ilość książek w kategorii: 1384
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Commedia Dell'Arte: A Handbook for Troupes
ISBN: 9780415204095 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A companion to John Rudlin's best-selling Commedia dell'Arte: A Handbook for Actors, this book covers both the history and professional practice of commedia dell'arte companies from 1568 to the present day. Indispensable for both the beginner and the professional, it contains historical and contemporary company case histories, details on company organisation, and tips on practical stagecraft.
Essential for students and practitioners, this book enables the reader to understand how successful commedia dell'arte companies function, and how we can learn from past and current practice... A companion to John Rudlin's best-selling Commedia dell'Arte: A Handbook for Actors, this book covers both the history and professional pract...
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190,96 |
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A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre
ISBN: 9780415238328 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Director Prepares is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly and with wisdom of the courage required to create 'art with great presence'.
Each chapter tackles one of the seven major areas Bogart has identified as both potential partner and potential obstacle to art-making. They are Violence; Memory; Terror; Eroticism; Stereotype; Embarrassment; and Resistance. Each one can be used to generate extraordinary creative energy, if we know how to use it. A Director Prepares offers every practitioner an... A Director Prepares is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly and with wisdo...
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220,35 |
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American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History
ISBN: 9780415241397 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This stunning contribution to the field of theatre history is the first in-depth look at avant-garde theatre in the United States from the early 1950s to the 1990s. American Avant-Garde Theatre offers a definition of the avant-garde, and looks at its origins and theoretical foundations by examining:
*Gertrude Stein *John Cage *The Beat writers *Avant-garde cinema *Abstract Expressionism *Minimalism There are fascinating discussions and illustrations of the productions of the Living Theatre, the Wooster Group, Open Theatre, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre and... This stunning contribution to the field of theatre history is the first in-depth look at avant-garde theatre in the United States from the early 1950s...
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200,76 |
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An Introduction to Theatre Design
ISBN: 9780415547543 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introduction to theatre design explains the theories, strategies, and tools of practical design work for the undergraduate student.
This introduction to theatre design explains the theories, strategies, and tools of practical design work for the undergraduate student.
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293,81 |
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Contemporary Mise En Scène: Staging Theatre Today
ISBN: 9780415553445 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study considers the staged reading, and the frontiers of mise en scene scenography, which sometimes replaces staging the reinterpretation of classical and contemporary works the extension of intercultural theatre and ritual new technologies and their live usage on the stage the postmodern practice of deconstruction.
This study considers the staged reading, and the frontiers of mise en scene scenography, which sometimes replaces staging the reinterpretation of clas...
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259,53 |
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Russians in Britain: British Theatre and the Russian Tradition of Actor Training
ISBN: 9780415591003 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Komisarjevsky in the 1920s, to Cheek by Jowl's Russian 'sister company' almost a century later, Russian actor training has had a unique influence on modern British theatre. Russians in Britain, edited by Jonathan Pitches, is the first work of its type to identify a relationship between both countries' theatrical traditions as continuous as it is complex. Unravelling new strands of transmission and translation linking the great Russian emigre practitioners to the second and third generation artists who responded to their ideas, Russians in Britain takes in: ... From Komisarjevsky in the 1920s, to Cheek by Jowl's Russian 'sister company' almost a century later, Russian actor training has had a unique influe... |
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190,96 |
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A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting
ISBN: 9780415812009 / Angielski / Miękka / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a nuts-and-bolts look at the construction and implementation of theatrical lighting design. Combining theory and application, it provides an analysis of lighting systems along with step-by-step examples and illustrations of the technical tools and methods used for lighting design.
This is a nuts-and-bolts look at the construction and implementation of theatrical lighting design. Combining theory and application, it provides an a...
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269,33 |
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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre, Volume 3: The Technical Brief Collection
ISBN: 9780415824309 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technical Design Solutions for Theatre is a collection of single-focus articles detailing technical production solutions that have appeared in The Technical Brief Collection, a publication of the Yale School of Drama s Technical Design and Production Department. The primary objective of the publication was to share creative solutions to technical problems so that fellow theatre technicians can avoid having to reinvent the wheel with each new challenge. The range of topics includes scenery, props, painting, projections, sound, and costumes. Each article describes an approach,... Technical Design Solutions for Theatre is a collection of single-focus articles detailing technical production solutions that have appeared in <... |
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284,01 |
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Performing Democracy: International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance
ISBN: 9780472067602 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Performing Democracy explores aspects of a developing form of performance that works to change social conditions for marginalized groups or to preserve the traditions and cohesion of the community. The book combines critical analysis with field reports on specific projects and productions to explore the issues that confront community-based performance. The range of topics is impressive, and includes performances in North America, Australia, the Middle East, Bosnia, Taiwan, Korea, England, and the Netherlands. Many articles include production photos.
The book's first section focuses... Performing Democracy explores aspects of a developing form of performance that works to change social conditions for marginalized groups or to ...
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293,60 |
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The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography
ISBN: 9780521612326 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scenography the manipulation and orchestration of the performance environment is an increasingly popular and key area in performance studies. This book introduces the reader to the purpose, identity and scope of scenography and its theories and concepts. Settings and structures, light, projected images, sound, costumes and props are considered in relation to performing bodies, text, space and the role of the audience. Concentrating on scenographic developments in the twentieth century, the Introduction examines how these continue to evolve in the twenty-first century. Scenographic principles...
Scenography the manipulation and orchestration of the performance environment is an increasingly popular and key area in performance studies. This boo...
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117,66 |
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Essentials of Stage Management
ISBN: 9780713665284 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this guide, Peter Maccoy examines the qualities and skills necessary for effective stage management, stressing the importance of understanding both the creative and the technical processes involved in theatre. The advice featured covers such topics as contracts, rehearsals and performance.
In this guide, Peter Maccoy examines the qualities and skills necessary for effective stage management, stressing the importance of understanding both...
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144,30 |
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Play and Performance: Play and Culture Studies, Volume 11
ISBN: 9780761855316 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Play and Performance broadens the understanding of what play is. The chapters cover an array of practices that can be seen across the play to performance continuum, providing advocates, researchers, and practitioners a wealth of practical and theoretical ideas for expanding the use of performance as a tool.
Play and Performance broadens the understanding of what play is. The chapters cover an array of practices that can be seen across the play to performa...
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191,02 |
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A Primer in Theatre History: From the Greeks to the Spanish Golden Age
ISBN: 9780761860037 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Primer in Theatre History covers productions, personalities, theories, innovations, and plays from ancient Greece to the Spanish Golden Age. Grange discusses theatre from 534 BC in Athens to 1681 AD in Madrid. The book contains highly informative chapters on theatre culture in the ancient classical world, the medieval period, the Italian Renaissance, classical Asia, German-speaking Europe, France to 1658, and England to 1642. Following a wide-ranging introduction, chapters allow the uninitiated reader straightforward access to well-researched material, often presented in a humorous and...
A Primer in Theatre History covers productions, personalities, theories, innovations, and plays from ancient Greece to the Spanish Golden Age. Grange ...
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171,42 |
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Narrating the Past Through Theatre: Four Crucial Texts
ISBN: 9781137275417 / Angielski / Twarda / 89 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This cutting-edge title explores how narrating the past both conflicts and creates an interesting relationship with drama's 'continuing present' that arcs towards an unpredictable future. Theatre both brings the past alive and also fixes it, but through the performance process, allowing the past to be molded for future (not-yet-existent) audiences.
This cutting-edge title explores how narrating the past both conflicts and creates an interesting relationship with drama's 'continuing present' that ...
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201,24 |
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A History of Collective Creation
ISBN: 9781137331298 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book explores collective creation's roots in the theatrical experiments of the early twentieth century.
Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, bu...
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201,24 |
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Directing - A Handbook for Emerging Theatre Directors
ISBN: 9781408127650 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theatre director is one of the most critical roles in a successful drama company, yet there are no formal qualifications required for entry into this profession. This practical guide for emerging theatre directors answers all the key questions from the very beginning of your career to key stages as you establish your credentials and get professionally recognized. It analyzes the director's role through relationships with the actors, author, designer, production manager and creative teams and provides vital advice for "on-the-job" situations where professional experience is invaluable.... The theatre director is one of the most critical roles in a successful drama company, yet there are no formal qualifications required for entry int... |
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112,60 |
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The Actor and the Text
ISBN: 9781557831385 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Applause Acting Series). These words of Cicely Berry, the voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speak to anyone who needs to speak his or her piece in any arena, at sales meetings or religious revivals. Berry's book will insure that the speaker and the text gets heard accurately and with true emotional range. Never again will one be accused of simply "reading a prepared statement." Berry's exercises to develop relaxation, breathing and muscular control will literally help everyone breathe easier when confronting the printed page.
(Applause Acting Series). These words of Cicely Berry, the voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, speak to anyone who needs to speak his or ...
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88,11 |
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Edward Gordon Craig: A Vision of Theatre
ISBN: 9789057021251 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this new and updated edition of his well-known study, readers will gain insight into a key period of theatrical history and the life of one of its most fascinating individuals.
In this new and updated edition of his well-known study, readers will gain insight into a key period of theatrical history and the life of one of its ...
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235,04 |
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Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage, and the Art of Blending in
ISBN: 9781137274243 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Performing Ground explores camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment is central to the ways we negotiate our identities through space. The book offers a critically rich investigation of how the performative practice of camouflage renders the politics of space, power, and gender (in)visible.
Performing Ground explores camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment is central to the ways we neg...
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201,24 |
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Long Form Improvisation and American Comedy: The Harold
ISBN: 9781137376572 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long form scenic improv began with the Harold. The comic philosophy of this form started an era of comedy marked by support, trust, and collaboration. This book tells of the Harold, beginning with the development of improv theatre, through the tensions and evolutions that led to its creation at iO, and to its use in contemporary filmmaking.
Long form scenic improv began with the Harold. The comic philosophy of this form started an era of comedy marked by support, trust, and collaboration....
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201,24 |