Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Performance

Few playwrights have been more slandered, abused or honoured in performance than William Shakespeare.

First published in 1992, this collection of 300 stories focuses on Shakespeare s plays on stage. Organised chronologically, it offers the reader the opportunity to witness the changes in theatrical approaches to Shakespeare from their own time to the present day.

This book will be of interest to those studying theatre, but also to those fascinated by the Shakespeare tradition.

Diese Publikation dokumentiert das gleichnamige Kunstfestival der Universitat fur angewandte Kunst Wien in einer multimedialen Gesamtschau. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Hybrids aus Buch und digitalen Medium steht ein Datentrager mit Kurzfilmen und Interviews der teilnehmenden PerformancekunstlerInnen. Die Dokumentation vergangener Interventionen im offentlichen Raum wird so in eine permanente Ausstellung transformiert.

This book brings the insights of theatre theory to the jurisprudential, in order to elaborate a new practice of responsibility. The theatrical, which here forms the basis of a theatrical jurisprudence, draws upon the forms of theatre theory that took shape in the 20th century, as they constitute training in a particular form of morality, inculcating a sense of responsibility beyond the self. Such forms of conduct are deeply resonant with the intentions of the jurisprudential, but with one key difference. The training of the performer is one that is rigorous and demanding, working with the...

Dazzle Camouflage offers two profiles of contemporary theater artists, Jenny Romaine and The Eggplant Faerie Players, generating analysis about their shared transformative theatrical strategies. Using oral history, archival research, and experiences working with these artists, the author tells their stories and identifies the roles of Dazzle Camouflage, Re-Mixing History, and Rehearsing Resistance in their work. Both profiles are interwoven with progressive Jewish and Queer culture and politics.

The rise and rise of cognitive science and its impact on theatre studies has been significant over the last decade. Now the crossover between 'cog sci' and phenomenology is getting increased attention, but there are few scholars able to explore both fields and their relation to acting theory, and even fewer who can do so with reference to a lifetime of actual practice. Phillip Zarrilli is the leading scholar in the phenomenology of acting. This new book is a more direct engagement with phenomenology and cognitive science, proposing a new type of fieldwork to explore the structures of...

The rise and rise of cognitive science and its impact on theatre studies has been significant over the last decade. Now the crossover between 'cog sci' and phenomenology is getting increased attention, but there are few scholars able to explore both fields and their relation to acting theory, and even fewer who can do so with reference to a lifetime of actual practice. Phillip Zarrilli is the leading scholar in the phenomenology of acting. This new book is a more direct engagement with phenomenology and cognitive science, proposing a new type of fieldwork to explore the structures of...

Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital.