Theatre studies

Author John Staines here argues that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers in England, Scotland, and France wrote tragedies of the Queen of Scots - royal heroine or tyrant, martyr or whore - in order to move their audiences towards political action by shaping and directing the passions generated by the spectacle of her fall.

This book explores the development of Robert Lepage's distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a defining effect on shaping his aesthetic and his professional trajectory.

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

Logan Murray has successfully taught the techniques of stand-up comedy to thousands, and in this book he distills his years of experience into the essential skills for a great and enjoyable performance.

A comedy set in Winnipeg during the 1919 General Strike, Striker Schneiderman was first presented in 1970 at the St.

Specially written for students and enthusiasts, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre and cultural life.

First Published in 1998.

A comprehensive history of Roman drama from its beginnings to the end of the Republican period.

Here is a book to hearten playgoers, stimulate young actors, lead theatrical executives to reconsider methods of management, and encourage benefactors to open their wallets.

The Broadway musical has greatly influenced both American and world culture.

This collection of essays and interviews investigates current practices that expand our understanding and experience of performance through the use of state-of-the-art technologies.

Many people make up a neighborhood.

The past 50 years have seen a tremendous arts boom in Seattle, which has given the city not only internationally recognized classical music institutions but also great performance halls to showcase their work and that of visiting artists.

Contact between cultures may also lead to rejection as well as suppression of certain types of music.

Ed Hooks' essential acting guidebook for animators has been fully revised and updated in this fifth edition, capturing some of the vast changes that have affected the animation industry in recent years.

The Stanislavsky method for analyzing the characters in a drama, systematized for the first time and clearly explained, using the complete text of The Cherry Orchard as illustration.

Step into a world where the brightest creative minds of contemporary musical theatre share their insights and inspirations.

This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture.

In Exercises for Rebel Artists, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes use their extensive teaching and performance experience with La Pocha Nostra to help students and practitioners to create 'border art'.

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation of new multimedia platforms for story-led performance.

Anna is one busy girl!

This book offers a new, accurate and actable translation of one of Euripides' most popular plays, together with a commentary which provides insight into the challenges it sets for production and suggestions for how to solve them.

A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Color provides readers with the skills and knowledge to create coherent color schemes for costumes.

This story the story of making the first show is our record of how uncertain, optimistic, idealistic and na ve we felt back then.

Gesa Stedman's ambitious new study is a comprehensive account of cross-channel cultural exchanges between seventeenth-century France and England, and includes discussion of a wide range of sources and topics.

Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes.

This revised edition incorporates plays accessible to students at high novice and intermediate levels, while retaining dramas that challenge and heighten the proficiency of the most advanced students.

Originally published in 1984.

This book offers an entirely new reception history of the myth of Hercules and his wife/killer Deianira.

Theater Careers is designed to empower aspiring theater professionals to make savvy, informed decisions through a concise overview of how to prepare for and find work in the theater business.

This is the first book to examine how the concept and disagreements around post-truth have been explored in the world of theater and performance.

For young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as they struggle across difference to create something together with common purpose.

The 1980s witnessed the ascendency of Russian women in multiple spheres of artistic creation, including literature, film, and painting.

How forty-one women—including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne—were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s “Red Scare.

This anthology of six selected plays, written between 2000 and 2020 by Bratya Basu, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021, is the first collection of Bengali plays that blends avant-garde, pop and traditional cultures with contemporary dramatic themes.

This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera's performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro Striggio the Younger, belonged.

Writing Adaptations and Translations for the Stage is a practical guide for writing adapted works for theatrical performance.

Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre explores modern theatrical practices in Indonesia from a performance of Hamlet in the warehouses of Dutch Batavia to Ratna Sarumpaet's feminist Muslim Antigones.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "e;South Pacific"e; has remained a mainstay of the American musical theater since it opened in 1949, and its powerful message about racial intolerance continues to resonate with twenty-first century audiences.

First published in 1994.

A practical, accessible and thorough guide to identifying and using rhetorical devices in drama, using examples from both classical and contemporary plays.

Understanding and addressing social justice concerns has become a central focus in an increasing number of schools as well as teacher education programs.

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"e;Michael Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh"e; (Guardian)Four old friends sit down for a quiet evening together.

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