Theatre studies Books

In today's world, everyone needs to escape into a wonderful gentle play about a small village cat cafe and the kindness shown to a troubled family from the city by its owner, regular customers and its cats. This is a gentle comedy drama about exactly...

Das Buch ""Die Dramaturgie des Aristoteles"" von Oswald Marbach, erschienen im Jahr 1861, besch�����ftigt sich mit der Theorie der Trag������die und Kom������die nach Aristoteles. Marbach analysiert dabei die Schriften des griechischen Philosophen und...

Die Douglas: Historisch Romantisches Schauspiel in f�����nf Abteilungen mit Gesang und Ch������ren (1826) ist ein Werk des deutschen Schriftstellers Karl August Friedrich von Witzleben. Das Schauspiel erz�����hlt die Geschichte von Lady Jane Douglas, die...

""Die Don Juan-Sage Auf Der Buhne"" ist ein Buch aus dem Jahr 1887 von Karl Engel. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der Geschichte von Don Juan, einem ber�����hmten Frauenhelden, der in vielen literarischen Werken und Theaterst�����cken portr�����tiert...

Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies. Moving beyond simply noting its performative qualities or reading it via...

There are over 150 BFA and MFA acting programs in the US today, nearly all of which claim to prepare students for theatre careers. Peter Zazzali contends that the curricula of these courses represent an ethos that is as outdated as it is limited,...

What does it mean to study Shakespeare within a multicultural society? And who has the power to transform Shakespeare? The Diverse Bard explores how Shakespeare has been adapted by artists born on the margins of the Empire, and how actors of Asian and...

The Quintessential Zerka documents the origins and development of the theory and practice of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy through the work and innovation of its co-creator, Zerka Toeman Moreno. This comprehensive handbook brings...

Every dissertation is individual and unique - particularly for dance students, who must combine a wide range of approaches into a tailor-made research methodology. What Moves You? fosters a creative approach to dissertations and final projects. By...

For literary scholars, plays are texts; for scenographers, plays are performances. Yet clearly a drama is both text and performance. Dramatic Spaces examines period-specific stage spaces in order to assess how design shaped the thematic and experiential...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary studies and relevant social sciences) with insights from theatre and performance...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Could a treasure trove of 400-year-old letters constitute a previously unknown "diary" written by William Shakespeare? After 25 years of research, I believe the astonishing answer is yes. The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare: The...

Samantha Paris’s Finding the Bunny is an engaging and heart-warming combination of memoir, business book, inspirational story and inside look at today’s most ubiquitous, most influential, and most invisible art. Through narration, flashback,...

This is the new book from the author of Scenes for Teens and Acting Scenes for Kids and Tweens – a veteran actor with Hollywood and Broadway credits.Monologues for Teens is a collection of 60 Original Monologues on a wide...

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and conceptual thinking of performer training. Notions of time are embedded in almost every aspect of performer training, and so...

A Theory of Dramaturgy is the first text of its kind to define concepts and combine arguments into a coherent dramaturgical theory supported by an operative systems theory. This is a wide-ranging theory with historical and contemporary perspectives on...

On October 15, 1880, with great excitement and fanfare, two Sarah Bernhardts set sail for New York from Le Havre for a theatrical tour of the United States. One wanted to introduce French culture to a backward country, and the other wanted to make...

Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) likely suffered from a manic-depressive disorder but in his time very little was known about mental illness, and suicide was not a topic for general discussion. Wagner was often plagued by extreme mood swings; he...

Jason Robards won consecutive Oscars as best supporting actor for the films All the President's Men (1977) and Julia (1978) but he is particularly remembered for having created central roles in the later plays of Eugene O'Neill. This tribute honors...

Do politics and the playhouse go together? For Bernard Shaw they most certainly did. As a playwright with a message he saw the theatre as the ideal medium for conveying his view of life, which was essentially socialistic. The theatre was to Shaw a...

Examining the artistic, intellectual, and social life of performance, this book interrogates Theatre and Performance Studies through the lens of display and modern visual art. Moving beyond the exhibition of immaterial art and its documents, as well as...

Originally published in 2005, To Be A Playwright is an insightful and detailed guide to the craft of playwriting. Part memoir and part how-to guide, this useful book outlines the tools and techniques necessary to the aspiring playwright. Comprised of a...

This book presents a lucid, comprehensive, and entertaining narrative of culture and society in late 19th- and early 20th-century Maharashtra through a perceptive study of its theatre and cinema. An intellectual tour de force, it will be invaluable to...

Concert Sound and Lighting Systems provides comprehensive coverage of equipment and setup procedures for touring concert systems. The new edition will cover the new equipment now available and discuss other venues where the skills and technology are...

Between 1928 and 1932, J. P. McEvoy published six ingenious novels that unfold solely by way of letters, telegrams, newspaper articles, ads, telephone transcriptions, scripts, playbills, greeting card verses, interoffice memos, legal documents,...

« Les journées de Marathon, de Salamine et de Platée, en sauvant la Grèce, avaient donné l’essor à son génie, qui fit du Ve siècle avant notre ère l’époque du plus heureux...

In der gegenwärtigen Literatur zur Tänzerernährung werden verschiedene Tanzrichtungen und Leistungsniveaus nur geringfügig berücksichtigt. Speziell Tänzer im professionellen Bereich sollten besonders auf ihre Ernährung achten, da das Leitungspensum in...

In der Szene der Zauberklubs und -vereine gilt: Die Zauberkunst existiert mindestens seit der Zeit, da es des Schreibens fähige Menschen gibt. Dafür spricht ein Dokument, der ‚Westcar Papyrus', das von einem Zauberkünstler namens Dedi berichtet, der im 3...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Hispanistik, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit zum Thema Stierkampf möchte ich die Wichtigkeit des Stierkampfes für Spanien verdeutlichen und aufzeigen, wieso er gerade für die...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, Note: 1,2, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Buchwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Beschreibung der Vermittler des zeitgenössischen Theaterleiter und Reformer Eduard...

This volume gathers 16 papers originally written for the occasion of the 49th Colston Symposium, held in Bristol in 1997, and substantially revised for this publication. They reflect on some of the key developments in the discipline of Theatre Studies...

Die Analysen des vorliegenden Bandes setzen diejenigen von »Theatralia Judaica I« fort, die die jüuuml;dische Teilhabe am mitteleuropäauml;ischen Theater seit Beginn der jüdischen Emanzipation bis zum...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 2, FernUniversität Hagen (Kulturwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hausarbeit beleuchtet hauptsächlich die Rolle des Theaterschauspielers in der DDR und...

Chemin de choix est un spectacle "seul en scène".C'est un itinéraire, tout autant qu'un regard perçant, léger, parfois naïf sur le monde.C'est le premier monologue de Mathieu Moreau, l'histoire d'un acteur en marche.

Le Théâtre et son double est une série d'essais écrit par Antonin Artaud et publiée en 1938 dans laquelle il développe le concept de théâtre de la cruauté. Le livre consiste en une série de courts essais exaltés, à la forme poétique très libre...

At once strange and familiar, bearer of a narrative and initiator of a relationship, the theatrical object has a status of its own within performance, constantly encouraging actors to reassess the quality of their relationship with their immediate...

Sit back, relax, and enjoy this pictorial journey back to the magical-and turbulent-1960s. It was a time when culture, society and politics were changing at a rapid pace. And it was the music of Motown that brought people together in a way never before...

It’s the February 2019: Volume 2 edition of the Starving Writers Literary Journal featuring Short Stories by J. Franklin Green, Clint Stutts,  Amanda Connor, Ellen Drebin, Dytania Johnson, and Marcus Blake.It features Poetry by Robin McNamara,...

El Star Maker internacional revela sus 14 verdades para llegar a ser estrellaCon su genuino estilo cargado de buen humor, Joe Bonilla divulga sus verdades que te llevarán a ser artista. Lo acompañan grandes celebridades, y los más conocidos...

The Westminster Chorus Performance Handbook contains a performance method designed to cultivate authentic, truthful performances that are spontaneous and alive. By working with this map to the performance process-and the practical, actionable tools...