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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 31

Author : Chase Bringardner

Publisher : University of Alabama Press

Page : 155 pages

File Size : 29,87 MB

Release : 2024-06-21

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0817370188

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A new issue of the longstanding theatre journal, documenting conversations that traverse disciplinary boundaries The essays in the thirty-first volume of Theatre Symposium traverse disciplinary boundaries to explore what constitutes the "popular" in theater and performance in an increasingly frenetic and mediated landscape. Amid the current resurgence of populist discourse and the enduring impact of popular culture, this volume explores what is considered popular, how that determination gets made, and who makes it. The answers to these questions shape the structures and systems of performance in an interaction that is reciprocal, intricate, and multifaceted. Productions often succeed or fail based on their ability to align with what is popular--sometimes productively, sometimes clumsily, sometimes brazenly, and sometimes tragically. In our current moment, what constitutes the popular profoundly affects the real world politically, economically, and socially. Controversies about the electoral college system hinge on the primacy of the "popular" vote. Streaming services daily update lists of their most popular content and base future decisions on opaque measures of popularity. Social media platforms broadcast popular content across the globe, triggering new products, social activism, and political revolutions. The contributors to this volume engage with a range of contemporary and historical examples and argue with clarity and acuity the interplay of performance and the popular. Theatre and performance deeply engage with the popular at every level--from audience response to box office revenue. The variety of methodologies and sites of inquiry showcased in this volume demonstrates the breadth and depth of the popular and the importance of such work to understanding our present moment onstage and off. CONTRIBUTORS Mysia Anderson / Chase Bringardner / Elizabeth M. Cizmar / Chelsea Curto / Janet M. Davis / Tom Fish / Kyla Kazuschyk / Sarah McCarroll / Eleanor Owicki / Sunny Stalter-Pace / Chelsea Taylor / Chris Woodworth



Theatre Symposium, Vol. 30

Author : Chase Bringardner

Publisher : University of Alabama Press

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 29,51 MB

Release : 2023-05-09

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 081737017X

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Illustrates how theatre's engagement with politics changes over time



Theatre Symposium, Vol. 17

Author : Jay Malarcher

Publisher : University of Alabama Press

Page : 137 pages

File Size : 37,97 MB

Release : 2009-09-27

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0817355553

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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.



Theatre Symposium, Vol. 16

Author : Jay Malarcher

Publisher : University of Alabama Press

Page : 139 pages

File Size : 21,36 MB

Release : 2008-09-14

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0817355103

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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.



Theatre Symposium, Vol. 20

Author : Edward Bert Wallace

Publisher : University of Alabama Press

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 50,48 MB

Release : 2012-09-17

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0817370072

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The audience is an integral part of performance and is in fact what separates a rehearsal from a performance. The relationship, however, between performers and the audience has evolved over time, which is one of the subjects addressed, along with the changing disposition of the audience itself and a number of other topics, in Gods and Groundlings, volume 20 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium. The essays in this volume discuss spectatorship in historical context, the role of the audience in the digital age, the early modern English transvestite theatre, Annie Oakley and the disruption of Victorian audiences, and historical attempts to create ideal audiences. Edited by E. Bert Wallace, this latest publication from the largest regional theatre organization in the United States collects the most current scholarship on theatre history and theory. Contributors To Volume 20 Susan Bennett / Jane Barnette / Becky Becker / Lisa Bernd / Evan Bridenstine / Michael Jaros / Robert I. Lublin / Paulette Marty



Theatre Symposium, Vol. 15

Author : M. Scott Phillips

Publisher : University of Alabama Press

Page : 140 pages

File Size : 50,51 MB

Release : 2007-09-23

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0817354573

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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.



National Library of Medicine Current Catalog

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

Publisher :

Page : 1242 pages

File Size : 24,22 MB

Release : 1974

Category : Medicine

ISBN :

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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.



New Theatre Quarterly 62: Volume 16, Part 2

Author : Clive Barker

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 11,90 MB

Release : 2000-08-17

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9780521789028

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New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies. Articles in volume 62 include: Staging and Storytelling, Theatre and Film: Richard III at Stratford; The Theatrical Biosphere and Ecologies of Performance; The Afro-Caribbean Identity and the English Stage; A Riposte to David Mamet: Heresy and Common Sense in True and False; Form as Weapon: the Political Function of Song in Urban Zimbabwean Theatre; 'Aphrodite Speaks': on the recent Performance Art of Carolee Schneemann; Theatre and Urban Space: the Case of Birmingham Rep; Across Two Eras: Slovak Theatre from Communism to Independence; Whatever Happened to Gay Theatre?



Beyond Documentary Realism

Author : Cyrielle Garson

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 351 pages

File Size : 13,46 MB

Release : 2021-02-22

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 3110715864

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The book series CDE Studies invites monographs (and collections) on issues in contemporary Anglophone dramatic literature and theatre performance. The book series is dedicated to the analysis and renegotiation of contemporary writers and plays and their historical, political, formal, theoretical and methodological contexts.



New Theatre Quarterly 60: Volume 15, Part 4

Author : Clive Barker

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 140 pages

File Size : 23,2 MB

Release : 2000-02-24

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9780521655965

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New Theatre Quarterly provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning.