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| Author | : Richard Sewell |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2007-07-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
"Describes parallel lives of Athenian democracy and Athenian tragedy--how and why they concurrently arose, blossomed and died, shaped especially by a fatal Athenian penchant for war. Demonstrates how drama emerged from four unique elements in Greek culture: bardic poetry; open sporting competition; uncodified religion; and exploratory philosophy. Imagines evolution of the tragic genre from practitioner's viewpoint"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Michael Wood |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1571139982 |
Analyzes not just Müller's texts but also the theatrical events that emerged from them, showing that from the beginning of his career Müller tried to create democracy both within and outside the theater.
| Author | : Sally Banes |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780822313991 |
Judson Dance Theater involved such collaborators as Merce Cunningham, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Carolee Schneemann, Trisha Brown, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, et al.
| Author | : Sanjoy Ganguly |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2010-04-28 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1136978631 |
Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the world. It was considered by Augusto Boal to be the chief exponent of his methodology outside of its native Brazil. This book is a unique first-hand account - by the group's artistic director Sanjoy Ganguly - of Jana Sanskriti's growth and development since its founding in 1985, which has resulted in a national Forum Theatre network throughout India. Ganguly describes the plays, people and places that have formed this unique operation and discusses its contribution to the wider themes espoused by Forum Theatre. Ganguly charts and reflects on the practice of theatre as politics, developing an intriguing and persuasive case for Forum Theatre and its role in provoking responsible action. His combination of anecdotal insight and lucid discussion of Boal’s practice offers a vision of far-reaching transformation in politics and civil society.
| Author | : Dragan Klaić |
| Publisher | : Intellect Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : PERFORMING ARTS |
| ISBN | : 9781841505473 |
Commercial theater is thriving across Europe and the UK, while public theater has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption--as well as sharp reductions in government subsidies for the arts. At a time when the rationale behind these subsidies is being widely reexamined, it has never been more important for public theater to demonstrate its continued merit. In Resetting the Stage, Dragan Klaic argues convincingly that, in an increasingly crowded market of cultural goods, public theater is best served not by imitating its much larger commercial counterpart, but by asserting its artistic distinctiveness and the considerable benefit this confers on the public.
| Author | : Jacob Gallagher-Ross |
| Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 2018-04-15 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0810136686 |
Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage reveals a vital but little-recognized current in American theatrical history: the dramatic representation of the quotidian and mundane. Jacob Gallagher-Ross shows how twentieth-century American theater became a space for negotiating the demands of innovative form and democratic availability. Offering both fresh reappraisals of canonical figures and movements and new examinations of theatrical innovators, Theaters of the Everyday reveals surprising affinities between artists often considered poles apart, such as John Cage and Lee Strasberg, and Thornton Wilder and the New York experimentalist Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Gallagher-Ross persuasively shows how these creators eschew conventional definitions of dramatic action and focus attention on smaller but no less profound dramas of perception, consciousness, and day-to-day life. Gallagher-Ross traces some of the intellectual roots of the theater of the everyday to American transcendentalism, with its pragmatic process philosophy as well as its sense of ordinary experience as the wellspring of aesthetic awareness.
| Author | : Augusto Boal |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2005-07-28 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 113467371X |
Augusto Boal's reputation is now moving beyond the realms of theatre and drama therapy, bringing him to the attention of a wider public. Legislative Theatre is the latest and most remarkable stage in his work. 'Legislative Theatre' is an attempt to use Boal's method of 'Forum Theatre' within a political system to create a truer form of democracy. It is an extraordinary experiment in the potential of theatre to affect social change. At the heart of his method of Forum Theatre is the dual meaning of the verb 'to act': to perform and to take action. Forum Theatre invites members of the audience to take the stage and decide the outcome, becoming an integral part of the performance. As a politician in his native Rio de Janeiro, Boal used Forum Theatre to motivate the local populace in generating relevant legislation. In Legislative Theatre Boal creates new, theatrical, and truly revolutionary ways of involving everyone in the democratic process. This book includes: * a full explanation of the genesis and principles of Legislative Theatre * a description of the process in operation in Rio * Boal's essays, speeches and lectures on popular theatre, Paolo Freire, cultural activism, the point of playwrighting, and much else besides.
| Author | : David Wiles |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2000-05-25 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521648578 |
Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.
| Author | : Ariel Nereson |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2022-01-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0472055127 |
Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation
| Author | : Michael Frayn |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2004-12-15 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1466829427 |
A brilliant exploration of character and conscience from the author of COPENHAGEN, set amid the tensions of 1960s Berlin In Democracy, Michael Frayn once again creates out of the known events of twentieth-century history a drama of extraordinary urgency and subtlety, reimagining the interactions and motivations of Willy Brandt as he became chancellor of West Germany in 1966 and those of his political circle, including Günter Guillaume, a functionary who became Brandt's personal assistant-and who was eventually exposed as an East German spy in a discovery that helped force Brandt from office. But what circumstances allowed Brandt to become the first left-wing chancellor in forty years? And why, given his progressive policies, did the East German secret police feel it necessary to plant a spy in his office and risk bringing down his government? Michael Frayn writes in his postscript to the play, "Complexity is what the play is about: the complexity of human arrangements and of human beings themselves, and the difficulties that this creates in both shaping and understanding our actions."
