This book introduces readers to the historical, performative, and cultural context of pansori, a traditional Korean oral story-singing art. Written by a scholar-practitioner of the form, this study is structured in three parts and b...Loe edasi...
Provides a clear guide to Kathakali, exploring the origin, evolution and characteristics of the form today and the ways it has adapted for a 21st-century audience. This introduction to this mode of dance drama traces the distinctive features of Kath...Loe edasi...
What entertained Indias masses and elites before the arrival of cinema? When did modern theatre begin in India? Scholar and fifth-generation Nautanki artist, Devendra Sharma, examines the history of Nautanki, a theatrical form that flourished in...Loe edasi...
Authored by a leading exponent of the form, this book provides a clear guide to Kathakali, exploring its origin, evolution, and characteristics and the ways it has adapted for a 21st-century audience. Kathakali is an introduc...Loe edasi...
Provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the rich traditions of noh, traditional Japanese dance-drama. Drawing from up-to-date, specialized scholarship in Japanese and English, it takes an accessible approach useful for a range of reader...Loe edasi...
What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years, and to what effect? What is its relationship to truth and reality, and defining moments of civic unrest and political chan...Loe edasi...
What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years, and to what effect? What is its relationship to truth and reality, and defining moments of civic unrest and political change? I...Loe edasi...
This book offers a stimulating introduction to the Hokkien music drama known as liyuanxi (pear garden theatre), heir and current expression of one of Chinas oldest unbroken xiqu (Chinese opera) traditions. It considers the genre...Loe edasi...
This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhais repertoi...Loe edasi...
The definitive account of the work, lineage and legacy of the most important European stage directors from the first half of the twentieth century. Through each volumes focus on a small cluster of related directors, it offers a rich and substantial...Loe edasi...
The definitive account of the work, lineage and legacy of the most important European stage directors from the second half of the twentieth century. Through each volumes focus on a small cluster of related directors, it offers a rich and substantial...Loe edasi...
This volume provides a fresh assessment of the pioneering practices of theatre directors Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook and Eugenio Barba, whose work has challenged and extended ideas about what theatre is and does. Contributors demonstrate...Loe edasi...
This volume foregrounds Pina Bausch, Romeo Castellucci and Jan Fabre as three leading directors who have each left an indelible mark on post-war European theatre. Combining in-depth discussions of the artists poetics with detailed case studies of se...Loe edasi...
This volume assesses the contributions of André Antoine, Konstantin Stanislavski and Michel Saint-Denis, whose work has influenced theatre and training for over a century. These directors pioneered Naturalism and refined Realism as they experimented...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these three directors take up key aesthetic prompts from earlier innovators – Stanislavski, the modernist avant-garde and not least Brecht – and...Loe edasi...
This volume surveys and assesses the contributions of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht to theatre-making, which richly exemplify the range of ways that directors address dramatic material, theatrical space and their audiences. Th...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a compelling account of Jean-Louis Barrault, Ariane Mnouchkine and Peter Stein, who not only won international recognition as directors whose repertoires ranged from classical Greek to Shakespeare to the avant-garde, but also succ...Loe edasi...
In this volume leading scholars assess the contributions of Max Reinhardt, Leopold Jessner and Harley Granville Barker to European theatre. Their work represents the cultural shift from traditional theatre practices of the 19th century to the rise...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the work of directors Jacques Copeau, Theodore Komisarjevsky and Tyrone Guthrie. It explores in detail many of the directors key productions, including Copeaus staging of Molières The Tricks of Scapin, Komisarjevskys signature s...Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, Coming on Strong addresses itself to anyone, whatever their sexuality, who wants to know why gay men have become one of those most controversial minorities in 1980s Britain. First published in 1989, Coming o...Loe edasi...
