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This edited collection of essays brings together leading scholars
of early modern drama and playhouse culture to reflect upon the
study of playing and playgoing in early modern England. With a
particular focus on the player-playgoer exchange as a site of
dramatic meaning-making, this book offers a timely and significant
critical intervention in the field of Shakespeare and early modern
drama. Working with and reflecting upon approaches drawn from
literary scholarship, theatre history and performance studies, it
seeks to advance the critical conversation on the interactions
between: players; play-texts; performance spaces; the bodily,
sensory and material experiences of the playhouse; and playgoers'
responses to, and engagements with, the theatre. Through
alternative methodological and theoretical approaches, previously
unknown or overlooked evidence, and fresh questions asked of
long-familiar materials, the volume offers a new account of early
modern drama and performance that seeks to set the agenda for
future research and scholarship.
A radically urgent intervention, An Inconvenient Black History of
British Musical Theatre: 1900 - 1950 uncovers the hidden Black
history of this most influential of artforms. Drawing on lost
archive material and digitised newspapers from the turn of the
century onwards, this exciting story has been re-traced and
restored to its rightful place. A vital and significant part of
British cultural history between 1900 and 1950, Black performance
practice was fundamental to resisting and challenging racism in the
UK. Join Mayes (a Broadway- and Toronto-based Music Director) and
Whitfield (a musical theatre historian and researcher) as they take
readers on a journey through a historically-inconvenient and
brilliant reality that has long been overlooked. Get to know the
Black theatre community in London's Roaring 20s, and hear about the
secret Florence Mills memorial concert they held in 1928. Acquaint
yourself with Buddy Bradley, Black tap and ballet choreographer,
who reshaped dance in British musicals - often to be found at Noel
Coward's apartment for late-night rehearsals, such was Bradley's
importance. Meet Jack Johnson, the first African American
Heavyweight Boxing Champion, who toured Britain's theatres during
World War 1 and brought the sounds of Chicago to places like
war-weary Dundee. Discover the most prolific Black theatre
practitioner you've never heard of, William Garland, who worked for
40 years across multiple continents and championed Black British
performers. Marvel at performers like cabaret star Mabel Mercer,
born in Stafford in 1900, who sang and conducted theatre orchestras
across the UK, as well as Black Birmingham comedian Eddie Emerson,
who was Garland's partner for decades. Many of their names and
works have never been included in histories of the British musical
- until now.
How do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This
book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body,
often appearing on stage in new styles of performance. Focusing on
the historical period of modernity, Performance and Modernity:
Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage demonstrates how the
unforeseen impact of economic, industrial, political, social, and
psychological change was registered in bodily metaphors that took
shape on stage. In new styles of performance-acting, dance, music,
pageantry, avant-garde provocations, film, video and networked
media-this book finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been
understood and lived, both by stage actors, who, in modelling new
habits, gave emerging experiences an epistemological shape, and by
their audiences, who, in borrowing the strategies performers
enacted, learned to adapt to a modernizing world.
Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely
interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the
aftermath of the early Happenings. By the mid-1960s Happenings were
widely declared outmoded or even 'dead', but this book reveals how
many practitioners continued to work with the form during the late
1960s and 1970s, developing it into a vehicle for studying
interpersonal communication that simultaneously deployed and
questioned contemporary sociology and psychology. Focussing on the
artists Allan Kaprow, Marta Minujin, Carolee Schneemann and Lea
Lublin, it charts how they revised and retooled the premises of the
Happening within a wider network of dynamic international activity.
The resulting performances directly intervened in the wider
discourse of communication studies, as it manifested in the
politics of countercultural dropout, soft power and cultural
diplomacy, alternative pedagogies, sociological art and feminist
consciousness-raising. -- .
The Cambridge Companion to the Circus provides a complete guide for
students, scholars, teachers, researchers, and practitioners who
are seeking perspectives on the foundations and evolution of the
modern circus, the contemporary extent of circus studies, and the
specialised literature available to support further enquiries. The
volume brings together an international group of established and
emerging scholars working across the multi-disciplinary domain of
circus studies to present a clear overview of the specialised
histories, aesthetics and distinctive performances of the modern
circus. In sixteen commissioned essays, it covers the origins in
commercial equestrian performance during the late-eighteenth
century to contemporary inflections of circus arts in major
international festivals, educational environments, and social
justice settings.
The Cambridge Companion to the Circus provides a complete guide for
students, scholars, teachers, researchers, and practitioners who
are seeking perspectives on the foundations and evolution of the
modern circus, the contemporary extent of circus studies, and the
specialised literature available to support further enquiries. The
volume brings together an international group of established and
emerging scholars working across the multi-disciplinary domain of
circus studies to present a clear overview of the specialised
histories, aesthetics and distinctive performances of the modern
circus. In sixteen commissioned essays, it covers the origins in
commercial equestrian performance during the late-eighteenth
century to contemporary inflections of circus arts in major
international festivals, educational environments, and social
justice settings.
"What is it that we're doing, when we're acting well? What is it
that great actors are actually doing when they're practicing their
craft at the highest level?" This is the question famously posed by
Earle Gister, the legendary head of the acting department at Yale
School of Drama from 1979 to 1999. In Acting Action, actor,
director, and teaching artist Hugh O'Gorman invites readers to
explore the question in detail. Focusing on playing action-one of
the essential components of acting passed on to Earle Gister and
Lloyd Richards by Paul Mann-Acting Action is divided into two
parts: Context and Practice. The Context section provides a
thorough examination of the theory behind the core elements of
playing action. The Practice section provides a step-by-step
rehearsal guide for actors to integrate playing action into their
preparation process. Acting Action is a place to begin for actors:
a foundation, a ground plan for how to get started and how to build
the core of a performance. More precisely, it provides a practical
guide for actors, directors, and teachers in the technique of
playing action, addressing a void in the world of actor training by
illuminating what exactly to do in the moment-to-moment act of
acting. It also serves as an artistic instructional manual for
either the stage or camera.
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