This book introduces readers to the historical, performative, and cultural context of pansori, a traditional Korean oral story-singing art. Written by a scholar-practitioner of the form, this study is structured in three parts and b...Daugiau...
Provides a clear guide to Kathakali, exploring the origin, evolution and characteristics of the form today and the ways it has adapted for a 21st-century audience. This introduction to this mode of dance drama traces the distinctive features of Kath...Daugiau...
What entertained Indias masses and elites before the arrival of cinema? When did modern theatre begin in India? Scholar and fifth-generation Nautanki artist, Devendra Sharma, examines the history of Nautanki, a theatrical form that flourished in...Daugiau...
Authored by a leading exponent of the form, this book provides a clear guide to Kathakali, exploring its origin, evolution, and characteristics and the ways it has adapted for a 21st-century audience. Kathakali is an introduc...Daugiau...
Provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the rich traditions of noh, traditional Japanese dance-drama. Drawing from up-to-date, specialized scholarship in Japanese and English, it takes an accessible approach useful for a range of reader...Daugiau...
What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years, and to what effect? What is its relationship to truth and reality, and defining moments of civic unrest and political chan...Daugiau...
What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years, and to what effect? What is its relationship to truth and reality, and defining moments of civic unrest and political change? I...Daugiau...
This book offers a stimulating introduction to the Hokkien music drama known as liyuanxi (pear garden theatre), heir and current expression of one of Chinas oldest unbroken xiqu (Chinese opera) traditions. It considers the genre...Daugiau...
This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhais repertoi...Daugiau...
The definitive account of the work, lineage and legacy of the most important European stage directors from the first half of the twentieth century. Through each volumes focus on a small cluster of related directors, it offers a rich and substantial...Daugiau...
The definitive account of the work, lineage and legacy of the most important European stage directors from the second half of the twentieth century. Through each volumes focus on a small cluster of related directors, it offers a rich and substantial...Daugiau...
This volume provides a fresh assessment of the pioneering practices of theatre directors Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook and Eugenio Barba, whose work has challenged and extended ideas about what theatre is and does. Contributors demonstrate...Daugiau...
This volume foregrounds Pina Bausch, Romeo Castellucci and Jan Fabre as three leading directors who have each left an indelible mark on post-war European theatre. Combining in-depth discussions of the artists poetics with detailed case studies of se...Daugiau...
This volume assesses the contributions of André Antoine, Konstantin Stanislavski and Michel Saint-Denis, whose work has influenced theatre and training for over a century. These directors pioneered Naturalism and refined Realism as they experimented...Daugiau...
This volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these three directors take up key aesthetic prompts from earlier innovators Stanislavski, the modernist avant-garde and not least Brecht and...Daugiau...
This volume surveys and assesses the contributions of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht to theatre-making, which richly exemplify the range of ways that directors address dramatic material, theatrical space and their audiences. Th...Daugiau...
This volume offers a compelling account of Jean-Louis Barrault, Ariane Mnouchkine and Peter Stein, who not only won international recognition as directors whose repertoires ranged from classical Greek to Shakespeare to the avant-garde, but also succ...Daugiau...
In this volume leading scholars assess the contributions of Max Reinhardt, Leopold Jessner and Harley Granville Barker to European theatre. Their work represents the cultural shift from traditional theatre practices of the 19th century to the rise...Daugiau...
This volume examines the work of directors Jacques Copeau, Theodore Komisarjevsky and Tyrone Guthrie. It explores in detail many of the directors key productions, including Copeaus staging of Moličres The Tricks of Scapin, Komisarjevskys signature s...Daugiau...
First published in 1989, Coming on Strong addresses itself to anyone, whatever their sexuality, who wants to know why gay men have become one of those most controversial minorities in 1980s Britain. First published in 1989, Coming o...Daugiau...
Drawing on interview material from more than 20 leading stage managers from the UK, USA and Australia this book situates the contemporary practice of stage management within its historical and social contexts. Questioning the notions of the invisibl...Daugiau...
Drawing on interview material from more than 20 leading stage managers from the UK, USA and Australia this book situates the contemporary practice of stage management within its historical and social contexts. Questioning the notions of the invisibl...Daugiau...
This book introduces readers to the historical, performative, and cultural context of pansori, a traditional Korean oral story-singing art. Written by a scholar-practitioner of the form, this study is structured in three parts and analyzes its techn...Daugiau...
This is the first book to offer a clear introduction to Kattaikkuttu (or Terukkuttu), a vibrant, vocal and physical outdoor Tamil theatre tradition. It describes the theatres characteristic heroic nature as expressed through its principal, male kat...Daugiau...
This is the first book to offer a clear introduction to Kattaikkuttu (or Terukkuttu), a vibrant, vocal and physical outdoor Tamil theatre tradition from India. It describes the theatres characteristic heroic nature as expressed through...Daugiau...
What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different locations during the 20th century? Partly mot...Daugiau...
What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have artists employed the tragic form in different locations during the 20th century? Partly mot...Daugiau...
The English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900 1925 brings to light an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices, uncovering a new look at some of the well-known figures of the early Twentieth-Century English th...Daugiau...
The English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900 1925 brings to light an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices, uncovering a new look at some of the well-known figures of the early Twentieth-Century English th...Daugiau...
This book offers an engaging introduction to the Hokkien music drama known as liyuanxi (Pear Garden Theatre), heir and current expression of one of Chinas oldest unbroken xiqu (Chinese opera) traditions. In examining the form, Josh Stenberg con...Daugiau...
