ilość książek w kategorii: 1225
Theatre for Working-Class Audiences in the United States, 1830-1980
ISBN: 9780313246296 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays defines and explores American theatres that consciously appealed primarily to workers. The scope of the book extends from the 1830s to the 1980s. Different authors focus on how various plays related to the audience as a class, the historically dynamic interaction between spectators and actors, and why certain plays gained popularity. The collection encompasses essays concerning New York theatre in the 1830s and 1840s, Pittsburgh theatre in the 1870s, various immigrant productions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the politically radical theatre... This collection of essays defines and explores American theatres that consciously appealed primarily to workers. The scope of the book extends from... |
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578,87 zł |
International Guide to Children's Theatre and Educational Theatre: A Historical and Geographical Source Book
ISBN: 9780313248818 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Swortzell has constructed a seminal reference work that chronicles the history, current state of artistic achievement, and foremost future needs of children's theater in 44 different countries. . . . an excellent first resource for diverse forms of research, and quite accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students. Choice After a visit to the Children's Educational Theatre in New York City, the first American theatre intended specifically for children and adolescents, Mark Twain declared that children's theatre is one of the very, very great inventions of the... Swortzell has constructed a seminal reference work that chronicles the history, current state of artistic achievement, and foremost future needs of... |
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506,54 zł |
The Simple Stage: Its Origins in the Modern American Theater
ISBN: 9780313257155 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about leaders of the modern American theater who resisted the temptation to fill the stage, preferring instead the evocations of a simple stage. Their work initially raised controversy, being applauded as visionary and poetic by some, drab and monotonous by others. And yet today the simplified stage is a well-established part of American theater practice. Feinsod begins his examination of these leading theater artists with a look at the precedents and influences of the modern simple stage. Drawing from diverse historic and cultural traditions, the first American simplifiers... This book is about leaders of the modern American theater who resisted the temptation to fill the stage, preferring instead the evocations of a sim... |
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578,87 zł |
Nineteenth-Century American Women Theatre Managers
ISBN: 9780313291418 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many women held positions of great responsibility and power in the United States during the 19th century as theatre managers: managing stock companies, owning or leasing theatres, hiring actors and other personnel, selecting plays for production, directing rehearsals, supervising all production details, and promoting their dramatic offerings. Competing in risky business ventures, these women were remarkable for defying societal norms that restricted career opportunities for women. The activities of more than 50 such women are discussed in Nineteenth-Century American Women Theatre Managers,... Many women held positions of great responsibility and power in the United States during the 19th century as theatre managers: managing stock compan... |
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458,33 zł |
The Theatre Team: Playwright, Producer, Director, Designers, and Actors
ISBN: 9780313300509 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Successful theatrical productions are a team effort and require the close cooperation of the playwright, producer, director, designers, and actors. The group responsible for selecting a play and the style of its production must first reach a consensus on their reason for being and their rationale for approaching an audience. The goals and modes of production are constantly evolving, requiring theatre personnel to be constantly conversant with shifts in the functions of members of theatre teams, in forms and styles of drama, and in techniques of staging. This book stresses the need for... Successful theatrical productions are a team effort and require the close cooperation of the playwright, producer, director, designers, and actors.... |
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578,87 zł |
Adolphe Appia : Texts on Theatre
ISBN: 9780415068239 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adolphe Appia swept away the foundations of traditional theatre and set the agenda for the development of theatrical practice this century. Widely acknowledged as the most important innovator in the use of stage lighting, Appia's imagination ranged far beyond that, conceiving fundamental reforms of scenic design, directing, and the use of theatrical space. In Adolphe Appia: Texts on Theatre, Richard Beacham brings together for the first time selections from all his major works. The publication of these writings, many of which have long been unavailable in English, represents a significant...
Adolphe Appia swept away the foundations of traditional theatre and set the agenda for the development of theatrical practice this century. Widely ack...
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680,04 zł |
Happenings and Other Acts
ISBN: 9780415099363 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Articles, statements, interviews and essays by and about some of the most influential avant-garde artists and performers are gathered here. The artists include: Allan Kaprow, John Cage, Yvonne Rainer, Claes Oldenburg, Ann Halprin and George Maciunas. This important collection of original material concludes with a specially-commissioned essay by Gunther Berghaus, entitled European Happenings.
Articles, statements, interviews and essays by and about some of the most influential avant-garde artists and performers are gathered here. The artist...
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261,89 zł |
A Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance : On and Beyond the Stage
ISBN: 9780415106450 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is a collection of articles on feminist theatre and performance from The Drama Review (TDR). Carol Martin juxtaposes theory and practice to provide an overview of the development of feminist theatre. The collection includes texts by theorists such as Elin Diamond, Peggy Phelan and Lynda Hart and interviews with practitioners including Anna Deveare Smith and Robbie McCauley. It also contains full performance texts by two controversial practitioners of feminist theatre: Dress Suits to Hire by Holly Hughes and The Constant State of Desire by Karen Finley
This work is a collection of articles on feminist theatre and performance from The Drama Review (TDR). Carol Martin juxtaposes theory and practice to ...
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246,78 zł |
Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs : A Bibliography and Iconography
ISBN: 9780415247740 / Angielski / Twarda / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This bibliography is based on firsthand collations of publications found in public theatre libraries and archives of places including Barcelona, Brussels, Budapest, Florence, London, Milan, New York and Paris. Over 4000 entries on separately published sources such as books, sales and exhibition catalogues and pamphlets, not journal articles, provide a guide for theatre students, practitioners and historians. Indexes cover designers, productions, actors and performers. The iconography provides an indexed record of over 6000 printed plates of performers in role, illustrating performance costume...
This bibliography is based on firsthand collations of publications found in public theatre libraries and archives of places including Barcelona, Bruss...
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1763,09 zł |
Acting (Re)Considered : A Theoretical and Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780415262996 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance. This second edition includes five new essays and has been fully revised and updated, with discussions by or about major figures who have shaped theories and practices of acting and performance from the late 19th century to the present. The essays - by directors, historians, actor trainers and actors - bridge the gap between theories and practices of acting, and between East and West. No other book provides such a wealth of primary and secondary sources,...
This is a wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance. This second edi...
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654,86 zł |
Postdramatic Theatre
ISBN: 9780415268127 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre. In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theatre history, as an inventive response to the emergence of new technologies, and as an historical shift from a text-based culture to a new media age of image and sound. Engaging with theoreticians... Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms tha... |
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755,61 zł |
Theatre of Conscience 1939-53: A Study of Four Touring British Community Theatres
ISBN: 9780415270281 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theatres of Conscience offers an invaluable and essential insight into four touring British theatre companies whose work and contributions to post-war British theatre have largely gone unnoticed. Combining a rigorous scholarly evaluation of their work and their broadly ideological and ethical contribution to wider post-war developments in British theatre. Peter Billingham offers the reader a unique insight into four companies which, motivated by enthusiasm, principles and creative innovation, sought to take the theatre of conscience to theatre-less communities in wartime Britain and...
Theatres of Conscience offers an invaluable and essential insight into four touring British theatre companies whose work and contributions to...
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453,32 zł |
The Intercultural Performance Handbook
ISBN: 9780415281874 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fully illustrated manual for practitioners provides: a guide to the physical, vocal and improvisational dynamics of non-western performance; a new vocabulary with which to interpret plays from around the globe; games to use for exploring rhythm, movement, balance, tension and gesture, breathwork, stylization, and the use of the voice; and a practical approach to creating vibrant theatrical work. The book is provides exercises, advice and a clear training process for the inquiring actor or director.
This fully illustrated manual for practitioners provides: a guide to the physical, vocal and improvisational dynamics of non-western performance; a ne...
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654,86 zł |
The Intercultural Performance Handbook
ISBN: 9780415281881 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Intercultural Performance Handbook opens up a new world of technique for performers. The first ever full-length, fully illustrated manual for practitioners, it provides:
*a guide to the physical, vocal and improvisational dynamics drawn from world performance styles *a new vocabulary with which to interpret plays from around the globe *games to use for exploring rhythm, movement, balance, tension and gesture, breathwork, stylisation and the use of the voice *a practical approach to creating vibrant theatrical work. Studies on intercultural performance are usually... The Intercultural Performance Handbook opens up a new world of technique for performers. The first ever full-length, fully illustrated manual...
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161,14 zł |
Virtual Theatres : An Introduction
ISBN: 9780415283786 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welcome to theatre of the twenty-first century, in which everything - except for the viewer, can be simulated. Virtual Theatres is the first full-length book of its kind to offer an investigation of the interface between theatre performance and digital arts. Through discussion of a variety of artists and performers - including Stelarc, Orlan, Forced Entertainment, Merce Cunningham and Blast Theory, Gabriella Giannachi analyses the aesthetic concerns of current computer arts practices and shows how they radically question our conventional uses and definitions of time, space, place, character,...
Welcome to theatre of the twenty-first century, in which everything - except for the viewer, can be simulated. Virtual Theatres is the first full-leng...
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654,86 zł |
Virtual Theatres: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780415283793 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virtual Theatres presents the theatre of the twenty-first century in which everything - even the viewer - can be simulated. In this fascinating volume, Gabriella Giannachi analyses the aesthetic concerns of current computer-arts practices through discussion of a variety of artists and performers including Blast Theory Merce Cunningham Eduardo Kac Forced Entertainment Lynn Hershman Jodi Orlan Guillermo Gomez-Pena Marcel-la Ant.nez Roca Jeffrey Shaw Stelarc. This is the first full-length book of its kind to offer an investigation of the interface between theatre, performance and digital arts....
Virtual Theatres presents the theatre of the twenty-first century in which everything - even the viewer - can be simulated. In this fascinating volume...
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186,33 zł |
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture: From Simulation to Embeddedness
ISBN: 9780415368407 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems. The book examines the two Iraq wars, 9/11 and the War on Terror through the lens of performance studies, and, drawing on the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Martin Heidegger, alongside the dramas of Beckett, Genet and Shakespeare, and the theatre of the Kantor, Foreman, Societas Raffaello Sanzio and the... Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons... |
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755,61 zł |
The Community Performance Reader
ISBN: 9780415392303 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for this significant part of the theatre studies curriculum. It brings together core writings and critical approaches to community performance work, presenting practices in the UK, USA, Australia and beyond. Offering a comprehensive anthology of key writings in the vibrant field of community performance, spanning dance, theatre and visual practices, this Reader uniquely combines classic writings from major theorists and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Paolo Freire,... Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for this significant part of the theatre stu... |
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654,86 zł |
And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World
ISBN: 9780415411417 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From well-known auteur of the American theatre scene, Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act is a fascinating and accessible book about directing theatre, acting and the collaborative creative process. Writing clearly and passionately, Bogart speaks to a wide audience, from undergraduates to practitioners, and makes an invaluable contribution to the field tackling themes such as:
Following on from her successful book A Director Prepares, which has become... From well-known auteur of the American theatre scene, Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act is a fascinating and accessible book about directing ... |
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680,04 zł |
Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words
ISBN: 9780415941822 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words provides an ingenious guide to each significant word, line-by-line, scene-by-scene, in 18 of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It also looks at scansion, displays alternative pronunciations in different centuries and geographical areas, and provides a simple pronunciation guide requiring no knowledge of lexicographic symbols.
Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words provides an ingenious guide to each significant word, line-by-line, scene-by-scene, in 18 of Shakespeare's most popula...
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140,99 zł |