The Theatre of Imagining

The Theatre of Imagining
Author: Ulla Kallenbach
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2018-07-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3319763032

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama. Key questions that the book explores are: How do spectators engage with the drama in performance, and how does the historical context influence the dramaturgy of imagination? In addition to offering a study of the cultural history and theory of imagination in a European context including its philosophical, physiological, cultural and political implications, the book examines the cultural enactment of imagination in the drama text and offers practical strategies for analyzing the aesthetic practice of imagination in drama texts. It covers the early modern to the late modernist period and includes three in-depth case studies: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c.1606); Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879); and Eugène Ionesco’s The Killer (1957).

Theater of the Mind

Theater of the Mind
Author: Neil Verma
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-06-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0226853527

For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In Theater of the Mind, Neil Verma applies an array of critical methods to more than six thousand recordings to produce a vivid new account of radio drama from the Depression to the Cold War. In this sweeping exploration of dramatic conventions, Verma investigates legendary dramas by the likes of Norman Corwin, Lucille Fletcher, and Wyllis Cooper on key programs ranging from The Columbia Workshop, The Mercury Theater on the Air, and Cavalcade of America to Lights Out!, Suspense, and Dragnet to reveal how these programs promoted and evolved a series of models of the imagination. With close readings of individual sound effects and charts of broad trends among formats, Verma not only gives us a new account of the most flourishing form of genre fiction in the mid-twentieth century but also presents a powerful case for the central place of the aesthetics of sound in the history of modern experience.

The Dramatic Imagination

The Dramatic Imagination
Author: Robert Edmond Jones
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2004
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0878301844

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination

Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination
Author: W. Gruber
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0230105645

Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination is a study of extrascenic space and how playwrights have used narrative as an alternative to conventional scenic enactment. The book covers the work of writers as diverse as Euripides, Plautus, Shakespeare, Susan Glaspell, Gertrude Stein, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, Brian Friel, and Thomas Bernhard. William Gruber offers a wide-ranging overview of the dramaturgical choices dramatists make when they substitute imagined events for perceptual ones.

The Theatrical Imagination

The Theatrical Imagination
Author: Jeffrey Howard Huberman
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Total Pages: 582
Release: 1997
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This in-depth introduction to theatre arts concentrates on all major aspects of theatre, including acting, directing, playwriting and design. An entertaining writing style by authors who are actively involved in theatre and current examples and testimonials by a variety of well-known artists capture students' imaginations and help bring theatre into their frame of reference.

Theatre of Sound

Theatre of Sound
Author: Dermot Rattigan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A study of radio drama

International Handbook of Research in Arts Education

International Handbook of Research in Arts Education
Author: Liora Bresler
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1568
Release: 2007-09-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1402030525

Providing a distillation of knowledge in the various disciplines of arts education (dance, drama, music, literature and poetry and visual arts), this essential handbook synthesizes existing research literature, reflects on the past, and contributes to shaping the future of the respective and integrated disciplines of arts education. While research can at times seem distant from practice, the Handbook aims to maintain connection with the live practice of art and of education, capturing the vibrancy and best thinking in the field of theory and practice. The Handbook is organized into 13 sections, each focusing on a major area or issue in arts education research.

Arguments for a Theatre

Arguments for a Theatre
Author: Howard Barker
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1993
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780719039980

Howard Barker, author of over thirty plays, has long been an implacable foe of the liberal British establishment, and champion of radical theatre world-wide. His best-known plays include The Castle, Scenes from an Execution and The Possibilities. All of his plays are emotionally highly charged, intellectually stimulating and far removed from the theatrical conventions of what he terms 'the Establishment Theatre'. These fragments, essays, thoughts and poems on the nature of theatre likewise reject the constraints of 'objective' academic theatre criticism. They explore the collision (and collusion) of intellect and artistry in the creative act. This book is more than a collection of essays: it is a cultural manifesto for Barker's own 'Theatre of Catastrophe'.

A Theatre Anthology

A Theatre Anthology
Author: David Willinger
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780819177315

Designed for a course in "World Arts: Art, Theatre and Film", and will prove useful to programs at other colleges that have been designed along similar interdisciplinary lines. Contents: THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION: Selections on Shamanism, Michael Kirby; Everyman, Anonymous; The Blind, Maurice Maeterlinck; THE PORTRAIT: "The Period of Study," Constantin Stanislavsky; Krapp's Last Tape, Samuel Beckett; LOVE FULLFILLED, LOVE THWARTED: A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry; Our Town, Thornton Wilder; ART IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT: The Trojan Women, Euripides; Fabiola, Eduardo Machado; THE SENSE OF MOVEMENT: Lazzi; The Flying Doctor, Moliere; Futurist Plays; The Jet of Blood, Antonin Artaud; 18 Happenings in 6 Parts; VOCABULARY LISTS: Theatre; Film.