Author: Dutton Cook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy
Author: Edwin Wong
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525537555
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events. In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question---what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong? Not only does Wong reinterpret classic tragedies from Aeschylus to O’Neill through the risk theatre lens, he also invites dramatists to create tomorrow’s theatre. As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, the most compelling dramas will be high-stakes tragedies that dramatize the unintended consequences of today's risk takers who are taking us past the point of no return.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525537555
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events. In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question---what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong? Not only does Wong reinterpret classic tragedies from Aeschylus to O’Neill through the risk theatre lens, he also invites dramatists to create tomorrow’s theatre. As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, the most compelling dramas will be high-stakes tragedies that dramatize the unintended consequences of today's risk takers who are taking us past the point of no return.
Far from the Madding Crowd
Author: Mark Healy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Thomas Hardy's popular and enduring novel, adapted for the stage by Mark Healy. Having inherited her father's farm, the spirited and feisty young Bathsheba Everdene finds herself playing mistress in a man's world. She is pursued by three would-be lovers: the constant shepherd, Gabriel Oak; the obsessive landowner, William Boldwood; and the reckless Sergeant Troy. But are any of them a match for the headstrong and independent Bathsheba? Mark Healy's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd was first performed by English Touring Theatre in 2008. This edition includes notes on producing the play yourself, including advice on cast size, staging, music and accents.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Thomas Hardy's popular and enduring novel, adapted for the stage by Mark Healy. Having inherited her father's farm, the spirited and feisty young Bathsheba Everdene finds herself playing mistress in a man's world. She is pursued by three would-be lovers: the constant shepherd, Gabriel Oak; the obsessive landowner, William Boldwood; and the reckless Sergeant Troy. But are any of them a match for the headstrong and independent Bathsheba? Mark Healy's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd was first performed by English Touring Theatre in 2008. This edition includes notes on producing the play yourself, including advice on cast size, staging, music and accents.
Under the Greenwood Tree
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
An Imaginative Woman
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This is a short story written by Thomas Hardy was published in Wessex. This tells of a woman, a wife and a mother who aspires to be a poet and who falls in love with a male poet she never meets. As a Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This is a short story written by Thomas Hardy was published in Wessex. This tells of a woman, a wife and a mother who aspires to be a poet and who falls in love with a male poet she never meets. As a Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.
Thomas Hardy on Stage
Author: Keith Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781349391592
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781349391592
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Thomas Hardy on Stage
Author: Keith Wilson
Publisher: MacMillan
ISBN: 9780333598856
Category : Historical drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
'Meticulously researched and lucidly written, this volume will likely become and remain the definitive study of the history of works Hardy adapted for the stage and of the Hardy Players who, in the main, performed them.' - John J. Conlon, English Literature in Transition
Publisher: MacMillan
ISBN: 9780333598856
Category : Historical drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
'Meticulously researched and lucidly written, this volume will likely become and remain the definitive study of the history of works Hardy adapted for the stage and of the Hardy Players who, in the main, performed them.' - John J. Conlon, English Literature in Transition
From Studio to Stage
Author: Barbara M. Doscher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810842394
Category : Vocal music
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The late Doscher was a singing teacher at the U. of Colorado-Boulder. This volume compiles the note cards on songs and arias that she composed in order to aid her teaching. The entries are broadly organized by type of piece, with notes on difficulty, author, keys available, ranges, tessitura, voice types, and other comments included. Five indexes allow readers to find compositions by composer, lyricist, title, range, and difficulty level. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810842394
Category : Vocal music
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The late Doscher was a singing teacher at the U. of Colorado-Boulder. This volume compiles the note cards on songs and arias that she composed in order to aid her teaching. The entries are broadly organized by type of piece, with notes on difficulty, author, keys available, ranges, tessitura, voice types, and other comments included. Five indexes allow readers to find compositions by composer, lyricist, title, range, and difficulty level. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
British Theatre in the Great War
Author: Gordon Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474278094
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
British Theatre in the Great War deals with a theatrical phase customarily dismissed by those charting twentieth-century developments. What becomes clear is that assessment by unsuitable literary criteria has masked the importance of the war years in British theatrical history. In avoiding a texts bias, the book reveals a period of unsurpassed prosperity in which the stage's substantial contribution to the war effort is only one notable feature. That it also saw the commercial theater's absorption of Continental avant-gardeism by way of revue, the last great epoch of music hall, the rise of the Old Vic with a project in opera and Shakespeare, and the unprecedented popularity of opera everywhere--this was surely the most fruitful period of Thomas Beecham's theatrical career--is compelling argument for revaluation. In his reassessment of this period, Dr. Williams extensively examines scripts and press coverage, providing a comprehensive overview from popular pantomime to the specialist work of the private stage as well as discussion of such issues as working conditions and censorship.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474278094
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
British Theatre in the Great War deals with a theatrical phase customarily dismissed by those charting twentieth-century developments. What becomes clear is that assessment by unsuitable literary criteria has masked the importance of the war years in British theatrical history. In avoiding a texts bias, the book reveals a period of unsurpassed prosperity in which the stage's substantial contribution to the war effort is only one notable feature. That it also saw the commercial theater's absorption of Continental avant-gardeism by way of revue, the last great epoch of music hall, the rise of the Old Vic with a project in opera and Shakespeare, and the unprecedented popularity of opera everywhere--this was surely the most fruitful period of Thomas Beecham's theatrical career--is compelling argument for revaluation. In his reassessment of this period, Dr. Williams extensively examines scripts and press coverage, providing a comprehensive overview from popular pantomime to the specialist work of the private stage as well as discussion of such issues as working conditions and censorship.
A Companion to Thomas Hardy
Author: Keith Wilson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405156686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetry Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates from some of the world's leading Hardy scholars Reveals groundbreaking insights through examinations of Hardy’s major novels, short stories, poetry, and drama Explores Hardy's work in the context of the major intellectual and socio-cultural currents of his time and assesses his legacy for subsequent writers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405156686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses all aspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetry Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoretical debates from some of the world's leading Hardy scholars Reveals groundbreaking insights through examinations of Hardy’s major novels, short stories, poetry, and drama Explores Hardy's work in the context of the major intellectual and socio-cultural currents of his time and assesses his legacy for subsequent writers
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008355738
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008355738
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?