Instructions for the beginning actor on acting techniques, play production, costumes, makeup, and lighting.
Day looks at American actor/director Sam Wan amaker''s 25-year ambition to rebuild Shakespeare''s Globe The atre near to its original site by the Thames. This paperback edition has been launched to coincide with the official ope ning of the theatre. '
For more than 30 years, the Wing has produced the Working in the Theatre seminars, a series that features the greatest names in theatre. This is presented in book form, for the first time, compact, and at an affordable-paperback price. Spanning the range of these seminars, with a concentration on the most recent shows and current stars, the information, anecdotes, gossip (yes!), heartaches, and triumphs are all here. We learn: What a career in the theatre is really about, from inspiration to a T...
This is the first textbook of its kind to focus on the designer's art rather than on the technical aspects of stage design. Payne has emphasized conceptual prob lems and research, and has drawn exam ples from the writings of E. Gordon Craig, Sean Kenny, Bertolt Brecht, and John Hatch.
This title offers a practical guide to all aspects of this exciting and pivotal job in the theatre, from first receiving the script, through the rehearsal process and production period to putting the show away after the final performance. Topics include: the stage management team - roles and responsibilities; reading the play; working with the play, researching it and making a prompt copy; finding and borrowing props; making realistic stage food and drink; rehearsal process, including technical...
This title is a guide to using basic costume and modern clothes to recreate the styles of the past. Each chapter offers a brief insight into the political or social moves that influenced the design ideas of the particular century or era before going on to explore the ways in which the period can be represented in costume on the stage. Topics include the principles of making basic costume and adapting it for historical plays, suggestions for finding inspiration - exploring ideas and doing researc...
How do performers and artists use media technologies to create live events? How have developments in audio-visual technology changed the relationship between the spectator and the performer? How can performance respond to the technology-saturated consciousness of contemporary culture? What are the key concepts and terms needed to understand multimedia performance? Multimedia Performance provides a comprehensive overview of the development, theory and definitive characteristics of this rapidly...
Taking a process-oriented approach, this text introduces the steps involved in lighting design in the order they are encountered in practice. From sensitive and creative design choices, to intelligent ways to implement them, the book engages students with real-life examples from academic, not-for-profit, professional, and commercial productions. Because the focus is on the process of design, rather than its technology, the text will not become obsolete as technology changes.
We are so familiar with fight scenes on our screens that they are almost taken for granted, but how do they come about? This comprehensive book explains the artistic process of creating the fight scene from scripted page to finished performance.
Improvisation at the Speed of Life
by T.J. Jagodowski and David Pasquesi
"The Judson Dance Theatre "explores the work and legacy of one of the most influential of all dance companies, which first performed at the Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan in the early 1960s. There, a group of choreographers and dancers--including future well-known artists Twyla Tharp, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Morris, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainier, and others--created what came to be known as " postmodern dance." Taking their cues from the experiments of Merce Cunningham, they took...
Media Servers for Lighting Programmers is the reference guide for lighting programmers working with media servers – the show control devices that control and manipulate video, audio, lighting, and projection content that have exploded onto the scene, becoming the industry standard for live event productions, TV, and theatre performances. This book contains all the information you need to know to work effectively with these devices, beginning with coverage of the most common video equipment a lig...
Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre and Film, Second Edition is the one-stop shop for the knowledge and skills you need to create and style wigs. Covering the basics, from styling tools to creating beards, it ramps up to advanced techniques for making, measuring, coloring, and cutting wigs from any time period. Whether you’re a student or a professional, you‘ll find yourself prepared for a career as a skilled wig designer with tips on altering existing wigs, multiple approaches...
This diverse book brings together theoretical and practical viewpoints on objects in performance, how they can be part of theatre scenery, equal partners in performance, or autonomous things. Through close analysis of specific performances, Eleanor Margolies examines actor training, scenography, materials, construction techniques and object theatre. The text investigates a number of critical questions, including: what the difference is between a theatre prop and an everyday object; how audiences...
Offering Star Trek fans a pass onto the sound stages where the original series was filmed, this book provides a detailed look at the art of television's most enduring series. Up-close and exhaustive, Star Trek Sketchbook: The Original Series features drawings of the costumes, sets, props, and make-up designs that gave the show its distinctive visual appeal. Color photos & illustrations.
As beautiful as it is instructive, this award-winning book on all aspects of theatrical lighting design has become the standard resource in the field. Light Fantastic has received accolades from the theatre community, including the Golden Pen Award from the Institute for Theatre Technology and Outstanding Academic Title award from Choice magazine. Now in its third edition, Light Fantastic has been expanded to include breathtaking new photographs from author Max Keller's most recent productions....
This book is a practical guide to aid in the process of creating, developing and presenting successful Theatre/TV/Film design/technology portfolios in the fields of scenery, costumes, lighting and sound. The book will consist of four sections or chapters. The first section is dedicated to the realization of effective portfolio showcases and it will identify materials and techniques used to produce them. This chapter will also identify specific requirements by discipline including scenery, costum...
Erwin Piscators Theater gegen das Schweigen (Theatron)
by Klaus Wannemacher
Das politische Theater der zwanziger Jahre, als dessen zentraler Vertreter Erwin Piscator (1893-1966) gilt, wurde in den Inszenierungen der Berliner Piscatorbühnen zwischen 1927 und 1931 zum theatergeschichtlichen Ereignis. Nach Piscators Rückkehr aus der New Yorker Emigration in die Bundesrepublik im Jahr 1951 erscheint ein bruchloses Anknüpfen an seine spektakulären theatralen Verfahren der Weimarer Republik ausgeschlossen. Als Piscator in den sechziger Jahren die Intendanz der Freien Volksbüh...
The boat on which Edna Ferber based her famous novel brought excitement and entertainment to isolated small towns up and down the East Coast in early twentieth-century America. The builder of the boat, James E. Adams, was a farmer from Michigan who taught himself to be a circus aerialist, started and prospered with his own carnival company, and, when retirement proved boring, decided to build a showboat. The book traces the history of the James Adams from its inception until its demise twenty-se...