My Theatre Life

My Theatre Life
Author: August Bournonville
Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 768
Release: 1979
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

My Theatre Life

My Theatre Life
Author: August Bournonville
Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 768
Release: 1979
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Hamlet and the Baker's Son

Hamlet and the Baker's Son
Author: Augusto Boal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1135127751

Hamlet and the Baker's Son is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system, and 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and author of Games for Actors and Non-Actors and Legislative Theatre. Continuing to travel the world giving workshops and inspiration to teachers, prisoners, actors and care-workers, Augusto Boal is a visionary as well as a product of his times - the Brazil of military dictatorship and artistic and social repression and was once imprisoned for his subversive activities. From his early days in Brazil's political theatre movement to his recent experiments with theatre as a democratic political process, Boal's story is a moving and memorable one. He has devised a unique way of using the stage to empower the disempowered, and taken his methods everywhere from the favelas of Rio to the rehearsal studios of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Theatre and Everyday Life

Theatre and Everyday Life
Author: Alan Read
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113491458X

Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance. Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment. His book is a persuasive demand for a critical theory of theatre which is as mentally supple as theatre is physically versatile.

My Theatre Life

My Theatre Life
Author: August Bournonville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 759
Release: 1975
Genre:
ISBN: 9780598052919

When Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre

When Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre
Author: Edwin Wong
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2022-02-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1039135110

Creators, Innovators, and Theatremakers: Defy the Smallness of the Stage With the Greatness of Your Daring Wong’s first book upended tragic literary theory by arguing that risk is the dramatic fulcrum of the action. It also launched an international playwriting competition (risktheatre.com). His second book expands on how chance directs the action, both on and off the stage. Inside you will find three risk theatre tragedies by acclaimed playwrights: In Bloom (Gabriel Jason Dean), The Value (Nicholas Dunn), and Children of Combs and Watch Chains (Emily McClain). From the poppy fields of Afghanistan to the motel rooms and doctors’ offices lining interstate expressways, these plays—by simulating risk—will show you how theatre is a dress rehearsal for life. Six risk theatre essays round off this volume. In a dazzling display from Aeschylus to Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, and Arthur Miller, Wong reinterprets theatre through chance and probability theory. After risk theatre, you will never look at literature in the same way. Tomorrow, Whoever Says Drama will Say Risk

The Floor of Heaven

The Floor of Heaven
Author: Richard Wherrett
Publisher: Orbit Books
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2000
Genre: Theater
ISBN: 9780733610493

Author's account of his life in Australian theatre, published to coincide with the 40th year of his involvement in theatre. He developed the Nimrod Theatre Company as co-artistic director in the 1970s, was director of the Sydney Theatre Company for 11 years, and since then has been a freelance director. Includes author's accounts of working with actors such as John Bell, Gordon Chater, Ruth Cracknell, John Hargreaves, Robin Nevin and Jacki Weaver, and playwrights including David Williamson and Steve J Spears. Also includes his reflections on issues such as the writer/director/actor dynamic, the language of the stage, and the complexities of mounting a production. Includes photographs and index. Author's other publications include 'Desirelines' (co-authored with his brother Peter) and 'Mardi Gras; True stories'. He has been awarded an Order of Australia for services to theatre.

Shakespeare the Player

Shakespeare the Player
Author: John Southworth
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2011-10-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0752472445

Man of the Millennium' he may be but William Shakespeare is a shadowy historical figures. His writings have been analysed exhaustively but much of his life remains a mystery. This controversial biography aims to redress the balance. To his contemporaries, Shakespeare was known not as a playwright but as an actor, yet this has been largely ignored or marginalised by most modern writers. here John Southworth overturns traditional images of the Bard and his work, arguing that Shakespeare cannot be separated from his profession as a player any more than he can be separated from his works. Only by approaching Shakespeare's life from this new angle can we hope to learn or understand anything new about him. Following Shakespeare's life as an actor as he learns his craft and begins work on his own plays, Southworth presents the Bard and his plays in their proper context for the first time. Groundbreaking, contentious and a work of deep scholarship and understanding, 'Shakespeare the Player' should change the way we think about the English language's greatest artist.

A Life in the Theatre

A Life in the Theatre
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1978
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780802150677

In a series of scenes we see two actors - a seasoned pofessional and a novice - backstage and onstage going through a cycle of roles and an entire wardrobe of costumes.