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[A Collection of Programmes of Concerts Given at Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, 1884-1920] (Hardcover): Boston Symphony Orchestra [A Collection of Programmes of Concerts Given at Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, 1884-1920] (Hardcover)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
R1,077 Discovery Miles 10 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
War as Performance - Conflicts in Iraq and Political Theatricality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Lindsey Mantoan War as Performance - Conflicts in Iraq and Political Theatricality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Lindsey Mantoan
R2,258 Discovery Miles 22 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines performance in the context of the 2003 Iraq War and subsequent conflicts with Daesh, or the so-called Islamic State. Working within a theater and performance studies lens, it analyzes adaptations of Greek tragedy, documentary theater, political performances by the Bush administration, protest performances, satiric news television programs, and post-apocalyptic narratives in popular culture. By considering performance across genre and media, War as Performance offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of culture, warfare, and militarization, and argues that spectacular and banal aesthetics of contemporary war positions performance as a practice struggling to distance itself from appropriation by the military for violent ends. Contemporary warfare has infiltrated our narratives to such an extent that it holds performance hostage. As lines between the military and performance weaken, this book analyzes how performance responds to and potentially shapes war and conflict in the new century.

Robert Lepage's Scenographic Dramaturgy - The Aesthetic Signature at Work (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Melissa Poll Robert Lepage's Scenographic Dramaturgy - The Aesthetic Signature at Work (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Melissa Poll
R3,373 Discovery Miles 33 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book theorizes auteur Robert Lepage's scenography-based approach to adapting canonical texts. Lepage's technique is defined here as 'scenographic dramaturgy', a process and product that de-privileges dramatic text and relies instead on evocative, visual performance and intercultural collaboration to re-envision extant plays and operas. Following a detailed analysis of Lepage's adaptive process and its place in the continuum of scenic writing and auteur theatre, this book features four case studies charting the role of Lepage's scenographic dramaturgy in re-'writing' extant texts, including Shakespeare's Tempest on Huron-Wendat territory, Stravinsky's Nightingale in a twenty-seven ton pool, and Wagner's Ring cycle via the infamous, sixteen-million-dollar Metropolitan Opera production. The final case study offers the first interrogation of Lepage's twenty-first century 'auto-adaptations' of his own seminal texts, The Dragons' Trilogy and Needles & Opium. Though aimed at academic readers, this book will also appeal to practitioners given its focus on performance-making, adaptation and intercultural collaboration.

Entr'acte - Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture (Hardcover): J. Geiger Entr'acte - Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture (Hardcover)
J. Geiger
R1,324 R1,253 Discovery Miles 12 530 Save R71 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Generally taking place in front of closed curtains during set changes between acts, the entr'acte delivers a fleeting new purpose and event to the otherwise sometimes inert space between stage and pit. This collection employs the entr'acte as a model for conceptualizing emerging formations of publics and of public space.

The Meiningen Court Theatre 1866-1890 (Hardcover): John Osborne The Meiningen Court Theatre 1866-1890 (Hardcover)
John Osborne
R2,830 Discovery Miles 28 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the late nineteenth century a remarkable combination of circumstances and individual talents permitted the court theater of a small German state to become the theaterical sensation of its age.The Meiningen Court Theater developed into an international touring company under the leadership of Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen. The company became famous throughout Europe and was a source of inspiration to future directors of the modern theater such as Antoine, Brahm, and Stanislavsky. This book is based on a wide range of published and unpublished contemporary document, photographs, and sketches, many of which are reproduced here. Osborne provides a broad cultural-historical context for the emergence of the Meiningen company and describes in detail the style and staging of productions, as well as the personality and directorial method of the Duke himself. Two famous items in the company's repertoire, Julius Caesar and Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, are selected for pariticular attention.

Performing Menken - Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity (Hardcover, New): Renee M. Sentilles Performing Menken - Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity (Hardcover, New)
Renee M. Sentilles
R2,717 Discovery Miles 27 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study relates the experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to the culture of the Civil War period which significantly affected her life achievements. The book explores the roots of the cult of celebrity that emerged from the crucible of war, while discussing Menken's racial and ethnic claims and her performance in relationship to gender and sexuality. It focuses on the contemporary use of social categories to explain patterns in America's past and considers why such categories remain important.

Political Performance in Syria - From the Six-Day War to the Syrian Uprising (Hardcover): Edward Ziter Political Performance in Syria - From the Six-Day War to the Syrian Uprising (Hardcover)
Edward Ziter
R1,968 Discovery Miles 19 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Political Performance in Syria, charts the history of a theatre that has sought the expansion of civil society and imagined alternate political realities. In doing so, the manuscript situates the current use of performance and theatre by artists of the Syrian Revolution within a long history of political contestation.

Greek Tragedy on the American Stage - Ancient Drama in the Commercial Theater, 1882-1994 (Hardcover): Karelisa Hartigan Greek Tragedy on the American Stage - Ancient Drama in the Commercial Theater, 1882-1994 (Hardcover)
Karelisa Hartigan
R2,750 Discovery Miles 27 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the past century, the interpretation given by the various directors staging Greek drama has varied, and the critical reception accorded the productions has also altered. While the texts of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides remain constant, the meanings drawn from their plays do not. The director who decides to offer a Greek tragedy in the modern American commercial theater believes in the ability of the text to reach the contemporary audience, and the reviewers assess the success of the venture: their words become a record of both a particular performance and the time in which it played. Hartigan explores how drama and society interact and witnesses the continued vitality of the Greek tragedy.

Spalding Gray's America (Paperback): William Demastes Spalding Gray's America (Paperback)
William Demastes
R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Spalding Gray's (1941-2004) career in the theatre spanned one of the most dynamic periods of American history and culture. From the 1960s and into the 21st century, Gray took the stage and mesmerized his audiences with twisted and often hilarious tales about life in America and abroad."Spalding Gray's America" traces Gray's life from his work with the Performance and Wooster Groups to his career as a storyteller famously presenting captivating monologues in his signature plaid shirt while sitting behind a desk on an otherwise bare stage. His monologues include "Sex and Death to the Age 14", "Swimming to Cambodia", "Gray's Anatomy", "Monster in a Box", "It's a Slippery Slope", and "Morning, Noon and Night".Gray's stories provide a quirky, full-color portrait of America in the last half of what has been famously labeled 'the American century'. They are poignant, touching, and often troubling, but they're also vividly insightful and invariably funny.

Body and Language - Intercultural Learning Through Drama (Hardcover): Gerd Brauer Body and Language - Intercultural Learning Through Drama (Hardcover)
Gerd Brauer
R2,778 Discovery Miles 27 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Highlights the bridging character of drama-based foreign and second language teaching for intercultural learning. Drama here is not limited to theater-related work, but means the interplay between body and language in general, to include, for example, sports, dancing, singing, and storytelling. The major techniques and curricular structures of educational drama and its application in the foreign and second language classroom are introduced. What are the techniques, methods, strategies, and curricular structures that engage language learners in continuing dialogue between one's own culture and the one yet to be discovered? What comprises the language we speak in order to understand and be understood? Which body is it we communicate through and to? This volume answers these and other questions of the pedagogy of drama-based teaching across the foreign/second language curriculum and on all levels of the educational pyramid. There are two major issues currently discussed in drama-based foreign and second language methodology. The first is goal-oriented, asking whether the acquisition of accuracy or fluency is more important, and whether a controlled (learning through imitation) or an open (through improvisation) learning environment is more efficient. The second issue concerns using drama in language teaching: either its use is process-oriented, where drama becomes an immediate medium for language learning, or product-oriented, where it becomes primarily the reason for language learning. The book outlines the theoretical frameworks of both issues and introduces personal narrative, comparative observation, and analytical reflection, illuminating opportunities for learning at both ends of the seemingly contradictory poles of both issues.

Prison Shakespeare and the Purpose of Performance: Repentance Rituals and the Early Modern (Hardcover): N. Herold Prison Shakespeare and the Purpose of Performance: Repentance Rituals and the Early Modern (Hardcover)
N. Herold
R1,858 Discovery Miles 18 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Over the last decade a number of prison theatre programs have developed to rehabilitate inmates by having them perform Shakespearean adaptations. This book focuses on how prison theatre today reveals certain elements of the early modern theatre that were themselves responses to cataclysmic changes in theological doctrine and religious practice.

Daughters of God - Biblical Monologues for Women (Hardcover): Wanda Wallin Bristow Daughters of God - Biblical Monologues for Women (Hardcover)
Wanda Wallin Bristow
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Performing Statecraft - The Postdiplomatic Theatre of Sovereigns, Citizens, and States (Hardcover): James R Ball Performing Statecraft - The Postdiplomatic Theatre of Sovereigns, Citizens, and States (Hardcover)
James R Ball; Series edited by Anja Hartl, William C. Boles
R3,195 Discovery Miles 31 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The crafts of governance and diplomacy are spectacular, theatrical, and performative. Performing Statecraft investigates the performances of states, their leaders, and their citizens on an expanded field of the global arts of statecraft to consider the role of performance in the domestic and international affairs of states, and the interventions into global politics by artists, scholars, and activists. Treating theatre as both an art form and a practice of political actors, this book draws together scholarship on the embodied dimensions of governance, the stagecraft of revolution, arts activism on the world stage, sports performance by heads of state, the performativity of national dress, speechmaking and colonialism, war and medicine, singing diplomats, indigenous sovereignties, and performed nationalisms. It brings the perspective and methods of performance studies to bear on global politics, offering exciting new insights into encounters between states, sovereigns, and people. Whether one is watching a campaign speech, a nightly news broadcast, a sacred dance, or a play about global conflict, these chapters make clear the importance of performance as a tool wielded by amateurs and professionals to articulate the nation in global spaces.

The Literary Manager's Toolkit - A Practical Guide for the Theatre (Paperback): Sue Healy The Literary Manager's Toolkit - A Practical Guide for the Theatre (Paperback)
Sue Healy
R1,053 Discovery Miles 10 530 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A complete guide for professional and aspiring literary managers. Written for the professional market of literary managers and dramaturgs, as well as university students of directing and dramaturgy. Stands out from other books in this area with its clear, step-by-step focus on all aspects of the profession.

Contemporary Theatre Education and Creative Learning - A Great British Journey (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Mark Crossley Contemporary Theatre Education and Creative Learning - A Great British Journey (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Mark Crossley
R3,137 Discovery Miles 31 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book considers the state of contemporary theatre education in Great Britain is in two parts. The first half considers the national identities of each of the three mainland nations of England, Scotland, and Wales to understand how these differing identities are reflected and refracted through culture, theatre education and creative learning. The second half attends to 21st century theatre education, proposing a more explicit correlation between contemporary theatre and theatre education. It considers how theatre education in the country has arrived at its current state and why it is often marginalised in national discourse. Attention is given to some of the most significant developments in contemporary theatre education across the three nations, reflecting on how such practice is informed by and offers a challenge to conceptions of place and nation. Drawing upon the latest research and strategic thinking in culture and the arts, and providing over thirty interviews and practitioner case studies, this book is infused with a rigorous and detailed analysis of theatre education, and illuminated by the voices and perspectives of innovative theatre practitioners.

Harold Pinter and the New British Theatre (Hardcover, New): D.Keith Peacock Harold Pinter and the New British Theatre (Hardcover, New)
D.Keith Peacock
R2,786 Discovery Miles 27 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Harold Pinter is universally described as "Britain's leading dramatist." This book evaluates the justification for this appellation. It examines his work in relation to changes taking place in the New British Theatre after the so-called theatrical revolution of 1956, and draws attention to those autobiographical experiences that have been transmuted into his art. Beginning with a look at the nature of British theatre prior to 1956, Peacock then describes Pinter's early life in the East End of London, his career as an actor, and his early writing. The discussion follows Pinter's life and work from The Room in 1957 to his most recent play, Ashes to Ashes in 1996. The author argues that although Pinter has not instigated an aesthetic revolution, he has, more significantly, through his representation of human behavior, provoked a new way of viewing the world.

Broadway Talks - What Professionals Think About Commercial Theater in America (Hardcover, New): Arvid Sponberg Broadway Talks - What Professionals Think About Commercial Theater in America (Hardcover, New)
Arvid Sponberg
R2,781 Discovery Miles 27 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, Arvid F. Sponberg provides a view of what some of the most important people in the commercial theater think about the state of their business. With one exception, none of those interviewed has ever before had an extended opportunity to discuss, for the record, the nature of their work. The volume treats the reader to a comprehensive view of American commercial theater and how it operates. It documents the thoughts of twenty people who are currently making their living in the commercial theater, exploring aspects of their work usually ignored by the media. Those interviewed made comments on four broad topics: their personal background and key experiences in the theater; their views on the present state of financing, production, writing, casting, directing and designing; their insights into day-to-day theatrical management; and their opinions on proposed changes in theatrical practices. Their words show that it has taken enormous amounts of talent and work to preserve commercial theater from destruction by internal and external economic forces and political neglect. This book will surely receive wide acclaim from all scholars of drama and theater, all members of the theatrical professions, and especially playgoers and lovers of theater.

Heroin, Acting, and Comedy in New York City (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Barry Spunt Heroin, Acting, and Comedy in New York City (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Barry Spunt
R3,993 Discovery Miles 39 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on New York City-based actors and comedians who are self-acknowledged heroin users. Barry Spunt examines a number of hypotheses about the reasons why actors and comedians use heroin as well as the impact of heroin on performance, creativity, and career trajectory. A primary concern of the book is the role that subculture and identity play in helping us to understand the heroin use of these entertainers. Spunt captures the voices of actors and comedians through narrative accounts from a variety of secondary sources. He also examines how New York-based films about heroin relate to the major themes of his research.

Echo and Meaning on Early Modern English Stages (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Susan Anderson Echo and Meaning on Early Modern English Stages (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Susan Anderson
R2,016 Discovery Miles 20 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the trope of echo in early modern literature and drama, exploring the musical, sonic, and verbal effects generated by forms of repetition on stage and in print. Focusing on examples where Echo herself appears as a character, this study shows how echoic techniques permeated literary, dramatic, and musical performance in the period, and puts forward echo as a model for engaging with sounds and texts from the past. Starting with sixteenth century translations of myths of Echo from Ovid and Longus, the book moves through the uses of echo in Elizabethan progress entertainments, commercial and court drama, Jacobean court masques, and prose romance. It places the work of well-known dramatists, such as Ben Jonson and John Webster, in the context of broader cultures of performance. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of early modern drama, music, and dance.

Black Comedy: 9 Plays - A Critical Anthology with Interviews and Essays (Paperback, New): Various Authors Black Comedy: 9 Plays - A Critical Anthology with Interviews and Essays (Paperback, New)
Various Authors
R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This first-of-its kind collection includes a wide range of works, from an early examination and critique of American society after World War II to plays that reflect socio-political concerns that kept pace with historical events, like the sit-in demonstrations, the bus boycotts, black nationalism, and the women's liberation movement. A hybrid of comedic forms including satire, farce, comedy of manners, romantic comedy, dark comedy, and tragicomedy are presented through vernacular language, stand-up performance art, masks, broad humor, as well as the minstrel show. Essays, articles and interviews complement this critical edition.

Controversy in French Drama - Moliere's Tartuffe and the Struggle for Influence (Hardcover): J Prest Controversy in French Drama - Moliere's Tartuffe and the Struggle for Influence (Hardcover)
J Prest
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1664, Moliere's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of the five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important new light on 1660s France and the ancien regime more broadly. By drawing on theatrical and non-theatrical writings (including contemporary sermons, treatises, and memoirs), it changes the terms of the debate by challenging received notions regarding the opposition between the sincere believer (vrai devot) and the hypocrite (faux devot). "Tartuffe" was a key locus for the struggle for influence among competing political and religious factions during the early reign of Louis XIV, and the lifting of the ban in 1669 is understood as an act of political assertion on the part of an increasingly confident king.

The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy (Hardcover): C.W. Marshall The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy (Hardcover)
C.W. Marshall
R2,715 Discovery Miles 27 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A comprehensive survey of Roman theatrical production, this book examines all aspects of Roman performance practice, and provides fresh insights on the comedies of Plautus and Terence. Following an introductory chapter on the experience of Roman comedy from the perspective of Roman actors and the Roman audience, addressing among other things the economic concerns of putting on a play in the Roman republic, subsequent chapters provide detailed studies of troupe size and the implications for role assignment, masks, stage action, music, and improvisation in the plays of Plautus and Terence. Marshall argues that Roman comedy was raw comedy, much more rough-and-ready than its Hellenistic precursors, but still fully conscious of its literary past. The consequences of this lead to fresh conclusions concerning the dramatic structure of Roman comedy, and a clearer understanding of the relationship between the plays-as-text and the role of improvisation during performance.

The Challenge of World Theatre History (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Steve Tillis The Challenge of World Theatre History (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Steve Tillis
R2,900 Discovery Miles 29 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The future of theatre history studies requires consideration of theatre as a global phenomenon. The Challenge of World Theatre History offers the first full-scale argument for abandoning an obsolete and parochial Eurocentric approach to theatre history in favor of a more global perspective. This book exposes the fallacies that reinforce the conventional approach and defends the global perspective against possible objections. It moves beyond the conventional nation-based geography of theatre in favor of a regional geography and develops a new way to demarcate the periods of theatre history. Finally, the book outlines a history that recognizes the often-connected developments in theatre across Eurasia and around the world. It makes the case that world theatre history is necessary not only for itself, but for the powerful comparative and contextual insights it offers to all theatre scholars and students, whatever their special areas of interest.

The Late Wedding (Paperback): Christopher Chen The Late Wedding (Paperback)
Christopher Chen
R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Inspired by the writings of Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler), The Late Wedding is a fractured portrait of a fractured marriage, as told through a series of interconnected fables, including an anthropological tour of fantastical tribes and their marital customs. Christopher Chen's winking second-person narrative, delivered by a six-person shape-shifting cast, deftly guides you on a wild and delightful examination of love and longing. At once an anthropological tour through marriage customs, a spy thriller, and a sci-fi love story, the mind-bending The Late Wedding is an inventive and surprising theatrical experience. "Wild, witty... contemplative and poignant... you gotta see this funny, brilliant play." - San Francisco Examiner "A seductive play... a fascinating little gem... a script about the mystery and challenges of love, in all its permutations. The play is a provocative one-act composed with a unique theatrical structure... a swirling nebula of magical notions put down in a contemporary world." - DC Metro Theatre Arts "A comic, dramatic inquiry into human relationships - between lovers or spouses; between playwright and audience - [The Late Wedding] is another of Chen's slyly metatheatrical, blissfully funny, whiplash-smart creations... What begins as a look at anthropological research into the marital arrangements and lore of a few odd tribes segues without warning into a political drama cum action thriller." - SF Gate "Bold and brainy... As The Late Wedding dips in and out of such genres as the spy caper and science fiction... it blurs the boundaries between its two strands of Calvino homage, so that the genre-sampling meta-theater begins to reflect on the bittersweet realities of marriage." - The Washington Post "[The Late Wedding] is about the vagaries of love and marriage, both homo- and heterosexual, and the way that we both cherish and distort the past, and about the creative process itself... you gotta see this funny, brilliant play." - San Francisco Examiner

Queer Dramaturgies - International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Alyson Campbell,... Queer Dramaturgies - International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Alyson Campbell, Stephen Farrier
R3,104 Discovery Miles 31 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This international collection of essays forms a vibrant picture of the scope and diversity of contemporary queer performance. Ranging across cabaret, performance art, the performativity of film, drag and script-based theatre it unravels the dynamic relationship performance has with queerness as it is presented in local and transnational contexts.

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