The Theban Plays

The Theban Plays
Title The Theban Plays PDF eBook
Author Sophocles
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 285
Release 2009-03-20
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0801895413

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Sophocles’ Theban Plays—Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone—lie at the core of the Western literary canon. They are extensively translated, universally taught, and frequently performed. Chronicling the downfall of Oedipus, the legendary king of Thebes, and his descendants, the Theban Plays are as relevant to present-day thought about love, duty, patriotism, family, and war as when they were written 2,500 years ago. Recent translations of the plays, while linguistically correct, often fail to capture the beauty of Sophocles’ original words. In combining the skills of a distinguished poet, Ruth Fainlight, and an eminent classical scholar, Robert J. Littman, this new edition of the Theban Plays is both a major work of poetry and a faithful translation of the original works. Thoughtful introductions, extensive notes, and glossaries frame each of the plays within their historical contexts and illuminate important themes, mythological roots, and previous interpretations. This elegant and uncommonly readable translation will make these seminal Greek tragedies accessible to a new generation of readers.

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners
Title The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners PDF eBook
Author Franc Chamberlain
Publisher Routledge
Pages 663
Release 2020-08-16
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 131735740X

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The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure, from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born after 1915. This is the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.

The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance

The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
Title The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance PDF eBook
Author Dennis Kennedy
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 705
Release 2010-08-26
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0199574197

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An authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.

Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1

Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1
Title Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1 PDF eBook
Author Vivian Appler
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 281
Release 2022-08-11
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1350234087

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Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1: From the Lab to the Streets is the first of two volumes dedicated to the diverse sociocultural work of science-oriented performance. A dynamic volume of scholarly essays, interviews with scientists and artists, and creative entries, it examines explicitly public-facing science performances that operate within and for specialist and non-specialist populations. The book's chapters trace the theatrical and ethical contours of live science events, re-enact historical stagings of scientific expertise, and demonstrate the pedagogical and activist potentials in performing science in community settings. Alongside the scholarly chapters, From the Lab to the Streets features creative work by contemporary science-integrative artists and interviews with popular science communicators Sahana Srinivasan (host of Netflix's Brainchild) and Raven Baxter (“Raven the Science Maven”) and artists from performance ensembles The Olimpias and Superhero Clubhouse. In exploring the science performance as a vital but flawed method of public engagement, it offers a critique of the racist, ableist, sexist, and heteronormative ideologies prevalent across the history of science, as well as highlighting science performances that challenge and redress these ideologies. Along with its complementary volume From the Curious to the Quantum, this book documents the varied ways in which identity categories and cultural constructs are formed and reformed through science performances.

The Performance

The Performance
Title The Performance PDF eBook
Author Claire Thomas
Publisher Penguin
Pages 240
Release 2021-03-16
Genre Fiction
ISBN 059332918X

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A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything. One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over. Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is is now a philanthropist with a seemingly perfect life. Summer is a young drama student, an usher at the theater, and frantically worried for her girlfriend whose parents live in the fire zone. While the performance unfolds on stage, so does the compelling trajectory that will bring these three women together, changing them all. Deliciously intimate and yet emotionally wide-ranging, The Performance is a novel that both explores the inner lives of women as it underscores the power of art and memory to transform us.

Sophocles Plays: 1

Sophocles Plays: 1
Title Sophocles Plays: 1 PDF eBook
Author Sophocles,
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 344
Release 2014-10-10
Genre Drama
ISBN 1474225195

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Includes the plays Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, collectively known as the Theban plays. Starting with Oedipus the King and ending with the ultimate sacrifice of Antigone, his daughter the plays follow the trials of a family cursed by the edict of an oracle that "you will kill your father and marry with your mother". From the fourth century BC - when Aristotle took Oedipus the King as his model tragedy, the influence of Sophocles' great plays has been assured. These three great tragedies have a relevance and immediacy as metaphors for some of the most fundamentally held beliefs and values in our culture.This volume contains the Theban plays - widely studied in schools and universities. Translated and with an introduction and notes from Don Taylor - the playwright who directed these plays for BBC TV

Concert Bulletin[s] ...

Concert Bulletin[s] ...
Title Concert Bulletin[s] ... PDF eBook
Author Boston Symphony Orchestra
Publisher
Pages 790
Release 1918
Genre Concert programs
ISBN

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