lighting, and computer animation.New for this edition:enlarged full-color illustrations, photographs, light plots and examples of lighting design;updated information on LED lighting and equipment;expanded discussion of the practical use of colTable of ContentsPart One: Light: The Medium1. The Nature of Light2. Light and Perception3. Color and Its Effect Part Two: The Tools4. Electricity5. Lamps and Other Light Sources6. Luminaires7. Lighting Control8. Projections and LightingPart Three: Light: Design Fundamentals9. Essentials of Lighting Design10. Basics of General Illumination11. Plotting the Design12. Moving Into the Venue and the Rehearsal Process13. Variations on Essential Theatrical Design Part Four: Light: Design Applications14. The Practitioners15. Traditional Areas of Theatrical Lighting Design16. Non-Traditional Lighting Design Applications
£68.99
Edinburgh University Press Performance Theatricality and the Us Presidency
Book SynopsisProposes a new perspective on the contemporary rise of mainstreamed populism by exploring features of populist-style politics through the lens of distrustTrade Review"Going beyond well-worn and simple theatrical metaphors to describe political action, Julia Peetz's new book offers a sophisticated and genuinely interdisciplinary - blend of performance and political analysis. Readers will find compelling new approaches to, and arguments about, crucial factors in political life, from legitimacy and representation to distrust, authenticity and populism. The book's in-depth engagement with the past and present of US presidential performance is both illuminating and insightful." -Michael Saward, University of Warwick
£80.75
Rowman & Littlefield Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to
Book SynopsisTheatre as Human Action is the ideal textbook to introduce students to the various aspects of theatre, especially for those who may have little or no theatergoing experience. Seven diverse plays are described to the reader from the start, and then returned to throughout the book so that students can better understand the concepts being discussed. Both the theoretical and practical aspects of theatre are explored, from the classical definition of theatre to today’s most avant-garde theatre activities. Types of plays, the elements of drama, and theatre criticism are presented, as well as detailed descriptions of the different jobs in theatre, such as actor, playwright, director, designer, producer, choreographer, and more. The book concludes with a look at where and how theatre is evolving in America and the latest changes and innovations today.This fourth edition has been greatly expanded and updated, including: The introduction of four new plays—Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; Fences; Angels in America; and Hadestown—in addition to Macbeth, You Can’t Take It With You, and Hamilton A discussion of the rise of social media in raising awareness and replacing traditional review outlets An entirely new, enhanced section on diversity and inclusion in theatre An updated selection of playwrights featured, including Terrence McNally, Lynn Nottage, Tony Kushner, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, to better reflect the diversity of those writing for the theatre today. Featuring full-color photographs, updated learning guides, and suggested topics for discussion and research, the fourth edition of Theatre as Human Action is an invaluable resource to introduce students to the world of theatre.
£80.75
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Production Notebooks: Volume 2: Theatre in
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£21.24
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.
£23.96
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.
£23.96
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.
£56.25
ACC Art Books Masterpieces of Russian Stage Design: 1880-1930
Book Synopsis"This richly illustrated volume explores the Lobanov-Rostovsky collection... includes a thorough glossary and bibliography" Apollo "The essays and commentaries here provide valuable documentation and insights into the designs, their genesis, and the extent of this astonishing period in theatrical history" The Financial Times Masterpieces of Russian Stage Design 1880-1930 examines the Lobanov-Rostovsky collection of stage design, in turn outlining the history of modern Russian art: one of the most important interludes within the cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century. Unique in size, scope, and composition, the collection is unequalled; artists include celebrities such as Bakst, Benois, Goncharova, Larionov, Malevich, Popova, Rodchenko, and Tatlin as well as less familiar names such as Anisfeld, Lissim, Remisoff, and Soudeikine. This volume (the first of a two-part set) includes over 200 colour illustrations of selected designs as well as an introduction, interview, indices (to artists, theatre companies, and primary productions), a glossary of terms, and a comprehensive bibliography for the visual and performing arts in Russia. From Neo-Nationalism and Symbolism through Cubo-Futurism and Suprematism to Constructivism and Socialist Realism, Masterpieces of Russian Stage Design guides the reader through the movements, styles, productions and projects that attracted many of Russia's early twentieth-century artists to the stage. The companion volume, Encyclopedia of Russian Stage Design ISBN: 9781851497195 (to be published in 2013), is the catalogue raisonné of the Lobanov-Rostovsky collection.Trade ReviewAnyone interested in the theater will enjoy leafing through this book, but the text also makes it a resource for specialists in the history of Russian stage design. CHOICE
£39.60
University of Washington Press Architect of Dreams
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£23.39
Verlag Peter Lang The King Within: Reformations of Power in
Book SynopsisThis book contrasts the portrayal of kings and kingship in the drama of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and the Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-81), concentrating on the ways in which both dramatists use the individual complexities of their kingly characters to address the intellectual and moral dilemmas of the ideological backgrounds that helped to create them. Against the background of seventeenth-century Europe, when religious and political reformation was leading to reconstructions of concepts of authority and personal and national identity, these two dramatists of early modern England and Spain use the increasingly theatrical facades of absolutist power to explore the internal drama of individual psychology and the kinship of flawed humanity.Table of ContentsContents: England and Spain: Reformations of Power – The Drama Within: Staging Kingship – Searching for Authority: King Richard II and El príncipe constante – The King’s Soul: King Henry VIII and La cisma de Ingalaterra – From Kingship to Kinship: The Tempest and La vida es sueño – The Internal Theatre: Kingship Among Subjects.
£36.86
Peter Lang AG The Musical Voyager: Berlioz in Europe
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays has been written by thirteen scholars, from five countries. It focuses on the musical activities of Hector Berlioz, viewed as a European phenomenon. The first part of the book discusses Berlioz's journeys to Breslau (1846), to Moscow and St Petersburg (1847 and 1867-68), and to London (especially in 1847 and 1853). In particular, the reception of Berlioz's music is placed under scrutiny. The second part of the book starts with a new history of the recitatives that Berlioz wrote for Weber's Der Freischütz, as they were used in Paris (1841, 1850), Berlin (1849), London (1850) and Milan (1872). Five essays then discuss different kinds of influence wrought by European literature on Berlioz, including Shakespeare's Othello and Goethe's Faust. The book's final section (source materials) contains the first complete anthology of London press reviews of Benvenuto Cellini in 1853; and new translations of three Russian articles on Berlioz by Vladimir Odoyevsky, from 1841 and 1847.
£55.71
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Film Director
Book SynopsisWith guidance on moviemaking for the low budget director, this text is a candid look at the technical aspects of how directors work on a set. It includes practical knowledge on shooting, staging, camera style, rehearsing, editing and how to get a job directing with a studio or production company.Table of ContentsForeword. (James Garner). Introduction. (Robert Wise). Preface. Chapter 1: The Importance of the Director. Chapter 2: The Director As Psychologist. Chapter 3: The Director Prepares for Shooting. Chapter 4: The Art of Rehearsal. Chapter 5: Staging and Plotting Action. Chapter 6: Movement and Pace. Chapter 7: The Camera As the Director's Tool. Chapter 8: Telling a Story with the Camera. Chapter 9: Working with the Film Editor. Chapter 10: The Director's Influence on Performances. Chapter 11: Creating a Job for Yourself. Chapter 12: The Director's Requirements and Responsibilities. Appendix A: Director's Guild of America Award for Winners for Theatrical Direction. Appendix B: Director's Guild of America Award Winners for Television Direction. Appendix C: Glossary of Motion Picture and Television Terms. Appendix D: Bibliography. Index.
£15.29
