Apidan Theatre and Modern Drama
Author: Kacke Götrick
Publisher: Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 290
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Author: Kacke Götrick
Publisher: Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 290
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 271
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Banham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-08-04
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521411394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive alphabetical guide to theatre in Africa and the Caribbean: national essays and entries on countries and performers.
Author: Robert Brustein
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 435
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karin Barber
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2003-03-21
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780253216175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the 1980s, Yoruba popular theatre has virtually disappeared due to radio, TV and other mass media in Nigeria. This is the personal account of a theatre worker on tour with the Oyin Adejobi Company. Drawing on archives, interviews and transcribed plays, she describes a successful Yoruba drama.
Author: W. B. Worthen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015-01-30
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0520286871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identifies three rhetorical strategies that distinguish an O'Neill play from a Yeats, or these two from a Brecht. Where realistic theater relies on the "natural" qualities of the stage scene, poetic theater uses the poet's word, the text, to control performance. Modern political theater, by contrast, openly places the audience at the center of its rhetorical designs, and the drama of the postwar period is shown to develop a range of post-Brechtian practices that make the audience the subject of the play. Worthen's book deserves the attention of any literary critic or serious theatergoer interested in the relationship between modern drama and the spectator.
Author: Cristina Boscolo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9042026812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA poetic ‘voice’ scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odún; then the voice falls silent. What is then raised is the dust of a forgotten academic debate on the nature of theatre and drama, and the following divergent standpoints of critical discourses bent on empowering their own vision, and defining themselves, rather, as counterdiscourses. This, the first part of the book: a metacritical discourse, on the geopolitics (the inherent power imbalances) of academic writing and its effects on odún, the performances dedicated to the gods, ancestors, and heroes of Yorùbá history. But odún: where is it? and what is it? And the ‘voice’? The many critical discourses have not really answered these questions. In effect, odún is many things. To enable the reader to see these, the study proceeds with an ‘intermezzo’: a frame of reference that sets odún, the festival, in its own historico-cultural ecoenvironment, identifying the strategies that inform the performance and constitute its aesthetic. It is a ‘classical’ yet, for odún, an innovative procedure. This interdisciplinary background equips the reader with the knowledge necessary to watch the performance, to witness its beauty, and to understand the ‘half words’ odún utters. And now the performance can begin. The ‘voice’ emerges one last time, to introduce the second section, which presents two case studies. The reader is led, day by day, through the celebrations –odún edì, Morèmi’s story, and its realization in performance; then confrontation by the masks of the ancestors duing odún egúngún (particularly as held in Ibadan). The meaning of odún becomes clearer and clearer. Odún is poetry, dances, masks, food, prayer. It is play (eré) and belief (ìgbàgbó). It is interaction between the players (both performers and spectators). It is also politics and power. It contains secrets and sacrifices. It is a reality with its own dimension and, above all, as the quintessential site of knowledge, it possesses the power to transform. In short, it is a challenge – a challenge that the present book and its voices take up.
Author: Christopher B. Balme
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780198184447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of post-colonial drama and theatre. It examines how dramatists from various societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their traditions with the Western dramatic form, demonstrating how the dynamics of syncretic theatrical texts function in performance.
Author: Robert Sanford Brustein
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 435
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 1344
ISBN-13: 1136119086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.