Scholarly discussions
... Worthen’s influential theories of “dramatic performativity” will be further examined in this chapter. At this juncture, however, it is important to note that OP’s formally derived, text-based synthesis of actor and audience, which I advocate in this dissertation, is somewhat different than Worthen’s ...
... Worthen’s influential theories of “dramatic performativity” will be further examined in this chapter. At this juncture, however, it is important to note that OP’s formally derived, text-based synthesis of actor and audience, which I advocate in this dissertation, is somewhat different than Worthen’s ...
Happy End Words on Plays (2006)
... The promise of redoubled fame and fortune made Aufricht’s offer hard to resist, and Brecht quickly started casting about for a suitable story to adapt. Elisabeth Hauptmann, his faithful secretary, had the answer, discovered in the course of her exhaustive Englishlanguage reading. (She was the one wh ...
... The promise of redoubled fame and fortune made Aufricht’s offer hard to resist, and Brecht quickly started casting about for a suitable story to adapt. Elisabeth Hauptmann, his faithful secretary, had the answer, discovered in the course of her exhaustive Englishlanguage reading. (She was the one wh ...
The Paper Canoe: A Guide to Theatre Anthropology
... Again a ‘moment of truth’, opposites embracing each other. I observed simultaneously the elusiveness of life and the materiality of the corpse. I was about to lose forever one of the people I loved most and yet was discovering in myself impulses, reactions and thoughts which impatiently invoked the ...
... Again a ‘moment of truth’, opposites embracing each other. I observed simultaneously the elusiveness of life and the materiality of the corpse. I was about to lose forever one of the people I loved most and yet was discovering in myself impulses, reactions and thoughts which impatiently invoked the ...
PROLOGUE: CUSTOMS—A CASE STUDY
... sit and watch each other. And a stage is like a transit lounge, where performers and audience meet in passing. Customs is a show which revels in such connections, from simple puns (such as the title) to complex intertextual associations of ideas and stories. It is a comic meditation on the physical ...
... sit and watch each other. And a stage is like a transit lounge, where performers and audience meet in passing. Customs is a show which revels in such connections, from simple puns (such as the title) to complex intertextual associations of ideas and stories. It is a comic meditation on the physical ...
Barron`s_Book_Notes_-_Shakespeare,_William_
... popular pastime (something like movies are today), attended by both commonfolk and royalty. It was not merely the province of an intellectual few. Folk traditions of ballad and song, as well as the Christian miracle and mystery plays, had accustomed the people to poetic drama, its speeches cast in r ...
... popular pastime (something like movies are today), attended by both commonfolk and royalty. It was not merely the province of an intellectual few. Folk traditions of ballad and song, as well as the Christian miracle and mystery plays, had accustomed the people to poetic drama, its speeches cast in r ...
The TamiNg of The shrew - Theatre for a New Audience
... ruled the country for over thirty years, Shakespeare could have drawn upon any number of arguments and plots to create a taming story. Nevertheless, there is one ballad in particular upon which Shakespeare may have taken his narrative, A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel’s Skin, ...
... ruled the country for over thirty years, Shakespeare could have drawn upon any number of arguments and plots to create a taming story. Nevertheless, there is one ballad in particular upon which Shakespeare may have taken his narrative, A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel’s Skin, ...
The Taming of the Shrew 360 - A Viewfinder
... ruled the country for over thirty years, Shakespeare could have drawn upon any number of arguments and plots to create a taming story. Nevertheless, there is one ballad in particular upon which Shakespeare may have taken his narrative, A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel’s Skin, ...
... ruled the country for over thirty years, Shakespeare could have drawn upon any number of arguments and plots to create a taming story. Nevertheless, there is one ballad in particular upon which Shakespeare may have taken his narrative, A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel’s Skin, ...
All Play and No Work: the Protestant Work Ethic and the Comic
... criticism from congressional opponents and a hostile press, the FTP seems to have drawn the most vocal criticism from those who viewed theatre as the antithesis of work. In order to convince the American people that her program was worth their expenditure, Flanagan promoted the FTP as an agency that ...
... criticism from congressional opponents and a hostile press, the FTP seems to have drawn the most vocal criticism from those who viewed theatre as the antithesis of work. In order to convince the American people that her program was worth their expenditure, Flanagan promoted the FTP as an agency that ...
stanislavski and postmodernism - eTheses Repository
... Associationist psychology was introspective and observational – precisely the methodology Stanislavski preferred to use. It also formed the foundation for the work and theories of Theodule Ribot (1839-96), which was a crucial formative influence on Stanislavski’s use of Emotion Memory or Affective m ...
... Associationist psychology was introspective and observational – precisely the methodology Stanislavski preferred to use. It also formed the foundation for the work and theories of Theodule Ribot (1839-96), which was a crucial formative influence on Stanislavski’s use of Emotion Memory or Affective m ...
... theatre itself. Like all the best playwrights – Shakespeare, Molière, Ibsen – he was a practical man of the theatre. He understood how the theatre worked and was committed to making it into a relevant, provocative and dynamic art form. German artistic life has always had a tendency towards intellect ...
Staging History in Modern and Contemporary Spanish Drama By
... aparece así el rasgo mayor del teatro histórico: el hallazgo de lo universal en lo particular” [Aeschylus confronted his audiences with a past event… its theme is the punishment brought upon people because of arrogance, which makes them disregard their limits… thus we have the major feature of histo ...
... aparece así el rasgo mayor del teatro histórico: el hallazgo de lo universal en lo particular” [Aeschylus confronted his audiences with a past event… its theme is the punishment brought upon people because of arrogance, which makes them disregard their limits… thus we have the major feature of histo ...
Post-11 - NMSU College of Business
... with media competing to provide websites where cyber-spectators can replay simulations on the new stage of the spectacle. Spectacle is based on the work of Guy Debord (1967, Society of the Spectacle) who has something important to say about how spectacles of production and consumption relate to war. ...
... with media competing to provide websites where cyber-spectators can replay simulations on the new stage of the spectacle. Spectacle is based on the work of Guy Debord (1967, Society of the Spectacle) who has something important to say about how spectacles of production and consumption relate to war. ...
Emotions in Drama Characters and Virtual Agents
... for the cognition of the emotions in the audience. In other words, the author describes emotions to provoke them into the listener’s mind and soul. This assumption relies on a long tradition: in Plato’s Ione (Plato 1997) it is clearly stated that the emotions are transmitted as a sort of “contagion” ...
... for the cognition of the emotions in the audience. In other words, the author describes emotions to provoke them into the listener’s mind and soul. This assumption relies on a long tradition: in Plato’s Ione (Plato 1997) it is clearly stated that the emotions are transmitted as a sort of “contagion” ...
Joyce the Playwright - WesScholar
... their pleas for financial support; this proposal would come to be understood as a working manifesto for the movement. It read, in part: We hope to find in Ireland an uncorrupted and imaginative audience trained to listen by its passion for oratory, and believe that our desire to bring upon the stag ...
... their pleas for financial support; this proposal would come to be understood as a working manifesto for the movement. It read, in part: We hope to find in Ireland an uncorrupted and imaginative audience trained to listen by its passion for oratory, and believe that our desire to bring upon the stag ...
John Milton`s Paradise Lost as a Theatrical Production
... As was already mentioned above, it can be considered quite surprising that such an influential literary work as PL took almost 300 years to find its way to the theatrical stage. This chapter will take a brief look at some of the various attempts to stage the epic as a play, focusing more closely on ...
... As was already mentioned above, it can be considered quite surprising that such an influential literary work as PL took almost 300 years to find its way to the theatrical stage. This chapter will take a brief look at some of the various attempts to stage the epic as a play, focusing more closely on ...
The TamiNg of The shrew - Theatre for a New Audience
... ruled the country for over thirty years, Shakespeare could have drawn upon any number of arguments and plots to create a taming story. Nevertheless, there is one ballad in particular upon which Shakespeare may have taken his narrative, A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel’s Skin, ...
... ruled the country for over thirty years, Shakespeare could have drawn upon any number of arguments and plots to create a taming story. Nevertheless, there is one ballad in particular upon which Shakespeare may have taken his narrative, A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel’s Skin, ...
Stanislavsky revisited: the Meiningens
... references to actors: he starts the chapter contesting the opinions of those who denied the presence of good actors, and ended the chapter agreeing with them. However, Stanislavsky did not write about the actors and their skills not only because he was not impressed by them; for the first time in hi ...
... references to actors: he starts the chapter contesting the opinions of those who denied the presence of good actors, and ended the chapter agreeing with them. However, Stanislavsky did not write about the actors and their skills not only because he was not impressed by them; for the first time in hi ...
The Performance of Gender with particular reference to the plays of
... theatres by the Puritans in 1642, the history of English drama is one of almost exclusively male acting. Only with the Restoration of the monarchy and the reopening of the theatres in 1660, did the first female actor take to the English stage. For over three hundred years, from 1660 until 1967 the g ...
... theatres by the Puritans in 1642, the history of English drama is one of almost exclusively male acting. Only with the Restoration of the monarchy and the reopening of the theatres in 1660, did the first female actor take to the English stage. For over three hundred years, from 1660 until 1967 the g ...
D. M. Rosenberg MILTON, DRYDEN, AND THE IDEOLOGY OF
... word intensifies both point of view and perspective because it demands from the reader some degree of personal identification in attempting to visualize ...
... word intensifies both point of view and perspective because it demands from the reader some degree of personal identification in attempting to visualize ...
Introduction to Tartuffe
... Molière became a master of “le ridicule,” so much so that in the process of making his audiences laugh, he made a multitude of serious enemies. Writing first for the polite court and specifically for the pleasure of King Louis XIV, he also pleased the popular Parisian audience who attended the publi ...
... Molière became a master of “le ridicule,” so much so that in the process of making his audiences laugh, he made a multitude of serious enemies. Writing first for the polite court and specifically for the pleasure of King Louis XIV, he also pleased the popular Parisian audience who attended the publi ...
Michael Chekhov as Actor, Teacher and Director in the West
... As a theoretician and actor and Chekhov did not accept the dualism of Western thinking. He wrote: “the actor, who must consider his body as an instrument expressing creative ideas on the stage, must strive for the attainment of complete harmony between the two, body and psychology”. Chekhov the acto ...
... As a theoretician and actor and Chekhov did not accept the dualism of Western thinking. He wrote: “the actor, who must consider his body as an instrument expressing creative ideas on the stage, must strive for the attainment of complete harmony between the two, body and psychology”. Chekhov the acto ...
New Orleans Rulebook (NOLA) 2011-2013
... performing as Assistant Stage Manager but exclude any assignments for which the Actor is receiving an additional increment. (2) In a dramatic production, an Actor may agree to the job assignment of “ensemble” which shall signify an agreement to perform a compilation of bit parts. The bit parts assig ...
... performing as Assistant Stage Manager but exclude any assignments for which the Actor is receiving an additional increment. (2) In a dramatic production, an Actor may agree to the job assignment of “ensemble” which shall signify an agreement to perform a compilation of bit parts. The bit parts assig ...
tragedy as “an augury of a happy life” - Fine Arts
... of how things turned out for individual characters within the first three acts: fifth-century tragedy always ended with satyric revelry and drunken worship of the god of wine.20 Furthermore, as Griffith (2002.214) and George W. M. Harrison (2005.xi) remind us, the satyr play, which likely gave its f ...
... of how things turned out for individual characters within the first three acts: fifth-century tragedy always ended with satyric revelry and drunken worship of the god of wine.20 Furthermore, as Griffith (2002.214) and George W. M. Harrison (2005.xi) remind us, the satyr play, which likely gave its f ...
New Orleans Rulebook (NOLA) 14-17
... of all productions and the hiring of Stage Managers will be conducted in such a manner as to provide full and fair consideration to Actors of all ethnicities (including but not limited to African-American, Asian/Asian-Pacific American, Hispanic-American, Native American, multi-cultural), women, seni ...
... of all productions and the hiring of Stage Managers will be conducted in such a manner as to provide full and fair consideration to Actors of all ethnicities (including but not limited to African-American, Asian/Asian-Pacific American, Hispanic-American, Native American, multi-cultural), women, seni ...