Oxford book of theatrical anecdotes, Brandreth, Gyles
Автор: Andrew J. Wilson Название: A Fiery Soul: The Life and Theatrical Times of John Hirsch ISBN: 1550653199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781550653199 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 28530.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: John Hirsch arrived in Winnipeg in 1947, a 17-year-old Hungarian orphan of the Holocaust, knowing no English. Ten years later, he cofounded the Manitoba Theatre Centre, establishing a model for regional theatres across North America. This comprehensive biography traces Hirschs life, from his difficult childhood to his eventual professional success, as he went on to direct award-winning productions in Los Angeles, New York City, and Toronto--from Guys and Dolls to The Tempest --and work with actors such as Anthony Hopkins and Maggie Smith. Revealing why Hirsch was notorious for his fiery temper and budget-blowing sets, the book details his stormy four years as CBCs head of TV drama in the 1970s and his even more volatile tenure as artistic director at the Stratford Festival from 1981 to 1985.
"Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography" examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study suggests a visible--but not impermeable--teleology from Thomas Davies to James Boaden in the development of theatrical biography as a professional enterprise. Chapter One explores Davies, the first significant biographer to throw off the shadows of anonymity and weld his own image to his subject, David Garrick. The second chapter traces three biographies of Charles Macklin written by biographers dueling amongst themselves for the right to tell Macklin's story in the post-Davies competitive market. Finally, the third chapter tells the story of the serial biographer James Boaden's attempts to build a professional reputation for himself as a biographer and prominent participatory character in the multiple "Lives" he tells, including those of John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Elizabeth Inchbald. In each instance of producing a theatrical biography, the author is confronted not only with his duty to represent the actor, but the need to do so in an original, compelling manner that sets his account apart from other contenders and guarantees the permanency of his account as a treasured artifact of the stage rather than a disposable commodity.
The willful encouragement of viewing literary materiality as an antidote to ephemeral stage-business leads in turn to the absorption of prior biographical works and letters by authors, and reverberates in their readers' quests to augment their copies of theatrical biographies through adding playbills, marginal notes, etchings, paintings, newspaper clippings, and even funerary souvenirs that not only testified to their interest in the stage, but secured their existence as well by evidence of participation. Thus, the author at once guaranteed the thespian's legacy would live on while hitching his own likelihood of being remembered to the actor. The audience followed suit by adding their own personal touches, forming a palimpsest of participants. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews, and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or "scrapbooked" editions of the biographies, this book is invested in the ways that the increasing emphasis on materiality was designed to consolidate, but often challenged, the biographer's authority.
The book provides an introduction to theatrical biography as an immensely popular genre in the eighteenth century that deserves more scholarly attention. Currently, theatrical biography is usually overlooked or encountered solely in excerpts offered to advance individual research goals; the texts are perceived as repositories of facts or the odd opinion, more akin to a reference work than anything innately artistic. This study's contribution is to read these biographies in context, exploring their participation in a developing poetics of a new artistic subgenre, from the content of the works and the concerns of its authors to the responses that these biographies elicited from their readers.
Автор: Dassia Posner Название: The Director`s Prism: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde ISBN: 0810133563 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810133563 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 100320.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Director's Prism investigates how and why three of Russia's most innovative directors— Vsevelod Meyerhold, Alexander Tairov, and Sergei Eisenstein—used the fantastical tales of German Romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann to reinvent the rules of theatrical practice. Because the rise of the director and the Russian cult of Hoffmann closely coincided, Posner argues, many characteristics we associate with avant-garde theater—subjective perspective, breaking through the fourth wall, activating the spectator as a co-creator—become uniquely legible in the context of this engagement. Posner examines the artistic poetics of Meyerhold's grotesque, Tairov's mime-drama, and Eisenstein's theatrical attraction through production analyses, based on extensive archival research, that challenge the notion of theater as a mirror to life, instead viewing the director as a prism through whom life is refracted. A resource for scholars and practitioners alike, this groundbreaking study provides a fresh, provocative perspective on experimental theater, intercultural borrowings, and the nature of the creative process.
Автор: Balme Название: The Theatrical Public Sphere ISBN: 1316638871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316638873 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Christopher B. Balme explores theatre`s role in the crucial political and social function of the public sphere, from the debates that led to the closure of British theatres in 1642 to the relevance of theatre for society today in a new age of globalised distributed aesthetics.
Автор: Balme Название: The Theatrical Public Sphere ISBN: 110700683X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107006836 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 78130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The concept of the public sphere, as first outlined by German philosopher Jurgen Habermas, refers to the right of all citizens to engage in debate on public issues on equal terms. In this book, Christopher B. Balme explores theatre's role in this crucial political and social function. He traces its origins and argues that the theatrical public sphere invariably focuses attention on theatre as an institution between the shifting borders of the private and public, reasoned debate and agonistic intervention. Chapters explore this concept in a variety of contexts, including the debates that led to the closure of British theatres in 1642, theatre's use of media, controversies surrounding race, religion and blasphemy, and theatre's place in a new age of globalised aesthetics. Balme concludes by addressing the relationship of theatre today with the public sphere and whether theatre's transformation into an art form has made it increasingly irrelevant for contemporary society.
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