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42 produkter
Unlimited Action
The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s
Inbunden, 2018
1255 kr
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Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the ‘performance of extremity’ as practices at the limits of the …
‘Love me or kill me’
Sarah Kane and the theatre of extremes
Häftad, 2002
394 kr
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Blasted brought Sarah Kane to the theatre pages of the broadsheets, the front pages of the tabloids, and to the notice of the nation. Covers all Kane’s major plays and productions, contains hitherto unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her continuing influence after her tragic early …
Negotiating cultures
Eugenio Barba and the intercultural debate
Av Ian Watson
Häftad, 2002
386 kr
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Eugenio Barba is one of the world's leading theatre artists and theorists working across cultures. Examines three major strands of Barba's work; his research at the International School of Theatre Anthropology, his use of performance as a means of exchange, and his ongoing relationship with Latin …
Paris Jigsaw
Internationalism and the City's Stages
Av David Bradby, Maria M. Delgado
Häftad, 2002
389 kr
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Paris has always exerted a magnetic force on artists; it has historically offered safety to those escaping oppressive regimes in Europe and farther afield. In recent years it has welcomed performers, artists and intellectuals from all over the world, offering strategies for the practice of theatre …
Theatre in crisis?
Performance manifestoes for a new century
Av Maria M. Delgado, Caridad Svich
Häftad, 2002
382 kr
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A wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. Contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theatre artists …
Trans-global readings
Crossing theatrical boundaries
Häftad, 2004
382 kr
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Gathers the voices of unique artists from the worlds of theatre, music and performance to discuss process and the making of interdisciplinary work.|Gathers the voices of unique artists from the worlds of theatre, music and performance to discuss process and the making of interdisciplinary work.
Making contemporary theatre
International rehearsal processes
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. The book opens with an introductory chapter which contextualises recent trends in approaches to theatre-making. In the ensuing eleven chapters, eleven different writer-observers …
Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre
Spaces of Revolution
Av Carl Lavery
Inbunden, 2010
1264 kr
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Jean Genet and the politics of theatre is the first publication to situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s. The book's innovative approach departs significantly from existing scholarship on Genet. Where scholars have …
Performing Presence
Between the Live and the Simulated
Av Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye
Inbunden, 2011
1156 kr
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Performing presence: Between the live and the simulated proposes that the advent of new media forms, and the increasing integration of contemporary performance and media, has generated new engagements, practices and understandings of presence. Addressing new media art and performance, multi-media …
Robert Lepage's Original Stage Productions
Making Theatre Global
Inbunden, 2020
1263 kr
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This book explores the development of Robert Lepage’s distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a defining effect on shaping his aesthetic and his professional trajectory. In addition to globalisation …
World Stages, Local Audiences
Essays on Performance, Place and Politics
Inbunden, 2010
1263 kr
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World Stages, local audiences argues that the forms of intimacy and identification that come from being part of the public of a local performance, provide a potential model for rethinking our roles as world citizens. Using his own experience of recent theatrical practice in Vancouver as a starting …
Performance in a time of terror
Critical mimesis and the age of uncertainty
Av Jenny Hughes
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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Performance in a time of terror offers a thought-provoking investigation of the way performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, as both a tactic of violence and a strategy of resistance.The book focuses on an array of performances created during the ‘war on terror’ of …
Not Magic but Work
An Ethnographic Account of a Rehearsal Process
Av Gay McAuley
Inbunden, 2012
1263 kr
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This is a detailed description of the intensive work process involved in the making of Toy Symphony, a new play by Michael Gow, directed by Neil Armfield and brought to the stage for the first time in December 2007 by Company B at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney. Drawing on years of research …
politics of Jean Genet's late theatre
Spaces of revolution
Av Carl Lavery
Häftad, 2013
427 kr
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The politics of Jean Genet's late theatre is the first publication to situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s. The book's innovative approach departs significantly from existing scholarship on Genet. Where scholars …
Directing Scenes and Senses
The Thinking of Regie
Inbunden, 2015
792 kr
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As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving behind unhelpful clichés that pit, above …
Science in Performance
Theatre and the Politics of Engagement
Av Simon Parry
Inbunden, 2020
1263 kr
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This book is about science in theatre and performance. It explores how theatre and performance engage with emerging scientific themes from artificial intelligence to genetics and climate change.The book covers a wide range of performance forms from Broadway musicals to educational theatre, from …
Not magic but work
An ethnographic account of a rehearsal process
Av Gay McAuley
Häftad, 2015
382 kr
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Newly available in paperback, this is a detailed description of the intensive work process involved in the making of Toy Symphony, a play by Michael Gow, directed by Neil Armfield and brought to the stage for the first time in December 2007 by Company B at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney. …
Queer Exceptions
Solo Performance in Neoliberal Times
Inbunden, 2018
1236 kr
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Queer exceptions is a study of contemporary solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism. With diverse case studies featuring the work of La Ribot, David Hoyle, Oreet Ashery, Bridget Christie, Tanja …
Queer Exceptions
Solo Performance in Neoliberal Times
Häftad, 2021
364 kr
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Queer exceptions is a study of contemporary solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism. With diverse case studies featuring the work of La Ribot, David Hoyle, Oreet Ashery, Bridget Christie, Tanja …
Street Theatre and the Production of Postindustrial Space
Working Memories
Av David Calder
E-bok, 2019
57 kr
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Deindustrialising communities have called upon street theatre companies to re-animate public space and commemorate industrial heritage. How have these companies converted derelict factories into spaces of theatrical production? How do they connect their work to the industrial work that once …
Directing scenes and senses
The thinking of Regie
Häftad, 2017
374 kr
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As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving behind unhelpful clichés that pit, above …
Performing Presence
Between the live and the simulated
Av Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye
Häftad, 2017
382 kr
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Performing presence: Between the live and the simulated proposes that the advent of new media forms, and the increasing integration of contemporary performance and media, has generated new engagements, practices and understandings of presence. Addressing new media art and performance, multi-media …
Death in Modern Theatre
Stages of Mortality
Inbunden, 2019
1955 kr
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Death in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and theatre-makers have explored historically informed ideas about death and dying in their work. It investigates the opportunities theatre affords to reflect on the end of life in a …
Witness Onstage
Documentary Theatre in Twenty-First-Century Russia
Av Molly Flynn
Inbunden, 2019
1263 kr
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As the Kremlin’s crackdown on freedom of expression continues to tighten, Russian playwrights and directors are using documentary theatre to create space for the public discussion of injustice in the civic sphere and its connections to the country’s twentieth-century past. Witness Onstage traces …
Foucault’S Theatres
Inbunden, 2019
1758 kr
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The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and performance studies via Foucault’s critical thought. With cutting edge studies by established and emerging writers in areas such as dramaturgy, film, music, cultural history and journalism, the volume aims to be accessible for both …
Unlimited action
The performance of extremity in the 1970s
Häftad, 2018
301 kr
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Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the ‘performance of extremity’ as practices at the limits of the …
Foucault’s theatres
Häftad, 2019
347 kr
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The volume contributes to a new articulation of theatre and performance studies via Foucault’s critical thought. With cutting edge studies by established and emerging writers in areas such as dramaturgy, film, music, cultural history and journalism, the volume aims to be accessible for both …
After '89
Polish Theatre and the Political
Av Bryce Lease
Häftad, 2019
371 kr
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After '89 takes as its subject the dynamic new range of performance practices that have been developed since the demise of communism in the flourishing theatrical landscape of Poland. After 1989, the theatre has retained its historical role as the crucial space for debating and interrogating …
Beautiful Doom
The Work of Dennis Kelly on Stage and Screen
Av Jacqueline Bolton, Nicholas Holden
Inbunden, 2025
1335 kr
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Dennis Kelly’s award-winning plays have been translated into over thirty languages and produced on six continents. His endlessly inventive vision has produced a diverse body of work for a variety of audiences across a range of forms, genres, and media, from the Olivier and Tony Award-winning …
Performing the Testimonial
Rethinking Verbatim Dramaturgies
Inbunden, 2020
1263 kr
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Providing one of the first critically sustained engagements with the new forms of verbatim and testimonial theatre that emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this book examines what distinguishes verbatim theatre from the more established documentary theatre traditions developed initially by …
