Street Theatre & Other Outdoor
Author: Bim Mason
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1134912072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Street Theatre and Other Outdoor Performance
Author: Bim Mason
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0415070503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA description, analysis and celebration of outdoor theatre. Bim Mason examines some of the less well known methods as well as the performance practices of the most established British and European Companies.
Sports Journalism
Author: Dr. Rajender Lal
Publisher: Friends Publications India
Published: 2020-05-24
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9388457749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sports journalist of today needs to be well equipped for the digital age. From the challenges of minute-by-minute reporting to the demands of writing for online outlets, blogging and podcasting, sports journalism is now fully immersed in new and social media. Sports Journalism will give you the skills you need to navigate these new platforms, whilst also teaching you the basics of interviewing, reporting, feature writing for print and commentary for radio and television.
Theatre
Author: Marvin Carlson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0199669821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheatre is one of the longest-standing art forms of modern civilization. Taking a global look at how various forms of theatre - including puppetry, dance, and mime - have been interpreted and enjoyed, this book explores all aspects of the theatre, including its relationship with religion, literature, and its value worldwide.
Weathering Shakespeare
Author: Evelyn O'Malley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-12-24
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1350078085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the ASLE-UKI 2022 Book Prize From The Pastoral Players' 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary site-specific productions activist interventions, there is a rich history of open air performances of Shakespeare's plays beyond their early modern origins. Weathering Shakespeare reveals how new insights from the environmental humanities can transform our understanding of this popular performance practice. Drawing on audience accounts of outdoor productions of those plays most commonly chosen for open air performance – including A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest – the book examines how performers and audiences alike have reacted to unpredictable natural environments.
Popular Theatre
Author: Joel Schechter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1136412204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBertolt Brecht turned to cabaret; Ariane Mnouchkine went to the circus; Joan Littlewood wanted to open a palace of fun. These were a few of the directors who turned to popular theatre forms in the last century, and this sourcebook accounts for their attraction. Popular theatre forms introduced in this sourcebook include cabaret, circus, puppetry, vaudeville, Indian jatra, political satire, and physical comedy. These entertainments are highly visual, itinerant, and readily understood by audiences. Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook follows them around the world, from the bunraku puppetry of Japan to the masked topeng theatre of Bali to South African political satire, the San Francisco Mime Troupe's comic melodramas, and a 'Fun Palace' proposed for London. The book features essays from the archives of The Drama Review and other research. Contributions by Roland Barthes, Hovey Burgess, Marvin Carlson, John Emigh, Dario Fo, Ron Jenkins, Joan Littlewood, Brooks McNamara, Richard Schechner, and others, offer some of the most important, informative, and lively writing available on popular theatre. Introducing both Western and non-Western popular theatre practices, the sourcebook provides access to theatrical forms which have delighted audiences and attracted stage artists around the world.
Performance, Style and Gesture in Western Theatre
Author: Nicholas Dromgoole
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-03-02
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1783192305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil the beginning of the 20th Century, when naturalism began to assert its powerful influence on western theatre, acting was a very different business indeed. Rather than attempting to reproduce realistic behaviour, actors conveyed their characters' feelings and intentions by using a vocabulary of minutely prescribed and highly stylised movements and gestures, each with it's own meaning and significance. In this wide-ranging, illustrated survey, Nicholas Dromgoole traces the origins and evolution of this lost 'language of gesture' from ancient Greece to the contemporary stage, and asks what it would actually have been like to watch the great plays - and the great actors - of western theatre in their own day.
Performance: A Critical Introduction
Author: Marvin Carlson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1136498656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an overview of the modern concept of performance and its development in various related fields; including the development of performance art since the 1960s, the relationship between performance, postmodernism, the politics of identity and current cultural studies, and the recent theoretical developments in the study of performance in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics and technology.
Learning and Teaching in a Metropolis
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9042027967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a valuable contribution to our thinking about education in a modern metropolis. One of the strengths of this book is its diversity of topics which range from research with young children to adult learners, and compulsory schooling to higher education. The contributors are concerned with the particular demands of teaching and learning in a diverse educational context such as East London and offer perceptive insights into the complex issues that arise from this experience. This is a thought-provoking and highly informative publication of the research ideas and professional experiences of our current educators. The authors illustrate the rich experience of the ever-evolving field of education by bringing together research and observations from their professional practice. Their aim is to support learning and teaching, through stimulating readers’ thinking about education, pedagogy, ways of learning, and the subjects that they teach. Edited by three authors who have substantial experience in a wide range of educational settings both nationally and internationally, this book is for students, academics, teacher educators and all those who are involved in leading and delivering education in one way or another.
Provocation in Popular Culture
Author: Bim Mason
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-24
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1317527984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat role can provocation play in the process of renewal, both of individuals and of societies? Provocation in Popular Culture is an investigation into the practice of specific provocateurs and the wider nature of cultural provocation, examining, among others: Banksy Sacha Baron Cohen Leo Bassi Pussy Riot Philippe Petit Archaos. Drawing on Bim Mason’s own twenty-five year career as performer, teacher and creative director, this book explores the power negotiations involved in the relationship between provocateur and provoked, and the implications of maintaining a position on the ‘edge’. Using neuroscience as a bridge, it proposes a similarity between complexity theory and cultural theories of play and risk. Three inter-related analogies for the ‘edge’ on which these performers operate – the fulcrum, the blade and the border – reveal the shifts between structure and fluidity, and the ways in which these can combine in a single moment.
