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“Knowledge and taste go together”: Postdramatic Theatre, Écriture Féminine, and Feminist Politics Open
This article contributes to the emerging field of feminist approaches to postdramatic theatre. Through documenting and discussing my practice-as-research performance Rings, I suggest that there is an analogous relationship between postdram…
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On the Performance Front : US Theatre and Internationalism Open
"On the Performance Front argues that US theatre in the twentieth century embraced the theories and practices of internationalism as a way to realize a better world and as part of the strategic reform of the theatre into a national express…
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Between Drama and Postdrama Open
The article analyses the transformations of the genre of drama in the context of the postdramatic theatre. Contrary to the affirmations of Hans-Thies Lehmann, the main theoretician of the postdramatic theatre, a text of a drama is not alwa…
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Political Theatre in Europe: East to West, 2007–2014 Open
What political theatre may be in contemporary times and in what sense it is ‘political’ are the core issues of this article. Maria Shevtsova discusses examples from within a restricted period, 2007 to 2014, but from a wide area that begins…
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The Theatre of the Occult Revival: Alternative Spiritual Performance from 1875 to the Present Open
Introduction 1. The Occult Revival and Its Theatrical Impulses 2. Katherine Tingley and the Theatre of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society 3. The Anthroposophical Theatre of Rudolf and Marie Steiner 4. Aleister Crowley's The…
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Postdramatik: Dramaturgi Teater Indonesia Kontemporer Open
Postdramatic: The Dramaturgy of Contemporary Indonesian Theater. The research attempts to explain a new possibility in theatre practice in Indonesia, which was initially formed through the power of words in the form of dialogue depicted in…
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From Stage to Screen: A Theatre Actor's Guide to Working on Camera Open
A book aimed at beginner-professional and training actors who are familiar with, and comfortable working in, theatre but inexperienced on camera and wanting to transfer their stage skills to the screen
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Science in performance Open
This book is about science in theatre and performance. It explores how theatre and performance engage with emerging scientific themes from artificial intelligence to genetics and climate change. The book covers a wide range of performance …
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Decolonising theatre and ensemble training in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Te Rākau Hua o Te Wao Tapu Theatre Open
This article discusses the work of Māori theatre company Te Rākau Hua o Te Wao Tapu, and its approach to decolonising theatre in Aotearoa/New Zealand through its Theatre Marae programme. First, I locate the establishment of Te Rākau and Th…
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<i>Performing Whitely in the Postcolony: Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life</i> Open
December 01 2018 Performing Whitely in the Postcolony: Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life Performing Whitely in the Postcolony: Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life. By MeganLewis. Iowa City: Universit…
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Drama is for Life! Recreational Drama Activities for the Elderly in the UK Open
Applied Theatre is an inclusive term used to host a variety of powerful, community-based participatory processes and educational practices. Historically, Applied Theatre practices include Theatre-in-Education (TiE), Theatre-in-Health Educa…
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National representations, national theatres: Aubrey Menen and the experimental theatre company Open
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record.
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Translating and rewriting Ferrante’s<i>My Brilliant Friend</i>at the National Theatre Open
This article interrogates the translation strategies involved when transposing Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels into a play – the first produced in the UK. My Brilliant Friend, adapted by April De Angelis and directed by Melly Still, was…
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Between (in)Visible Influences and (Im)Pure Traditions: Hybrid Character of the Postdramatic in Lithuanian Theatre Open
Summary Lithuanian theatre has always been known for its visual metaphors and dramaturgy of directorial images, where the language of literary text is translated into visual metaphors created on stage by a director. Due to this quality, so…
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HYBRID THEATRE: PERFORMING TECHNIQUES IN THE EFFORTS TO PRESERVE THE ART OF THEATRE PERFORMANCE POST COVID19 Open
The pandemic of COVID19 and the Movement Control Order (MCO) has opened up the minds of local theatre players to be more creative in applying the suitable medium in showcasing their creative performances. Thus, emerged various forms of vir…
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Exploring Old Age Through the Theatre: Three British Senior Theatre Companies Open
In as eminal article published in 2012,Valerie Barnes Lipscomb statest hat theatre studies can enrich the interdisciplinary studyo fa geing from at least three angles: as aw ay to analysis of the phenomenon of ageism, as an instrument to d…
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Postdramatic Theatre of Director Christoph Marthaler Open
The present paper deals with the main tendencies of modern European theatre represented in the creativity of a famous Swiss director Christoph Marthaler. Drama and theatre of the end of the 20th – the beginning of the 21st century were exp…
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The Revitalization of Popular Theatre Forms in Contemporary Performance: The Case of Post-Soviet Lithuanian Theatre Open
The article examines the use of historical popular theatre forms in contemporary performance and analyses how historical popular theatre forms are revitalized in contemporary theatre. The first part of the article addresses the phenomena…
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The New Theatre of the New Artists Group and the Russian Avant-Garde Open
The multimedia practice of the Russian Avant-Garde, in which theatrical art is inseparable from literary, visual and musical art, found its continuation half a century later in the work of the New Artists group, founded by Timur Novikov in…
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Opera and “Director’s” Theatre of the 21st Century Open
The article raises the issues of interaction between modern direction and the musical text of opera. Researches of foreign and domestic scientists in the fi eld of theatre studies and musicology allow analyzing a musical performance as an …
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Another Opening, Another Show: A Lively Introduction to the Theatre Open
ACT 1 Understanding and Evaluating Theatre CHAPTER 1 * What Is Theatre? CHAPTER 2 * Aristotle's Guide to Pleasure CHAPTER 3 * Dramatic Genres CHAPTER 4 * Theatrical Styles CHAPTER 5 * Writing about Theatre ACT 2 The Creative Process CHAPTE…
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Performing «Polishness» Open
This article is a review of Dariusz Kosiński’s Performing Poland: Rethinking Histories and Theatres (Aberystwyth 2019). The author points out that the book is an attempt at introducing several centuries of Polish theatre and performance to…
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Learning to Act: Tony Sheldon’s Emotional Training in Australian Theatre Open
This case study of Tony Sheldon considers how an actor develops versatility in emotional delivery and the capacity to work in all theatre genres. Sheldon is one of Australia’s best known and most successful stage actors. He has appeared in…
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Commedia dell’arte and the Gate Theatre Open
This essay reveals the centrality of commedia dell’arte in defining the Gate’s theatrical style in the first four decades of its existence. In its theatricality, as well as its emphasis on the international and the queer, Hilton Edwards an…
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Popular Theatre - Highbrow or Lowbrow Open
For 13 years, from 1851 to 1864, Ibsen worked full time at the Norwegian theatres in Bergen and Christiania (Oslo) as a stage director and theatre manager. Ibsen’s period in the theatre and the repertory he staged have seldom enjoyed much …
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“Who Would Disagree that in a World of Trump and Putin and Boris Johnson ... Brecht Is Not the Theorist and Playwright of Our Times?”: Bertolt Brecht’s Influence on David Greig’s Work Open
This article maps out David Greig’s engagement with the figure of Bertolt Brecht, both the ‘theorist’ and the ‘playwright.’ It addresses this engagement in terms not just of influence but also of creative dialogue and enduring inspiration.…
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3. National Theatre Live. The Beginning of a Revolution Open
In June 2009 at the initiative of Royal National Theatre in London, National Theatre Live appeared – a revolutionary project through which theatre performances are live streamed. The first one was Phedra 69 by Racine. The show was live str…
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From Hellerau to Here: Tracing the Lineage and Influence of Dalcroze Eurhythmics on the Family Tree of Theatre Pedagogy Open
Actor training in Western culture evolved as an oral tradition. Formal education appeared in the late-nineteenth century with the work of Konstantin Stanislavski. Despite its relatively brief history, the family tree of theatre pedagogy no…
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‘Next you’re Franklin Shepard Inc.?’: Composing the Broadway musical, a study of Kurt Weill’s working practices Open
This article contextualizes the working processes of musical theatre composers, revealing their work to be profoundly immersed in collaborative practices. Several recent publications have destabilized the authority of the author figure, by…
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Hilton Edwards, Brecht and the Brechtian Open
The Dublin Gate Theatre Company’s repertory of international, often experimental plays offers perhaps the clearest distinction between the Gate and the Abbey in the mid-twentieth century. A growing body of scholarship focuses on how Hilton…