Monteverdi's Musical Theatre

Monteverdi's Musical Theatre
Author: Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780300096767

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) is well known as the composer of the earliest operas still performed today. His Orfeo, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, and L'incoronazione di Poppea are internationally popular nearly four centuries after their creation. These seminal works represent only a part of Monteverdi's music for the stage, however. He also wrote numerous works that, while not operas, are no less theatrical in their fusion of music, drama and dance. This is a survey of Monteverdi's entire output of music for the theatre - his surviving operas, other dramatic musical compositions, and lost works.

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.

blu

blu
Author: Virginia Grise
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0300169221

Memory, history, and culture collide with the starlit rooftop dreams of a myth-inspired character as Soledad and her partner, Hailstorm, redefine family on their own terms after the death of their eldest son in Iraq. blu, steeped in poetic realism and contemporary politics, challenges us to try to imagine a time before war. Selected as the winner of the 2010 Yale Drama competition from more than 950 submissions, Virginia Grise’s play blu takes place in the present but looks back on the not too distant past through a series of prayers, rituals, and dreams. Contest judge David Hare commented, "Virginia Grise is a blazingly talented writer, and her play blu stays with you a long time after you’ve read it." Noting that 2010 was a banner year for women playwrights, he added, "Women’s writing for the theatre is stronger and more eloquent than it has ever been."

El Paso Blue

El Paso Blue
Author: Octavio Solis
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573705021

Al has to take the rap for his pal Duane's botched robbery, but before he goes, he leaves his drunken ex-beaty queen wife Sylvie in the care of his father Jefe. In the year he is gone, Jefe and Sylvie fall in love, and when Al is granted early parole, he enlists Duane in a mad and murderous hunt for the fleeing lovers. In the course of their search, they meet China, a weird changeling who wields a water gun filled with ammonia and purports to know where his wife has been taken.

The Art of Dramaturgy

The Art of Dramaturgy
Author: Anne Cattaneo
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0300262388

An introduction to the mysterious theater role of a dramaturg by a legend in the field Anne Cattaneo was among the first Americans to fill the role of dramaturg, one of theater’s best kept secrets. A combination of theater artist, scholar, researcher, play advocate, editor, and writer’s friend, it is the job of a dramaturg to “reflect light back on the elements that are already in play,” while bringing a work of theater to life. Cattaneo traces the field from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present and chronicles the multitude and variety of tasks a dramaturg undertakes before, during, and after a production is brought to the stage. Using detailed stories from her work with theater artists such as Tom Stoppard, Wendy Wasserstein, Robert Wilson, Shi-Zheng Chen, and Sarah Ruhl, as well as the discovery of a ‘lost’ play by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Cattaneo provides an invaluable manual to those studying, working in, and interested in this most fascinating profession.

Imogen Says Nothing

Imogen Says Nothing
Author: Aditi Brennan Kapil
Publisher: Samuel French , Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573707049

A revisionist comedy in verse and prose featuring Imogen, a character who only appears in the first folio of William Shakespeare's Much Adoe About Nothing, speaks no lines, and is probably a typo. A feminist hijacking of Shakespeare that investigates the voices that have been absented from our canon, and the consequences of cutting them.

Technical Design Solutions for Theatre

Technical Design Solutions for Theatre
Author: Bronislaw Joseph Sammler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2002
Genre: Costume
ISBN: 0240804929

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

New Light Shine

New Light Shine
Author: Shannon Murdoch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0300184859

Announcing the 2011 winner in the Yale Drama Series

Wagner and the Art of the Theatre

Wagner and the Art of the Theatre
Author: Patrick Carnegy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780300106954

Chapitre 6, p. 175-207, consacré à Adolphe Appia.

Utility

Utility
Author: Emily Schwend
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0300231156

The tenth winner of the Yale Drama Series centers on a young mother dealing with life’s many trials Marking the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series for emerging playwrights, Emily Schwend’s powerful work centers on Amber, a young woman struggling to raise a family in East Texas. Amber is juggling two nearly full-time jobs and three kids. Her on-again, off-again husband Chris is eternally optimistic and charming as hell, but rarely employed. The house is falling apart and Amber has an eight-year-old’s birthday party to plan. Selected from more than 1,600 entries, Schwend’s newest play—produced by the Amoralists Theatre Company at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in 2016—vividly captures the economic hardships and relationship difficulties faced by so many Americans today. “Utility is a remarkable play: beautifully written and effortlessly powerful,” said contest judge Nicholas Wright. “At every moment the happiness of human lives is put at risk: is there any greater dramatic theme?”