Isle of Dogges II
In 1597, the satirical play "Isle of Dogs" by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson opened at the Swan Theater in London. It was a howling success with its first and only audience, but the authorities were not amused. The play was slammed shut, most everyone connected with it was arrested, and all scripts seized and burnt. Only a few scraps of evidence survive about the play. This is an attempted restoration. You will be regaled with the roast of Elizabethan nobles, and be a companion of duplicitous actors. It is a comedy of scandalous pith; nothing was too good for the hounds of London. Beware of little Margot, she bites. She hath no art. COPYRIGHT, 2024
The Dramaturgy of History
In this book, dramaturg Tom Bryant shares with readers and writers his insights into the process of historical adaptation.
Choreographing Dirt
This book is an innovative study that places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring the significance of dirt in performance.
Flesh and Text
Presents the history and an analysis of the experimental theater works produced by Bodies in Flight. Based in Bristol and Nottingham, the performance group Bodies in Flight makes works where flesh utters and words move, challenging and re-energizing the relationship between audiences and performers as well as audiences and place. Drawing on rigorous interdisciplinary and collaborative methods, they use words and images, movement and stillness, and voices and bodies to engage audiences emotionally and spiritually. Intended as an inspiration to emerging artists, the volume covers key themes for any maker of contemporary performance: the relationship of choreography and spoken word; the use of new technologies and multimedia; the role of original music and soundscapes; the differences between work presented in a theater, gallery, or sited in non-theatrical places; and the persistence of theater as an art form in an increasingly digital culture. This highly illustrated volume includes selections of scripts and archival material from thirty years of making devised theater and performance in the UK and internationally. It also features texts by collaborators, arts professionals, and scholars exploring the company's collaborative working method, contextualizing it in the wider performance ecology and culture.
Practicing Archetype
Practicing Archetype addresses performer training, specifically the self-pedagogy of actors who train solo, on their own, as an independent learning process, an opportunity for embodied research, and a form of critical pedagogy.
Pink Flamingos
The return of a spectacular, reviled, and iconic classic of American filth! John Waters takes us back to the scene of his original crime against good taste. Watch as Babs Johnson fights to hold on to her title as "Filthiest Person Alive," fending off the craven attempts to dethrone her by her nemeses Connie and Raymond Marble. Read along as Waters takes us on a romp through his camp and filthy vision of Baltimore, from nefarious baby-stealing lesbians to scenes of unspeakable things done to unsuspecting chickens, to the film's iconic and revolting coup de grace (no spoilers, but it is just as stomach-churning on the page more than fifty years later!). Pink Flamingos is John Waters at his provocative, disgusting, piety-puncturing best, with the hellish and hilarious trash masterpiece that first made him a household name.
Desperate Living
A grotesque and hilarious satire about the American dream, suburban living, and the corrupting influence of power, set in a world that could only have sprung from the unhinged and brilliant mind of John Waters. On the verge of a suburban mental health crisis, frazzled and wildly unstable housewife Peggy (immortalized by Mink Stole on-screen) runs away from home with her maid and partner in crime, Grizelda (played with spectacular gumption by the sizzling Jean Hill), only to end up in Mortville, a shantytown filled with society's rejects. Mortville is run by the evil Queen Carlotta, who parades through the cardboard streets taunting and terrorizing her subjects. John Waters' wild and visionary fable lampoons everything from the staid conservatism of the American dream to race and class relations. The New York Times ranked Desperate Living at "the highest peak atop [John Waters'] trash heap of a filmography." High praise indeed!
Run. Scream. Die.
This booklet contains scripts for short plays that that formed the basis of Kevin's 2025 fringe tour: 'Run. Scream. Die.'Inspired by Kevin's love of the slasher horror genre, this collection of short horror stories wrapped around the concept of lots at an auction, take the audience on a humorous and scary journey through Kevin's macabre imagination.
Bloody Good Shakespeare
For too long, Shakespeare has been tamed - trapped in academic reverence, smothered by tradition, and stripped of its raw theatrical power. But at Pop-up Globe, something different happened.Between 2015 and 2020, this radical theatre experience exploded onto the world stage, playing to 750,000 people with productions that were dangerous, hilarious, and wildly popular. Audiences stood, cheered, laughed, and wept as Pop-up Globe reignited the raw energy of Shakespeare's plays in ways not seen for centuries.Now, for the first time, Dr. Miles Gregory - founder and artistic director of Pop-up Globe - reveals the creative vision, bold artistic choices, and radical techniques that made these productions an international sensation. Part manifesto, practical guide, and behind-the-scenes exploration, this book offers directors, actors, and theatre-makers the tools to create Shakespeare that grips audiences and refuses to let go.How to direct Shakespeare with impact. From casting to staging, from unlocking the power of verse to making the text pulse with life, this book lays out a blueprint for productions that thunder with immediacy.The secrets behind Pop-up Globe's success. What made these productions different? How did a replica 1614 playhouse create an electric actor-audience connection? How did the company sell out theatres night after night?How to make theatre dangerous, unpredictable, and thrilling. Shakespeare's original audiences were rowdy, vocal, and deeply engaged. Discover how to shatter the fourth wall and make your audiences part of the show.Why Shakespeare still matters today - and how to prove it. Whether in theatres, classrooms, or experimental spaces, this book reimagines how Shakespeare can ignite modern audiences.A must-read for directors, actors, teachers, and anyone who believes Shakespeare should be alive, immediate, and unforgettable. It challenges old assumptions, overturns stale conventions, and proves that Shakespeare - done right - still electrifies audiences today.
Stories Make the World
Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author's decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.
Ambrose Chapel
Buried for decades. Now, Brian De Palma's wildest vision comes to life.Written in the 1990s between Carlito's Way and Mission: Impossible, visionary filmmaker Brian De Palma's Ambrose Chapel is his most overtly comic thriller-a wild, unproduced "screwball noir" that spins through kidnapping, virtual reality, mind control, murder, terrorists, romance, dream sequences and dueling memories. Set in a vividly imagined Mexico City, the story centers on Christe Rivera, a woman entangled in a shadowy conspiracy and haunted by a memory-or is it a dream? a lie?-that may be the key to everything. Along the way, Christe is drawn into the orbit of a billionaire with presidential ambitions and a plan to wall off Mexico from the U.S., while a half-forgotten Hitchcock film may hold the answer-if she can survive long enough to remember what's real and who she is.A kinetic blend of playful intrigue, romantic chaos and signature De Palma paranoia, Ambrose Chapel is a revelatory window into one of cinema's most iconoclastic auteurs, offering a vision both prescient and laced with volatile invention, and a thrilling glimpse of the film De Palma never got to make.
A Tail of Forklure - A One-Act Comedy Play by Michael Starr
A Tail of Forklure is a one-act comedic fantasy stage play with a cast of five-one female and four male characters. Designed for a single or minimal set, it runs approximately 45 minutes. This is an acting edition book ideal for read throughs and rehearsals. This play includes occassional adult themes. A Tail of Forklure won "Best New Play" and was nominated for both the "NDFA Playwriting Award" and "Best Comedy Play" during its debut production with the touring theatre company, The Fringe Files. Long-lost friends Danny, Colin, and Jack reunite at an intimate house party hosted by their mutual pal, Gus. But this isn't just a casual gathering-Gus has a master plan, driven by an insatiable hunger for greatness. Male characters: 4 Female characters: 1 Non-specific characters: 0 Runtime: 45 minutes Genre: Comedy Staging: Minimal Ideal for: One act festivals Released: 2014 (updated 2025) Rating: Contains some swearing
Ambrose Chapel
Buried for decades. Now, Brian De Palma's wildest vision comes to life.Written in the 1990s between Carlito's Way and Mission: Impossible, visionary filmmaker Brian De Palma's Ambrose Chapel is his most overtly comic thriller-a wild, unproduced "screwball noir" that spins through kidnapping, virtual reality, mind control, murder, terrorists, romance, dream sequences and dueling memories. Set in a vividly imagined Mexico City, the story centers on Christe Rivera, a woman entangled in a shadowy conspiracy and haunted by a memory-or is it a dream? a lie?-that may be the key to everything. Along the way, Christe is drawn into the orbit of a billionaire with presidential ambitions and a plan to wall off Mexico from the U.S., while a half-forgotten Hitchcock film may hold the answer-if she can survive long enough to remember what's real and who she is.A kinetic blend of playful intrigue, romantic chaos and signature De Palma paranoia, Ambrose Chapel is a revelatory window into one of cinema's most iconoclastic auteurs, offering a vision both prescient and laced with volatile invention, and a thrilling glimpse of the film De Palma never got to make.
Ricardo Dar穩n and the Construction of Latin American Film Stardom
This monograph examines the figure of Ricardo Dar穩n, the leading actor that drives Argentine cinema's box office success. It aims to fill a lacuna both in Hispanic and Anglophone academia regarding the study of how Ricardo Dar穩n's rise to stardom took place, and what that stardom means for the Latin American film industry. Accordingly, it examines whether or not Ricardo Dar穩n embodies the epitome of the contemporary Latin American or Hispanic star, and, importantly, whether or not the characteristics of the Hollywood star system are actually applicable in the case of Argentine cinema - where the dividing lines between so-called 'industrial' and 'independent' cinemas are very difficult to discern. Thus, whilst taking the study of this key figure from contemporary Argentine cinema as its focal point, this study will also facilitate an opening up towards broader but equally vital questions that continue to require full examination: How are Argentine, Latin American and Hispanic stars constructed? Does the leading actor of contemporary Argentine cinema embody a wider social group and historical moment in the region? Is his performative approach redefining a particular cinematic style?
Tale of Black Histories
?douard Glissant has emerged as one of the major figures of 20th-century postcolonial literature, and his novels, poetry, and essays have been widely translated and studied. Little has been written, however, about his cultural and educational activism which informed and shaped his theoretical work. This edition sheds light on this chapter of Glissant's career by translating and annotating the collaboratively composed and staged play, Histoire de N癡gre, which he helped to write and perform while teaching at the Institute for Martinican Studies.Featuring borrowed texts from postcolonial literature, primary historical documents, Creole songs, new ensemble-based scenes, and Glissant's original writing, Histoire de N癡gre was created in 1970-1971 by a group of schoolteachers at the Institute and performed for thousands of working-class spectators throughout Martinique. The play tells a tale that crosses time and space to stage the histories of slavery, colonialism, and anti-black violence, and the people's resistance against these forces. Our edition presents the first English-language translation of Histoire de n癡gre as well as documenting its complex historical and literary references, performance history, and place in its intellectual, literary, and theatrical contexts.Intellectually rich, formally innovative, yet long-neglected, Histoire de N癡gre offers a privileged window into Glissant's theatrical and educational activism, which formed the basis of his influential theoretical work Caribbean Discourse. The play exemplifies Glissant's work as a theatre artist and educational activist, expanding our knowledge of his thought and legacy.
Tale of Black Histories
?douard Glissant has emerged as one of the major figures of 20th-century postcolonial literature, and his novels, poetry, and essays have been widely translated and studied. Little has been written, however, about his cultural and educational activism which informed and shaped his theoretical work. This edition sheds light on this chapter of Glissant's career by translating and annotating the collaboratively composed and staged play, Histoire de N癡gre, which he helped to write and perform while teaching at the Institute for Martinican Studies.Featuring borrowed texts from postcolonial literature, primary historical documents, Creole songs, new ensemble-based scenes, and Glissant's original writing, Histoire de N癡gre was created in 1970-1971 by a group of schoolteachers at the Institute and performed for thousands of working-class spectators throughout Martinique. The play tells a tale that crosses time and space to stage the histories of slavery, colonialism, and anti-black violence, and the people's resistance against these forces. Our edition presents the first English-language translation of Histoire de n癡gre as well as documenting its complex historical and literary references, performance history, and place in its intellectual, literary, and theatrical contexts.Intellectually rich, formally innovative, yet long-neglected, Histoire de N癡gre offers a privileged window into Glissant's theatrical and educational activism, which formed the basis of his influential theoretical work Caribbean Discourse. The play exemplifies Glissant's work as a theatre artist and educational activist, expanding our knowledge of his thought and legacy.
Broadcast Sound Technology
Broadcast Sound Technology (1995) covers the basic principles of all the main aspects of the broadcast chain, including microphones and loudspeakers technology, mixing consoles, recording and replay (analogue and digital) and the principles of stereo.
Death in Modern Theatre
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 compelling and socially meaningful fashion. In a series of interrelated, mostly chronological, micronarratives beginning in the late nineteenth century and ending in the early twenty-first century, this book considers how and why death and dying are represented at certain historical moments using dramaturgy and aesthetics that challenge audiences' conceptions, sensibilities, and sense-making faculties. It includes a mix of well-known and lesser-known plays from an international range of dramatists and theatre-makers, and offers original interpretations through close reading and performance analysis.
Broadcasting in the Netherlands
Broadcasting in the Netherlands (1977) analyses Dutch broadcasting, describing the historical traditions of Dutch society, the ways in which radio and TV were set up, and shows how changes in Dutch politics, culture and economy have posed a set of challenges for the country.
The Production of Political Television
The Production of Political Television (1977) is a study of the organization and methods of production of political television that covers not only news broadcasts and current affairs programmes but all programmes involved with the policy making process in Britain.
The Star Wars Archives. Episodes I-VI
When Star Wars was released in 1977, everybody who saw and reviewed it considered the movie an exciting, innovative piece of pop culture, a fast-moving, special-effects laden fairy tale in space. The film, and the episodes that followed, created a worldwide phenomenon, a massive success for creator George Lucas's production company Lucasfilm, his special effects company Industrial Light & Magic, and for the studio Twentieth Century Fox.Over six movies and 28 years writer, director and producer George Lucas created the modern monomyth of our time, one that resonates with the child in us all.The book begins with Anakin Skywalker as we watch him being trained as a Jedi under Obi-Wan Kenobi, find love with the Queen of Naboo, Padm矇 Amidala, and ultimately turn to the dark side of his nature and become more machine than man. Years later we follow moisture farmer Luke Skywalker on his journey through a galaxy far, far away, meeting extraordinary characters like the mysterious hermit Obi-Wan Kenobi, space pirates Han Solo and Chewbacca, loyal droids C-3PO and R2-D2, bold Princess Leia and the horrific Darth Vader, servant of the dark, malevolent Emperor.To achieve his epic vision George Lucas created the space for ground-breaking visual effects and digital technologies that have forever changed the way we make and see visual entertainment.Paul Duncan and the TASCHEN team, with the full cooperation of Lucasfilm, dive into the Lucasfilm archives to create a book profusely illustrated with script pages, production documents, concept art, storyboards, on-set photography, stills, and posters from the six Star Wars films written and produced by George Lucas.
Fabrication for Theatre and Entertainment
Fabrication for Theatre and Entertainment: Wood and Fiber Products is a complete reference guide to the process of working with wood products for scenic and properties construction for theatre and entertainment arts.
Rebel in Radio
Rebel in Radio (1973) looks at the story of WQXR, the New York commercial radio station. It examines its place in broadcasting history, and how it showed that a radio station could be competitive and still maintain high programme and advertising standards.
Not Even a Game Anymore
Forced Entertainment stands at the forefront of experimental theatre and performance, with an almost unrivalled reputation through Europe and far beyond. The group's unmistakable aesthetic is both playful and highly reflective, at times flamboyant and extravagant, at others puritan and reductive. The British ensemble has captivated theatre lovers and specialists alike for twenty years. Best known for their perfomances lasting from two to twenty four hours, the group has also created fascinating and idiosyncratic projects in intallation, interactive CD-ROM, video and text. This bilingual publication is the first in-depth attempt to address the group's haunting and original work from the outside; combining essays with academic and artistic reflections on their multi-facted output in a single volume.
罈Postheimat竄 - Inquiries Into Migration, Theatre, and Networked Solidarity
Over the last decade, the role of diversity, migration, and representation in the German cultural sector has drastically changed. The PostHeimat network -- a three-year experiment in networked solidarity between major German public theatres, migrant actors, directors, and researchers -- grappled with how to think about home after migration. The contributions to this book document the problems and potentials of reflexive and research-based migrant theatre initiatives. Emerging from research encounters and performances across Germany, this study incorporates the critical perspectives of activists, artists, practitioners, scholars, and cultural mediators from these initiatives and does not shy away from an open reflection on the failures and pitfalls of well-intended cultural policies.
Making Interdisciplinary Performance
This collection offers an examination of and guide to interdisciplinary collaboration through the working practices of performance makers, exploring its pleasures, problems and pitfalls. The book explores contemporary working practices at the interfaces between performance and other disciplines. Focusing on collaborations between theatre makers and these 'others', it investigates the processes and conditions involved in the interdisciplinary. Chapters cover areas such as psychology, the environment, physical cultures, the military, healthcare, festivals and communities, architecture, pedagogy and fine dining. At a time when interdisciplinary practice is actively encouraged in the academy, this book asks what it means in practical terms to engage with artists and scholars outside of our home territories. Where does the interdisciplinary exist and what does it rely on? How do theatre makers approach and sustain these projects? What is the nature of the journey? Offering examples of unusual collaborations and arranged through 3 key areas of performance-making, this book acknowledges the difficulties of such work and that the aims of interdisciplinarity can fail, while examining how new methods and understandings can shift notions of knowledge.
Behind the Tube
Behind the Tube (1990) tells the story of the unseen foundation of modern radio, TV and cable - the technology that enables programming to reach an audience. It charts the evolution of this technology in all its facets - technical, personal, economic and social.
WE The PYRATES
Welcome to the Island of Providence in the Bahamas, 1718. Pirate Captains of many different nations successfully formed a Republic here off the shores of America-in retaliation against the same powers that America would come to defy: not just England, empire, colonialism, but slavery, poverty, forced military service, forced taxation (privateering), religious persecution, etc. Why and how did they manage to come together into a Republic? Why and how did their Republic end? If there is a central message to this play, among the many piratical lessons that may be gleaned, it is that, still, We Are All Pirates. And All of these Pirates, are Us. This much-anticipated theatrical entertainment and treasure-trove of golden-age history, We The Pyrates, is written entirely in verse. Lovers of Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Shakespeare and Rostand must not miss this modern masterwork by Schaar.
Chai Noon
Only a few Westerns contain explicitly Jewish stories or themes, and very rarely do Old West tales involve identifiably Jewish characters. Yet Jewish contributors have shaped the Western--once Hollywood's most popular genre--ever since the silent era, both onscreen and offscreen, and some filmmakers have sought to infuse the genre with a distinctly Jewish sensibility. In Chai Noon, Jonathan L. Friedmann applies some of the central questions of Jewish film studies to the Western: What makes a movie "Jewish"? What counts as a "Jewish image" onscreen? What types of Jewish representation are appropriate? How much of a film's "Jewishness" is owed to the filmmakers and how much to the viewer's interpretation? This volume joins other reconsiderations of outsider and minority representations in Westerns to offer a more nuanced view of the genre. Friedmann engages with larger themes of Jewish identity in popular film, including depictions of race, ethnicity, and foreignness. He also identifies similar concerns within the invention and creation of the imaginary West writ large in American culture. The juxtapositions prove to be both unexpected and intuitively understandable.
The Morse Code: Decoding the Career of Iconic Lighting Designer Peter Morse
The Morse Code: Decoding the Career of Iconic Lighting Designer Peter Morse explores key developments and evolving techniques, processes, and technology within contemporary theatrical lighting design through the career and impact of US lighting designer Peter Morse.
