Modern Theatres 1950–2020
Modern Theatres 1950–2020

Author: David Staples

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-28

Total Pages: 926

ISBN-13: 1351052160

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Modern Theatres 1950–2020 is an investigation of theatres, concert halls and opera houses in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America. The book explores in detail 30 of the most significant theatres, concert halls, opera houses and dance spaces that opened between 1950 and 2010. Each theatre is reviewed and assessed by experts in theatre buildings, such as architects, acousticians, consultants and theatre practitioners, and illustrated with full-colour photographs and comparative plans and sections. A further 20 theatres that opened from 2009 to 2020 are concisely reviewed and illustrated. An excellent resource for students of theatre planning, theatre architecture and architectural design, Modern Theatres 1950 – 2020 discusses the role of performing arts buildings in cities, explores their public and performances spaces and examines the acoustics and technologies needed in a great building. This beautifully illustrated book is also a must-read for architects, theater designers, theatre historians, and theatre practitioners.

Makers of Modern Theatre
Makers of Modern Theatre

Author: Robert Leach

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 041531240X

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This book is the first detailed introduction to the work of the key theatre-makers who shaped the drama of the last century: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud.

Japan's Modern Theatre
Japan's Modern Theatre

Author: Brian Powell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1134242018

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This book endeavours to unravel the complicated skeins of Japanese theatre in the modern period and offers an appreciation of the richness of choice of presentational and representational theatre forms. Since the end of world War II there has been continuing but different conflict between the major theatrical genres. Kabuki continues to defend its ground successfully, but the 'new drama' (shingeki) became firmly established in its own right in the 1960s. It was a vigorous and exuberant 'underground' theatre which exploited anything and everything in the Japanese and western theatre traditions. Now, thirty years on, they too have been superseded. The youth theatre of the 1980s and 90s has thrown aside the concerns of the angry underground and developed a fast-moving bewilderingly kaleidoscopic drama of breath-taking energy.

On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre
On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre

Author: I. Eynat-Confino

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-11-24

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0230616968

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The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.

The Theory of the Modern Stage
The Theory of the Modern Stage

Author: Eric Bentley

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9781557832795

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(Applause Books). Including Antoin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Luigi Pirandello, Konstantin Stanislavsky, W. B. Yeats, and Emile Zolaing.

Adorno and Modern Theatre
Adorno and Modern Theatre

Author: K. Gritzner

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1137534478

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Adorno and Modern Theatre explores the drama of Edward Bond, David Rudkin, Howard Barker and Sarah Kane in the context of the work of leading philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). The book engages with key principles of Adorno's aesthetic theory and cultural critique and examines their influence on a generation of seminal post-war dramatists.

The Making of Modern Drama
The Making of Modern Drama

Author: Richard Gilman

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780300079029

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This critical exploration of modern drama begins with Büchner and Ibsen and then discusses the major playwrights who have shaped modern theater. A new introduction by the author assesses developments of recent years.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Author: Ousmane Diakhate

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1136359494

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Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.

Transnational connections in early modern theatre
Transnational connections in early modern theatre

Author: M. A. Katritzky

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-11-25

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 1526139197

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This volume explores the transnationality and interculturality of early modern performance in multiple languages, cultures, countries and genres. Its twelve essays compose a complex image of theatre connections as a socially, economically, politically and culturally rich tissue of networks and influences. With particular attention to itinerant performers, court festival, and the Black, Muslim and Jewish impact, they combine disciplines and methods to place Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the wider context of performance culture in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Czech and Italian speaking Europe. The authors examine transnational connections by offering multidisciplinary perspectives on the theatrical significance of concrete historical facts: archaeological findings, archival records, visual artefacts, and textual evidence.