Fourteen scholars who work on campus or in the theater address this issue of what it means to play offstage. With their individual definition of what "offstage" could mean, the results were, predictably, varied. They employed a variety of critical approaches to the question of what happens when the play moves into the audience or beyond the physical playhouse itself? What are the social, cultural, and political ramifications? Questions of "how" and "why" actors play offstage admit the larger "role" their production has for the world outside the theater, and hence this collection's sub-title:...
Fourteen scholars who work on campus or in the theater address this issue of what it means to play offstage. With their individual definition of what ...
Rooted in performance and performance criticism Comedy Acting for Theatre is a textbook which offers a detailed examination of how comedy works, along with advice for the actor sending a comic message, allowing them to better understand the communication of comedy from the point of view of both the performer and the audience. Applying the twin perspectives of theory and performance, the authors analyse a variety of plays, both modern and classic, from writers including Harold Pinter, Oscar Wilde, Tom Stoppard and Neil Simon, as well as an extensive exploration of acting in...
Rooted in performance and performance criticism Comedy Acting for Theatre is a textbook which offers a detailed examination of how comedy wo...
Rooted in performance and performance criticism Comedy Acting for Theatre is a textbook which offers a detailed examination of how comedy works, along with advice for the actor sending a comic message, allowing them to better understand the communication of comedy from the point of view of both the performer and the audience. Applying the twin perspectives of theory and performance, the authors analyse a variety of plays, both modern and classic, from writers including Harold Pinter, Oscar Wilde, Tom Stoppard and Neil Simon, as well as an extensive exploration of acting in...
Rooted in performance and performance criticism Comedy Acting for Theatre is a textbook which offers a detailed examination of how comedy wo...
This book examines portraits of Hitler and how we try to "explain" him in the movies, including comedies, fantasies, psychological studies, documentaries, and docudramas. It then considers how this film Hitler lives on in our culture, in everything from politics to merchandise.
This book examines portraits of Hitler and how we try to "explain" him in the movies, including comedies, fantasies, psychological studies, documentar...
Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others offers lines in five plays by Shakespeare and works by Beckett, Brecht, Pinter, Shepard, and Stoppard, aiding the reader in their own discovery of a pivotal line in the experience of reading about, watching, or performing in a play.
Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others offers lines in five plays by Shakespeare and works by Beckett, Brecht, Pinter, Shepard, and Stoppard, aiding...
