This book is the first to explore Shaws full involvement with the twentieth-century British regional repertory movement. Using extensive archival research to piece together Shaws connections to regional theat...Daugiau...
Stanislavskys Use of Improvisation is the first work that brings together material across Stanislavskys entire career to survey his use of improvisation. Improvisation was a key concern for Stanislavsky, one that impinged on his acting,...Daugiau...
This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market pressures, has affected the ways in which actors are trained in the US and UK. It reviews the existing state of training, looking a...Daugiau...
This book is among the first to consider the subject of mad auralities in theatre and performance, asking: what does it mean to hear and listen madly? Drawing widely upon mad studies, critical disability studies, theatre studies, sound studies, qu...Daugiau...
This book offers an approach which unites choreographic and spectatorial perspectives, and argues for dance itselfits materials, its structuresas a medium of emotional communication. Contemporary dance often seems to contend with issues of understa...Daugiau...
Punchdrunk on the Classics: Experiencing Immersion in The Burnt City and Beyond draws attention to Punchdrunks use of ancient Greek literature in their creation of immersive theatre. The book documents and analyses the effects of utili...Daugiau...
This book is about dances relationship to language. It investigates how dance bodies work with the micromovements elicited by languages affective forces, and the micropolitics of the thought-sensations that arise when movement and words accompan...Daugiau...
Directing Desire explores the rise of consent-based and trauma-informed approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes for theater in the contemporary U.S., known as intimacy choreography. From 2015 to 2020, intimacy choreography...Daugiau...
This book provides key critical tools to significantly broaden the readers perception of theatre and performance history: in line with posthuman thought, each chapter engages Actor-Network Theory and similar theories to reveal a comprehensive range...Daugiau...
This book takes choreographer William Forsythes choreographic and scenographic processes as a holistic lens through which to view dance as a fundamentally visuo-sonic art form and choreography as a form of perceptual experimentation. In doing so, it...Daugiau...
This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. Instead of focusing on large professional companies, it analyzes performan...Daugiau...
This book explores an unacknowledged gap in theatre study and praxis, and establishes an inceptive model for transforming a playscript into a theatrical production involving deaf and hearing artists. The book stipulates that theatrical productions...Daugiau...
This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market pressures, has affected the ways in which actors are trained in the US and UK. It reviews the existing state of training, looking a...Daugiau...
Since its 1967 production of Vanbrughs The Relapse, the Royal Shakespeare Company has been the worlds leading producer of Restoration Comedies. This book is the first to document and critique the companys history of engagement with tha...Daugiau...
This book makes the case for Bertolt Brechts continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change. Here is a unique step-by-step process for realizing Brechts ways of work...Daugiau...
This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written. Unlike most playwrights of previous generations, the writers of British Romantic dramas generally did not work in th...Daugiau...
This monograph centres on the history of musical theatre in a space of cultural significance for British identity, namely the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which housed many prominent American productions from 1920-1970. It argues that during this pe...Daugiau...
Directing Desire explores the rise of consent-based and trauma-informed approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes for theater in the contemporary U.S., known as intimacy choreography. From 2015 to 2020, intimacy choreography...Daugiau...
Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production of Bernard Shaws plays in America. During his lifetime (1856-1950), Shaw was Americas most popular living playwright; productions of his plays were outn...Daugiau...
