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Author: Kathy Elgin
Publisher: Cherrytree Books
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781842341896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe theatres and how they were organised - Elizabethan plays - Actors - Stage, sets and costumes - Entertainment for the rich and the poor - Sports and outdoor activities - Timeline.
Author: Kathy Elgin
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780756508883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the evolution of theater as popular entertainment in England in the 16th century.
Author: Marvin Edward McAllister
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780807854501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMcAllister offers a history of black theater pioneer William Brown's career and places his productions within the broader context of U.S. social, political, and cultural history.
Author: Jim Davis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-09-16
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1137321075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat do we mean by entertainment? How does this concept relate to theatre? Should theatre be for pleasure or instruction? Can it not be both? In this stimulating book, Jim Davis examines the relationship between theatre and entertainment by assessing audience reception, political theatre and melodrama. He explores definitions of entertainment, arguing that it can be found embedded in all forms of theatre, not just the 'popular'. Davis concludes with a review of contemporary perspectives on the topic and questions the limits of entertainment in theatrical performance.
Author: Millie Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1317091361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is it about musical theatre that audiences find entertaining? What are the features that lead to its ability to stimulate emotional attachment, to move and to give pleasure? Beginning from the passion musical theatre performances arouse and their ubiquity in London's West End and on Broadway this book explores the ways in which musical theatre reaches out to and involves its audiences. It investigates how pleasure is stimulated by vocal, musical and spectacular performances. Early discussions centre on the construction of the composed text, but then attention is given to performance and audience response. Musical theatre contains disruptions and dissonances in its multiple texts, it allows gaps for audiences to read playfully. This combines with the voluptuous sensations of embodied emotion, contagiously and viscerally shared between audience and stage, and augmented through the presence of voice and music. A number of features are discovered in the construction of musical theatre performance texts that allow them to engage the intense emotional attachment of their audiences and so achieve enormous popularity. In doing this, the book challenges the conception of musical theatre as 'only entertainment'. Entertainment instead becomes a desirable, ephemeral and playful concept.
Author: Tim Etchells
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415173827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the process of devising performance, theatre's interdisciplinary role, and the city's influence.
Author: Tim Etchells
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForced Entertainment's Bloody mess defies categorisation, creating a startling and comical new logic from the collisions of disconnected characters, stories and performances.
Author: Yasmina Reza
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780822223993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE STORY: A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tension
Author: Don Franks
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-12-03
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 1476608067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat show won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in 1984? Who won the Oscar as Best Director in 1929? What actor won the Best Actor Obie for his work in Futz in 1967? Who was named “Comedian of the Year” by the Country Music Association in 1967? Whose album was named “Record of the Year” by the American Music Awards in 1991? What did the National Broadway Theatre Awards name as the “Best Musical” in 2003? This thoroughly updated, revised and “highly recommended” (Library Journal) reference work lists over 15,000 winners of twenty major entertainment awards: the Oscar, Golden Globe, Grammy, Country Music Association, New York Film Critics, Pulitzer Prize for Theater, Tony, Obie, New York Drama Critic’s Circle, Prime Time Emmy, Daytime Emmy, the American Music Awards, the Drama Desk Awards, the National Broadway Theatre Awards (touring Broadway plays), the National Association of Broadcasters Awards, the American Film Institute Awards and Peabody. Production personnel and special honors are also provided.
Author: Susan Valladares
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-09
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1317050711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Peninsular campaign. In the first in-depth study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment of the war within the larger political and ideological axes of Romantic performance. Exploring the role of spectacle in the mediation of war and the links between theatrical productions and print culture, she argues that the popularity of theatre-going and the improvisation and topicality unique to dramatic performance make the theatre an ideal lens for studying the construction of the Peninsular War in the public domain. Without simplifying the complex issues involved in the study of citizenship, communal identities, and ideological investments, Valladares recovers a wartime theatre that helped celebrate military engagements, reform political sympathies, and register the public’s complex relationship with Britain’s military campaign in the Iberian Peninsula. From its nuanced reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro (1799), to its accounts of wartime productions of Shakespeare, description of performances at the minor theatres, and detailed case study of dramatic culture in Bristol, Valladares’s book reveals how theatrical entertainments reflected and helped shape public feeling on the Peninsular campaign.
