Author: Maria DiCenzo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521554565
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book examines one of the most influential modern theatre companies, 7:84 (Scotland), under the directorship of John McGrath. 7:84 (Scotland) has been a vital contributor to the place and importance of alternative theatre on the modern British stage. DiCenzo explores the development of this company, the growth of popular theatre in general within the last twenty years and offers a methodology for analysing records and materials found in theatre company archives and illustrates the many issues inherent in running a theatre company, including venues, practitioners and the politics of funding. The book includes valuable primary source material and informative production photographs and company posters.
The Politics of Alternative Theatre in Britain, 1968-1990
Author: Maria DiCenzo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521554565
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book examines one of the most influential modern theatre companies, 7:84 (Scotland), under the directorship of John McGrath. 7:84 (Scotland) has been a vital contributor to the place and importance of alternative theatre on the modern British stage. DiCenzo explores the development of this company, the growth of popular theatre in general within the last twenty years and offers a methodology for analysing records and materials found in theatre company archives and illustrates the many issues inherent in running a theatre company, including venues, practitioners and the politics of funding. The book includes valuable primary source material and informative production photographs and company posters.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521554565
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book examines one of the most influential modern theatre companies, 7:84 (Scotland), under the directorship of John McGrath. 7:84 (Scotland) has been a vital contributor to the place and importance of alternative theatre on the modern British stage. DiCenzo explores the development of this company, the growth of popular theatre in general within the last twenty years and offers a methodology for analysing records and materials found in theatre company archives and illustrates the many issues inherent in running a theatre company, including venues, practitioners and the politics of funding. The book includes valuable primary source material and informative production photographs and company posters.
The Royal Court Theatre and the Modern Stage
Author: Philip Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479622
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An account of the leading forum of the modern stage; includes Foreword by former Director of the Royal Court, Max Stafford-Clark.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479622
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An account of the leading forum of the modern stage; includes Foreword by former Director of the Royal Court, Max Stafford-Clark.
Irony and the Modern Theatre
Author: William Storm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499424
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, William Storm advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499424
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, William Storm advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre.
Joan Littlewood's Theatre
Author: Nadine Holdsworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052111960X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This book investigates Joan Littlewood's theatre productions and her community-based projects and activism, drawing upon extensive primary archival material.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052111960X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This book investigates Joan Littlewood's theatre productions and her community-based projects and activism, drawing upon extensive primary archival material.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights
Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521595339
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521595339
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century.
The Russian Theatre After Stalin
Author: Anatoly Smeliansky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521587945
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This is the first book to explore the world of the theatre in Russia after Stalin. Through his work at the Moscow Art Theatre, Anatoly Smeliansky is in a key position to analyse contemporary events on the Russian stage and he combines this first-hand knowledge with valuable archival material, some published here for the first time, to tell a fascinating and important story. Smeliansky chronicles developments from 1953 and the rise of a new Soviet theatre, and moves through the next four decades, highlighting the social and political events which shaped Russian drama and performance. The book also focuses on major directors and practitioners, including Yury Lyubimov, Oleg Yefremov, and Lev Dodin, among others, and contains a chronology, glossary of names, and informative illustrations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521587945
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This is the first book to explore the world of the theatre in Russia after Stalin. Through his work at the Moscow Art Theatre, Anatoly Smeliansky is in a key position to analyse contemporary events on the Russian stage and he combines this first-hand knowledge with valuable archival material, some published here for the first time, to tell a fascinating and important story. Smeliansky chronicles developments from 1953 and the rise of a new Soviet theatre, and moves through the next four decades, highlighting the social and political events which shaped Russian drama and performance. The book also focuses on major directors and practitioners, including Yury Lyubimov, Oleg Yefremov, and Lev Dodin, among others, and contains a chronology, glossary of names, and informative illustrations.
Theatre Matters
Author: Jane Plastow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521634434
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book focuses on how theatre can make and has made positive political and social interventions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521634434
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book focuses on how theatre can make and has made positive political and social interventions.
Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance
Author: Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137331275
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This edited volume situates its contemporary practice in the tradition which emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance examines collective and devised theatre practices internationally and demonstrates the prevalence, breadth, and significance of modern collective creation.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137331275
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This edited volume situates its contemporary practice in the tradition which emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance examines collective and devised theatre practices internationally and demonstrates the prevalence, breadth, and significance of modern collective creation.
New Theatre Quarterly 72: Volume 18, Part 4
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524056
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
New Theatre Quarterly provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. Articles in volume 72 include: Views Across Borders; Small Audience, Big Picture; Cheerful History: the Political Theatre of John McGrath; 'Blood Red Roses': John McGrath and Lukacsian Realism; The Events of June 1848: the Monte Cristo Riots and the Politics of Protest; Performance, Embodiment, Voice; The Market Theatre of Johannesburg and its Presence in the New South Africa; NTQ Book Reviews.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524056
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
New Theatre Quarterly provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. Articles in volume 72 include: Views Across Borders; Small Audience, Big Picture; Cheerful History: the Political Theatre of John McGrath; 'Blood Red Roses': John McGrath and Lukacsian Realism; The Events of June 1848: the Monte Cristo Riots and the Politics of Protest; Performance, Embodiment, Voice; The Market Theatre of Johannesburg and its Presence in the New South Africa; NTQ Book Reviews.
Theatre Audiences
Author: Susan Bennett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136207244
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences. Published here in a brand new updated edition, Theatre Audiences now includes: • a new preface by the author • a stunning extra chapter on intercultural theatre • a revised up-to-date bibliography. Theatre Audiences is a must-buy for teachers and students interested in spectatorship and theatre audiences, and will be valuable reading for practitioners and others involved in the theatre.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136207244
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences. Published here in a brand new updated edition, Theatre Audiences now includes: • a new preface by the author • a stunning extra chapter on intercultural theatre • a revised up-to-date bibliography. Theatre Audiences is a must-buy for teachers and students interested in spectatorship and theatre audiences, and will be valuable reading for practitioners and others involved in the theatre.