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Teaching Writing Across Theatre And Performance Studies

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Teaching Writing Across Theatre And Performance Studies - A Resource Guide

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 From traditional play analysis and theatre history courses to creative writing courses like playwriting, writing is everywhere in theatre and performance studies.
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Past, Present, And Future Of American Regional Theatre - The Regional Ten

by Jeffrey Ullom

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 This book provides an overall history of the regional theatre movement in the US, while also utilizing specific accomplishments and failures in addition to crucial administrative and artistic decisions to chart larger developments in American theatre, most notably the craze for new play development, the death of resident companies in professional theatres, the passion to reflect social causes (especially social justice and the #MeToo movement), and the troubling economic state of contemporary regional theatres. The wide-ranging topics in the book examine all aspects of theatre, including its creation and reception, and provide the reader with an interdisciplinary understanding of how the establishment and growth of regional theatres reflected local economic and social developments.<p></p><p></p>
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Failure, Fascism, And Teachers In American Theatre - Pedagogy Of The Oppressors

by James F. Wilson

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 <p>This timely and accessible book explores the shifting representations of schoolteachers and professors in plays and performances primarily from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. Examining various historical and recurring types, such as spinsters, schoolmarms, presumed sexual deviants, radicals and communists, fascists, and emasculated men teachers, Wilson shines the spotlight on both well-known and nearly-forgotten plays. The analysis draws on a range of scholars from cultural and gender studies, queer theory, and critical race discourses to consider teacher characters within notable education movements and periods of political upheaval. Richly illustrated, the book will appeal to theatre scholars and general readers as it delves into plays and performances that reflect cultural fears, desires, and fetishistic fantasies associated with educators. In the process, the scrutiny on the array of characters may help illuminate current attacks on real-life teachers while providing meaningful opportunities for intervention in the ongoing education wars.</p><p>Finalist for the 2023 Freedley Award</p>
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Actor-Network Dramaturgies - The Argentines Of Paris

by Stefano Boselli

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 This book provides key critical tools to significantly broaden the readers’ perception of theatre and performance history: in line with posthuman thought, each chapter engages Actor-Network Theory and similar theories to reveal a comprehensive range of human and non-human agents whose collaborations impact theatre productions but are often overlooked. The volume also greatly expands the information available in English on the networks created by several Argentine artists. Through a transnational, transatlantic perspective, case studies refer to the lives, theatre companies, staged productions, and visual artworks of a number of artists who left Buenos Aires during the 1960s due to a mix of personal and political reasons. By establishing themselves in the French capital, queer playwright Copi and directors Jorge Lavelli, Alfredo Arias, and Jérôme Savary, among others, became part of the larger group of intellectuals known as "the Argentines of Paris" and dominated the Parisian theatre scene between the 1980s and 90s. Focusing on these Argentine artists and their nomadic peripeteias, the study thus offers a detailed description of the complexity of agencies and assemblages inextricably involved in theatre productions, including larger historical events, everyday objects, sexual orientation, microbes, and even those agents at work well before a production is conceived.
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Eugenics And Physical Culture Performance In The Progressive Era - Watch Whiteness Workout

by Shannon L. Walsh

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 This book strives to unmask the racial inequity at the root of the emergence of modern physical culture systems in the US Progressive Era (1890s-1920s). This book focuses on physical culture - systematic, non-competitive exercise performed under the direction of an expert - because tracing how people practiced physical culture in the Progressive Era, especially middle- and upper-class white women, reveals how modes of popular performance, institutional regulation, and ideologies of individualism and motherhood combined to sublimate whiteness beneath the veneer of liberal progressivism and reform. The sites in this book give the fullest picture of the different strata of physical culture for white women during that time and demonstrate the unracialization of whiteness through physical culture practices. By illuminating the ways in which whiteness in the US became a default identity category absorbed into the "universal" ideals of culture, arts, and sciences, the author shows how physical culture circulated as a popular performance form with its own conventions, audience, and promised profitability. Finally, the chapters reveal troubling connections between the daily habits physical culturists promoted and the eugenics movement’s drive towards more reproductively efficient white bodies. By examining these written, visual, and embodied texts, the author insists on a closer scrutiny of the implicit whiteness of physical culture and forwards it as a crucial site of analysis for performance scholars interested in how corporeality is marshaled by and able to contest local and global systems of power.</p><p></p>
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George Alexander And The Work Of The Actor-Manager

by Lucie Sutherland

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 In the first book-length study of the work and legacy of West End actor-manager George Alexander since the 1930s, George Alexander and the Work of the Actor Manager examines the key part this figure played in presenting new drama by authors including Oscar Wilde and Henry James.
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Sex, Class, And The Theatrical Archive - Erotic Economies

by Alan Sikes

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 In Sex, Class and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies, Alan Sikes explores the intersection of struggles over sex and class identities in politicized performances during key revolutionary moments in modern European history.
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Civil Rights Theatre Movement In New York, 1939-1966 - Staging Freedom

by Julie Burrell

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 This book argues that African American theatre in the twentieth century represented a cultural front of the civil rights movement.
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New History Of Medieval Japanese Theatre - Noh And Kyogen From 1300 To 1600

by Noel John Pinnington

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 This book traces the history of noh and kyogen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts. O'Neill's Early No Drama of 1958, it covers the full period of noh's medieval development and includes a chapter dedicated to the comic art of kyogen, which has often been left in noh's shadow.
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Racism And Early Blackface Comic Traditions - From The Old World To The New

by Robert Hornback

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 This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare.
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Staging The Past In The Age Of Thatcher - "The History We Haven''T Had"

by Anthony P. Pennino

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 This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Use Of Asian Theatre For Modern Western Theatre - The Displaced Mirror

by Min Tian

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 This book is a historical study of the use of Asian theatre for modern Western theatre as practiced by its founding fathers, including AurÃ©lien LugnÃ©-Poe, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, W.
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A New History Of Medieval Japanese Theatre - Noh And Kyogen From 1300 To 1600

by Noel John Pinnington

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 This book traces the history of noh and kyogen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts. O'Neill's Early No Drama of 1958, it covers the full period of noh's medieval development and includes a chapter dedicated to the comic art of kyogen, which has often been left in noh's shadow.
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Theaters Of Error - Problems Of Performance In German And French Enlightenment Theater

by Pascale Lafountain

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 <div>This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the period’s changing understanding of error. With striking interdisciplinary connections to theater treatises as well as works from the philosophical, legal, and medical discourses, it tracks the relocation of error from the moral to the physical realm, a movement that begins with Lessing and continues through the turn of the nineteenth century.</div><div><br></div><div>Featuring detailed analyses of Lessing’s <i>Miß Sara Sampson</i>, Diderot’s <i>Le Fils naturel</i>, Schiller’s <i>Die Räuber</i>, and Kleist’s <i>Die Familie Schroffenstein</i> alongside rich close readings of diverse primary sources, ranging from previously untranslated acting treatises by Sainte-Albine and Engel to texts from the German <i>Archiv des Criminalrechts</i>, this study introduces the reader to new Enlightenment sources and compellingly concludes that ultimately it is no longer evil, but rather bodily irregularities and mistakes in reading the body that become the driving principle of Enlightenment drama.</div>
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Thomas Hamblin And The Bowery Theatre - The New York Reign Of "Blood And Thunder” Melodramas

by Thomas A. Bogar

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 This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager.
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War And Theatrical Innovation

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 This book examines the relationship between wartime conflict and theatre practices.
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Popular Theatre And Political Utopia In France, 1870-1940 - Active Citizens

by Jessica Wardhaugh

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 This book is the first study of popular theatre in France from left to right, exploring how theatre shapes political acts, ideals, and communities in the modern world.
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Interrogating America Through Theatre And Performance

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 This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS and post-9/11 America, it displays the various and important ways theatre and performance studies have examined and conversed with American culture and history.
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Stage Designers In Early Twentieth-Century America - Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics

by E. Essin

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 By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.
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Transposing Broadway - Jews, Assimilation, And The American Musical

by S. Hecht

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 Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists - from Berlin to Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim - have developed a form that corresponds directly to the Americanization of the increasingly Jewish New York audience;
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Beyond The Golden Door - Jewish American Drama And Jewish American Experience

by J. Novick

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 Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Questions dealt within this study include - How do you balance old world heritage with new world opportunity? What does it mean to be a Jew - or to be an American, for that matter?
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Group Theatre - Passion, Politics, And Performance In The Depression Era

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 The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy.
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Baggy Pants Comedy - Burlesque And The Oral Tradition

by A. Davis

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 The first full-length study of comedy on the burlesque stage, this book takes the reader inside the burlesque houses of the 1930s, looks at the role comedy played in an entertainment form known mostly for striptease, and explores how these sketch performers approached their craft.
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Sustainable Theatre - Jasper Deeter At Hedgerow

by B. Witham

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 Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow's legacy is a living library of over 200 productions created by Jasper Deeter's idealistic and determined pursuit of 'truth and beauty.'
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