The Secret Life Of Theatre
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The Secret Life Of Theater
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Author : Brian Kulick
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-08
The Secret Life Of Theater written by Brian Kulick and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with Performing Arts categories.
What is the secret DNA of theater? What makes it unique from its sister arts? Why was it invented? Why does it persist? And now, in such an advanced technological age, why do we still feel compelled to return to a mode of expression that was invented over two thousand years ago? These are some of the foundational questions that are asked in this study of theater from its inception to today. The Secret Life of Theater begins with a look at theater’s origins in Ancient Greece. Next, it moves on to examine the history and nature of theater, from Agamenon to Angels in America, through theater’s use of stage directions, revealing the many unspoken languages that are employed to communicate with its audiences. Finally, it looks at theater’s ever-shifting strategies of engendering fellow-feeling through the use of emotion, allowing the form to become a rare space where one can feel a thought and think a feeling. In an age when many studies are concerned with the "how" of theater, this work returns us to theatre’s essential "why." The Secret Life of Theater suggests that by reframing the question we can re-enchant this unique and ever-vital medium of expression.
The Secret Life Of The American Musical
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Author : Jack Viertel
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2016-03-01
The Secret Life Of The American Musical written by Jack Viertel and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-01 with Performing Arts categories.
A New York Times Bestseller For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school actors, and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In The Secret Life of the American Musical, Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next—by design or by accident, by emulation or by rebellion—from Oklahoma! to Hamilton and onward. Structured like a musical, The Secret Life of the American Musical begins with an overture and concludes with a curtain call, with stops in between for “I Want” songs, “conditional” love songs, production numbers, star turns, and finales. The ultimate insider, Viertel has spent three decades on Broadway, working on dozens of shows old and new as a conceiver, producer, dramaturg, and general creative force; he has his own unique way of looking at the process and at the people who collaborate to make musicals a reality. He shows us patterns in the architecture of classic shows and charts the inevitable evolution that has taken place in musical theater as America itself has evolved socially and politically. The Secret Life of the American Musical makes you feel as though you’ve been there in the rehearsal room, in the front row of the theater, and in the working offices of theater owners and producers as they pursue their own love affair with that rare and elusive beast—the Broadway hit.
The Secret Life Of Plays
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Author : Steve Waters
language : en
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Release Date : 2010
The Secret Life Of Plays written by Steve Waters and has been published by Nick Hern Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Drama categories.
A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters. Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing - scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images - to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner vitality as a living organism. Almost uniquely amongst accounts of playwriting, Waters' book looks at the ways in which good plays move their audiences, generating powerful emotional responses that often defy conventional analysis. The Secret Life of Plays is for playwrights at any stage of their career, and will inspire and inform drama students as well as working actors and directors. Most of all it is for anyone who has ever laughed or cried in the theatre - and wants to know why. 'Theatre is a live medium, about bodies, sweat and feeling, even if it is informed by ideas and reason. How a thing composed of words manages to carry within it the currents of energy that generate that impression of life is what I want to explore...' Steve Waters 'Steve Waters' book is like his plays: clear, elegant and stimulating throughout' David Edgar
The Secret Life
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Author : Harley Granville Barker
language : en
Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-26
The Secret Life written by Harley Granville Barker and has been published by Broadway Play Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-26 with Drama categories.
"Burnt out...inside." Joan, THE SECRET LIFE, ACT ONE, Scene 1 "[Granville Barker] stands, in my eyes, second to none of his contemporaries.... I do not hesitate to say that I consider [his] plays the biggest things our modern movement has produced." William Archer (1922) "It is a very great thing, that play of yours [THE SECRET LIFE]." T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), 1923 Harley Granville Barker's mostly forgotten masterpiece, THE SECRET LIFE (1923), has had only two productions, none in the United States and none during Barker's lifetime. This rich and deeply personal play, set in post-World War I England, charts a world that has become rudderless and lost, and where love between a one-time rising politician and a woman draped in tragedy cannot be reignited. The Heritage of The Actor, included here, written as a companion piece to THE SECRET LIFE, is one of Barker's most concise and brilliant essays on the art of making theater. Harley Granville Barker, (1877-1946), actor, playwright, director, producer, theatre visionary; his other plays include AGNES COLANDER, THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE, WASTE, THE MADRAS HOUSE, and HIS MAJESTY. Other writings include the multi-volume Prefaces to Shakespeare, The Exemplary Theatre, and A National Theatre. Preface by Richard Nelson and Colin Chambers
The Secret Hen House Theatre
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Author : Helen Peters
language : en
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Release Date : 2012-04-05
The Secret Hen House Theatre written by Helen Peters and has been published by Nosy Crow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-05 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Since the death of her mother, Hannah's family life has been somewhat chaotic. Her father is absorbed by running their dilapidated farm, and the four children are increasingly left to their own devices. These include "farming" each room of the house, looking after an enormous pet sheep called Jasper, and writing and directing plays in a disused hen house. But when the farm is threatened with demolition, Hannah determines to save it and realise her dreams at the same time... Shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize, this is a brilliant story of eccentric family life where the children's imaginations run as free as the farmyard animals. From the award-winning author of Evie's Ghost, Anna at War, The Farm Beneath the Water and the Jasmine Green series for younger readers, this is perfect for fans of Iva Ibbotson and Philippa Pearce.
Granville Barker A Secret Life
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Author : Eric Salmon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Granville Barker A Secret Life written by Eric Salmon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Harley Granville Barker was, in his day, the most famous and respected director in the British theater and his reputation as an actor and playwright stood almost as high. The author examines the three strands in Barker's career and demonstrates that Barker's writing and his practical theater work were--and still are--of great importance and that there is an intrinsic and intricate relationship among them.
Secret Life Of Humans
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Author : David Byrne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Secret Life Of Humans written by David Byrne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Civilization categories.
Inspired by Yuval Harari's international bestseller, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.
The Secret Life Of Aphra Behn
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Author : Janet Todd
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-09-19
The Secret Life Of Aphra Behn written by Janet Todd and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet, novelist and spy: the date of her death, 16 April 1689. For the rest secrecy and duplicity are almost the key to her life. She loved codes, making and breaking them; writing her life becomes a decoding of a passionate but playful woman. Janet Todd draws on documents she has rediscovered in the Dutch archives, and on Behn's own writings, to tell a story of court, diplomatic and sexual intrigue, and of the rise from humble origins of the first woman to earn her living as a professional writer. Aphra Behn's first notable employment was as a Royal spy in Holland; she had probably also spied in Surinam. It was not until she was in her thirties that she published the first of the 19 plays and other works which established her fame (though not riches) among her 'good, sweet, honey-candied readers'. Many of her works were openly erotic, indeed as frank as anything by her friends Wycherley and Rochester. Some also offered an inside view of court and political intrigues, and Todd reveals the historical scandals and legal cases behind some of Behn's most famous 'fictions'.
A Dictionary Of Theatre Anthropology
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Author : Eugenio Barba
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2011-03-18
A Dictionary Of Theatre Anthropology written by Eugenio Barba and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-18 with Art categories.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Secret Love Life Of Ophelia
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Author : Steven Berkoff
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-07-31
The Secret Love Life Of Ophelia written by Steven Berkoff and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-31 with Performing Arts categories.
Hamlet and Ophelia express the infinite variety of their passion in a work which takes the form of an epistolary play in verse. Steven Berkoff's startlingly original drama charts the lovers' story beneath the surface of Shakespeare's play. With a muscularity of language tempered with tenderness, Berkoff's play is shot through with images of courtly love, sexual desire and intimations of future tragedy. The chill of the ending perfectly offsets the preceding violent heat in what is another unique piece of work from the individual talent that is Steven Berkoff. The Secret Love Life of Ophelia was first performed at the King's Head Theatre, London, on 25 June 2001.