Radio / Body
This study provides an in-depth exploration of the dramaturgical practices of radio drama and their underlying philosophical assumptions. By presenting an analytical model drawn from phenomenology, it challenges the current understanding of the medium, instead focusing on the bodily and aural aspects of radio drama, while offering a critique of the conventions of dramaturgical practice for neglecting these affective sonic aspects. Tracing these conventions through the history of the development of radio drama, it proposes that a more bodily, resonant mode of radio dramaturgy is best placed to meet the demands of the current era of digital production and distribution. The book also examines a number of approaches to creating a more embodied experience for the listener.
Any Place But Here
ANY PLACE BUT HERE. A play by Caridad Svich.
Podcast To Broadcast
THE COMPLETE BLUEPRINT THAT WILL GUIDE YOUR PODCAST TO SUCCESS IN RADIO SYNDICATION. Want more listeners and ad dollars for your podcast? With over one million podcasts now chasing listeners and advertisers, where can you find growth for YOUR podcast? It may be time to explore Radio Syndication. This book is for the podcaster who wants more listeners and greater ad income. PODCAST TO BROADCAST reveals the original and proven six step formula to turn your podcast into a profitable, nationally syndicated radio show. It's the definitive guide that will put your podcast on the path to success in radio syndication.Praise for PODCAST TO BROADCAST"If you're a podcaster looking to grow your audience, have you ever thought about taking your show to RADIO? Radio reaches millions. In this book, Chris Witting offers the proven six step formula to help you successfully add 'syndicated radio host' to your title." -- Valerie Geller, author Beyond Powerful Radio, Broadcast/Podcast Coach"If you've gone to the trouble of creating a great podcast, radio syndication provides an opportunity to reach many more listeners and develop a new revenue stream. In this book you'll discover the right path to take and the pitfalls to avoid. This is the manual for syndication success." -- Mike Carruthers, host of Something You Should Know podcast"Chris Witting pulls back the curtain and brilliantly reveals the secrets of how to expose your podcast to a much larger audience. If you have ever considered taking your podcast to the next level, all of your questions will be answered in this step-by-step guide to broadcast success." -- Chris Berry, Executive VP, iHeart Media"Podcast To Broadcast will show you how to take your podcast to the next level, and capture the larger audiences and income that radio syndication can provide. Chris Witting's reputation and experience in the radio industry speaks for itself, he has a proven track record of mentoring hosts to success in radio syndication." -- Charles Steinhauer, Chief Operating Officer at WestwoodOne"While the vast majority of podcasters struggle to generate sufficient revenue, radio syndication has a very profitable business model. PODCAST TO BROADCAST is an essential guidebook for podcasters who want to test the waters of syndication." -- Hiram Lazar CFO Compass Media Networks"Chris Witting's vast knowledge and experience in the industry is unparalleled. Over the past 8 years, he helped me build a network for my weekly radio show and was a driving force behind my popular podcast. This book is the next best thing to having Chris with you at every critical step in the process. Everything you read in this book, you can take to the bank." -- Richard Syrett, Broadcaster/Podcaster and Guest Host - Coast to Coast AM
Bruce Lee Enter the Dragon Photo album Vol 2
In August 1973 a movie exploded on the cinema screens - That movie was "Enter the Dragon" A movie that introduced the West to one of the most iconic figures of modern-day, Bruce Lee.It was also to be Lee's last complete movie after his untimely death on July 20th, 1973.Despite his death his life seemed to be documented in photographs, there are literally thousands of photos of Bruce Lee both on and off-screen.Enter the Dragon is no exception with over 12,000 photos taken during the shoot.Enter the Dragon Vol 2 highlights some of those photographs, depicting Bruce with his many facial expressions and lightning speed often too quick for the camera to capture.In this book, we select many photos taken during filming capturing Bruce Lee at his most dynamic and relaxed joking with the cast and crew.A truly wonderful collector's item for any Bruce Lee collector
Avant-Garde Nationalism at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1940
In 1928, Hilton Edwards and Miche獺l mac Liamm籀ir founded the Dublin Gate Theatre, which quickly became renowned for producing stylistically and dramaturgically innovative plays in a uniquely avant-garde setting. While the Gate's lasting importance to the history of Irish theater is generally attributed to its introduction of experimental foreign drama to Ireland, Van den Beuken shines a light on the Gate's productions of several new Irish playwrights, such as Denis Johnston, Mary Manning, David Sears, Robert Collis, and Edward and Christine Longford. Having grown up during an era of political turmoil and bloodshed that led to the creation of an independent yet in many ways bitterly divided Ireland, these dramatists chose to align themselves with an avant-garde theater that explicitly sought to establish Dublin as a modern European capital. In examining an extensive corpus of archival resources, Van den Beuken reveals how the Gate Theatre became a site of avant-garde nationalism during Ireland's tumultuous first post-independence decades.
Enter the Dragon Bruce Lee Vol 1
In August 1973 a movie exploded on the cinema screens - That movie was "Enter the Dragon" and introduced the west to one of the most iconic figures of modern day, that person is Bruce Lee.It was also to be Lee's last complete movie after his untimely death on July 20th 1973.Despite his death his life seemed to be documented in photographs, there are literally thousands of photos of Bruce both on and off screen.Enter the Dragon is no exception with over 12,000 photos being taken during the shoot.Enter the Dragon Vol 1 highlight's some of those photographs, depicting Bruce with his many facial expressions and lightening speed often to quick for the camera to capture.In this book we select many photos taken during the filming capturing Bruce Lee at his most dynamic and relaxed joking with the cast and crew.A truly wonderful collectors item for any Bruce Lee collector
Astrid’s Diary 2
In this second edition of Astrid's Diary, find out how someone like Astrid, who seemed to have evrything figured out, now fights against having everything taken away: Love, money, attention, stuff, house. Here you織ll understand why you should be careful what you wish for.
Astrid’s Diary 2
In this second edition of Astrid's Diary, find out how someone like Astrid, who seemed to have evrything figured out, now fights against having everything taken away: Love, money, attention, stuff, house. Here you織ll understand why you should be careful what you wish for.
Astrid’s Diary 2
In this second edition of Astrid's Diary, find out how someone like Astrid, who seemed to have evrything figured out, now fights against having everything taken away: Love, money, attention, stuff, house. Here you織ll understand why you should be careful what you wish for.
Bob Marks’ 88 Keys to Successful Singing Performances
Performing Advice from Broadway's Premiere Audition CoachBob Marks has spent more than 90,000 hours coaching singers, including cast members of nearly every current Broadway musical, cabaret performers, students winning positions at prestigious university programs, and actors of all ages. For more than four decades, singers from all over the world have turned to Bob Marks to hone their voices and nail auditions, including stars such as Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Britney Spears, Ariana Grande, Nikki M. James, Laura Bell Bundy, Ashley Tisdale, and Debbie Gibson.In this book, Bob provides 88 short, simple steps for successful singing auditions, including how to: Build confidence and presence Care for your voice and use it effectively Select music which enhances your unique style Put your best musical foot forward in any situation"Bob was instrumental in helping me book the role of Ed the Hyena and the covers of Timon and Zazu in The Lion King."-Wayne Pyle, Broadway Performer"If it weren't for Bob, my daughter would never landed the role of Gretl in NBC's live production of The Sound of Music." -Tara Kennedy, Broadway Performer"I wish I knew half of what Bob Marks knows about music, nuance, performance, and industry standards." - Elizabeth Lecoanet, International Voice Specialist"An invaluable resource for performers of any age. This is a concise, simple, and pragmatic book that I can recommend to my students." -Denise Simon, Author of Parenting in the Spotlight "Bob Marks knows how to help you be your best-prepared self in the audition room.!" -Stephanie Lynne Mason, Broadway Performer
If on a Tehran’s Night a Traveler
Sadegh Hedayat's famous persona "Dash Akol" is on the way to kill the groom while a story is taking place in the city.
Life at Hamilton
When Mike Anthony moved to New York City to become an actor, he'd imagined being under the bright lights of Broadway, living a life full of fame and fortune. Instead, he took a job not on stage for a Broadway show, but behind its bar, and found a life full of meaning. In Life At Hamilton, Mike takes us along on his journey, recounting his extraordinary experiences as Hamilton: An American Musical rocketed into Broadway history, from its unparalleled opening night, through the 2016 election, to its COVID-19 intermission. On display along the way are Mike's heartfelt and often humorous encounters with the show's patrons, including some of the most famous celebrities in the world, and its biggest (and littlest) Hamilfans. Mike's story is a testament to the potent power of theater to connect, to inspire, and to heal. For as long as there have been people, they have put on plays. Life At Hamilton reminds us why.
Derrida - Benjamin
Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And in the last fifteen years there has been a growing awareness of this theatricality. To date, though, there has not been a published stage play about either Derrida or BenjaminCue Derrida Benjamin, a volume that brings together two tragi-comic plays which mirror each other in a host of ways - above all, in the way that the central philosophical figure is displaced, or not quite where or when we would expect to find them. In Derrida's case, it is Oxford in 1968; in Benjamin's case, it is somewhere (or nowhere) near London in 1948. These, then, are plays in which the philosopher is exiled, or elsewhere - not quite himself. This a volume for anyone with an eye or ear for where theatre or performance meets philosophy - students, scholars, readers, actors.
Inclusive Character Analysis
Inclusive Character Analysis foregrounds representations of race, gender, class, ability, and sexual orientation by blending script analysis with a variety of critical theories in order to create a more inclusive performance practice for the classroom and the stage. This book merges a traditional Stanislavski-based script analysis with multiple theoretical frameworks, such as gender theory, standpoint theory, and critical race theory, to give students in early level theatre courses foundational skills for analyzing a play, while also introducing them to contemporary thought about race, gender, and identity.Inclusive Character Analysis is a valuable resource for beginning acting courses, script analysis courses, the directing classroom, early design curriculum, dramaturgical explorations, the playwriting classroom, and introduction to performance studies classes. Additionally, the book offers a reader-style background on theoretical frames for performance faculty and practitioners who may need assistance to integrate non-performance centered theory into their classrooms.
Why the TheatreIn Personal Essays College Teachers, Actors, Directors, and Playwrights Tell Why the Theatre Is So Vital to Them
Why the Theatre is a collection of twenty-six personal essay by college teachers, actors, directors, and playwrights about the magnetic pull of the theatre and its changing place in society.
Cultural Convergence
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions in the comparative contexts of avant-garde theatre, Hollywood cinema, popular culture, and the development of Irish-language theatre, respectively. The overarching objective is to consider the output of the Gate in terms of cultural convergence - the dynamics of exchange, interaction, and acculturation that reveal the workings of transnational infrastructures.
Staging Technology
Through an examination of a range of performance works ranging from Jean Cocteau's ballet The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party (1921) to Julie Taymor's monumental production of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark (2010) and Mexican playwright Isaac Gomez's La Ruta(2018), Staging Technology asks what becomes visible when we encounter plays, operas, and musicals that are themselves about fraught human/machine interfaces. What can theatrical production tell us about the way technology functions as an element of ideology and power in narrative drama? About the limits of the human? Staging Technology bridges the divide between the technical practices of theatre production and critical, theoretical approaches to interpreting drama to examine the way dramatic theatre's technologies are shaped by larger historical, ideological, and economic forces. At the same time, it examines how those technologies themselves have influenced 20th and 21st-century playwrights', composers', and librettists' choice of subject matter for staged representation. Examining performance works from the modernist and post-modern European and American canon of drama, opera, and performance art including works by Eug癡ne Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Heiner M羹ller, Sophie Treadwell, Harold Pinter, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau, Arthur Miller, Robert Pinsky, John Adams and Alice Goodman, Staging Technology transforms how we think about the interrelationship between theatre practice, performance, narrative drama, and text. In it Craig N. Owens synthesizes approaches to interpretation and practice from disparate realms, offering insights into over-arching ways of making meaning that are illustrated through focused and innovative readings of individual works for the dramatic stage. Staging Technology provides a new and transformative paradigm for thinking about dramatic literature, the practices of representational theatre production, and the historical and social contexts they inhabit.
Knowing in Performing
How can performing be transformed into cognition? Knowing in Performing describes dynamic processes of artistic knowledge production in music and the performing arts. Knowing refers to how processual, embodied, and tacit knowledge can be developed from performative practices in music, dance, theatre, and film. By exploring the field of artistic research as a constantly transforming space for participatory and experimental artistic practices, this anthology points the way forward for researchers, artists and decision-makers inside and outside universities of the arts.
Political Dramaturgies and Theatre SpectatorshipProvocations for Change
What do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers' provocations for change need to be differently designed when addressing the precarious spectator-subject of twenty- first century neoliberalism? In this important study Liz Tomlin interrogates the influential theories of Jacques Ranci癡re to propose a new framework of analysis through which contemporary political dramaturgies can be investigated. Drawing, in particular, on Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Lilie Chouliaraki and Judith Butler, Tomlin argues that the capacities of the contemporary and future spectator to be 'effected' or 'affected' by politically-engaged theatre need to be urgently re-evaluated. Central to this study is Tomlin's theorized figuration of the neoliberal spectator-subject as precarious, individualized and ironic, with a reduced capacity for empathy, agency and the ability to imagine better futures. This, in turn, leads to a predilection for a response to injustice that is driven by a concern for the feelings of the subject-self, rather than concern for the suffering other. These characteristics are argued to shape even those spectator-subjects towards the left of the political spectrum, thus necessitating a careful reconsideration of new and long-standing dramaturgies of political provocation. Dramaturgies examined include the ironic invitations of Made in China and Martin Crimp, the exploration of affect in Kieran Hurley's Heads Up, the new sincerity that characterizes the work of Andy Smith, the turn to the staging of the spectators' 'other' in Developing Artists' Queens of Syria and Chris Thorpe and Rachel Chavkin's Confirmation, and the community activism of Common Wealth's The Deal Versus the People.
Vivid Tomorrows
Can science fiction--especially sci-fi cinema--save the world? It already has, many times. Retired officers testify that films like Doctor Strangelove, Fail-Safe, On the Beach and War Games provoked changes and helped prevent accidental war. Soylent Green and Silent Running recruited millions of environmental activists. The China Syndrome and countless movies about plagues helped bring attention to those failure modes. And the grand-daddy of "self-preventing prophecy"--Nineteen Eighty-Four--girded countless citizens to stay wary of Big Brother. It's not been all dire warnings. While optimism is much harder to dramatize than apocalypse, both large and small screens have also encouraged millions to lift their gaze, contemplating how we might get better, incrementally, or else raise grandchildren worthy of the stars. Come along on a quirky quest for unusual insights into the power of forward-looking media. How the romantic allure of feudalism tugs at men and women who benefited vastly from modernity. Or explore why almost every Hollywood film preaches Suspicion of Authority, along with tolerance, diversity and personal eccentricity, and how those messages helped keep us free. No one is spared scrutiny! Not Spielberg or Tolkien or Cameron or Costner... nor Dune or demigods or zombie flicks. Certainly not George Lucas or Ayn Rand! Though some critiques are offered from a lifetime of respect and love... and gratitude.
Xiangsheng and the Emergence of Guo Degang in Contemporary China
This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its enlistment by official propaganda machine after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its revival in popularity under Guo Degang and his Deyun Club. Just as the 1950's saw the shift of xiangsheng 's social function from entertainment to the political tool of 'serving the party', Guo Degang has completed the paradigm shift by turning its focus back to 'serving the people' as a means of entertainment and social criticism. This volume examines how Guo has resurrected the essence of xiangsheng, successfully commercialised it in a market economy, and simultaneously deconstructed the official discourse through grassroots means.
Digital Theatre
Digital Theatre is a rich and varied art form evolving between performing bodies gathered together in shared space and the ever-expanding flexible reach of the digital technology that shapes our world. This book explores live theatre performances which incorporate video projection, animation, motion capture and triggering, telematics and multisite performance, robotics, VR, and AR. Through examples from practitioners like George Coates, the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre, Troika Ranch, David Saltz, Mark Reaney, The Builder's Association, and ArtGrid, a picture emerges of how and why digital technology can be used to effectively create theatre productions matching the storytelling and expressive needs of today's artists and audiences. It also examines how theatre roles such as director, actor, playwright, costumes, and set are altered, and how ideas of body, place, and community are expanded.
Chinese Urban Shi-Nema
This book dives into the mise-en-sc癡ne of contemporary China to explore the "becoming cinema" of Chinese cities, societies, and subjectivities. Set in the wake of China's radical and rapid period of urbanization and infrastructural transformation, and situating itself in the processual city of Ningbo, the book combines empirical, ficto-critical, and philosophical methods to generate a dynamic account of everyday life as new forms of consumer culture bed in. Harnessing a Realist approach that allows for different scales of analysis, the book zooms in on five architectural assemblages including: surreal real estate showrooms; a fragmented history museum; China's "first and best" Sino-foreign university; a new "Old town"; and weird gamified "any-now(here)-spaces." Together these modern arrangements and machines for living cast light upon the broader picture sweeping up greater China.
Immersive Embodiment
This book offers a wide-ranging examination of acts of 'virtual embodiment' in performance/gaming/applied contexts that abstract an immersant's sense of physical selfhood by instating a virtual body, body-part or computer-generated avatar. Emergent 'immersive' practices in an increasingly expanding and cross-disciplinary field are coinciding with a wealth of new scientific knowledge in body-ownership and self-attribution. A growing understanding of the way a body constructs its sense of selfhood is intersecting with the historically persistent desire to make an onto-relational link between the body that 'knows' an experience and bodies that cannot know without occupying their unique point of view. The author argues that the desire to empathize with another's ineffable bodily experiences is finding new expression in contexts of particular urgency. For example, patients wishing to communicate their complex physical experiences to their extended networks of support in healthcare, orcommunities placing policymakers 'inside' vulnerable, marginalized or disenfranchised virtual bodies in an attempt to prompt personal change. This book is intended for students, academics and practitioner-researchers studying or working in the related fields of immersive theatre/art-making, arts-science and VR in applied performance practices.
Commedia dell’Arte, its Structure and Tradition
Commedia dell'arte, its Structure and Tradition chronicles a series of discussions between two renowned experts in Commedia dell'arte - master practitioners Antonio Fava and John Rudlin.
The Royal Court Theatre (Routledge Revivals)
The English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre is the longest running specialist production organization in the history of British theatre. Philip Roberts's account, which was first published in 1986, covers the period 1965-1972 in the Company's life, beginning in 1965 with the appointment of William Gaskill as Artistic Director. This book will be of interest to students of the theatre and drama.
Avant-Garde Nationalism at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1940
In 1928, Hilton Edwards and Miche獺l mac Liamm籀ir founded the Dublin Gate Theatre, which quickly became renowned for producing stylistically and dramaturgically innovative plays in a uniquely avant-garde setting. While the Gate's lasting importance to the history of Irish theater is generally attributed to its introduction of experimental foreign drama to Ireland, Van den Beuken shines a light on the Gate's productions of several new Irish playwrights, such as Denis Johnston, Mary Manning, David Sears, Robert Collis, and Edward and Christine Longford. Having grown up during an era of political turmoil and bloodshed that led to the creation of an independent yet in many ways bitterly divided Ireland, these dramatists chose to align themselves with an avant-garde theater that explicitly sought to establish Dublin as a modern European capital. In examining an extensive corpus of archival resources, Van den Beuken reveals how the Gate Theatre became a site of avant-garde nationalism during Ireland's tumultuous first post-independence decades.
Ecodramaturgies
This book addresses theatre's contribution to the way we think about ecology, our relationship to the environment, and what it means to be human in the context of climate change. It offers a detailed study of the ways in which contemporary performance has critiqued and re-imagined everyday ecological relationships, in more just and equitable ways. The broad spectrum of ecologically-oriented theatre and performance included here, largely from the UK, US, Canada, Europe, and Mexico, have problematised, reframed, and upended the pervasive and reductive images of climate change that tend to dominate the ecological imagination. Taking an inclusive approach this book foregrounds marginalised perspectives and the multiple social and political forces that shape climate change and related ecological crises, framing understandings of the earth as home. Recent works by Fevered Sleep, Rimini Protokoll, Violeta Luna, Deke Weaver, Metis Arts, Lucy + Jorge Orta, as well as Indigenous activist movements such as NoDAPL and Idle No More, are described in detail.
The Wave
This short story collection features mystery, comedy, love and fantasy. It all begins with the Ghostly Arisings of Mother and a comical romp on Monument Avenue with the statues in We Bare No Arms. The excitement surrounding the diamond in The Wave, an enchanted valley in Peru and the haunting operatic sounds in the Bagel Hunters will capture your heart and leave you craving for more. You'll fall in love with Detective Swoop, a smart and savvy investigator who always shows the criminals who the boss is. He will mesmerize and amaze you in Swoop Scoops the Land.
Dancing Queen
Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de M矇dicis prior to Henri IV's assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well as theories and methodologies derived from literary studies, political history, musicology, dance studies, and women's and gender studies, Dancing Queen traces how Marie's ballets authorized her incipient political authority through innovative verbal and visual imagery, avant-garde musical developments, and ceremonial arrangements of objects and bodies in space. Making use of women's "semi-official" status as political agents, Marie's ballets also manipulated the subtle social and cultural codes of international courtly society in order to more deftly navigate rivalries and alliances both at home and abroad. At times the queen's productions could challenge Henri IV's immediate interests, contesting the influence enjoyed by his mistresses or giving space to implied critiques of official foreign policy, for example. Such defenses of Marie's own position, though, took shape as part of a larger governmental program designed to promote the French consort queen's political authority not in its own right but as a means of maintaining power for the new Bourbon monarchy in the event of Henri IV's untimely death.
Kostana
Pismo: LatinicaKostana je drama poznatog srpskog pisca Borisava Stankovica, koji je ziveo i stvarao, u doba kreiranja moderne Srpske a kasnije i Jugoslovenske knjizevnosti.Ova drama opisuje zivot u Vranju, malom gradu na jugu Srbije. U njoj se preplicu, tradicionalni patrijarhalni zivot sa ličnom dramom junakinje.
The Poltergeist
'Art's my hobby too.' Hobby?! Sasha was destined to take the art world by storm. At the age of fifteen pop stars wanted his paintings, and a new exhibition was going to make him a rich man. But now he serves in a stationers, and no one's even heard of him... what went wrong? Philip Ridley's darkly comic new play is about art, family, memory, and being haunted by the life we never lived. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere performance at London's Southwark Playhouse, which was performed live and live-streamed around the world in November 2020.
The One Minute Improviser
Would you like to strengthen your approach to improv?Delve deeper into the Three Secrets every improviser learns?Do you want a smooth, quick read you can devour in your spare time? If you want all this (and more!) then you want The One Minute Improviser. This book provides a clear, simple look into the ideas that are basic to improv, while offering insight as to why these Three Secrets are so important. Based lovingly on the format of a well-known self-help book, The One Minute Improviser takes you along on a young man's journey to find the Improv Guru, who he hopes will teach him the answers behind why The Three Secrets are crucial to the performance of quality improv. Learn the secret behind The Secrets: Be AcceptingBe SupportiveBe FearlessBut wait...There's more! Not only do you get these Three Secrets, but you also get a Free Fourth Secret! What is it, you ask? Well, we're not telling because then it wouldn't be a secret. But if you want to find out, grab yourself a copy of The One Minute Improviser and take your improv to the next level...and beyond! Discover The Secrets of great improv - Get your copy now!
Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays--Volume 2
This eclectic collection of 78 monologues and eight duologues for women from produced contemporary plays is ideal for auditions, contests, workshops, and acting classes, offering selections from both established and emerging new writers. Taken all together, they weave a rich and vivid tapestry of uncommon women who enlarge our perspective on the issues they discover along their journeys. The compilation is presented in chapter themes arranged by mood with brief sketches to introduce the characters and set the scene for each monologue or duologue. The high quality of the writing lends itself to classroom discussion, text analysis, and performance. This fine resource features well-known playwrights like Pulitzer Prize winners Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson, and Doug Wright, as well as a host of emerging new authors whose works are sure to challenge you in both character interpretation, and performance. Some of the excerpts are formal comic or dramatic texts, and some experiment with form and language. Special features include introductory chapter discussions on audition practices, text analysis principles, and rehearsal techniques. There are also a number of original, independent monologues written especially for classroom discussion and exploration.
Rose’s Royal Midgets and Other Little People of Vaudeville
The name Rose's Royal Midgets held an important place at theatres, circuses and fairgrounds across three continents a century ago, even if each component of the troupe's name crumbles into dust by light of day ("Rose" was a pseudonym", the company held no Royal patent, and the word "midget" has passed out of use in polite society). This large touring production of Little People was the creation of one of show biz history's great impresarios, Ike Rose, now forgotten but once in a league with names like Barnum and Ziegfeld as men who delivered full value for the price of a ticket. Peruse these pages for a glimpse into a vanished world, one as cynical as it was magical, but one that was also always fascinating.
Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights
Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights is the first anthology of LGBTQ-themed plays written by Russian queer authors and straight allies in the 21st century. The book features plays by established and emergent playwrights of the Russian drama scene, including Roman Kozyrchikov, Andrey Rodionov and Ekaterina Troepolskaya, Valery Pecheykin, Natalya Milanteva, Olzhas Zhanaydarov, Vladimir Zaytsev, and Elizaveta Letter. Writing for children, teenagers, and adults, these authors explore gay, lesbian, trans, and other queer lives in prose and in verse. From a confession-style solo play to poetic satire on contemporary Russia; from a play for children to love dramas that have been staged for adult-only audiences in Moscow and other cities, this important anthology features work that was written around or after 2013-the year when the law on the prohibition of "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors" was passed by the Russian government. These plays are universal stories of humanity that spread a message of tolerance, acceptance, and love and make clear that a queer scenario does not necessarily have to end in a tragedy just because it was imagined and set in Russia. They show that breathing, growing old, falling in love, falling out of love, and falling in love again can be just as challenging and rewarding in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia as it can be in New York, Tokyo, Johannesburg, or Buenos Aires.
Syrian Refugees, Applied Theater, Workshop Facilitation, and Stories
This book analyses and theorizes the efficacy of using applied theatre as a tool to address refugee issues of displacement, trauma, adjustment, and psychological wellbeing in addition to split community belonging.
Joan of Arc on the Stage and Her Sisters in Sublime Sanctity
This book examines the figure of Joan of Arc as depicted in stage works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially those based on or related to Schiller's 1801 romantic tragedy, Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans). The author elucidates Schiller's appropriation of themes from Euripides's Iphigenia plays, chiefly the quality of "sublime sanctity," which transforms Joan's image from a victim of fate to a warrior-prophet who changes history through sheer force of will. Finding the best-known works of his time about her - Voltaire's La pucelle d'Orl矇ans and Shakespeare's Henry VI, part I - utterly dissatisfying, Schiller set out to replace them. Die Jungfrau von Orleans was a smashing success and inspired various subsequent treatments, including Verdi's opera Giovanna d'Arco and a translation by the father of Russian Romanticism, Vasily Zhukovsky, on which Tchaikovsky based his opera Orleanskaya deva (The Maid of Orleans). In turn, the book's final chapter examines Shaw's Saint Joan and finds that the Irish playwright's vociferous complaints about Schiller's "romantic flapdoodle" belie a surprising affinity for Schiller's approach.
Les Inconsolables
... Rien d'extraordinaire. De son vivant, c'矇tait un mari comme un autre; mais depuis qu'il est mort, c'est bien diff矇rent ! avec le temps, et dans l'矇loignement, les d矇fauts s'effacent, les bonnes qualit矇s ressortent, et il en r矇sulte un portrait qui ne ressemble plus qu'en beau... Les grands hommes, les artistes et les maris gagnent cent pour cent ? mourir...
Go, Improv
This book is the toolkit to teach, learn, share, practice, and play short form improv comedy. Learn some basics of how improv works and learn over 120 different games and exercises. Along the way there are some anecdotes, stories, and tips about the art of improv that will help the performer and the every day human. Life is improv and improv is life. Learn short form improv comedy for yourself, for fun, for work, and for life. Classic theatre games can offer life skills of how to "yes, and" your every day life. Learn a brief history of GoProv from it's founder, Steve Freeto while learning how silly games can offer a boost of confidence along with all of the accolades given to improvisers. Go, improv!
Apologia de S簷crates. Una adaptaci籀 al teatre d’ombres xineses
L'obra que tens a les mans 矇s una teatralitzaci籀 d'un dels di?legs socr?tics m矇s llegits de Plat籀. En aquest di?leg, s'escenifica el judici al qual va ser sotm癡s el vell fil簷sof i la defensa de S簷crates davant les greus acusacions que van llan癟ar sobre ell alguns dels seus enemics.
The Complete Plays
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Table of Contents: Introduction: Robert Browning by G. K. Chesterton Plays: Paracelsus Strafford Bells and Pomegranates No. I: Pippa Passes Bells and Pomegranates No. II: King Victor and King Charles Bells and Pomegranates No. IV: The Return of the Druses Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'scutcheon Bells and Pomegranates No. VI: Colombe's Birthday Bells and Pomegranates No. VIII: Luria and a Soul's Tragedy Herakles The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Pippa Passes is a verse drama, which was dedicated to Thomas Noon Talfourd, who had recently attained fame as the author of the tragedy Ion. The author described the work as "the first of a series of dramatic pieces." King Victor and King Charles was the second play written by Robert Browning for the stage. The subject of the play is the strange incident in 1730-32 in the Kingdom of Sardinia in which the elderly king, Victor Amadeus II, first abdicated in favour of his son Charles Emmanuel III, and then after months of ever-increasing complaints unexpectedly demanded to be restored. He was imprisoned until his death a year later. Browning's treatment is based on 18th century sources which cast Victor as deliberately deceptive, but he goes further to create a secret history in which Charles is exonerated from all charges of cruelty. The play is in four acts and has only four main characters: Victor, Charles, Charles's wife Polyxena, and the minister D'Ormea.
Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China
In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre.
Cast of Mentors
After ten years of running his very successful blog, The Producer's Perspective, Tony Award-winning Producer Ken Davenport wanted his audience to hear the perspective of the most successful TheaterMakers in the world, in the hopes that their stories and advice would inspire others to make more theater. That's why he started his podcast, interviewing hundreds of the best in the business on how they did it, and how others can too. What Ken didn't expect was how much their words inspired HIM! And he found himself listening to those interviews over and over, and writing down quotes and re-reading key takeaways from his interviews whenever he needed to solve a problem. Each one of Ken's guests became a mentor to Ken . . . whether they knew it or not! Ken found these short pieces of advice so helpful that he wanted other TheaterMakers to receive the same benefit, which is why he created Cast of Mentors: Volume 1. In Volume 1 of Cast of Mentors, Ken is sharing his most-treasured pieces of advice from high-achievers-including Terrence McNally, Dominique Morisseau, David Henry Hwang, Daryl Roth, Kathleen Marshall, Stephen C. Byrd and more-so that you may gain 50 new Broadway mentors to help you navigate life in this new world. Collectively, these mentors have won more than 67 Tony Awards, 19 Emmy Awards, 9 Academy Awards, 12 Grammy Awards and 1 Pulitzer Prize. Among other things, you will . . . Learn from Academy Award-winning Writers Benj Pasek & Justin Paul and hear first-hand how they exercised their personal demons with Dear Evan Hansen. Listen to the #Fearless Broadway star Mandy Gonzalez's advice on creating a strong support system. Seek advice from Tony Award-winning Director Kenny Leon on what we can do to promote equality in the theater. Hear from the President of The Broadway League, Charlotte St. Martin, on what makes for a successful producer in the 21st Century. Learn how Tony Award-winning Choreographer Sergio Trujillo found his niche as a director/choreographer and how you can too! And much more!
Creative Measures of the Anthropocene
Chapter 1 Measure and Method.- Chapter 2 Creative Modalities.- Chapter 3 Multi-Scalar Shifts and Drifts.- Chapter 4 Affective Measures.- Chapter 5 From the Corporeal to the Imaginative.- Chapter 6 On Being Level-Headed.- Chapter 7 From the Imaginative to the Anthropocene.- Chapter 8 A Marker of Current Measures.
Manual Pr獺ctico de Actuaci籀n para Principiantes
Si est獺s buscando c籀mo ser un mejor actor o actriz, en este Manual Pr獺ctico de Actuaci籀n para Principiantes descubrir獺s poderosas t矇cnicas para tu formaci籀n como profesional de las artes.Esta obra incluye los primeros pasos para ser actor/actriz, consejos pr獺cticos para trabajar en teatro o cine, coaching teatral, t矇cnicas de actuaci籀n, y diferentes m矇todos de actuaci籀n para las distintas artes esc矇nicas.Adem獺s de c籀mo ser un buen actor de cine y las cualidades de un buen actor, obtendr獺s consejos para actuar bien, superando tus miedos y limitaciones con el prop籀sito de triunfar con la actuaci籀n.
The Behind The Realms Journal
Where better to keep your thoughts and writings but in your very own Behind the Realms journal. This journal is based off of Donna JA Olson's historical romance series called The Behind the Realms series. Enjoy and happy writing!
Introduction to Show Networking
Introduction to Show Networking covers the basics of how Ethernet networks provide a platform for entertainment control and audio/video media distribution for concerts, theatre productions, corporate and special events, cruise ship revues, wrestling shows, houses of worship, museum presentations, fountain spectaculars-any kind of show presented live for an audience. The book's bottom-up approach was designed with show technicians in mind, starting with the basics and then moving up through cables, network switches, and layering, and on through Ethernet, and network components like TCP, UDP, IP and subnet masks, all with a practical focus. More advanced concepts are introduced, including broadcast storms and VLANs, along with show networking best practices. Closing out the book is a network design process demonstrated through practical, real-world examples for lighting, sound, video, scenic automation, and show control networks. An appendix covering binary and hexadecimal numbers is also included. This easy-reading book draws from Huntington's Show Networks and Control Systems, the industry standard since 1994, but is completely re-focused, reorganized, and updated.
