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.
Imagined Theatres
Author: Daniel SackPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351965603
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Imagined Theatres collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre. Each scenario is mirrored by a brief accompanying reflection, asking what they might mean for our thinking about the theatre. These many possible worlds circle around questions that include: In what way is writing itself a performance? How do we understand the relationship between real performances that engender imaginary reflections and imaginary conceptions that form the basis for real theatrical productions? Are we not always imagining theatres when we read or even when we sit in the theatre, watching whatever event we imagine we are seeing?
Performing the Unstageable
Author: Karen QuigleyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350055468
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare's King Lear or Sarah Kane's Cleansed, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas. Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure examines this phenomenon of what the theatre cannot do or has not been able to do at various points in its history. The book explores four principal areas to which unstageability most frequently pertains: stage directions, adaptations, violence and ghosts. Karen Quigley incorporates a wide range of case studies of both historical and contemporary theatrical productions including the Wooster Group's exploration of Hamlet via the structural frame of John Gielgud's 1964 filmed production, Elevator Repair Service's eight-hour staging of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and a selection of impossible stage directions drawn from works by such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, Philip Glass, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane and Alistair McDowall. Placing theatre history and performance analysis in such a context, Performing the Unstageable values what is not possible, and investigates the tricky underside of theatre's most fundamental function to bring things to the place of showing: the stage.
Regional Theatre
Author: Joseph Wesley ZeiglerPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452911428
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Against Theatre
Author: A. AckermanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230289088
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre.
The Theatre Annual
Author: Theatre and School
Author: 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 of Exile
Author: Horacio CzertokPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317500873
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
How might the organic link between theatre-making and political action be revitalised? And how might a spontaneous vision of a theatre of and for ordinary people be reignited? Since his political exile from Argentina in 1977, theatre director and producer Horacio Czertok has devoted his life to re-imagining the art of the theatre, taking it out of its comfort zone into places of social conflict such as deprived suburban areas, prisons and mental hospitals, as well as open, public spaces, engaging directly with audiences in a spirit of abiding, carnivalesque, and deeply political theatrical experimentation. Adapting a rigorous Stanislavskian theatrical training to the exigencies of raw, immediate encounters with audiences in marginal and open spaces, Czertok’s theatre-making is unique, not only in the kinds of capacities and skills it allows actors to develop, but also in the way it renders the question of political efficacy immanent to the very process of making theatre. Providing Czertok’s own, highly personal account of his trajectory in the global scene of theatre-making over the past half-century, this is a book about the theatre of exile – a theatre of streets, prisons, hospitals, open to direct and unexpected encounters with audiences and their life-experiences. Photos by Luca Gavagna
Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing
Author: W. AronsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230600735
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In this book, Wendy Arons examines how women writers used theater and performance to investigate the problem of female subjectivity and to intervene in the dominant discourse about ideal femininity. Arons shows how contemporary demands for sincerity and authenticity placed a peculiar burden on women in the public sphere, especially on actresses, who - like professional writers - overstepped the boundaries of what was considered proper behavior for women. Paradoxically, in their representations of ideal women engaged in performance, these writers expose ideal femininity as an impossible act, even as they attempt to perform it in their writing and in their lives.