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The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608 - Pedagogue, Playwrights, Playbooks, and... The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608 - Pedagogue, Playwrights, Playbooks, and Play-boys (Paperback)
Jeanne McCarthy
R1,381 Discovery Miles 13 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608 uncovers the role of the children's companies in transforming perceptions of authorship and publishing, performance, playing spaces, patronage, actor training, and gender politics in the sixteenth century. Jeanne McCarthy challenges entrenched narratives about popular playing in an era of revolutionary changes, revealing the importance of the children's company tradition's connection with many early plays, as well as to the spread of literacy, classicism, and literate ideals of drama, plot, textual fidelity, characterization, and acting in a still largely oral popular culture. By addressing developments from the hyper-literate school tradition, and integrating discussion of the children's troupes into the critical conversation around popular playing practices, McCarthy offers a nuanced account of the play-centered, literary performance tradition that came to define professional theater in this period. Highlighting the significant role of the children's company tradition in sixteenth-century performance culture, this volume offers a bold new narrative of the emergence of the London theater.

Shakespeare on European Festival Stages (Hardcover): Nicoleta Cinpoes, Florence March, Paul Prescott Shakespeare on European Festival Stages (Hardcover)
Nicoleta Cinpoes, Florence March, Paul Prescott
R2,860 Discovery Miles 28 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the aftermath of World War II to the convulsions of Brexit, festivals have deployed Shakespeare as a model of inclusive and progressive theatre to seek cultural solutions to Europe's multi-faceted crises. Shakespeare on European Festival Stages is the first book to chart Shakespeare's presence at continental European festivals. It examines the role these festivals play in European socio-cultural exchanges, and the impact festivals make on the wider production and circulation of staged Shakespeare across the continent. This collection offers authoritative, lively and informed accounts of the production of Shakespeare at the following festivals: the Avignon Festival and Le Printemps des comediens in Montpellier (France), the Almagro festival (Spain), Shakespeare at Four Castles (Czech Republic and Slovakia), the International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova (Romania), the Shakespeare festivals in Elsinore (Denmark), Gdansk (Poland), Gyula (Hungary), Itaka (Serbia), Neuss (Germany), Patalenitsa (Bulgaria), Rome and Verona (Italy). Shakespeare on European Festival Stages is essential reading for students, scholars and practitioners interested in Shakespeare in performance, in translation and in a post-national Shakespeare that knows no borders and belongs to all of Europe.

Rogue Performances - Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture (Hardcover): P. Reed Rogue Performances - Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture (Hardcover)
P. Reed
R1,308 R1,088 Discovery Miles 10 880 Save R220 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Rogue Performances "recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture's fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. Highwaymen, thieves, beggars, rioting mobs, rebellious slaves, and mutineers dominated the stage in the period's most popular plays. Peter Reed also explores ways these characters helped to popularize theatrical forms such as ballad opera, patriotic spectacle, blackface minstrelsy, and melodrama. Reed shows how both on and offstage, these paradoxically powerful, persistent, and troubling figures reveal the contradictions of class and the force of the disempowered in the American theatrical imagination. Through analysis of both well known and lesser known plays and extensive archival research, this book challenges scholars to re-think their assumptions about the role of class in antebellum American drama.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Hardcover): Kathleen F Leary, Amy E Richard, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Hardcover)
Kathleen F Leary, Amy E Richard, Oregon Shakespeare Festival
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Female Bodies on the American Stage - Enter Fat Actress (Hardcover): J. Mobley Female Bodies on the American Stage - Enter Fat Actress (Hardcover)
J. Mobley
R1,949 Discovery Miles 19 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress's body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance.

Stages - Of Life in Theatre, Film and Television (Paperback, New Ed): Norman Lloyd Stages - Of Life in Theatre, Film and Television (Paperback, New Ed)
Norman Lloyd
R469 Discovery Miles 4 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

(Limelight). "Reading like a who's who of Broadway and Hollywood... this] is a valuable piece of theatrical history...Lloyd is a self-effacing, articulate actor-director-producer whose stories are as insightful as they are warm and often humorous." Choice

Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre - Spectral Genealogies and Absent Faces (Hardcover): Evan Darwin Winet Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre - Spectral Genealogies and Absent Faces (Hardcover)
Evan Darwin Winet
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre explores modern theatrical practices in Indonesia from a performance of Hamlet in the warehouses of Dutch Batavia to Ratna Sarumpaet's feminist Muslim Antigones. The book reveals patterns linking the colonial to the postcolonial eras that often conflict with the historical narratives of Indonesian nationalism.

The Doctor (Paperback): Robert Icke The Doctor (Paperback)
Robert Icke
R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

First, do no harm. How do we defend the "truth" when no one agrees what it is and many have reason to undermine it? Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke's gripping moral thriller uses the lens of medical ethics to examine urgent questions of faith, belief, and scientific rationality. After a critically acclaimed run at London's Almeida Theatre, The Doctor transferred to the West End in September 2022. This revised and updated edition was published to coincide with the new production.

Justice Performed - Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law (Hardcover): Sarah Kozinn Justice Performed - Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law (Hardcover)
Sarah Kozinn
R4,234 Discovery Miles 42 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Justice Performed: Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law" is the first study of the reality TV genre to trace its theatrical legacy, connecting the phenomenon of the daytime TV shows to a long history of theatrical trials staged to educate audiences in pedagogies of citizenship. It examines how judge TV fulfills part of law's performative function: that of providing a participatory spectacle the public can recognize as justice. Since it debuted in 1981 with "The People's Court," which made famous its star jurist, Judge Joseph A. Wapner, dozens of judges have made the move to television. Unlike the demographics in actual courts, most TV judges are non-white men and women hailing from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds. These judges charge their decisions with personal preferences and cultural innuendos, painting a very different picture of what justice looks like. Drawing on interviews with judge TV judges, producers and production staff, as well as the author's experience as a studio audience member, the book scrutinizes the performativity of the genre, the needs it meets and the inherent ideological biases about race, gender and civic instruction.

British Avant-Garde Theatre (Hardcover): C. Warden British Avant-Garde Theatre (Hardcover)
C. Warden
R1,515 Discovery Miles 15 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores an under-researched body of work from the early decades of the twentieth century, connecting plays, performances and practitioners together in dynamic dialogues. Moving across national, generational and social borders, the book reads experiments in Britain during this period alongside theatrical innovations overseas.

Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance - Danger, Im/mobility and Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Marina... Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance - Danger, Im/mobility and Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Marina Grzinic, Aneta Stojnic
R3,664 Discovery Miles 36 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates how contemporary artistic practices engage with the body and its intersection with political, technological, and ethical issues. Departing from the relationship between corporeality and performing arts (such as theater, dance, and performance), it turns to a pluriversal understanding of embodiment that resides in the extra violent conditions of contemporary global necro-capitalism in order to conduct a thorough analysis that goes beyond arts and culture. It brings together theoretical academic texts by established and emerging scholars alike, exposing perspectives form different fields (philosophy, cultural studies, performance studies, theater studies, and dance studies) as well as from different geopolitical contexts. Through a series of thematic clusters, the study explores the reactivation of the body as a site of a new meaning-making politics.

Charlotte Cushman - Her Letters and Memories of Her Life (Hardcover): Emma Stebbins Charlotte Cushman - Her Letters and Memories of Her Life (Hardcover)
Emma Stebbins
R939 Discovery Miles 9 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
King Henry VIII (Hardcover): William Shakespeare King Henry VIII (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe - Imagination and Resistance (Hardcover): M. Morgan Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe - Imagination and Resistance (Hardcover)
M. Morgan
R4,153 Discovery Miles 41 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

By examining four playwrights - George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eugene Ionesco - Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe looks at how political theatre has unraveled in the modern era due to the 'art of separation, ' wherein political concerns have been removed from the realm of theatre. When political theorists often discuss theatre, they do so mainly within the confines of ancient Greek playwrights, overlooking the salient and meaningful political discourse within more contemporary literature. Focusing squarely on the political elements of Shaw, Brecht, Sarte, and Ionesco, Morgan reintroduces political discourse into discussions of theatre - linking playwright to political philosopher, and their literature to the greater field of political discourse.

The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2005-2006 (Hardcover, 87 Ed): Jeffrey Eric Jenkins The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2005-2006 (Hardcover, 87 Ed)
Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
R1,214 Discovery Miles 12 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This annual chronicle of American theatre features a collection of essays and articles by noted theatre critics and writers that celebrates the past season, and its ten best plays. In addition, "The Best Plays Theatre Yearbook" also features a stunning array of facts and figures about everything you ever wanted to know about Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway shows for the year - all accompanied by 100 black and white photographs. This comprehensive volume is a must-have for anyone who loves American theatre - from smash musicals to one-man shows.

Memorias del Million Dollar y Secretos de Los Mas Famosos (English, Spanish, Hardcover): Mary Escamilla Memorias del Million Dollar y Secretos de Los Mas Famosos (English, Spanish, Hardcover)
Mary Escamilla
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Este libro de coleccion que tiene usted en sus manos, es un tesoro. En sus paginas se hallan impresas las vivencias y experiencias de personas que de una manera u otra, estuvieron relacionadas con el Teatro Million Dollar. Este recinto, que fue fundado por el senor Sid Grauman en 1918, nacio como una sala cinematografica y eventos teatrales en idioma ingles. Con motivo del estallamiento de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, este teatro se mantuvo cerrado entre los anos 1941 y 1945. Al termino de aquella conflagracion belica, fue que lo reabrieron y lo convirtieron en sede de eventos latinos o hispanos, ganandose el sobrenombre de La Catedral del Espectaculo Latino en Los Angeles. Asi que este libro guarda en sus paginas, la historia veridica narrada por los protagonistas que vivieron la gloriosa epoca del Million Dollar Theatre. Quienes antes se preguntaron, como fue que este teatro se convirtio en La Catedral del Espectaculo latino en Los Angeles?, aqui encontraran la respuesta dentro de este libro.

Anthropology, Theatre, and Development - The Transformative Potential of Performance (Hardcover): Alex Flynn, Jonas Tinius Anthropology, Theatre, and Development - The Transformative Potential of Performance (Hardcover)
Alex Flynn, Jonas Tinius
R3,619 Discovery Miles 36 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the transformative potential of political performance, both for individuals and wider collectives.

Modern Architecture in Theatre - The Experiments of Art et Action (Hardcover, New): A. Read Modern Architecture in Theatre - The Experiments of Art et Action (Hardcover, New)
A. Read
R1,410 Discovery Miles 14 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

If the city is the theatre of urban life, how does architecture act in its many performances? This interdisciplinary book reconstructs the spatial experiments of Art et action, a theatre troupe active in 1920s Paris, that defined five distinct types of modern performance, types which mirror social institutions and events. The analysis focuses on Art et Action's designs for theatre buildings to show how the performance spaces interacted with actors and spectators according to their respective type, thus commenting on the characteristic events of urban life. For scholars of theatre, the study demonstrates the interdependence of spatial design and drama at a crucial moment in the history of contemporary performance. For architects, the work offers a model in theatre for how architecture might act in the daily drama of urban life, supporting current efforts to make our cities more vital and thus more sustainable.

Grief and English Renaissance Elegy (Hardcover): G. W. Pigman III Grief and English Renaissance Elegy (Hardcover)
G. W. Pigman III
R2,808 Discovery Miles 28 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For most of the sixteenth century, English poets were clearly anxious about the grief expressed in their funeral poems and often rebuked themselves for indulging in it, but towards the end of the century this defensiveness about mourning became less pressing and persistent. The shift is part of a wider cultural change which has escaped recognition: the emergence of a more compassionate attitude towards the process of mourning. In charting the development of elegy this book analyses poems by Surrey, Spenser, Jonson, Henry King and Milton, and also surveys a wide range of forgotten verse, both English and neo-Latin, as well as letter-writing handbooks and moral-theological tracts. The book culminates in a detailed study of the most famous elegy in the language, Milton's Lycidas.

British Playwrights, 1880-1956 - A Research and Production Sourcebook (Hardcover, New): William W. Demastes, Katherine Kelly British Playwrights, 1880-1956 - A Research and Production Sourcebook (Hardcover, New)
William W. Demastes, Katherine Kelly
R2,511 Discovery Miles 25 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with Look Back in Anger, British playwrights made numerous lasting contributions and provided a foundation for the innovations of dramatists during the latter half of the 20th century. This reference profiles the life and work of some 40 British playwrights active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of whom are also known for their work as novelists and poets. Included are figures such as W. H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Noel Coward, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. Each entry provides a biographical overview; a list of major plays and summaries of their critical reception; a list of minor plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career; and archival and bibliographical information. Included in this reference book are alphabetically arranged entries for some 40 British playwrights active from 1880 through 1956. Entries are written by expert contributors, with each entry providing a biographical overview; a list of major plays, premieres, and significant revivals, along with a summary of the critical reception of these works; a listing of additional plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career and contributions, with reference to published evaluations in magazines, journals, dissertations, and books; a listing of locations housing unpublished archival material, if available; a selected bibliography of the dramatist's published plays and of essays and articles by the playwright on aspects of the theater; a selected bibliography of secondary sources; and, when available, a listing of previously published bibliographies on the playwright.

A Search for a Postmodern Theater - Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights (Hardcover, New): John Louis DiGaetani A Search for a Postmodern Theater - Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights (Hardcover, New)
John Louis DiGaetani
R2,259 Discovery Miles 22 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Thirty-three leading American and British playwrights, from Robert Anderson to Paul Zindel, discuss their views on their own work and contemporary drama, and offer projections about theater for the 21st century. Proceeding from the premise that recent drama in various ways is a reaction to the modernism of Theater of the Absurd, the interviewer, John DiGaetani, terms the diverse responses postmodernism. This concept, while not universally accepted by the playwrights interviewed, becomes a point of departure for lively dialogue, providing insights into the particular playwrights and on contemporary theater in general. Included among the interviewees are farcists, such as Alan Ayckbourn, Tina Howe, and Michael Frayn; playwrights of ethnic and black theater, such as Amlin Gray, Ed Bullins, and August Wilson; embodiments of Chekhovian theater, such as Simon Gray and A. R. Gurney; Maximalists like David Henry Hwang; feminists like Marsha Norman and Timberlake Wertenbaker; exponents of gay theater like Mart Crowley and William Hoffman; social critics like David Storey and Israel Horovitz; and traditionalists like Horton Foote, Romulus Linney, and Robert Anderson. Despite these broadly applied labels, clearly the output of these playwrights cannot be neatly pigeonholed even individually--let alone collectively--to describe any prevailing mode. Therefore, interviewer DiGaetani has chosen to stay with the appellation postmodernism, a widely accepted critical term in the arts used to signify a reaction to what is now an old-fashioned modernism.

Performance and the Global City (Hardcover): D. Hopkins, K. Solga Performance and the Global City (Hardcover)
D. Hopkins, K. Solga
R1,987 Discovery Miles 19 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world cities built by globalization and neoliberal capital. Featuring work by artists as well as scholars, written from multiple disciplinary perspectives, and including dozens of photographs as well as a photo essay by Nicholas Whybrow, Performance and the Global City will appeal to readers interested in urban studies, theatre and performance, geography, sociology, and globalization studies.

Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Irishness (Hardcover): Emilie Morin Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Irishness (Hardcover)
Emilie Morin
R2,627 Discovery Miles 26 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Beckett's bilingual oeuvre has been approached from many angles, most of which stress its autonomy from understandings of Irishness emerging from the Irish Literary Revival. Emilie Morin shows that such autonomy is only apparent, and that Beckett's avant-garde practices remain bound to the exigencies that govern their very development.

Directory of Historic American Theatres (Hardcover): Carlton Ward Directory of Historic American Theatres (Hardcover)
Carlton Ward; Edited by John W. Frick, Carlton Ward
R2,496 Discovery Miles 24 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A major contribution to the history of American theatre, this book records in one volume all available data about theatres built in this country before 1915. The first comprehensive reference work of its kind, the "Directory of Historic American TheatreS" identifies 886 theatres ranging from forgotten second-floor opera houses to elaborate performance centers still in use today. The data collected here is based on exhaustive questionnaire and follow-up mailings to historical societies, libraries, theatres, and individuals involved in historic preservation.

Pacific Performances - Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): C Balme Pacific Performances - Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
C Balme
R2,881 Discovery Miles 28 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This new study explores the history of cross-cultural performative encounters in the Pacific from the Eighteenth century to the present. It examines Western theatrical representations of Pacific cultures and investigates how Pacific Islanders used their own cultural performances to negotiate the colonial situation.

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