Terry Hodgson – författare

This comprehensive reference work is designed to be a single source to which readers may turn for guidance on dramatic theory and practice. It therefore concentrates on critical and technical concepts and terms rather than on theatre history or biography.The book contains some 1300 entries varying in length from a few words to several hundred. The terms included relate to the forms of drama (e.g. epic, mime, farce, comedy of manners, tragi-comedy, etc.); to different kinds of stage (thrust, picture-frame, arena, etc.); to technical stage terms (tabs, proscenium arch, sightlines, etc.); to acting terms, including colloquialisms (fluff, corpse-as well as duologue, soliloquy, cross below, upstage, etc.) They also include the critical terms of important theoreticians (e.g. superobjective, magic ''if'', throughline, alienation, montage) and the obvious foreign terms (hamartia, peripeteia, etc.).Dramatic movements and styles are described (naturalism, expressionism, neo-classical, Jacobean, etc.), together with terms relating to costume (e.g. buskins), character types (of, say, the Commedia dell''Arte) and dramatic structure (climax, curtain, pace and tempo, episode, chorus, etc.).The entries are fully cross-referenced, and are supported by ample suggestions for further reading and a selection of line drawings illustrating key points in the text.

The year 2090, and on route from the penal colony to the execution chambers on earth 10 prisoners assigned for termination had found themselves hurtled back through time after the ship that was carrying them went out of control and entered a tear in space. Waking up with the guards dead and now trapped 75 years in the past, they thought this was their ultimate escape from prison.Kelly and four other Rangers that had been genetically engineered from birth were assigned to go on a one way mission to track down and eliminate the escaped prisons called Grunts, The Rangers were set on the same path as the grunts and hoped that they would survive what was to come. On landing, The Rangers had to learn fast on how things worked in the 20th century and then hunt and execute ten men all without being detected by the local authorities and without losing their lives in the process, all this plus trying to keep from changing events that may change the future.When the hunt began not all went according to plan and the police department sent two of their best to investigate a string of murders, Detective Samantha Hall and her partner Detective Bill Sims. Their job was simple, hunt the hunters and stop the killing.