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Musical Theater An Appreciation

Musical Theater An Appreciation

Musical Theater: An Appreciation Second Edition offers a history of musical theater from its operating origins to the Broadway shows of today combined with an in-depth study of the musical styles that paralleled changes on stage. Alyson McLamore teaches readers how to listen to both the words and the music of the stage musical enabling them to understand how all the components of a show interact to create a compelling experience for audiences. This second edition has been updated with new chapters covering recent developments in the twenty-first century while insights from recent scholarship on musical theater have been incorporated throughout the text. The musical examples discussed in the text now include detailed listening guides while a new companion website includes plot summaries and links to audio of the musical examples. From Don Giovanni to Hamilton Musical Theater: An Appreciation both explores the history of musical theater and develops a deep appreciation of the musical elements at the heart of this unique art form. | Musical Theater An Appreciation

GBP 115.00
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Children Childhood and Musical Theater

Children Childhood and Musical Theater

Bringing together scholars from musicology literature childhood studies and theater this volume examines the ways in which children's musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the child. The contributors take up a wide range of musicals including works inspired by the books of children's authors such as Roald Dahl P. L. Travers and Francis Hodgson Burnett; created by Rodgers and Hammerstein Lionel Bart and other leading lights of musical theater; or conceived for a cast made up entirely of children. The collection examines musicals that propagate or complicate normative attitudes regarding what childhood is or should be. It also considers the child performer in movie musicals as well as in professional and amateur stage musicals. This far-ranging collection highlights the special place that musical theater occupies in the imaginations and lives of children as well as adults. The collection comes at a time of increased importance of musical theater in the lives of children and young adults. | Children Childhood and Musical Theater

GBP 38.99
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Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater

Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater

In Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater Peilin Liang develops a theory of bodily transformation. Proposing the concept of transformance a conscious and rigorous process of self-cultivation toward a reconceptualized body Liang shows how theater practitioners of minoritized cultures adopt transformance as a strategy to counteract the embodied practices of ideological and economic hegemony. This book observes key Taiwanese contemporary theater practitioners at work in forging five reconceptualized bodies: the energized the rhythmic the ritualized the joyous and the (re)productive. By focusing on the development of transformance between the years of 2000–2008 a tumultuous political watershed in Taiwan’s history the author succeeds in bridging postcolonialism and interculturalism in her conceptual framework. Ideal for scholars of Asian and postcolonial theater Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater shows how transformance rather than performance calibrates with far greater precision and acuity the state of the body and the culture that it seeks to create.

GBP 38.99
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Theater Planning Facilities for Performing Arts and Live Entertainment

Theater Planning Facilities for Performing Arts and Live Entertainment

This book introduces the concepts of theater planning and provides a detailed guide to the process and the technical requirements particular to theater buildings. Part I is a guide to the concepts and practices of architecture and construction as applied to performing arts buildings. Part II is a guide to the design of performing arts buildings with detailed descriptions of the unique requirements of these buildings. Each concept is illustrated with line drawings and examples from the author’s extensive professional practice. This book is written for students in Theatre Planning courses along with working practitioners. | Theater Planning Facilities for Performing Arts and Live Entertainment

GBP 59.99
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Mysticism in the Theater What’s Needed Right Now

Mysticism in the Theater What’s Needed Right Now

Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a production. Historical mysticism represents ideas developed by recognized spiritual thinkers in all religions and time periods: individuals who stilled their ego and perceived the unity of all hidden within the apparent multiplicity of existence. This unique manner of spiritual inlay allows theatrical presentations to find the height of artistic expression: art at the intersection of our historical moment and the eternal. This study introduces theater makers to the history of mystical inspiration within performance work and develops strategies for inserting mystical ideas into their productions. The book ties this model into theatre’s history as mystical ideas and quotes have been inserted into productions from Greek theatre through Shakespeare and into the present day. This book explores how teachings and ideas of specific historical mystical thinkers might influence all aspects of contemporary theatrical productions including writing directing acting stagecraft/set design lighting design costume design sound design and choreography. | Mysticism in the Theater What’s Needed Right Now

GBP 130.00
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Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness Repurposing Theater through Dance

Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness Repurposing Theater through Dance

Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness: Repurposing Theater through Dance maps Bausch’s pieces alongside methodologies of key theater and film practitioners. This book includes discussion of a variety of Bausch pieces including Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring 1975) Kontakthof (Meeting Place 1978) Café Müller (Café Mueller 1978) Nelken (Carnations 1982) Arien (Arias 1985) and Vollmond (Full Moon 2006). Beginning with her approach as one avenue of dance dramaturgy the author connects the content expressed in these pieces with theoretical conversations works from other artists inspired by Bausch and her own experiences providing an examination that is both academic and personally insightful. Arendell reads all of these theatrical and film approaches into Bausch’s work to highlight how the time frame involves a cross-pollination between Bausch and the other artists that looks both backward and forward in its influences. Ideal for students of dance and theater Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness shows how Bausch’s Tanztheater speaks a kinaesthetic language one that Arendell translates into a somaesthetic exploration to pair a repurposed body ethic with movements that present new forms of embodiment. | Pina Bausch’s Aggressive Tenderness Repurposing Theater through Dance

GBP 38.99
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Theater and World The Problematics of Shakespeare's History

Theater and World The Problematics of Shakespeare's History

First published in 1992 Theater and World is a detailed exploration of Shakespeare’s representation of history and how it affects the relation between theatre and world. The book focuses primarily on the Second Tetralogy (Richard II Henry IV Part I Henry IV Part II and Henry V) and includes a wealth of analysis and interpretation of the plays. In doing so it explores a wide range of topics including the relation between literary and theatrical representations and the world; the nature of illusion and reality; genre; the connection between history and fiction (especially plays); historiography and literary criticism or theory; poetry and philosophy; and irony both rhetorical and philosophical. Theater and World continues to have lasting relevance for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare’s words and his representation of history in particular. | Theater and World The Problematics of Shakespeare's History

GBP 29.99
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Ramayana Theater in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Ramayana Theater in Contemporary Southeast Asia

The ancient Indian epic poem Ramayana has been disseminated throughout large tracts of Southeast Asia since the 9th century. Versions of the epic poem have come to adopt and reflect the unique characteristics of the countries and regions where it has gained cultural currency. The epic has been a source of popular themes in both traditional and contemporary art forms including literature performing arts fine arts and films. This book showcases Ramayana theater as a platform where the multiple meanings and senses of values are negotiated. It focuses on the relationships between the cultural representation and the various meanings of Ramayana theater as well as other dramatic art forms. Focusing on the various contemporary contexts of art performances where the epic poem has been represented the book also presents the ideologies and moral values contained in the theatrical forms of the epic poem. It discusses various performance contexts such as diaspora communities production of popular content culture cultural diplomacy designation as intangible cultural heritage transmission tourism and the representation/exhibition of culture as well as the performance in rituals. It also includes works of three contemporary and inspiring artists: cross-gender dancer Didik Nini Thowok animator as well as puppeteer Nanang Ananto Wicaksono and composer Ken Steven. | Ramayana Theater in Contemporary Southeast Asia

GBP 76.99
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