Theatre and Alchemy
Author : Bettina Liebowitz Knapp
Publisher : Detroit : Wayne State University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Bettina Liebowitz Knapp
Publisher : Detroit : Wayne State University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Lynn Ahrens
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1557836981
(Applause Books). Featuring 28 of the top talents on Broadway! The Alchemy of Theatre lets the top talents in every theatrical field, from producing and writing to publicity and makeup, share their hard-earned wisdom. They speak on how to achieve success in an environment where giant egos are locked up together under mounting financial and emotional pressure, and are expected to deliver greatness. In short, this book is a how-to manual of collaboration by the professionals who do it best. Among those who have packed their lively essays with real-world stories of experience on legendary productions are directors Harold Prince, Susan Stroman, and George C. Wolfe; playwrights Wendy Wasserstein, recently deceased, and Edward Albee; stars Chita Rivera and Brian Stokes Mitchell; set designer Robin Wagner; songwriter Cy Coleman, in one of his last writing efforts before his death; costume designer William Ivey Long; producer Rocco Landesman; theatre operator Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of The Shubert Organization; playwright and librettist Terrence McNally; lighting designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer; Musical Director Paul Gemignani; and more than a dozen more. This book is nothing but true-life stories of how these precepts work in real life for some of the most talented people alive. "Every narrative gives an inside look at what makes theater magical and allows a performance to come together. For those who love the theater, this book is essential." Library Journal
Author : Jane Gilmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004449426
The Alchemical Actor – Performing the Great Work: Imagining Alchemical Theatre offers an imagination for an alchemical theatre inspired by the directives of Antonin Artaud.
Author :
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476849498
Foreword by Jeremy Irons preface by Adrian Lyne. Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov Schiff tells the astounding story behind the most controversial movie of our time. 75 movie stills.ÞÞ Like Nabokov's novel it is an eloquent tragedy laced with wit and a serious disturbing work of art... ä ÊThe New York TimesÊ
Author : Bob Carlton
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573695995
Inspired by Shakepeare's The Tempest, this juke box musical is packed with rock 'n' roll classics such as Heard it Through the Grapevine, Young Girl, Good Vibrations, and Gloria. Blast off on a routine flight and crash into the planet D'Illyria where a sci fi version of The Tempest set to rock and roll golden oldies unfolds with glee. The planet is inhabited by a sinister scientist, Dr. Prospero; his delightful daughter Miranda; Ariel, a faithful robot on roller skates; and an uncontrollable monster, the product of Prospero's Id, whose tentacles penetrate the space craft.
Author : Bettina Liebowitz Knapp
Publisher : Detroit : Wayne State University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Peter Barnes
Publisher : London ; Boston : Faber and Faber
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571137718
While the Black Death fills fourteenth-century Europe with fear, Father Flote leads a traveling band of comedians in hopes of offering redemption through laughter
Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780795352492
The acclaimed playwright, novelist, and author of Fifth Business explores the performing arts in this witty and insightful essay collection. Though best known for his award-winning fiction, Robertson Davies enjoyed a long and varied career as an actor, playwright, journalist and critic. Happy Alchemy collects an equally diverse range of Davies' writings--including speeches, articles, prologues to plays, a ghost story set to music, and even a scenario for a film. In this eclectic volume, Davies shares his many musings on music, theatre, opera, and more. These pieces, many of them published here for the first time, touch on topics from Greek tragedy to Scottish Folklore and from Lewis Carroll to Carl Jung.
Author : Will Weigler
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Epiphanies
ISBN : 9780000104892
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
First performed in 1610, The Alchemist is one of Ben Jonson’s greatest comedies. Written for the King’s Men—the acting company to which Shakespeare belonged—it was first performed in Oxford because the playhouses in London were closed due to the plague. It was an immediate success and has remained a popular staple ever since. The play centers around a con man, his female accomplice, and a roguish butler who uses his master’s house to gull a series of victims out of their money and goods. Jonson uses the play to satirize as many people as he can—pompous lords, greedy commoners, and self-righteous Anabaptists alike—as his three con artists proceed to bilk everyone who comes to their door. They don multiple roles and weave elaborate tales to exploit their victims’ greed and amass a small fortune. But it all comes to a sudden, raucous end when the master unexpectedly returns to London and all the victims gather to try and reclaim their property.