Author: Tony DenierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Amateur's Hand-book and Guide to Home Or Drawing Room Theatricals
Author: Tony DenierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Everyone’s Theater
Author: Michael MeeuwisPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472131478
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Nearly all residents of England and its colonies between 1860 and 1914 were active theatergoers, and many participated in the amateur theatricals that defined late Victorian life. The Victorian theater was not an abstract figuration of the world as a stage, but a media system enmeshed in mass lived experience that fulfilled in actuality the concept of a theatergoing nation. Everyone’s Theater turns to local history, the words of everyday Victorians found in their diaries and production records, to recover this lost chapter of theater history in which amateur drama domesticates the stage. Professional actors and playwrights struggled to make their productions compatible with ideas and techniques that could be safely reproduced in the home—and in amateur performances from Canada to India. This became the first true English national theater: a society whose myriad classes found common ground in theatrical display. Everyone’s Theater provides new ways to extend Victorian literature into the dimension of voice, sound, and embodiment, and to appreciate the pleasures of Victorian theatricality.
Hir
Author: Taylor MacPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810133598
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Finalist, 2015 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Drama Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Isaac’s father, who once ruled the family with an iron fist, has had a debilitating stroke; his younger sister, Maxine, is now his brother, Max; and their mother, Paige, is committed to revolution at any cost. Determined to be free of any responsibility toward her formerly abusive husband—or the home he created—Paige fervently believes she can lead the way to a "new world order." Hir, Taylor Mac’s subversive comedy, leaves many of our so-called normative and progressive ideas about gender, families, the middle class—and cleaning—in hilarious and ultimately tragic disarray.
Post-war British Drama
Author: Michelene WandorPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415138550
Category : Domestic drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In this extensively revised and updated edition of Michelene Wandor's classic work Look Back in Gender, Wandor takes another provocative look at a selection of key British plays from the last fifty years.
New Theatre Quarterly 67: Volume 17, Part 3
Author: Clive BarkerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002806
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theater history has a contemporary relevance, that theater studies need a methodology, and that theater criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theater studies.
Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion
Author: Maturia Murray BallouPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Straight White Men
Author: Young Jean LeePublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 082223596X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
When Ed and his three adult sons come together to celebrate Christmas, they enjoy cheerful trash-talking, pranks, and takeout Chinese. Then they confront a problem that even being a happy family can’t solve: When identity matters, and privilege is problematic, what is the value of being a straight white man?
Harriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing
Author: Shelagh StephensonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350011924
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
What you haven't realised is that I sew to aid my thought processes. Look – needle – stab – stitch – thought. Needle – stab – stitch – thought. So next time you see a woman demurely sewing a sampler, be very, very wary. God knows what she may be planning. Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) was a social theorist who is often credited as being the first female sociologist. In Harriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing, Shelagh Stephenson depicts the great writer in a period of convalescence, living as an invalid by the sea in Tynemouth. Shut off from her usual society, Harriet is visited by women of the locale; Impie, a recent widow who is using her new-found marital freedom to paint murals on the ceilings of her family home; Beulah, the daughter of a woman who'd been sold into slavery and escaped; and Jane, the housemaid, whose unfeted and unexpected gifts lift her out of domestic servitude and could help Harriet out of illness. Harriet Martineau is a play about female self-reliance in a time of patriarchal dominance. Written by Shelagh Stephenson, it premiered at Live Theatre, Newcastle, in winter 2016.
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