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.


Critical Theory and Performance

Critical Theory and Performance

Author: Janelle G. Reinelt

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780472068869

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Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance


Theatre and Medicine

Theatre and Medicine

Author: Stanton B. Garner, Jr.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-01-12

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1350330175

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Theatre and Medicine offers a tour of this interdisciplinary terrain. Organized into four distinct topics, each represents crucial ways of understanding the theatre-medicine relationship. From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that medicine and theatre take as their subject through to the historical association of theatre and contagion, and the pervasive role of doctors and the practitioners of alternative medicine in Western theatre and role of patients on and off stage. Together, this brief study considers the institutional contexts of theatre's medical performances in the early twenty-first century.


Drama

Drama

Author: W. B. Worthen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781444317381

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An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry and Performance teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold between text and performance. Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare, Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks Explores the critical terms and controversies that animate the performance and study of drama, such as the status of language, the function of character and plot, and uses of writing Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and cultural repositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position at the threshold between text and performance


Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers

Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers

Author: James Michael Thomas

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 024080662X

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Based on the premise that plays are objects of study in and of themselves, this title details the Konstantin Stanislavskis method of action analysis, expanding the scope of analysis to includes both inductive and deductive methodologies.


Theatre in Theory 1900-2000

Theatre in Theory 1900-2000

Author: David Krasner

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-11-28

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 1405140445

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Theatre in Theory is the most complete anthology documenting 20th-century dramatic and performance theory to date, offering a rich variety of perspectives from the century’s most prominent playwrights, directors, scholars, and philosophers. Includes major theoretical and critical manifestos, hypotheses, and theories from the field Wide-ranging and broadly constructed, this text has both interdisciplinary and global appeal Includes a thematic index, section introductions, and supporting commentary Helps students, teachers, and practitioners to think critically about the nature of theatre


Setting the Scene

Setting the Scene

Author: Alistair Fair

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1317056922

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During the twentieth century, an increasingly diverse range of buildings and spaces was used for theatre. Theatre architecture was re-formed by new approaches to staging and performance, while theatre was often thought to have a reforming role in society. Innovation was accompanied by the revival and reinterpretation of older ideas. The contributors to this volume explore these ideas in a variety of contexts, from detailed discussions of key architects’ work (including Denys Lasdun, Peter Moro, Cedric Price and Heinrich Tessenow) to broader surveys of theatre in West Germany and Japan. Other contributions examine the Malmö Stadsteater, ’ideal’ theatres in post-war North America, ’found space’ in 1960s New York, and Postmodernity in 1980s East Germany. Together these essays shed new light on this complex building type and also contribute to the wider architectural history of the twentieth century.


Words, Space, and the Audience

Words, Space, and the Audience

Author: M. Bennett

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-07-16

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1137052597

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In this unique study, Michael Y. Bennett re-reads four influential modern plays alongside their contemporary debates between rationalism and empiricism to show how these monumental achievements were thoroughly a product of their time, but also universal in their epistemological quest to understand the world through a rational and/or empirical model. Bennett contends that these plays directly engage in their contemporary epistemological debates rather than through the lens of a specific philosophy. Besides producing new, insightful readings of heavily-studied plays, the interdisciplinary (historical, philosophical, dramatic, theatrical, and literary) frame Bennett constructs allows him to investigate one of the most fundamental questions of the theatre - how does meaning get made? Bennett suggests that the key to unlocking theatrical meaning is exploring the tension between empirical and rational modes of understanding. The book concludes with an interview with performance artist Coco Fusco.


Modernism the Lure of Heresy

Modernism the Lure of Heresy

Author: Peter Gay

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9780393052053

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This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.