Individual actors and performers

»Mögen hätte ich schon wollen, aber dürfen habe ich mich nicht getraut.

Als viertes von fünf Kindern in einfachsten Verhältnissen geboren, wächst Schwill als Waisenkind in Kinderheimen auf, kommt sogar in ein Heim für Schwererziehbare.

Rolf Ludwigs Leben verlief nicht ohne Umwege und Schicksalsschläge, war aber auch reich an glänzenden Erfolgen, herausfordernden Aufgaben und Glückszufällen.

Herbert Köfers Laufbahn begann mit einer vor den Eltern verheimlichten Bewerbung des Sechzehnjährigen an der Schauspielschule; heute ist er der älteste aktive Schauspieler und als solcher im Guinnessbuch der Rekorde verzeichnet.

Krebs - der Befund trifft sie wie ein Schlag.

Akrobatische Kung-Fu-Tricks, waghalsige Stunts und komödiantisches Talent: Dafür kennen und lieben Generationen von Kinobesuchern Jackie Chan.

Auf der Bühne gab er den verführerischen Liliom, den schelmischen Schwejk, den tragischen Professor Unrat.

Es gibt Menschen, die einem - obgleich man ihnen noch nie begegnet ist - vertraut sind, als gehörten sie zur Familie .

This book develops media archaeological approaches to theatre and intermediality.

This book offers an analysis of public service broadcasting (PSB) in European Countries that highlights the issues - both legal and not - currently facing PSB.

How should a free society protect privacy?

Performing Music History offers a unique perspective on music history and performance through a series of conversations with women and men intimately associated with music performance, history, and practice: the musicians themselves.

This book is about the centrality of movement, movement perception, and kinesthetic experience to theatrical spectatorship.

This book reflects the changes in technology and educational trends (cross-disciplinary learning, entrepreneurship, first-year learning programs, critical writing requirements, course assessment, among others) that have pushed theatre educators to innovate, question, and experiment with new teaching strategies.

This book theorizes auteur Robert Lepage's scenography-based approach to adapting canonical texts.

This book presents the research journey involved in sensitively unearthing and re-presenting the lived experience of women casual academics.

In this book, Lorraine York examines the figure of the celebrity who expresses discomfort with his or her intense condition of social visibility.

This book is an anthology of Mark Edward's creative practice-led projects.

This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager.

This book works to 'make change strange' from and for the field of theatre and performance studies.

This book addresses the notion posed by Thomas Kilroy in his definition of a playwright's creative process: 'We write plays, I feel, in order to populate the stage'.

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written.

1963, im Jahr von Richard Wagners 150.

»Ich habe in Brando immer einen Rebellen gesehen – eine sicher naive Betrachtungsweise; was ist schon ein Rebell?

Mit umfangreichem Apparat und großem Bildteil.

Wenn Fritz Muliar, der "alte König", die Bühne der Familie betrat, nahmen alle, auch sein Enkel Markus, die ihnen zugedachten Rollen ein.

Mythos Clint Eastwood: In seinen Filmen verkörpert er den harten Kerl, der öfter die Augenbraue hebt als Worte macht.

***Ein kämpferisches Leben zwischen Lindenstraße und Christopher Street***Der erste Kuss zweier Männer in einer deutschen Fernsehserie machte Georg Uecker, alias Dr.

Der erste Band des Standardwerks.

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written.

Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production of Bernard Shaw's plays in America.

Beckett's plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances - that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as 'disabled' in the text.

Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and continues to influence contemporary stand-up comedy.

This monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer / choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b - 1977d).

This book examines a series of contemporary plays where writers put theatre itself on stage.

This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this impacts on the relationship between live performance and death.

This book critically examines matters of age and aging in relation to dance.

Recent technological and scientific developments have demonstrated a condition that has already long been upon us.

Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary, ballet, hip hop, and breaking dancers and cross-disciplinary explication of kinaesthesia and visual self-reflection discourses.

The voices that are represented in this collection come from various parts of the world and express the views of practitioners and scholars who have all had first-hand experience working in Zimbabwean theatre from the last days of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.

This book offers a new approach to understanding disinformation and its destructive impact on the democratic function of the news media.

How does the moving, dancing body engage with the materials, textures, atmospheres, and affects of the sites through which we move and in which we live, work and play?

Directors have long been the main figures on Eastern European stages.

This book marks a significant methodological shift in studies of black British women's theatre: it looks beyond published plays to the wealth of material held in archives of various kinds, from national repositories and themed collections to individuals' personal papers.