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71 produkter
Theatre and Adaptation
Return, Rewrite, Repeat
Häftad, 2014
533 kr
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Contemporary theatrical productions as diverse in form as experimental performance, new writing, West End drama, musicals and live art demonstrate a recurring fascination with adapting existing works by other artists, writers, filmmakers and stage practitioners. Featuring seventeen interviews with …
Theatre and Dramaturgy
Av Zoe Svendsen, Margherita Laera m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
166 kr
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What is a dramaturg? What is dramaturgy? What are the political implications for the way that plays produce meaning in performance?Over the last decade, the role of the dramaturg has become more common in the theatrical process, but it is still a new term for many theatre-goers. Theatre & …
Theatre and Politics
Av Joe Kelleher, Margherita Laera m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
123 kr
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What happens to politics when it takes the form of theatre? How has theatre both exploited and undermined politics both in society and on the stage?Theatre & Politics explores the complex relationship between theatre and politics, questioning some of the assumptions that often arise when they are …
Theatre and The Body
Av Colette Conroy, Margherita Laera m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
166 kr
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What do we mean when we talk about bodies in theatre? And how does theatre affect the way we think about the human body?Bodies are vital elements of theatre production and spectatorship. But the body is not just physical, it is also conceptual. Drawing on many examples from contemporary …
Theatre and Ethics
Av Nicholas Ridout, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2009
120 kr
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What is ethics and what has it got to do with theatre? Drawing on both theoretical material and practical examples, Ridout makes a clear and compelling critical intervention, raising fundamental questions about what theatre is for and how audiences interact with it.
Theatre and Audience
Av Lois Weaver, Helen Freshwater m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
124 kr
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What does theatre do for – and to – those who witness, watch, and participate in it?Theatre & Audience provides a provocative overview of the questions raised by theatrical encounters between performers and audiences. Focusing on European and North American theatre and its audiences in the …
Theatre and Globalization
Av Mark Ravenhill, Dan Rebellato m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
138 kr
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What is globalization? What role is there for the theatre in a globalizing world?This original and provocative book explores the contribution that theatre has made to our slowly evolving consciousness of our world as a whole. Drawing on sources from Aeschylus to The Lion King, Chekhov to …
Theatre and Feeling
Av Anne Bogart, Erin Hurley m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
138 kr
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How does a tragedy arouse pity and fear? How do music and lighting set a mood or convey an emotional tone for an audience? Why does theatre move us? Theatre & Feeling explores the idea that, for many people, theatre is a passion. It provides an intellectual framework for the range of emotional …
Theatre and Education
Av Helen Nicholson, Edward Bond m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
138 kr
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What motivates theatre-makers who work in education? How can theatre respond to young people's experiences of living in a globalised world?Theatre & Education provides an insight into the energy, passion and values that have inspired the most inventive theatre-makers who work with young people in …
Theatre and Nation
Av Nadine Holdsworth, Nicholas Hytner m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
154 kr
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How has theatre engaged with the nation-state and helped to formulate national identities? What impact have migration and globalisation had on the relationship between theatre and nation?Theatre & Nation explores how theatre institutions, playwrights, theatre-makers and performance artists engage …
Theatre and Architecture
Av Juliet Rufford, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2015
138 kr
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Theatre and architecture are seeming opposites: one a time-based art-form experienced in space, the other a spatial art experienced over time. The book unpicks these assumptions, demonstrating ways in which theatre and architecture are essential to each other and contextualizing their dynamic …
Theatre and Sexuality
Av Jill S. Dolan, Margherita Laera m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
139 kr
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Theatre & Sexuality explains the critical validity of using sexuality as a lens for examining theatre's creation and reception. The book offers clear introductions to sexual identity politics, ways of 'reading' sexuality on stage and a select history of LGBTQ theatre, including a reading of Split …
Theatre and History
Av Rebecca Schneider, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2014
139 kr
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This provocative book meets the supposedly 'live' practices of performance and the 'no-longer-live' historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the 'and' of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot - …
Theatre and The Visual
Av Dominic Johnson, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2012
138 kr
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Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Johnson examines the spectator's role in the theatre, exploring pleasure, difficulty and spectacle, to consider the …
Theatre and Prison
Av Caoimhe McAvinchey, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2011
139 kr
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Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Using examples from popular culture, dramatic texts and applied theatre it analyses how theatre and performance reveals economies of punishment, affects penal reform and both challenges …
Theatre and Mind
Av Bruce McConachie, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2012
138 kr
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All performance depends upon our abilities to create, perceive, remember, imagine and empathize. This book provides an introduction to the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of theatrical performing and spectating and argues that this scientific perspective challenges some of the major …
Theatre and Photography
Av Joel Anderson, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2015
139 kr
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Examining the relationship between theatre and photography, this book shows how the two intertwine and provide vantage points for understanding each other. Joel Anderson explores the theory and practice of photographing theatre and performance, as well as theatre and photography's mutual …
Theatre and Animals
Av Lourdes Orozco, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2013
138 kr
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Lourdes Orozco considers different representations of animals in performance; suggesting that all animals have the ability to make us question the human, and its relationship to the other. She examines ways in which animals challenge theatre's ability to make meaning, and considers the surrounding …
Theatre and Ireland
Av Fiona Shaw, Lionel Pilkington m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
138 kr
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What is the significance of theatre and performance within Irish culture and history? How do we understand the impact and political potential of Irish theatre? This innovative survey of theatre in Ireland covers a range of drama and performance, from the 17th century to the present. Expanding the …
Theatre and Interculturalism
Av Ric Knowles, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2010
138 kr
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How are hybrid and diasporic identities performed in increasingly diverse societies? How can we begin to think differently about theatrical flow across cultures?Interculturalism is an increasingly urgent topic in the 21st century. As human traffic between nations increases, it becomes imperative to …
Theatre and Museums
Av Susan Bennett, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2012
138 kr
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Bennett explores the relationship between theatre and museums, looking particularly at the collaborative processes that intertwine these two cultural practices. She argues that discourses of performance studies can open up new avenues of inquiry about the production and reception of the museum …
Playwriting in Europe
Mapping Ecosystems and Practices with Fabulamundi
Inbunden, 2022
820 kr
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This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent.Whether you are a scholar researching contemporary drama and translation, or a theatre practitioner looking for ways to navigate theatrical conventions in other countries, this book is …
Playwriting in Europe
Mapping Ecosystems and Practices with Fabulamundi
Häftad, 2024
263 kr
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This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent.Whether you are a scholar researching contemporary drama and translation, or a theatre practitioner looking for ways to navigate theatrical conventions in other countries, this book is …
Playwriting in Europe
Mapping Ecosystems and Practices with Fabulamundi
E-bok, 2022
367 kr
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This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent. Whether you are a scholar researching contemporary drama and translation, or a theatre practitioner looking for ways to navigate theatrical conventions in other countries, this book is …
Playwriting in Europe
Mapping Ecosystems and Practices with Fabulamundi
E-bok, 2022
375 kr
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This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent. Whether you are a scholar researching contemporary drama and translation, or a theatre practitioner looking for ways to navigate theatrical conventions in other countries, this book is …
Theatre and Migration
Av Peter Sellars, Emma Cox m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
138 kr
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A vibrant introduction to theatre that engages with stories, conditions and experiences of migration. Arguing that migration is crucially about encounters with foreignness, Emma Cox traces international histories of migration and considers key issues in contemporary performance - from Cape Town and …
Theatre and Violence
Av Lucy Nevitt, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2013
138 kr
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If violence is a terrible thing, why do we watch it? Nevitt explores the use of violence in theatre and its effect on spectators. Critically engaging with examples of stage combat, rape, terrorism, wrestling and historical re-enactments, she argues that studying violence through theatre can be part …
Theatre and Entertainment
Av Jim Davis, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2016
138 kr
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What do we mean by entertainment? How does this concept relate to theatre? Should theatre be for pleasure or instruction? Can it not be both? In this stimulating book, Jim Davis examines the relationship between theatre and entertainment by assessing audience reception, political theatre and …
Theatre and Time
Av David Wiles, Margherita Laera
Häftad, 2014
138 kr
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This fascinating account of the relationship between theatre and time explores how different concepts of time - including linear clock time, the cyclical time of the planets and seasons, the rhythms of the body and individual memories - have impacted on and been reinforced by theatre throughout …
Theatre and the Digital
Av Bill Blake, Margherita Laera m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
138 kr
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Why should the digital bring about ideas of progress in the theatre arts? This question opens up a rich seam of provocative and original thinking about the uses of new media in theatre, about new forms of cultural practice and artistic innovation, and about the widening purposes of the theatre's …
