Unbalancing Acts
Author | : Richard Foreman |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Foreman |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Glen C. Whitehead |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Communication in music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Drain |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134864752 |
A diverse selection of original texts on theatre by its most creative practitioners – actors, writers, directors and designers. Contributors include Jarry, Ionescu, Shaw, Brecht, Strindberg, Stanislawski, Lorca, Brook, Soyinka, Boal and Barba.
Author | : Günter Ahrends |
Publisher | : Gunter Narr Verlag |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Cruelty in literature |
ISBN | : 9783823340379 |
Author | : Neal Swettenham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-11-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1351594966 |
Richard Foreman has been writing, directing and designing avant-garde theatre in New York since he first founded his Ontological-Hysteric company there in 1968. In all that time, few directors have taken up the challenge of staging his problematic, rewarding texts, and Foreman's work remains under-explored by other practitioners. Richard Foreman: An American (Partly) in Paris argues that Foreman can productively be viewed as a (partly) European artist, whose thinking and theatre-making have been radically shaped by contact with Europe. Through a detailed account of his European productions, interviews with Foreman himself, a set of practical strategies for staging the plays and the full text of Foreman's previously unpublished play Georges Bataille’s Bathrobe (1983), Neal Swettenham introduces the director’s work to a new generation of readers and theatre-makers.
Author | : Michael Vanden Heuvel |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350022608 |
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * David Rabe: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel; Sticks and Bones; and Streamers; * Sam Shepard: Curse of the Starving Class; Buried Child; and True West; * Ntozake Shange: For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf; Spell #7; and Boogie-Woogie Landscapes * Richard Foreman: Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 3; The Cliffs; Pandering to the Masses: A Misrepresentation; and Rhoda in Potatoland (Her Fall-Starts).
Author | : Arnold Aronson |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780472068883 |
Engaging essays by an internationally prominent historian and theorist of theater set design
Author | : Sandra J. Schumm |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838754009 |
The codes of conduct imposed on females by Spain's dictator Francisco Franco after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) created a stifling environment for women until his death in 1975. Beginning with Carmen Laforet's 1944 Nadal Prize-winning novel Nada, novels by women - many of which explore female identity - began to proliferate in Spain. The works examined in this study - Nada, Primera memoria (1960) by Ana Maria Matute, La placa del Diamant (1962) by Merce Rodoreda, Julia (1969) by Ana Maria Moix, El cuarto de atras (1978) by Carmen Martin Gaite, El amor es un juego solitario (1979) by Esther Tusquets, and Questio d'amor propi (1987) by Carme Riera - feature female protagonists struggling for self-realization and, by extension, for change in a restrictive Spanish society. Schumm's analysis of the seven novels demonstrates how examination of metaphoric tropes and mirror images provides insight into the protagonists' development.
Author | : Sarah Bay-Cheng |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2004-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135924155 |
Mama Dada is the first book to examine Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. Since the publication of Stein's major writings by the Library of America in 1998, interest in her dramatic writing has escalated, particularly in American avant-garde theaters. This book addresses the growing interest in Stein's theater by offering the first detailed analyses of her major plays, and by considering them within a larger history of avant-garde performance. In addition to comparing Stein's plays and theories to those generated by Dadaists, Surrealists, and Futurists, this study further explores the uniqueness of Stein via these theatrical movements, including discussions of her interest in American life and drama, which argues that a significant and heretofore unrecognized relationship exists among the histories of avant-garde drama, cinema, and homosexuality. By examining and explaining the relationship among these three histories, the dramatic writings of Stein can best be understood, not only as examples of literary modernism, but also as influential dramatic works that have had a lasting effect on the American theatrical avant-
Author | : Robert J. Andreach |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780809321780 |
"Exploring the theatre from the 1960s to the present, Robert J. Andreach shows the various ways in which the contemporary American theatre creates a personal, theatrical, and national self." "Andreach argues that the contemporary American theatre creates multiple selves that reflect and give voice to the many communities within our multicultural society. These selves are fragmented and enclaved, however, which makes necessary a counter movement that seeks, through interaction among the various parts, to heal the divisions within, between, and among them." --Book Jacket.