Bøger i Theater: Theory/Text/Performance serien

Rich connections between gaming and theatre stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theatres succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences.

Challenging the widely accepted idea that Broadway was the white-hot creative engine of US theatre during the early 20th century, Katie Johnson reveals a far more complex system of exchanges between the Broadway establishment and a vibrant Black theatre scene in New York and beyond to chart a new history of American and transnational theatre.

Proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. This study of history, class, and spectatorship offers proof of 'why theatre matters', and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.

Investigates the fundamental issues in theater and performance from a wide range philosophical perspectives. The fifteen original essays in this work make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance. It provides case studies of various philosophical movements and schools of thought.

Reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theatre, performance art, art installations, dance, film, and activist performance in sites throughout Oceania and in Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe.

Analyzes and synthesizes modern critical acting theories, their historical evolution, and their relationship to one another, enabling students, teachers, and professionals to comprehend the different aesthetic possibilities for actors. This work identifies six categories of twentieth-century acting.

An original and valuable assessment of American political theater in the 1960s and 1970s

Reimagines the content and continuities of theatre history and exposes underlying dialogues between ""home and homelessness, belonging and exile"" - a century-long struggle with the meaning and power of place, which the author terms ""geopathology"".

Presents a range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres - from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. This edition features sixteen essays, which are organized into nine theoretical categories.

Presents a range of critical and theoretical methods, and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres - from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. This edition features sixteen essays, which are organized into nine theoretical categories.

Analyses uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, arguing that these protests not only challenge hegemonic power but are also socially transformative.

Meditations on those entities the audience does not see--and their profound significance in the theater

In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto - a representative global city in this multicultural country - stages diversity through its many intercultural theatre companies and troupes.

Pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to reveal racial inequalities, focusing on comedy sketches, street theatre, visual art, video, TV journalism, and voice-over work since 1964. By investigating enactments of whiteness Faedra Chatard Carpenter explores how artists have challenged notions of racial identity.

Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde

A rich, historically grounded exploration of why theater and performance matter in the modern world

Explores how North Korean state-sponsored propaganda performances - including public spectacles, theater, film, and other visual media including posters - shape everyday practice in a country where the performing arts are not only a means of entertainment but also a forceful institution used to regulate, educate, and mobilize people.

Space in Performance examines the way theater buildings function to frame the performance event, the organization of audience and practitioner spaces within the building, the nature of the stage and the modes of representation it facilitates, and the relationship between the real space of the theater and the fictional places that are evoked.

During her lifetime (1755-1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like, but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In lively and engaging prose Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor's voice actually sounded.

A guide to the oeuvre of Samuel Beckett, commenting on his work in its original language. Beginning in 1929 with Beckett's earliest work, this book examines the variety of genres in which he worked: poems, short stories, novels, plays, radio pieces, teleplays, reviews, and criticism.

Examines one of the most radical and enduring changes introduced during the Civil Rights era - multiracial and cross-racial casting practices in American theatre. Multiracial casting is explored first through its history, then through its artistic, political, and pragmatic dimensions. It then focuses on case studies from the dominant genres of contemporary American theatre.

Spotlights spectacular acts of racial violence--from police stops (racial profiling) to lynching campaigns--and shows how African American men and women have employed performance to respond to the intrusion of such events within their daily lives. Masterful