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Acts Of Transgression - Contemporary Live Art In South Africa (Paperback): Jay Pather, Catherine Boulle Acts Of Transgression - Contemporary Live Art In South Africa (Paperback)
Jay Pather, Catherine Boulle; Jay Pather, Catherine Boulle, Katlego Disemelo, …
R460 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R35 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In this ground-breaking collection of critical essays, 15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.

Set against a contemporary South African society that is chronologically `post' apartheid, but one that continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism, Acts of Transgression finds a representation of the complexity of this moment within the rich potential of a performative art form that transcends disciplinary boundaries and aesthetic conventions. The collection probes live art's intersection with crisis and socio-political turbulence, shifting notions of identity and belonging, embodied trauma and loss, questions of archive, memory and the troubling of colonial systems of knowing,

an interrogation of narratives of the past and visions for the future.These diverse essays, analysing the work of more than 25 contemporary South African artists and accompanied by a striking visual record of more than 50 photographs, represent the first major critical study of contemporary live art in South Africa; a study that is as timeous as it is imperative.

Shakespeare - The Man Who Pays The Rent (Paperback): Judi Dench Shakespeare - The Man Who Pays The Rent (Paperback)
Judi Dench
R295 R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Save R32 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig...

Cavorting naked through the countryside painted green...

Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head...

These are just a few of the things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare.

For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra.

Here she reveals her behind the scenes secrets; inviting us to share in her triumphs, disasters, and backstage shenanigans, all brightened by her mischievous sense of humour and striking honesty.

Witty, provocative and inspiring, this is ultimately Judi's love letter to Shakespeare, or rather, The Man Who Pays The Rent.

Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa - Place and Play in Johannesburg (Hardcover): Alexandra Halligey Participatory Theatre and the Urban Everyday in South Africa - Place and Play in Johannesburg (Hardcover)
Alexandra Halligey
R4,472 Discovery Miles 44 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores theatre and performance as participatory research practices for exploring the everyday of the city. Taking an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa as its central case study, the book consider how theatre and performance might be both useful practical tools in considering the everyday city, as well as conceptual lenses for understanding it.

The author establishes an understanding of space as ever-evolving and formed through the ongoing relationship between things, human and non-human and considers how theatre and performance offer useful paradigms for learning about and working with city spaces. As ephemeral, embodied, material artistic practices, theatre and performance mirror the nature of everyday life. The book discusses theatre and performance games and playmaking processes as offering valuable ways of discovering daily acts of place-making and providing insights that more conventional research methods may not allow. Yet the book also considers how seeing daily city life as a kind of performance, a kind of theatre in its own right, helps to further understandings of city spaces as ever evolving through complex webs of relationships.

This book will be of interest to academics, academic practitioners and post-graduate students in the fields of theatre and performance studies, urban studies and cultural geography.

Shakespeare (Hardcover): Joseph Piercy Shakespeare (Hardcover)
Joseph Piercy 1
R306 R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Save R78 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Shakespeare is a fascinating collection of surprising revelations, quirky characters and other fascinating pieces of trivia from the world of the great English bard. From the stories behind his well-known plays and poems, through the actors and theatres that have entertained his works, to his legacy in popular culture and beyond, an intriguing and unusual history of his life and times is revealed. Drawing back the curtains on this iconic English character, there is something here for every enthusiast to relish. This authoritative and absorbing book is published to coincide with the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's death on 23rd April 2016.

Death and the King's Horseman (Hardcover, POD): Wole Soyinka Death and the King's Horseman (Hardcover, POD)
Wole Soyinka
R1,307 Discovery Miles 13 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favourite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British Colonial Officer, Pilkings, intervenes to prevent the death and arrests Elesin. The play is a set text for NEAB GCSE, NEAB A Level and NEAB A/S Level. 'A masterpiece of 20th century drama' - Guardian "A transfixing work of modern world drama" (Independent); "clearly a masterpiece. . . he achieves the full impact of Greek tragedy" (Irving Wardle, Independent on Sunday); "the action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone: a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy issues: a tragedy for each individual, each tribe" (Michael Schmidt, Daily Telegraph)

Spectacular Men - Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage (Hardcover): Sarah E. Chinn Spectacular Men - Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage (Hardcover)
Sarah E. Chinn
R2,783 Discovery Miles 27 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Spectacular Men, Sarah E. Chinn investigates how working class white men looked to the early American theatre for examples of ideal manhood. Theatre-going was the primary source of entertainment for working people of the early Republic and the Jacksonian period, and plays implicitly and explicitly addressed the risks and rewards of citizenship. Ranging from representations of the heroes of the American Revolution to images of doomed Indians to plays about ancient Rome, Chinn unearths dozens of plays rarely read by critics. Spectacular Men places the theatre at the center of the self-creation of working white men, as voters, as workers, and as Americans.

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition): Gerald Bordman, Thomas S. Hischak The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
Gerald Bordman, Thomas S. Hischak
R2,516 Discovery Miles 25 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1984, Gerald Bordman's Oxford Companion to American Theatre is the standard one-volume source on our national theatre. Critics have hailed its "wealth of authoritative information" (Back Stage), its "fascinating picture of the volatile American stage" (The Guardian), and its "well-chosen, illuminating facts" (Newsday).
Now thoroughly revised, this distinguished volume once again provides an up-to-date guide to the American stage from its beginnings to the present. Completely updated by theater professor Thomas Hischak, the volume includes playwrights, plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, famous playhouses, dramatic movements, and much more. The book covers not only classic works (such as Death of a Salesman) but also many commercially successful plays (such as Getting Gertie's Garter), plus entries on foreign figures that have influenced our dramatic development (from Shakespeare to Beckett and Pinter). New entries include recent plays such as Angels in America and Six Degrees of Separation, performers such as Eric Bogosian and Bill Irwin, playwrights like David Henry Hwang and Wendy Wasserstein, and relevant developments and issues including AIDS in American theatre, theatrical producing by Disney, and the rise in solo performance.
Accessible and authoritative, this valuable A-Z reference is ideal not only for students and scholars of theater, but everyone with a passion for the stage.

A History of Theater on Cape Cod (Paperback): Sue Mellen A History of Theater on Cape Cod (Paperback)
Sue Mellen; Foreword by Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll
R552 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tandem Dances - Choreographing Immersive Performance (Hardcover): Julia M. Ritter Tandem Dances - Choreographing Immersive Performance (Hardcover)
Julia M. Ritter
R3,250 Discovery Miles 32 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance is the first book to propose dance and choreography as frames through which to examine immersive theatre, more broadly known as immersive performance. Indicative of a larger renaissance in storytelling during the digital age, immersive performance is influenced by emerging computer technologies, such as virtual reality and advances in video-gaming, as well as increased interest in new forms of experiential entertainment. The idea of tandemness - suggesting motion that is achieved by two bodies working together and acting in conjunction with one another - is critical throughout the book. Author Julia M. Ritter persuasively argues that practitioners of immersive productions deploy choreography as a structural mechanism to mobilize the bodies of cast and audience members to perform together. Furthermore, choreography is contextualized as an effective tool for facilitating audience participation towards immersion as an affect. Through a focus on Western dance histories, theories, and practices, Ritter's close choreographic analysis of immersive productions, along with unique insights from choreographers, directors, performers, and spectators, enlivens discourse across dramaturgy, kinesthesia, affect, and co-authorship. By foregrounding the choreographic in order to examine its specific impact on the evolution of immersive theater, Tandem Dances explores choreography as a discursive domain that is fundamentally related to creative practice, agendas of power and control, and concomitant issues of freedom and agency.

Is God Is (Paperback): Aleshea Harris Is God Is (Paperback)
Aleshea Harris
R477 R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Save R72 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Is God Is is a modern myth about twin sisters who sojourn from the Dirty South to the California desert to exact righteous revenge. Winner of the 2016 Relentless Award, Aleshea Harris collides the ancient, the modern, the tragic, the Spaghetti Western, and Afropunk in this darkly funny and unapologetic world premiere.

The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre (Hardcover, New): Eugene Benson, L. W. Conolly The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre (Hardcover, New)
Eugene Benson, L. W. Conolly
R1,899 Discovery Miles 18 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The past twenty years have seen an extraordinary and exciting growth in Canadian theater. Today, 200 professional theater companies span the country and more than 10,000 published plays appear in bibliographies. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre is the first reference book to document the growth and development of Canadian drama and theater in English and French--from its beginnings to the present day. The book offers 680 entries written by 155 contributors that provide biographies of actors, playwrights, directors, and designers; major theaters, including 19th-century theaters, and companies; major plays; and numerous miscellaneous subjects such as collective theater, design, directing, ethnic theater, musical theater, radio and television drama, and local theater. The result of almost four years' research, this authoritative reference offers a wealth of fascinating and important information, as well as over 200 beautiful illustrations.

The Theatres of War - Performance, Politics, and Society 1793-1815 (Hardcover): Gillian Russell The Theatres of War - Performance, Politics, and Society 1793-1815 (Hardcover)
Gillian Russell
R4,165 Discovery Miles 41 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Based on new research, and informed by recent developments in literary and historical studies, The Theatres of War reveals the importance of the theatre in the shaping of response to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars (1793-1815). Gillian Russell explores the roles of the military and navy as both actors and audiences, and shows their performances to be crucial to their self-perception as actors fighting on behalf of an often distant domestic audience. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of 1793-1815 had profound consequences for British society, politics, and culture. In this, the first in-depth study of the cultural dimension of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Gillian Russell examines an important dimension of the experience of these wars - theatricality. Through this study, the theatre emerges as a place where battles were celebrated in the form of spectacular reenactments, and where the tensions of mobilization on an hitherto unprecedented scale were played out in the form of riots and disturbances. This book is intended for scholars, postgraduates, and undergraduates studying theatre and theatre history, cultural studies, Romanticism, social and political (British)

Medea (Hardcover, POD): Mike Bartlett Medea (Hardcover, POD)
Mike Bartlett; Euripides
R1,301 Discovery Miles 13 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

If there's a God, which at the moment I DOUBT, I want you to curse him. If there's any justice, I want them - both of them - in a car crash. Her husband's gone and her future isn't bright. Imprisoned in her marital home, Medea can't work, can't sleep and increasingly can't cope. While her child plays, she plots her revenge. This startlingly modern version of Euripides' classic tragedy explores the private fury bubbling under public behaviour and how in today's world a mother, fuelled by anger at her husband's infidelity, might be driven to commit the worst possible crime. The production is written and directed by one of the UK's most exciting and in-demand writers, Mike Bartlett, who has received critical acclaim for his plays including Earthquakes in London; Cock (Olivier Award), a new stage version of Chariots of Fire, and Love Love Love. This programme text coincides with a run at the Headlong Theatre in London from the 27th of September to the 1st of December 2012.

Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London (Hardcover): Marc Baer Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London (Hardcover)
Marc Baer
R3,517 Discovery Miles 35 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In September of 1809 during the opening night of Macbeth at the newly rebuilt Covent Garden theatre the audience rioted over the rise in ticket prices. Disturbances took place on the following sixty-six nights that autumn and the Old Price riots became the longest running theatre disorder in English history. This book describes the events in detail, sets them in their wider context, and uses them to examine the interpenetration of theatre and disorder. Previous understandings of the riots are substantially revised by stressing populist rather than class politics. Baer concentrates on the theatricality of audiences, the role of the stage in shaping English self-image and the relationship between contention and consensus. In so doing, theatre and theatricality are rediscovered as explanations for the cultural and political structures of the Georgian period. Based on meticulous research in theatre and governmental records, newspapers, private correspondence, and satirical prints and other ephemera, this study is an unusually interesting and original contribution to the social and political history of early 19th-century Britain.

Landscape of the Now - A Topography of Movement Improvisation (Hardcover): Kent De Spain Landscape of the Now - A Topography of Movement Improvisation (Hardcover)
Kent De Spain
R4,073 Discovery Miles 40 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Landscape of the Now, author Kent De Spain takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of postmodern movement improvisation. Based on a series of interviews with master teachers who have developed unique approaches that are taught around the world - Steve Paxton, Simone Forti, Lisa Nelson, Deborah Hay, Nancy Stark Smith, Barbara Dilley, Anna Halprin, and Ruth Zaporah - this book offers the rare opportunity to find some clarity in what is often a complex and confusing experience. After more than 20 years of research, De Spain has created an extensive list of questions that explore issues that arise for the improviser in practice and performance as well as resources that influence movements and choices. Answers to these questions are placed side by side to create dialog and depth of understanding, and to see the range of possible approaches experienced improvisers might explore. In its nineteen chapters, Landscape of the Now delves into issues like the influence of an audience on an improviser's choices or how performers "track" and use their experience of the moment. The book also looks at the role of cognitive skills, memory, space, emotion, and the senses. One chapter offers a rare opportunity for an honest discussion of the role of various forms of spirituality in what is seen as a secular dance form. Whether read from cover to cover or pulled apart and explored a subject at a time, Landscape of the Now offers the reader a kind of map into the mysterious realm of human creativity, and the wisdom and experience of artists who have spent a lifetime exploring it.

Staging Fairyland - Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime (Hardcover): Jennifer Schacker Staging Fairyland - Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime (Hardcover)
Jennifer Schacker
R2,483 Discovery Miles 24 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-century histories of folklore and the fairy tale. In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as ""pantomime"" was part of a shared cultural repertoire and a significant medium for the transmission of stories, especially the fairy tales that permeated English popular culture before the advent of folklore study. Rowdy, comedic, and slightly risque, pantomime productions were situated in dynamic relationship with various forms of print and material culture. Popular fairy-tale theater also informed the production and reception of folklore research in ways that are often overlooked. In Staging Fairyland: Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime, Jennifer Schacker reclaims the place of theatrical performance in this history, developing a model for the intermedial and cross-disciplinary study of narrative cultures. The case studies that punctuate each chapter move between the realms of print and performance, scholarship and popular culture. Schacker examines pantomime productions of such well-known tales as ""Cinderella,""""Little Red Riding Hood,"" and ""Jack and the Beanstalk,"" as well as others whose popularity has waned-such as ""Daniel O'Rourke"" and ""The Yellow Dwarf."" These productions resonate with traditions of impersonation, cross-dressing, literary imposture, masquerade, and the social practice of ""fancy dress."" Schacker also traces the complex histories of Mother Goose and Mother Bunch, who were often cast as the embodiments of both tale-telling and stage magic and who move through various genres of narrative and forms of print culture. Theoretically informed and methodologically innovative, these examinations push at the limits of prevailing approaches to the fairy tale across media. They also demonstrate the degree to which perspectives on the fairy tale as children's entertainment often obscure the complex histories and ideological underpinnings ofspecific tales. Mapping the intermedial histories of tales requires a fundamental reconfi guration of our thinking about early folklore study and about ""fairy tales"": their bearing on questions of genre and ideology but also their signifying possibilities-past, present, and future. Readers interested in folklore, fairy-tale studies, children's literature, and performance studies will embrace this informative monograph.

The World of Art and Diaghilev's painters (Hardcover): Vsevolod Petrov The World of Art and Diaghilev's painters (Hardcover)
Vsevolod Petrov
R999 Discovery Miles 9 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880 - Print, Text, and Performance in Europe (Hardcover): Julie Stone Peters Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880 - Print, Text, and Performance in Europe (Hardcover)
Julie Stone Peters
R8,162 Discovery Miles 81 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Theatre of the Book explores the impact of printing on the European theatre, 1480-1880. Far from being marginal to Renaissance dramatists, the printing press played an essential role in the birth of the modern theatre. Looking at playtexts, engravings, actor portraits, notation systems, and theatrical ephemera as part of the broader history of theatrical ideas, this illustrated book offers both a history of European dramatic publication and an examination of the European theatre's continual refashioning of itself in the world of print.

Puppetry: A Reader in Theatre Practice (Hardcover, New): Penny Francis Puppetry: A Reader in Theatre Practice (Hardcover, New)
Penny Francis
R3,549 Discovery Miles 35 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this sophisticated and compelling introduction to puppet theatre, Penny Francis offers engaging contemporary perspectives on this universal art-form. She provides an account of puppetry's different facets, from its demands and techniques, through its uses and abuses, to its history and philosophy. Now recognized as a valuable and powerful medium used in the making of most forms of theatre and filmed work, those referring to Puppetry will discover something of the roots, dramaturgy, literature and techniques of this visual art form. The book gathers together material from an international selection of sources, bringing puppet theatre to life for the student, practitioner and amateur alike.

The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Sarah Thomasson The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Sarah Thomasson
R2,871 Discovery Miles 28 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide examines how these cities' world-famous arts events have shaped and been shaped by their long-term interaction with their urban environments. While the Edinburgh International Festival and Adelaide Festival are long-established, prestigious events that champion artistic excellence, they are also accompanied by the two largest open-access fringe festivals in the world. It is this simultaneous staging of multiple events within Edinburgh's Summer Festivals and Adelaide's Mad March that generates the visibility and festive atmosphere popularly associated with both places. Drawing on perspectives from theatre studies and cultural geography, this book interrogates how the Festival City, as a place myth, has developed in the very different local contexts of Edinburgh and Adelaide, and how it is challenged by groups competing for the right to use and define public space. Each chapter examines a recent performative event in which festival debates and controversies spilled out beyond the festival space to activate the public sphere by intersecting with broader concerns and audiences. This book forges an interdisciplinary, comparative framework for festival studies to interrogate how festivals are embedded in the social and political fabric of cities and to assess the cultural impact of the festivalisation phenomenon.

The Works of Shakespeare - Henry V (Paperback): William Shakespeare The Works of Shakespeare - Henry V (Paperback)
William Shakespeare
R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Faust - a Tragedy (Paperback): Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Faust - a Tragedy (Paperback)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Studies in the Wagnerian Drama (Paperback): Henry Edward Krehbiel Studies in the Wagnerian Drama (Paperback)
Henry Edward Krehbiel
R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Faust - a Tragedy (Paperback): Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Faust - a Tragedy (Paperback)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Works of Shakespeare - the Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions (Paperback): William Shakespeare The Works of Shakespeare - the Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions (Paperback)
William Shakespeare
R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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