Redefining Theatre Communities

Redefining Theatre Communities
Author: Szabolcs Musca
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Community theater
ISBN: 9781789380767
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Redefining Theatre Communities explores the interplay between contemporary theatre and communities. It considers the aesthetic, social and cultural aspects of community-conscious theatre-making. It also reflects on transformations in structural, textual and theatrical conventions, and explores changing modes of production and spectatorship.

Paradise

Paradise
Author: Kae Tempest
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2021-08-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1529045274
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‘Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention.’ New York Times Philoctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Stranded for ten years, he sees a chance of escape when a young soldier appears with tales of Philoctetes’ past glories. But with hope comes suspicion – and, as an old enemy emerges, he is faced with an even greater temptation: revenge. Kae Tempest is now widely acknowledged as a revolutionary force in contemporary British poetry, music and drama; they continue to expand the range of their work with a new version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes in a bold new translation. Like Brand New Ancients before it, Paradise shows Tempest’s gift for lending the old tales an immediate contemporary relevance – and will find this timeless story a wide new audience.

Why Theatre?

Why Theatre?
Author: Katje de Geest
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-09-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9783957324580
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Creating Musical Theatre

Creating Musical Theatre
Author: Lyn Cramer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1408184753
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Creating Musical Theatre features interviews with the directors and choreographers that make up today's Broadway elite. From Susan Stroman and Kathleen Marshall to newcomers Andy Blankenbuehler and Christopher Gattelli, this book features twelve creative artists, mostly director/choreographers, many of whom have also crossed over into film and television, opera and ballet. To the researcher, this book will deliver specific information on how these artists work; for the performer, it will serve as insight into exactly what these artists are looking for in the audition process and the rehearsal environment; and for the director/choreographer, this book will serve as an inspiration detailing each artist's pursuit of his or her dream and the path to success, offering new insight and a deeper understanding of Broadway today. Creating Musical Theatre includes a foreword by four-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara, one of the most elegant and talented leading ladies gracing the Broadway and concert stage today, as well as interviews with award-winning directors and choreographers, including: Rob Ashford (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying); Andy Blankenbuehler (In the Heights); Jeff Calhoun (Newsies); Warren Carlyle (Follies); Christopher Gattelli (Newsies); Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes); Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde); Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon); Randy Skinner (White Christmas); Susan Stroman (The Scottsboro Boys); Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys); and Anthony Van Laast (Sister Act).

Why Theatre?

Why Theatre?
Author: NTGent
Publisher: Verbrecher Verlag
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3957324696
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For two years now, the Belgian theatre NTGent and the Berlin based Verbrecher Verlag have been publishing the series The Golden Books: Books on the theory and practice of contemporary performance art, on individual plays and general social questions. For the 5th volume, after months of cultural lockdown, when live arts were in a state of emergency and the whole institution rethought their priorities, NTGent asked more than 100 of the most influential artists and intellectuals in the world the question: Why theatre? Why is this art form so unique, so beautiful, so indispensable? From classical theatre to performance art and dance, from activism to political theatre and the performativity of everyday life, authors of all continents and generations delivered short essays, memories, manifestos, letters. Moments of aesthetic epiphany meet strong emotion, critical insights into the problems of representation and populism compete with utopian texts about the theatre of the future: more than 100 voices about the state of performing arts 2020. With contributions from Mohammad Al Attar, Lola Arias, Hector Aristizábal, Back to Back Theatre, Yael Bartana, Vincent Baudriller, Jérôme Bel, Chokri Ben Chikha (Action Zoo Humain), Bread and Puppet Theatre, Tania Bruguera, Luanda Casella, Nora Chipaumire, Benny Claessens, Colectivo LASTESIS, Kelly Copper (Nature Theatre of Oklahoma), Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Mihaela Drăgan, Radha D'Souza, Tania El Khoury, Nicoleta Esinencu, Douglas Estevam (MST), Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment), Cibele Forjaz, Oliver Frljić, Gob Squad, Julien Gosselin, Sébastien Hendrickx, Florentina Holzinger, Hsin-Chien Huang, Isabelle Huppert, Manuela Infante, Christiane Jatahy, Jojo & Joyee (House of Muchness), John Jordan, Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll), Alexander Karschnia (andcompany&Co.), Susanne Kennedy, William Kentridge, Amir Reza Koohestani, Aino Laberenz, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Ursina Lardi, Jan Lauwers (Needcompany), Marco Layera, James Leadbitter (The Vacuum Cleaner), Frie Leysen, Angélica Liddell, Matthias Lilienthal, Édouard Louis, Florian Malzacher, Katie Mitchell, Sanja Mitrović, Ariane Mnouchkine, Ermanna Montanari & Marco Martinelli (Teatro Delle Albe), Maia Morgenstern, Chantal Mouffe, Yolanda Mpelé, Rabih Mroué, Kornel Mundruzcó, Ogutu Muraya, Nganji Mutiri, Jeton Neziraj, Daniela Nicolò & Enrico Casagrande (MOTUS), Boris Nikitin, Mamela Nyamza, Markus Öhrn, Toshiki Okada, Suzanne Osten, Thomas Ostermeier, Bouchra Ouizguen, Lies Pauwels, Luk Perceval, Alain Platel, René Pollesch, Philippe Quesne, Mokhallad Rasem, Milo Rau, Falk Richter, Tiago Rodrigues, Kathrin Röggla, Pia Maria Roll & Hanan Benammar, Didier Ruiz, Amir Sabra (Stereo48), Farah Saleh, Fabian Scheidler, Dennis Seidel, Kirill Serebrennikov, She She Pop, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Mårten Spångberg, Veit Sprenger (Showcase Beat Le Mot), Lara & Jonas Staal, Botho Strauß, Tea Tupajić, Carole Umulinga Karemera, Igor Vamos (Yes Men), Ivo van Hove, Gisèle Vienne, Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat), Marc-Antoine Vumilia, Sasha Waltz, Miet Warlop, Joanna Warsza, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Zentrum für politische Schönheit, Dominique Ziegler

Theatre Games

Theatre Games
Author: Clive Barker
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-05-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1408125196
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A practical guide to using theatre games for actor training which includes a DVD with original footage of the author putting the techniques into action.

Everything about Theatre!

Everything about Theatre!
Author: Robert LeRoy Lee
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1996
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:
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It's all here in one book -- a complete overview of all aspects of theatre. The history, the crafts and the art of the stage are presented in eighteen easy-to-learn units. Theatre history in four parts gives the text an orderly structure. Between each part are bite-size sections on Acting, Improvisation, Make-Up, Lighting, Props, Costumes and more.

Why Theatre Matters

Why Theatre Matters
Author: Kathleen Gallagher
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-09-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1442620595
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What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures? In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow. An ethnographic study which mixes quantitative and qualitative methodology in an international multi-site project, Why Theatre Matters ties together the issues of urban and arts education through the lens of student engagement. Gallagher’s research presents a framework for understanding student involvement at school in the context of students’ families and communities, as well as changing social, political, and economic realities around the world. Taking the reader into the classroom through the voices of the students themselves, Gallagher illustrates how creative expression through theatre can act as a rehearsal space for real, material struggles and for democratic participation. Why Theatre Matters is an invigorating challenge to the myths that surround urban youth and an impressive study of theatre’s transformative potential.

Why Theatre Matters

Why Theatre Matters
Author: Kathleen Gallagher
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1442626941
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Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow.

Theatre of the Unimpressed

Theatre of the Unimpressed
Author: Jordan Tannahill
Publisher: Coach House Books
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2015-05-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 177056411X
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How dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it. Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendencethat kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between? A lot of plays are dull. And one dull play, it seems, can turn us off theatre for good. Playwright and theatre director Jordan Tannahill takes in the spectrum of English-language drama – from the flashiest of Broadway spectacles to productions mounted in scrappy storefront theatres – to consider where lifeless plays come from and why they persist. Having travelled the globe talking to theatre artists, critics, passionate patrons and the theatrically disillusioned, Tannahill addresses what he considers the culture of ‘risk aversion’ paralyzing the form. Theatre of the Unimpressed is Tannahill’s wry and revelatory personal reckoning with the discipline he’s dedicated his life to, and a roadmap for a vital twenty-first-century theatre – one that apprehends the value of ‘liveness’ in our mediated age and the necessity for artistic risk and its attendant failures. In considering dramaturgy, programming and alternative models for producing, Tannahill aims to turn theatre from an obligation to a destination. ‘[Tannahill is] the poster child of a new generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom "interdisciplinary" is not a buzzword, but a way of life.’ —J. Kelly Nestruck, Globe and Mail ‘Jordan is one of the most talented and exciting playwrights in the country, and he will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.’ —Nicolas Billon, Governor General's Award–winning playwright (Fault Lines)