Author: Erwin PiscatorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Political theatre 1920-1966
Author: Erwin PiscatorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Political Theatre, 1920-1966
Author: Erwin PiscatorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Political Theatre 1920-1966. Translation by Margaret Vallance
Author: Erwin PiscatorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Piscator, Erwin, 1893-1966
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Erwin Piscator: Political Theatre, 1920-1966
Author: The Director & The Stage
Author: Edward BraunPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408149257
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Beginning with the triple impulses of Naturalism, symbolism and the grotesque, the bulk of the book concentrates on the most famous directors of this century - Stanislavski, Reinhardt, Graig, Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht, Artuaud and Grotowski. Braun's guide is more practical than theoretical, delineating how each director changed the tradition that came before him.
The Performance of Power
Author: Sue-Ellen CasePublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 0877453187
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"—the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with historical studies has politicized the study of the theatre. Neither play text, performance, nor scholarship and teaching can safely reside any longer in the "free," politically neutral, self-signifying realm of the aesthetic. Politicizing theatrical discourse means that both the hermeneutics and the histories of theatre reveal the role of ideology and power dynamics. New strategies and concepts—and a vital new phase of awareness—appear in these illuminating essays. A variety of historical periods, from the Renaissance through the Victorian and up to the most contemporary work of the Wooster group, illustrate the ways in which contemporary strategies do not require contemporary texts and performances but can combine with historical methods and subjects to produce new theatrical discourse.
From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso
Author: Sarah Hegenbart Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462703582
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Opera Village Africa, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner’s notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner’s introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief’s attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed Opera Village in collaboration with the world-renowned architect Francis Kéré. This final project of Schlingensief is inspired by and illuminates the diverse themes that informed his artistic practice, including coming to terms with the German past, anti-Semitism, critical race theory, and questions of postcolonial (self-)criticism. From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso introduces the notion of the postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk to disrupt the Eurocentric perspective on art history, exploring how the socio-political force of a postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk could affect processes of transcultural identity construction. It reveals how Schlingensief translocated the Wagnerian concept to Burkina Faso to address German colonial history and engage with it from the perspective of multidirectional memory cultures.
Space and Time in Epic Theater
Author: Sarah Bryant-BertailPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9781571131867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The development of epic theater before, during, and after Brecht's time, and analysis of epic productions, showing the form's continued relevance.
The Unfinished Art of Theater
Author: Sarah J. TownsendPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810137429
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
A certain idea of the avant-garde posits the possibility of a total rupture with the past. The Unfinished Art of Theater pulls back on this futuristic impulse by showing how theater became a key site for artists on the semiperiphery of capitalism to reconfigure the role of the aesthetic between 1917 and 1934. The book argues that this “unfinished art”—precisely because of its historic weakness as a representative institution in Mexico and Brazil, where the bourgeois stage had not (yet) coalesced—was at the forefront of struggles to redefine the relationship between art and social change. Drawing on extensive archival research, Sarah J. Townsend reveals the importance of projects and texts that belie the rhetoric of rupture and immediacy associated with the avant-garde: ethnographic operas with ties to the recording industry, populist puppet plays, children’s radio programs about the wonders of technology, a philosophical drama about the birth of a new race, and an antifascist spectacle written for (but never performed at) a theater shut down by the police. Ultimately, the book makes the case that the very category of avant-garde art is bound up in the experience of dependency, delay, and the uneven development of capitalism.
Author: Erwin Piscator