Theatre of the Real
Title | Theatre of the Real PDF eBook |
Author | C. Martin |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2012-10-23 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1137295724 |
This book proposes a new way to consider theatre and performance that claims a special relationship to reality, truth and authenticity. It documents innovations in devising and staging theatre and performance that takes reality as its subject, cultural shifts that have generated theatre of the real, some of its problems and some possibilities.
The Theatre of the Real
Title | The Theatre of the Real PDF eBook |
Author | Gina Masucci MacKenzie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN |
The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim traces the thread of jouissance (the simultaneous experience of radical pleasure and pain) through three major theatre figures of the twentieth century. Gina Masucci MacKenzie's work engages theatrical text and performance in dialogue with the Lacanian Real, so as to re-envision modern theatre as the cultural site where author, actor, and audience come into direct contact with personal and collective traumas. By showing how a transgressively free subject may be formed through theatrical experience, MacKenzie concludes that modern theatre can liberate the individual from the socially constructed self. The Theatre of the Real revises views of modern theatre by demonstrating how it can lead to a collaborative effort required for innovative theatrical work. By foregrounding Yeats's "dancer" plays, the author shows how these intimate pieces contribute to the historical development of musical as well as modern theatre. Beckett's universal dramas then pave the way for Sondheim's postmodern cacophonies of idea and spirit as they introduce comic abjection into modernism's tragic mode. This exciting work from a new author will leave readers with fresh insight to theatrical performance and its necessity in our lives.
Real Theatre
Title | Real Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Rae |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1107186595 |
Draws on musicals, plays and experimental performances to show what theatre is made of and how we experience it.
Real Life Drama
Title | Real Life Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Smith |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 2013-08-06 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0345805992 |
Real Life Drama is the classic history of the remarkable group that revitalized American theater in the 1930s by engaging urgent social and moral issues that still resonate today. Born in the turbulent decade of the Depression, the Group Theatre revolutionized American arts. Wendy Smith's dramatic narrative brings the influential troupe and its founders to life once again, capturing their joys and pains, their triumphs and defeats. Filled with fresh insights into the towering personalities of Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, Clifford Odets, Stella and Luther Adler, Karl Malden, and Lee J. Cobb, among many others, Real Life Drama chronicles a passionate community of idealists as they opened a new frontier in theater.
Get Real
Title | Get Real PDF eBook |
Author | A. Forsyth |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2009-04-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0230236944 |
Over the past two decades, theatre practitioners across the West have turned to documentary modes of performance-making to confront new socio-political realities. The essays in this book place this work in context, exploring historical and contemporary examples of documentary and 'verbatim' theatre, and applying a range of critical perspectives.
Real-World Theatre Education
Title | Real-World Theatre Education PDF eBook |
Author | Chip Rome |
Publisher | |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2015-09-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780986358708 |
Beyond lesson plans lurks the world of field trips, facilities, casting, directing, equipment, parents, finances, conferences, competitions, and collaboration. Real-World Theatre Education is a manual for learning how to ask the right questions and anticipate the challenges that come while navigating the unpredictable waters of teaching theatre. Learn to reach out for support, diffuse divas, connect with colleagues, organize productions---and keep your head above water! More info, including our table of contents and appendix items, is available on the EducationalStages website.
Insecurity
Title | Insecurity PDF eBook |
Author | Jenn Stephenson |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2019-04-08 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1487514107 |
The early years of the twenty-first century have witnessed a proliferation of non-fiction, reality-based performance genres, including documentary and verbatim theatre, site-specific theatre, autobiographical theatre, and immersive theatre. Insecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real begins with the premise that although the inclusion of real objects and real words on the stage would ostensibly seem to increase the epistemological security and documentary truth-value of the presentation, in fact the opposite is the case. Contemporary audiences are caught between a desire for authenticity and immediacy of connection to a person, place, or experience, and the conditions of our postmodern world that render our lives insecure. The same conditions that underpin our yearning for authenticity thwart access to an impossible real. As a result of the instability of social reality, the audience, Jenn Stephenson explains, is unable to trust the mechanisms of theatricality. The by-product of theatres of the real in the age of post-reality is insecurity.