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Production Management in Live Music - Managing the Technical Side of Touring in Today's Music Industry (Paperback): Matt... Production Management in Live Music - Managing the Technical Side of Touring in Today's Music Industry (Paperback)
Matt Doherty
R1,003 Discovery Miles 10 030 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Production Management in Live Music: Managing the Technical Side of Touring in Today's Music Industry is a handbook for the aspiring production manager looking to forge a career in the live music industry. This book outlines the role that a production manager performs and their key responsibilities, and takes the reader step by step through the entire process of preparing a show for a tour. From dealing with artists and management to hiring crew, from booking vendors and scheduling the day-to-day of a busy tour, this text covers everything that is needed to take the show into rehearsals and finally on the road. Every aspect of the job is covered, including the very important challenges that face today's industry in the realms of sustainability, inclusion, diversity and mental health. Whether the show be on a festival, in a small theatre or club, or in a modern arena, this book clearly lays out the tasks and challenges and offers practical solutions to ensure the smooth running of a live performance. Production Management in Live Music is written for students in stage and production management courses and emerging professionals working in live music touring.

Indian Theatre - Theatre of Origin, Theatre of Freedom (Hardcover): Ralph Yarrow Indian Theatre - Theatre of Origin, Theatre of Freedom (Hardcover)
Ralph Yarrow
R4,214 Discovery Miles 42 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Locating Indian theatre as a major site of reappraisal and renewal both in India and in the world of performance, this book presents both a picture of traditional and contemporary theatre in India and an examination of its processes and practice. It questions the generative processes which impel theatre, the 'transformation' of individuals and groups through performance and the performative dynamics of 'self' and 'other'.

The Theatre of Les Waters - More Like the Weather (Paperback): Scott T. Cummings The Theatre of Les Waters - More Like the Weather (Paperback)
Scott T. Cummings
R1,022 Discovery Miles 10 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Les Waters is a master director who has worked with many of the most important American theatre artists of the 21st century. A thorough examination of his creative practice and body of work amounts to a picture of American theatre in our time. While collaboration is promoted and celebrated in practical theatre courses and professional training programs far and wide, this book offers concrete and situation-specific examples of how accomplished theatre artists have grapple with the challenges of creating together. The book features writing from the full spectrum of professional disciplines (actors, designers, stage managers, and dramaturgs, as well as directors and playwrights).

The New York Times Theater Reviews 1997-1998 (Hardcover, Reissue): C.S. Smith The New York Times Theater Reviews 1997-1998 (Hardcover, Reissue)
C.S. Smith
R5,836 R4,544 Discovery Miles 45 440 Save R1,292 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the musical hits "Lion King" and "Bring In da Noise, Bring In da Funk," to important new off-Broadway plays such as "Beauty Queen of Leenane" and "Wit," the latest volume in this popular series features a chronological collection of facsimiles of every theater review and awards article published in the "New York Times" between January 1997 and December 1998. Includes a full index of personal names, titles, and corporate names. Like its companion volume, the "New York Times Film Reviews 1997-1998, " this collection is an invaluable resource for all libraries.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre - The Americas (Paperback, New Ed): Don Rubin, Carlos Solorzano World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre - The Americas (Paperback, New Ed)
Don Rubin, Carlos Solorzano
R2,003 Discovery Miles 20 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days




eBook available with sample pages: HE:0415059291

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation (Paperback): Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, Miriam Jacobson The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation (Paperback)
Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, Miriam Jacobson
R1,281 Discovery Miles 12 810 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation brings together a variety of different voices to examine the ways that Shakespeare has been adapted and appropriated onto stage, screen, page, and a variety of digital formats. The thirty-nine chapters address topics such as trans- and intermedia performances; Shakespearean utopias and dystopias; the ethics of appropriation; and Shakespeare and global justice as guidance on how to approach the teaching of these topics. This collection brings into dialogue three very contemporary and relevant areas: the work of women and minority scholars; scholarship from developing countries; and innovative media renderings of Shakespeare. Each essay is clearly and accessibly written, but also draws on cutting edge research and theory. It includes two alternative table of contents, offering different pathways through the book - one regional, the other by medium - which open the book up to both teaching and research. Offering an overview and history of Shakespearean appropriations, as well as discussing contemporary issues and debates in the field, this book is the ultimate guide to this vibrant topic. It will be of use to anyone researching or studying Shakespeare, adaptation, and global appropriation.

Directing for Community Theatre (Hardcover): Daniel L Patterson Directing for Community Theatre (Hardcover)
Daniel L Patterson
R3,753 Discovery Miles 37 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Directing for Community Theatre is a primer for the amateur director working in community theatre. With an emphasis on preparedness, this book gives the amateur director the tools and techniques needed to effectively work on a community theatre production. Covering play analysis, blocking, staging, communication, and working with actors, designers, and other theatre personnel, this how-to book is designed to have the community theatre director up and running quickly, with full knowledge of how to direct a show. The book also contains sample forms and guidelines, including acting analysis, character analysis, rehearsal schedule, audition form, prop list, and blocking pans. Directing for Community Theatre is written for the community theatre participant who is interested, or already cast, in the role of the director.

Transformational Innovation in the Creative and Cultural Industries (Paperback): Alison Rieple, Robert DeFillippi, David... Transformational Innovation in the Creative and Cultural Industries (Paperback)
Alison Rieple, Robert DeFillippi, David Schreiber
R1,608 Discovery Miles 16 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Interest in the management of creative and cultural organisations has grown at pace with the size of this sector. This textbook uniquely focuses on how innovation in these industries transforms practice. Uncovering the strategic role of innovation for organizations in the creative and cultural sector, the book provides readers with practical guidance to help traverse seismic disruptions brought about by global health and economic crises. The authors examine how innovation in business models, products, services, and technology has disrupted the competitive landscapes of the arts world. Innovations are characterized as deriving from other industries as well as via exogenous shocks that privilege some companies over others. Case studies bring to life how innovation is used strategically in different ways around varying competitive forces. Enhanced by conceptual tools and replete with industry examples, this textbook is an ideal resource for students and reflective practitioners to understand how innovation can be a productive tool for transforming their own creative and cultural industry practice and performance during a period of rapid technological change and unprecedented societal challenge.

World Ency Cont Theatre   V1-6 (Hardcover): Don Rubin World Ency Cont Theatre V1-6 (Hardcover)
Don Rubin
R38,213 Discovery Miles 382 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre (WECT) is the largest, international co-operative undertaking in the history of world theatre. In six outstanding volumes WECT documents artistic development all over the world, country by country, region by region. International and in depth, WECT's coverage includes playwriting, music theatre, dance theatre, theatre for young audiences, puppet theatre, design, architecture and developments in theatre technology, theatre training, criticism and scholarship. An incredible accomplishment, WECT is a project of The International Theatre Institute, The International Federation for Theatre Research, The International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts, and The International Association of Theatre Critics with the support of UNESCO and the UNESCO World Decade for Cultural Development. The volumes record and analyse world theatre in some 160 countries, from 1945 to the present day. Written by leading scholars, critics and theatre practitioners from each country and edited by authorities in each region, WECT explores through text and illustration the relationship between each national theatre community and the unique society from which it springs. Key Features: * Extensive coverage - world theatre in more than 160 countries is documented and analyzed offering a complete insight to theatrical cultures in a form which allows country-by-country comparison * Prestigious board of contributors - created by more than 1,000 leading international scholars, critics and theatre practitioners all writing from within the country being covered to ensure authenticity and authority * Lavishly illustrated - over 750 black and white photographs from around the world complement the text, to make the volumes informative and readable * Multidisciplinary - relevant to a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature and intercultural studies

The Language of Drama (Paperback): Keith Sanger The Language of Drama (Paperback)
Keith Sanger
R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Acknowlegements. Introduction. Unit one: Are you sitting comfortably? Unit two: Realism: Telling it like it is? Unit three: presentation of character: non-standard language. Unit four: The protagonist. Unit five: Storytelling. Unit six: The grammar of sound. Unit seven:Book to film. Index of terms. Index of textx and writers. References and further reading.

Eastern European Theatre After the Iron Curtain (Hardcover): Kalina Stefanova Eastern European Theatre After the Iron Curtain (Hardcover)
Kalina Stefanova
R3,925 Discovery Miles 39 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Kalina Stefanova surveys Eastern European theatre after the collapse of the Soviet Union, presenting factual information about the many different spheres of theatre there today -- from playwriting, directing and acting, to repertoire creation and theatre management. She covers the current theatre situation in Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and the Ukraine, including interviews with major directors and playwrights such as Yury Lyubimov, Vaclav Havel, Andrei Sherban, and Ismail Kadare. By presenting material never previously published on theatre life during the Communist years, she is able to compare theatre before and after the political changes.

Flash and Crash Days - Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period (Paperback, annotated edition): David George Flash and Crash Days - Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period (Paperback, annotated edition)
David George
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Flash and Crash Days deals with the theatre produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, especially its postmodernist directors, women playwrights and theatre companies. It attempts to answer the following questions: Did the thriving stage of the 1950s and 1960s wither during the reign of terror in the early 1970s, unleashed in the wake of the 1968 state of siege declared by the generals? Did the return to civilian government fail to create conditions for a new theatre? This book examines how the absence of censorship, on the one hand, and the exigencies of protest and ideological purity on the other have given rise to a variety of theatrical modes which Brazil has never experienced in the past, allowing all voices the opportunity to be heard.

Corpus Delecti - Performance Art of the Americas (Hardcover): Coco Fusco Corpus Delecti - Performance Art of the Americas (Hardcover)
Coco Fusco
R3,932 Discovery Miles 39 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The most comprehensive volume on performance art from the Americas to have appeared in English, Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance. Drawing on live art from the 1960s to the present day, these fascinating essays explore the impact of Latin American politics, popular culture and syncretic religions on Latin performance.
Including contributions by artists as well as scholars, Fusco's collection bridges the theory/practice divide and discusses a wide variety of genres. Among them are:
* body art
* carpa
* vaudeville
* staged political protest
* tropicalist musical comedies
* contemporary Venezuelan performance art
* the Chicano Art movement
* queer Latino performance
The essays demonstrate how specific social and historical contexts have shaped Latin American performance. They also show how those factors have affected the choices artists make, and how their work draw upon and respond to their environment.

Corpus Delecti - Performance Art of the Americas (Paperback): Coco Fusco Corpus Delecti - Performance Art of the Americas (Paperback)
Coco Fusco
R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days




eBook available with sample pages: HB:0415194539

Inside The Performance Workshop - A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises (Hardcover): Rachel Bowditch, Michele Minnick,... Inside The Performance Workshop - A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises (Hardcover)
Rachel Bowditch, Michele Minnick, Paula Murray Cole
R3,770 Discovery Miles 37 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer training exercises developed by Richard Schechner and elaborated by the editors and contributors. This work began in the 1960s with The Performance Group, and has continued to evolve. Rasaboxes - a featured set of exercises - is an interdisciplinary approach for training emotional expressivity through the use of breath, body, voice, movement, and sensation. It brings together: the concept of rasa from classical Indian performance theory and practice research on emotion from neuroscience and psychology experimental performance practices theories of ritual, play, and performance This book combines both practical 'how-to' guidance, and applications in diverse contexts including undergraduate and graduate actor training, television acting, K-12 education, devising, and drama therapy. The book serves as an introduction to the work as well as an essential resource for experienced practitioners.

African Theatre in Performance - A Festschrift in Honour of Martin Banham (Hardcover): Dele Layiwola African Theatre in Performance - A Festschrift in Honour of Martin Banham (Hardcover)
Dele Layiwola
R2,587 Discovery Miles 25 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this lively and varied tribute to Martin Banham, Layiwola has assembled critical commentaries and two plays which focus primarily on Nigerian theatre - both traditional and contemporary.
Dele Layiwola, Dapo Adelugba and Sonny Oti trace the beginnings of the School of Drama in 1960, at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where Martin Banham played a key and influential role in the growth of thriving Nigerian theatre repetoire and simulaneously encouraging the creation of a new theatre based on traditional Nigerian theatre forms.
This comparative approach is taken up in Dele Layiwola's study of ritual and drama in the context of various traditions worldwide, while Oyin Ogunba presents a lucid picture of the complex use of theatre space in Yoruba ritual dramadar
drama.
Harsh everyday realitites, both physical and political, are graphically demonstrated by Robert McClaren (Zimbabwe) and Oga Steve Abah (Nigeria) who both show surprising and alarming links between extreme actual experiences and theatre creation and performance.
The texts of the two plays - When Criminals Turn Judges by Ola Rotimi, The Hand that Feeds the King by Wale Ogunyemi, are followed by Austin O. Asagba's study of oral tradition and text in plays by Osofisan and Agbeyegbe, and Frances Harding's study on power, language, and imagery in Wole Soyinka's plays.

1956 and All That - The Making of Modern British Drama (Hardcover): Dan Rebellato 1956 and All That - The Making of Modern British Drama (Hardcover)
Dan Rebellato
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems?
In this bold and fascinating challenge to the received wisdom of the last forty years of theatrical history, Dan Rebellato uncovers a different story altogether. It is one where Britain's declining Empire and increasing panic over the 'problem' of homosexuality played a crucial role in the construction of an enduring myth of the theatre. By going back to primary sources and rigorously questioning all assumptions, Rebellato has rewritten the history of the Making of Modern British Drama.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203009991

1956 and All That - The Making of Modern British Drama (Paperback): Dan Rebellato 1956 and All That - The Making of Modern British Drama (Paperback)
Dan Rebellato
R1,174 Discovery Miles 11 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the "revolutionary" appearance of John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems?
In this bold and fascinating challenge to the received wisdom of the last forty years of theatrical history, Dan Rebellato uncovers a different story altogether. It is one where Britain's declining Empire and increasing panic over the "problem" of homosexuality played a crucial role in the construction of an enduring myth of the theatre. By going back to primary sources and rigorously questioning all assumptions, Rebellato has rewritten the history of the making of modern British drama.

Ben Jonson and Theatre - Performance, Practice and Theory (Hardcover): Richard Cave, Elizabeth Schafer, Brian Woolland Ben Jonson and Theatre - Performance, Practice and Theory (Hardcover)
Richard Cave, Elizabeth Schafer, Brian Woolland
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This text is an investigation and celebration of the Jonson canon from the point of view of the theatre practitioner as well as the teacher. Reflecting the increasing interest in the wider field of Renaissance drama, the book bridges the theory/practice divide by debating how Jonson's drama operates in performance and including discussions with and between practitioners. It includes: essays on Jonson on stage; Jonson in the classroom; Jonson and women; and edited transcripts of interviews with contemporary practitioners. Contributors include: Sam Mendes, Geoffrey Rush (Oscar winning actor), Colin Ellwood, Genista Macintosh and John Nettles. The aim of the title is to suggest new perspectives and new possibilities of engaging rewardingly with the drama of Ben Jonson.

Black South African Women - An Anthology of Plays (Hardcover): Kathy Perkins Black South African Women - An Anthology of Plays (Hardcover)
Kathy Perkins
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the lives of Black South African women. This collection represents the work of both female and male writers, including national and international award-winning playwrights. The collection includes six full-length and four one-act plays, as well as interviews with the writers, who candidly discuss the theatrical and political situation in the new South Africa. Written before and after apartheid, the plays present varying approaches and theatrical styles from solo performances to collective creations.
The plays dramatise issues as diverse as:
* women's rights
* displacement from home
* violence against women
* the struggle to keep families together
* racial identity
* education in the old and new South Africa
* and health care.

Cutting Plays for Performance - A Practical and Accessible Guide (Paperback): Toby Malone, Aili Huber Cutting Plays for Performance - A Practical and Accessible Guide (Paperback)
Toby Malone, Aili Huber
R1,000 Discovery Miles 10 000 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Cutting Plays for Performance offers a practical guide for cutting a wide variety of classical and modern plays. This essential text offers insight into the various reasons for cutting, methods to serve different purposes (time, audience, story), and suggests ways of communicating cuts to a production team. Dealing with every aspect of the editing process, it covers structural issues, such as plot beats, rhetorical concepts, and legal considerations, why and when to cut, how to cut with a particular goal in mind such as time constraints, audience and storytelling, and ways of communicating cuts to a production team. A set of practical worksheets to assist with the planning and execution of cuts, as well as step-by-step examples of the process from beginning to end in particular plays help to round out the full range of skills and techniques that are required when approaching this key theatre-making task. This is the first systematic guide for those who need to cut play texts. Directors, dramaturgs, and teachers at every level from students to seasoned professionals will find this an indispensable tool throughout their careers.

Two Comedies by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia - Oh, These Times! and The Siberian Shaman (Paperback): Lurana Donnels... Two Comedies by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia - Oh, These Times! and The Siberian Shaman (Paperback)
Lurana Donnels O'Malley
R1,167 Discovery Miles 11 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Catherine the Great (1729-1796) wrote over two dozen plays and operettas, but not until this edition has a complete translation of any of them been available to an English- speaking readership.
Oh, These Times (1772) is a satirical attack on many vices Catherine wished to root out from her society: religious hypocrisy, superstition and slander. The main character, Mrs. Pious, is a superficially religious old woman who resembles Moliere's Tartuffe.
Catherine again sets her sights on superstition in The Siberian Shaman (1786), this time by satirizing shamanism as a deceitful profession which preys on the gullible. This play was part of a group of three plays usually known as Catherine's "anti-masonic" trilogy, written as a warning against the growing influence of the freemasons.
In a comprehensive introduction, Lurana Donnels O'Malley relates the plays to Catherine's status and philosophy.

Dramatic Spaces - Scenography and Spectatorial Perceptions (Paperback): Jennifer Low Dramatic Spaces - Scenography and Spectatorial Perceptions (Paperback)
Jennifer Low
R1,213 Discovery Miles 12 130 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

For literary scholars, plays are texts; for scenographers, plays are performances. Yet clearly a drama is both text and performance. Dramatic Spaces examines period-specific stage spaces in order to assess how design shaped the thematic and experiential dimensions of plays. This book highlights the stakes of the debate about spatiality and the role of the spectator in the auditorium - if audience members are co-creators of the drama, how do they contribute? The book investigates: Roman comedy and Shakespearean dramas in which the stage-space itself constituted the primary scenographic element and actors' bodies shaped the playing space more than did sets or props the use of paid applauders in nineteenth-century Parisian theaters and how this practice reconfigured theatrical space transactions between stage designers and spectators, including work by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, William Ritman, and Eiko Ishioka Dramatic Spaces aims to do for stage design what reader-response criticism has done for the literary text, with specific case studies on Coriolanus, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Tales of Hoffman, M. Butterfly and Tiny Alice exploring the audience's contribution to the construction of meaning.

Renaissance Drama in Action (Hardcover): Martin White Renaissance Drama in Action (Hardcover)
Martin White
R3,923 Discovery Miles 39 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. This refreshingly accessible volume: * examines the history of the plays on the English stage from the seventeenth century to the present day * explores questions arising from reconstructions, with particular reference to the new Globe Theatre * includes interviews with, and draws on the work and experience of modern theatre practitioners including Harriet Walter, Matthew Warchus, Trevor Nunn, Stephen Jeffreys, Adrian Noble and Helen Mirren * includes discussions of familiar plays such as The Duchess of Malfi and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, as well as many lesser known play-texts Renaissance Drama in Action offers undergraduates and A-level students an invaluable guide to the characteristics of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and its relationship to contemporary theatre and staging.

Milestones in Asian American Theatre (Paperback): Josephine Lee Milestones in Asian American Theatre (Paperback)
Josephine Lee
R1,127 Discovery Miles 11 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An episodic account of the key trends, moments and emerging forms in the history of theatre by and about the Asian American population. Aimed at students on courses in Asian American theatre/performance on Theatre Studies and Performing Arts BA degrees. The only textbook on Asian American theatre, designed specifically for week-by-week classroom use.

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