Sari: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781802071887)
This series of passionate and well-researched essays speaks to the situation of Black artists on the French stage, especially in prestigious government-subsidized theatres....Loe edasi...
This is the story behind one of the most important women in American theatre during the early twentieth century. An advocate for womens equality, Rachel Crothers was a pathfinder for women in theatre, respected as a director for mastering all the p...Loe edasi...
This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market pressures, has affected the ways in which actors are trained in the US and UK. It reviews the existing state of training, looking a...Loe edasi...
In several Nigerian universities, theories of Western stage directors who are long dead are still relied upon to teach Nigerian students the art of stage directing. This is akin to eating Nigerian delicacies, such as isi ewu (a goats head delicacy)...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on three artists who embrace media and technology as essential elements of their theatrical expression: Elizabeth LeCompte, Ping Chong, and Robert Lepage. Diverse in their aesthetic interests, they nevertheless s...Loe edasi...
The incredible journey of a musical from potential disaster to success, and the Broadway industry that managed to stay alive during the pandemic shutdown of 2020-22.Despite historic, seemingly insurmountable setbacks of four opening...Loe edasi...
This book offers an approach which unites choreographic and spectatorial perspectives, and argues for dance itself—its materials, its structures—as a medium of emotional communication. Contemporary dance often seems to contend with issues of understa...Loe edasi...
Punchdrunk on the Classics: Experiencing Immersion in The Burnt City and Beyond draws attention to Punchdrunk’s use of ancient Greek literature in their creation of immersive theatre. The book documents and analyses the effects of utili...Loe edasi...
This book explores how theater artistry melds the forces of collaboration and leadership, igniting creativity from the first spark of an idea to the climactic curtain call. It throws the spotlight on the dynamic interplay of roles, coveri...Loe edasi...
This book explores how theater artistry melds the forces of collaboration and leadership, igniting creativity from the first spark of an idea to the climactic curtain call. It throws the spotlight on the dynamic interplay of roles, coveri...Loe edasi...
This book offers the reader an in-depth understanding of Utpal Dutt’s entire career in drama. Covering Dutt’s career in proscenium, street theatre and Jatra, it analyzes the interesting exchange of dramatic art with politics in his theatre. Owing...Loe edasi...
Every theater director will oversee a new play process in their career: here is what to expect and how to prepare.Drawing from over 20 years of experience as a freelance director, and as the Artistic Director of LCT3 at Lincoln Cent...Loe edasi...
This book is about dance’s relationship to language. It investigates how dance bodies work with the micromovements elicited by language’s affective forces, and the micropolitics of the thought-sensations that arise when movement and words accompan...Loe edasi...
This book is a conversation about acting with noted actor, director and educator Cynthia Henderson. Cynthia takes the reader on a journey to the heart of acting, sharing techniques and exercises she has developed over a lifetime of personal and prof...Loe edasi...
Directing Desire explores the rise of consent-based and trauma-informed approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes for theater in the contemporary U.S., known as intimacy choreography. From 2015 to 2020, intimacy choreography...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Sep-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803994314)
Vivien Leigh was one of the greatest film and theatrical stars of the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s. Her Oscar-winning performances in Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire have cemented her status as an icon of classic Hollywood....Loe edasi...
Theoretische Ansätze zur Analyse literarischer Vortragskunst thematisieren gewöhnlich nur Teilaspekte, aber nicht das Zusammenspiel aller ihrer Faktoren, also von Akteuren, Zuhörern, Räumen, Performances, Vortragsvorlagen und Medientechniken. Auf de...Loe edasi...
This book provides key critical tools to significantly broaden the readers perception of theatre and performance history: in line with posthuman thought, each chapter engages Actor-Network Theory and similar theories to reveal a comprehensive range...Loe edasi...
This book takes choreographer William Forsythe’s choreographic and scenographic processes as a holistic lens through which to view dance as a fundamentally visuo-sonic art form and choreography as a form of perceptual experimentation. In doing so, it...Loe edasi...
