Einstein and Modern French Drama
Author : Kenneth Steele White
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Kenneth Steele White
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 1984-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521278812
In the years since 1940, French theatre has been transformed both institutionally and artistically. This book compares all the major traditions and tendencies at work in French theatre since the outbreak of the Second World War, not only in Paris, but also in the Centres Dramatiques and Maisons de la Culture. Previous books have stopped short at the end of the fifties when the influence of Artaud was strong and the Absurd Theatre had become the new orthodoxy. David Bradby reassesses Beckett, lonesco, Adamov and Genet and challenges the notion that the sixties and seventies were a period of decline in French theatre. The book proceeds chronologically, offering a critical survey of the principal directors, actors and companies as well as of the playwrights, who are its major concern. Important productions are illustrated with black and white photographs. The political background is explained and all quotations are in English.
Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 1991-05-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521408431
An updated account and comparison of the major traditions and tendencies in the French theatre from 1940-1990.
Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521571999
A new and comprehensive examination of the history of the modern physical and mathematical sciences.
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
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A selective list of publications for the period, offering some 25,200 entries (no annotations) arranged by nationality and linguistic groups. Most entries concern literary currents in drama since the last third of the 19th century, playwrights who lived at least part of their lives in the 20th century, noted directors, and performance theory. For students and scholars of modern dramatic literature. While annual supplements of recent publications appear in the journal Modern Drama, new compilers took a publication date of 1991 as their starting point for listings, leaving some 2,000 items collected after 1992 appearing only in this volume. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jelena . Novak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317145380
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its premiere at the Avignon Festival in 1976. During its initial European tour, Metropolitan Opera premiere, and revivals in 1984 and 1992, Einstein provoked opposed reactions from both audiences and critics. Today, Einstein is well on the way itself to becoming a canonized avant-garde work, and it is widely acknowledged as a profoundly significant moment in the history of opera or musical theater. Einstein created waves that for many years crashed against the shores of traditional thinking concerning the nature and creative potential of audiovisual expression. Reaching beyond opera, its influence was felt in audiovisual culture in general: in contemporary avant-garde music, performance art, avant-garde cinema, popular film, popular music, advertising, dance, theater, and many other expressive, commercial, and cultural spheres. Inspired by the 2012–2015 series of performances that re-contextualized this unique work as part of the present-day nexus of theoretical, political, and social concerns, the editors and contributors of this book take these new performances as a pretext for far-reaching interdisciplinary reflection and dialogue. Essays range from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in productions to the mechanical and post-human character of the opera’s expressive substance. A further valuable dimension is the inclusion of material taken from several recent interviews with creative collaborators Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, and Lucinda Childs, each of these sections comprising knee plays, or short intermezzo sections resembling those found in the opera Einstein on the Beach itself. The book additionally features a foreword written by the influential musicologist and cultural theorist Susan McClary and an interview with film and theater luminary Peter Greenaway, as well as a short chapter of reminiscences written by the singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega.
Author : David Letwin
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2008-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810862263
Many of the world's greatest dramas have sprung not only from the creative impulses of the authors but also from the time-honored principles of structure and design that have forged those impulses into coherent and powerful insights. An understanding of these principles is essential to the craft of creating and interpreting works of drama for the stage or screen. The Architecture of Drama provides an introduction to these principles, with particular emphasis placed on how a drama's structural elements fit together to create meaningful and entertaining experiences for audiences. The book is arranged into five sections, each dealing with a separate component: _
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Page : 934 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
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Author : Jane Alison Hale
Publisher :
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Perspective in literature
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