Theatre of Real People
Theatre of Real People

Author: Ulrike Garde

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-05-19

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1472580230

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Theatre of Real People offers fresh perspectives on the current fascination with putting people on stage who present aspects of their own lives and who are not usually trained actors. After providing a history of this mode of performance, and theoretical frameworks for its analysis, the book focuses on work developed by seminal practitioners at Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) production house. It invites the reader to explore the HAU's innovative approach to Theatre of Real People, authenticity and cultural diversity during the period of Matthias Lilienthal's leadership (2003–12). Garde and Mumford also elucidate how Theatre of Real People can create and destabilise a sense of the authentic, and suggest how Authenticity-Effects can present new ways of perceiving diverse and unfamiliar people. Through a detailed analysis of key HAU productions such as Lilienthal's brainchild X-Apartments, Mobile Academy's Blackmarket, and Rimini Protokoll's 100% City, the book explores both the artistic agenda of an important European theatre institution, and a crucial aspect of contemporary theatre's social engagement.

Real Life Drama
Real Life Drama

Author: Wendy Smith

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0345805992

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Real Life Drama is the classic history of the remarkable group that revitalized American theater in the 1930s by engaging urgent social and moral issues that still resonate today. Born in the turbulent decade of the Depression, the Group Theatre revolutionized American arts. Wendy Smith's dramatic narrative brings the influential troupe and its founders to life once again, capturing their joys and pains, their triumphs and defeats. Filled with fresh insights into the towering personalities of Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, Clifford Odets, Stella and Luther Adler, Karl Malden, and Lee J. Cobb, among many others, Real Life Drama chronicles a passionate community of idealists as they opened a new frontier in theater.

Undesirable Elements
Undesirable Elements

Author: Ping Chong

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1559366532

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"The cumulative power of these shared stories is nothing short of astonishing. Ping Chong creates a tremendous tapestry of lives."—Twin Cities Reader This three-piece volume of Undesirable Elements, the community-specific theater works series, examines the lives of those born into one culture but living in another. Each production grows out of an extended residency, during which Ping Chong and his collaborators conduct interviews of community members and then create a script that explores both historical and personal narratives. Ping Chong is a theater director, playwright, choreographer, and video and installation artist. The recipient of two OBIE awards, two Bessie awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has created more than fifty works for the stage, including twenty-five in his Undesirable Elements series.

Real Theatre
Real Theatre

Author: Paul Rae

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1107186595

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Draws on musicals, plays and experimental performances to show what theatre is made of and how we experience it.

Theatre as a Medium for Children and Young People: Images and Observations
Theatre as a Medium for Children and Young People: Images and Observations

Author: Shifra Schonmann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-07-10

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1402044402

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This book is a journey into the dual territory of educational and theatrical settings. It advances the knowledge in these settings by touching upon provocative questions, by dealing with the limitations and challenging the new possibilities of theatre for young people. It is an attempt to bring intellectual rigor and some theoretical perspectives drawn from recent theatre and aesthetic theory to the field of theatre for young people.

Improvising Real Life
Improvising Real Life

Author: Jo Salas

Publisher:

Published: 2019-03-25

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780964235090

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Describes the origins, practice, and principles of Playback Theatre, an original form of interactive, improvisation theatre based on true stories told by audience members and enacted on the spot.

Theatre of Witness
Theatre of Witness

Author: Teya Sepinuck

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1849053820

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Exploring diverse human experiences in the US, Poland and Northern Ireland, this book is of interest to practitioners and students of applied theatre, peace and conflict studies, professionals working in conflict resolution, counselors, psychotherapists, professionals in the field of criminal and restorative justice, and spiritual seekers.

Theatre of the Oppressed
Theatre of the Oppressed

Author: Augusto Boal

Publisher: Get Political

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780745328386

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''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton

Real-World Theatre Education
Real-World Theatre Education

Author: Chip Rome

Publisher:

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780986358708

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Beyond lesson plans lurks the world of field trips, facilities, casting, directing, equipment, parents, finances, conferences, competitions, and collaboration. Real-World Theatre Education is a manual for learning how to ask the right questions and anticipate the challenges that come while navigating the unpredictable waters of teaching theatre. Learn to reach out for support, diffuse divas, connect with colleagues, organize productions---and keep your head above water! More info, including our table of contents and appendix items, is available on the EducationalStages website.

Theatre and Everyday Life
Theatre and Everyday Life

Author: Alan Read

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 113491458X

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Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance. Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment. His book is a persuasive demand for a critical theory of theatre which is as mentally supple as theatre is physically versatile.