Theatre Studies

ISBN-13: 9780230211414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str.

Kenneth Pickering

Opis

An interactive text covering the requirements of undergraduate and diploma courses in theatre, drama and performing arts, successfully integrating both practical and theoretical work. The authors draw on considerable experience of contemporary practice and provide fascinating examples of theatre at work through text and improvisation.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Initial Explorations.- Exploring Theatre Spaces.- Developing Theatre Skills.- Approaches to Acting.- Varieties of Theatre Performance.- Theatre in Context and Understanding the Zeitgeist.- Devising and Writing for the Theatre.- Undertaking a Research Project.- Audiences and Spectators.- The Study of Theatre: Reflection and Analysis.- List of Plays Cited.- Index.

O autorze

PROFESSOR KENNETH PICKERING successfully combines the careers of playwright/librettist, theatre director, academic, examiner and writer. With over twenty published plays to his credit and a similar number of books on aspects of theatre he has been Professor of Theatre at Universities on both sides of the Atlantic and Chief Examiner for a number of major awarding bodies. He has made a special study of ensuring that Theatre Studies is an accessible discipline for a wide variety of undergraduate courses.

MARK WOOLGAR is Head of Performing Arts, Richmond Adult Community College, UK.