Playing Indoors

Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

What have we discovered about performance practice in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse since the opening of the intimate candlelit theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe? Playing Indoors reveals the results of a two-year study into the performance of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in this unique theatre, drawing together insights into early modern stage practice and the observations of today’s actors and spectators. A history of the encounters of artists and audience members who experienced the space first, the book is also a study of the significance of re-imagined theatres like the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and the Globe. Accessibly written for students, scholars, artists and theatre-goers, Playing Indoors is a valuable contribution to the young field of early modern practice-as-research.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-21
Mått:129 x 198 x 16 mm
Vikt:332 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350109506

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Teater inom Kultur
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Mer om författaren

Will Tosh is Lecturer and Research Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, UK. He led the Indoor Performance Practice Project (2014–16), which examined playing in the candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and coordinates Globe Education’s on-going Research in Action series of public workshops. He is the author of Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England (2016).

Recensioner i media

A powerful introductory panorama of the first few years of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, offering a pleasing insight to a general public and a useful point of departure for an academic readership … Tosh has provided a much-needed account of the inner workings of this space from various perspectives.

Innehållsförteckning

List of PlatesAcknowledgementsNote on texts and editionsProloguePart I. Playhouse in contextChapter 1. Origins Chapter 2. Reception Part II. Playhouse at workChapter 3. ‘Fair lightsome lodgings’: Initial responses to the space Chapter 4. ‘Full and significant action’: Technique and craft Chapter 5. ‘This darkness suits you well’: Acting by candlelight Chapter 6. ‘You can’t help but be involved’: Audiences in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Part III. Playhouse and Research in Action Chapter 7. Stagecraft in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Chapter 8. Music and lighting in the Sam Wanamaker PlayhouseEpilogueAppendicesBibliographyIndex