Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage
Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage

Author: Heiner Müller

Publisher: New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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This best-selling volume contains several of the German author's most controversial dramas, in which he radically questions how culture, myth, art, and social relations create history. Includes: "Hamletmachine, Correction, The Task, Quartet, Despoiled Shore," and "Gundling's Life." One of the most original theatrical minds of our time, Muller, who resided in East Berlin before his death in 1995, was a frequent collaborator of Robert Wilson.

Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage
Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage

Author: Heiner Müller

Publisher: New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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This best-selling volume contains several of the German author's most controversial dramas, in which he radically questions how culture, myth, art, and social relations create history. Includes: "Hamletmachine, Correction, The Task, Quartet, Despoiled Shore," and "Gundling's Life." One of the most original theatrical minds of our time, Muller, who resided in East Berlin before his death in 1995, was a frequent collaborator of Robert Wilson.

The Theater of Heiner MŸller
The Theater of Heiner MŸller

Author: Jonathan Kalb

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0879109653

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The revised and enlarged edition of the first comprehensive English-language study of the work of Heiner Muller, widely regarded as Bertolt Brecht's spiritual heir and as one of the most important German playwrights of the twentieth century. "Kalb's quest to try and penetrate some of the surfaces of what he calls this 'glacially infuriating writer' is engrossing, and he negotiates his own ambivalences and reservations about Muller as theatre-maker and man with both honesty and adroitness...As a piece of scholarship [this] is a breathtaking tour de force." -Mary Luckhurst, New Theatre Quarterly

Essays on Twentieth-century German Drama and Theater
Essays on Twentieth-century German Drama and Theater

Author: Hellmut H. Rennert

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780820444031

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This collection of articles by both German literature specialists and German theater experts grew out of the Comparative Drama Conference held annually between February and March from 1977 to 1999 in Gainesville, Florida. At the center of the contributors' work is the productive tension between the literary and the performance aspects of German drama and theater. At the same time, the reception is truly American, since the German playwrights, directors, theorists, and dramatists discussed have gone through creative filters in the researching, performing, and teaching of German drama and theater on various campuses across the United States during the last third of the twentieth century.

The Text in Play
The Text in Play

Author: Robert Baker-White

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780838753811

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Many modern playwrights have dramatized the process of theatrical creation within their plays. In doing so, they have disregarded the "do not disturb" sign on the rehearsal room door, and have opened the art of theater to a particular kind of scrutiny. This scrutiny is unusual given the long-standing tradition of secrecy that surrounds theatrical rehearsal. Viewing modern drama generally as a drama that juxtaposes authority and freedom, and viewing contemporary criticism as essentially an extended debate on the issue of meaning's closure, this study invokes the critical perspectives M. M. Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, and Bertolt Brecht to create a general theory of rehearsal practice that differentiates it from the practice of performance. Working with notions of textual authority explored in a variety of critical contexts, this volume attempts to explore the theoretical ramifications of metatheatrical representations of rehearsal.

Explosion of a Memory
Explosion of a Memory

Author: Heiner Müller

Publisher: Paj Publications

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 172

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The most important German playwright since Brecht.-John Rockwell, New York Times

Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice
Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice

Author: Megan Alrutz

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-11-29

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0230364101

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Through a collection of original essays and case studies, this innovative book explores theory as an accessible, although complex, tool for theatre practitioners and students. These chapters invite readers to (re)imagine theory as a site of possibility or framework that can shape theatre making, emerge from practice, and foster new ways of seeing, creating, and reflecting. Focusing on the productive tensions and issues that surround creative practice and intellectual processes, the contributing authors present central concepts and questions that frame the role of theory in the theatre. Ultimately, this diverse and exciting collection offers inspiring ideas, raises new questions, and introduces ways to build theoretically-minded, dynamic production work.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Author: Margreta de Grazia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-04-05

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780521658812

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This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare's time and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare's England and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.

Transcultural Theater
Transcultural Theater

Author: Günther Heeg

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-03-31

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1000850501

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Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien. In consideration of the allure of fundamentalist and populist movements that promote the development and practices of xenophobia worldwide, this book makes a powerful plea for the art of theater as a medium of conviviality with (the) foreign(er) that should not be underestimated. This study contributes to transcultural experience, artistic practice, and education in the medium of theater. The book’s investigation extends far into space and time and pays particular attention to the relationship between aesthetic experience, artistic practice, and academic representation. This book is for scholars and students as well as for all those working in the cultural field, especially in the field of cultural transfer.