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Theatre and Aural Attention - Stretching Ourselves (Hardcover): George Home-Cook Theatre and Aural Attention - Stretching Ourselves (Hardcover)
George Home-Cook
R3,529 Discovery Miles 35 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Theatre and Aural Attention investigates what it is to attend theatre by means of listening. Focusing on four core aural phenomena in theatre - noise, designed sound, silence, and immersion - George Home-Cook concludes that theatrical listening involves paying attention to atmospheres.

Embodied Performances - Sexuality, Gender, Bodies (Hardcover, New): B. Allegranti Embodied Performances - Sexuality, Gender, Bodies (Hardcover, New)
B. Allegranti
R1,878 Discovery Miles 18 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and critique of embodiment through an integration of performance, psychotherapy and feminist philosophy.

Patty Duke - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover): Stephen L. Eberly Patty Duke - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover)
Stephen L. Eberly
R3,079 R2,684 Discovery Miles 26 840 Save R395 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Patty Duke is one of the few former child actors who has survived the transition from child to adolescent to adult and gone on to greater fame and success in her adult years. Academy Award-winner, television comedy series star, talk-show hostess, author, and aspiring director, this multi-talented actress has become an entertainment industry phenomenon. Researchers as well as film, television, and theater buffs will be interested in Stephen Eberly's research guide, which presents a biography of Patty Duke together with complete and detailed listings of her television, movie, and stage appearances; awards; and recordings.

Modernization of Asian Theatres - Process and Tradition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Yasushi Nagata, Ravi Chaturvedi Modernization of Asian Theatres - Process and Tradition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Yasushi Nagata, Ravi Chaturvedi
R3,671 Discovery Miles 36 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume focuses on the theatre history of Asian countries, and discusses the specific context of theatre modernization in Asia. While Asian theatre is one of the primary interests within theatre scholarship in the world today, knowledge of Asian theatre history is very limited and often surprisingly incorrect. Therefore, this volume addresses a major gap in contemporary theatre studies. The volume discusses the conflict between tradition and modernity in theatre, suggesting that the problems of modernity are closely related to the idea of tradition. Although Asian countries preserved the traditional form and values of their respective theatres, they had to also confront the newly introduced values or mechanisms of European modernity. Several papers in this volume therefore provide critical surveys of the history of theatre modernization in Asian countries or regions-Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India Malaysia, Singapore, and Uyghur. Other papers focus on specific case studies of the history of modernization, discussing contemporary Taiwanese performances, translations of modern French comedy into Chinese, the modernization of Chinese Xiqu, modern Okinawan plays, Malaysian traditional performances, Korean national theatre, and Japanese plays during World War II. Renowned academics and theatre critics have contributed to this volume, making it a valuable resource for researchers and students of theatre studies, literature, and cultural studies.

Theatre Scandals - Social Dynamics of Turbulent Theatrical Events (Hardcover): Vicki Ann Cremona, Peter Eversmann, Bess Rowen,... Theatre Scandals - Social Dynamics of Turbulent Theatrical Events (Hardcover)
Vicki Ann Cremona, Peter Eversmann, Bess Rowen, Anneli Saro, Henri Schoenmakers
R4,369 Discovery Miles 43 690 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Since the beginning of theatre history, scandals have taken place and the variety of causes, processes and types of interactions makes them an interesting object of study. Theatre scandals often indicate clashes with a dominant ideology or with the ideology of a particular group in society. Sometimes, following a scandal, the attacked ideology changes and incorporates the possibility of the aesthetics or themes that caused the clash. In this way, scandals can cause dynamic changes within cultural systems. Next to theoretical considerations the contributors, all members of the IFTR Theatrical Event Working Group, present in their various case studies a wide cultural and chronological diversity of theatre scandals, all of which were experienced as very shocking moments in theatre history.

Lillian Russell - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Anne A. Bowbeer, Donald R. Schwartz Lillian Russell - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Anne A. Bowbeer, Donald R. Schwartz
R2,447 R2,221 Discovery Miles 22 210 Save R226 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Lillian Russell was the Victorian era's symbol of talent, charm, and beauty. She was introduced by impresario Tony Pastor in 1880, and was considered an emblem of feminine beauty until the turn of the century. Although her voice still set a standard of excellence, by that time America's vision of loveliness had changed, and her middle-aged body could not meet the new challenge on the musical stage. Russell responded with extraordinary resilience. She adapted with the times and became the Igrande dameR of the American theatre in non-musical plays, burlesque, variety, and the lecture circuit. She wrote widely-read newspaper columns in which she pioneered an optimistic philosophy of self-help, and she used her numerous connections to champion the causes that she held dear.

Carefully researched, this reference book is a comprehensive and thoroughly documented guide to Lillian Russell's life and career. A biography places her in the social and cultural context of her time and adds previously ignored information about her parents, birth, coming-of-age in the Midwest, early career, daughter, and death. A chronology then gives a detailed listing of events in her life and career. The chapters that follow are devoted to her many performances. Entries in each section provide cast and credit information, plot synopses, review excerpts, and critical commentary. Several appendices offer additional information about her work, and an extensive annotated bibliography lists sources of additional information.

Strindberg and the Quest for Sacred Theatre (Paperback): Theo Malekin Strindberg and the Quest for Sacred Theatre (Paperback)
Theo Malekin
R1,872 Discovery Miles 18 720 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"Strindberg and the Quest for Sacred Theatre" brings a fresh perspective to the study of Sweden's great playwright. August Strindberg (1849-1912) anticipated most of the major developments in European theatre over the last century. As such he is well-placed to provide perspectives on the current burgeoning interest in sacred theatre. The religious crises of the 19th Century provoked in Strindberg both sharp scepticism about claims to religious authority and a visionary search for truth. Against the backdrop of a major change in European culture this book traces the emergence in some of Strindberg's late plays of a proto-sacred-theatre. It argues that Strindberg faced the alternatives of a contentless transcendent abyss, threatening the extinction of his ego, or a retreat into conservative theism, reducing him to slavish submission to the commandments and rule of an external father-God. Weaving together theatrical, aesthetic, and theological voices, this book investigates the relationship of the sacred to subjectivity and its implications for Strindberg's dramaturgy. In doing so it always keeps in view the sense both of loss and opportunity engendered by a turning point in the western experience of the sacred.

Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film - Agents of Vengeance (Hardcover): Eric Dodson Robinson Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film - Agents of Vengeance (Hardcover)
Eric Dodson Robinson
R3,981 Discovery Miles 39 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Eric Dodson-Robinson's Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film challenges critical readings of drama, film, and literature that downplay agency. From Attic tragedy, through Seneca and Shakespeare, and into Japanese and Korean film, the book pursues the agent of vengeance in her fury to reconstruct an identity shattered by trauma. Tragic revenge is an imaginary theater only partly encompassed by disciplines, institutions, and discourses. In this theater, violence becomes contagious and potentially transformative as performance gives birth to the agent of vengeance: a complex, emergent agent who is more than the sum of the actors, auteur, tradition, and audience, all of whom infiltrate, and strive to control, her will. The agent of vengeance, determined to outdo past exemplars, exacts traumatic excess, not equivalence.

Staging the Impossible - The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Patrick Dennis Murphy Staging the Impossible - The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Patrick Dennis Murphy
R2,805 R2,539 Discovery Miles 25 390 Save R266 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Staging the Impossible explores the most recent critical thinking on the relationship between the literary mode of the fantastic and the literary genre of drama with respect to modern theatre. While a few monographs treat a particular dimension of the fantastic in drama, the Gothic or the fairy tale for instance, no other volume provides a critically sophisticated introduction to the diversity of fantastic drama written and performed in this century. The essays here lay to rest the illusion that realism is the only genuine form of theatrical expression and the notion that cinema special effects have rendered science fiction and the stage incompatible. Competing with the realism of the first half of the twentieth century and the "new realism" of the second half have been a range of successful theatrical repertoire, including the absurd, the horrific, the supernatural, the mythic, the dream-vision quest, the postmodern, the hyper-realistic, and the science fictional. Wide ranging in time and space, this volume comprises fourteen essays on the fantastic on the modern stage, assessing dramatic works from the United States, Ireland, England, Western Europe, and the Caribbean. Canonical figures, such as Strindberg, Yeats, Beckett, Ionesco, Cocteau, and Stoppard are studied, along with neglected figures, such as Wassily Kandinsky, better known as an expressionist painter, and Halper Leivick, author of the Yiddish play The Golem, and innovative new performance troupes and individual artists, such as Squat Theatre and Spalding Gray. Concluding essays are devoted to contemporary experimental theatre and postmodern drama. A study of science fiction on stage includes an annotated listing of fortyEnglish-language plays. Concerned with the interstice of theatre and the fantastic, this work will be valuable to students and scholars of both, of genre studies, and of contemporary literature in general.

Menander 'Misoumenos' or 'The Hated Man' 2021 - Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover):... Menander 'Misoumenos' or 'The Hated Man' 2021 - Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
William D. Furley
R2,233 Discovery Miles 22 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R1,050 Discovery Miles 10 500 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.

Theatrical Designers - An International Biographical Dictionary (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Thomas Mikotowicz Theatrical Designers - An International Biographical Dictionary (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Thomas Mikotowicz
R2,457 R2,231 Discovery Miles 22 310 Save R226 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides biographical and analytical data on significant historical and contemporary practitioners and theorists of the theatrical design field who have contributed to the development of the art. Beginning with a historical survey on the evolution of theatrical design, the volume features entries on some 270 set, costume, lighting, and theatre building designers, mainly dating from the fifteenth century to the present. Coverage is international, with a necessary emphasis on the United States and Western Europe.

Essays of varying length describe and evaluate the career and contributions of each designer, providing information on positions, productions, and awards and generally ending with sources for further reading. Particularly valuable are the detailed chronological listings of design credits given as available, mainly for prominent twentieth century figures. Appendixes to the volume list the designers chronologically by birth date and also by country of birth. The volume ends with an annotated general bibliography on theatre design and designers and an index. The only reference book specifically dedicated to theatrical designers, its coverage will significantly extend the information contained in more general works on theatre presently available for library research.

John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre (Hardcover): K. Newey, J. Richards John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre (Hardcover)
K. Newey, J. Richards
R1,410 Discovery Miles 14 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This the first sustained study of the interest of John Ruskin in the theatre of his time. It examines Ruskin's active engagement with and influence on the Victorian popular theatre. Ruskin was an enthusiastic and catholic theatre-goer, enjoying pantomime as much as Shakespeare. Through the lens of Ruskin's discussions of pantomime, melodrama, Shakespearean tragedy, and painting and the stage, Newey and Richards offer a new view of the late Victorian stage focusing on London's West End in its heyday.

The Rise of Performance Studies - Rethinking Richard Schechner's Broad Spectrum (Hardcover): J. Harding, C. Rosenthal The Rise of Performance Studies - Rethinking Richard Schechner's Broad Spectrum (Hardcover)
J. Harding, C. Rosenthal
R1,420 Discovery Miles 14 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that define Performance Studies. The Rise of Performance Studies is the first collection of essays to critically examine the profound contributions that Schechner has made to Performance Studies as a discipline.

Dramaturgy - An Introduction (Paperback): Cock Dieleman, Ricarda Franzen, Veronika Zangl, Henk Danner Dramaturgy - An Introduction (Paperback)
Cock Dieleman, Ricarda Franzen, Veronika Zangl, Henk Danner
R837 Discovery Miles 8 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The image of the dramaturg resembling a stuffy librarian, as opposed to the largely intuitive process of theatre making, belongs to the past. Contemporary theatre performances not only tell a story, but constantly reflect on the world in which that story takes place and is shown. As a result, dramaturgy has become part of the artistic process. Thus everybody involved in a theatre production is concerned with dramaturgical thinking, i.e. how to relate to material, process, audience and society. The dramaturg crosses borders between theory and practice, between theatre makers, performance and audience. Dramaturgy. An Introduction provides a broad overview of the concept of dramaturgy and the profession of the dramaturg. It is intended for students and teachers of theatre and performance studies, but also for directors, scenographers, actors and for all lovers of theatre. Click here for the Dutch edition: Inleiding in de dramaturgie.

Stage Lives - A Bibliography and Index to Theatrical Biographies in English (Hardcover): George B. Bryan Stage Lives - A Bibliography and Index to Theatrical Biographies in English (Hardcover)
George B. Bryan
R2,455 R2,229 Discovery Miles 22 290 Save R226 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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The Scruffy Scoundrels - A New English Translation of "Gli Straccioni" in a Dual-Language Edition (Hardcover): Annibal Caro The Scruffy Scoundrels - A New English Translation of "Gli Straccioni" in a Dual-Language Edition (Hardcover)
Annibal Caro; Translated by Donald Beecher, Massimo Ciavolella
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Frankenstein (Hardcover): A. S. Peterson Frankenstein (Hardcover)
A. S. Peterson
R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Devising Performance - A Critical History (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Jane Milling, Deirdre Heddon Devising Performance - A Critical History (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Jane Milling, Deirdre Heddon
R2,857 Discovery Miles 28 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is the history of devised theatre? Why have theatre-makers, since the 1950s, chosen to devise performances? What different sorts of devising practices are there? What are the myths attached to devising, and what are the realities? First published in 2005, Devising Performance remains the only book to offer the reader a history of devising practice. Charting the development of collaboratively created performances from the 1950s to the early 21st century, it presents a range of case studies drawn from Britain, America and Australia. Companies discussed include The Living Theatre, Open Theatre, Australian Performing Group, People Show, Teatro Campesino, Theatre de Complicite, Legs on the Wall, Forced Entertainment, Goat Island and Graeae. Providing a history of devising practice, Deirdre Heddon and Jane Milling encourage us to look more carefully at the different modes of devising and to consider the implications of our use of these practices in the 21st century.

Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi (Hardcover): Xiaohuan Zhao Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi (Hardcover)
Xiaohuan Zhao
R8,948 Discovery Miles 89 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi is the first book in any language entirely devoted to a historical inquiry into Chinese theatre through Nuoxi and Mulianxi, the two most representative and predominant forms of Chinese temple theatre. This is an interdisciplinary book project that is aimed to help researchers and students of theatre history understand the ritual origins of Chinese theatre and the dynamic relationships among myth, ritual, religion, and theatre.

August Wilson's Fences (Hardcover): Ladrica Menson-Furr August Wilson's Fences (Hardcover)
Ladrica Menson-Furr
R3,968 Discovery Miles 39 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a guide to the political and historical context of the 1950s and to the African American cultural context.August Wilson is generally acknowledged to be the most respected African American playwright. His cycle of plays spanning the decades of the twentieth century have been profoundly influential in the American theatre, and highly acclaimed. "Fences" represents the decade of the 1950s and when it premiered in 1985 it won the Pulitzer Prize. Set during the beginnings of the civil rights movement, it also concerns generational change and renewal, ending with a celebration of the life of its protagonist, even though it takes place at his funeral. Critics and scholars have lauded August Wilson's work for its universality and its ability, especially in Fences, to transcend racial barriers and earned him the titles of "America's greatest playwright" and "African American Shakespeare." The guide provides a comprehensive critical introduction to "Fences", giving students an overview of the background and context, including detailed analysis of the play, including its structure, style and characters; analysis of key production issues and choices; overview of the performance history from the first performances in 1985 to more recent productions; and an annotated guide to further reading highlighting key critical approaches."Continuum Modern Theatre Guides" offer concise, accessible and informed introductions to the key plays of modern times. Each book is carefully structured to offer a systematic study of the play in its biographical, historical, social and political context, an in-depth study of the text, an overview of the work's production history including screen adaptations, and practical work-shopping exercises. They also include a timeline and suggestions for further reading which highlight key critical approaches. This will enable students to develop their understanding of playwrights and theatre-makers, as well as inspiring them to broaden their studies.

Spectral Shakespeares - Media Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover): M. Calbi Spectral Shakespeares - Media Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
M. Calbi
R1,837 Discovery Miles 18 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derrida's work, this book argues that these adaptations foreground a cluster of self-reflexive "themes" - from incorporation to reiteration, from migration to addiction, from silence to survival - that contribute to the redefinition of adaptation, and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, as an unfinished and interminable process. The "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary, mediatized, and heterogeneous presence, a spectral Shakespeare that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape.

Performing Bodies in Pain - Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists (Hardcover): M Carlson Performing Bodies in Pain - Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists (Hardcover)
M Carlson
R2,292 R1,818 Discovery Miles 18 180 Save R474 (21%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The urgent debate about torture in public discourse of the twenty-first century thrusts pain into the foreground while research in neuroscience is transforming our understanding of this fundamental human experience. In late-medieval France, a country devastated by the Black Death, torn by civil strife, and strained by the Hundred Year's War with England, the notion of pain shifted within the conceptual frameworks provided by theology and medicine. Performing Bodies in Pain analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering during these two periods, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.

Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture (Hardcover): Sara Brady, Fintan Walsh Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture (Hardcover)
Sara Brady, Fintan Walsh
R1,414 Discovery Miles 14 140 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The highly performative categories of 'Irish culture' and 'Irishness' are in need of critical address, prompted by recent changes in Irish society, the arts industry and modes of critical inquiry. This book broaches this task by considering Irish expressive culture through some of the paradigms and vocabularies offered by performance studies.

Irish Theatre in Transition - From the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century (Hardcover): D. Morse Irish Theatre in Transition - From the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
D. Morse
R1,866 Discovery Miles 18 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Irish Theatre in Transition explores the ever-changing Irish Theatre from its inception to its vibrant modern-day reality. This book shows some of the myriad forms of transition and how Irish theatre reflects the changing conditions of a changing society and nation.

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