Shakespeare and Feminist Performance: Ideology on Stage
by Sarah Werner
Published to coincide with the centenary of the founding of the Actors' Equity Association in 1913, Weavers of Dreams, Unite! explores the history of actors' unionism in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the onset of the Great Depression. Drawing upon hitherto untapped archival resources in New York and Los Angeles, Sean P. Holmes documents how American stage actors used trade unionism to construct for themselves an occupational identity that foregrounded both their artistry...
The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science by analyzing how eighteenth-century science was "staged" in a double sense. On the one hand, this study analyzes science in performance: the way that science and scientists were made a public spectacle in comedies, farces, and pantomimes for purposes that could range from...
Hopes for Great Happenings: Alternatives in Education and Theatre: Alternatives in Education and Theatre
by Albert Hunt
Nestled in the heart of Snowdonia, the small town of Milky Peaks is nominated for ‘Britain’s Best Town’. However, the award brings with it a dark, insidious right-wing agenda, threatening the heart and soul of the town. _x000D_ Can the community club together to save the identity of their beloved Milky Peaks?
In a fractured and divided city, two men, 'A' and 'B', meet to recreate the killings of a famous gay serial killer, for their own pleasure...and the right price. "Everything else is tumbling down Falling apart But not you and me You and me are going to hold tight You and me are just right" Sex/Crime is a darkly comic queer thriller: an exciting, challenging play that explores sex, violence, language, fear and queerness.
Drama Education with Digital Technology explores the rapidly evolving intersections between drama, digital gaming, technology and teaching. It documents the praxis (practice and research) that move beyond anecdotal discussion of approaches and design. The contributors explore the realities of teaching an ancient aesthetic form in classrooms full of technologically able students. It also examines cases from classroom practice to present teaching, with approaches and understandings that are based...
Du Theatre Au Recit de Soi Dans Le Roman-Memoires Du Xviiie Siecle (Faux Titre, #409)
by Charlene Deharbe
Genre litteraire emblematique du XVIIIe siecle, le roman-memoires s'approprie le langage du theatre au profit d'une fiction de l'interiorite. Ce livre montre comment son ecriture s'elabore a partir d'emprunts et de procedes caracteristiques de la scene, temoignant du role que joue la reference theatrale dans l'invention du recit de soi. A literary genre emblematic of the eighteenth century, fictional memoir appropriates the language of the theatre for the benefit of a novel of interiority. This...
Introduction Aux Lecons Sur l'Oedipe-Roi de Sophocle (Encre Marine)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Musical Theatre
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