Everyone’s Theater

Everyone’s Theater
Author: Michael Meeuwis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0472131478

Nearly all residents of England and its colonies between 1860 and 1914 were active theatergoers, and many participated in the amateur theatricals that defined late Victorian life. The Victorian theater was not an abstract figuration of the world as a stage, but a media system enmeshed in mass lived experience that fulfilled in actuality the concept of a theatergoing nation. Everyone’s Theater turns to local history, the words of everyday Victorians found in their diaries and production records, to recover this lost chapter of theater history in which amateur drama domesticates the stage. Professional actors and playwrights struggled to make their productions compatible with ideas and techniques that could be safely reproduced in the home—and in amateur performances from Canada to India. This became the first true English national theater: a society whose myriad classes found common ground in theatrical display. Everyone’s Theater provides new ways to extend Victorian literature into the dimension of voice, sound, and embodiment, and to appreciate the pleasures of Victorian theatricality.

The Skin of Our Teeth

The Skin of Our Teeth
Author: Thornton Wilder
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1972
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573615481

"An Eternal Family narrowly escape one disaster after another, from ancient times to the present. Meet George and Maggie Antrobus (married only 5,000 years); their two children, Gladys and Henry (perfect in every way!); and their maid, Sabina (the ageless vamp) as they overcome ice, flood, and war -- by the skin of their teeth."--Amazon

Spectacles of Reform

Spectacles of Reform
Author: Amy E. Hughes
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012-12-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0472118625

In the nineteenth century, long before film and television brought us explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that thrilled audiences, with “sensation scenes” of speeding trains, burning buildings, and endangered bodies, often in melodramas extolling the virtues of temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage. Amy E. Hughes scrutinizes these peculiar intersections of spectacle and reform, revealing the crucial role that spectacle has played in American activism and how it has remained central to the dramaturgy of reform. Hughes traces the cultural history of three famous sensation scenes—the drunkard with the delirium tremens, the fugitive slave escaping over a river, and the victim tied to the railroad tracks—assessing how these scenes conveyed, allayed, and denied concerns about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. These images also appeared in printed propaganda, suggesting that the coup de théâtre was an essential part of American reform culture. Additionally, Hughes argues that today’s producers and advertisers continue to exploit the affective dynamism of spectacle, reaching an even broader audience through film, television, and the Internet. To be attuned to the dynamics of spectacle, Hughes argues, is to understand how we see. Her book will interest not only theater historians, but also scholars and students of political, literary, and visual culture who are curious about how U.S. citizens saw themselves and their world during a pivotal period in American history.

Macbeth

Macbeth
Author:
Publisher: Ernst Klett Sprachen
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN: 9783125730557

Everybody

Everybody
Author: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2018-06-18
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0822237229

This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living.

Open Book Theater Management

Open Book Theater Management
Author: Rafe Beckley
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2014-09-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1782795529

In the world of Fringe (or Off-Off Broadway) theatre, a strong debate has been raging for years - when you're producing a low/no-budget production, how on earth can you make it happen and still treat everyone involved in an open, honest and ethical manner? Where do you stand with profit-share productions when you can't afford to pay Union minimums? Open Book Theatre Management, along with its free online resources of instructional budget spreadsheets, is the first book ever to show you exactly how to mount a theatre production without losing either your integrity or your shirt. It is aimed at actors, directors and producers in the early stages of their careers; drama schools; and further and higher education establishments. The methodologies outlined in the book are transferable across all countries in which arts funding is difficult to secure. The time for going to the Establishment with the begging bowl is over. There need be no more excuses. The author will even show you how to start your own theatre company for only a tenner…

The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher: Walker
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2012-10
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781406340426

For Christmas, Clara is given new ballet shoes and a nutcracker doll. The nutcracker comes alive, turns into a handsome prince, and the marvellous adventures begin. Clara and her prince defeat the king of the rats and travel to the land of sweets.

A Theater of Our Own

A Theater of Our Own
Author: Richard Christiansen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2004
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Who produced the first stage adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" in 1902-nearly forty years before the movie classic?

Pop-Up Movie Theater

Pop-Up Movie Theater
Author: Emma Bland Smith
Publisher: Calico
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-08
Genre: Block parties
ISBN: 9781532131868

Maddy's neighbors have cancelled the annual block party. Everyone is too busy to plan it, and no one wants to take the time to raise the necessary money. Maddy is super disappointed. The block party, which always takes place before Halloween, is one of her favorite days of the year! Maddy can't let this happen. She and her best friend Darcy hatch a plan to raise the funds AND bring the community back together: a pop-up movie theater! But is this scheme too crazy for even Maddy to pull off? Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

The Chinese Lady

The Chinese Lady
Author: Lloyd Suh
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2019
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0822239906

Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half-century, she performs for curious white people, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy’s life, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman.