Download or read book Playing Offstage written by Sidney Homan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen scholars who work on campus or in the theater address this issue of what it means to play offstage. With their individual definition of what “offstage” could mean, the results were, predictably, varied. They employed a variety of critical approaches to the question of what happens when the play moves into the audience or beyond the physical playhouse itself? What are the social, cultural, and political ramifications? Questions of “how” and “why” actors play offstage admit the larger “role” their production has for the world outside the theater, and hence this collection’s sub-title: “The Theater As a Presence or Factor in the Real World.” Among the various topics, the essays include: breaking the “fourth wall” and thereby making the audience part of the performance; the theater of political protest (one contributor staged Waiting for Godot in Zuccotti Park as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests); “landscape” or “town” theater using citizens as actors or trekking theater where the production moves among various locations in the community; the way principles of the theater can inform corporate management; the genre of semi-scripted comedy and quasi-impromptu spectacle (such as reality TV or flash mobs); digitalized performances of Shakespeare; the role of Greek Theater in the midst of the country’s current economic and political crisis; how the area outside the theater became part of the performance inside Shakespeare’s Globe; Timothy Leary’s Psychedelic Celebrations designed to reproduce the offstage experience of LSD; WilliamVollmann’s use of Noh theater to fashion a personal model and process of life-transformation; liminal theater which erases the line between onstage and off. The collection thus complements through actual performance criticism those studies that see the theater as a commentary on issues—social, political, economic; and it reverses the Editor’s own earlier collection TheAudience As Player, which examined interactive theater where the spectator comes onstage.
Download or read book Onstage and Offstage Worlds in Shakespeare s Plays written by Anthony Brennan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989, this book focuses on the handling of the relationship between the onstage world and the offstage world, between the world that Shakespeare shows us and the one he tells us about. It is developed in two parts. Initially examined is the way reports are used in Shakespeare to relate the offstage and onstage worlds, building from simple examples within individual scenes in various plays to related sequences of reports which can be evaluated as part of broader strategies effecting the structure of a whole play. In the second part the author examines the ways in which several, or all, of these strategies work in individual plays, and what combined effect the prominent employment of them has in shaping the effect of the plays. In all cases the author is concerned to indicate why Shakespeare chose to handle matters as he does rather than in other ways available in the sources or in the speculative alternative methods which can be imaginatively constructed.
Download or read book Onstage Offstage written by Michael Bublé and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, Grammy Award-winning singer Michael BublÉ shares his life story with this intimate memoir complete with hundreds of beautiful four-color photos. Michael BublÉ has achieved enormous popularity with his Sinatra-style vocals. His live shows fill the world’s biggest stadiums to capacity, and his tour receipts alone earned him fourth place in theNew York Timeslist of highest earning artists. He has sold more than 25 million copies of his albums worldwide and won countless awards—including three Grammy Awards. BublÉ is offering his fans an intimate behind-the-scenes look at his world in this stunning full-color memoir and photo book. He granted photographer Dean Freeman exclusive access to his private and public life while on tour promoting his most recent album, and the result is nearly 200 beautiful photos that showcase the singing sensation both on and off stage. This lush gift book is a must-have keepsake for every true fan.
Download or read book Playing God written by Henry Bial and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at how the Bible has inspired Broadway plays and musicals, from Ben-Hur to Jesus Christ Superstar
Download or read book Fundamentals of Play Directing written by Alexander Dean and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work has influenced generations of stage directors and is considered the most influential treatment of the art of directing. Both theoretical and practical, Fundamentals of Play Directing offers content and information on the major technical and visual issues of stage directing that beginning directors will find invaluable. Following introductory chapters, readers are introduced to the basicsplay analysis, basic technique for the actor, and the directors media. These chapters form an essential preparation for an in-depth examination of the five fundamentals of play directing that make up the core of the text: composition, picturization, movement, rhythm, and pantomimic dramatization.
Download or read book The Tragedy of Abraham Lincoln Other Plays written by M. Stefan Strozier and published by World Audience Inc. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwright M. Stefan Strozier produced his plays, found in this collection, on the boards in New York with his theater company, La Muse Venale Acting Troupe. Some of his plays were produced in repertoire over many years. This book also includes an in-depth essay covering all aspects of theater. The essay is drawn from the author's experiences producing his plays, and the plays and musicals of other playwrights, in New York. A World Audience Publishers book. For more info: www.worldaudience.org, www.mstefanstrozier.com.
Download or read book Snowball and Other Plays written by Paul Sedgwick and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Playwright Space and Place in Early Modern Performance written by Tim Fitzpatrick and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings affected the construction of the fictional worlds of early modern plays. The study argues that playwrights were writing with foresight, inscribing the constraints and resources of the stages into their texts. It goes further, to posit that Shakespeare and his playwright-contemporaries adhered to a set of generic conventions, rather than specific local company practices, about how space and place were to be related in performance: the playwrights constituted thus an overarching virtual 'company' producing playtexts that shared features across the acting companies and playhouses. By clarifying a sixteenth- to seventeenth-century conception of theatrical place, Tim Fitzpatrick adds a new layer of meaning to our understanding of the plays. His approach adds a new dimension to these particular documents which - though many of them are considered of great literary worth - were not originally generated for any other reason than to be performed within a specific performance context. The fact that the playwrights were aware of the features of this performance tradition makes their texts a potential mine of performance information, and casts light back on the texts themselves: if some of their meanings are 'spatial', these will have been missed by purely literary tools of analysis.
Download or read book Mirror of Most Value A Ms Marvel Play Marvel Spotlight written by Masi Asare and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kamala attempts to boost Ms. Marvel’s fledgling super hero profile by writing her own fan fiction. But when building a fandom becomes an obsession, Kamala’s schoolwork and relationships begin to suffer. To become the Jersey City hero of her dreams, Kamala must learn to accept herself just as she is – imperfections and all.
Download or read book Plays for Our American Holidays written by Robert Haven Schauffler and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Child s Book of Plays written by Elise Williamson Phifer and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Play written by Gary Izzo and published by Heinemann Drama. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Play fills the "how-to" void with a warm, insightful, and often amusing collection of examples, anecdotes, and annotated exercises designed to cover all aspects of interactive theatre, from concept through design and production.
Download or read book Twelve One act Plays written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution of Domestic Themes in a Popular Style in the Plays of Alan Ayckbourn written by Tim Slover and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Playing written by Paul Kuritz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sherwood Or Robin Hood and the Three Kings a Play in Five Acts written by Alfred Noyes and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
