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Now in its 4th edition, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the critical study of drama. Using familiar examples of classic and contemporary works such as Shakespeare's King Lear, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Timberlake Wertenbak...

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I den här boken behandlas konstarten teater som undervisningsämne och verksamhetsområde. Det handlar om arbete både med improvisation och dramatisk text och med teaterns olika uttrycksformer som skådespeleri, scenografi, ljus, kostym och mask. De ...

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Art forms tend to mirror themselves in each other. In order to understand literature and fine arts better, we often turn to music, speaking of the 'tone' in a book and of the 'rhythm' in a painting. In attempts to understand music better, we turn ...

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En ovanlig bok om en orädd teater. Är du intresserad av teater, när teater innebär att göra det omöjliga? Svenska Teater Albatross har kämpat mot utfiskning i Kamerun, spelat för överlevande i koncentrationsläger i Polen, haft succé i Woodstock, v...

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Den svenska teaterkritikern Theresa Benér ger ut den mest omfattande svenska studien hittills av den nutida scenkonstens mest banbrytande och hyllade konstnär, Peter Brook. Brittiske Peter Brook, född 1925, har under mer än 70 år experimenterat me...

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What do actors actually experience when they are acting in theatre? This study is a detailed and provocative examination of this not previously researched question. Using Whitehead, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and other philosophers, psychologists and ...

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(Applause Acting Series). Widely recognized as the most complete and rigorous text of its kind since it was first published in 1942, Speak With Distinction is an invaluable resource. It presents a comprehensive study of the sounds of Spoken Englis...

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The conventional way of understanding what musicians do as performers is to treat them as producers of sound; some even argue that it is unnecessary to see musicians in performance as long as one can hear them. But musical performance, counters Ph...

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This volume explores the issue of collaboration: an issue at the centre of Performance Arts Research. It is explored here through the different practices in music, dance, drama, fine art, installation art, digital media or other performance arts. ...

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Automated Performer Flying: The State of the Art shares the secrets of performer flying in entertainment history and provides step-by-step instructions on how to create a performer flying effect from scratch. This book sheds light on all aspects o...

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At the performance turn, this book takes a fresh 'how to' approach to Practice as Research, arguing that old prejudices should be abandoned and a PaR methodology fully accepted in the academy. Nelson and his contributors address the questions stud...

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I can't take care of you anymore. I can't take it. It's like an endless boxing match.Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls ...

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This work investigates the often painful, often frustrating, but potentially exhilarating relationship between actor and director. It provides simple, practical tools that directors and actors can use immediately, and takes the reader on a journey...

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The Method Acting Exercises Handbook is a concise and practical guide to the acting exercises originally devised by Lee Strasberg, one of the Method's foremost practitioners. The Method trains the imagination, concentration, senses and emotions to...

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I den här boken analyseras svensk barndramatik med exempel från kända svenska barnpjäser. Pjäserna avläses genom barndomsdiskurser som varit förhärskande, samverkande eller kolliderande från 1800-talets slut fram till 2000-talet. De får bilda utgå...

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The educational use of television, film, and related media has increased significantly in recent years, but our fundamental understanding of how media communicate information and which instructional purposes they best serve has grown very little. ...

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This is one of the best-known 'voice' books in the world, by a doyenne of the RSC and the New York theatre - now published in Britain in a revised and expanded edition. "Freeing the Natural Voice" offers a logical progression of exercise...

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Concerned with traditional power imbalances between researchers and participants, contemporary social science has begun using collaborative research as an empowering methodology that involves participants in key decisions. Collaborative research i...

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Den här boken handlar både om drama- och föreställningsanalys. Dramagenren är sedan länge ingående beskriven och utforskad, medan föreställningsanalysen är mindre vanlig. Det nedtecknade dramat har länge betraktats som en av litteraturens grundfor...

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Imagine Armida, Handel's Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber dress, beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane, suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her d...

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Marionetteatern i Stockholm är en välkänd, etablerad teater med starka traditioner, som oavbrutet söker nya vägar och presenterar innovativa, konstnärligt utforskande uppsättningar. Denna bok handlar om teaterns 60-åriga historia från grundaren Mi...

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Staging Sex lays out a comprehensive, practical solution for staging intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence. This book takes theatre practitioners step-by-step through the best practices, tools, and techniques for crafting effective theatrical inti...

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Det sägs att vi befinner oss i ett nytt paradigm av mobilitet där rörelse spelar en central roll för hur världen framträder och organiseras. Påtagligt är det ständigt ökande intresset för gående aktiviteter i samhället, vilket visar sig i allt frå...

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Di Trevis is a world-renowned director, whose work with Britain's National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and directing productions worldwide, has deeply informed her knowledge of the director's craft.In Being a Director, she draws on a wealt...

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Måste man vara demonregissör för att bli ihågkommen? En regissör och teaterchef, som drevs av humanism, lyhördhet, som lyfte fram unga skådespelare, som regisserade en rad uppmärksammade föreställningar på den egna Nya Teatern 1940 - 1954 och sena...

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In The Power of the Actor, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck reveals her cutting-edge technique, which has launched some of the most successful acting careers in Hollywood.The first book from the instr...

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Teatern visar idag en fortsatt och ihållande nonchalans mot publiken. Teatern gör föreställningar åt sig själv, den struntar i den publik som kommer, den struntar i om den förstår vad som sägs, den struntar i att söka sig en ny publik, den lappar ...

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The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this ...

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Performance Success teaches a set of skills so that a musician can be ready to go out and sing or play at his or her highest level, working with energies that might otherwise be wasted in unproductive ways. This is a book of skills and exercises, ...

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This book examines the life and art of those contemporary artists who by force or by choice find themselves on other shores. It argues that the exilic challenge enables the emigre artist to (re)establish new artistic devices, new laws and a new la...

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