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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Erwin Piscator: Political Theatre, 1920-1966
Author: Political Theatre, 1920-1966
Author: Erwin PiscatorPublisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Erwin Piscator's Political Theatre
Author: C. D. InnesPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521084567
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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This 1977 text was the first full study of Erwin Piscator, the German theatrical producer who was prominent in the 1920s and worked after 1945 with the writers Hochhuth, Kipphardt and Weiss. Professor Innes sketches the background of Dadaism and Expressionism from which Piscator came, and points out the differences between Piscator and the other experimenters of his time. He also gives a vivid description of Piscator's technical innovations, the modern means of communication such as film, the illumination of the stage from below and 'the treadmill', a flat moving band along which the characters walked. These turned drama into a multi-media event. Professor Innes uses Piscator's career as a focus to describe theatrical developments in the twentieth century and to discuss the role of the author, the director, and the actor in drama, the purpose of the theatre, and the involvement of the audience.
Erwin Piscator
Author: Arts Council of Great BritainPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Theatre of Erwin Piscator
Author: John WillettPublisher: New York : Holmes & Meier
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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This is the first book in English to cover the theatrical career of Erwin Piscator. As one of the leading authorities on 20th century German theatre, the author is well-equipped to write about this important director. Most of the text is devoted to the Weimar period and is illustrated with rare pictures and documents.
The Performance of Power
Author: Sue-Ellen CasePublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587290340
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"—the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with historical studies has politicized the study of the theatre. Neither play text, performance, nor scholarship and teaching can safely reside any longer in the "free," politically neutral, self-signifying realm of the aesthetic. Politicizing theatrical discourse means that both the hermeneutics and the histories of theatre reveal the role of ideology and power dynamics. New strategies and concepts—and a vital new phase of awareness—appear in these illuminating essays. A variety of historical periods, from the Renaissance through the Victorian and up to the most contemporary work of the Wooster group, illustrate the ways in which contemporary strategies do not require contemporary texts and performances but can combine with historical methods and subjects to produce new theatrical discourse.
Space and Time in Epic Theater
Author: Sarah Bryant-BertailPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9781571131867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The development of epic theater before, during, and after Brecht's time, and analysis of epic productions, showing the form's continued relevance.
Documentary Theatre and Performance
Author: Andy LavenderPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350137154
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years, and to what effect? What is its relationship to truth and reality, and defining moments of civic unrest and political change? In this short, authoritative book, Andy Lavender surveys a century of documentary theatre and performance and analyses key productions. Arranged in 3 sections that take a broadly chronological approach, the volume considers the nature of documenting, forms of intervention through theatre, the presentation of lived experience, and issues of truth, reality and representation. The book includes a variety of case studies, beginning with Piscator's In Spite of Everything! (1925) and tracing the work that followed in Europe and America, including the tribunal and testimony plays of the 1990s and 2000s. It examines the relationship of 3 key productions to moments of civic and political crisis: Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights Brooklyn and Other Identities (1992), Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (1993) and The Colour of Justice: The Stephen Lawrence Enquiry (1999). Finally, it looks at the impact of digital technologies, social media and hybrid artforms in the 21st century, to explore the engagement of documentary performance with mediations and experiences of cultural change and shifting identities across a range of case studies.
The Director & The Stage
Author: Edward BraunPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408149257
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Beginning with the triple impulses of Naturalism, symbolism and the grotesque, the bulk of the book concentrates on the most famous directors of this century - Stanislavski, Reinhardt, Graig, Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht, Artuaud and Grotowski. Braun's guide is more practical than theoretical, delineating how each director changed the tradition that came before him.
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