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| Author | : Bart Wolffe |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2006-12-10 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 130465771X |
Well recognised as the leading light in one-man shows in Zimbabwe, here is a collection of the majority of Bart Wolffe's published works for the stage including three two-handers, a thrilling mix of thirteen dramatic pieces with male and female parts that all have a common quality: an intimate exploration of the human condition in the most unique assembly of characters for performance you could possibly ever meet. They are all plays designed to travel, without much fuss, low-cost productions with maximum impact, in comedy and drama, satires and absurdist theatre pieces, physical theatre also; these plays have been performed throughout Southern Africa and in London, Edinburgh and Dublin, used for masterclasses and workshops, for festivals and for main stage venues right through to intimate and private performances in people's homes.
| Author | : Donald Molosi |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Botswana |
| ISBN | : 9780996577045 |
Drama. African & African American Studies. History & Politics. WE ARE ALL BLUE is a collection of two plays--MOTSWANA: AFRICA, DREAM AGAIN and BLUE, BLACK AND WHITE--by the actor and playwright Donald Molosi, including an introduction by Quett Masire, former president of Botswana. "With a foreword by former president Quett Masire (Seretse's vice president), the volume is a welcome contribution to African drama in English available in the United States." --Kevin Wetmore
| Author | : Omi Osun Joni L. Jones |
| Publisher | : Black Performance and Cultural |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-01-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780814252079 |
The first full-length study of the theatrical jazz aesthetic, that draws on the jazz principles of ensemble--the break, the bridge, and the blue note.
| Author | : Anthony D. Hill |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 755 |
| Release | : 2018-11-09 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1538117290 |
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater reflects the rich history and representation of the black aesthetic and the significance of African American theater’s history, fleeting present, and promise to the future. It celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States and the thousands of black theater artists across the country—identifying representative black theaters, playwrights, plays, actors, directors, and designers and chronicling their contributions to the field from the birth of black theater in 1816 to the present. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on actors, playwrights, plays, musicals, theatres, -directors, and designers. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know and more about African American Theater.
| Author | : Anthony D. Hill |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 624 |
| Release | : 2009-09-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0810870614 |
African American Theater is a vibrant and unique entity enriched by ancient Egyptian rituals, West African folklore, and European theatrical practices. A continuum of African folk traditions, it combines storytelling, mythology, rituals, music, song, and dance with ancestor worship from ancient times to the present. It afforded black artists a cultural gold mine to celebrate what it was like to be an African American in The New World. The A to Z of African American Theater celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States, identifying representative African American theater-producing organizations and chronicling their contributions to the field from its birth in 1816 to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, directors, playwrights, plays, theater producing organizations, themes, locations, and theater movements and awards.
| Author | : Harvey Young |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2012-10-25 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1107495792 |
This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Along the way, it chronicles the evolution of African American theatre and its engagement with the wider community, including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the 'New Negro' and 'Black Arts' movements. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights and actors whose efforts helped to fashion a more accurate appearance of black life on stage, and reveal the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and further afield. Chapters also address recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change and ask where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2019-11-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004414460 |
In the years that followed the end of apartheid, South African theatre was characterized by a remarkable productivity, which resulted in a process of constant aesthetic reinvention. After 1994, the “protest” theatre template of the apartheid years morphed into a wealth of diverse forms of stage idioms, detectable in the works of Greg Homann, Mike van Graan, Craig Higginson, Lara Foot, Omphile Molusi, Nadia Davids, Magnet Theatre, Rehane Abrahams, Amy Jephta, and Reza de Wet, to cite only a few prominent examples. Marc and Jessica Maufort’s multivocal edited volume documents some of the various ways in which the “rainbow” nation has forged these innovative stage idioms. This book’s underlying assumption is that creolization reflects the processes of identity renegotiation in contemporary South Africa and their multi-faceted theatrical representations. Contributors: Veronica Baxter, Marcia Blumberg, Vicki Briault Manus, Petrus du Preez, Paula Fourie, Craig Higginson, Greg Homann, Jessica Maufort, Marc Maufort, Omphile Molusi, Jessica Murray, Jill Planche, Ksenia Robbe, Mathilde Rogez, Chris Thurman, Mike van Graan, and Ralph Yarrow.
| Author | : Wolfgang Schneider |
| Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2019-02-28 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 3839446821 |
Are artists seismographs during processes of transformation? Is theatre a mirror of society? And how does it influence society offstage? To address these questions, this collection brings together analyses of cultural policy in post-apartheid South Africa and actors of the performing arts discussing political theatre and cultural activism. Case studies grant inside views of the State Theatre in Pretoria, the Market Theatre in Johannesburg and the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town, followed by a documentation of panel discussions on the Soweto Theatre. The texts collected here bring to the surface new faces and voices who advance the performing arts with their images and lexicons revolving around topics such as patriarchy, femicide and xenophobia.
| Author | : David A. Crespy |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2024-02-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004535969 |
Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage and Screen teaches you how to use your dreams, content, form, and structure, to write surprisingly unique new drama for film and stage. It is an exciting departure from traditional linear, dramatic technique, and addresses both playwriting and screenwriting, as the profession is increasingly populated by writers who work in both stage and screen. Developed through 25 years of teaching award-winning playwrights in the University of Missouri’s Writing for Performance Program, and based upon the phenomenological research of renowned performance theorist Bert O. States, this book offers a foundational, step-by-step organic guide to non-traditional, non-linear technique that will help writers beat clichéd, tired dramatic writing and provides stimulating new exercises to transform their work.
| Author | : Lokangaka Losambe |
| Publisher | : New Africa Books |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9781919876061 |
In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their societies.
