Renegades, Showmen & Angels
Renegades, Showmen & Angels

Author: Jan Jones

Publisher: TCU Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780875653181

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"Jan Jones' volume on Fort Worth's theatrical heritage presents for the first time a comprehensive history of the showmen, performers, theaters, and events that shaped the city's histrionic fortunes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

Communication Breakdowns
Communication Breakdowns

Author: Ruth Shade

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Using an examination of theatrical and musical performance in a small Valleys town as a focus, this work puts forward an argued discussion of contemporary Welsh theatre in its cultural context. The text uses the south Wales valleys as a means of locating and exploring certain key issues: those connected to coercive ideas about what ideal theatre is; the relationship between politics and performance; the conundrum of community theatre; the role of theatre practice in marginalized regions; and the significance of class to theatre and the problem of a system of arts subsidy which foists inappropriate external theatre product on indigenous audiences.

Composing Ourselves
Composing Ourselves

Author: Dorothy Chansky

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780809326495

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When movies replaced theater in the early twentieth century, live drama was wide open to reform. A rebellion against commercialism, called the Little Theatre movement, promoted the notion that theatre is a valuable form of self-expression. Composing Ourselves argues that the movement was a national phenomenon that resulted in lasting ideas for serious theatre that are now ordinary parts of the American cultural landscape.