Author: Herbert BlauPublisher: New York : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The author critiques contemporary American theater.
The Impossible Theater
Author: Herbert BlauPublisher: New York : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The author critiques contemporary American theater.
Impossible Theatre
Author: Impossible Theatre (Theater Group)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Impossible Musical
Author: Dale WassermanPublisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Dale Wasserman had more trouble getting it on to a Broadway stage than Don Quixote ever had with those windmills.
Theatre and School
Author: Musicality in Theatre
Author: David RoesnerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317091337
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
As the complicated relationship between music and theatre has evolved and changed in the modern and postmodern periods, music has continued to be immensely influential in key developments of theatrical practices. In this study of musicality in the theatre, David Roesner offers a revised view of the nature of the relationship. The new perspective results from two shifts in focus: on the one hand, Roesner concentrates in particular on theatre-making - that is the creation processes of theatre - and on the other, he traces a notion of ‘musicality’ in the historical and contemporary discourses as driver of theatrical innovation and aesthetic dispositif, focusing on musical qualities, metaphors and principles derived from a wide range of genres. Roesner looks in particular at the ways in which those who attempted to experiment with, advance or even revolutionize theatre often sought to use and integrate a sense of musicality in training and directing processes and in performances. His study reveals both the continuous changes in the understanding of music as model, method and metaphor for the theatre and how different notions of music had a vital impact on theatrical innovation in the past 150 years. Musicality thus becomes a complementary concept to theatricality, helping to highlight what is germane to an art form as well as to explain its traction in other art forms and areas of life. The theoretical scope of the book is developed from a wide range of case studies, some of which are re-readings of the classics of theatre history (Appia, Meyerhold, Artaud, Beckett), while others introduce or rediscover less-discussed practitioners such as Joe Chaikin, Thomas Bernhard, Elfriede Jelinek, Michael Thalheimer and Karin Beier.
The impossible theatre
Author: Leslie Evershed-MartinTheatre
Author: American Theatre
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: Australian Theatre after the New Wave
Author: Julian MeyrickPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004339892
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
In Australian Theatre after the New Wave, Julian Meyrick charts the history of three ground-breaking Australian theatre companies, the Paris Theatre (1978), the Hunter Valley Theatre (1976-94) and Anthill Theatre (1980-94). In the years following the controversial dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s Labor government in 1975, these ‘alternative’ theatres struggled to survive in an increasingly adverse economic environment. Drawing on interviews and archival sources, including Australia Council files and correspondence, the book examines the funding structures in which the companies operated, and the impact of the cultural policies of the period. It analyses the changing relationship between the artist and the State, the rise of a managerial ethos of ‘accountability’, and the growing dominance of government in the fate of the nation’s theatre. In doing so, it shows the historical roots of many of the problems facing Australian theatre today. “This is an exceptionally timely book... In giving a history of Australian independent theatre it not only charts the amazing rise and strange disappearance of an energetic, radical and dynamically democratic artistic movement, but also tries to explain that rise and fall, and how we should relate to it now.” — Prof. Justin O’Connor, Monash University “This study makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Australian theatre and, more broadly... to the global discussion about the vexed relationship between artists, creativity, government funding for the arts and cultural policy.” — Dr. Gillian Arrighi, The University of Newcastle, Australia