Author: Iris Smith Fischer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472117629
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The first 10 years of a company known for its creative collaborations and daring innovations
Mabou Mines
Author: Iris Smith Fischer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472117629
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The first 10 years of a company known for its creative collaborations and daring innovations
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472117629
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The first 10 years of a company known for its creative collaborations and daring innovations
The Gospel at Colonus
Author: Lee Breuer
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366788
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
A founding member of the acclaimed New York-based company Mabou Mines, Breuer's gifts as a writer and director have have made him a mainstay of the theatrical avant-garde.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559366788
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
A founding member of the acclaimed New York-based company Mabou Mines, Breuer's gifts as a writer and director have have made him a mainstay of the theatrical avant-garde.
Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines
Author: Jessica Silsby Brater
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472578856
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech's work, Jessica Brater's companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist. Tracing Maleczech's background, training, and influences, the volume contextualizes her work and the founding of Mabou Mines within the wider landscape of American avant-garde theatre. It considers her performances and productions, revealing both her interest in making ordinary women important onstage, and her predilection for resurrecting extraordinary women from history and finding their resonances within a contemporary theatrical context. Brater considers Maleczech's investment in redrawing the boundaries of what women are allowed to say, both on stage and off, and shows how her commitment to radical artistic and production risks has reshaped the contours of a contemporary theatrical experience. Highlights of the volume include discussion of productions such as Mabou Mines' Lear, Dead End Kids, Hajj, Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day, Red Beads, and La Divina Caricatura, as well as a close look at Maleczech's final work-in-progress, Imagining the Imaginary Invalid.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472578856
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech's work, Jessica Brater's companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist. Tracing Maleczech's background, training, and influences, the volume contextualizes her work and the founding of Mabou Mines within the wider landscape of American avant-garde theatre. It considers her performances and productions, revealing both her interest in making ordinary women important onstage, and her predilection for resurrecting extraordinary women from history and finding their resonances within a contemporary theatrical context. Brater considers Maleczech's investment in redrawing the boundaries of what women are allowed to say, both on stage and off, and shows how her commitment to radical artistic and production risks has reshaped the contours of a contemporary theatrical experience. Highlights of the volume include discussion of productions such as Mabou Mines' Lear, Dead End Kids, Hajj, Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day, Red Beads, and La Divina Caricatura, as well as a close look at Maleczech's final work-in-progress, Imagining the Imaginary Invalid.
Sister Suzie Cinema
Author: Lee Breuer
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
In addition to the listed contents, includes an essay and five poems.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
In addition to the listed contents, includes an essay and five poems.
Re-Dressing the Canon
Author: Alisa Solomon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134728948
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Re-Dressing the Canon examines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical analysis. Alisa Solomon discusses both canonical texts and contemporary productions in a lively jargon-free style. Among the dramatic texts considered are those of Aristophanes, Ibsen, Yiddish theatre, Mabou Mines, Deborah Warner, Shakespeare, Brecht, Split Britches, Ridiculous Theatre, and Tony Kushner. Bringing to bear theories of 'gender performativity' upon theatrical events, the author explores: * the 'double disguise' of cross-dressed boy-actresses * how gender relates to genre (particularly in Ibsens' realism) * how canonical theatre represented gender in ways which maintain traditional images of masculinity and femininity.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134728948
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Re-Dressing the Canon examines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical analysis. Alisa Solomon discusses both canonical texts and contemporary productions in a lively jargon-free style. Among the dramatic texts considered are those of Aristophanes, Ibsen, Yiddish theatre, Mabou Mines, Deborah Warner, Shakespeare, Brecht, Split Britches, Ridiculous Theatre, and Tony Kushner. Bringing to bear theories of 'gender performativity' upon theatrical events, the author explores: * the 'double disguise' of cross-dressed boy-actresses * how gender relates to genre (particularly in Ibsens' realism) * how canonical theatre represented gender in ways which maintain traditional images of masculinity and femininity.
A Coffin in Egypt
Author: Horton Foote
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822232405
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
THE STORY: Myrtle Bledsoe, a ninety-year-old Texas widow, looks back on the dramatic events that caused a small Southern town, and her own relationships, incredible strife. This almost-monologue by American master Horton Foote is a haunting tale of how men and women, blacks and whites, rich and poor are all entangled in the chaos of life.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822232405
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
THE STORY: Myrtle Bledsoe, a ninety-year-old Texas widow, looks back on the dramatic events that caused a small Southern town, and her own relationships, incredible strife. This almost-monologue by American master Horton Foote is a haunting tale of how men and women, blacks and whites, rich and poor are all entangled in the chaos of life.
Beckett in Performance
Author: Jonathan Kalb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423793
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights emerges from the viewpoint of numerous Beckett actors and directors and includes the author's personal experiences as well.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423793
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights emerges from the viewpoint of numerous Beckett actors and directors and includes the author's personal experiences as well.
An Event in Space
Author: Deborah Saivetz
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Beyond the Boundaries
Author: Theodore Shank
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472085354
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
An update of this popular history of experimental American theater
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472085354
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
An update of this popular history of experimental American theater
Beckett's Laboratory
Author: Corey Wakeling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350153133
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Offering fresh studies of Samuel Beckett in pre-production, in rehearsal, as an innovator of the script form, and as a speculative director and designer, Beckett's Laboratory reconsiders Beckett's stringent approach to stage direction through the lens of the laboratory and reveals his experimentalism with stage representation and composition. Wakeling argues that acknowledging Beckett's experimental processes, from their composition to their reception, is crucial to understanding the innovative representations of humanity that emerged at different stages in Beckett's practice. Repositioning Beckett's performance oeuvre in relation to philosophy, Wakeling draws upon post-dramatic, symbolist, materialist and post-structural understandings of theatre performance to reappraise Beckett's plays as a composition for performance. The philosophical underpinnings of Beckett's practices are explored through an eclectic mix of familiar and unexplored contemporary theatre productions and films of Beckett's works, including Not I, Nacht und Träume, Happy Days, Footfalls and Catastrophe. Beckett's Laboratory is a provocative examination of Beckett's experimentalism with the human spectacle and his playful reliance upon the interpretative powers of the actors and audience.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350153133
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Offering fresh studies of Samuel Beckett in pre-production, in rehearsal, as an innovator of the script form, and as a speculative director and designer, Beckett's Laboratory reconsiders Beckett's stringent approach to stage direction through the lens of the laboratory and reveals his experimentalism with stage representation and composition. Wakeling argues that acknowledging Beckett's experimental processes, from their composition to their reception, is crucial to understanding the innovative representations of humanity that emerged at different stages in Beckett's practice. Repositioning Beckett's performance oeuvre in relation to philosophy, Wakeling draws upon post-dramatic, symbolist, materialist and post-structural understandings of theatre performance to reappraise Beckett's plays as a composition for performance. The philosophical underpinnings of Beckett's practices are explored through an eclectic mix of familiar and unexplored contemporary theatre productions and films of Beckett's works, including Not I, Nacht und Träume, Happy Days, Footfalls and Catastrophe. Beckett's Laboratory is a provocative examination of Beckett's experimentalism with the human spectacle and his playful reliance upon the interpretative powers of the actors and audience.