Author: William Adamson (Minister of the Gospel.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361873
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.

Author: Caroline Heim
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317633555
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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'Actors always talk about what the audience does. I don’t understand, we are just sitting here.' Audience as Performer proposes that in the theatre, there are two troupes of performers: the actors and the audience. Although academics have scrutinised how audiences respond, make meaning and co-create while watching a performance, little research has considered the behaviour of the theatre audience as a performance in and of itself. This insightful book describes how an audience performs through its myriad gestural, vocal and paralingual actions, and considers the following questions: If the audience are performers, who are their audiences? How have audiences’ roles changed throughout history? How do talkbacks and technology influence the audience’s role as critics? What influence does the audience have on the creation of community in theatre? How can the audience function as both consumer and co-creator? Drawing from over 140 interviews with audience members, actors and ushers in the UK, USA and Austrialia, Heim reveals the lived experience of audience members at the theatrical event. It is a fresh reading of mainstream audiences’ activities, bringing their voices to the fore and exploring their emerging new roles in the theatre of the Twenty-First Century.

Author: Peter Marx
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135013547X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The 19th century ushered in an unprecedented boom in technology, the unification of European nations, the building of global empires and stabilization of the middle classes. The theatre of the era reflected these significant developments as well as helped to catalyse them. Populist theatre and purposebuilt playhouses flourished in the ever-growing urban and cosmopolitan centres of Europe and in expanding global networks. This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre from 1800 to 1920. Highly illustrated with 51 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

Author: Charles Solon Templer
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Author: Stephani Etheridge Woodson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331965828X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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This book works to 'make change strange' from and for the field of theatre and performance studies. Growing from the idea that change is an under-interrogated category that over-determines theatre and performance as an artistic, social, educational, and material practice, the scholars and practitioners gathered here (including specialists in theatre history and literature, educational theatre, youth arts, arts policy, socially invested theatre, and activist performance) take up the question of change in thirty-five short essays. For anyone who has wondered about the relationships between theatre, performance and change itself, this book is an essential conversation starter.

Author: Peter Brook
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684829576
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Discusses four types of theatrical landscapes; the deadly theatre, the holy theatre, the rough theatre, and the immediate theatre.

Author: Bernard Beckerman
Publisher:
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Analysis of dramatic performance, drawing on examples from the entire range and history of the theatre. The author examines each constituent element of the theatrical event (actor, writer, director, designer, audience) in order to provide a unified theory of performance in the light of contemporary artistic theory.

Author: Ann Jellicoe
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Harley Granville-Barker
Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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