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The essays in volume 23 of Theatre Symposium offer a rich exploration of depictions of youth in works of theatre as well as the role youth play in the creation and performance of drama.
Author : David S. Thompson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0817370102
The essays in volume 23 of Theatre Symposium offer a rich exploration of depictions of youth in works of theatre as well as the role youth play in the creation and performance of drama.
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Release : 1995
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ISBN : 9789994401291
Author : David S. Thompson
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780817389130
The curtain rises on Theatre and Youth, volume 23 of Theatre Symposium with keynote reflections by Suzan Zeder, the distinguished playwright of theatre for youth, and presents eleven original essays about theatre’ s reflections of youth and the role of young people in making and performing theatre. The first set of essays draws from robustly diverse sources: the work of Frank Wedekind in nineteenth-century Germany, Peter Pan’ s several stage incarnations, Evgeny Shvarts’ s antitotalitarian plays in Soviet Russia, and Christopher Marlowe’ s Dido, Queen of Carthage, whose depictions of childhood comment on both the classical period as well as Marlowe’ s own Elizabethan age. The second part of the collection explores and illustrates how youth participate in theatre, the cognitive benefits youth reap from theatre practice, and the ameliorating power of theatre to help at-risk youth. These essays show fascinating and valuable case studies of, for example, theatre employed in geography curricula to strengthen spatial thinking, theatre as an antidote to youth delinquency, and theatre teaching Latinos in the south strategies for coping in a multilingual world. Rounding out this exemplary collection are a pair of essays that survey the state of the art, the significance of theatre-for-youth programming choices, and the shifting attitudes young Americans are bringing to the discipline. Eclectic and vital, this expertly curated collection will be of interest to educators and theatre professionals alike.
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File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Theater
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Author : Robert A. Schanke
Publisher : Theatre History Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780817353995
Theatre History Studies is an annual, peer-reviewed journal devoted to research in all areas of theatre history.
Author : Jay Malarcher
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2009-09-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0817355553
Outdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events. The essays gathered in "Outdoor Performance," Volume 17 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, address outdoor theatre's many manifestations, including the historical and non-traditional. Among other subjects, these essays explore the rise of "airdomes" as performance spaces in the American Midwest in the first half of the 20th century; the civic-religious pageants staged by certain Mormon congregations; Wheels-A-Rolling, and other railroad themed pageants; first-hand accounts of the innovative Hunter Hills theatre program in Tennessee; the role of traditional outdoor historical drama, particularly the long-running performances of Paul Green's The Lost Colony; and the rise of the part dance, part sport, part performance phenomenon "parkour"-- the improvised traversal of obstacles found in both urban and rural landscapes.
Author : M. Scott Phillips
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2007-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0817354573
The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium investigate how, historically, the theatre has been perceived both as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform. Essays consider, among other subjects, ethnographic depictions of the savage “other” in Buffalo Bill’s engagement at the Columbian Exposition of 1893; the so-called “Moral Reform Melodrama” in the nineteenth century; charity theatricals and the ways they negotiated standards of middle-class respectability; the figure of the courtesan as a barometer of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century moral and sexual discourse; Aphra Behn’s subversion of Restoration patriarchal sexual norms in The Feigned Courtesans; and the controversy surrounding one production of Tony Kushner Angels in America, during which officials at one of the nation’s more prominent liberal arts colleges attempted to censor the production, a chilling reminder that academic and artistic freedom cannot be taken for granted in today’s polarized moral and political atmosphere.
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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2001-07-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0817311114
This collection of essays explores how drama can teach political principles and entertain at the same time. Political commentary is possible through "variety" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, this collection of essays presents a compelling mix of theoretical and practical viewpoints from a broad diversity of scholars from around the country. What remains to be learned about the political objectives of Brecht's Lehrstriucke? What political power is resident in the satirical humor of Dario Fo's drama? What can we learn from Mordecai Gorelik's political/artistic philosophy that might inform contemporary practice? What was the impact of political theatre on Broadway between the wars? Is Thornton Wilder's Our Town the play we've always imagined it to be, or does it challenge the politics of its time? What is the role of theatre activism in raising consciousness about gender politics? These are only some of the questions addressed by this lively, informative discussion.
Author : Chase Bringardner
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 081737017X
Illustrates how theatre's engagement with politics changes over time
Author : Jay Malarcher
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2008-09-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0817355103
Comedy Tonight! in Volume 16 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium illustrate well the range of material that falls under the heading "comedy" as it is played on stage.