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  • A Practical Handbook for the Actor

    by Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, Scott Zigler ...
    For anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class, "this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years" (David Mamet, from the Introduction).This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the ... Read more

    8,58 €

  • The Art and Practice of Costume Design

    Edited by Melissa Merz ...
    In The Art and Practice of Costume Design, a panel of seven designers offer a new multi-sided look at the current state and practice of theatrical costume design. Beginning with an exploration of the role of a Costume Designer, the subsequent chapters analyse and explore the psychology of dress, the principles and elements of design, how to create costume renderings, and collaboration within the ... Read more

    70,61 €

  • Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance

    A Handbook

    by Phil Smith ...
    This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site. Phil Smith draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary and international performance examples, and uses an innovative variety of exercises, to show students and aspiring performance-makers how to find ... Read more

    28,29 €

  • Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

    by Stella Adler ...
    In her long-awaited book, the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler gives us her extraordinary insights into the work of Henrik Ibsen ("The creation of the modern theater took a genius like Ibsen. . .Miller and Odets, Inge and O'Neill, Williams and Shaw, swallowed the whole of him"), August Strindberg ("He understood and predicted the forces that would break in our lives"), and Anton Chekhov ( ... Read more

    4,34 €

  • Versuch ueber Kundry

    Facetten einer Figur

    by Chikako Kitagawa ...
    Series Book 22 - Perspektiven der Opernforschung
    Thema des Buches ist Kundry, die weibliche Hauptfigur in Richard Wagners Spätwerk Parsifal (1882) und eine singuläre Gestalt der Operngeschichte. Als Grenzgängerin und in sich Zerrissene findet sie – zwischen Schrei, Lachen und Verstummen – zu verstörend neuen Artikulationsformen an den Rändern des Sagbaren. Ziel der Autorin ist es, das Vielgestaltige, stets wieder Beunruhigende der Kundry-Figur ... Read more

    79,49 €

  • Introduction to Speechwork for Actors

    An Inclusive Approach

    by Ron Carlos ...
    Series series Acting Essentials
    Traditional speech work has long favored an upper-class white accent as the model of intelligibility. Because of that, generations of actors have felt disconnected from their own identities and acting choices.This much-needed textbook redresses that trend and encourages actors to achieve intelligibility through rigorous language analysis and an exploration of their own accent and articulation ... Read more

    19,92 €

  • Technical Automation in Classical Antiquity

    by Dr Maria Gerolemou ...
    Technical automation – the ability of man-made (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously – is not just the province of engineering or science fiction. In this book, Maria Gerolemou, by taking as her starting point the close semantic and linguistic relevance of technical automation to natural automatism, demonstrates how ancient literature, performance and engineering were often concerned ... Read more

    28,29 €

  • QLab 4

    Projects in Video, Audio, and Lighting Control

    by Jeromy Hopgood ...
    Used from Broadway to Britain's West End, QLab software is the tool of choice for many of the world's most prominent sound, projection, and integrated media designers. QLab 4: Projects in Video, Audio, and Lighting Control is a project-based book on QLab software covering sound, video, lighting, and show control. With information on audio, video, and lighting system basics and the more advanced ... Read more

    70,61 €

  • Prove di Drammaturgia n. 1/2008

    Teatro e informazione

    by Gerardo Guccini ...
    L’informazione alla quale il teatro si sta rapportando con crescente dispiegamento di energie inventive e di mobilitazione progettuale, non è di natura scenica. I teatranti, infatti, in questo periodo di traumatici e imprevedibili mutamenti storici, hanno moltiplicato le possibilità di relazione con diversificate realtà del mondo contemporaneo, prospettando esigenze conoscitive analoghe a quelle ... Read more

    1,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Goethes Faust: Oekonom – Landesplaner – Unternehmer

    by Klaus Weißinger ...
    Series Book 21 - Heidelberger Beitraege zur deutschen Literatur
    In dieser Studie stellt der Autor Fausts Werdegang vom Gelehrten zum Ökonomen, Landesplaner und Unternehmer dar und zeigt durch die innovative «geographische Deutung» des fünften Akts, inwiefern durch Fausts Neulandgewinnung eine blühende Kulturlandschaft hat entstehen können. Bislang bestand in der Faust-Forschung weitgehend Konsens darüber, dass Faust am Ende des Dramas ein Egomane und ein ... Read more

    28,08 €

  • "Avrò tregua a dì sì gravi?"

    Opera e ballo a Genova durante la Restaurazione (1816-1848)

    by Armando Fabio Ivaldi ...
    Series series Minerva
    Con la soppressione della Repubblica Ligure, decretata dal Congresso di Vienna, e con la sua annessione al Regno di Sardegna, problemi politico-economici e artistico-culturali s’intrecciarono e si scontrarono con le ambizioni dei Savoia-Carignano impersonate dal re Carlo Alberto (1831-1849), proiettate “al di qua delle Alpi”, ma in una contrapposizione non solo dinastica rispetto a Carlo Felice ... Read more

    4,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Media Design and Technology for Live Entertainment

    Essential Tools for Video Presentation

    by Davin Gaddy ...
    Media Design and Technology for Live Entertainment is a guide to understanding the concepts and equipment used in projection and video design for live performances. After an introduction in the principles of design elements as well as information on content, this book focuses on how content is used and transmitted by describing the essential components of systems, providing definitions used in ... Read more

    49,91 €

  • Stage Ready Tales for Creative Youth

    Inspiring Youth with Couplets - Vol. 1

    by meta ScreenPlays ...
    Welcome, parents, teachers, daycare aides, and lovers of the Arts! Stage Ready Tales for Creative Youth aims to guide you in using couplets as a multifaceted tool for child and adult entertainment, skill development, and enjoyment. Many of our stories are based on Aesop's Fables, and written as live stage scripts. Whether you're reading aloud at home, facilitating a classroom activity, nurturing ... Read more

    10,06 €

  • Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture

    From Simulation to Embeddedness

    by Matthew Causey ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved within those systems.The book examines the two Iraq wars, 9/11 and the War on Terror through the lens of performance studies, and, drawing on the ... Read more

    70,61 €

  • Bütün Oyunları 2

    by Aziz Nesin ...
    Toros Canavarı ilerde oyun olarak yazmayı tasarladığım konulardan biriydi. Daha biçokları gibi onu da ilerde oyunlaştırmak üzere ilkin öykü biçiminde yazmıştım. 1953'te yazdım, 1955'te dergide yayımlandı, 1957'de de Toros Canavarı adlı öykü kitabımın ilk öyküsü olarak çıktı. Şunu demek istiyorum ki Toros Canavarı öyküden uyarlanmış bir oyun değildir, aslında bir oyun özeti olarak önce öykü ... Read more

    0,77 €

  • Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds

    by Carina E. I. Westling, Professor Scott Palmer, Joslin McKinney, Stephen A. Di Benedetto ...
    Series series Performance and Design
    Longlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds is a detailed account of the company's award-winning productions and their historical context. Examining Punchdrunk's role as pioneers of immersive theatre in the UK through a range of their productions including Sleep No More and The Drowned Man ... Read more

    25,11 €

  • Il Totem Ba

    by Michelangelo Ricci ...
    Il Totem BA è un testo teatrale che mescola paradosso, tragicità e satira; la peculiarità estrema di due “gemelli siamesi” conl'universalità dell'omologazione del diverso; è il Totem che moltiplica i ragionamenti, le possibilità delle differenze e della dualità; loscatenarsi delle istituzioni contro l'individuo, che debole e incerto sulla sua identità ne diventa ostaggio. è il grido d'aiuto di chi ... Read more

    1,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lines Between the Lines

    How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment

    by Bess Rowen ...
    What is the purpose of a stage direction? These italicized lines written in between the lines of spoken dialogue tell us a great deal of information about a play's genre, mood, tone, visual setting, cast of characters, and more. Yet generations of actors have been taught to cross these words out as records of previous performances or signs of overly controlling playwrights, while scholars have ... Read more

    22,46 €

  • Media Archaeology and Intermedial Performance

    Deep Time of the Theatre

    Edited by Nele Wynants ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book develops media archaeological approaches to theatre and intermediality. As an age-old art form, theatre has always embraced ‘new’ media. To create theatrical effects and optical illusions, theatre makers were ready to integrate state-of-the-art technics and technologies, and by doing so they playfully explored and popularized scientific knowledge on mechanics, optics and sound for live ... Read more

    114,47 €

  • Thinking Through Theatre and Performance

    Edited by Maaike Bleeker, Adrian Kear, Joe Kelleher, Professor Heike Roms ...
    Series series Thinking Through Theatre
    Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance. Instead of topics, genres, histories or theories, the book starts with the questions that theatre and performance are uniquely capable of asking: How does theatre function as a place for seeing and hearing? How do not only bodies and voices but also objects and media perform? ... Read more

    28,29 €

  • Sakountala (chorégraphie Marie-Claude Pietragalla - 2000)

    Les Fiches Spectacle d'Universalis

    by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...
    Une fiche de référence sur Sakountala, un spectacle chorégraphié par Marie-Claude Pietragalla.Sakountala, spectacle créé en 2000 par Marie-Claude Pietragalla pour le Ballet national de Marseille, évoque, dans une grande fresque spectaculaire, la vie et l'œuvre de Camille Claudel (1864-1943). Associant la danse, les arts du cirque et le théâtre, cette création s'inscrit dans une d...Un ouvrage ... Read more

    6,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Soul of the Role

    The Ultimate Actor's Manual for Creating Authentic, Multi-Dimensional Characters

    by Kimmy Sunday ...
    Do You Want to Breathe Life into Every Character You Play?Stop Playing Roles. Start Living Them.We have all heard the definition of acting: "living truthfully under imaginary circumstances." But knowing the definition and embodying it are two very different things. How often do you read a script and feel like you are just skimming the surface? How many times have you walked onto a stage or set, ... Read more

    4,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Post-War British Theatre Criticism (Routledge Revivals)

    by John Elsom ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1981, sets out the critical reaction to some fifty key post-war productions of the British theatre, as gauged primarily through the contemporary reviews of theatre critics. The plays chosen are each, in their different ways, important in their contribution to the development of the British theatre, covering the period from immediately after the Second World War, when ... Read more

    32,87 €

  • Oyuncunun Oyunları

    by Lorna Marshall, Yoshi Oida ...
    Translated by Özlem Turhal De Chiara ...
    "Doğuda öğretmenler asla ders vermez. En azından bizim anladığımız anlamda. Gerçek bir öğretmen asla açıklama yapmaz ya da reçeteler sunmaz. Doğulu öğretmen sonsuz sabır ve sarsılmaz azimle neler başarılabileceğinin yaşayan örneğidir. Doğu geleneğindeki hiçbir şey Batıya doğrudan uygulanamaz. Yoshi Oida'nın Avrupa'ya gelmesinin başlıca nedeni budur. Hakkında pek bir şey bilmediği bu yarıkürede ne ... Read more

    3,13 €