Theatre studies Books

Duke Ellington's son Mercer has said that his father was frustrated in only one area of musical ambition: his desire to do his own Broadway show. Though Ellington wrote many theatrical pieces, he was never able to achieve success as a composer for the...

Dance is the art least susceptible to preservation since its embodied, kinaesthetic nature has proven difficult to capture in notation and even in still or moving images. However, frameworks have been established and guidance made available for keeping...

As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key...

Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement addresses the reshaping of theatre and performance after postmodernism. Andy Lavender argues provocatively that after the 'classic' postmodern tropes of detachment, irony, and contingency,...

"A theatre which is able to speak to each spectator in a different and penetrating language is not a fantastic idea, nor a utopia. This is the theatre for which many of us, directors and leaders of groups, trained for a long time....." - from the...

Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre Studies is a strikingly authoritative and wide-ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Its three-part structure moves from the first steps in starting to...

This book, from Europe's leading Mask director and co-founder of the Trestle Theatre Company, provides a fascinating demystification of the process of using masks.Full of simple explanations, and collating over twenty-five years' experience of writing...

A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides a fascinating overview of naturalist theatre. Innes has selected three writers, Ibsen, Chekhov and Bernard Shaw to exemplify the movement. A must for all students studying naturalist theatre.

A spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective.

Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the construction of a white bourgeois German self. Sutherland...

In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of democratic debate, the communication between the speaker and his audience in the public forum, whether the...

In Staging and Re- cycling , John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen re-visit and reappraise a selection of their work to explore how the retrieval, re-approaching and re-framing of material can offer pathways for new work and new thinking.The book includes a...

This book investigates audience experience through the lens of sensory engagement in immersive, one-to-one performance.

The Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions, providing an invaluable step-by-step guide.Beginning with a brief history of opera and detailing its...

The Business of American Theatre is a research guide to the history of producing theatre in the United States. Covering a wide range of subjects, the book explores how traditions of investment, marketing, labor union contracts, advertising, leasing...

Princess Dawnstar receives a vision that prompts her to lease land from an untrustworthy neighbor for the purpose of mining iron to replenish her nation's dwindling supply of steel, but politics prove to be as murky as the visions her ancestors showed...

From the fifty (yes, fifty) jobs he held down to keep the paychecks coming, author and playwright David H. Lewis takes you on his wild ride back and forth between... • Cleaning out rental cars in Oakland, and dining high on Park Avenue a few days later...

Kubrick's operatic exploration of the cosmos. Popeye Doyle in a commandeered car speeding after an elevated train. Jamie Lee Curtis' bare-breasted turn as a hooker. Alex DeLarge and his droogs on the rampage. The Man with No Name insisting a disbelieving...

Dies ist der achte Teil des Werkes "Improvisationstheater als Kunst". Er ist eine Handreichung für Impro-Spieler, die sich für die organisatorischen und finanziellen Belange ihrer Gruppe interessieren.Sowohl Amateure als auch Profis bekommen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Institut für Film-, Theater- und empirische Kulturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Seminar - Religion im Gegenwartstheater, Sprache:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit ist eine Inszenierungsanalyse von Philipp Preuss' Alice im Wunderland-Inszenierung am...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Institut für Film-, Theater- und empirische Kulturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Formen filmischen Erzählens, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Mediengeschichte, Note: 2, Universität Salzburg (Kommunikationswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Medien im Nationalsozialismus, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Bachelorarbeit mit dem...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kunst - Installationen, Aktionskunst, 'moderne' Kunst, Note: 1,7, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) (Institut für Kunst- und Baugeschichte), Veranstaltung: Urban Art - Künstlerische Guerilla-Taktiken...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,3, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Theaterraum ist per se ein vielgestaltiger. Das zeigt...

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Art - Installation / Action/Performance Art / Modern Art, grade: Distinction, Kingston University London (Kingston University London, in Partnership with the Design Museum, London, U.K.), course: MA Curating...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1998 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für Theaterwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Proseminar II: Alfred Hitchcock II, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Alfred...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für Theaterwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Proseminar II: Howard Hawks, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Männerbeziehungen...

Au cours d’une fin de semaine passée dans son château du Perche, le richissime parvenu Isidore Lechat, qui dispose d’un grand quotidien indispensable à ses affaires, en traite deux qui sont susceptibles de renforcer encore...

In this new book, the first of its kind in English, Simon Trowbridge traces the rich and sometimes turbulent history of France's national theatre company, the Comédie-Française, from its foundation in 1680 to the present day. The Comédie-Française has...

In this collection of six plays written by Jon Tuttle and performed at Columbia, SC’s cutting edge Trutus Theatre over a 14 year period of time we trace not just the evolution of a playwright, but that of a theatre and a culture, as well. In his...

Carol is disabled. She must apply to the Department for Work & Pensions for welfare. Abby applies for a well paying job assessing Personal Independence Payment claimants on behalf of the DWP. A stage play based on real conversations between disabled...

All's Well That Ends Well has baffled students, critics, and theater practitioners for centuries. But the confusing aspects of the play, both in its form and content, may be resolved when it is understood that the author was using the theater as a...

After moving to yet another new school and unexpectedly making friends with a hypermasculine trans ally, a gender-questioning teenager must fight back against bullies, friends, and his mother to finally embrace his identity as a trans boy. Content...

Ek Shaam Premchand Ke Naam is an anthology of Premchand’s short stories and stage adaptations of the same, along with glimpses into some of his defining life events. The narrative is very engrossing and presentation very dramatically visual.Kafan -...

REALITY SLOWS ME DOWN offers a wide variety of audition pieces for professional actors, as well as high school and college students and actors performing in community theaters. The contents have a broad range of choices in age, emotional tones, and...

Would You Kill the Savior of the World? Uzzi and Ezekiel have spent their entire lives hearing of the promised Messiah. While training at the temple, they hear of a baby born in a manger, who seems to fulfill all the prophecies. The rabbis tell the boys...

The title, "Rumore di acque", epitomizes the deceptive simplicity of the entire text, for "rumore" in this context suggests something more haunting and troubling than mere 'sound', and the plural "acque" similarly evokes something more haunting and...

This is the ultimate show-biz how-to guide for aspiring kids and their parents, written by Hollywood’s number-one kid-talent expert and executive producer for Disney, ABC, and the WB, Irene Dreayer (“the Dray”). As a thirty-year veteran...

Geniuses are few and far between. Most of them will have honors and prizes showered upon them. But there will be exceptions, numerous exceptions: We don't know how many because they never make it; they fall by the wayside. They believe themselves to be...

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.

Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.Finalist for the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, and Visual presented by the...