Author : Martin Welton
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349319015
Why is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers and their audiences occupy a shared realm of feelings, in which the play is not always the thing.
Author : Anne Bogart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137013788
How does a tragedy arouse pity and fear? How do music and lighting set a mood or convey an emotional tone for an audience? Why does theatre move us? Theatre & Feeling explores the idea that, for many people, theatre is a passion. It provides an intellectual framework for the range of emotional experience engendered by the theatre, establishing a base-line for further thinking and practice in this rich and emergent area of inquiry. Moving across western dramatic theory and theatre history, the book demonstrates the centrality of feeling to the theatre. Foreword by Anne Bogart.
Author : Mireia Aragay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3030584860
This book explores the various manifestations of affects in British theatre of the 21st century. The introduction gives a concise survey of existing and emerging theoretical and research trends and argues in favour of a capacious understanding of affects that mediates between more autonomous and more social approaches. The twelve chapters in the collection investigate major works in Britain by playwrights and theatre makers including Mojisola Adebayo, Mike Bartlett, Alice Birch, Caryl Churchill, Tim Crouch and Andy Smith, Rachel De-lahay, Reginald Edmund, James Fritz, David Greig, Idris Goodwin, Zinnie Harris, Kieran Hurley, Lucy Kirkwood, Anders Lustgarten, Yolanda Mercy, Anthony Neilson, Lucy Prebble, Sh!t Theatre, Penelope Skinner, Stef Smith, Kae Tempest and debbie tucker green. The interpretations identify significant areas of tension as they relate affects to the fields of cognition, politics and hope. In this, the chapters uncover interrelations of thought, intention and empathy; they reveal the nexus between identities, institutions and ideology; and, finally, they explore how theatre can accomplish the transition from a sense of crisis to utopian visions.
Author : Teya Sepinuck
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1849053820
Exploring diverse human experiences in the US, Poland and Northern Ireland, this book is of interest to practitioners and students of applied theatre, peace and conflict studies, professionals working in conflict resolution, counselors, psychotherapists, professionals in the field of criminal and restorative justice, and spiritual seekers.
Author : Glyn Trefor-Jones
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781848422858
Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.
Author : Lisa Zunshine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199978069
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies applies developments in cognitive science to a wide range of literary texts that span multiple historical periods and numerous national literary traditions.
Author : Robert Leach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1134382731
This book is the first detailed introduction to the work of the key theatre-makers who shaped the drama of the last century: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud.
Author : Margherita Laera
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1472522419
Contemporary theatrical productions as diverse in form as experimental performance, new writing, West End drama, musicals and live art demonstrate a recurring fascination with adapting existing works by other artists, writers, filmmakers and stage practitioners. Featuring seventeen interviews with internationally-renowned theatre and performance artists, Theatre and Adaptation provides an exceptionally rich study of the variety of work developed in recent years. First-hand accounts illuminate a diverse range of approaches to stage adaptation, ranging from playwriting to directing, Javanese puppetry to British children's theatre, and feminist performance to Japanese Noh. The transition of an existing source to the stage is not a smooth one: this collection examines the practices and the complex set of negotiations each work of transition and appropriation involves. Including interviews with Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Handspring Puppet Company, Katie Mitchell, Rimini Protokoll, Elevator Repair Service, Simon Stephens, Ong Keng Sen and Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the volume reveals performance's enduring desire to return, rewrite and repeat.
Author : Maxine Klein
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780896080003
"Today in the valley of total corporate control there exists a people's life-line. It is comprised of people who are resisting everything about the corporate elite, from its ambiance and aerosol to its broadcast hype. And they are resisting not by dropping out but by joining up." "This book is about theatre for the 98%. Call it our theatre. Call it the other theatre. Call it political theatre. Call it poor theatre. Call it democratic theatre. Call it downtown theatre. Call it makin' do. Whatever you call it, it is people's theatre."
Author : Tom Stern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134575912
The relationship between philosophy and theatre is a central theme in the writings of Plato and Aristotle and of dramatists from Aristophanes to Stoppard. Where Plato argued that playwrights and actors should be banished from the ideal city for their suspect imitations of reality, Aristotle argued that theatre, particularly tragedy, was vital for stimulating our emotions and helping us to understanding ourselves. Despite this rich history the study of philosophy and theatre has been largely overlooked in contemporary philosophy. This is the first book to introduce philosophy and theatre. It covers key topics and debates, presenting the contributions of major figures in the history of philosophy, including: what is theatre? How does theatre compare with other arts? theatre as imitation, including Plato on mimesis truth and illusion in the theatre, including Nietzsche on tragedy theatre as history theatre and morality, including Rousseau’s criticisms of theatre audience and emotion, including Aristotle on catharsis theatre and politics, including Brecht’s Epic Theatre. Including annotated further reading and summaries at the end of each chapter, Philosophy and Theatre is an ideal starting point for those studying philosophy, theatre studies and related subjects in the arts and humanities.
