Download or read book Experimental Irish Theatre written by I. Walsh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines experimental Irish theatre that ran counter to the naturalistic 'peasant' drama synonymous with Irish playwriting. Focusing on four marginalised playwrights after Yeats, it charts a tradition linking the experimentation of the early Irish theatre movement with the innovation of contemporary Irish and international drama.
Download or read book Experimental Theatre written by James Roose-Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `It is a pleasure to read. Well-written, free of cant, impressively wide-ranging. The book is really an introduction to the avant-garde.' - John Lahr
Download or read book Theatre Experiment written by Michael Benedikt and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theatre Experiment written by Michael Benedikt and published by Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday. This book was released on 1967 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is an anthology of plays by American playwrights who have approached the writing of drama with fresh and imaginative points of view, using the full range of theatrical resources instead of merely imitating reality"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Experimental Theatre written by James Roose-Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `It is a pleasure to read. Well-written, free of cant, impressively wide-ranging. The book is really an introduction to the avant-garde.' - John Lahr
Download or read book Rehearsing Revolutions written by Mary McAvoy and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2019 George Freedley Memorial Award Finalist, 2020 Between the world wars, several labor colleges sprouted up across the U.S. These schools, funded by unions, sought to provide members with adult education while also indoctrinating them into the cause. As Mary McAvoy reveals, a big part of that learning experience centered on the schools’ drama programs. For the first time, Rehearsing Revolutions shows how these left-leaning drama programs prepared American workers for the “on-the-ground” activism emerging across the country. In fact, McAvoy argues, these amateur stages served as training grounds for radical social activism in early twentieth-century America. Using a wealth of previously unpublished material such as director’s reports, course materials, playscripts, and reviews, McAvoy traces the programs’ evolution from experimental teaching tool to radically politicized training that inspired overt—even militant—labor activism by the late 1930s. All the while, she keeps an eye on larger trends in public life, connecting interwar labor drama to post-war arts-based activism in response to McCarthyism, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights movement. Ultimately, McAvoy asks: What did labor drama do for the workers’ colleges and why did they pursue it? She finds her answer through several different case studies in places like the Portland Labor College and the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee.
Download or read book Experimental Theatre written by Judy E. Yordon and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theatre and War written by Nandita Dinesh and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nandita Dinesh places Kipling’s "six honest serving-men" (who, what, when, where, why, how) in productive conversation with her own experiences in conflict zones across the world to offer a theoretical and practical reflection on making theatre in times of war. This timely and important book weaves together Dinesh’s personal narrative with the public story of modern conflict, illustrating as it does, the importance of theatre as a force for ethical deliberation and social justice. In it Dinesh asks how theatre might intervene in times and places of conflict and how we might reflect on such interventions. In pursuit of answers, Theatre and War adopts the methods of auto-ethnography, positioning the theatrical practitioner at the heart of conflict zones in northern Uganda, Guatemala, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Rwanda, Kenya, Nagaland, and Kashmir. No longer a detached observer, the researcher and practitioner has to be able to meld theory with practice; to speak to ‘doing’, without undervaluing the importance of ‘thinking about doing’. Each chapter approaches the need for a synthesis of theory and practice by way of a term of inquiry―Why, Where, Who, What, When―and each is equipped with a set of unflinchingly honest field notes that are designed to reveal some of the ‘hows’ from the author’s own repertoire: questions and issues that were encountered during her own theatrical undertakings, along with first hand reflection on the complexities, potential, and challenges that attended her global work in community theatre. Within these notes are strategies that give the reader a practical insight into how the discussion might find its footing on the ground of war. The range and scope of this book make it required reading for those interested in theatre―practitioners, researchers, and students alike—as well as those seeking to understand the applications of the arts for ethics, politics, and education.
Download or read book The Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memos from a Theatre Lab written by Nandita Dinesh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does Immersive Theatre ‘do’? By contrasting two specific performances on the same theme – one an ‘immersive’ experience and the other a more conventional theatrical production – Nandita Dinesh explores the ways in which theatrical form impacts upon actors and audiences. An in-depth case study of her work Pinjare (Cages) sets out the ‘hows’ and ‘whys’ of her specific aesthetic framework. Memos from a Theatre Lab places Dinesh’s practical work within the context of existing analyses of Immersive Theatre, using this investigation to generate an underpinning theory of how Immersive Theatre works for its participants.
Download or read book Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment written by Anton Nijholt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 09). The papers focus on topics such as emergent games, exertion interfaces and embodied interaction. Further topics are affective user interfaces, story telling, sensors, tele-presence in entertainment, animation, edutainment, and interactive art.
Download or read book Drama and Theatre in Education written by John Somers and published by Captus Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theatre in the United States Volume 1 1750 1915 Theatre in the Colonies and the United States written by Barry Witham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the growth and development of theatre in the United States. Documents and commentary are arranged into chapters on business practice, acting, theatre buildings, drama, design, and audience behavior.
Download or read book British Television Drama written by Lez Cooke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely-respected history of British television drama is an indispensable guide to the significant developments in the area; from its beginnings on the BBC in the 1930s and 40s to its position in the twenty-first century, as television enters a multichannel digital era. Embracing the complete spectrum of television drama, Lez Cooke places programmes in their social, political and industrial contexts, and surveys the key dramas, writers, producers and directors. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes new images and case studies, new material on British television drama before 1936, an expanded bibliography and a substantial new chapter that explores the renaissance in the quality, variety and social ambition of television drama in Britain since 2002. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the rich history of British television and modern drama.
Download or read book Comintern Aesthetics written by Amelia Glaser and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1919 to instigate a world revolution, the Comintern sought to advance not only the proletarian struggle but also a wide variety of radical causes, including fighting against imperialism and racism in settings as varied as Ireland, India, the United States, and China. Notoriously, and from the organization’s outset, these causes grew ever more subservient to Soviet state interest and Stalinist centralization. Comintern Aesthetics shows how the cultural and political networks emerging from the Comintern have persisted, even after the Comintern’s demise in 1943. Tracing these networks through a multiplicity of artistic forms geared towards advancing a common, liberated humanity, this volume captures both the failure and the enduring allure of a Soviet-centred world revolution. The sixteen chapters in this edited volume examine cultural and revolutionary circuits that once connected Moscow to China, Southeast Asia, India, the Near East, Eastern Europe, Germany, Spain, and the Americas. The Soviet Union of the interwar years provided a template for the convergence of party politics and cultural history, but the volume traces how this template was adapted and reworked around the world. By emphasizing the shared Soviet routes of these far-flung circuits, Comintern Aesthetics recaptures a long-lost moment in which cultures could not only transform perception but also highlight alternatives to capitalism – namely, an anti-colonial world imaginary foregrounding race, class, and gender equality.
Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Download or read book The Federal Theatre Project in the American South written by Cecelia Moore and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Theatre Project in the American South introduces the people and projects that shaped the regional identity of the Federal Theatre Project. When college theatre director Hallie Flanagan became head of this New Deal era jobs program in 1935, she envisioned a national theatre comprised of a network of theatres across the country. A regional approach was more than organizational; it was a conceptual model for a national art. Flanagan was part of the little theatre movement that had already developed a new American drama drawn from the distinctive heritage of each region and which they believed would, collectively, illustrate a national identity. The Federal Theatre plan relied on a successful regional model – the folk drama program at the University of North Carolina, led by Frederick Koch and Paul Green. Through a unique partnership of public university, private philanthropy and community participation, Koch had developed a successful playwriting program and extension service that built community theatres throughout the state. North Carolina, along with the rest of the Southern region, seemed an unpromising place for government theatre. Racial segregation and conservative politics limited the Federal Theatre’s ability to experiment with new ideas in the region. Yet in North Carolina, the Project thrived. Amateur drama units became vibrant community theatres where whites and African Americans worked together. Project personnel launched The Lost Colony, one of the first so-called outdoor historical dramas that would become its own movement. The Federal Theatre sent unemployed dramatists, including future novelist Betty Smith, to the university to work with Koch and Green. They joined other playwrights, including African American writer Zora Neale Hurston, who came to North Carolina because of their own interest in folk drama. Their experience, told in this book, is a backdrop for each successive generation’s debates over government, cultural expression, art and identity in the American nation.
