Author : Julian Beck
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
(Limelight). "He did what he wanted to do: with his wife Judith Malina he created the Living Theatre . . . Not an ivory tower, however: a headquarters of revolution, a guerrilla theater, though a pacifist one . . . He didn't get the kind of death he wanted . . . but . . . he had had the life he wanted . . . When such a life has been lived, who dares say theater is just a business? Who dares say it is just an art?" Eric Bentley
Author : Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Evreinov
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 1978
Category : 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.
Author : John Southworth
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : 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.
Author : August Bournonville
Publisher : Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Di Trevis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 1136721649
Di Trevis is a world-renowned director, whose work with Britain’s National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and directing productions worldwide, has deeply informed her knowledge of the director’s craft. In Being a Director, she draws on a wealth of first-hand experience to present an immersive, engaging and vital insight into the role of a director. The book elegantly blends the personal and the pedagogical, illustrating how the parameters of Time, Space and Motion are essential when creating a successful production. Throughout, the author explores and recycles her own formative life experiences in order to demonstrate that who you are is as integral to being a director as what you do.
Author : Oscar Gross Brockett
Publisher :
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Alan Read
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : 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.
Author : Jim Volz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1408152312
"I cannot think of a better book for aspiring and working actors, craftspeople, artists, and managers" Kent Thompson, Artistic Director, Denver Center Theatre Company, Past President TCG Board of Directors "It's time for a new look at the complexity and richness of America's growing theatrical landscapre and Jim Volz is just the person to provide that overview" Lesley Schisgall Currier, Managing Director, Marin Shakespeare Company Working in American Theatre is a coast-to-coast overview of the opportunities awaiting theatre practitioners in every discipline. Featuring tips from America's top theatre professionals, this resource offers job-search and career-planning strategies, as well as detailed information on over 1,000 places to work in the American theatre, including regional companies, Broadway and commerical theatre, Shakespeare festivals, touring theatres, university/resident theatres, youth and children's theatres, and outdoor theatres. Offering an overview of the evolution of American theatre and behind-the-scenes stories of the regional movement, this single volume is an indispensable tool at every stage of your career.
Author : Wendy Smith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0345805992
Real Life Drama is the classic history of the remarkable group that revitalized American theater in the 1930s by engaging urgent social and moral issues that still resonate today. Born in the turbulent decade of the Depression, the Group Theatre revolutionized American arts. Wendy Smith's dramatic narrative brings the influential troupe and its founders to life once again, capturing their joys and pains, their triumphs and defeats. Filled with fresh insights into the towering personalities of Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, Clifford Odets, Stella and Luther Adler, Karl Malden, and Lee J. Cobb, among many others, Real Life Drama chronicles a passionate community of idealists as they opened a new frontier in theater.
