Theatre and Ghosts, Luckhurst

Автор: Pisani Michael V.
Название: Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York
ISBN: 1609382307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609382308
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre--accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lady Audley's Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical romances by Shakespeare and Schiller--than they did in almost any other area of their lives. But unlike film music, theatrical music has received very little attention from scholars and so it has been largely lost to us. In this groundbreaking study, Michael V. Pisani goes in search of these abandoned sounds.

Mining old manuscripts and newspapers, he finds that starting in the 1790s, theatrical managers in Britain and the United States began to rely on music to play an interpretive role in melodramatic productions. During the nineteenth century, instrumental music--in addition to song--was a common feature in the production of stage plays.

The music played by instrumental ensembles not only enlivened performances but also served other important functions. Many actors and actresses found that accompanimental music helped them sustain the emotional pitch of a monologue or dialogue sequence. Music also helped audiences to identify the motivations of characters. Playwrights used music to hold together the hybrid elements of melodrama, heighten the build toward sensation, and dignify the tragic pathos of villains and other characters. Music also aided manager-directors by providing cues for lighting and other stage effects. Moreover, in a century of seismic social and economic changes, music could provide a moral compass in an uncertain moral universe.

Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of the genre from its earliest use in the eighteenth century to the elaborate stage productions of the very early twentieth century.

Автор: Prizant Yael
Название: Cuba Inside Out: Revolution and Contemporary Theatre
ISBN: 0809333082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780809333080
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Описание: The first book-length study in English of Cuban and Cuban American plays, Cuba Inside Out provides a framework for understanding texts and performances that support, challenge, and transgress boundaries of exile and nationalism. Prizant reveals the intricacies of how revolution is staged theatrically, socially, and politically on the island and in the Cuban diaspora.

Автор: Radosavljevic Duska
Название: Theatre-Making
ISBN: 0230343112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230343115
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Theatre-Making explores modes of authorship in contemporary theatre seeking to transcend the heritage of binaries from the Twentieth century such as text-based vs. devised theatre, East vs. West, theatre vs. performance - with reference to genealogies though which these categories have been constructed in the English-speaking world.

Автор: Deer
Название: Directing in Musical Theatre
ISBN: 0415624894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415624893
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This important new guide, a companion to Joe Deer`s Acting in Musical Theatre, presents an accessible and compellingly practical approach to the art of directing musicals.

Автор: Holloway John
Название: Illustrated Theatre Production Guide
ISBN: 0240812042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780240812045
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Описание: Second edition.

Автор: Natka Bianchini
Название: Samuel Beckett`s Theatre in America: The Legacy of Alan Schneider as Beckett`s American Director
ISBN: 1137439858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137439857
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Описание: When Alan Schneider agreed to direct the American premiere of Samuel Beckett's first published play, Waiting for Godot, in 1955, neither man knew that the play would be an unequivocal flop, nor that it would be the beginning of a lifelong friendship. Ove

Автор: Curtin Adrian
Название: Avant-Garde Theatre Sound
ISBN: 1137324783 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137324788
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Описание: Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction.