Theatre : Collaborative Acts
ISBN: 9780205625697 | 020562569X
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 1/7/2009
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Theatre: Collaborative Actsstimulates creative thinking and discussions of artistic, social, and ethical questions through its interwoven themes of theatre as culture, collaboration, spatial art, and a fusion of the past and present.The central premise ofTheatre: Collaborative Actsis that theatre is entertainment and art. It allows us to escape, relax, and refocus. Through their study of theatre, readers develop lifelong tools to help them enjoy, analyze, understand, read, visualize, and get the most out of many different types of theatre exper... MORE
| Theatre and Its Audience | |
| Cultural Collaboration: Theatre and Society | |
| Theatre as Entertainment and Art | |
| Exploring Cultural and Historical Perspectives: The Lure of Safe Conduct and Invisible Rabbits | |
| The Social Functions of Theatre | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Theatre of War | |
| Exploring Artists of the Theatre: National Theatre of the Deaf | |
| ... MORE | |
| Exploring Collaboration: Citizen Play Juries | |
| Theatrical Choice in North America | |
| Cultural Context and Personal Experience | |
| Experiencing Theatre: Collaboration of Actor, Audience, and Space | |
| The Audience | |
| Exploring Collaboration: Spatial Collaboration: Commune and Pinocchio | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Brecht versus Wagner | |
| The Nature of Acting | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Hypokrites to Actor | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Makeup as Mask: Kathakali | |
| From Play to Production | |
| Space | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Drottningholm Court Theatre | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Stratford Festival Theatre | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:The Performing Garage | |
| Theatre and Transformation | |
| Analyzing Theatre: Thinking and Writing about Live Performance | |
| Theatre, Film, and Television | |
| Analyzing Production | |
| Thinking about Actor Performances | |
| Thinking about Space and Design | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:The Effect of Audience Space on Angels in America | |
| Understanding Style | |
| Evaluating Production | |
| The Role of the Critic | |
| Writing about Production | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Theatre or Theater? | |
| It Is More Than a Building | |
| When It All Works | |
| Understanding the Play: A Theatrical Blueprint Plot | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Deus ex Machina | |
| Character | |
| Thought | |
| Language | |
| Exploring Collaboration: Improvised Text | |
| Music | |
| Spectacle | |
| Interpreting the Play: Understanding Genre, Reading, and Writing | |
| Dramatic Genre | |
| Reading a Play | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:Exit, Pursued by a Bea;: Those Problematic Stage Directions | |
| Writing about a Play | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Juliet Was a Guy in Drag? Changing Theatrical Conventions | |
| Photo Gallery: Theatrical Diversity | |
| Collaboration In Art And Practice | |
| The Director: Vision and Leadership | |
| Has Someone Always Been in Charge? | |
| Interpretation | |
| Developing Concept | |
| Artists of the Theatre: Peter Brook | |
| Communicating and Managing the Artistic Vision | |
| Collaborating with the Playwright | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Who Owns the Work | |
| Directors and Absent Playwrights | |
| Collaborating with Designers | |
| Collaborating with Actors | |
| Exploring Collaboration: Metamorphoses | |
| Artists of the Theatre: George C. Wolfe | |
| Collaborating with the Stage Manager | |
| The Rehearsal Process | |
| Opening the Production | |
| The Actor: From Mask to Contemporary Performance | |
| Development of the Actor | |
| Artists of the Theatre: Bernadette Peters | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Contemporary Cross-Dressing | |
| Acting Styles and Methods | |
| Artists of the Theatre: James Earl Jones | |
| The Actor's Work | |
| Exploring Collaboration: Actors as Collaborators | |
| The Playwright: Imagination and Expression | |
| The Changing Position of the Playwright | |
| Artists of the Theatre: Suzan-Lori Parks | |
| The Playwright and Production | |
| Exploring Collaboration: The Sondheim/Lapine Collaboration | |
| Artists of the Theatre: Michael Frayn | |
| Development of New Plays | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:The Humana Festival of New American Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville | |
| Exploring Collaboration: The Rent Controversy | |
| The Designer: Materializing Conception and the World of the Play | |
| The Development of the Designer | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:Development of the Revolve | |
| The Designers' | |
| Choices | |
| Artists of the Theatre: Ming Cho Lee | |
| The Scenic Designer's Work | |
| Exploring Collaboration: Robert Edmund Jones with Arthur Hopkins | |
| The Lighting Designer's Work | |
| Artists of the Theatre: Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer | |
| The Costumer Designer's Work | |
| Artists of the Theatre: William Ivey Long | |
| The Sound Designer's Work | |
| Integrating All the Designs | |
| The Producer: Coordination, Promotion, Economics | |
| Early Producers | |
| The Role of the Producer | |
| Artists of the Theatre: Harold Prince | |
| The Economics of Theatre | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Stagehands Union 2007 Strike | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:The Federal Theatre Project | |
| Photo Gallery: Interpreting Space and Design | |
| Collaboration In History | |
| Foundations: Classical Theatrical Forms | |
| Classical Greece | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:Rediscovering Menander | |
| Classical Rome | |
| Medieval Europe | |
| Exploring Collaboration: The Community, the Church, and the Feast of Corpus Christi | |
| Classical India | |
| Classical China | |
| Classical Japan | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:Kabuki Cross-Dressing: The Onnagata | |
| Reinterpretations: Europe Rediscovers the Western Classics | |
| The Italian Renaissance | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:Renaissance Court Entertainment | |
| Elizabethan England | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:The Rediscovery of the Rose and Globe Theatres | |
| The Spanish Golden Age | |
| Seventeenth-Century France | |
| Restoration England | |
| Eighteenth-Century Europe and the Americas | |
| Exploring Collaboration: The Hallam Company in the American Colonies: A Family Affair | |
| Revolutions: Romanticism to Postmodern Experiment | |
| Romanticism | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:The Audience Has Its Say: Theatre Riots and Demonstrations | |
| Nineteenth-Century Melodrama | |
| Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives:Nineteenth-Century Women Theatre Managers in Britain and the United States | |
| Nineteenth-Century Realism and Naturalism | |
| The Avant-Garde from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s | |
| Exploring Collaboration: Founding an Alternative Theatre: The Provincetown Players | |
| Modern and Contemporary Popular Theatre | |
| The Recent Avant-Garde and Postmodern Experiment | |
| Key Theatrical Events | |
| Glossary | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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