Theatre: technical and background skills Books

Supporting Staged Intimacy: A Practical Guide for Theatre Creatives, Managers, and Crew examines the relationship between staged intimacy, intimacy direction, and those supporting the process during pre-production, rehearsal, and performance. First, this...

Demystify the audition process and land your dream role with this revolutionary book on acting!Actor, director, and world-renowned acting coach Les Chantery lays out an approach for the auditioning actor that has been heralded as "a revelation...

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...

Explores the Science and Practice Of Acoustics for Arts Centers Employing the experiences of a world-renowned acoustician celebrated for the successful design of multi-use performing arts centers, Acoustics of Multi-Use Performing Arts Centers examines...

Navigating a Career in Technical Entertainment: Your Creative Career Guidebook explores tools, strategies, and motivational advice from a wide range of industry professionals for navigating an artistic career in design and technology in entertainment...

This exciting new work argues for the exploration of drama as a conduit to deep emotional learning that has the ability to change the somatic identity of performers and audiences alike. Rokotnitz suggests that the preference for reciprocity exhibited by...

This ground-breaking collection of essays focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Leading scholars and practitioners explore the ways that familiar and new works of theatre and dance...

Il Conte Enea Arnaldi presenta in questo libro l'idea di un teatro che riprenda i principi dei teatri antichi, ma adattati all'uso moderno. Inoltre, il libro analizza in dettaglio la struttura dei teatri e le loro funzioni, con un focus particolare sulle...

Meseria „arhitectului de teatru" care imaginează, desenează și apoi înalță decoruri este plină de contradicții. Pe cât de solicitante și amănunțite sunt planurile sale, pe atât de trecătoare sunt volumele asamblate conform acestora. Ele durează cât...

A complete guide to Reader's Theatre--what it is and how to stage it--including four award-winning scripts by Charles LaBorde, Jo Davidsmeyer, Caroline E. Wood, and Robert Hawkins. (Performing Arts)

2013 Reprint of 1927 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Evreinov argued that the role of theatre was to ape and mimic nature. In his estimation, theatre is everything around us. He...

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy & Casting the Witch for Stage & Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical type on twenty-first century North American stages and screens, seen through the lens of casting, design, and adaptation, with...

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...

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of "vectors of the radical" shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they...

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

In this volume, twenty-four creators come together with three scholars to discuss Contemporary Circus, bridging the divide between practice and theory. Lavers, Leroux, and Burtt offer conversations across four key themes: Apparatus, Politics, Performers,...

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.

This is a classic guide to the design and production of theatrical costumes and sets. Laver provides a fascinating overview of the history of costume and set design, as well as practical advice for designers and directors. This is an essential reference...

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.

Using examples of refugee arts and theatrical activity since the 1990s, this book examines how the 'refugee crisis' has conditioned all arts and cultural activity with refugees in a world where globalization and migration go hand in hand.

Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and humanities have tended to structure a gap between practice and analysis. This book examines differences and similarities between Performance as Research...

There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances under which theatre for children and youth-birth through twenties-is generated and perceived. Offering multiple, intersecting narratives, this book...

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...

This is the first book-length study, in any language, of the influence of Mei Lanfang - the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles - on the twentieth-century international stage. Focusing on Mei Lanfang's tours of Japan, the...

Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of dramas such as Augustus Thomas's Arizona (1900), Owen Wister and Kirke La Shelle's The Virginian (1904), Edwin Milton Royle's The...

Questa guida completa offre una panoramica storica della scenografia teatrale dall'antichità all'epoca moderna. Il libro è un utile strumento per gli studenti di teatro e per gli appassionati di arte e cultura. Attraverso l'analisi dei principali stili e...

Ce livre est une référence complète pour tout ce qui concerne la conception d'une pièce de théâtre. Il aborde la création des décors, des costumes, de la mise en scène, ainsi que le processus de répétition et de représentation.This work has been selected...

An innovator in the field of stage design, Edward Gordon Craig revolutionized theater with his visionary ideas and striking visual style. This collection of sketches and designs offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of the most important...