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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Description
Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.
Possessed Voices tells the intriguing story of a largely unknown collection of audio recordings, which preserve performances of modernist interwar Hebrew plays. Ruthie Abeliovich focuses on four recordings: a 1931 recording of The Eternal Jew (1919/1923), a 1965 recording of The Dybbuk (1922), a 1961 radio play of The Golem (1925), and...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 online resource (225 p.)
Description
Trauma-Tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can represent the 'unrepresentable' of trauma. Throughout, there is a focus on how such representations might be achieved and if they could help us to understand trauma on personal and social levels. In a world increasingly preoccupied with and exposed to traumas, this volume considers what performance offers as a means of commentary that other cultural products do not.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xviii, 278 pages) : illustrations
Description
"Amidst Oxford Dictionaries declaring 'post-truth' the word of the year in 2016, and the fast propagation of terms like 'fake news,' the central question of this book is pressingly important at this contemporary critical juncture: What feels real to contemporary audiences? Using seventy interviews with audience members about the perceived realness of their experiences attending documentary, participatory, historical, or immersive theatre pieces, this...
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (vii, 316 pages) : illustrations
Description
"Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question. Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the role that theatre can--and must--play in professional,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (279 p.)
Description
Drawing on the writer's experience of three and a half decades of performing, teaching and writing theatre, this book explores the performance practice of a theatre group (pandies' theatre, Delhi) by placing this practice in a frame of international activist theatre movements. The teaching aspect provides a historical backdrop and the writing of plays adds depth and sharpens the political position. It identifies theatre as a force for changing society...
13) Joe Egg
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Description
Parents of spastic daughter face a situation with grim humor born of despair. 2 acts, 2 men, 3 women, 1 girl, 1 interior.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (241 p.)
Description
Acts and apparitions examines how new performance practices from the 1990s and the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (320 p.) : 6 black and white illustrations, 1 black and white table
Description
Examines the notion of theatricality in relation to film, theatre, art, and contemporary mediaThis is the first book collection to consider the notion of theatricality across a range of fields (art, film, theatre, multimedia, photography, music). The collection engages with a wide range of case studies, examples of which include:theatre productions by Forced Entertainment, Daniel Kitson, She Pop, and Agnieszka Piotrowskaart works by Rembrandt, Damien...






