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Book Beyond the Fringe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Bennett
  • Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN : 9780573640025
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Fringe written by Alan Bennett and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1963 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of comic sketches.

Book The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide

Download or read book The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide written by Sarah Thomasson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-20 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide examines how these cities’ world-famous arts events have shaped and been shaped by their long-term interaction with their urban environments. While the Edinburgh International Festival and Adelaide Festival are long-established, prestigious events that champion artistic excellence, they are also accompanied by the two largest open-access fringe festivals in the world. It is this simultaneous staging of multiple events within Edinburgh’s Summer Festivals and Adelaide’s Mad March that generates the visibility and festive atmosphere popularly associated with both places. Drawing on perspectives from theatre studies and cultural geography, this book interrogates how the Festival City, as a place myth, has developed in the very different local contexts of Edinburgh and Adelaide, and how it is challenged by groups competing for the right to use and define public space. Each chapter examines a recent performative event in which festival debates and controversies spilled out beyond the festival space to activate the public sphere by intersecting with broader concerns and audiences. This book forges an interdisciplinary, comparative framework for festival studies to interrogate how festivals are embedded in the social and political fabric of cities and to assess the cultural impact of the festivalisation phenomenon.

Book Edinburgh s Festivals

Download or read book Edinburgh s Festivals written by David Pollock and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1947, an émigré Austrian opera impresario launched the Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama to heal the scars of the Second World War through a celebration of the arts. At the same time, a socialist theatre group from Glasgow and other amateur companies protested their exclusion from the festival by performing anyway, inventing the concept of 'fringe' theatre. Now the annual celebration known collectively as the Edinburgh Festival is the largest arts festival in the world, incorporating events dedicated to theatre, film, art, literature, comedy, dance, jazz and even military pageantry. It has launched careers – from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in Beyond the Fringe to Phoebe Waller-Bridge with Fleabag – mirrored the political and social mood of its times, shaped the city of Edinburgh around it and welcomed a huge all-star cast, including Orson Welles, Grace Kelly, Yehudi Menuhin and Mark E Smith's The Fall and many many more. This is its story.

Book Edinburgh Festivals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Angela Bartie
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2014-05-14
  • ISBN : 0748670327
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Edinburgh Festivals written by Angela Bartie and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the 'culture wars' of 1945-1970 and is the first major study of the origins and development of this leading annual arts extravaganza.

Book Festival and Events Management

Download or read book Festival and Events Management written by Ian Yeoman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Festival and Events Management: an international perspective is a unique text looking at the central role of events management in the cultural, tourism and arts industries. With international contributions from industry and academia, the text looks at the following: * Events & cultural environments * Managing the arts & leisure experience * Marketing, policies and strategies of art and leisure management Chapters include exercises, and additional teaching materials and solutions to questions are provided as part of an accompanying online resource.

Book Everywoman

Download or read book Everywoman written by Jess Phillips and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS ‘Jess Phillips writes like she talks: brilliantly. Her humour and passion shine through every page. Loved it.’ ROBERT WEBB _____________________ If you’re thinking, ‘Jess who?’ then I’m glad that there was something about ‘Everywoman’ and ‘truth’ that caught your eye. Or you might already know me as that gobby MP who has a tendency to shout about the stuff I care about. Because I’m a woman with a cause, I have been called a feminazi witch, a murderer and threatened with rape. The internet attracts a classy crowd. So, speaking the truth isn’t always easy but I believe it’s worth it. And I want you to believe it too. The truth can be empowering, the truth can lead to greater equality, and the world would be incredibly boring if we let all of those people who allegedly know everything, say everything. By demanding to be heard, by dealing with our imposter syndrome, by being cheerleaders, doers not sayers, creating our own networks and by daring to believe that we can make a difference, we can. We’re women and we’re kick-ass. And that’s the truth. _____________________ 'Joyfully candid and very funny.' Guardian 'Jess Phillips knows the truth . . . and here she shows how scary and sad as well as joyful and liberating the answers can be.' Damian Barr 'Everywoman has all the laughs [of Lena Dunham and Caitlin Moran] with a backbone of real glinting anger . . .there were so many funny and wise things on each page that whittling them down into a review seemed impossible.' Julie Birchill, Spectator 'As fresh as mountain air amid the Westminster tumbleweed.' Metro 'Arresting.' Observer _____________________ This title now has a new cover and there is a chance that you may receive the edition with the old cover instead of the cover displayed here.

Book Performing Spaces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giovanna Guidicini
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-09-28
  • ISBN : 9781472479235
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Performing Spaces written by Giovanna Guidicini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a comprehensive interpretation and comparison of the existing sources - including city records and expenses, chronicles, official booklets, letters, collections of poems and speeches - this book offers a detailed analysis of triumphal entries in early-modern Scotland. It examines Scottish triumphal entries as politicised events taking place in the urban scenario, where the relationship between urban authorities and rulers was represented and negotiated both visually and through the use of space. In particular these events are viewed in relation to the urban space where they took place, and each other. The book argues that the significance of triumphal entries becomes clearer when they are seen as a sequence of interconnected events; contextualising them helps understanding the organisersâe(tm) desire to follow or separate from tradition, incorporating or refusing to acknowledge foreign flavours. The study also looks at the broader context of courtly events staged in parallel with triumphal entries, including the uses of spaces, the iconography, speeches, and pageants, in order to compare the urban authoritiesâe(tm) idealised view of the world presented in the entry with the rulerâe(tm)s own version staged at court. This is then further contextualised through comparisons with similar events taking place elsewhere in Europe. This underlines the fine balance achieved between retaining Scotlandâe(tm)s individual characters and adopting fashionable themes inspired by foreign cultures, and contextualise the reasons behind individual choices - both in an urban and a courtly environment. Italian Renaissance, Dutch, French, and English influences will be particularly considered.

Book The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals written by Ric Knowles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals provides an up-to-date, contextualized account of the worldwide reach and impact of the 'festivalization' of culture. It introduces new methodologies for the study of the global network of theatre production using digital humanities, raises questions about how alternative origin stories might impact the study of festivals, investigates the festivalized production of space in the world's 'Festival Cities', and re-examines the social role and cultural work of twenty-first-century theatre, performance, and multi-arts festivals. With chapters on festivals in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Arab world, the francophone world, Europe, North America, and Latin America it analyses festivals as sites of intercultural negotiation and exchange.

Book City of a Thousand Worlds

Download or read book City of a Thousand Worlds written by Owen Dudley Edwards and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harnessing Place Branding through Cultural Entrepreneurship

Download or read book Harnessing Place Branding through Cultural Entrepreneurship written by F. Go and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws together three overlapping relationships and knowledge domains. These are the cultural entrepreneurship/creative industries, the public and/or private philanthropic contributions that have funded artistic production and the preservation and presentation of place brands as a mechanism to revitalize local economies and communities.

Book Six  The Musical   Vocal Selections

Download or read book Six The Musical Vocal Selections written by and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Selections). Six has received rave reviews around the world for its modern take on the stories of the six wives of Henry VIII and it's finally opening on Broadway! From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an exuberant celebration of 21st century girl power! Songs include: All You Wanna Do * Don't Lose Ur Head * Ex-Wives * Get Down * Haus of Holbein * Heart of Stone * I Don't Need Your Love * No Way * Six.

Book Event Communication

Download or read book Event Communication written by Barbara Mazza and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses attention on communication studies as applied to Event Management, through the whole event mamangment process. It pays particular attention to the latest technological innovations with the event industry including virtual events and digital technologies.

Book Meet Me at Dawn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zinnie Harris
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2017-08-17
  • ISBN : 057134125X
  • Pages : 91 pages

Download or read book Meet Me at Dawn written by Zinnie Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two women wash up on a distant shore following a violent boating accident. Dazed by their experience, they look for a path home. But they discover that this unfamiliar land is not what it seems - and that, though they may be together, they have never been further apart.Unflinchingly honest and tenderly lyrical, Meet Me at Dawn is a modern fable exploring the triumph of everyday love, the mystery of grief, and the temptation to become lost in a fantasy future that will never be.Meet Me at Dawn by Zinnie Harris premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2017.

Book Festival Cities

    Book Details:
  • Author : John R. Gold
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-12-03
  • ISBN : 1000318907
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Festival Cities written by John R. Gold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed. With the rise of industrialization, they were largely considered peripheral to the course of urban affairs. Now they have become central to new ways of thinking about the challenges of economic and social change, as well as repositioning cities within competitive global networks. In this timely and thought-provoking book, John and Margaret Gold provide a reflective and evidence-based historical survey of the processes and actors involved, charting the ways that regular festivals have now become embedded in urban life and city planning. Beginning with David Garrick’s rain-drenched Shakespearean Jubilee and ending with Sydney’s flamboyant Mardi Gras celebrations, it encompasses the emergence and consolidation of city festivals. After a contextual historical survey that stretches from Antiquity to the late nineteenth century, there are detailed case studies of pioneering European arts festivals in their urban context: Venice’s Biennale, the Salzburg Festival, the Cannes Film Festival and Edinburgh’s International Festival. Ensuing chapters deal with the worldwide proliferation of arts festivals after 1950 and with the ever-increasing diversifycation of carnival celebrations, particularly through the actions of groups seeking to assert their identity. The conclusion draws together the book’s key themes and sketches the future prospects for festival cities. Lavishly illustrated, and copiously researched, this book is essential reading not just for urban geographers, social historians and planners, but also for anyone interested in contemporary festival and events tourism, urban events strategy, urban regeneration regeneration, or simply building a fuller understanding of the relationship between culture, planning and the city.

Book Ulster American

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Ireland
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2023-12-18
  • ISBN : 1350463744
  • Pages : 113 pages

Download or read book Ulster American written by David Ireland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you mind if I asked you a troubling question? An Oscar-winning American actor, an English director and a Northern Irish playwright are about to begin rehearsals for a new play - one that could transform each of their careers. But when it turns out that they're not on the same page, the night threatens to spiral out of control. Power dynamics, cultural identity and the perils of being a woman in the entertainment industry; nothing is off limits in this pitch-black comedy from the award-winning playwright David Ireland. This edition is published to coincide with the revival at Riverside Studios, London, in December 2023.

Book Scotland on Sunday Edinburgh Festival

Download or read book Scotland on Sunday Edinburgh Festival written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Event Portfolio Management

Download or read book Event Portfolio Management written by Vladimir Antchak and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to portfolio theory and methods for use in event management and event tourism. Divided into 2 parts of ‘Theory’ and ‘Practice’ it explains why it is important in event studies and management, and then shows how related methods can be used and adapted using real world international case studies.