Dramaturgy Of Sex On Stage In Contemporary Theatre

Author : Kate Mulley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003159933
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre written by Kate Mulley and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre explores the dramaturgy of sex in contemporary works for the stage in the social, cultural and historical context of the time and place during which they were written and performed. Comprised of chapters by writers from across the United States, United Kingdom and Europe, the book covers an expansive range of plays, musicals and dance performances, from Broadway to the fringe, from post-AIDS epidemic to post-COVID-19 pandemic. Analysing these intimate moments-both textually and as staged-through an intersectional and critical lens illuminates the way power structures are maintained and codified, and how they can be queered and dismantled onstage and off. This examination of depictions of sex on stage attempts to understand from a dramaturgical and sociological perspective how these depictions have developed over time, and how the rise of intimacy directors has responded to the changes within the contemporary theatrical landscape and in the world at large. This is an essential companion for any scholar or practitioner looking to stage, discuss or understand intimacy in performance"--

Author : Kate Mulley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104000900X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre written by Kate Mulley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre explores the dramaturgy of sex in contemporary works for the stage in the social, cultural and historical context of the time and place during which they were written and performed. Comprising chapters by writers from across North America and Europe, the book covers an expansive range of plays, musicals and dance performances, from Broadway to the Fringe, from post-AIDS epidemic to post-COVID-19 pandemic. Analysing these intimate moments—both textually and as staged—through an intersectional and critical lens illuminates the way power structures are maintained and codified, and how they can be queered and dismantled onstage and off. This examination of depictions of sex on stage attempts to understand from a dramaturgical and sociological perspective how these depictions have developed over time, and how the rise of intimacy directors has responded to the changes within the contemporary theatrical landscape and in the world at large. This is an essential companion for any scholar or practitioner looking to stage, discuss or understand intimacy in performance.

Author : David Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474240186
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Beckett in Great Britain written by David Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett's relationship with British theatre is complex and underexplored, yet his impact has been immense. Uniquely placing performance history at the centre of its analysis, this volume examines Samuel Beckett's drama as it has been staged in Great Britain, bringing to light a wide range of untold histories and in turn illuminating six decades of drama in Britain. Ranging from studies of the first English tour of Waiting for Godot in 1955 to Talawa's 2012 all-black co-production of the same play, Staging Samuel Beckett in Great Britain excavates a host of archival resources in order to historicize how Beckett's drama has interacted with specific theatres, directors and theatre cultures in the UK. It traces production histories of plays such as Krapp's Last Tape; presents Beckett's working relationships with the Royal Court, Riverside and West Yorkshire Playhouse, as well as with directors such as Peter Hall; looks at the history of Beckett's drama in Scotland and how the plays have been staged in London's West End. Production analyses are mapped onto political, economic and cultural contexts of Great Britain so that Beckett's drama resonates in new ways, through theatre practice, against the complex contexts of Great Britain's regions. With contributions from experts in the fields of both Beckett studies and UK drama, including S.E. Gontarski, David Pattie, Mark Taylor-Batty and Sos Eltis, the volume offers an exceptional and unique understanding of Beckett's reception on the UK stage and the impact of his drama within UK theatre practices. Together with its sister volume, Staging Samuel Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland it will prove a terrific resource for students, scholars and theatre practitioners.

Author : Kate Mulley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535541411
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tutor written by Kate Mulley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meredith is a Yale Law School graduate turned SAT tutor with a secret. In addition to coaching high school students in the ways of time management and sentence construction, she sells her used lingerie online. In a world where one wrong click can end your career or relationship, can Meredith continue to maintain her mystery or will her precarious fantasy turn on her? A timely new play about colliding worlds and what happens when one's virtual life meets reality. The Tutor premiered in the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival and has subsequently been translated into Mandarin and performed in China.

Author : Emily Klein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135087725
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex and War on the American Stage written by Emily Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American adaptations of Aristophanes’ enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism for nearly a century. Unlike almost any other play circulating in contemporary theatres, Lysistrata has outlived its classical origins in 411 BCE and continues to shock and delight audiences to this day. The play’s "make love not war" message and bawdy humor render it endlessly appealing to college campuses, activist groups, and community theatres – so much so that none of Aristophanes’ plays are performed in the West as frequently as Lysistrata. Starting with the play’s first mainstream production in the U.S. in 1930, Emily B. Klein explores the varied iterations of Lysistrata that have graced the American stage, page, and screen since the Great Depression. These include the Federal Theatre’s 1936 Negro Repertory production, the 1955 movie musical The Second Greatest Sex and Spiderwoman Theater’s openly political Lysistrata Numbah!, as well as Douglas Carter Beane’s Broadway musical, Lysistrata Jones, and the international Lysistrata Project protests, which updated the classic in the contemporary context of the Iraq War. Although Aristophanes’ oeuvre has been the subject of much classical scholarship, Lysistrata has received little attention from feminist theatre scholars or performance theorists. In response, this book maps current debates over Lysistrata’s dubious feminist underpinnings and uses performance theory, cultural studies, and gender studies to investigate how new adaptations reveal the socio-political climates of their origins. Emily B. Klein is Assistant Professor of English and Drama at Saint Mary's College of California. Her work has appeared in Women and Performance and Frontiers as well as Political and Protest Theater After 9/11: Patriotic Dissent (Routledge, 2012).

Author : John Wayne Shafer
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781626612631
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taboo Theatre written by John Wayne Shafer and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While sex and violence on screen have become so ubiquitous that viewers scarcely bat an eye when watching them, sex and violence on stage still have the power to stir strong emotion and heated controversy. Perhaps this is because viewers are seeing real people, in the flesh, engage in acts both atrocious and intimate. This book examines sex and violence in this most personal of the performing arts. It provides a base of literary knowledge, and links seminal plays of the past to contemporary theatre to examine how stage portrayals of sex and violence shift over time. The anthology samples drama from ancient Greece to the present through sections such as "Bordello Drama" and "Extreme Consequences." It also showcases four new artists whose work is both surprising and provocative.

Author : Clare Finburgh Delijani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472598687
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watching War on the Twenty-First Century Stage written by Clare Finburgh Delijani and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we watch when we watch war? Who manages public perceptions of war and how? Watching War on the Twenty-First-Century Stage: Spectacles of Conflict is the first publication to examine how theatre in the UK has staged, debated and challenged the ways in which spectacle is habitually weaponized in times of war. The 'battle for hearts and minds' and the 'war of images' are fields of combat that can be as powerful as armed conflict. And today, spectacle and conflict – the two concepts that frame the book – have joined forces via audio-visual technologies in ways that are more powerful than ever. Clare Finburgh's original and interdisciplinary interrogation provides a richly provocative account of the structuring role that spectacle plays in warfare, engaging with the works of philosopher Guy Debord, cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard, visual studies specialist Marie-José Mondzain, and performance scholar Hans-Thies Lehmann. She offers coherence to a large and expanding field of theatrical war representation by analysing in careful detail a spectrum of works as diverse as expressionist drama, documentary theatre, comedy, musical satire and dance theatre. She demonstrates how features unique to the theatrical art, namely the construction of a fiction in the presence of the audience, can present possibilities for a more informed engagement with how spectacles of war are produced and circulated. If we watch with more resistance, we may contribute in significant ways to the demilitarization of images. And what if this were the first step towards a literal demilitarization?

Author : Mark Bly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315282194
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Dramaturgies written by Mark Bly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting, Mark Bly offers a new playwriting book with nine unique play-generating exercises. These exercises offer dramaturgical strategies and tools for confronting and overcoming obstacles that all playwrights face. Each of the chapters features lively commentary and participation from Bly’s former students. They are now acclaimed writers and producers for media such as House of Cards, Weeds, Friday Night Lights, Warrior, and The Affair, and their plays appear onstage in major venues such as the Roundabout Theatre, Yale Rep, and the Royal National Theatre. They share thoughts about their original response to an exercise and why it continues to have a major impact on their writing and mentoring today. Each chapter concludes with their original, inventive, and provocative scene generated in response to Bly’s exercise, providing a vivid real-life example of what the exercises can create. Suitable for both students of playwriting and screenwriting, as well as professionals in the field, New Dramaturgies gives readers a rare combination of practical provocation and creative discussion.

Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470751479
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005 written by Mary Luckhurst and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.

Author : Alyson Campbell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137411848
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Dramaturgies written by Alyson Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international collection of essays forms a vibrant picture of the scope and diversity of contemporary queer performance. Ranging across cabaret, performance art, the performativity of film, drag and script-based theatre it unravels the dynamic relationship performance has with queerness as it is presented in local and transnational contexts.