The Lord Chamberlain Regretsa
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The Lord Chamberlain Regretsa
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Contemporary Armenian American Drama
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Contemporary Armenian American Drama
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Basic Drama Projects, 8th Edition
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Basic Drama Projects, 8th Edition
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Talking To The Audience
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Talking To The Audience
This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address-talking to the audience-can construct dramatic subjectivity, or selfhood, in Shakespeare plays. By focusing specifically on the relationship between performer and audience, Talking to the Audience examines what happens when the audience is in the presence of a dramatic figure who knows they are there. It is a book concerned with theatrical illusion; with the pleasures and disturbances of seeing
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produced in the moment of performance.Through analysis of contemporary productions by a wide range of companies throughout the world, Talking to the Audience serves to demonstrate how the study of recent performance helps us to understand both Shakespeare`s cultural moment and our own, while never losing sight of the theatrical pleasures and challenges offered by the plays. Its exploration of how theory and practice can inform each other make this essential reading for all those studying Shakespeare in either a literary or theatrical context.
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The Theatre Of Howard Barker
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The Theatre Of Howard Barker
Outstanding - David Ian Rabey, University of Wales Aberystywtha unique resource in studying Barker, who should be recognised as a major contemporary playwright - Rhonda Blair, Southern Methodist UniversityFrom a review of the first edition:the release of Lamb's Howard Barker's Theatre of Seduction is a most welcome event. Lamb's production work on Barker's plays.... provides him with a singular perspective from which to comment on the plays - Theatre JournalThrough his powerful stage poetry Howard Barker creates a world peopled by characters who live at the extreme edges of experience - and who challenge the very limits of an actor's imagination. In this second, fully revised edition of his acclaimed study of Barker's work, Charles Lamb sets out to make emotional sense of the characters and their interactions.This leads to a detailed exploration of the'scene of seduction' - the challenge, the secret, the abject and the catastrophic, processes which dominate Barker's work. For Lamb, the power of Barker's plays is to be found in the exposure to the irrational and its promotion of a state of unknowing. For students of Barker and for actors and directors working with this unique material, Lamb's book is a vital and illuminating text.
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Loop Group
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Loop Group
Maggie Clary is 60 years old, the manager of a prosperous company that supplies sound effects (loop groups) for movies. But despite three devoted daughters and an Italian psychiatrist lover, she's not feeling happy with the way things are going. She and her best friend, Connie, decide to have an adventure, hoping to get a new lease on life by driving from Hollywood to Texas to visit Maggie's ancient and eccentric Aunt Cooney on her chicken ranch. Of course, they find much more on their trip than an out-of-control old lady....
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Local Shakespeares
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Local Shakespeares
This remarkable volume challenges scholars and students to look beyond a dominant European and North American metropolitan bank of Shakespeare knowledge. As well as revealing the potential for a new understanding of Shakespeare's plays, Martin Orkin explores a fresh approach to issues of power, where proximations emerge from a process of dialogue and challenge traditional notions of authority.Since their first performances, Shakespeare's plays and their audiences or readers have journeyed to one another across time and space, to and from countless and always different historical, geographical and ideological locations. Engagement with a Shakespeare text always entails in part, then, cultural encounter or clash, and readings are shaped by a reader's particular location and knowledge. Part I of this book challenges us to recognize the way in which local or non-metropolitan knowledges and experiences might extend understanding of Shakespeare's texts and their locations. Part II demonstrates the use of local as well as metropolitan knowledges in exploring the presentation of masculinity in Shakespeare's late plays. These plays themselves dramatize encounters with different cultures and, crucially, challenges to established authority.Challenging the authority of metropolitan scholarship, twenty-first-century global capitalism and the masculinist imperatives that drive it, Orkin's daring, powerful work will have reverberations throughout but also well beyond the field of Shakespeare studies.
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