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  • Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen

    by Jane Barnette ...
    Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical type on twenty-first-century-North American stages and screens, seen through the lenses of casting, design, and adaptation, with attention paid to why these patterns persist, and what wishes they fulfil.Witch Fulfillment examines the Witch in performance, considering how actors ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Theatre Symposium, Vol. 17

    Outdoor Performance

    by Charlotte J. Headrick, Martha S. LoMonaco, Jane Barnette, Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Jeanmarie Higgins Williams, Angela Sweigart Gallagher, Landis K. Magnuson ...
    Series series Theatre Symposium Series
    Outdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events. The essays gathered in "Outdoor Performance," Volume 17 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, address outdoor theatre's many manifestations, including the historical and non-traditional.Among other subjects, these essays explore the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Adapturgy

    The Dramaturg's Art and Theatrical Adaptation

    by Jane Barnette ...
    Series series Theater in the Americas
    Dramaturg Jane Barnette has put together an essential guide for theatre scholars and practitioners seeking to understand and participate in the process of adaptation for the stage. Employing the term “adapturgy”—her neologism for the art of adaptation dramaturgy—Barnette redefines the dramaturg’s role and thoroughly refutes the commonplace point of view that adapted works are somehow less creative ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Theatre Symposium, Vol. 22: Broadway and Beyond

    Commercial Theatre Considered

    by David S. Thompson, Jane Barnette, Dean Adams, John Patrick Bray, Tony Gunn, Boone J. Hopkins, Jae Kyoung Kim, Jacek Mikolajczyk, George Pate0, Erin Scheibe1, Jeff Turner2, Chris Woodworth3 ...
    Series Book 22 - Theatre Symposium Series
    That theatre is a business remains a truth often ignored by theatre insiders and consumers of the performing arts alike. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 22 explore theatre as a commercial enterprise both historically and as a continuing part of the creation, production, and presentation of contemporary live performance.The eleven contributors to this fascinating collection illuminate many ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    by Robin Scott Peters ...
    The primary resources examined were publications that advertise the presentation of theater. These sources included "The Drama-logue," the "Back Stage West," and the "Los Angeles Times." There were culturally specific publications available, but these sources replicated the items located in the primary resources. Also, notices were listed in the cultures indigenous language, and the listings ... Read more

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  • Theatre, Body and Pleasure

    by Simon Shepherd ...
    Breaking new ground in the study of performance theory, this maverick and powerful project from renowned Renaissance scholar and queer theorist Simon Shepherd presents a unique take on theory and the physical reality of theatre.Examining a range of material, Theatre, Body, Pleasure addresses a significant gap in the literary and drama studies arenas and explores the interplay of bodily value, the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Oscar Wilde's Last Stand

    Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century

    by Philip Hoare ...
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    $11.99 USD

  • The Viewpoints Book

    A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

    by Anne Bogart, Tina Landau ...
    The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with—space and time—into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau have expanded her notions and adapted them for actors to function together spontaneously and ... Read more

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  • Performance Theory

    by Richard Schechner ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual and performance. When this seminal collection first appeared, Schechner's approach was not only novel, it was revolutionary: drama is not just something that occurs on stage, but something ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • South Pacific

    Paradise Rewritten

    by Jim Lovensheimer ...
    Series series Broadway Legacies
    Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "South Pacific" has remained a mainstay of the American musical theater since it opened in 1949, and its powerful message about racial intolerance continues to resonate with twenty-first century audiences. Drawing on extensive research in the Rodgers and the Hammerstein papers, including Hammerstein's personal notes on James A. ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Conversations with Peter Brook: 1970-2000

    Edited by Margaret Croyden ...
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  • The Pocket Guide to Musicals

    by Kieran Hughes ...
    Everything you need to know about musical theater in one handy guide by leading expert Maureen Hughes who has herself created 8 musicals and teaches musical theater. The Pocket Guide to Musicals covers everything from the composers and lyricists to a comprehensive A-Z listing of musicals from around the world. Accessibility is a key selling point with fact boxes highlighting key or curious facts ... Read more

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