Contemporary Catalan Theatre
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Contemporary Catalan Theatre
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Author : David J. George
language : en
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Release Date : 1996
Contemporary Catalan Theatre written by David J. George and has been published by Sheffield Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sergi Belbel And Catalan Theatre
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Author : David John George
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2010
Sergi Belbel And Catalan Theatre written by David John George and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Criticism categories.
A major contemporary playwright and director. By the late 1970s, internationally known performance groups such as Els Joglars, La Fura dels Baus or La Cubana had precipitated a decline in text-based Catalan theatre, reversed in the mid 1980s with the appearance of a younger generation of playwrights led by Sergi Belbel. Influenced by contemporary European rather than Spanish or Catalan drama, his work was very different from the realist idiom favoured by playwrights of the Franco generation. Butplaywriting is only one aspect of Belbel's work as a theatre practitioner. He also has a highly successful career as a director of Spanish, Catalan and foreign plays [a number of which he himself has translated], and, since 2006, he has held the position of Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Catalonia. This study examines these three key aspects of his career, as well as Ventura Pons's film adaptations of his plays. Finally, it considersthe reception of his plays in several countries, analysing his evolving relationship with critics at home and abroad. DAVID GEORGE is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Swansea University.
In The Eye Of The Storm
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Author : Sharon G. Feldman
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2009
In The Eye Of The Storm written by Sharon G. Feldman and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Barcelona, the cultural epicenter of Catalunya, is presently experiencing the most dynamic and polemical period in its modern theater history. It is the commanding hub of an energetic theater scene that in recent years has witnessed an exuberant outpouring of new dramatists, a steady crescendo in theater attendance, and a continual increase in the international presence of Catalan directors, playwrights, and companies. Barcelona's post-Olympian cultural landscape, moreover, comprises several architecturally striking theater projects. The diversity of opportunities to stage plays in Catalan at an assortment of city spaces is unprecedented, ranging in variety from commercial locales to publicly funded stages to experimental "alternative" venues. Since its origins in the nineteenth century, modem Catalan drama has frequently exhibited a cosmopolitan and even transnational impulse, engaging in an artistic dialogue with international theater traditions of both past and present and forging its identity vis-a-vis its intercultural associations. The path along which the contemporary Catalan theater scene has struggled to recover and reconstitute the professional legitimacy and visibility that it lost during the Franco dictatorship has been a complex process, never lacking in melodramatic excess, witnessed both on and off the stage. The Barcelona stage, throughout its contemporary evolution, has been immersed in a stormy climate, whose relentlessly frenetic atmospheric activity at times may impede one from acquiring the distance necessary to see beyond the hurricane." --Book Jacket.
Contemporary Trends In The Catalan Theatre
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Author : Xavier Fàbregas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Contemporary Trends In The Catalan Theatre written by Xavier Fàbregas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
The Aesthetics Of The Ephemeral
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Author : Jennifer Duprey
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2014-07-01
The Aesthetics Of The Ephemeral written by Jennifer Duprey and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Analyzes theatrical texts and performances while providing political and historical mappings. In The Aesthetics of the Ephemeral, Jennifer Duprey examines five contemporary plays from Barcelona: Olors and Testament by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, Antígona by Jordi Coca, Forasters by Sergi Belbel, and Temptació by Carles Batlle. She argues that in both the theatrical text and its performance an aesthetics of the ephemeral materializes that is related to specific manifestations of cultural and historical memory in Spain and Catalonia. These manifestations of memory include historical concerns such as the possibility of another form of justice in predicaments of violence after the Civil War, and they also include contemporary issues such as the production of ruins by the processes of gentrification in Barcelona, the complexity of immigration in Spain, and the destruction or preservation of Catalan cultural legacies. In her analysis of these topics, Duprey engages and expands on theories related to questions of subjectivity and identity in late modernity. This book will be of interest to those concerned with Iberian cultural studies and with how theater reflects on and contributes to contemporary political dialogue.
Modern Catalan Plays
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Author : John London
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-01-14
Modern Catalan Plays written by John London and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-14 with Drama categories.
Four plays from the rich theatrical world of Catalan drama. Since the early 1990s, Catalonia has proven to the world that its rich heritage and artistic tradition are worthy of focus and study. The plays in the volume reflect the post-Franco era during which Barcelona and other parts of Catalonia have become the focal point for new dramatic expression. Joan Brossa (1919-1998) was the spiritual father of this new wave of artistic revolution in writing. His play The Quarrelsome Party is a dark family drama as surreal as any bad dream. The Audition by Rodolf Sirera has its roots in the author's anti-Franco stance. This in-the-theatre drama has the mystery cat-and-mouse playfulness of Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth. Benet i Jornet's play Desire is a Beckettian mystery play about four unnamed characters. Sergi Belbel represents the new generation of Catalan playwrights and his plays have had wide appeal abroad. In Fourplay he experiments with the idea of a sex farce and the play's 38 scenes lead to wild conclusions.
Catalan Culture
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language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2018-03-28
Catalan Culture written by and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-28 with History categories.
This volume presents studies of some of the key artistic manifestations in Catalonia in recent times, a period of innovation and experimentation, and addresses issues concerning literature, film, theatre and performance art. From the creation of a new popular theatre in the work of the Valencian playwright Rodolf Sirera, or the conception of landscape, myth and memory in the late work of the novelist Mercè Rodoreda and the urgency of memory and remembrance in the writings of Jordi Coca, the effects of censorship in Catalonia appear to have proved a spur and a challenge to writers. Desiring to occupy illegal spaces, performance groups have manifested both literally and metaphorically the international dimension of Catalan culture in the modern period, posed in the present volume by the instances of La Cubana and Els Joglars, and further evidenced in the cross-fertilization in the work of contemporary Catalan playwrights and filmmakers to foreground issues of national plurality and tensions arising between the periphery (Catalonia) and the centre (Spain and Castile).
Thinking In The Present Memory And The Aesthetics Of The Ephemeral In Contemporary Catalan Theater
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Author : Jennifer Duprey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Thinking In The Present Memory And The Aesthetics Of The Ephemeral In Contemporary Catalan Theater written by Jennifer Duprey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
In my doctoral dissertation I argue for the need of a historical and political understanding of the thematic centrality of memory and its relation to the concepts of legacy, war, violence and immigration, in contemporary Catalan theater. My study explores how these tropes are interrelated with an aesthetic of the ephemeral that is materialized both in the texts and in their theatrical representations. In this vein, I argue that contemporary Catalan theater addresses the aforementioned concerns in provocative and innovative ways that are relevant for our present. Works of Catalan playwright Josep Maria Benet i Jornet are examined in the first and second chapters of my dissertation. These two chapters explore the notions of modern ruins and legacy and their import to contemporary Catalan culture in the plays Olors and Testament. In my third chapter, I explore the concepts of war and violence, specifically in the context of the Spanish Civil War, and their connections to the manifestations of power and justice in the play Antigona by Jordi Coca. The final chapter examines 20th century theories of immigration, multiculturalism and mestizaje, particularly related to Catalonia, in the plays Temptacio by Caries Batlle and Forasters written by Sergi Belbel. In its conceptual aspects, this study engages with an array of theoretical approaches, from cultural theory to political philosophy, especially with the writings of Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Jacques Derrida, Xavier Rubert de Ventos, Manuel Cruz and Manuel Delgado. It also engages in a dialogue with current critical work on 20th century Spanish Peninsular literature and culture such as the writings of Joan Ramon Resina, Eduardo Subirats, Teresa Vilaros and Jo Labanyi. My analysis of this literary corpus also considers seminal works on theater and performance theory such as Josep Palau i Fabre's, Francesc Foguet i Boreu's, and Ricard Salvat's in Spain as well as Marvin Carlson's, Peter Brook's, and Richard Foreman's in the United States and Europe.
Theatre In Madrid And Barcelona 1892 1936
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Author : David John George
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Theatre In Madrid And Barcelona 1892 1936 written by David John George and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
A thorough study of theatrical practices and developments in Madrid and Barcelona, 1892-1936, the conflicting nature of material staged at both venues, and the public response to these developments in the light of the growth of the identity of the Catalan people at the same time. 6 black-and-white illustrations.
A History Of Theatre In Spain
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Author : Maria M. Delgado
language : es
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-09
A History Of Theatre In Spain written by Maria M. Delgado and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-09 with Drama categories.
Leading theater historians and practitioners map a theatrical history that moves from the religious tropes of Medieval Iberia to the postmodern practices of twenty-first-century Spain. Considering work across the different languages of Spain, from vernacular Latin to Catalan, Galician and Basque, this history engages with the work of actors and directors, designers and publishers, agents and impresarios, and architects and ensembles, in indicating the ways in which theater has both commented on and intervened in the major debates and issues of the day. Chapters consider paratheatrical activities and popular performance, such as the comedia de magia and flamenco, alongside the works of Spain's major dramatists, from Lope de Vega to Federico García Lorca. Featuring revealing interviews with actress Nuria Espert, director Lluís Pasqual and playwright Juan Mayorga, it positions Spanish theater within a paradigm that recognizes its links and intersections with wider European and Latin American practices.