Grotowski's Poland presents the first ever comprehensive record of the influential director’s relationship with the Polish United Party of Workers (PZPR). Author Seth Baumrin examines Grotowski’s own political activities and explores their connection to his aesthetic and methodological practices. The book is based on over 70 interviews with figures that worked with or knew Grotowski well, including actors, critics and theatre administrators, but also regional ministers, political informers and...
There are four reasons for producing this modern edition of Barrie's earliest plays - 'Bandelero the Bandit', Bohemia and 'Caught Napping'. The first is canonical. Neither of the first two has ever been published while only two copies of 'Caught Napping' can be traced and these date from the year of its composition in 1883. The second is biographical. After being heralded as a genius in his own day simplistic Freudian links between Barrie and his most famous creation, Peter Pan threatened to...
Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare, #2)
This book reviews the "playing" of Shakespeare in which there is a re-staging and a re-writing -- through adaptation, appropriation, or acculturation -- of the Western Shakespeare into the gestural, symbolic, stylized, or ritualized worlds of Asian theatre languages. It examines this interface in aesthetic, theatrical, cultural and political terms, looking at key issues in intercultural performance, how it re-configures the text, genre and gender and how it can intervene in the shaping of ethnic...
Einschnitte, Wunden und ausgerissene Koerperglieder, hinkende, stolpernde und sturzende Koerper - motorische Devianzen, physische Defekte und Deformationen haben im Werk des Dramatikers, Lyrikers, Essayisten und Regisseurs Heiner Muller einen zentralen Stellenwert. Verwundete, geschundene und zerstuckelte Koerper, denen die Wund- und Narbenschrift historischer Konflikte auf die unerloeste Haut geschrieben ist, betreten mit all ihren Deformationen, Auswuchsen und Schmerzen das Licht der Szene: Mu...
The Beginner’s Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions, providing an invaluable step-by-step guide. Beginning with a brief history of opera and detailing its difference from musical theatre, this book covers stage management best practices through prep, rehearsals, tech, performance, and wrap up. From the moment a manager accepts a contract, right through to archiving paperwork, this essential toolkit co...
de l'Improvisation Au Rite: l'Epopee de Notre Temps (Studien Und Dokumente Zur Geschichte der Romanischen Literat, #47)
by Anne Neuschafer
Le Theatre du Soleil, cree en 1964 sur l'initiative d'Ariane Mnouchkine, connut une premiere consecration internationale avec ses deux creations collectives sur la Revolution, 1789 et 1793. En 1999, apres des detours, la Compagnie revient a la creation collective avec Et soudain, des nuits d'eveil. Si Jacques Copeau avait poursuivi l'idee d'une Comedie de notre temps, Mnouchkine, a partir de la rencontre avec Helene Cixous, s'emancipa progressivement du modele de la comedie improvisee et se tour...
How to Produce a Play Without a Producer (Career Development)
by Mark Hillenbrand
Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project
by Una Chaudhuri and Shonni Enelow
Theatre is a uniquely powerful site for the kind of thinking called for by the crises of climate change. The growing scientific and public consensus about the many looming crises following from climate change is matched by an increasing interest, on the part of artists and scholars, to identify creative strategies and practices capable of mounting adequate and appropriate responses to those crises. Encompassing academic research, theatre work-shopping, playwriting, dramaturgy, and theoretical wr...
" Anna Held (1870?-1918), a petite woman with an hourglass figure, was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater during La Belle Époque, she epitomized everything that was glamorous, sophisticated, and suggestive about turn-of-the-century Broadway. Overcoming an impoverished life as an orphan to become a music-hall star in Paris, Held rocketed to fame in America. From 1896 to 1910, she starred in hit after h...
Packed with insights from a lifetime of directing theatre, Words into Action is a fascinating read and a vital masterclass for actors and directors. Renowned theatre director William Gaskill was one of the founders of the Royal Court, whose ethos, as Christopher Hampton says in his Foreword, 'this book goes a long way towards defining'. Gaskill's acclaimed work as a director always began with the words of the playwright, and here, starting with a chapter on 'Trusting the Writer', he takes the...
'I wish I'd had this book when I was starting out as a young director... I cannot recommend it highly enough' Marianne Elliott, from her Foreword This dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book in the bestselling Drama Games series offers dozens of ideas and exercises to energise and inspire a bold, creative rehearsal process for any play, of any period or genre. Aimed at directors of all levels, it covers every aspect of rehearsal, including: Warm-up exercises to prepare the body, voice...
Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance (Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies)
by Virginie Magnat
As the first examination of women's foremost contributions to Jerzy Grotowski's cross-cultural investigation of performance, this book complements and broadens existing literature by offering a more diverse and inclusive re-assessment of Grotowski's legacy, thereby probing its significance for contemporary performance practice and research. Although the particularly strenuous physical training emblematic of Grotowski's approach is not gender specific, it has historically been associated with a m...
Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging: Michael Chekhov Reimagined offers a new set of exercises for coaching actors when working on productions that are non-traditionally staged in arenas, thrusts, or alleys. All of the exercises are adapted from Michael Chekhov's acting technique, but are reimagined in new and creative ways that offer innovative twists for the practitioner familiar with Chekhov, and easy accessibility for the practitioner new to Chekhov. Exploring the methodology through...
From the bestselling Drama Games series, this dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book offers dozens of games to serve as a rich source of ideas and inspiration for all actors – and those teaching or directing them. This must-have companion is divided into three sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the actor’s process: Self provides methods to deepen relaxation, sharpen focus, boost energy, expand imagination and enable a company of actors to work collaborativelyCharacter su...
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. '