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L'ecriture de Michele Fabien (1945-1999) s'enracine dans la dynamique intellectuelle et culturelle des annees 1960/70, tout en se plongeant dans les enjeux et questionnements de la belgitude et du Nouveau Theatre. Son itineraire passe de la recherche litteraire et de la dramaturgie a l'adaptation theatrale comme reecriture puis a l'ecriture personnelle, voire a la mise en scene, dans le cadre du role majeur qu'elle joue de plus en plus aux cotes de Marc Liebens dans l'histoire de l'Ensemble Thea...

Die Brecht-Forschung hat das Lehrstuck-Theater lange Zeit als blosse Ubergangsphase im Schaffen Brechts betrachtet. Erst die Forschungsergebnisse Reiner Steinwegs ermoglichten eine Neubewertung des Lehrstuck-Theaters. Diese Arbeit geht von der Eigenstandigkeit des Lehrstuck-Modells aus, betont jedoch dessen historisch-politische Entstehungsbedingungen. Eine Analyse von Theorie und Funktion der Lehrstucke zeigt den radikalen Bruch des Lehrstuck-Theaters mit Traditionen des burgerlichen Theaters....

This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb's ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy. The ten years following his great 1905 play on poverty Major Barbara present a puzzle to Shaw scholars, who have hitherto failed to appreciate both the centrality of the idea of equality in major plays like Getting Married, Misalliance, and...

For more than 100 years, Vancouver has been home to a vibrant and thriving Cantonese opera scene. As a performance art carried out by transient troupes, it is an ephemeral medium that rarely leaves a trace in the historic records. However, an extraordinary treasure trove of early 20th-century Cantonese opera costumes, props, and stage dressings made its way to the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, BC. In the first book-length study of this little known collection, April Liu retraces the ardu...

Investigates the explosive phenomenon of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) from a transatlantic perspective Offers the first comparative study of the history, performances and politics of the FTP in a book formContributes significantly to the study of Hallie Flanagan as the bridge between the FTP and the European avant-garde; it will also contribute to the study of Flanagan's own playsDraws and exposes further links between American modernism and its European counterparts (Meyerhold, Brecht, Eur...

One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski's acting company, Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training. This book, constructed from conversations between Molik and author Giuliano Campo, provides a fascinating insight into the methodology of this practitioner and teacher, and focuses on his `Body Alphabet' system for actors, allowing them to combine both voice and body in their preparatory process....

Historically and broadly defined as the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages encompass a millennium of cultural conflicts and developments. A large body of mystery, passion, miracle and morality plays cohabited with song, dance, farces and other public spectacles, frequently sharing ecclesiastical and secular inspiration. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural...

Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence, shaping his style of acting and the films he made, most famously Limelight, which tells the story of a failing variety performer and which evoked painful memories of his own past. Chaplin was horrified to...

Ein Terminus wie -Geschichtsdichtung- wirkt wie eine contradictio in se, weil er den traditionellen Streit zwischen Historiographie und Dichtung zu vereinen scheint, den die Apologeten beider Seiten immer wieder auf die Dichotomie Faktisches: Fiktion zu reduzieren versuchten. Bis in die Gegenwart lassen sich aber auch Uberlegungen zu einer moglichen wechselseitigen Uberlappung von Historiographie und Dichtung feststellen. Ausgewahlte Dramen Howard Brentons und Rolf Hochhuths illustrieren zeitge...

Reflechir sur les conventions theatrales dans l'oeuvre dramatique d'Arthur Schnitzler, c'est tenter de replacer l'auteur dans le contexte historique qui le vit naitre et dont l'a isole, pour une part, la recherche recente. Cet ouvrage, a la fois etude sur Schnitzler et contribution a l'histoire du theatre, compare les textes de l'auteur a toutes les pieces jouees avec succes dans les deux plus grands theatres de Vienne entre 1893 et 1911. Elles font partie de l'innombrable production de l'epoque...

This book examines how the totalitarian ideology of the Soviet period shaped the practices of Soviet theater for youth, as exemplified by the two oldest theaters for children and youth in Moscow: the Central Children's Theatre/RAMT and the Moscow Tiuz.

How men communicate with each other on stage when no women are present-and what it tells us about power and gender.

This fifth volume, Japanese Theater of the 1970s, treats six plays. Crime is the dominant subject. Three plays are about homicide, two are about other criminal offenses against public order and society, and one is about survival during times of war. While many of the human relations depicted in these works illustrate exploitation and brutalization, the touch of the playwrights is often surprisingly light and humorous. These dramas offer serious but enjoyable reading. Contents: The Amida Black...

Material pertaining to political influences on the American theatre remains largely unstudied and in need of systematic scholarly investigation. This bibliography assists and promotes research on how the theatre was used to teach, persuade, and proselytize for propagandistic and political ends. Its entries guide users to many rich but overlooked areas of investigation. It will interest serious scholars in the fields of theatre history, American literature, American studies, American history, and...