Author: Jean-Louis Barrault
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758147776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Reflections on the Theatre
Author: Jean-Louis Barrault
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758147776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758147776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Muse of Fire
Author: Terrence McNally
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 168393282X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally’s works are characterized by such diversity that critics have sometimes had difficulty identifying the pattern in his carpet. To redress this problem, in Muse of Fire, Raymond-Jean Frontain has collected McNally’s most illuminating meditations on the need of the playwright to first change hearts in order to change minds and thereby foster a more compassionate community. When read together, these various meditations demonstrate the profound ways in which McNally himself functioned as a member of the theater community—as a strikingly original dramatic voice, as a generous collaborator, and even as the author of eloquent memorials. These pieces were originally written to be delivered on both highly formal occasions (academic commencement exercises, award ceremonies, memorial services) and as off-the-cuff comments at highly informal gatherings, like a playwriting workshop at the New School. They reveal a man who saw theater not as the vehicle for abstract ideas or the platform for political statements, but as the exercise of our shared humanity. “Theatre is collaborative, but life is collaborative,” McNally says. “Art is important to remind us that we’re not alone, and this is a wonderful world and we can make it more wonderful by fully embracing each other. [. . .] I don’t know why it’s so hard to remind ourselves sometimes, but thank God we’ve had great artists who don’t let us forget. And thank the audiences who support them because I think that those artists’ true mission has been to bring the barriers down, break them down; not build walls, but tear them down.”
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 168393282X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally’s works are characterized by such diversity that critics have sometimes had difficulty identifying the pattern in his carpet. To redress this problem, in Muse of Fire, Raymond-Jean Frontain has collected McNally’s most illuminating meditations on the need of the playwright to first change hearts in order to change minds and thereby foster a more compassionate community. When read together, these various meditations demonstrate the profound ways in which McNally himself functioned as a member of the theater community—as a strikingly original dramatic voice, as a generous collaborator, and even as the author of eloquent memorials. These pieces were originally written to be delivered on both highly formal occasions (academic commencement exercises, award ceremonies, memorial services) and as off-the-cuff comments at highly informal gatherings, like a playwriting workshop at the New School. They reveal a man who saw theater not as the vehicle for abstract ideas or the platform for political statements, but as the exercise of our shared humanity. “Theatre is collaborative, but life is collaborative,” McNally says. “Art is important to remind us that we’re not alone, and this is a wonderful world and we can make it more wonderful by fully embracing each other. [. . .] I don’t know why it’s so hard to remind ourselves sometimes, but thank God we’ve had great artists who don’t let us forget. And thank the audiences who support them because I think that those artists’ true mission has been to bring the barriers down, break them down; not build walls, but tear them down.”
Reflections Upon Theatrical Expression in Tragedy
Author: Roger Pickering
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The Dramatic Imagination
Author: Robert Edmond Jones
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135470138
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
The Dramatic Imagination is one of the few enduring works written about set design. Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of theater - that has continued to inspire theater students. The volume includes "A New Kind of Drama," "To a Young Stage Designer" and six other of Jones's "reflections."
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135470138
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
The Dramatic Imagination is one of the few enduring works written about set design. Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of theater - that has continued to inspire theater students. The volume includes "A New Kind of Drama," "To a Young Stage Designer" and six other of Jones's "reflections."
The Dramatic Imagination
Author: Robert Edmond Jones
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0878301844
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0878301844
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Conducting a Life
Author: Maria M. Delgado
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A collection of reminiscences, homages, tributes, and work journals tracing the life and work of master playwright-director-teacher Maria Irene Fornes presented in a hypertext fashion. Represented are performers, designers, and producers who have collaborated directly with Fornes on her productions over the years, playwrights who have studied with Fornes and describe writing exercies and master classes, as well as critics and scholars who provide contextual narratives about Fornes impact and influence on generations of American and world theatre. The volume concludes with a interview recently conducted with Fornes herself where she touches on not only the different aspects of her theatrical life but its movement and change over the last forty years.
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A collection of reminiscences, homages, tributes, and work journals tracing the life and work of master playwright-director-teacher Maria Irene Fornes presented in a hypertext fashion. Represented are performers, designers, and producers who have collaborated directly with Fornes on her productions over the years, playwrights who have studied with Fornes and describe writing exercies and master classes, as well as critics and scholars who provide contextual narratives about Fornes impact and influence on generations of American and world theatre. The volume concludes with a interview recently conducted with Fornes herself where she touches on not only the different aspects of her theatrical life but its movement and change over the last forty years.
The Dramatic Imagination
Author: Robert Edmond Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Some Reflections on the Management of a Theatre
Author: REFLECTIONS.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521766362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
Theatre of the Imagination
Author: Jonathan Levy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description