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Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language

Politics, Translations, Embodiments

Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Saskya Iris Jain ...

Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language explores the significance and impact of words in performance, probing how language functions in theatrical scenarios, what it can achieve under particular conditions, and what kinds of problems may arise as a result.Presenting case studies from around the globe—spanning Argentina, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Korea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand, ... Read more

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Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language explores the significance and impact of words in performance, probing how language functions in theatrical scenarios, what it can achieve under particular conditions, and what kinds of problems may arise as a result.Presenting case studies from around the globe—spanning Argentina, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Korea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand,
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The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures

Beyond Postcolonialism

Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Saskya Iris Jain ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they are dependent upon each other.While the term ‘intercultural theatre’ as a concept ... Read more

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This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they are dependent upon each other.While the term ‘intercultural theatre’ as a concept
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The Transformative Power of Performance

A New Aesthetics

by Erika Fischer-Lichte ...

Translated by Saskya Jain ...

In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for ... Read more

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In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for
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Performing Violence

Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama

by Birgit Beumers, Mark Lipovetsky ...

New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing Violence is the first English-language study of the consequent boom in drama and why this new breed of ... Read more

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New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing Violence is the first English-language study of the consequent boom in drama and why this new breed of
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Bad Boy Nietzsche! and Other Plays

by Richard Foreman ...

Richard Foreman has been at the leading edge of the theatrical avant-garde in the United States and throughout the world since 1968. His legendary productions, written and directed by him at his Ontological-Hysteric Theatre have influenced two generations of theater artists. This new anthology collects plays written and performed over six years, including Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels ... Read more

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Richard Foreman has been at the leading edge of the theatrical avant-garde in the United States and throughout the world since 1968. His legendary productions, written and directed by him at his Ontological-Hysteric Theatre have influenced two generations of theater artists. This new anthology collects plays written and performed over six years, including Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels
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Plays, 1996-2000 (Maxwell)

by Richard Maxwell ...

* New play Joe opens 8/02 at NYC's P.S. 122 * Directing Henry IV at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Spring 2003 18 plays in the collection Performed work all over the world as well as many numerous performance spaces throughout the U.S ... Read more

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* New play Joe opens 8/02 at NYC's P.S. 122 * Directing Henry IV at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Spring 2003 18 plays in the collection Performed work all over the world as well as many numerous performance spaces throughout the U.S
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Shakespeare After All

by Marjorie Garber ...

A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two ... Read more

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A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two
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Theatre of Movement and Gesture

by Jacques Lecoq ...

Translated by Joel Anderson, D Bradby, Luke Kernaghan, DICK MCCAW ...

Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews ... Read more

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Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews
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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

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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
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Winnie the Witch

by Anthony Clark, Paul Korky, Valerie Thomas ...

Series series Oberon Plays for Young People
Winnie the Witch uses her magic to solve some very practical problems. But the results are never quite as she imagined...One day after turning everything in her house black to hide the mess, she discovers she can no longer see her black cat Wilbur. So she decides to use a bit of magic, and that's when the trouble really starts...This wonderful new play for children brings together all three books ... Read more

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Winnie the Witch uses her magic to solve some very practical problems. But the results are never quite as she imagined...One day after turning everything in her house black to hide the mess, she discovers she can no longer see her black cat Wilbur. So she decides to use a bit of magic, and that's when the trouble really starts...This wonderful new play for children brings together all three books
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Performing Remains

Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment

by Rebecca Schneider ...

'At last, the past has arrived! Performing Remains is Rebecca Schneider's authoritative statement on a major topic of interest to the field of theatre and performance studies. It extends and consolidates her pioneering contributions to the field through its interdisciplinary method, vivid writing, and stimulating polemic. Performing Remains has been eagerly awaited, and will be appreciated now and ... Read more

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'At last, the past has arrived! Performing Remains is Rebecca Schneider's authoritative statement on a major topic of interest to the field of theatre and performance studies. It extends and consolidates her pioneering contributions to the field through its interdisciplinary method, vivid writing, and stimulating polemic. Performing Remains has been eagerly awaited, and will be appreciated now and
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Write A Play And Get It Performed: Teach Yourself

by Lesley Bown, Ann Gawthorpe, Lesley Hudswell ...

Write a Play - and Get It Performed is designed for would-be writers of every level and for all types of motivation by two prize-winning professionals. Whether writing for the specific needs of an amateur drama group, community event, political campaign or simply for personal or professional development, this is a guide to the craft of playwriting. It offers guidance on the creative principles of ... Read more

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Write a Play - and Get It Performed is designed for would-be writers of every level and for all types of motivation by two prize-winning professionals. Whether writing for the specific needs of an amateur drama group, community event, political campaign or simply for personal or professional development, this is a guide to the craft of playwriting. It offers guidance on the creative principles of
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