Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Reference

Discover the secrets of Hollywood storytelling in this fascinating collection, in which fifty screenwriters share the inside scoop about how they surmounted incredible odds to break into the business, how they transformed their ideas into box-office blockbusters, how their words helped launch the careers of major stars, and how they earned accolades and Academy Awards.

Entertaining, informative, and sometimes startling, Tales from the Script features exclusive interviews with film's top wordsmiths, including John Carpenter (Halloween), Nora Ephron (Julie &...

This carefully constructed and thorough collection of theoretical engagements with Augusto Boal s work is the first to look beyond Boal and critically assesses the Theatre of the Opressed (TO) movement in context.

A Boal Companion looks at the cultural practices which inform TO and explore them within a larger frame of cultural politics and performance theory. The contributors put TO into dialogue with complexity theory Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, race theory, feminist performance art, Deleuze and Guattari, and liberation psychology to name just a few, and in doing so, the kinship...

The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers with plenty of material to offer, yet sourcing one-act plays to perform is notoriously hard.

This companion is the first book to survey the work of over 250 playwrights in an illuminating A-Z guide. Multiple styles, nationalities and periods are covered, offering a treasure trove of compelling moments of theatre...

This lively and critical study is an examination of Tadashi Suzuki's work as a unique and vital force in both Japanese and Western theatre, and one of the world's greatest innovators and directors in contemporary theatre. The book explores Suzuki's theatre practice, re-evaluates is work, his development towards an international theatre aesthetic and his impact on performance all over the world. It features a DVD with practical Suzuki Method actor-training examples.

Using examples from plays and playwrights the reader has most likely encountered, The Well Read Play is structured to teach the reader how to identify context, structure, significance, and character. Its principle aim is to help the reader develop abilities to understand and enjoy reading plays.

A -how to- book for actors who want to develop a -can do- attitude to their profession in the face of rejection and intense competition. This book will inspire you to break out of the cycle of despondency and start to view yourself as a creative and autonomous individual who is valuable and employable.