Authors:Nichos Nunez, Deborah Middleton,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theatre, studies, contemporary, rite, anthropocosmic, dynamics
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1996-05-01
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 3718657104
ISBN-13: 9783718657100

In this work the author traces his researches with Grotowski and Strasberg, at the Old Vic in London, and in Nahuatlan and Tibetan theatre to arrive at his design for a unique participatory theatre form. The text also provides a practical guide to the author’s ritual/theatrical "actions" as well as supplying a philosophical context for this work.

Author: David Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theatre, making, soleil, collaborative
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1998-12-14
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 041508606X
ISBN-13: 9780415086066

Over the past thirty years Theatre du Soleil has become one of the most celebrated theater companies in Europe, and Ariadne Mnouchkine one of its best-known directors.Collaborative Theatre is the first in-depth source book on the performance troupe, renowned as widely for its cutting edge theatrical production as its collectivist practices and ideals. Here critical and historical essays by theater critics from around the world are combined with essays by and interviews with members of Theatre du Soleil, past and present, to address the meaning of theater through examining five key plays by the

Author: D. Keith Peacock
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: theatre, drama, studies, contributions, eighties, thatcher, british
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1999-03-30
List price: $110.95
ISBN-10: 0313299013
ISBN-13: 9780313299018

The Thatcher administration of 1979 to 1990 had a profound and apparently lasting effect on British drama and theatre. This book examines the effect of Thatcherite ideology and policies on British theatre of that period. It begins by defining "Thatcherism" and illustrating its cultural influence. It then examines the consequences of the imposition of Thatcherite policies through the agency of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Having established this political and cultural environment, the book considers in detail the effect on the subject-matter and dramatic and theatrical discourse of left-w

Author: Keith Sturge
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd
Keywords: theatre, studies, production, jacobean, private
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1987-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0710210175
ISBN-13: 9780710210173

Examines the practical facilities and performance style of the private playhouses.

Author: Dan Uria
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theatre, contemporary, studies, drama, israeli, arab
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1997-12-01
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 9057021315
ISBN-13: 9789057021312

What is Israeli theatre? Is it only a Hebrew theatre staged in Israel? Are performances by Arab Israelis working in an Arabic theatre framework not part of the repertoire of Israeli theatre? Do they perhaps belong to the Palestinian theatre? What are the "borders" of Palestinian theatre? Are not theatrical works created in East Jerusalem by Arab Israeli playwrights and actors, and staged on occasion before Jewish Israeli audiences, part of a dialogue between Palestinian and Israeli cultures? Does "theatre" only include works staged under that title?These and other similarly absorbing questions

Author: Martin Harrison
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theatre, paperback, routledge, arts, language
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 1998-06-12
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0878300872
ISBN-13: 9780878300877

Theatre has provided many words and meanings which we use--ignorant of their origins--in everyday writing and speech. This is the first book to explore 2,000 theatre terms in depth, in some cases tracing their history over two and a half millenia, in others exploring expressions less than a decade old. Terms are defined, shown in use and cross-referenced in ways which will fascinate theatre- goers, and encourage those actively engaged in the theatre to examine the familiar from new angles.

Author: Alexander Leggatt
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theatre, studies, production, jacobean, public
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1992-11-17
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415010489
ISBN-13: 9780415010481

Jacobean Public Theatre re-evaluates this long neglected yet vital part of English theatrical history. Presenting the plays as scripts rather than literary texts, Alexander Leggatt uses them to examine contemporary acting, production and performance values. In addition to its close study of popular dramaturgy and performance conventions, Jacobean Public Theatre surveys the nature of the popular audience, its culture and contribution to the performance. Leggatt concludes with a close examination of four major plays, (including King Lear), which draw creatively on the conventions of pop