Author: A. Ackerman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230537453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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.
Against Theatre
Author: A. Ackerman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230537453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230537453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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.
Mis-directing the Play
Author: Terry McCabe
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 146169941X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Terry McCabe, himself an accomplished stage director and teacher of theatre arts, here attacks what he calls the growing decadence that plagues contemporary stage directing. He argues for a radical reorganization of the director’s view of his role. It has become an article of faith in the theatre, Mr. McCabe observes, that a play is about what the director chooses to have it be about. But what right does a director have to treat a play as a found object, to be reshaped to express the director’s concerns? None whatsoever, Mr. McCabe replies. He examines anecdotally a range of work by different directors by way of offering a substantial critique of today’s leading theory of stage directing, and he offers an alternate approach. He challenges the notion that a play is the director’s vehicle for self-expression, arguing that the idea of the director as centerpiece of the theatre tends to distort plays and oppress actors. He explores what it means to direct a play when directing is properly understood as a process of self-effacement. Mis-directing the Play examines the role of the director as collaborator with actors, designers, dramaturges, and playwrights. Throughout, the book’s focus is on shedding the counterproductive myth of the director as creative auteur and urging in its place a return to first principles: the idea of the director as the interpretive artist in charge of putting the playwright’s play onstage.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 146169941X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Terry McCabe, himself an accomplished stage director and teacher of theatre arts, here attacks what he calls the growing decadence that plagues contemporary stage directing. He argues for a radical reorganization of the director’s view of his role. It has become an article of faith in the theatre, Mr. McCabe observes, that a play is about what the director chooses to have it be about. But what right does a director have to treat a play as a found object, to be reshaped to express the director’s concerns? None whatsoever, Mr. McCabe replies. He examines anecdotally a range of work by different directors by way of offering a substantial critique of today’s leading theory of stage directing, and he offers an alternate approach. He challenges the notion that a play is the director’s vehicle for self-expression, arguing that the idea of the director as centerpiece of the theatre tends to distort plays and oppress actors. He explores what it means to direct a play when directing is properly understood as a process of self-effacement. Mis-directing the Play examines the role of the director as collaborator with actors, designers, dramaturges, and playwrights. Throughout, the book’s focus is on shedding the counterproductive myth of the director as creative auteur and urging in its place a return to first principles: the idea of the director as the interpretive artist in charge of putting the playwright’s play onstage.
Against Theatre
Author: A. Ackerman
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Theatre Games
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408125196
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A practical guide to using theatre games for actor training which includes a DVD with original footage of the author putting the techniques into action.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408125196
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A practical guide to using theatre games for actor training which includes a DVD with original footage of the author putting the techniques into action.
Redefining Theatre Communities
Author: Szabolcs Musca
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
ISBN: 9781789380767
Category : Community theater
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Redefining Theatre Communities explores the interplay between contemporary theatre and communities. It considers the aesthetic, social and cultural aspects of community-conscious theatre-making. It also reflects on transformations in structural, textual and theatrical conventions, and explores changing modes of production and spectatorship.
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
ISBN: 9781789380767
Category : Community theater
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Redefining Theatre Communities explores the interplay between contemporary theatre and communities. It considers the aesthetic, social and cultural aspects of community-conscious theatre-making. It also reflects on transformations in structural, textual and theatrical conventions, and explores changing modes of production and spectatorship.
Brecht on Theatre
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809005425
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Essays of Brecht translated and edited to explain his theories and discussion of his dramatic works.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809005425
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Essays of Brecht translated and edited to explain his theories and discussion of his dramatic works.
Yeats on Theatre
Author: Christopher Morash
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009033026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
W. B. Yeats is recognised globally as one of the most significant poets of the past century. And yet, in his Nobel address, he singled out his work in the theatre as his main accomplishment. Yeats on Theatre restores Yeats not only a playwright, but as a writer and thinker who, over forty years, produced a body of theory covering all aspects of theatre, including the possibilities of performance space, the role of the audience and the nature of tragedy. When read as whole, in conjunction with his plays, letters, and extensive manuscript materials, Yeats's theatre writings emerge as a radical, cohesive, theatrical aesthetic, at odds with – and in advance of – the theatre of his time. Ultimately, the Yeats who takes shape in Yeats on Theatre is an artist who thinks through theatre, providing us with an urgently needed reassertion of the value of theatre as embodied thought.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009033026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
W. B. Yeats is recognised globally as one of the most significant poets of the past century. And yet, in his Nobel address, he singled out his work in the theatre as his main accomplishment. Yeats on Theatre restores Yeats not only a playwright, but as a writer and thinker who, over forty years, produced a body of theory covering all aspects of theatre, including the possibilities of performance space, the role of the audience and the nature of tragedy. When read as whole, in conjunction with his plays, letters, and extensive manuscript materials, Yeats's theatre writings emerge as a radical, cohesive, theatrical aesthetic, at odds with – and in advance of – the theatre of his time. Ultimately, the Yeats who takes shape in Yeats on Theatre is an artist who thinks through theatre, providing us with an urgently needed reassertion of the value of theatre as embodied thought.
Theatre of the Oppressed
Author: Augusto Boal
Publisher: Get Political
ISBN: 9780745328386
Category : Social classes in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton
Publisher: Get Political
ISBN: 9780745328386
Category : Social classes in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton
Meyerhold on Theatre
Author: Edward Braun
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474230229
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Meyerhold on Theatre brings together in one volume Vsevolod Meyerhold's most significant writings and utterances, and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939. It contains a comprehensive selection from all published material, unabridged and translated from the original Russian, updated and supplemented with a critical commentary relating Meyerhold to his period and eye-witness accounts describing all his productions. The book is illustrated with photographs of Meyerhold's designs and productions. Within this diverse collection of sometimes dense, sometimes lyrical, and always fascinating writings, Meyerhold emerges from this book as a forerunner of such directors as Brecht, Piscator, Planchon and Brook, a relentless enemy of naturalism and a supreme exponent of total theatre whose influence continues to be felt throughout the theatre of today. This fourth edition features a new introduction by Prof. Jonathan Pitches, which helps to demystify some of the terminology Meyerhold and his associates used, and indicates the fundamental connection between culture and politics represented in his life and art.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474230229
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Meyerhold on Theatre brings together in one volume Vsevolod Meyerhold's most significant writings and utterances, and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939. It contains a comprehensive selection from all published material, unabridged and translated from the original Russian, updated and supplemented with a critical commentary relating Meyerhold to his period and eye-witness accounts describing all his productions. The book is illustrated with photographs of Meyerhold's designs and productions. Within this diverse collection of sometimes dense, sometimes lyrical, and always fascinating writings, Meyerhold emerges from this book as a forerunner of such directors as Brecht, Piscator, Planchon and Brook, a relentless enemy of naturalism and a supreme exponent of total theatre whose influence continues to be felt throughout the theatre of today. This fourth edition features a new introduction by Prof. Jonathan Pitches, which helps to demystify some of the terminology Meyerhold and his associates used, and indicates the fundamental connection between culture and politics represented in his life and art.
Feminism and Theatre
Author: Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136735208
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136735208
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre.