Tackling vital issues of politics, identity and experience in performance, this book asks what Shakespeare's plays mean when extended beyond the English language. From April to June 2012 the Globe to Globe Festival offered the unprecedented opportunity to see all of Shakespeare's plays performed in many different world languages. Thirty-eight productions from around the globe were presented in six weeks as part of the World Shakespeare Festival, which formed a cornerstone of the Cultural Olympics. This book provides the only complete critical record of that event, drawing together an...
Tackling vital issues of politics, identity and experience in performance, this book asks what Shakespeare's plays mean when extended beyond the Engli...
The audience is an integral part of performance and is in fact what separates a rehearsal from a performance. The relationship, however, between performers and the audience has evolved over time, which is one of the subjects addressed, along with the changing disposition of the audience itself and a number of other topics, in Gods and Groundlings, volume 20 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium. The essays in this volume discuss spectatorship in historical context, the role of the audience in the digital age, the early modern English transvestite theatre, Annie Oakley and...
The audience is an integral part of performance and is in fact what separates a rehearsal from a performance. The relationship, however, between perfo...
This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research.
This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieva...
The four hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare s death in 2016 has seen a wealth of programming, projecting his cultural legacy, entertainment value, and economic impact at sites all across the world. The essays assembled for Volume 16 of The Shakespearean International Yearbook explore the various ways Shakespeare has been invoked at a selection of those sites. An international group of scholars illustrate his global complexity and diversity, exploring the reproduction of his plays, their intersection and transformation in places both well-known and unfamiliar. Our Special Section,...
The four hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare s death in 2016 has seen a wealth of programming, projecting his cultural legacy, entertainment value...
Sound provides the first overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Exploring areas such as music, speech and soundscape, this volume will open up the study of theatrical production and live performance to engage more effectively its aural dimensions. By way of developed case studies, including Shakespeare's The Tempest and Pina Bausch's dance-theatre piece 1980, readers will access new methodologies and approaches for their own exploration of 'sound' as a performance component. In an engagement with the...
Sound provides the first overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Exploring are...
Starting with a premise that memory holds such a privileged place in contemporary experience, Theory for Theatre Studies: Memory explores the intersections between contemporary theatre and performance, the interdisciplinary field of memory studies, and current preoccupations with the politics of memory across the globe. After offering a fresh critical snapshot of the major theoretical foundations for the study of memory today, the book presents vivid theatrical examples from across the globe and compellingly illustrates the centrality of memory for the theatre as well as the vital...
Starting with a premise that memory holds such a privileged place in contemporary experience, Theory for Theatre Studies: Memory explores th...
Sound provides the first overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Exploring areas such as music, speech and soundscape, this volume will open up the study of theatrical production and live performance to engage more effectively its aural dimensions. By way of developed case studies, including Shakespeare's The Tempest and Pina Bausch's dance-theatre piece 1980, readers will access new methodologies and approaches for their own exploration of 'sound' as a performance component. In an engagement with the...
Sound provides the first overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Exploring are...
The body in performance. The performing body. The body of the audience. How do these three, overlapping bodies determine how we understand the theatrical experience? In important ways, theatrical representations of the body and embodied performance allow audiences, performers, and scholars to consider how identity, authenticity, and physical experience intersect with understandings of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Using case studies including Marlon Brando's seminal Method performance in A Streetcar Named Desire, and the Wooster Group's recreation of Hamlet starring...
The body in performance. The performing body. The body of the audience. How do these three, overlapping bodies determine how we understand the thea...
This book offers the first comprehensive collection of interviews, critical overviews, and detailed analysis of Ivo van Hove's internationally acclaimed work as the foremost director of theatre, opera, and musicals in our time. Stunning production photos capture the power of van Hove's directorial vision, his innovative use of theatrical spaces, and the arresting stage images that have made his productions so popular among audiences worldwide over the last 30 years. Van Hove's own contribution to the book, which includes his director's notes for some of his most popular shows, makes this...
This book offers the first comprehensive collection of interviews, critical overviews, and detailed analysis of Ivo van Hove's internationally accl...
