Theatre Complet (Bibliotheque Du Theatre Francais, #46)
by Thomas Corneille
Die komplexe Beziehung von Geschichte, Sexualitat und Tod in Heiner Mullers Werk wird besonders in den seit 1970 veroffentlichten Stucken offensichtlich. Dabei wird die Frage nach der Bedeutung und dem Stellenwert des Individuums wesentlich, im Gegensatz zu einer marxistischen Auffassung, in der das Subjekt der Korperlichkeit zum subjektiven Faktor reduziert wird. Das Prinzip der Korperlichkeit versus dem Prinzip der Idee entspricht in Mullers Theater der Kategorie des Weiblichen bzw. der Katego...
Neoliberalism, Theatre and Performance (4x45)
Neoliberalism, Theatre and Performance tackles one of the most slippery but significant topics in culture and politics. Neoliberalism is defined by the contributors as a political-economic system, and the ideas and assumptions (individualism, market forces and globalisation) that it promotes are consequently examined. Readers will gain an insight into how neoliberalism shapes contemporary theatre, dance and performance, and how festival programmers, directors and other artists have responded. J...
Cultural Convergence
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions in the comparative contexts of avant-garde theatre, Hollywood cinema, popular culture, and the development of Irish-language theatre, respectively. The overarching objective is to consider the output of the Gate in terms of cultural convergence - the dynamics of exchange, i...
Bertolt Brechts Faschismustheorie Und Ihre Theatralische Konkretisierung in Den -Rundkoepfen Und Spitzkoepfen- (Analysen Und Dokumente, #6)
by Alois Munch
Trotz vieler Veroffentlichungen zu Brecht gehort das Thema -Faschismustheorie- bei Brecht noch immer zu den Stiefkindern literaturwissenschaftlicher Interessen und dies, obwohl Brecht ohne Zweifel zu den Literaten zu zahlen ist, deren philosophisch-politische Reflexionen auf das Engste mit den kunstlerischen Produktionen verbunden sind. Der Autor rekonstruiert daher zunachst Brechts Faschismustheorie und seine strategische Position im Widerstand gegen den Faschismus anhand der theoretischen Schr...
The new musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim shuns the traditional story of love triumphant, probing instead the more disturbing issues of contemporary life. Confident that the musical is America's greatest original contribution to theatre, Joanne Gordon explicates the works of Sondheim to repudiate the common perception of the genre as mere escapist entertainment. Gordon notes that Sondheim tackles real themes, that he has no fear of introducing pain, trauma, and complex ideas onto the Broadwa...
A provocative, highly engaging essay on the art of pretending on the stage, on screen, and in daily life Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with inte
Blending a flair for textual nuance with theoretical engagement, Theaters of Desire not only contributes to our understanding of the most influential form of early Chinese song-drama in local and international cultural contexts, but adds a Chinese perspective to the scholarship on print culture, authorship, and the regulatory discourses of desire. The book argues that, particularly between 1550 and 1680, Chinese elite editors rewrote and printed early plays and songs, so-called Yuan-dynasty zaju...
Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala (Toronto Italian Studies)
by Natalie Crohn Schmitt
The most important theatrical movement in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, the commedia dell'arte has inspired playwrights, artists, and musicians including Moliere, Dario Fo, Picasso, and Stravinsky. Because of its stock characters, improvised dialogue, and extravagant theatricalism, the commedia dell'arte is often assumed to be a superficial comic style. With Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala, Natalie Crohn Schmitt demolishes that assumption. By reconstructi...
Sharon Pollock (Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, #10)
As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the past fifty years. Pollock is nationally and internationally respected for her work and support of the theatre community. She has also played a major role in informing Canadians about the "dark side" o...
'The Edinburgh Festival' - and the Fringe that it inspired - has been the hub for numerous 'culture wars' since its inception in 1947. This book is the first major study of the origins and development of this leading annual arts extravaganza, examining a moving stage of debate on such issues as the place of culture in society, the practice and significance of the arts, censorship, the role of organised religion, and the meanings of morality. From the beginning, the Edinburgh International Festiv...
Der Hofmeister von J. M. R. Lenz (Studies in European Thought, #3)
by Angela L. Hansen
Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt das Erstlingsdrama Der Hofmeister oder Vorteile der Privaterziehung von Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, das 1774 mit Hilfe des jungen Goethe veroeffentlicht wurde. Sie verbindet eine eingehende Textanalyse mit einer historischen Betrachtung und will zeigen, dass es Lenz um Saekularisierung, Emanzipation und Glueck geht, dass der junge Autor sich jedoch auf die Schultern seiner Zeitgenossen und Vorgaenger stellt, um die Probleme seiner Zeit auf neue, eigenwillige Wei...
The Audience Review, Vol. 2, No. 1
by Magdalena Ball, Ernest Dempsey, and M Stefan Strozier
Kudiyattam Theatre and the Actor's Consciousness (Consciousness, Literature and the Arts)
Today at Least You're You and That's Enough
by Write Run and Evan James Robert Hansen
From Goodreads: When the novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis was first published in 1955, it became an instant hit and national bestseller. More than forty years later, it was brought back in print in a trade paperback edition and has, again, proven to be a commercial success. ABC is currently planning to air a two-hour special Auntie Mame movie starring Cher, and "Mame" is headed back to Broadway for the 2004 season. Now, industry insider Richard Tyler Jordan--who works as a senior publicist f...
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
by Xiaomei Chen
The first of its kind in English, this anthology translates twenty-two popular Chinese plays published between 1919 and 2000, accompanied by a critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama. Primarily comprising works from the People's Republic of China, though including representative plays from Hong Kong and Taiwan, this collection not only showcases the revolutionary rethinking of Chinese theater and performance that began...