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Modern Theatres 1950–2020

Modern Theatres 1950–2020
Author: David Staples
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 926
Release: 2021-04-28
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1351052160

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Modern Theatres 1950–2020 is an investigation of theatres, concert halls and opera houses in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America. The book explores in detail 30 of the most significant theatres, concert halls, opera houses and dance spaces that opened between 1950 and 2010. Each theatre is reviewed and assessed by experts in theatre buildings, such as architects, acousticians, consultants and theatre practitioners, and illustrated with full-colour photographs and comparative plans and sections. A further 20 theatres that opened from 2009 to 2020 are concisely reviewed and illustrated. An excellent resource for students of theatre planning, theatre architecture and architectural design, Modern Theatres 1950 – 2020 discusses the role of performing arts buildings in cities, explores their public and performances spaces and examines the acoustics and technologies needed in a great building. This beautifully illustrated book is also a must-read for architects, theater designers, theatre historians, and theatre practitioners.


Makers of Modern Theatre

Makers of Modern Theatre
Author: Robert Leach
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 041531240X

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This book is the first detailed introduction to the work of the key theatre-makers who shaped the drama of the last century: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud.


Directors on Directing

Directors on Directing
Author: Helen Krich Chinoy
Publisher: Allegro Editions
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2013-07
Genre: Theater
ISBN: 9781626549616

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Now that directors such as Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola are celebrated along-side movie stars, it is hard to imagine that little more than a century ago the director was a nameless, faceless entity-an overseer of workflow in the shuffle of shadows offstage. In surveying the pioneers who transformed theater into the dynamic art form it is today, Directors on Directing presents a timeless collection of writings offering insight into what it means to direct and how to better appreciate theatrical performances.


Best Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre

Best Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre
Author: Stanley Richards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 832
Release: 1971
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

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Witness for the prosecution, by A. Christie.--Dial "M" for murder, by F. Knott.--Sleuth, by A. Shaffer.--The letter, by W. S. Maugham.--Child's play, by R. Marasco.--Arsenic and old lace, by J. Kesselring.--Angel Street, by P. Hamilton.--Bad seed, by M. Anderson.--Dangerous corner, by J. B. Priestley.--Dracula, by H. Deane and J. L. Balderston.


Nine Plays of the Modern Theater

Nine Plays of the Modern Theater
Author: David Rabe
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1981
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780802142771

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Contains the scripts of nine significant plays of the modern theater, written between 1944 and 1975 by playwrights including Harold Pinter, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Slawomir Mrozek, Tom Stoppard, and David Mamet.


Transnational connections in early modern theatre

Transnational connections in early modern theatre
Author: M. A. Katritzky
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526139197

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This volume explores the transnationality and interculturality of early modern performance in multiple languages, cultures, countries and genres. Its twelve essays compose a complex image of theatre connections as a socially, economically, politically and culturally rich tissue of networks and influences. With particular attention to itinerant performers, court festival, and the Black, Muslim and Jewish impact, they combine disciplines and methods to place Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the wider context of performance culture in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Czech and Italian speaking Europe. The authors examine transnational connections by offering multidisciplinary perspectives on the theatrical significance of concrete historical facts: archaeological findings, archival records, visual artefacts, and textual evidence.


Irony and the Modern Theatre

Irony and the Modern Theatre
Author: William Storm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2011-05-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1139499424

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Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, William Storm advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre.


10 Classic Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre

10 Classic Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre
Author: Stanley Richards
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Total Pages: 916
Release: 1973
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780396067078

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A collection of ten detective, mystery, and thriller plays first produced in the mid-twentieth century, several of which were later adapted into motion pictures.


Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre

Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre
Author: Patrick McGuinness
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Maurice Maeterlinck has been called the 'prodigal father' of modern theatre. As Rilke put it, he shifted theatre's center of gravity, replacing action with inaction, events with the eventless, and dialogue with an expressive semantics of silence. This study, the first in over a decade, traces the development of Maeterlinck's dramatic vision of extraordinary originality and depth.


Shakespeare and Modern Theatre

Shakespeare and Modern Theatre
Author: Michael Bristol
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2005-07-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1134601204

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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.