Theatre: technical and background skills

This book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of the fifth-century comic poet Aristophanes.

Focuses on the operatic soprano as the diva and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the digital age.

Looking for a job in the theatre and entertainment industry can be daunting, especially when you are newly entering the work market.

When, almost twenty years ago, we founded the World of Art, we had a burning desire to liberate Russian artistic activity from the tutelage of literature, to instil in the society around us a love of the very essence of art, and that was the aim we had when we took the field.

In The Prop Building Guidebook, author Eric Hart demonstrated how to cut, glue, sculpt, and bend raw materials to build props.

Directors and Designers explores the practice of scenography the creation of perspective in the design and painting of stage scenery and offers new insight into the working relationships of the people responsible for these theatrical transformations.

The romantic theatre, with all its imaginative vigour and eagerness for experimentation, appeals to those who like total theatre - unabashed, unashamedly spectacular, unforgettably pathetic.

Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts, Third Edition is designed for the college student who may be unacquainted with many plays and has seen a limited number of theatre productions.

Traditional speech work has long favored an upper-class white accent as the model of intelligibility.

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Since the 1880s, electrical energies started circulating in European theaters, generated from fossil fuels in urban power plants.

Iconic Broadway costume designer Patricia Zipprodt (1925-99) tells her own colorful story from a tumultuous childhood in Depression-era Chicago to Bohemian New York in the 1950s, becoming one of the 20th century's most celebrated designers.

This book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of the fifth-century comic poet Aristophanes.

This book explores how theater artistry melds the forces of collaboration and leadership, igniting creativity from the first spark of an idea to the climactic curtain call.

Why are so many women still not properly listened to?

Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history.

A smart, witty and accessible guide to the rewarding and joyful practice of improvisation.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Technical automation the ability of man-made (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously is not just the province of engineering or science fiction.

Emphasising the artistry behind the decisions made by theatrical sound designers, this guide is for anyone seeking to understand the nature of sound and how to apply it to the stage.

Examines staging conventions in the medieval English theatre and ways in which they conditioned the reactions of the audience.

Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance.

How do performers and artists use media technologies to create live events?

The standard work in a new edition "e;Stage Technology - Mechanical Equipment"e; was now published in English under the title "e;Stage Technology"e; The book offers a comprehensive presentation of modern stage technology.

This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process.

The meanings originally communicated by Elizabethan and Jacobean dress have long been confined to history.

An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship.

Fitting and Pattern Alteration: A Multi-Method Approach to the Art of Style Selection, Fitting, and Alteration, Fourth Edition, shows readers how to recognize, evaluate, and correct fit for a variety of body types, sizes.

Survey of Historic Costume, 6th Edition, is the best-selling introduction to Western dress from the ancient world through the twenty-first century.

Sebastian Hannaks Raumbühne HETEROTOPIA an der Oper Halle ist eine der aufsehenerregendsten Bühneninstallationen der letzten Jahre.

Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies.

Leading Golden Age theatre experts examine the ways that comedias have been adapted and reinvented, offering a broad performance history of the genre for scholars and practicioners alike.

"e;Stage technicians or 'techies' don't read books, they seek information on the basis of the need to know.

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This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema's first years.

The Art of Theatrical Design: Elements of Visual Composition, Methods, and Practice addresses the core principles that develop the student designer into a true artist, providing a foundation that ensures success with each production design.

'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques LecoqJacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age.

This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site.