Author : Dina Sherzer
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780879724122
This volume is about puppetry, an expression of popular and folk culture which is extremely widespread around the world and yet has attracted relatively little scholarly attention. Puppetry, which is intended for audiences of adults as well as children, is a form of communication and entertainment and an esthetic and artistic creation. Of the many aspects of puppetry worthy of scholarly study, this book's focus is on a central and dominant feature--humor and comedy.
Author : Simon Morley
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 9780646533797
A few years ago, Simon Morley and David Friend began performing their repertoire of dick tricks' live onstage in Melbourne. After a hit first season at the 1998 Melbourne Comedy Festival, they embarked on a national tour, which took eight months, covered 20,000 kilometres and was captured in all its glory in the documentary 'Tackle Happy'. Receiving overwhelming critical acclaim at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival, Puppetry of the Penis was a sell-out West End hit in London, and took New York and North America by storm in 2001. The show now continues to travel the world, liberating and enthralling its audiences, having now been performed in 3 languages, in over 30 countries, by over 60 Puppeteers trained up by the masters. Simon and David officially now have the "most famous, flaccid penises on earth". Now, for the first time, the secrets of the Ancient Australian Art of Genital Origami are revealed. Marvel at the Atomic Mushroom; be blown away by the Windsurfer; coo at the Baby Bird; be amazed by the Hamburger. This user's guide to an age-old art is a book that every man should study - and every woman should learn from.
Author : Robert Askins
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1468317180
In the rec room in at a church in Cypress, Texas, Margery leads her students in a puppet pageant to strengthen their faith in the Bible and evade Satan's hand. But when the young members of the Christian Puppet Ministry put those teachings into practice, one devout young man's puppet takes on a shocking personality that no one could have expected. In this hilarious black comedy, a foul-mouthed sock puppet named Tyrone soon teaches those around him that the urges that can drive a person to give in to their darkest desires fit like a glove. In Hand to God, a "true tour de force" (New York Times), Robert Askins has written a play of "unerring perfection" (Huffington Post). The must-see hit of the 2015 Broadway season, starring Steven Boyer and Geneva Carr, garnered an Obie Award and five Tony Award nominations, including Best Play, following its sold out, critically acclaimed off-Broadway runs at MCC Theater and Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Author : Steven A. Benko
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476676410
All humans laugh. However, there is little agreement about what is appropriate to laugh at. While laughter can unite people by showing how they share values and perspectives, it also has the power to separate and divide. Humor that "crosses the line" can make people feel excluded and humiliated. This collection of new essays addresses possible ways that moral and ethical lines can be drawn around humor and laughter. What would a Kantian approach to humor look like? Do games create a safe space for profanity and offense? Contributors to this volume work to establish and explain guidelines for thinking about the moral questions that arise when humor and laughter intersect with medicine, gender, race, and politics. Drawing from the work of stand-up comedians, television shows, and ethicists, this volume asserts that we are never just joking.
Author : Victoria Chang
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 2013
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9781938073588
The Boss is an exploration of contemporary American culture, power structures, family life, and ethnic and personal identity. G.C. Waldrep writes that [The Boss] is part meditation on corporate life, part exploration of mother- and daughterhood, part elegy for a father who has not yet died.
Author : Anthony Balducci
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 078648893X
Classic comedy routines and individual gags have been around for many hundreds of years, probably thousands; the best of these ribticklers make their merry way through theater, circus, film and television. The challenge to comedians has always been to adapt familiar material in a way that emphasizes their personal style and outlook. The many routines and gags cited in this illustrated history are lovingly deconstructed to show how they have been shaped to suit different eras and performers. These tried and true laugh-provokers are indestructible. Through all the remakes, revivals, recycles and revamps, they have survived robustly to the present day. As these timeless comedy gems are traced to their beginnings and followed through the years, readers are taken on a mirthful journey from Keystone to Zombieland.
Author : Claudia Orenstein
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 1998
Category :
ISBN : 9781617030970
Are traditions of popular theatre still alive in politically-engaged theatre today? In San Francisco they are. The San Francisco Mime Troupe is a modern link in the long history of public performances that have a merry air but have a voice of political protest and social comment. Every summer since 1962 the Troupe has taken free outdoor performances to public parks in the Bay Area. In a style that is festive and a spirit that is revolutionary the Mime Troupe has relied on popular theatre forms to address timely political and social issues. Their productions maintain a contemporary political edge, while showing their origins to be the popular traditions of the commedia dell'arte, circus clowning, vaudeville, puppetry, and minstrel shows. With The Minstrel Show or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel (1965) they expressed support of the civil rights movement. With L'Amant Militaire (1967) they voiced support of Vietnam War protests. To discover what makes these apparently frivolous theatrical traditions effective for contemporary political theatre, Festive Revolutions explores the historical origins of the popular forms the Mime Troupe draws on. In old Europe, where performance traditions began, political turmoil blended with festive celebration. The lineage of the Mime Troupe's Punch the Red can be traced back to the Italian puppet figure Pulcinella through its English and Russian counterparts Punch and Petrushka. In the Mime Troupe the use of stereotypes and reliance upon colorful festivity are diverse strategies for dodging censorship. Productions like Ripped Van Winkle continue today to rekindle the radicalism the Troupe inherited from the culture of the 1960s. Festive Revolutions shows that such forms have inspired political theatre for centuries.
Author : Paula Richman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 1991-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520075894
Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramayanas. While most scholars continue to rely on Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana as the authoritative version of the tale, the contributors to this volume do not. Their essays demonstrate the multivocal nature of the Ramayana by highlighting its variations according to historical period, political context, regional literary tradition, religious affiliation, intended audience, and genre. Socially marginal groups in Indian society—Telugu women, for example, or Untouchables from Madhya Pradesh—have recast the Rama story to reflect their own views of the world, while in other hands the epic has become the basis for teachings about spiritual liberation or the demand for political separatism. Historians of religion, scholars of South Asia, folklorists, cultural anthropologists—all will find here refreshing perspectives on this tale.
Author : Randy Boyagoda
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771964286
"A Divine Comedy of our times."—John Irving, author of The World According to Garp "This book is a miracle.”—Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao A 2022 ReLit Award Finalist • A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 Following Original Prin, a NYTBR Editor’s Choice and Globe and Mail Best Book, Dante’s Indiana is an extraordinary journey through the divine comedies and tragedies of our time. Middle-aged, married, but living on his own, Prin has lost his way. Desperate for money and purpose, he moves to small-town Indiana to work for an evangelical millionaire who’s building a theme park inspired by Dante’s Inferno. He quickly becomes involved in the difficult lives of his co-workers and in the wider struggles of their opioid-ravaged community while trying to reconcile with his distant wife and distant God. Both projects spin out of control, and when a Black teenager is killed, creationists, politicians and protesters alike descend. In the midst of this American chaos, Prin risks everything to help the lost and angry souls around him while searching for his own way home. Affecting and strange, intimate and big-hearted, Dante’s Indiana is a darkly divine comedy for our time.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN :
