The Making Of Theatrical Reputations

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The Making Of Theatrical Reputations

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Author : Yael Zarhy-Levo
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2008-04-21

The Making Of Theatrical Reputations written by Yael Zarhy-Levo and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-21 with Drama categories.

Today's successful plays and playwrights achieve their prominence not simply because of their intrinsic merit but because of the work of mediators, who influence the whole trajectory of a playwright's or a theatre company's career. Critics and academic writers are primarily considered the makers of reputations, but funding organizations and various media agents as well as artistic directors, producers, and directors also pursue separate agendas in shaping the reputations of theatrical works. In The Making of Theatrical Reputations Yael Zarhy-Levo demonstrates the processes through which these mediatory practices by key authority figures situate theatrical companies and playwrights within cultural and historical memory. To reveal how these authorizing powers-that-be promote theatrical events, companies, and playwrights, Zarhy-Levo presents four detailed case studies that reflect various angles of the modern London theatre. In the case of the English Stage Company's production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, she centers on a specific event. She then focuses on the trajectory of a single company, the Theatre Workshop, particularly through its first decade at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London. Next, she explores the career of the dramatist John Arden, especially its first ten years, in part drawing upon an interview with Arden and his wife, actress and playwright Margaretta D'Arcy, before turning to her fourth study: the playwright Harold Pinter's shifting reputation throughout the different phases of his career. Zarhy-Levo's accounts of these theatrical events, companies, and playwrights through the prism of mediation bring fresh insights to these landmark productions and their creators.

The Cambridge Companion To Harold Pinter

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Author : Peter Raby
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-03-19

The Cambridge Companion To Harold Pinter written by Peter Raby 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 2009-03-19 with Drama categories.

Harold Pinter was one of the world's leading and most controversial writers, and his impact and influence continues to grow. This Companion examines the wide range of Pinter's work - his writing for theatre, radio, television and screen, and also his highly successful work as a director and actor. Substantially updated and revised, this second edition covers the many developments in Pinter's career since the publication of the first edition, including his Nobel Prize for Literature win in 2005, his appearance in Samuel Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape and recent productions of his plays. Containing essays written by both academics and leading practitioners, the volume places Pinter's writing within the critical and theatrical context of his time and considers its reception worldwide. Including three new essays, new production photographs, five updated and revised chapters and an extended chronology, the Companion provides fresh perspectives on Pinter's work.

The American Pipe Dream

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Author : Max Shulman
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2022-06-15

The American Pipe Dream written by Max Shulman and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-15 with Performing Arts categories.

The American Pipe Dream examines the many iterations of addiction as it was performed over the first half of the twentieth century, working from a massive archive of previously ignored material. Because the stage-addict became the primary way the U.S. public learned about addiction and drug use, Shulman argues that performance was essential in creating the addict in America’s cultural imagination. He demonstrates how modern-day perceptions of addiction and of the addict emerge from a complex history of accumulation and revision that spanned the Progressive Era, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression. Chapters look at how theatre, film, and popular culture linked the Chinese immigrant and opium smoking; the early attacks on doctors for their part in the creation of addicts; the legislation of addiction as a criminal condition; the comic portrayals of addiction; the intersection of Black, jazz, and drug cultures through cabaret performance; and the linkage between narcotic inebriation and artistic inspiration. The American Pipe Dream creates active connections between these case studies, demonstrating how this history has influenced our contemporary understanding, treatment, and legislation of drug use and addiction.

Athenian Tragedy In Performance

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Author : Melinda Powers
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2014-05

Athenian Tragedy In Performance written by Melinda Powers and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05 with Performing Arts categories.

"Investigates the methodological problems that arise in some of the latest research on ancient Greek theatre."--Back cover.

No Turn Unstoned

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1983

No Turn Unstoned written by and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Theater categories.

"Theatrical reviews--the worst that critics have said about actors, actresses, directors, plays, playwrights, sets and costumes through the ages. Devastating, venomous and hilarious."--Cover.

Traveler There Is No Road

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Author : Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2017-06-15

Traveler There Is No Road written by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-15 with Performing Arts categories.

Traveler, There Is No Road offers a compelling and complex vision of the decolonial imagination in the United States from 1931 to 1943 and beyond. This book offers a unique perspective on 1930s theatre and performance, encompassing the theatrical work of the Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Spanish diasporas in the United States, as well as the better-known Anglophone communities. Author Lisa Jackson-Schebetta situates well-known figures, such as Langston Hughes and Clifford Odets, alongside lesser-known ones, such as Erasmo Vando, Franca de Armiño, and Manuel Aparicio. Traveler conclusively demonstrates that theatre and performance scholars must position US performances within the Americas writ broadly, and in doing so they must recognize the centrality of the hemisphere's longest-lived colonial power, Spain.

Feminist Rehearsals

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Author : May Summer Farnsworth
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2023-03-29

Feminist Rehearsals written by May Summer Farnsworth and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-29 with Performing Arts categories.

As feminism gained prominence in twentieth-century popular culture, dramatic conventions progressed accordingly, offering larger and more diverse roles for women characters. Feminist Rehearsals documents the early stages of feminist theatre in Argentina and Mexico, revealing how various aspects of performance culture—spectator formation, playwriting, professional acting and directing, and dramatic techniques—paralleled political activism and championed the goals of the women’s rights movement. Through performance and protest, feminists enacted new identities and pushed for myriad social and legislative reforms during a time when women were denied suffrage and full citizenship status. Together, feminist theatre and demonstrations politicized women spectators’ collective presence and promoted women’s rights in the public sphere.

From Androboros To The First Amendment

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Author : Peter A. Davis
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2015-05-15

From Androboros To The First Amendment written by Peter A. Davis and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with Performing Arts categories.

Androboros, A Bographical [sic] Farce in Three Acts (1715), is universally acknowledged as the first play both written and printed in America. Its significance stems not simply from its publication but from its eventual impact. Androboros was not just the first of its kind, it was also ahead of its time in many ways, preceding the harsh political satires and farces of the later eighteenth century by some fifty years. The play inadvertently laid the foundation for one of the defining rights of the nation that would eventually emerge some seventy-five years later - the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. As a closet drama intended only to be read by close friends and political supporters, this play has languished as a minor footnote in American intellectual history. Scholarly research published to date has been, for the most part, inadequate and occasionally inaccurate. This study remedies that oversight, providing a full analysis as well as an annotated typescript and facsimiles of the original printing. -- from back cover.

What Is Theatre

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Author : Eric Bentley
language : en
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Release Date : 1984

What Is Theatre written by Eric Bentley and has been published by Amadeus Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Performing Arts categories.

Hitchcock

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Author : Robert E. Kapsis
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-02-21

Hitchcock written by Robert E. Kapsis and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-21 with Performing Arts categories.

From the beginning of his career, Alfred Hitchcock wanted to be considered an artist. Although his thrillers were immensely popular, and Hitchcock himself courted reviewers, he was, for many years, regarded as no more than a master craftsman. By the 1960s, though, critics began calling him an artist of unique vision and gifts. What happened to make Hitchcock's reputation as a true innovator and singular talent? Through a close examination of Hitchcock's personal papers, scripts, production notes, publicity files, correspondence, and hundreds of British and American reviews, Robert Kapsis here traces Hitchcock's changing critical fortunes. Vertigo, for instance, was considered a flawed film when first released; today it is viewed by many as the signal achievement of a great director. According to Kapsis, this dramatic change occurred because the making of the Hitchcock legend was not solely dependent on the quality of his films. Rather, his elevation to artist was caused by a successful blending of self-promotion, sponsorship by prominent members of the film community, and, most important, changes in critical theory which for the first time allowed for the idea of director as auteur. Kapsis also examines the careers of several other filmmakers who, like Hitchcock, have managed to cross the line that separates craftsman from artist, and shows how Hitchcock's legacy and reputation shed light on the way contemporary reputations are made. In a chapter about Brian De Palma, the most reknowned thriller director since Hitchcock, Kapsis explores how Hitchcock's legacy has affected contemporary work in—and criticism of—the thriller genre. Filled with fascinating anecdotes and intriguing excerpts, and augmented by interviews with Hitchcock's associates, this thoroughly documented and engagingly written book will appeal to scholars and film enthusiasts alike. "Required reading for Hitchcock scholars...scrupulously researched, invaluable material for those who continue to ask: what made the master tick?"—Anthony Perkins