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Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography is an
essential resource for those interested in the visual composition
of performance and related scenographic practices.
Theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art,
philosophy and the social sciences are brought together in one
volume to examine the principle forces that inform understanding of
theatre and performance design.
The volume is organised thematically in five sections:
- looking, the experience of seeing
- space and place
- the designer: the scenographic
- bodies in space
- making meaning
This major collection of key writings provides a much needed
critical and contextual framework for the analysis of theatre and
performance design. By locating this study within the broader field
of scenography ? the term increasingly used to describe a more
integrated reading of performance ? this unique anthology
recognises the role played by all the elements of production in the
creation of meaning.
Contributors include Josef Svoboda, Richard Foreman, Roland
Barthes, Oscar Schlemmer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Richard Schechner,
Jonathan Crary, Elizabeth Wilson, Henri Lefebvre, Adolph Appia and
Herbert Blau.
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Radiant Heat
Sarah-Jane Collins
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R779
R635
Discovery Miles 6 350
Save R144 (18%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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The discovery and re-examination of women authors has been a key
part of early modern women's studies, but a major problem has been
the inaccessibility of the texts themselves. This series is
designed to make available a comprehensive collection of writing in
English from 1500 to 1700, both by women and for and about them.
Each text is preceded by a short introduction providing an overview
of the life and work of the writer, along with a survey of
important relevant scholarship. The series is in two parts,
covering the periods 1500 to 1640, and 1641 to 1700. It is
complemented by a separate facsimile series of essential works and
original monographs.
Aesthetics of Absence presents a significant challenge to the many
embedded assumptions and hierarchical structures that have become
'naturalised' in western theatre production. This is the first
English translation of a new collection of writings and lectures by
Heiner Goebbels, the renowned German theatre director, composer and
teacher. These writings map Goebbels' engagement with 'Aesthetics
of Absence' through his own experience at the forefront of
innovative music-theatre and performance making. In this volume,
Goebbels reflects on works created over a period of more than 20
years staged throughout the world; introduces some of his key
artistic influences, including Robert Wilson and Jean-Luc Godard;
discusses the work of his students and ex-students, the collective
Rimini Protokoll; and sets out the case for a radical rethinking of
theatre and performance education. He gives us a rare insight into
the rehearsal process of critically acclaimed works such as
Eraritjaritjaka and Stifters Dinge, explaining in meticulous detail
the way he weaves an eclectic range of references from fine art,
theatre, literature, politics, anthropology, contemporary and
classical music, jazz and folk, into his multi-textured
music-theatre compositions. As an artist who is prepared to share
his research and demystify the processes through which his own
works come into being, as a teacher with a coherent pedagogical
strategy for educating the next generation of theatre-makers, in
this volume, Goebbels brings together practice, research and
scholarship.
Aesthetics of Absence presents a significant challenge to the many
embedded assumptions and hierarchical structures that have become
'naturalised' in western theatre production. This is the first
English translation of a new collection of writings and lectures by
Heiner Goebbels, the renowned German theatre director, composer and
teacher. These writings map Goebbels' engagement with 'Aesthetics
of Absence' through his own experience at the forefront of
innovative music-theatre and performance making. In this volume,
Goebbels reflects on works created over a period of more than 20
years staged throughout the world; introduces some of his key
artistic influences, including Robert Wilson and Jean-Luc Godard;
discusses the work of his students and ex-students, the collective
Rimini Protokoll; and sets out the case for a radical rethinking of
theatre and performance education. He gives us a rare insight into
the rehearsal process of critically acclaimed works such as
Eraritjaritjaka and Stifters Dinge, explaining in meticulous detail
the way he weaves an eclectic range of references from fine art,
theatre, literature, politics, anthropology, contemporary and
classical music, jazz and folk, into his multi-textured
music-theatre compositions. As an artist who is prepared to share
his research and demystify the processes through which his own
works come into being, as a teacher with a coherent pedagogical
strategy for educating the next generation of theatre-makers, in
this volume, Goebbels brings together practice, research and
scholarship.
Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography is an
essential resource for those interested in the visual composition
of performance and related scenographic practices. Theatre and
performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and the
social sciences are brought together in one volume to examine the
principle forces that inform understanding of theatre and
performance design. The volume is organised thematically in five
sections: looking, the experience of seeing space and place the
designer: the scenographic bodies in space making meaning This
major collection of key writings provides a much needed critical
and contextual framework for the analysis of theatre and
performance design. By locating this study within the broader field
of scenography - the term increasingly used to describe a more
integrated reading of performance - this unique anthology
recognises the role played by all the elements of production in the
creation of meaning. Contributors include Josef Svoboda, Richard
Foreman, Roland Barthes, Oscar Schlemmer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
Richard Schechner, Jonathan Crary, Elizabeth Wilson, Henri
Lefebvre, Adolph Appia and Herbert Blau.
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Moving on (Paperback)
Lillie Jane Collins Kirkland
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R353
Discovery Miles 3 530
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Adventure Door is the story of twins Ritchie and Lauren Carter
who always spend a week of every school holiday visiting their
grandparents. Six months ago Grandpa Joe and Grandma Ivy moved to
their new cottage on the coast. Readers will be treated to a
special suprise, with the first offering housing 'Where it all
began' and 'Return to Courtney Bay', the first two books in the
series in one bumper edition. Each story begins and ends at the
breakfast table, where Grandpa reads of a crime in the local
newspaper and then tells all again when it is solved. In the garden
there is a beautiful rose arch, stretching from one side to the
other and more than a little mystery and intrigue can be found
beyond it. Add to that Mrs Hart, their grandparents elderly
neighbour who isn't quite what she seems....or is she?
Here is a thoughtful and honest relationship guide that combines
real-world expertise with spiritual and magical principles of Wicca
and Pagan religions, employing an eclectic mix of ancient
mythology, modern psychology, and spiritual empowerment spells to
help readers build loving, lasting bonds. The Wiccan Circle offers
readers a template for a successful union, with one principle for
each of the four cardinal directions (Equality, Consensus, Honesty,
Freedom) and one (Balance) for the center.
Because every relationship is unique, a variety of partnerings
are considered and celebrated without judgment or bias -- from
same-sex couples to traditional marriage and Pagan handfastings to
multi-partner relationships.
For Love of a Soldier contains the stories of 29 people whose
family members-spouses, siblings, children-are serving or have
served in the American military during the Iraq War. The families
tell their stories and explain why they believe that taking action
to end American military involvement in Iraq is the best possible
way to support the troops who are so dear to them. The passionate
and articulate individuals whose interviews make up the body of the
book include: spouses and parents of soldiers with post-traumatic
stress disorder, a couple with eight children and grandchildren who
have served or are currently serving in Iraq, the parents who have
formed an organization of anti-war families, parents whose children
have been killed or maimed in the war, and parents whose children
have committed suicide after returning home from the war.
For Love of a Soldier contains the stories of 29 people whose
family members_spouses, siblings, children_are serving or have
served in the American military during the Iraq War. The families
tell their stories and explain why they believe that taking action
to end American military involvement in Iraq is the best possible
way to support the troops who are so dear to them. The passionate
and articulate individuals whose interviews make up the body of the
book include: spouses and parents of soldiers with post-traumatic
stress disorder, a couple with eight children and grandchildren who
have served or are currently serving in Iraq, the parents who have
formed an organization of anti-war families, parents whose children
have been killed or maimed in the war, and parents whose children
have committed suicide after returning home from the war.
For some, it was a movement for peace. For others, it was a war
against the war. In the eyes of certain participants, the movement
was cultural and social at its core, a matter of changing society.
Still others defined their protests as political and sought out the
economic root causes of the war. What many would agree upon was
that it was a time when a remarkable generation came of age and a
great nation was shaken to its very foundations. The protest
movement in opposition to the Vietnam War was a complex amalgam of
political, social, economic, and cultural motivations, factors, and
events. Against the Vietnam War brings together the different
facets of that movement and its various shades of opinion. Here the
participants themselves offer statements and reflections on their
activism, the era, and the consequences of a war that spanned three
decades and changed the United States of America. The keynote is on
individual experience in a time when almost every event had
national and international significance. A foreword by Staughton
Lynd considers the events of the Vietnam War in the context of the
present war in Iraq.
This is a long overdue addition to a series of books and edited
collections spawned initially from Immanuel Wallerstein's The
Modern World-System. These 12 `theoretically informed case studies'
from a 1987 conference add considerable insight to the heavy
emphasis of the World-Systems approaches on macroeconomic
determinism with the inclusion of ideological and cultural factors.
Most cases address how capital uses social categories to cheapen
industrial labor costs in Asia and the US. Two illuminating
chapters analyze the `minoritization of immigrants' and variations
in masculinity norms as aspects of this labor cheapening process.
Choice A collection of papers presented at the Eleventh Annual
Political Economy of the World-System Conference, this volume
illustrates the degree to which fundamental processes of the
world-system entail racist and sexist practices. The contributors
have taken as their focus the attempt to both explain--in social,
political, or historical terms--the pervasiveness of racism and
sexism and trace the relationship between the two and the
organization of the contemporary political economy. Taken together,
their papers offer a more coherent treatment of the problem than
has heretofore been available. By integrating an understanding of
racial and sexual oppression with that of other processes that
constitute the world-economy they offer new insights into the
workings of the world-system and new hope for concerted efforts to
eliminate racism and sexism. Many of the essays included here take
the form of theoretically informed case studies. Detailed
historical works explore such issues as labor force formation in
the New York garment industry in the late 19th and early 20th
century and competition in the world textile industry in the latter
half of the 1880s. A critical analysis of the construction of
census categories and an examination of the myths of differential
ethnic success provide real-world examples of discrimination and
its effects. A number of papers focus on the implications of our
understanding of racial and sexual oppression for political
struggle, while others assess the impact of women's exclusion from
the workforce on power relationships in the home. Two major
theoretical pieces address the issues in more general terms,
emphasizing the circumstances under which racism and sexism are
created and recreated in various contexts. Taken as a whole, the
volume provides a necessary and enlightening re-examination of the
role of race and gender in the world-economy.
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