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A Poetics of Third Theatre offers an in-depth, critical analysis of
Third Theatre, a transnational community of theatre groups and
artists united by a shared set of values and a laboratory attitude.
This book takes a genealogical account of Third Theatre as a
concept and a practice that draws attention to the historical Third
Theatre Encounters that have taken place across Europe and Latin
America since the 1970s. The work of renowned Third Theatre groups
and organisations, such as LUME (Brazil), Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani
(Peru), Triangle Theatre (UK) and Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium - NTL
(Denmark), are explored to reveal how a multifarious poetics of
Third Theatre is manifest through these artists' approaches to
performer training, dramaturgy and cultural action. Three critical
pillars - unconditional hospitality, artisanal craft and
(re)enchantment - are employed in order to illuminate the shared
ethos of the Third Theatre community and its exemplification as a
mode of cultural performance. This informative text will be of
great use to students and scholars of drama and theatre studies,
and its dedicated section on performer training exercises offers
the reader pathways into an experiential engagement with Third
Theatre craft.
A Poetics of Third Theatre offers an in-depth, critical analysis of
Third Theatre, a transnational community of theatre groups and
artists united by a shared set of values and a laboratory attitude.
This book takes a genealogical account of Third Theatre as a
concept and a practice that draws attention to the historical Third
Theatre Encounters that have taken place across Europe and Latin
America since the 1970s. The work of renowned Third Theatre groups
and organisations, such as LUME (Brazil), Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani
(Peru), Triangle Theatre (UK) and Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium - NTL
(Denmark), are explored to reveal how a multifarious poetics of
Third Theatre is manifest through these artists' approaches to
performer training, dramaturgy and cultural action. Three critical
pillars - unconditional hospitality, artisanal craft and
(re)enchantment - are employed in order to illuminate the shared
ethos of the Third Theatre community and its exemplification as a
mode of cultural performance. This informative text will be of
great use to students and scholars of drama and theatre studies,
and its dedicated section on performer training exercises offers
the reader pathways into an experiential engagement with Third
Theatre craft.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Amelie Rives was one of the
most famous women in America. A member of Virginia's First
Families-and granddaughter of a U.S. senator, she belonged to the
southern aristocracy. Considered one of the great beauties of her
time, Rives leveraged both her connections and her own considerable
talent to become a best-selling author and then married into the
wealthy Astor family. As Jane Turner Censer makes clear in this
long overdue biography, Rives's personal story-filled with enormous
triumphs and calamities-was, if anything, as fascinating as her
art.Rives's most famous novel, The Quick or the Dead?, published
when she was just twenty-four, was a sensation in its time, but
soon she began to grapple with marital woes, an addiction to
morphine and cocaine, and reams of unfavorable press coverage.
Dramatically she took control of her celebrity: she divorced her
husband and married a Russian prince, broke free of addiction, and
changed her image to that of a European princess. Rives then
regained her writing career, including plays produced on Broadway.
Censer draws from Rives's early diaries, correspondence, and
publications as well as the massive newspaper coverage she received
during her lifetime to provide insights into the limits imposed on
and actions taken by ambitious, elite young women in the late
nineteenth-century South. As a trailblazer, Rives used her beauty,
brains, and wayward behavior to make a splash in a manner later
adopted by southern women as disparate as Zelda Fitzgerald and
Tallulah Bankhead.
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Eugenio Barba (Paperback)
Jane Turner; Series edited by Franc Chamberlain
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R1,184
Discovery Miles 11 840
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Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre
practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over
fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret, he continues to
produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour the world, and
his International School of Theatre Anthropology has greatly
developed research into the craft of the actor. Now revised and
updated, this volume reveals the background to and work of a major
influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century performance.
Eugenio Barba is the first book to combine: an overview of Barba's
work and that of his company, Odin Teatret exploration of his
writings and ideas on theatre anthropology, and his unique
contribution to contemporary performance research in-depth analysis
of the 2000 production of Ego Faust, performed at the International
School of Theatre Anthropology a practical guide to training
exercises developed by Barba and the actors in the company. As a
first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial
exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge
Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today's
student.
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Eugenio Barba (Hardcover)
Jane Turner; Series edited by Franc Chamberlain
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R4,121
Discovery Miles 41 210
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre
practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over
fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret, he continues to
produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour the world, and
his International School of Theatre Anthropology has greatly
developed research into the craft of the actor. Now revised and
updated, this volume reveals the background to and work of a major
influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century performance.
Eugenio Barba is the first book to combine: an overview of Barba's
work and that of his company, Odin Teatret exploration of his
writings and ideas on theatre anthropology, and his unique
contribution to contemporary performance research in-depth analysis
of the 2000 production of Ego Faust, performed at the International
School of Theatre Anthropology a practical guide to training
exercises developed by Barba and the actors in the company. As a
first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial
exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge
Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today's
student.
'Warm, wonderful and very wet at times! I LOVED it!' FAITH HOGAN,
author of The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club The start of something
new... When Kate is faced with an 'empty nest' when her youngest
daughter, Ella, leaves for university, she starts to wonder: what
comes next? Decades after abandoning her university hobby, Kate
nervously joins a local ladies rowing team and is surprised to find
how much she enjoys it! More than anything, though, Kate finds that
the team of strong women bring new adventures and unlikely
friendships she hadn't even realised were missing from her life...
A life-affirming, uplifting story for fans of Josie Lloyd and Faith
Hogan
From Surfing to the Secret Life of Rats, Extreme Science will
excite and inspire 8-11 year olds. High-interest topics grab the
reader and introduce some key science concepts in an accessible and
innovative way. The action-packed pages are designed to motivate
struggling and reluctant readers, and a reading age of 7 makes the
content super-accessible. Extreme titles are ideal for supporting
creative classroom teaching and for spicing up topic libraries.
Catherine Piron is in Noumea, searching for traces of the father
she barely remembers. She meets journalist Henri Boulez, her only
lead in a foreign country. Their journey into the remote regions of
New Caledonia uncovers an extraordinary story that, like the island
itself, brille a la fois claire et noire au soleil - shimmers light
and dark in the sun.
This impressively researched book tells the important but
little-known story of elite southern white women's successful quest
for a measure of self-reliance and independence between antebellum
strictures and the restored patriarchy of Jim Crow. Profusely
illustrated with the experiences of fascinating women in Virginia
and North Carolina, it presents a compelling new chapter in the
history of American women and of the South.
As were many ideas, notions of the ideal woman were in flux
after the Civil War. While poverty added a harder edge to the
search for a good marriage among some "southern belles," other
privileged white women forged identities that challenged the belle
model altogether. Their private and public writings from the 1870s
and 1880s suggest a widespread ethic of autonomy. Sometimes that
meant increased domestic skills born of the new reality of fewer
servants. But women also owned and transmitted property, worked for
pay, and even pursued long-term careers. Many found a voice in a
plethora of new voluntary organizations, and some southern women
attained national celebrity in the literary world, creating strong
and capable heroines and mirroring an evolving view toward northern
society.
Yet even as elite southern women experimented with their roles,
external forces and contradictions within their position were
making their unprecedented attitudes and achievements socially
untenable. During the 1890s, however, virulent racism and pressures
to re-create a mythic South left these women caught between the
revived image of the southern belle and the emerging emancipated
woman.
Just as the memoirs of southern white women have been key to
understanding life during the Civil War, the writings of such women
unlock the years of dramatic change that followed. Informed by
myriad primary documents, Jane Turner Censer immerses us in the
world of postwar southern women as they rethought and rebuilt
themselves, their families, and their region during a brief but
important period of relative freedom.
Many historians of late have portrayed upper-class southerners of
the antebellum period as inordinately aristocratic and autocratic.
Some have even seen in the planters' family relations the faint yet
distinct shadow of a master's dealings with his slaves. Challenging
such commonly held assumptions about the attitudes and actions of
the pre-Civil War southern elite, Jane Turner Censer draws on an
impressive array of primary and secondary sources, including
letters, diaries, and other first-person accounts as well as
federal census materials and local wills, deeds, and marriage
records, to show that southern planters, at least in their
relations with their children, were caring, affectionate, and
surprisingly egalitarian. Through the close study of more than one
hundred North Carolina families, she reveals the adults to have
been doting parents who emphasised to their children the importance
of education and achievement and the wise use of time and money.
The planters guided their offspring toward autonomy by
progressively granting them more and more opportunities for
decision making. By the time sons and daughters were faced with
choosing a marriage partner, parents played only a restrained
advisory role. Similarly, fathers left career decisions almost
entirely up to their sons. Censer concludes that children almost
invariably met their parents' high expectations. Most of them chose
to marry within their class, and the second generation usually
maintained or improved their parents' high economic status. On the
other hand, Censer finds that planters rarely developed warm,
empathetic relationships with their slaves. Even the traditional
""mammy,"" whose role is southern planter families was been exalted
in much of our literature, seems to have held a relatively minor
place in the family structure. Bringing to light a wealth of
previously unassimilated information, North Carolina Planters and
Their Children points toward a new understanding of social and
cultural life among the wealthy in the early nineteenth-century
South.
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Like Unto Like (Paperback, New edition)
Sherwood Bonner; Introduction by Jane Turner Censer (Professor of History, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA)
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R588
Discovery Miles 5 880
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A coming-of-age story and commentary on the trials of womanhood in
the Reconstruction South Originally published in 1878 after Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow recommended it to Harper and Brothers, Like
Unto Like marks the emergence of a feminist critique of southern
society a full generation before Ellen Glasgow and Kate Chopin
published their well-known works. The novel follows a romance
between a free-spirited, intellectual southerner, Blythe Herndon,
and a former abolitionist and Union soldier, Roger Ellis. Seeing
marriage to an outsider as an escape from the strictures of
southern society, Blythe soon realizes that even Roger will expect
deference from his wife. She acknowledges her inability, despite a
desire to be free from convention, to accept Roger's egalitarian
views on race relations, his notions of free love, and his past
affair with a married woman. In addition to warning female readers
of the potential dangers of marriage, Bonner recognizes the
importance of race in southern attitudes and breaks new ground in
creating a range of African American characters. Jane Turner
Censer's new introduction accords Bonner the long-delayed literary
recognition she deserves.
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