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Author: Ric Knowles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-11
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1108425488
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An up-to-date, contextualized assessment of the impact of the 'festivalization' of culture around the world.
Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0521766362
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
Author: Helen E. M. Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-09-30
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1108754325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first comprehensive guide to British theatre's engagement with the First World War over the last century, providing accessible and lively coverage of theatre's role in the representation and remembrance of events, focusing on topics including regionality, politics, popular performance, Shakespeare, class, race and gender.
Author: Gillian Arrighi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-07
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1108485162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship, from its origins in commercial equestrian performance, to contemporary inflections of circus arts in major international festivals, educational environments, and social justice settings.
Author: Ric Knowles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-12-16
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1316517241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A far-reaching examination of how international theatre festivals shape 21st-century intercultural negotiation and exchange.
Author: Nicoleta Cinpoes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-12-16
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1350140171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the aftermath of World War II to the convulsions of Brexit, festivals have deployed Shakespeare as a model of inclusive and progressive theatre to seek cultural solutions to Europe's multi-faceted crises. Shakespeare on European Festival Stages is the first book to chart Shakespeare's presence at continental European festivals. It examines the role these festivals play in European socio-cultural exchanges, and the impact festivals make on the wider production and circulation of staged Shakespeare across the continent. This collection offers authoritative, lively and informed accounts of the production of Shakespeare at the following festivals: the Avignon Festival and Le Printemps des comédiens in Montpellier (France), the Almagro festival (Spain), Shakespeare at Four Castles (Czech Republic and Slovakia), the International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova (Romania), the Shakespeare festivals in Elsinore (Denmark), Gdansk (Poland), Gyula (Hungary), Itaka (Serbia), Neuss (Germany), Patalenitsa (Bulgaria), Rome and Verona (Italy). Shakespeare on European Festival Stages is essential reading for students, scholars and practitioners interested in Shakespeare in performance, in translation and in a post-national Shakespeare that knows no borders and belongs to all of Europe.
Author: Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-03
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 110847652X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.
Author: Harvey Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1009359584
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the New Negro and Black Arts movements, the Companion also features fresh chapters on significant contemporary developments, such as the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the mainstream successes of Black Queer Drama and the evolution of African American Dance Theatre. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights, and actors who have fashioned a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, revealing the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and around the world. Addressing recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change, it invites readers to reflect on where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century.
Author: Jen Harvie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-02-29
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1108386296
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in the decades after World War II. This Companion explores the historical, political, and social contexts and conditions that not only allowed it to expand but, crucially, shaped it. Resisting a critical tendency to focus on plays alone, the collection expands understanding of British theatre by illuminating contexts such as funding, unionisation, devolution, immigration, and changes to legislation. Divided into four parts, it guides readers through changing attitudes to theatre-making (acting, directing, writing), theatre sectors (West End, subsidised, Fringe), theatre communities (audiences, Black theatre, queer theatre), and theatre's relationship to the state (government, infrastructure, nationhood). Supplemented by a valuable Chronology and Guide to Further Reading, it presents up-to-date approaches informed by critical race theory, queer studies, audience studies, and archival research to demonstrate important new ways of conceptualising post-war British theatre's history, practices and potential futures.
Author: Sarah Thomasson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-08-20
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 3031090942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide examines how these cities’ world-famous arts events have shaped and been shaped by their long-term interaction with their urban environments. While the Edinburgh International Festival and Adelaide Festival are long-established, prestigious events that champion artistic excellence, they are also accompanied by the two largest open-access fringe festivals in the world. It is this simultaneous staging of multiple events within Edinburgh’s Summer Festivals and Adelaide’s Mad March that generates the visibility and festive atmosphere popularly associated with both places. Drawing on perspectives from theatre studies and cultural geography, this book interrogates how the Festival City, as a place myth, has developed in the very different local contexts of Edinburgh and Adelaide, and how it is challenged by groups competing for the right to use and define public space. Each chapter examines a recent performative event in which festival debates and controversies spilled out beyond the festival space to activate the public sphere by intersecting with broader concerns and audiences. This book forges an interdisciplinary, comparative framework for festival studies to interrogate how festivals are embedded in the social and political fabric of cities and to assess the cultural impact of the festivalisation phenomenon.
