Author: Claire LuckhamPublisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Luckham's plays are both gritty and comic, often historical and/or musical.
Luckham: Plays
Author: Claire LuckhamPublisher: Oberon Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Luckham's plays are both gritty and comic, often historical and/or musical.
Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage
Author: Eero LainePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135113437X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage examines professional wrestling as a century-old, theatrical form that spans from its local places of performance to circulate as a popular, global product. Professional wrestling has all the trappings of sport, but is, at its core, a theatrical event. This book acknowledges that professional wrestling shares many theatrical elements such as plot, character, scenic design, props, and spectacle. By assessing professional wrestling as a neglected but prototypical case study in the global business of theatre, Laine argues that it is an exemplary form of globalizing, commercial theatre. He asks what theatre scholars might learn from pro wrestling and how pro wrestling might contribute to conversations beyond the ring, by considering the laboring bodies of the wrestlers, and analyzing wrestling’s form and content. Of interest to scholars and students of theatre and performance, cultural studies, and sports studies, Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage delimits the edges of wrestling’s theatrical frame, critiques established understandings of corporate theatre, and offers key wrestling concepts as models for future study in other fields.
Theatre Record
Author: Thatcher's Theatre
Author: D. Keith PeacockPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313031770
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Thatcher administration of 1979 to 1990 had a profound and apparently lasting effect on British theatre and drama. It is now roughly a decade since the fall of Margaret Thatcher and, with the benefit of hindsight, it has become possible to disentangle fact from fantasy concerning her effect on the British theatre. During her administration, there was a significant cultural shift which affected drama in Britain. While some critics have argued that the theatre was simply affected by financial cutbacks in arts subsidies, this volume challenges that view. While it looks at the economic influence of Thatcher's policies, it also examines how her ideology shaped theatrical and dramatic discourse. It begins by defining Thatcherism and illustrating its cultural influence. It then examines the consequences of Thatcherite policies through the agency of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Having established this political and cultural environment, the book considers in detail the effect of Thatcher's administration on the subject-matter and dramatic and theatrical discourse of left-wing drama and on the subsidized political theatre companies which proliferated during the 1970s. Attention is then given to the development of constituency theatres, such as Women's and Black Theatre, which assumed an oppositional cultural stance and, in some cases, attempted to develop characteristic theatrical and dramatic discourses. The penultimate chapter deals with the effect of Thatcherite economic policy and ideology on new writing and performance, while the final chapter draws conclusions and suggests that the cultural shift perpetrated by the Thatcher regime has altered the status of subsidized theatre from an agency of cultural, spiritual, social, or psychological welfare to an entertainment industry which is viewed as largely irrelevant to the workings of society.
The Theatre Guide
Author: Trevor R. GriffithsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408103133
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
With over 500 entries on the most important plays and playwrights performed today, The Theatre Guide provides an authoritative A - Z of the contemporary theatre scene. From Aristophanes to Mark Ravenhill, The Alchemist to The Talking Cure, the Guide is both biographically detailed and critically current, while an extensive cross-referencing system allows for wider perspectives and new discoveries. Stimulating, observant and informative, The Theatre Guide is an essential companion and reference tool for anyone with an active interest in drama.
Plays and Players
Author: Staging Motherhood
Author: J. KomporalyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 023059848X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Focusing on post-1956 British women playwrights, this book questions to what extent transformations in women's lives have impacted on theatre. Contributing to a range of discourses, including gender studies, cultural studies and theatre and performance studies, this timely volume is crucial to our understanding of women's drama in this period.
Complete Catalog of Plays & Musicals
Author: Dramatic Publishing CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amateur theater
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn
Author: Stephanie RussoPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030586138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book explores 500 years of poetry, drama, novels, television and films about Anne Boleyn. Hundreds of writers across the centuries have been drawn to reimagine the story of her rise and fall. The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn tells the story of centuries of these shifting and often contradictory ways of understanding the narrative of Henry VIII’s most infamous queen. Since her execution on 19 May 1536, Anne’s life and body has been a site upon which competing religious, political and sexual ideologies have been inscribed; a practice that continues to this day. From the poetry of Thomas Wyatt to the songs of the hit pop musical Six, The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn takes as its central contention the belief that the mythology that surrounds Anne Boleyn is as interesting, revealing, and surprising as the woman herself.
Leopard Valley
Author: A.K. ChestertonPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0956466990
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
A three act play by the noted British Nationalist and Patriot, A.K. Chesterton.