Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466561
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
One of a series discussing topics of interest in theatre studies from theoretical, methodological, philosophical and historical perspectives.
New Theatre Quarterly 37: Volume 10, Part 1
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466561
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
One of a series discussing topics of interest in theatre studies from theoretical, methodological, philosophical and historical perspectives.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466561
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
One of a series discussing topics of interest in theatre studies from theoretical, methodological, philosophical and historical perspectives.
New Theatre Quarterly 57: Volume 15, Part 1
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521656016
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521656016
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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.
New Theatre Quarterly 65: Volume 17, Part 1
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001458
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001458
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.
New Theatre Quarterly 45: Volume 12, Part 1
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558402
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
New Theatre Quarterly provides a forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet. Topics covered in number 45 include: Palimpsestus: Frank Wedekind's Theatre of Self Performance, and 'Leaking Bodies and Fractured Texts': Representing the Female Body at the Omaha Magic Theatre.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558402
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
New Theatre Quarterly provides a forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet. Topics covered in number 45 include: Palimpsestus: Frank Wedekind's Theatre of Self Performance, and 'Leaking Bodies and Fractured Texts': Representing the Female Body at the Omaha Magic Theatre.
Playing to the Gods
Author: Peter Rader
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1476738386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The riveting story of the rivalry between the two most renowned actresses of the nineteenth century: legendary Sarah Bernhardt, whose eccentricity on and off the stage made her the original diva, and mystical Eleonora Duse, who broke all the rules to popularize the natural style of acting we celebrate today. Audiences across Europe and the Americas clamored to see the divine Sarah Bernhardt swoon—and she gave them their money’s worth. The world’s first superstar, she traveled with a chimpanzee named Darwin and a pet alligator that drank champagne, shamelessly supplementing her income by endorsing everything from aperitifs to beef bouillon, and spreading rumors that she slept in a coffin to better understand the macabre heroines she played. Eleonora Duse shied away from the spotlight. Born to a penniless family of itinerant troubadours, she disappeared into the characters she portrayed—channeling their spirits, she claimed. Her new, empathetic style of acting revolutionized the theater—and earned her the ire of Sarah Bernhardt in what would become the most tumultuous theatrical showdown of the nineteenth century. Bernhardt and Duse seduced each other’s lovers, stole one another’s favorite playwrights, and took to the world’s stages to outperform their rival in her most iconic roles. A scandalous, enormously entertaining history full of high drama and low blows, Playing to the Gods is the perfect “book for all of us who binge-watched Feud” (Daniel de Visé, author of Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show).
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1476738386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The riveting story of the rivalry between the two most renowned actresses of the nineteenth century: legendary Sarah Bernhardt, whose eccentricity on and off the stage made her the original diva, and mystical Eleonora Duse, who broke all the rules to popularize the natural style of acting we celebrate today. Audiences across Europe and the Americas clamored to see the divine Sarah Bernhardt swoon—and she gave them their money’s worth. The world’s first superstar, she traveled with a chimpanzee named Darwin and a pet alligator that drank champagne, shamelessly supplementing her income by endorsing everything from aperitifs to beef bouillon, and spreading rumors that she slept in a coffin to better understand the macabre heroines she played. Eleonora Duse shied away from the spotlight. Born to a penniless family of itinerant troubadours, she disappeared into the characters she portrayed—channeling their spirits, she claimed. Her new, empathetic style of acting revolutionized the theater—and earned her the ire of Sarah Bernhardt in what would become the most tumultuous theatrical showdown of the nineteenth century. Bernhardt and Duse seduced each other’s lovers, stole one another’s favorite playwrights, and took to the world’s stages to outperform their rival in her most iconic roles. A scandalous, enormously entertaining history full of high drama and low blows, Playing to the Gods is the perfect “book for all of us who binge-watched Feud” (Daniel de Visé, author of Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show).
Scenes from Bourgeois Life
Author: Nicholas Ridout
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132008
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. In Nicholas Ridout’s formulation, this distance is produced and maintained at two different scales. First is the distance of the colonial relation, not just in miles between Jamaica and London, but also the social, economic, and psychological distances involved in that relation. The second is the distance of spectatorship, not only of the modern theatregoer as consumer, but the larger and pervasive disposition to observe, comment, and sit in judgment, which becomes characteristic of the bourgeois relation to the rest of the world. This engagingly written study of history, class, and spectatorship offers compelling proof of “why theater matters,” and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472132008
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. In Nicholas Ridout’s formulation, this distance is produced and maintained at two different scales. First is the distance of the colonial relation, not just in miles between Jamaica and London, but also the social, economic, and psychological distances involved in that relation. The second is the distance of spectatorship, not only of the modern theatregoer as consumer, but the larger and pervasive disposition to observe, comment, and sit in judgment, which becomes characteristic of the bourgeois relation to the rest of the world. This engagingly written study of history, class, and spectatorship offers compelling proof of “why theater matters,” and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.
New Theatre Quarterly 77: Volume 20, Part 1
Author: Simon Trussler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521535922
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521535922
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.
The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
Book Description
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
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Occasional Lists
Author: Birmingham Public Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Moving Sites
Author: Victoria Hunter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131753249X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Moving Sites explores site-specific dance practice through a combination of analytical essays and practitioner accounts of their working processes. In offering this joint effort of theory and practice, it aims to provide dance academics, students and practitioners with a series of discussions that shed light both on approaches to making this type of dance practice, and evaluating and reflecting on it. The edited volume combines critical thinking from a range of perspectives including commentary and observation from the fields of dance studies, human geography and spatial theory in order to present interdisciplinary discourse and a range of critical and practice-led lenses through which this type of work can be considered and explored. In so doing, this book addresses the following questions: · How do choreographers make site-specific dance performance? · What occurs when a moving body engages with site, place and environment? · How might we interpret, analyse and evaluate this type of dance practice through a range of theoretical lenses? · How can this type of practice inform wider discussions of embodiment, site, space, place and environment? This innovative and exciting book seeks to move beyond description and discussion of site-specific dance as a spectacle or novelty and considers site-dance as a valid and vital form of contemporary dance practice that explores, reflects, disrupts, contests and develops understandings and practices of inhabiting and engaging with a range of sites and environments. Dr Victoria Hunter is Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Chichester.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131753249X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Moving Sites explores site-specific dance practice through a combination of analytical essays and practitioner accounts of their working processes. In offering this joint effort of theory and practice, it aims to provide dance academics, students and practitioners with a series of discussions that shed light both on approaches to making this type of dance practice, and evaluating and reflecting on it. The edited volume combines critical thinking from a range of perspectives including commentary and observation from the fields of dance studies, human geography and spatial theory in order to present interdisciplinary discourse and a range of critical and practice-led lenses through which this type of work can be considered and explored. In so doing, this book addresses the following questions: · How do choreographers make site-specific dance performance? · What occurs when a moving body engages with site, place and environment? · How might we interpret, analyse and evaluate this type of dance practice through a range of theoretical lenses? · How can this type of practice inform wider discussions of embodiment, site, space, place and environment? This innovative and exciting book seeks to move beyond description and discussion of site-specific dance as a spectacle or novelty and considers site-dance as a valid and vital form of contemporary dance practice that explores, reflects, disrupts, contests and develops understandings and practices of inhabiting and engaging with a range of sites and environments. Dr Victoria Hunter is Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Chichester.