Text in Contemporary Theatre

Text in Contemporary Theatre
Author: Guna Zeltiņa with Sanita Reinsone
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1443865656

This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. In this volume, nineteen theatre and drama researchers from the Baltic countries, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Hungary, Russia and China discuss the results of their research into these issues in academic articles and essays. The book mainly focuses on the experience of the Baltics in the creation of theatrical texts, but it also provides a wider insight into the changing processes of world drama and theatre. Three sections of the volume provide numerous examples of the functionality of traditional texts in today’s theatre, as well as introducing the reader to new names in contemporary drama and the different models of practice in theatre companies. This book, with its rich collection of material and detailed analysis of different methods and experiences of contemporary theatre, is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.

Beyond Text

Beyond Text
Author: Jennifer Buckley
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2019-10-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0472074253

Taking up the work of prominent theater and performance artists, Beyond Text reveals the audacity and beauty of avant-garde performance in print. With extended analyses of the works of Edward Gordon Craig, German expressionist Lothar Schreyer, the Living Theatre, Carolee Schneemann, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, the book shows how live performance and print aesthetically revived one another during a period in which both were supposed to be in a state of terminal cultural decline. While the European and American avant-gardes did indeed dismiss the dramatic author, they also adopted print as a theatrical medium, altering the status, form, and function of text and image in ways that continue to impact both the performing arts and the book arts. Beyond Text participates in the ongoing critical effort to unsettle conventional historical and theoretical accounts of text-performance relations, which have too often been figured in binary, chronological (“from page to stage”), or hierarchical terms. Across five case studies spanning twelve decades, Beyond Text demonstrates that print—as noun and verb—has been integral to the practices of modern and contemporary theater and performance artists.

Theatre Semiotics

Theatre Semiotics
Author: Fernando de Toro
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780802075895

Theatre Semiotics provides a thorough argument for the place and the necessity of semiotics within the interpretive process of theatre.

Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880

Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880
Author: Julie Stone Peters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780199262168

This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.

Theatrical Worlds (Beta Version)

Theatrical Worlds (Beta Version)
Author: Charles Mitchell
Publisher: Orange Grove Texts Plus
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Arts
ISBN: 9781616101664

"From the University of Florida College of Fine Arts, Charlie Mitchell and distinguished colleagues form across America present an introductory text for theatre and theoretical production. This book seeks to give insight into the people and processes that create theater. It does not strip away the feeling of magic but to add wonder for the artistry that make a production work well." -- Open Textbook Library.

Theatre-Making

Theatre-Making
Author: D. Radosavljevic
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2013-06-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137367881

Theatre-Making explores modes of authorship in contemporary theatre seeking to transcend the heritage of binaries from the Twentieth century such as text-based vs. devised theatre, East vs. West, theatre vs. performance - with reference to genealogies though which these categories have been constructed in the English-speaking world.

Dramaturgy of Form

Dramaturgy of Form
Author: Kasia Lech
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0429535678

Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and media. Through interdisciplinary engagement, Kasia Lech offers a new method for verse analysis in the performance context. The book traces the dramaturgical operation of verse in new writings, musicals, devised performances, multilingual dramas, Hip Hop theatre, films, digital projects, and gig theatre, as well as translations and adaptations of classics and new theatre forms created by Irish, Spanish, Nigerian, Polish, American, Canadian, Australian, British, Russian, and multinational artists. Their verse dramaturgies explore timely issues such as global identities, agency and precarity, global and local politics, and generational and class stories. The development of dramaturgy is discussed with the focus turning to the new stylized approach to theatre, whose arrival Hans-Thies Lehmann foretold in his Postdramatic Theatre, documenting a turning point for contemporary Western theatre. Serving theatre-makers, scholars, and students working with classical and contemporary verse and poetry in performance contexts; practitioners and academics of aural and oral dramaturgies; voice and verse-speaking coaches; and actors seeking the creative opportunities that verse offers, Dramaturgy of Form reveals verse as a tool for innovation and transformation that is at the forefront of contemporary practices and experiences.

Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre

Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre
Author: Catherine Love
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2023-02-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000839788

Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre interrogates the paradoxical nature of theatre texts, which have been understood both as separate literary objects in their own right and as material for performance. Drawing on analysis of contemporary practitioners who are working creatively with text, the book re-examines the relationship between text and performance within the specific context of British theatre. The chapters discuss a wide range of theatre-makers creating work in the UK from the 1990s onwards, from playwrights like Tim Crouch and Jasmine Lee-Jones to companies including Action Hero and RashDash. In doing so, the book addresses issues such as theatrical authorship, artistic intention, and the apparent incompleteness of plays as both written and performed phenomena. Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre also explores the implications of changing technologies of page and stage, analysing the impact of recent developments in theatre-making, editing, and publishing on the status of the theatre text. Written for scholars, students, and practitioners alike, Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre provides an original perspective on one of the most enduring problems to occupy theatre practice and scholarship.

Staging and Performing Translation

Staging and Performing Translation
Author: R. Baines
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 023029460X

This exploration of the territory between theory and practice in contemporary theatre features essays by academics from theatre and translation studies, and delineates a new space for the discussion of translation in the theatre that is international, critical and scholarly, while rooted in experience and understanding of theatre practices.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
Author: Arthur Holmberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136118365

The second volume of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre covers the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, including the United States. Entries on twenty-six countries are preceded by specialist introductions on Theatre in Post-Colonial Latin America, Theatres of North America, Puppet Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Music Theatre and Dance Theatre. The essays follow the series format, allowing for cross-referring across subjects, both within the volume and between volumes. Each country entry is written by specialists in the particular country and the volume has its own teams of regional editors, overseen by the main editorial team based at the University of York in Canada headed by Don Rubin. Each entry covers all aspects of theatre genres, practitioners, writers, critics and styles, with bibliographies, over 200 black & white photographs and a substantial index. This is a unique volume in its own right; in conjunction with the other volumes in this series it forms a reference resource of unparalleled value.