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  1. Freaks of history
    two performance texts
    Author: MacDonald, James
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Intellect, Bristol ; Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

    Wellclose Square -- Unsex me here. Disability studies have long been the domain of medical and pedagogical academics. However, in recent years, the subject has outgrown its clinical origins. In Freaks of History, James MacDonald presents two dramatic... more

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    Wellclose Square -- Unsex me here. Disability studies have long been the domain of medical and pedagogical academics. However, in recent years, the subject has outgrown its clinical origins. In Freaks of History, James MacDonald presents two dramatic explorations of disability within the wider themes of sexuality, gender, foreignness, and the Other. Originally directed by Martin Harvey and performed by undergraduate students at the University of Exeter, Wellclose Square and Unsex Me Here analyze cultural marginalization against the backdrop of infamous historical events

     
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    Contributor: MacDonald, James; MacDonald, James
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781783207367; 1783207361; 9781783207350; 1783207353; 9781783207374; 178320737X
    Subjects: Theatre studies; FICTION / General
    Other subjects: MacDonald, James (1949-): Wellclose Square; MacDonald, James (1949-): Unsex me here
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (153 pages), illustrations
  2. Chapter 19 Daring to transform : cultures of knowledge and their performances
    Author: Holkenbrink, Jörg; Seitz, Anna
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    "The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, and collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in... more

     

    "The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, and collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field.

    Firstly, the collection offers new insights on the fundamental question of how thinking happens: where, when, how and by whom philosophy is performed. Secondly, it provides a plurality of new accounts of performance and performativity – as the production of ideas, bodies and knowledges in the arts and beyond. Comprising texts written by international artists, philosophers and scholars from multiple disciplines, the essays engage with questions of how performance thinks and how thought is performed in a wide range of philosophies and performances, from the ancient to the contemporary. Concepts and practices from diverse geographical regions and cultural traditions are analysed to draw conclusions about how performance operates across art, philosophy and everyday life.

    The collection both contributes to and critiques the philosophy of music, dance, theatre and performance, exploring the idea of a philosophy from the arts. It is crucial reading material for those interested in the hierarchy of the relationship between philosophy and the arts, advancing debates on philosophical method, and the relation between Performance and Philosophy more broadly."

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Parent title: The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy
    Subjects: Theatre studies; Philosophy; History of Western philosophy
    Other subjects: Anna Seitz; Jörg Holkenbrink; dramaturgy; performance; performance studies; actors; audience; theory; practice; stage; atmosphere; academia in performance
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (10 p.)
  3. The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy
    Contributor: Cull Ó Maoilearca, Laura (Publisher); Lagaay, Alice (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    "The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, and collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in... more

     

    "The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, and collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field.

    Firstly, the collection offers new insights on the fundamental question of how thinking happens: where, when, how and by whom philosophy is performed. Secondly, it provides a plurality of new accounts of performance and performativity – as the production of ideas, bodies and knowledges in the arts and beyond. Comprising texts written by international artists, philosophers and scholars from multiple disciplines, the essays engage with questions of how performance thinks and how thought is performed in a wide range of philosophies and performances, from the ancient to the contemporary. Concepts and practices from diverse geographical regions and cultural traditions are analysed to draw conclusions about how performance operates across art, philosophy and everyday life.

    The collection both contributes to and critiques the philosophy of music, dance, theatre and performance, exploring the idea of a philosophy from the arts. It is crucial reading material for those interested in the hierarchy of the relationship between philosophy and the arts, advancing debates on philosophical method, and the relation between Performance and Philosophy more broadly."

     
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  4. Chronicles from Kashmir : An Annotated, Multimedia Script
    Author: Dinesh, Nandita
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "‘What is happening in Kashmir?’ Chronicles from Kashmir explores this question through a site-adaptive 24-hour theatrical performance. Developed between 2013 and 2018 by the Ensemble Kashmir Theatre Akademi and Nandita Dinesh, the play uses a... more

     

    "‘What is happening in Kashmir?’

     

    Chronicles from Kashmir explores this question through a site-adaptive 24-hour theatrical performance. Developed between 2013 and 2018 by the Ensemble Kashmir Theatre Akademi and Nandita Dinesh, the play uses a durational, promenade format to immerse its audience within a multitude of perspectives on life in Kashmir. From a wedding celebration that is interrupted by curfew, to schoolboys divided by policing strategies, and soldiers struggling with a toxic mixture of boredom and trauma, Chronicles from Kashmir uses performance, installation and collaborative creation to grapple with Kashmir’s conflicts through the lenses of outsiders, insiders, and everyone in between.

     

    Due to varying degrees of censorship and suppression, the play has not been performed live since 2017. This book is, therefore, an attempt to keep Chronicles from Kashmir alive by including filmed scenes, a script, contextual questions, a glossary, and illuminating introductions by Nandita Dinesh and EKTA founder Bhawani Bashir Yasir. A valuable Open Access resource for practitioners, educators and students of performance and conflict, this book is also stimulating reading for anybody who has asked, ‘What is happening in Kashmir?’

     

    This playscript includes:

    Twenty filmed scenes of the play in performance

    A range of contextual questions to stimulate discussion on staging site-adaptive theatre in places of conflict

    A helpful glossary"

     
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  5. Siting Futurity : The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
    Author: Ingram, Susan
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    "Siting Futurity: The "Feel Good" Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna shows how cultural practitioners in and around Vienna draw on their historical knowledge of locality to create rousing productions designed to get... more

     

    "Siting Futurity: The "Feel Good" Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna shows how cultural practitioners in and around Vienna draw on their historical knowledge of locality to create rousing productions designed to get audiences to inform themselves about useful aspects of history, to get them to engage their presents, and to help make possible more socially equitable futures. Analyses of politically engaged works of contemporary theatre, film, and photography set in and around Vienna help to identify a historically oriented mechanism that enables artists to tap into Vienna’s extraordinary, and extraordinarily under-appreciated, tradition of protest culture that dates back to the action that brought about the Wiener Neustadt “Blood Court” in the 16th century, but really came into its own with the city’s most influential occupation of an abandoned slaughterhouse for 100 days in the late summer of 1976. It also shows how work with a connection to Vienna by international stars like David Bowie, Wes Anderson, and Christoph Schlingensief has absorbed the same principles.

     

    While the overwhelming scale of technological development and the ensuing problems and crises may not have been deliberately designed to induce resignation, passivity, and despair, those who benefit from the related hyperobjects of financialization and climate change must find it convenient that they do, as demoralization reduces resistance to their profit-making machinations. It is in this context that Red Vienna’s proud tradition of social engagement and long tradition of resistance and radicality deserves to be better known.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781953035479
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    Subjects: Demonstrations & protest movements; Austria; Theatre studies; Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: activism, Austria, contemporary art, contemporary theater, protest culture, radicalism, social protest, Vienna
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (224 p.)
  6. Black and Asian Theatre in Britain
    Contributor: Chambers, Colin (Publisher)
    Published: 2011

    Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed... more

     

    Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed background to the work of African, Asian, and Caribbean diasporic companies and practitioners. Colin Chambers examines early forms of blackface and other representations in the sixteenth century, through to the emergence of black and Asian actors, companies, and theatre groups in their own right. Thorough analysis uncovers how they led to a flourishing of black and Asian voices in theatre at the turn of the twenty-first century. Figures and companies studied include: Ira Aldridge Henry Francis Downing Paul Robeson Errol John Mustapha Matura Dark and Light Theatre The Keskidee Centre Indian Art and Dramatic Society Temba Edric and Pearl Connor Tara Arts Yvonne Brewster Tamasha Talawa. Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an enlightening and immensely readable resource and represents a major new study of theatre history and British history as a whole.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Chambers, Colin (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780415365130; 9780415375986
    Subjects: Theatre studies
    Other subjects: Asian; Black; Britain; History; Theatre
  7. Black Acting Methods
    Contributor: Luckett, Sharrell (Publisher); Shaffer, Tia M. (Publisher)
    Published: 2016

    Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.　 A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and... more

     

    Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.　 A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics, and interviews with key figures in Black American theatre illuminate their methods. This ground-breaking collection is an essential resource for teachers, students, actors and directors seeking to reclaim, reaffirm or even redefine the role and contributions of Black culture in theatre arts.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Luckett, Sharrell (Publisher); Shaffer, Tia M. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781315694986; 9781138907638; 9781138907621
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    Subjects: History of art / art & design styles; Performance art; Theatre studies
    Other subjects: African American; afrocentricity; blackness; diaspora; dickerson; hendricks
  8. Die Ordnung des Theaters. Eine Soziologie der Regie
    Author: Hänzi, Denis
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    Theater direction is today more unfettered, the sphere of artistic possibilities more open, than ever before. Creative chaos on all sides? Not really. Denis Hänzi investigates how old ideals and new realities in the German-language theatrical... more

     

    Theater direction is today more unfettered, the sphere of artistic possibilities more open, than ever before. Creative chaos on all sides? Not really. Denis Hänzi investigates how old ideals and new realities in the German-language theatrical landscape are deriving from the interplay between individual working methods and institutional configurations. Extrapolating on Bourdieu's concept of habitus/field, he develops a theory of charisma which provides an innovative approach to the analysis of contemporary artistic worlds. That the »order of the theater« bears visible traits of a culture of success which appears to consolidate the male dominance in directing is just one of the illuminating findings that makes this book fascinating for theater-makers and theater-goers alike. Die Theaterregie ist heute so entfesselt, der künstlerische Möglichkeitsraum so offen wie nie. Kreatives Chaos allenthalben? Nicht wirklich. Denis Hänzi untersucht, wie aus dem Wechselspiel von individuellen Arbeitsweisen und institutionellen Arrangements, alten Idealen und neuen Realitäten das Gefüge der deutschsprachigen Theaterlandschaft hervorgeht. Mit einer charismatheoretischen Erweiterung des Bourdieu'schen Habitus/Feld-Konzepts wird ein innovativer Ansatz zur Analyse gegenwärtiger Kunstwelten formuliert.

    Dass die »Ordnung des Theaters« zusehends Züge einer Erfolgskultur trägt, welche die männliche Dominanz im Regieberuf zu verfestigen scheint, ist einer von vielen erhellenden Befunden, die das Buch auch für Theaterschaffende und -interessierte spannend machen.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839423424
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    Subjects: Theatre studies
    Other subjects: theater; habitus; theatre studies; charisma; sociology of culture; kunst; theatre; bourdieu; geschlecht; theaterregie; gender; feld; theaterwissenschaft; beruf; arts; kultursoziologie; gender studies; Regisseur
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (454 p.)
  9. Don’t Be Quiet, Start a Riot! Essays on Feminism and Performance
    Author: Rosenberg, Tiina
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Stockholm University Press, Stockholm, Sweden

    This collection of essays investigates elements of the human voice and performance, and their implications for gender and sexuality. The chapters address affect, pleasure, and memory in the enjoyment of musical and theatrical performance. Rosenberg... more

     

    This collection of essays investigates elements of the human voice and performance, and their implications for gender and sexuality. The chapters address affect, pleasure, and memory in the enjoyment of musical and theatrical performance. Rosenberg also examines contemporary feminist performance, anti-racist interventions, activist aesthetics, and political agency especially with regard to feminist and queer interpretations of opera and theatre. She contextualizes her work within broader developments in gender and queer studies, and within the feminist movement by highlighting important contributions of artists who draw from the above to create performance. The book will be welcomed by opera and theatre lovers, students, academics, and the wider public that is interested in the performing arts and its queer feminist potential.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789176350201; 9789176350218; 9789176350225
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    Subjects: Performance art; Theatre studies; Music; Opera; Lesbian studies
    Other subjects: queer opera; activist performance; feminist performance; feminist theatre; queer diva; voice; Éditions Gallimard; Lohengrin (opera); Tintomara (film)
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (264 p.)
  10. Independent Theatre in Contemporary Europe : Structures – Aesthetics – Cultural Policy
    Contributor: Brauneck, Manfred (Publisher)
    Published: 20170221
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    Over the past 20 years European theatre underwent fundamental changes in terms of aesthetic focus, institutional structure and in its position in society. The impetus for these changes was provided by a new generation in the independent theatre... more

     

    Over the past 20 years European theatre underwent fundamental changes in terms of aesthetic focus, institutional structure and in its position in society. The impetus for these changes was provided by a new generation in the independent theatre scene. This book brings together studies on the state of independent theatre in different European countries, focusing on the fields of dance and performance, children and youth theatre, theatre and migration and post-migrant theatre. Additionally, it includes essays on experimental musical theatre, and different cultural policies for independent theatre scenes in a range of European countries.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Contributor: Brauneck, Manfred (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839432433
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    Subjects: Theatre studies
    Other subjects: Media and Communications; Theatre; Independent Theatre; Dance; Performance; Post-migrant Theatre; Art; Cultural Policy; Society; History of Theatre; Theatre Studies; Cultural History; Europe; Theatre Pedagogy; Musical theatre
  11. Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa
    Author: Schiller, Friedrich
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    Within two years of the success of his first play Die Räuber on the German stage in 1781, Schiller wrote a drama based on a rebellion in sixteenth century Italy, its title: The Conspiracy of Fiesco at Genoa. A Republican Tragedy. At the head of the... more

     

    Within two years of the success of his first play Die Räuber on the German stage in 1781, Schiller wrote a drama based on a rebellion in sixteenth century Italy, its title: The Conspiracy of Fiesco at Genoa. A Republican Tragedy. At the head of the conspiracy stood Gian Luigi deâ Fieschi (1524-1547), Schillerâ s Count Fiesco, a clever, courageous and charismatic figure, an epicurean and unhesitant egoist, politically ambitious, but unsure of his aims and principles. He is one of Schillerâ s mysterious, protean characters who secures both our admiration and disgust. With Fiesco as tragic hero Schiller examines the complex entanglement of morality and politics in his own times that was to preoccupy him throughout his career. The play was a moderate success when performed in Mannheim in 1784; it was more popular in Berlin, where during Schillerâ s lifetime, it was performed many times in a version by Carl Plümicke, which however radically altered the playâ s meaning. There have been some noteworthy productions on the German stage and television, even if it has remained somewhat in the shadow of Schillerâ other works. In the English-speaking world it is all but unknown and very seldom performed. This translation aims to remedy that oversight.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Guthrie, John (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Theatre studies; Literary studies: plays & playwrights
    Other subjects: fiesco; conspiracy; friedrich schiller; translation; genoa; play; drama; Lavagna; Republic of Genoa
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (150 p.)
  12. Wallenstein : A Dramatic Poem
    Author: Schiller, Friedrich; Paulin, Roger
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    " By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany’s leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein’s Camp, The Piccolomini and The Death of Wallenstein, this suite of plays... more

     

    " By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany’s leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein’s Camp, The Piccolomini and The Death of Wallenstein, this suite of plays appeared between 1798 and 1799, each production under the original direction of Schiller’s collaborator and mentor, Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe. Across the three plays, which are now commonly performed and printed together, Schiller charts the thwarted rebellion of General Albrecht von Wallenstein. Based loosely on the events of the Thirty Years' War, the trilogy provides a unique vantage on an army’s loyalty to their commander and the machinations and intrigues of international diplomacy, giving insight into the military hero who is placed on the threshold between these forces as they are increasingly pitted against one another.

    The Wallenstein trilogy, formally innovative and modern beyond its time, is a brilliant study of power, ambition and betrayal. In this new translation—the latest in a long line of distinguished English translations of the play, starting with Coleridge's in Schiller's lifetime—Flora Kimmich succeeds in rendering what is often a difficult source text into language that is at once accessible and enjoyable. Coupled with a complete and careful commentary and a glossary, both of which are targeted to undergraduates, and accompanied by an authoritative introductory essay by Roger Paulin, this edition also includes embedded readings in German of the play and links to the original German text. It will be an invaluable resource for students of German, European literature and history, and military history, as well as to all readers approaching this important set of plays for the first time. "

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Theatre studies; Literary studies: plays & playwrights
    Other subjects: commentary; translation; european literature and history; german drama; glossary; wallenstein trilogy; thirty years' war; frederich schiller; Albrecht von Wallenstein; Illo; Neubrunn; Lower Franconia; Questenberg; Sweden
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (322 p.)
  13. Theatre and War : Notes from the Field
    Author: Dinesh, Nandita
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "Nandita Dinesh places Kipling’s ""six honest serving-men"" (who, what, when, where, why, how) in productive conversation with her own experiences in conflict zones across the world to offer a theoretical and practical reflection on making theatre in... more

     

    "Nandita Dinesh places Kipling’s ""six honest serving-men"" (who, what, when, where, why, how) in productive conversation with her own experiences in conflict zones across the world to offer a theoretical and practical reflection on making theatre in times of war. This timely and important book weaves together Dinesh’s personal narrative with the public story of modern conflict, illustrating as it does, the importance of theatre as a force for ethical deliberation and social justice. In it Dinesh asks how theatre might intervene in times and places of conflict and how we might reflect on such interventions. In pursuit of answers, Theatre and War adopts the methods of auto-ethnography, positioning the theatrical practitioner at the heart of conflict zones in northern Uganda, Guatemala, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Rwanda, Kenya, Nagaland, and Kashmir. No longer a detached observer, the researcher and practitioner has to be able to meld theory with practice; to speak to ‘doing’, without undervaluing the importance of ‘thinking about doing’. Each chapter approaches the need for a synthesis of theory and practice by way of a term of inquiry―Why, Where, Who, What, When―and each is equipped with a set of unflinchingly honest field notes that are designed to reveal some of the ‘hows’ from the author’s own repertoire: questions and issues that were encountered during her own theatrical undertakings, along with first hand reflection on the complexities, potential, and challenges that attended her global work in community theatre. Within these notes are strategies that give the reader a practical insight into how the discussion might find its footing on the ground of war.

    The range and scope of this book make it required reading for those interested in theatre―practitioners, researchers, and students alike—as well as those seeking to understand the applications of the arts for ethics, politics, and education. "

     
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    Language: English
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    Subjects: Theatre studies; Theatre direction & production; Sociology & anthropology
    Other subjects: performances; ethics; theatre; etnography; war; community theatre; Aegean dispute; Afterlife; Armenia; India; Intentionality; Kashmir; Rwanda
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (210 p.)
  14. Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle
    Author: Skantze, P.A.
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle moves across the landscape of European performance in late 20th and early 21st centuries, recounting performance in circulation across national borders and across the itinerant bodies of spectators who travel... more

     

    Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle moves across the landscape of European performance in late 20th and early 21st centuries, recounting performance in circulation across national borders and across the itinerant bodies of spectators who travel to meet performances that travel. Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle suggests spectating is a practice — an act of interpretation engaged in more than simply receiving the affects of a performance, a companion practice to the making of performance. The work forms a part of Skantze’s ongoing explorations of what she terms the ‘epistemology of practice as research.’ IS/IS theorizes spectating as a practice that extends beyond the theatre, as a practice of writing as recollecting (and recollecting as writing) at the center of what has been called “criticism.” The book grounds spectatorship in the subjective, embodied, differenced practice of spectating not from a fixed location or standpoint but from a ground that constantly shifts, that is, from the ground of the roving positionalities of the “itinerate spectator.” Following Walter Benjamin, for example, Skantze importantly adopts the privileges of the flaneur as a feminist and rather queer project, one that refuses to be tied to the minor position, to that of the impossible “flaneuse.”

     
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    Subjects: Theatre studies
    Other subjects: theater; performance studies; cultural studies; drama
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (262 p.)
  15. A Stage of Emancipation : Change and Progress at the Dublin Gate Theatre
    Contributor: Corporaal, Marguerite (Publisher); van den Beuken, Ruud (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press

    As the prominence of the recent #WakingTheFeminists movement illustrates, the Irish theatre world is highly conscious of the ways in which theatre can foster social emancipation. This volume of essays uncovers a wide range of marginalised histories... more

     

    As the prominence of the recent #WakingTheFeminists movement illustrates, the Irish theatre world is highly conscious of the ways in which theatre can foster social emancipation. This volume of essays uncovers a wide range of marginalised histories by reflecting on the emancipatory role that the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) has played in Irish culture and society, both historically and in more recent times. The Gate’s founders, Hilton Edwards and Michéal mac Liammóir, promoted the work of many female playwrights and created an explicitly cosmopolitan stage on which repressive ideas about gender, sexuality, class and language were questioned. During Selina Cartmell’s current tenure as director, cultural diversity and social emancipation have also featured prominently on the Gate’s agenda, with various productions exploring issues of ethnicity in contemporary Ireland. The Gate thus offers a unique model for studying the ways in which cosmopolitan theatres, as cultural institutions, give expression to and engage with the complexities of identity and diversity in changing, globalised societies.

     
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    Contributor: Corporaal, Marguerite (Publisher); van den Beuken, Ruud (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781800859517; 9781800856103
    Subjects: Theatre studies
    Other subjects: Ireland;Irish theatre;marginalized groups;social emancipation;gender;ethnicity;language;class
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (248 p.)
  16. Waste : Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater
    Author: Rizzo, Jessica
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    "If at its most elemental, the theater is an art form of human bodies in space, what becomes of the theater as suicide capitalism pushes our world into a posthuman age? Waste: Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater... more

     

    "If at its most elemental, the theater is an art form of human bodies in space, what becomes of the theater as suicide capitalism pushes our world into a posthuman age?

     

    Waste: Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater traces the twentieth-century theater’s movement from dramaturgies of efficiency to dramaturgies of waste, beginning with the observation that the most salient feature of the human is her ability to be ashamed of herself, to experience herself as excess, the waster and the waste of the world. By examining theatrical representations of capitalism, war, climate change, and the permanent refugee crisis, Waste traces the ways in which these human-driven events signal a tendency toward prodigality that terminates with self-destruction. Defying its promise of abundance for all, capitalism poisons all relationships with competition and fear. The desire to dominate in war is revealed to be the desire to obliterate the self in collective conflagration. The refugee crisis raises the urgent question of our responsibility to the other, but the climate crisis renders the question of anthropocentric obligations moot.

     

    Waste proposes that the theater is the form best suited to confronting the human’s perverse relationship to its finitude. Everything about the theater is suffused with existential shame, with an acute awareness of its provisionality. Unlike the dominant narrative of the human, which is bound up with a fantasy of infinite growth, the theater is not deluded about its nature, origins, and destiny. At its best, the theater gathers artist and audience in one space to die together for a little while, to consciously waste, and not spend, their time."

     
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    Subjects: AN; KCP; Theatre studies
    Other subjects: theater; shame; inefficiency; posthumanism; anthropocene; Elfriede Jelinek
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (176 p.)
  17. Conflict and Controversy in Small Cinemas
    Contributor: Falkowska, Janina (Publisher); Loska, Krzysztof (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    This book examines small cinemas and their presentation of society in times of crisis and conflict from an interdisciplinary and intercultural point of view. The authors concentrate on economic, social and political challenges and point to new... more

     

    This book examines small cinemas and their presentation of society in times of crisis and conflict from an interdisciplinary and intercultural point of view. The authors concentrate on economic, social and political challenges and point to new phenomena which have been exposed by film directors. They present essays on, among others, Basque cinema; gendered controversies in post-communist small cinemas in Slovakia and Czech Republic; ethnic stereotypes in the works of Polish filmmakers; stereotypical representation of women in Japanese avant-garde; post-communist political myths in Hungary; the separatist movements of Catalonia; people in diasporas and during migrations. In view of these timely topics, the book touches on the most serious social and political problems. The films discussed provide an excellent platform for enhancing debates on politics, gender, migration and new aesthetics in cinema at departments of history, sociology, literature and film.

     
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    Contributor: Falkowska, Janina (Publisher); Loska, Krzysztof (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Media studies; Theatre studies; Film theory & criticism; Film guides & reviews; Gender studies: women
    Other subjects: Creative writing and creative writing guides; Plays, playscripts; Films, cinema; Gender studies: women and girls
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (268 p.)
  18. Theater as Data : Computational Journeys into Theater Research
    Author: Escobar Varela, Miguel
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press

    In Theater as Data, Miguel Escobar Varela explores the use of computational methods and digital data in theater research. He considers the implications of these new approaches, and explains the roles that statistics and visualizations play.... more

     

    In Theater as Data, Miguel Escobar Varela explores the use of computational methods and digital data in theater research. He considers the implications of these new approaches, and explains the roles that statistics and visualizations play. Reflecting on recent debates in the humanities, the author suggests that there are two ways of using data, both of which have a place in theater research. Data-driven methods are closer to the pursuit of verifiable results common in the sciences; and data-assisted methods are closer to the interpretive traditions of the humanities. The book surveys four major areas within theater scholarship: texts (not only playscripts but also theater reviews and program booklets); relationships (both the links between fictional characters and the collaborative networks of artists and producers); motion (the movement of performers and objects on stage); and locations (the coordinates of performance events, venues, and touring circuits). Theater as Data examines important contributions to theater studies from similar computational research, including in classical French drama, collaboration networks in Australian theater, contemporary Portuguese choreography, and global productions of Ibsen. This overview is complemented by short descriptions of the author’s own work in the computational analysis of theater practices in Singapore and Indonesia. The author ends by considering the future of computational theater research, underlining the importance of open data and digital sustainability practices, and encouraging readers to consider the benefits of learning to code. A web companion offers illustrative data, programming tutorials, and videos.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780472128631; 9780472074792; 9780472054794
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    Subjects: Theatre studies; Acting techniques
    Other subjects: Theatre studies; Acting techniques
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (231 p.)
  19. MIMOS 2018 : Theater Sgaramusch
    Contributor: Gilardi, Paola (Publisher); Abrecht, Delphine (Publisher); Klaeui, Andreas (Publisher); Schmidt, Yvonne (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Seit 1982 kreiert das Theater Sgaramusch inhaltlich wie ästhetisch anspruchsvolle Stücke für Kinder, die sich auch an Erwachsene richten. Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet verschiedene Facetten seines Schaffens, das immer poetisch sein will, nie... more

     

    Seit 1982 kreiert das Theater Sgaramusch inhaltlich wie ästhetisch anspruchsvolle Stücke für Kinder, die sich auch an Erwachsene richten. Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet verschiedene Facetten seines Schaffens, das immer poetisch sein will, nie didaktisch. Das Buch versucht zudem eine Standortbestimmung des Theaters für ein junges Publikum in der Schweiz. Depuis 1982, le Théâtre Sgaramusch crée des spectacles au contenu et à l’esthétique ambitieux pour les enfants mais aussi pour les adultes. Le présent ouvrage aborde plusieurs facettes de leur engagement qui se veut toujours poétique, jamais didactique. Cette publication propose également divers éclairages sur la situation du théâtre pour le jeune public en Suisse. Dal 1982 il Theater Sgaramusch crea spettacoli esigenti sul piano dei contenuti ed estetico, rivolti sia ai bambini che agli adulti. Il presente volume esplora vari aspetti del suo lavoro artistico, che vuole essere poetico, non didattico. Il libro tenta inoltre di fare il punto della situazione sul teatro per un pubblico giovane in Svizzera. Founded in 1982, Theater Sgaramusch creates challenging plays in terms of content and aesthetics, staged for children and adults alike. The present volume showcases various facets of the company’s oeuvre – which aims to be poetic and never didactic – and seeks to assess the current standing of theatre for young audiences in Switzerland.

     
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    Contributor: Gilardi, Paola (Publisher); Abrecht, Delphine (Publisher); Klaeui, Andreas (Publisher); Schmidt, Yvonne (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Theatre studies
    Other subjects: Plays, playscripts
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (296 p.)
  20. Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss
    Author: Anderson, Emily Hodgson
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press

    How do we recapture, or hold on to, the live performances we most love, and the talented artists and performers we most revere? Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss tells the story of how 18th-century actors, novelists, and artists, key among them... more

     

    How do we recapture, or hold on to, the live performances we most love, and the talented artists and performers we most revere? Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss tells the story of how 18th-century actors, novelists, and artists, key among them David Garrick, struggled with these questions through their reenactments of Shakespearean plays. For these artists, the resurgence of Shakespeare, a playwright whose works just decades earlier had nearly been erased, represented their own chance for eternal life. Despite the ephemeral nature of performance, Garrick and company would find a way to make Shakespeare, and through him the actor, rise again.

     

    In chapters featuring Othello, Richard III, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, and The Merchant of Venice, Emily Hodgson Anderson illuminates how Garrick’s performances of Shakespeare came to offer his contemporaries an alternative and even an antidote to the commemoration associated with the monument, the portrait, and the printed text. The first account to read 18th-century visual and textual references to Shakespeare alongside the performance history of his plays, this innovative study sheds new light on how we experience performance, and why we gravitate toward an art, and artists, we know will disappear.

     
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    Subjects: Theatre studies
    Other subjects: Performing Arts; Theater; History & Criticism
  21. MIMOS 2015 : Rimini Protokoll
    Contributor: Fournier, Anne (Publisher); Gilardi, Paola (Publisher); Härter, Andreas (Publisher); Maeder, Claudia (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Der vorliegende Band gibt Einblick in die Arbeitsweisen und die künstlerische Entwicklung von Rimini Protokoll. Mit seiner Experimentierfreudigkeit und der sozialen Relevanz seiner Produktionen prägt das Kollektiv das internationale Theaterschaffen... more

     

    Der vorliegende Band gibt Einblick in die Arbeitsweisen und die künstlerische Entwicklung von Rimini Protokoll. Mit seiner Experimentierfreudigkeit und der sozialen Relevanz seiner Produktionen prägt das Kollektiv das internationale Theaterschaffen seit fünfzehn Jahren nachhaltig. This volume provides insights into the modes of operation and the artistic development of Rimini Protokoll. For more than fifteen years, the collective, with its love of experimentation and the social relevance of its productions, has had a deep and lasting impact on the international theatre world. Cet ouvrage se penche sur le laboratoire créatif et l’évolution artistique du Rimini Protokoll. Depuis quinze ans, ce collectif marque de son talent la scène théâtrale internationale grâce à sa pertinence sociale, son esprit expérimental et une curiosité sans borne. La presente pubblicazione getta uno sguardo nel laboratorio creativo e ripercorre le principali tappe evolutive del collettivo teatrale Rimini Protokoll che, grazie all’incessante ricerca sperimentale e alla rilevanza sociale delle sue produzioni, da quindici anni esercita un notevole influsso sulla scena teatrale internazionale.

     
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    Contributor: Fournier, Anne (Publisher); Gilardi, Paola (Publisher); Härter, Andreas (Publisher); Maeder, Claudia (Publisher)
    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Theatre studies
    Other subjects: 2015; MIMOS; Protokoll; Rimini
  22. Acting Emotions
    Author: Konijn, Elly
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Actors and actresses play characters such as the embittered Medea, or the lovelorn Romeo, or the grieving and tearful Hecabe. The theatre audience holds its breath, and then sparks begin to fly. But what about the actor? Has he been affected by the... more

     

    Actors and actresses play characters such as the embittered Medea, or the lovelorn Romeo, or the grieving and tearful Hecabe. The theatre audience holds its breath, and then sparks begin to fly. But what about the actor? Has he been affected by the emotions of the character he is playing? What's going on inside his mind? The styling of emotions in the theatre has been the subject of heated debate for centuries. In fact, Diderot in his Paradoxe sur le comedien, insisted that most brilliant actors do not feel anything onstage. This greatly resembles the detached acting style associated with Bertolt Brecht, which, in turn, stands in direct opposition to the notion of the empathy-oriented "emotional reality" of the actor which is most famously associated with the American actingstyle known as method acting. The book's survey of the various dominant acting styles is followed by an analysis of the current state of affairs regarding the psychology of emotions. By uniting the psychology of emotions with contemporary acting theories, the author is able to come to the conclusion that traditional acting theories are no longer valid for today's actor. Acting Emotions throws new light on the age-old issue of double consciousness, the paradox of the actor who must nightly express emotions while creating the illusion of spontaneity. In addition, the book bridges the gap between theory and practice by virtue of the author's large-scale field study of the emotions of professional actors. In Acting Emotions, the responses of Dutch and Flemish actors is further supplemented by the responses of a good number of American actors. The book offers a unique view of how actors act out emotions and how this acting out is intimately linked to the development of contemporary theatre.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789053564448
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    Subjects: Theatre studies; Psychology
    Other subjects: theater; psychology; stage presentations; psychologie
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (208 p.)
  23. Between Stage and Screen : Ingmar Bergman Directs
    Author: Törnqvist, Egil
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Ingmar Bergman is worldwide known as a film and stage director. Yet no-one has attempted to compare his stage and screen activities. In Between stage and screen Egil Törnqvist examines formal and thematical correspondences and differences between a... more

     

    Ingmar Bergman is worldwide known as a film and stage director. Yet no-one has attempted to compare his stage and screen activities. In Between stage and screen Egil Törnqvist examines formal and thematical correspondences and differences between a number of Bergman's stage, screen, and radio productions. In the prologue Bergman's spiritual and aesthetic heritage and his position in the twentieth century media landscape is outlined. In the epilogue the question is answered to what extent one can speak of Bergman's directorial 'method' irrespective of the chosen medium.

     
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    ISBN: 9789053561379
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    Subjects: Theatre studies; Film, TV & radio; Individual film directors, film-makers
    Other subjects: theater; stage presentations; motion pictures; film
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (244 p.)
  24. Concepten en objecten
    Contributor: Kattenbelt, Chiel (Publisher); van Heteren, Lucia (Publisher)
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Thirteen authors explore the different ways modern theatre and dance are being analyzed. This is the fourth volume in the Series 'Theatre Topics'. In Concepten en objecten geven dertien auteurs vanuit wetenschap en praktijk, een verkenning van de... more

     

    Thirteen authors explore the different ways modern theatre and dance are being analyzed. This is the fourth volume in the Series 'Theatre Topics'. In Concepten en objecten geven dertien auteurs vanuit wetenschap en praktijk, een verkenning van de verschillende manieren waarop theater en dans van nu geanalyseerd kan worden. Iedere bijdrage stelt een concept voor dat vervolgens aan de hand van een voorstelling of productie geoperationaliseerd wordt. De bijdragen bieden praktisch gereedschap aan onderzoekers, makers en dramaturgen voor de diversiteit van ontwikkelingen in het theater. Dit is het vierde deel in de serie "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_booklist&b=series&series=38">Theater Topics.

     
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    Contributor: Kattenbelt, Chiel (Publisher); van Heteren, Lucia (Publisher)
    Language: Dutch; Dutch
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789053565216
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    Subjects: Theatre studies
    Other subjects: theater; stage presentations
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (160 p.)
  25. Performing care : New perspectives on socially engaged performance
    Contributor: Stuart Fish, Amanda (Publisher); Thompson, James (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press, Manchester

    The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of caring and explores the relationship between socially engaged performance and care. It creates a dialogue between theatre and performance, care ethics and other disciplinary areas such... more

     

    The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of caring and explores the relationship between socially engaged performance and care. It creates a dialogue between theatre and performance, care ethics and other disciplinary areas such as youth and disability studies, nursing, criminal justice and social care. Challenging existing debates in this area by rethinking the caring encounter as a performed, embodied experience and interrogating the boundaries between care practice and performance, the book engages with a wide range of different care performances drawn from interdisciplinary and international settings. Drawing on interdisciplinary debates, the edited collection examines how the field of performance and the aesthetic and ethico-political structures that determine its relationship with the social might be challenged by an examination of inter-human care. It interrogates how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring, careless or careful, and correlatively how care can be conceptualised as artful, aesthetic, authentic or even ‘fake’ and ‘staged’. Through a focus on care and performance, the contributors in the book consider how performance operates as a mode of caring for others and how dialogical debates between the theory and practice of care and performance making might foster a greater understanding of how the caring encounter is embodied and experienced.

     
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    Contributor: Stuart Fish, Amanda (Publisher); Thompson, James (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781526146816
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    Subjects: Theatre studies; Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama); Street theatre
    Other subjects: care; socially engaged performance; care ethics; aesthetics of care; emotional labour; participatory practices; embodied care
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (272 p.)