Author : Erwin Piscator
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Theater
ISBN : 9780413335005
'The Political Theatre' is among the most important documents of the modern stage. It tells of the foundation and flowering in Weimar Germany of a new form of theatre - epic theatre - designed to bring on to the stage the real political issues of the time, and to do so with all the aids that modern technology could supply.
Author : John Willett
Publisher : New York : Holmes & Meier
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This is the first book in English to cover the theatrical career of Erwin Piscator. As one of the leading authorities on 20th century German theatre, the author is well-equipped to write about this important director. Most of the text is devoted to the Weimar period and is illustrated with rare pictures and documents.
Author : C. D. Innes
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 1972-09-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521084567
This 1977 text was the first full study of Erwin Piscator, the German theatrical producer who was prominent in the 1920s and worked after 1945 with the writers Hochhuth, Kipphardt and Weiss. Professor Innes sketches the background of Dadaism and Expressionism from which Piscator came, and points out the differences between Piscator and the other experimenters of his time. He also gives a vivid description of Piscator's technical innovations, the modern means of communication such as film, the illumination of the stage from below and 'the treadmill', a flat moving band along which the characters walked. These turned drama into a multi-media event. Professor Innes uses Piscator's career as a focus to describe theatrical developments in the twentieth century and to discuss the role of the author, the director, and the actor in drama, the purpose of the theatre, and the involvement of the audience.
Author : Minou Arjomand
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231545738
Theater requires artifice, justice demands truth. Are these demands as irreconcilable as the pejorative term “show trials” suggests? After the Second World War, canonical directors and playwrights sought to claim a new public role for theater by restaging the era’s great trials as shows. The Nuremberg trials, the Eichmann trial, and the Auschwitz trials were all performed multiple times, first in courts and then in theaters. Does justice require both courtrooms and stages? In Staged, Minou Arjomand draws on a rich archive of postwar German and American rehearsals and performances to reveal how theater can become a place for forms of storytelling and judgment that are inadmissible in a court of law but indispensable for public life. She unveils the affinities between dramatists like Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Piscator, and Peter Weiss and philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin, showing how they responded to the rise of fascism with a new politics of performance. Linking performance with theories of aesthetics, history, and politics, Arjomand argues that it is not subject matter that makes theater political but rather the act of judging a performance in the company of others. Staged weaves together theater history and political philosophy into a powerful and timely case for the importance of theaters as public institutions.
Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 1991-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1587290340
Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"—the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with historical studies has politicized the study of the theatre. Neither play text, performance, nor scholarship and teaching can safely reside any longer in the "free," politically neutral, self-signifying realm of the aesthetic. Politicizing theatrical discourse means that both the hermeneutics and the histories of theatre reveal the role of ideology and power dynamics. New strategies and concepts—and a vital new phase of awareness—appear in these illuminating essays. A variety of historical periods, from the Renaissance through the Victorian and up to the most contemporary work of the Wooster group, illustrate the ways in which contemporary strategies do not require contemporary texts and performances but can combine with historical methods and subjects to produce new theatrical discourse.
Author : Judith Malina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 041560074X
Piscator founded the Workshop after emigrating to New York, having collaborated with Brecht to create "epic theatre" in Germany. The Piscator Notebook documents the author Malina's intensive and idiosyncratic training at Piscator's school.
Author : Maria Ley-Piscator
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Every year innocent people are victims of violent crime.Flight or Fightdelivers the training every man and woman needs to prepare for the fight of their life. Whether confronted by a drug-crazed thief with a knife, an unruly gang, or a gun-wielding robber, the victim's instincts are what determine whether they live or die. This book shows that regardless of current capability, it's possible to dramatically condition oneself psychologically and physically through simple stress drills. With easy-to-follow step-by-step photographs for over 100 exercises,Flight or Fightoffers a program that dramatically hones fighting abilities. Each drill matches basic martial arts techniques—such as punches, kicks, and throws—with the advanced mental instincts necessary for making immediate and smart decisions in dangerous situations. Going beyond training exercises,Flight or Fightalso delves into overcoming psychological hurdles like fear and adrenaline-induced aggression, which everyone faces when confronted with extreme danger.
Author : Drew Lichtenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1000479757
This study of the Piscatorbühne season of 1927–1928 uncovers a vital, previously neglected current of radical experiment in modern theater, a ghost in the machine of contemporary performance practices. A handful of theater seasons changed the course of 20th- and 21st-century theatre. But only the Piscatorbühne of 1927–1928 went bankrupt in less than a year. This exploration tells the story of that collapse, how it predicted the wider collapse of the late Weimar Republic, and how it relates to our own era of political polarization and economic instability. As a wider examination of Piscator’s contributions to dramaturgical and aesthetic form, The Piscatorbühne Century makes a powerful and timely case for the renewed significance of the broader epic theater tradition. Drawing on a rich archive of interwar materials, Drew Lichtenberg reconstructs this germinal nexus of theory and praxis for the modern theatre. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre, performance, art, and literature.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Theater
ISBN :
Author : Judith Malina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136467122
'Theater legend Malina has written one of the most interesting studies of the avant-garde theatrical movement published in the last several years.' – CHOICE Judith Malina and The Living Theatre have been icons of political theatre for over six decades. What few realise is that she originally studied under one of the giants of twentieth century culture, Erwin Piscator, in his Dramatic Workshop at The New School in New York. Piscator founded the Workshop after emigrating to New York, having collaborated with Brecht to create "epic theatre" in Germany. The Piscator Notebook documents Malina’s intensive and idiosyncratic training at Piscator’s school. Part diary, part theatrical treatise, this unique and inspiring volume combines: complete transcriptions of Malina’s diaries from her time as a student at the Dramatic Workshop, as well as reproductions of various of Piscator’s syllabi and teaching materials; notes on Malina’s teachers, fellow students – including Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams – and New School productions; studies of Piscator’s process and influence, along with a new essay on the relationship between his teaching, Malina’s work with the Living Theatre and "The Ongoing Epic"; an introduction by performance pioneer, Richard Schechner. The Piscator Notebook is a compelling record of the genealogy of political theatre practice in the early 20th Century, from Europe to the US. But it is also a stunningly personal reflection on the pleasures and challenges of learning about theatre, charged with essential insights for the student and teacher, actor and director. 'Piscator is the greatest theatre man of our time.' – Bertolt Brecht
