Download or read book Reflections Upon Theatrical Expression in Tragedy written by Roger Pickering and published by . This book was released on 1755 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muse of Fire written by Terrence McNally and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally’s works are characterized by such diversity that critics have sometimes had difficulty identifying the pattern in his carpet. To redress this problem, in Muse of Fire, Raymond-Jean Frontain has collected McNally’s most illuminating meditations on the need of the playwright to first change hearts in order to change minds and thereby foster a more compassionate community. When read together, these various meditations demonstrate the profound ways in which McNally himself functioned as a member of the theater community—as a strikingly original dramatic voice, as a generous collaborator, and even as the author of eloquent memorials. These pieces were originally written to be delivered on both highly formal occasions (academic commencement exercises, award ceremonies, memorial services) and as off-the-cuff comments at highly informal gatherings, like a playwriting workshop at the New School. They reveal a man who saw theater not as the vehicle for abstract ideas or the platform for political statements, but as the exercise of our shared humanity. “Theatre is collaborative, but life is collaborative,” McNally says. “Art is important to remind us that we’re not alone, and this is a wonderful world and we can make it more wonderful by fully embracing each other. [. . .] I don’t know why it’s so hard to remind ourselves sometimes, but thank God we’ve had great artists who don’t let us forget. And thank the audiences who support them because I think that those artists’ true mission has been to bring the barriers down, break them down; not build walls, but tear them down.”
Download or read book Conducting a Life written by Maria M. Delgado and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1999 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of reminiscences, homages, tributes, and work journals tracing the life and work of master playwright-director-teacher Maria Irene Fornes presented in a hypertext fashion. Represented are performers, designers, and producers who have collaborated directly with Fornes on her productions over the years, playwrights who have studied with Fornes and describe writing exercies and master classes, as well as critics and scholars who provide contextual narratives about Fornes impact and influence on generations of American and world theatre. The volume concludes with a interview recently conducted with Fornes herself where she touches on not only the different aspects of her theatrical life but its movement and change over the last forty years.
Download or read book The Dramatic Imagination written by Robert Edmond Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-08 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dramatic Imagination is one of the few enduring works written about set design. Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of theater - that has continued to inspire theater students. The volume includes "A New Kind of Drama," "To a Young Stage Designer" and six other of Jones's "reflections."
Download or read book The Dramatic Imagination written by Robert Edmond Jones and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Reflections on the Theatre written by Jean-Louis Barrault and published by London : Rockliff. This book was released on 1951 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Reflections on Poetry Painting and Music written by abbé Dubos (Jean-Baptiste) and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winter Passages written by Robert Brustein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter Passages is Robert Brustein's nineteenth book of criticism. It includes his considerations of culture and politics over the past four years of American life, demonstrating how the imperfections of the government and economy have plunged the country into an artistic winter in which there is a troubling lack of support for, and understanding of, America's arts and artists. In a section on "Cultural Passages," Brustein includes chapters on compromised theatre institutions, auteur productions, the American musical, generational idiosyncrasies, and China's growing theatre culture, which contrasts with American culture. The second section, "Dramatic Passages," addresses twenty-seven great playwrights from Aeschylus to August Wilson and demonstrates how they have influenced our sense of history and human character. In "Laudatory Passages," Brustein discusses great American artists, living and dead, who continue to influence our sense of self as a nation and as individuals. Brustein concludes that we will be judged, like all cultures, by the quality of our arts and artists, and by our willingness to allow their insights to influence our behavior.
Download or read book Some Reflections on the Management of a Theatre written by REFLECTIONS. and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theatrical Reflections written by Bert Cardullo and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatrical Reflections consists of essays on such plays as Hamlet, Leonce and Lena, Curse of the Starving Class, The Birthday Party, The Knight of Olmedo, and Androcles and the Lion in addition to reviews of productions of The Servant of Two Masters, Yerma, The Threepenny Opera, Caligula, and Wings, among other works. The author's focus in his essays is on dramatic analysis that ultimately can be of benefit to directors, designers, and even actors - that is, with analysis of character, action, language, and setting that can be translated into viable concepts for theatrical production. In the case of reviews, of course, he is concerned with evaluating the actual concepts behind various theatrical productions. Most of the plays considered here are regularly produced, and it is the goal of this book to make some contribution to their future staging.
Download or read book Critical Reflections on Poetry Painting and Music written by abbé Dubos (Jean-Baptiste) and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History written by David Wiles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
Download or read book The Play within the Play written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting – from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy – but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized specialists in their respective fields, draw on recent debates in such areas as postcolonial studies, game and systems theories, media and performance studies, to analyze the specific qualities and characteristics of the play within the play: as ultimate affirmation of the ‘self’ (the ‘Hamlet paradigm’), as a self-reflective agency of meta-theatrical discourse, and as a vehicle of intermedial and intercultural transformation. The challenging study, with its underlying premise of play as a key feature of cultural anthropology and human creativity, breaks new ground by placing the play within the play at the centre of a number of intersecting scholarly discourses on areas of topical concern to scholars in the humanities.
Download or read book Reflections on Female and Trans Masculinities and Other Queer Crossings written by Nina Kane and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays emerged out of the Agender conference, and various queer cultural activities associated with the PoMoGaze project (Leeds Art Gallery, 2013–2015). PoMoGaze was a term created to promote queer co-curatorial projects held at the gallery as part of Community Engagement activities, and references ‘PoMo’ as a shortening of ‘Postmodern’ combined with ‘Gaze’ as a play on words linking the act of looking with LGBT*IQ activities. The book presents many voices exploring themes of female and trans* masculinities, gender equality, and the lives, work and activism of LGBT*IQ artists and thinkers. It includes discussion of arts-making, cultural materials, diverse identities, contemporary queer politics, and social histories, and travels across time telling gender-crossing stories of creative resistance. Readers with an interest in the performing and visual arts, literature, philosophy, and queer and gendered cultural readings with an intersectional emphasis, will be stimulated by this eclectic and thought-provoking collection.
Download or read book Reflections Upon Theatrical Expression in With a Proper Introduction and Appendix Classic Reprint written by Roger Pickering and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reflections Upon Theatrical Expression in With a Proper Introduction, and Appendix It would, I confefs, be going too far, were it faid, that a virtuous character can not be tolerably reprefented by an Actor of no Virtue But, if, as, I fuppofe, every one allows, the Delicacy of Theatrical Ex preflion can never be expected from an Ac tor that does not feel his Part, it may not be unreafonable to imagine, that a Man of Education and Morals bids fairer for Theatrical Excellence, than one, defective in bot/9 or eitber of thefe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Playing in a House of Mirrors written by Elinor Vettraino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of reflection through a dramaturgical lens as practitioners in a wide range of disciplines hold up the mirror to their own practice using theatre and theatricality as a way of unpacking their individual and collective practice. Editors and authors consider the use of drama as the vehicle through which learning takes place for the leader, facilitator or manager of an experience rather than the use of drama and theatre as a tool for learning subject content. Reflective practice is an often cited term in the professional thesaurus of educators, social work practitioners and health care workers. It is perhaps less commonly thought of as the purview of leaders of industry, marketing managers and scientists. We define reflective practice in this context as the development of capacities to reflect on actions, behaviours and attitudes that impact on your own practice, or on the way others engage in their practice, so as to be part of a process of continuous learning. It is therefore crucial for any professional to understand how and why we behave and interact with others the way we do.
Download or read book Grotesques and Other Reflections on Art and the Theatre written by Mary Cass Canfield and published by Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1927 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
