Performing Arts : Theater

Harlequin Empire explores the presentation of other cultures and ethnicities on the British stage during the long eighteenth-century, with particular emphasis on the period after 1750. It argues that popular forms of drama such as burletta, pantomime, melodrama and spectacle constituted a popular Enlightenment more...

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Addressing issues of feminism and representation, this book provides a fresh and thorough consideration of the status and potential of Women's theatre today.The authors explore a range of different approaches to the languages of theatre, including translation and interpretation of the art form, along with languages, performance work, body language and gesture. Considered alongside the related social issues of race, class and dialect, the following questions emerge: • What is the role of language in theatre today? • Whose language is English; what other languages do women making theatre use? • What does it mean to write about, photograph and video live performance? • What is the future for women's theatre in an international context increasingly united by new technologies but divided by new issues of cultural diversity? Goodman and de Gay analysis covers issues that are central to current courses in Theatre and Performance and Women's Studies. They assess the forms which women as theatre-makers have chosen to explore in the age of new technology, and look at some of the different definitions of 'theory' offered by theatre-makers and critics including Caryl Churchill, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigiray and Julia Kristeva. more...

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''The Sound of Music'' was the last - and most successful - collaboration of two giants of the musical theater, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. This book tells the story of the making of the show, from the first rough ideas through the tryouts, fine tuning, and eventual triumph. more...

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First produced in 431 BCE, Euripides' Medea tells the story of the protagonist's revenge on her husband Jason, who has announced his plan to leave her and take a new wife. more...

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This work offers an historical treatment of a music theatre that was once at the centre of London's West End. It establishes musical comedy as one of the first industrial cultures and offers fascinating insights into how it functioned ideologically as a celebrated embracing of the modern condition. more...

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