After '89 Lease, Bryce
2016, 2016., 20160901, 2016-09-01
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This book provides an exceptional introduction to Polish theatre since the fall of Communism, exploring how theatre goes beyond norms and nationalistic concepts to intersect with politics, feminism, ...queer identities, the rise in anti-Semitism, ethnicities and history.
Silke Felber describes Jelinek's theater of (tragedy) traversal for the first time at the intersection of theater, literary, and cultural studies. In the form of a richly detailed study, this ...foundational work reveals gestures of lamentation and anger that extend back to antiquity while simultaneously pointing toward an uncertain future.
Silke Felber beschreibt Jelineks Theater der (Tragödien-)Durchquerung erstmals an der Schnittstelle von Theater-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. In Form einer materialreichen Studie bringt dieses Grundlagenwerk Gesten der Klage und der Wut zum Vorschein, die bis in die Antike und gleichzeitig in eine ungewisse Zukunft weisen.
Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance asks a central theoretical question in the study of drama: what is the relationship between the dramatic text and the meanings of performance? ...Developing the notion of 'performativity' explored by J. L. Austin, Judith Butler, and others, Worthen argues that the text cannot govern the force of its performance. Instead the text becomes significant only as embodied in the changing conventions of its performance. Worthen explores this understanding of dramatic performativity by interrogating several contemporary sites of Shakespeare production. He analyses how Shakespeare is recreated in historical performance, exemplified by the Globe Theatre on Bankside; by international and intercultural performance; by film; and by the appearance of Shakespeare on the Internet. The book includes detailed discussions of recent film and stage productions, and sets Shakespeare performance alongside other works of contemporary drama and theatre.
At once both guide book and provocation, this is an indispensable companion for students and practitioners of applied theatre. It addresses all key aspects: principles, origins, politics and ...aesthetics in a concise and accessible style designed to appeal both to those who have recently discovered this sub-discipline and to experienced practitioners and academics. Part 1 is divided into two chapters. The first introduces the sub-discipline of Theatre for Development, covering its origins, principles and history, and providing an overview of theatre for development in Western contexts as well as in Africa, Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and Latin America. The second focuses upon theoretical and philosophical issues confronting the discipline and its relationship to contemporary politics, as well as considering its future role. Part 2 consists of seven chapters contributed by leading figures and current practitioners from around the world and covering a diverse range of themes, methodologies and aesthetic approaches. One chapter offers a series of case studies concerned with sexual health education and HIV prevention, drawn from practitioners working in Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Southern Africa, and China. Other chapters include studies of intercultural theatre in the Peruvian Amazon; a programme of applied theatre conducted in schools in Canterbury, New Zealand, following the 2010 earthquake; an attempt to reinvigorate a community theatre group in South Brazil; and an exchange between a Guatemalan arts collective and a Dutch youth theatre company, besides others.
Theater sind Maschinen des Erscheinens. Und Theatermaschinen, die erscheinen lassen, verbergen sich selbst und bezeugen sich in ihren Effekten. Das teilen sie mit den Machinationen, wie Intrigen bis ...ins 19. Jahrhundert hießen. Sie widerstreiten dem Primat der dramatischen Handlung und ermöglichen in Verbindung mit Musik und anderen Illuminationen Theater als Spektakel. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes fragen nach dem Zusammenhang von Maschine, Machination, Schauspiel und Schauraum. Mit der Figur der Maschine denken sie das Theater von seinen Rändern her und arbeiten heraus, wie ein maschineninduziertes Spektakel auch in Theaterformen (weiter-)lebt, denen das Spektakuläre suspekt geworden ist.
Poetry on stage Rizzo, Gianluca
Poetry on stage,
2020., 2020, 2020-08-10, 2020-08-26
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"Poetry on Stage focuses on exchanges between the writers of the Italian neo-avant-garde with the actors, directors, and playwrights of the Nuovo Teatro. The book sheds light on a forgotten chapter ...of twentieth-century Italian literature, arguing that the theatre was the ideal incubator for stylistic and linguistic experiments and a means through which authors could establish direct contact with their audience and verify the solutions they were devising to the practical and theoretical problems raised by their stances in politics and poetics. A robust textual analysis of a number of exemplary texts grounds these issues in the plays and poems produced at the time, and connects them with the experimentations subsequently carried out by some of the same artists. In-depth interviews with four of the most influential figures in the field / critic Valentina Valentini, actor and director Pippo Di Marca, author Giuliano Scabia, and the late poet Nanni Balestrini / conclude the volume, providing an invaluable first-hand testimony that brings back to life the people and controversies discussed."--
This book explores the interrelation of contemporary French theatre and poetry. Using the pictorial turn in the various branches of art and science, its observable features, and the theoretical ...framework of the conceptual metaphor, this study seeks to gather together the divergent manners in which French poetry and theatre address this turn. Poetry in space and theatricality of poetry are studied alongside theatre, especially to the performative aspect of the originally theological concept of ""kenosis"". In doing so the author attempts to make use of the theological concept of kenosis, of central importance in Novarina’s oeuvre, for theatrical and dramatological purposes. Within poetic rituals, kenotic rituals are also examined in the book in a few theatrical practices – János Pilinszky and Robert Wilson, Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba – facilitating a better understanding of Novarina’s works. Accompanied by new English translations in the appendices, this is the first English language monograph related to the French essayist, dramaturg and director Valère Novarina’s theatre, and will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and literature studies.
In Europa rückte die Herausbildung eines modernen Berufstheaters vielerorts ins Zentrum nationalkulturellen Selbstbewusstseins. Die Commedia dell'arte, Werke von Shakespeare, Lope de Vega oder ...Molière avancierten dabei zum kulturellen Kapital. Im deutschsprachigen Raum stehen entsprechende nationalkulturelle »Leistungen« hingegen mit der Verdrängung des Berufstheaters nach Maßgabe der Aufklärung in Verbindung. Zu zeigen, was in der deutschen Theatergeschichte verdrängt wird, ist ein Ziel dieser Edition. Die publizierten Spieltexte stehen beispielsweise mit dem Elisabethanischen Theater, der Amsterdamer Schouwburg, dem Jesuitentheater oder Molière in Verbindung, womit ein deutschsprachiges »Internationaltheater«, das sich an Bedürfnissen des Publikums orientierte, neu entdeckt wird.In Europe, the emergence of a modern professional theatre in many places became a focus of national self-esteem. The Commedia dell'arte, works by Shakespeare, Lope de Vega or Moliere, became a weighty cultural capital. In German-speaking countries, however, corresponding cultural "achievements" are connected with the repression of the traditional theatre profession in accordance with the Enlightenment. To show what is being repressed in German theatre history is one aim of this edition. For example, the published plays are related to the Elizabethan Theater, the Amsterdam Schouwburg, the Jesuit Theater or Moliere, thus revealing a German-language "international theatre" that was oriented towards the expectations of its audience.
Lavapiés - diverse, multicultural, and one of Madrid's most
iconic neighbourhoods - has emerged as a locus of resistance
movements and of cultural flourishing. Poised at the intersection
of theatre ...studies and cultural geography, this innovative study
sketches its physical and imaginary contours. In From the
Theater to the Plaza Matthew Feinberg guides readers on a
journey through the development of the theatre, as both art and
space, in Lavapiés. Offering a detailed analysis of dramatic texts
and productions, performance spaces, urban planning documents, and
the cultural activities of squatters, Feinberg sheds new light on
the lead-up to Spain's economic crisis and the emergence in 2011 of
the 15-M anti-austerity protest movement. The result is a
multidisciplinary account of how the spectacle of the contemporary
city connects local, municipal, and global geographies. By linking
the neighbourhood's unique role as both a site and a subject of
Madrid's theatre tradition with its contemporary struggles over
gentrification, From the Theater to the Plaza offers new
approaches for understanding how culture and capital produce the
twenty-first-century city.
This book begins with the building of a house, and the building of a company while building the house. It expands to look at the ideas found in various rooms, some of which expanded into virtual ...space while they still were grounded in the lives of the artists in the house.-- from the preface by Marianne WeemsThe Builders Association, an award-winning intermedia performance company founded in 1994, develops its work in extended collaborations with artists and designers, working through performance, video, architecture, sound, and text to integrate live performance with other media. Its work is not only cross-media but cross-genre -- fiction and nonfiction, unorthodox retellings of classic tales and multimedia stagings of contemporary events. This book offers a generously illustrated history and critical appraisal of The Builders Association, written by Shannon Jackson, a leading theater scholar, and Marianne Weems, the founder and artistic director of the company. It also includes critical meditations from such artists and scholars as Elizabeth Diller, Pico Iyer, Saskia Sassen, Kate Valk, and many others.Technological wizardry in the theater has a long history, going back to the deus ex machina of ancient Greek drama. The Builders Association makes its technological dependence visible, putting backstage technologies center stage and presenting architectural assemblies of screens and bodies. Jackson and Weems explore a series of major productions -- from MASTER BUILDER (Ibsen by way of Gordon Matta-Clark) to SUPERVISION (an exploration of dataveillance) to HOUSE/DIVIDED (the foreclosure crisis juxtaposed with the Joads of Steinbeck'sThe Grapes of Wrath). Each work is described through a series of steps, including "R&D," "Operating Systems," "Storyboard," and "Rehearsal/Assembly."The Builders Associationnot only traces the evolution of an intermedial aesthetic practice but also tells a story about how a group makes the risky decision to make art in the first place.
