Theatre direction and production Books

Offers new essays that address issues raised in Wilson's "The Ground on Which I Stand" speech. Essays and interviews range from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary...

Deux personnages, un valet (Jacques) et son maître, chevauchent plus ou moins paisiblement sur des routes, vers une destination qui restera inconnue, s'arrêtent dans des auberges, devisent à bâtons rompus : questions philosophiques, souvenirs intimes,...

«... Veux-tu que je te dise ? Au lieu de passer les trois quarts de leur vie dans un café à politiquer et à lire les chiffons de gazette, ils feraient mieux de voir bonne compagnie chez eux, d’apprendre à mieux...

Der Erste Weltkrieg war verloren und viele der Deutschen suchten einen Grund, warum die Soldaten ihres Landes diesen Krieg verloren hatten. Man suchte nach Erklärungen und mancher war der Meinung, dass die Vielzahl der verschiedenen Völker einer dieser...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Mediengeschichte, Note: 1,3, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Institut für Medienwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit soll zunächst ein kurzer Überblick über den...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Mediengeschichte, Note: 1,0, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Institut für Medienwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Interface Center, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Politische Kommunikation hat...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1998 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Mediengeschichte, Note: 2,0, Freie Universität Berlin (Publizistik), Veranstaltung: Proseminar "Karl Gutzkow - Journalist, Literat oder politischer Rebell?", Sprache: Deutsch,...

The book features a detailed analysis and interpretation of The Saragossa Manuscript (1964) by Wojciech Jerzy Has. The interpretative key is the director's reference to the aesthetics of various art trends, starting with baroque, through romanticism,...

Die Studie reflektiert die Aufgabenstellung, Funktion und Problematik der Dramaturgen im Spannungsfeld von Theaterkunst und Kulturpolitik in der DDR. Sie beleuchtet in der konzeptuellen Denkfigur des Autor-Dramaturgen zugleich zentrale Aspekte dieser...

When Sergei Tretyakov’s ground-breaking play, I Want a Baby, was banned by Stalin’s censor in 1927, it was a signal that the radical and innovative theatre of the early Soviet years was to be brought to an end. A glittering, unblinking...

For several decades, the University of Calgary, Canada, housed an otherwise community-based service for people with dual diagnoses: developmental delay, plus a behavioural disorder. The mandate of "The Behaviour Support Team" was to support clients who...

ତାଙ୍କ ପ୍ରକାଶିତ ପୁସ୍ତକଗୁଡ଼ିକ ମଧ୍ୟରେ 'ପ୍ରତୀକ୍ଷାର ଅନ୍ତିମ ପ୍ରହର', 'ପିଲାଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ସାତୋଟି ନାଟକ' ପ୍ରଭୃତି ତାଙ୍କର ନାଟ୍ୟକୃତି । ପୂର୍ବ ନାଟକଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଭଳି 'ସୁବର୍ଣ୍ଣସେତୁ ଓ ଆଉ କେତୋଟି ନାଟକ' ପାଠକୀୟ ସ୍ୱୀକୃତି ପାଇବ ଏ ଆଶା ଆମେ କରୁଛୁ । ୨୦୦୯ ମସିହାରେ 'ବସୁଧାର ପ୍ରତିବାଦ ଓ ଅନ୍ୟାନ୍ୟ ନାଟକ'...

2014 Reprint of 1963 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The notes Stanislavski produced for his 1930's production of "Othello" reveal much of the theory which he had incorporated in his...

The French Play is a step-by-step guide to the challenging process of producing and directing a foreign-language play with English-speaking student actors. Using his own student productions of French-language plays as models, Les Essif leads readers throu

Grant Harrington is a man forced to kill a teenager by the name of Lecy Newsted. Gaining the confidence of Lecy's sister Cora, Grant thinks he may have figured out a plan...But Lecy Newsted is not any little girl.

A New Corpus Christi presents 25 short plays and skits with one or two scripts for each of 21 events in the church year-festival days such as Christmas and Easter and less frequently observed occasions such as the Baptism of the Lord and Christ the King...

This book investigates in which dimension art meets science and how it happens.

Casting a Movement brings together US-based actors, directors, educators, playwrights, and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting.Drawing on the notion of a "welcome table"-a space where artists of all backgrounds can come together as...

In New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting, Mark Bly offers a new playwriting book with nine unique play-generating exercises.These exercises offer dramaturgical strategies and tools for confronting and overcoming...

Stanislavsky and Intimacy is the first academic edited book with a focus on how intimacy protocols, choreography, and theories intersect with the broad practices of Konstantin Stanislavsky's 'system'.

Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and marginalized storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters dominant dramatic...

Innovation & Digital Theatremaking introduces a blueprint for how to think differently about Theatre, how to respond creatively in uncertainty, and wield whatever resources are available to create new work in new ways.

A delightful and imaginative work of dramatic literature, this play tells the story of a magical encounter between a Yellow Dwarf and a King of the Gold Mines. Filled with humor, wit, and enchantment, this play is sure to delight audiences of all ages...

This delightful 20th-century musical comedy tells the story of newlywed couple Poppet and Stripes and their escapades on their honeymoon in China. Full of catchy tunes and hilarious moments, this show is sure to entertain audiences of all ages. This...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The funniest night’s entertainment in years. Theatre That Really Works ! This inventive piece of modern theatre really gets down to the nitty gritty in its story of a very ordinary suburban couple caught up in the traps of modern society. The...

Now you can say, "I'll do that" when your PTA president wants to organize a student talent show. Now you can think, "No problem" when your teaching position includes directing the class play. Now you can decide, "I will" when your church fund-raising...

This book explores the dramaturgy of sex in contemporary works for the stage in the social, cultural and historical context of the time and place during which they were written and performed.

Finally, a book that addresses one of the most important elements of theatrical production, the collaboration between director and designer. This accessible and helpful guide addresses the crucialrelationship betweentheatrical production team members...

In studying performances of marriage in modern and contemporary British and American drama, Clum highlights the fact that - paradoxically - at a time when theatre was both popular entertainment and high culture, many of the most commercially and...

This book, now available in paperback, unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, animals and objects to reflections on the theatre work of Societas Raffaello...

This exploration of the territory between theory and practice in contemporary theatre features essays by academics from theatre and translation studies, and delineates a new space for the discussion of translation in the theatre that is international,...

In this unique study, Michael Y. Bennett re-reads four influential modern plays alongside their contemporary debates between rationalism and empiricism to show how these monumental achievements were thoroughly a product of their time, but also universal...

Provides a comparative approach to the internationally wide-spread phenomenon of the contemporary director-auteur in the theatre, urging a historical and theoretical exploration of the visions, methods, and stage idioms in the work of established artists...

Christin Essin documents theatre's backstage history through the cultural roles played by designers during the modern development of their profession. Featuring work by Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson, Aline Bernstein, Norman Bel Geddes, Mordecai...

A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theatre whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Exploring both sex and sexuality so candidly, he burst the boundaries of what was...

The theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theater history and literary scholarship, offer a hybrid theater that integrates the popular with the formal, the mainstream with the...

***Listed in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION's Weekly Book List, July 11, 2011*** Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Urban Drama examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles...

Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd, which suggests that "absurd" plays purport the meaninglessness of life, Michael Y. Bennett's Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd is a timely reassessment of one of the most...

Theatre and Event: Staging the European Century, examines how, in these first decades of the twenty-first century, contemporary European theatre-makers have sought to consider the disastrous events of the twentieth century as the 'unfinished business' of...

Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this bookexplores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of the twentieth century. Chapters consider the intersecting contexts of gender, sexuality and the...

This exciting book uniquely combines interviews with scholars and practitioners in theatre studies to look at what most people feel is a pivotal moment of British theatre--the 1990s. Featuring interviews with key names in the field (including Max...