Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts – serie
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18 produkter
Playwriting, Dramaturgy and Space
Av Sara Freeman
Häftad, 2024
318 kr
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Theatre has come back to text, but with perspectives shifted by the experimental practices of the twentieth century across performance forms. Contemporary playwriting brings its scenographic engagement to the foreground of the text, reflecting the spatial turn in theory and practice. In production, …
Comedy and Controversy
Scripting Public Speech
Av Sarah Balkin, Marc Mierowsky
Häftad, 2025
347 kr
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This is an Element book about stand-up comedy and public speech. It focuses on the controversies generated when the distinction between the two breaks down, when stand-up enters - or is pushed - into the public sphere and is interpreted according to the scripts that govern popular political and …
English Play Development under Neoliberalism, 2000-2022
Av Lucy Tyler
Häftad, 2025
307 kr
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English Play Development under Neoliberalism, 2000-2022 is the first study of the institutionalising of English play development practices in the twenty-first century. It identifies the ways in which support for playwrights and text development increased beneficially during the 1990s and 2000s. It …
The Poetics of Performance Diagrams
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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This Element considers the concept of performance diagrams and shows their historical, epistemic and aesthetic functions in theatre and dance. In three sections, the author surveys the architectural model of theatre by Vitruvius, the woodcut of Marlow's Doctor Faustus, Aby Warburg's …
Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres
Av Fintan Walsh
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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This Element explores how theatre responded to the death and loss produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by innovating forms and spaces designed to support us in grief. It considers how theatre grieved for itself, for the dead, for lost ways of living, while also imagining and enacting new modes of …
Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres
Av Fintan Walsh
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
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This Element explores how theatre responded to the death and loss produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by innovating forms and spaces designed to support us in grief. It considers how theatre grieved for itself, for the dead, for lost ways of living, while also imagining and enacting new modes of …
Playwriting, Dramaturgy and Space
Av Sara Freeman
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
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Theatre has come back to text, but with perspectives shifted by the experimental practices of the twentieth century across performance forms. Contemporary playwriting brings its scenographic engagement to the foreground of the text, reflecting the spatial turn in theory and practice. In production, …
Theatricality, Playtexts and Society
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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This Element proposes a novel way of defining, understanding and approaching theatricality, a term that exists both in the theatre and, more broadly, in everyday life. It argues that four foundational, material processes of theatre-making manifest themselves in all playtexts in both overt and …
Theatricality, Playtexts and Society
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element proposes a novel way of defining, understanding and approaching theatricality, a term that exists both in the theatre and, more broadly, in everyday life. It argues that four foundational, material processes of theatre-making manifest themselves in all playtexts in both overt and …
The Poetics of Performance Diagrams
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element considers the concept of performance diagrams and shows their historical, epistemic and aesthetic functions in theatre and dance. In three sections, the author surveys the architectural model of theatre by Vitruvius, the woodcut of Marlow's Doctor Faustus, Aby Warburg's …
Comedy and Controversy
Scripting Public Speech
Av Sarah Balkin, Marc Mierowsky
Inbunden, 2025
1025 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is an Element book about stand-up comedy and public speech. It focuses on the controversies generated when the distinction between the two breaks down, when stand-up enters - or is pushed - into the public sphere and is interpreted according to the scripts that govern popular political and …
Playwriting and the Craft of Audience Participation
Häftad, 2026
354 kr
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This Element investigates how playwrights can employ text-based strategies to facilitate audience participation in performance. It looks to contemporary discourse in the field of applied theatre to suggest principles the creator of a participatory work may employ to support the creation of a …
Playwriting and the Craft of Audience Participation
Inbunden, 2026
1025 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element investigates how playwrights can employ text-based strategies to facilitate audience participation in performance. It looks to contemporary discourse in the field of applied theatre to suggest principles the creator of a participatory work may employ to support the creation of a …
English Play Development under Neoliberalism, 2000-2022
Av Lucy Tyler
Inbunden, 2025
934 kr
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English Play Development under Neoliberalism, 2000-2022 is the first study of the institutionalising of English play development practices in the twenty-first century. It identifies the ways in which support for playwrights and text development increased beneficially during the 1990s and 2000s. It …
Dialogue in Amerta Movement
Inbunden, 2026
1025 kr
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Dialogue is often understood as the verbal interaction between different people or groups. This Element reconceptualises dialogue through dance and somatic practices, foregrounding sensory relationality and responsiveness to the environment. Rather than centring conflict between specific 'actors', …
Dialogue in Amerta Movement
Häftad, 2026
324 kr
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Dialogue is often understood as the verbal interaction between different people or groups. This Element reconceptualises dialogue through dance and somatic practices, foregrounding sensory relationality and responsiveness to the environment. Rather than centring conflict between specific 'actors', …
Movement, Text, Performance
Av Paul Allain
Häftad, 2026
318 kr
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This Element argues that movement, overseen by a movement director, is vital for theatre-making. It can support actors with characterisation and playing others responsibly and ethically, for scripted and non-scripted tasks: from dances to fights, from parades to murders, or other human behaviour. …
Movement, Text, Performance
Av Paul Allain
Inbunden, 2026
1025 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element argues that movement, overseen by a movement director, is vital for theatre-making. It can support actors with characterisation and playing others responsibly and ethically, for scripted and non-scripted tasks: from dances to fights, from parades to murders, or other human behaviour. …
