Poetics, Plays, and Performances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetics, Plays, and Performances write by Vasudha Dalmia. This book was released on 2006. Poetics, Plays, and Performances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies, and looking in particular at its appropriation of 'folk' theatre, as it sought to constitute itself anew after Independence."--BOOK JACKET.
Poetics, Plays, and Performances
Poetics, Plays, and Performances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetics, Plays, and Performances write by Vasudha Dalmia. This book was released on 2008-01-09. Poetics, Plays, and Performances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies, and looking in particular at its appropriation of 'folk' theatre. Starting with the plays of Bharatendu Harishchandra in 1870s Banaras, the book moves forward to Jayshankar Prasad and Mohan Rakesh, landmark figures in the history of modern Indian drama. Dalmia then focuses on the intense urban interaction with folk theatre forms, their politicization in the 1940s and later again in the 1970s. Finally the book maps some of the routes taken by avant-garde women directors since the last decades of the twentieth century. Theatre students, critics, cultural historians, scholars of South Asian theatre, as well as general readers will find the book inspiring.
Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration write by Anna Furse. This book was released on 2014-05-08. Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaboration is an innovative compilation of seven highly acclaimed productions by key practitioners of non-playwright-driven theatre. Each playtext is reproduced in full and accompanied by extensive notes from members of the original producing theatre. A substantial introduction by Anna Furse provides an overview of the works and contextualises their reading by revealing how a script can emerge from or provoke a collaborative devising process. The works featured include: Hotel Methuselah, Imitating the Dog/Pete Brooks; Don Juan.Who?/Don Juan.Kdo?, Athletes of the Heart; A Girl Skipping, Graeme Miller; Trans-Acts, Julia Bardsley; US, 1966 (with an introduction by Peter Brook); Miss America, Split Britches and 48 Minutes for Palestine, Mojisola Adebayo and Ashtar Theatre.
Drama
Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drama write by W. B. Worthen. This book was released on 2010-01-21. Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry and Performance teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold between text and performance. Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare, Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks Explores the critical terms and controversies that animate the performance and study of drama, such as the status of language, the function of character and plot, and uses of writing Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and cultural repositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position at the threshold between text and performance
The Performance of Power
The Performance of Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Performance of Power write by Sue-Ellen Case. This book was released on 1991-05-01. The Performance of Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"—the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with historical studies has politicized the study of the theatre. Neither play text, performance, nor scholarship and teaching can safely reside any longer in the "free," politically neutral, self-signifying realm of the aesthetic. Politicizing theatrical discourse means that both the hermeneutics and the histories of theatre reveal the role of ideology and power dynamics. New strategies and concepts—and a vital new phase of awareness—appear in these illuminating essays. A variety of historical periods, from the Renaissance through the Victorian and up to the most contemporary work of the Wooster group, illustrate the ways in which contemporary strategies do not require contemporary texts and performances but can combine with historical methods and subjects to produce new theatrical discourse.
