Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Theater - Stagecraft & Scenography

In a world flooded with information, images, and sounds - where the distinction between real and simulated becomes increasingly blurred - one of the most pressing concerns of the theatre is how to subvert the stock responses of an audience and make the well-known fresh and meaningful again. Situating the practice of theatrical estrangement firmly in its social and political contexts, Theatre of Estrangement looks at how this concern has manifested itself in Russian and German avant-garde theatre.

Silvija Jestrovic traces the concept of estrangement from its early formulation...

Eynat-Confino goes beyond the usual consideration of Craig s purported theories of the actor, scenery, and the scene painter to get at the heart of Craig s idea of theater.

She draws not only on the research of contemporary Craig scholars but on material hitherto unavailablehis writings and daybooks and the writings of friends. She ties Craig s encounter with Isadora Duncan to a decisive modification in his notion of movement. To have an instrument more controllable than the actor, he invented the uber-marionette, a giant puppet. Craig also invented the Scene, a kinetic stage, the...

In Ghosts, Alice Rayner examines theatre as a memorial practice that is haunted by the presence of loss, looking at how aspects of stagecraft turn familiar elements into something uncanny. Citing examples from the works of Shakespeare, Beckett, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as the films Vertigo, Gaslight, and The Sixth Sense, she begins by describing time as it is employed by...

In Ghosts, Alice Rayner examines theatre as a memorial practice that is haunted by the presence of loss, looking at how aspects of stagecraft turn familiar elements into something uncanny. Citing examples from the works of Shakespeare, Beckett, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as the films Vertigo, Gaslight, and The Sixth Sense, she begins by describing time as it is employed by...