Erwin Piscators Political Theatre

Author : Erwin Piscator
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780413335005
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Theatre written by Erwin Piscator and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Political Theatre' is among the most important documents of the modern stage. It tells of the foundation and flowering in Weimar Germany of a new form of theatre - epic theatre - designed to bring on to the stage the real political issues of the time, and to do so with all the aids that modern technology could supply.

Author : C. D. Innes
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521084567
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erwin Piscator's Political Theatre written by C. D. Innes and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1972-09-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1977 text was the first full study of Erwin Piscator, the German theatrical producer who was prominent in the 1920s and worked after 1945 with the writers Hochhuth, Kipphardt and Weiss. Professor Innes sketches the background of Dadaism and Expressionism from which Piscator came, and points out the differences between Piscator and the other experimenters of his time. He also gives a vivid description of Piscator's technical innovations, the modern means of communication such as film, the illumination of the stage from below and 'the treadmill', a flat moving band along which the characters walked. These turned drama into a multi-media event. Professor Innes uses Piscator's career as a focus to describe theatrical developments in the twentieth century and to discuss the role of the author, the director, and the actor in drama, the purpose of the theatre, and the involvement of the audience.

Author : Minou Arjomand
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545738
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staged written by Minou Arjomand and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theater requires artifice, justice demands truth. Are these demands as irreconcilable as the pejorative term “show trials” suggests? After the Second World War, canonical directors and playwrights sought to claim a new public role for theater by restaging the era’s great trials as shows. The Nuremberg trials, the Eichmann trial, and the Auschwitz trials were all performed multiple times, first in courts and then in theaters. Does justice require both courtrooms and stages? In Staged, Minou Arjomand draws on a rich archive of postwar German and American rehearsals and performances to reveal how theater can become a place for forms of storytelling and judgment that are inadmissible in a court of law but indispensable for public life. She unveils the affinities between dramatists like Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Piscator, and Peter Weiss and philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin, showing how they responded to the rise of fascism with a new politics of performance. Linking performance with theories of aesthetics, history, and politics, Arjomand argues that it is not subject matter that makes theater political but rather the act of judging a performance in the company of others. Staged weaves together theater history and political philosophy into a powerful and timely case for the importance of theaters as public institutions.

Author : John Willett
Publisher : New York : Holmes & Meier
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Erwin Piscator written by John Willett and published by New York : Holmes & Meier. This book was released on 1979 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to cover the theatrical career of Erwin Piscator. As one of the leading authorities on 20th century German theatre, the author is well-equipped to write about this important director. Most of the text is devoted to the Weimar period and is illustrated with rare pictures and documents.

Author : Judith Malina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 041560074X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Piscator Notebook written by Judith Malina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piscator founded the Workshop after emigrating to New York, having collaborated with Brecht to create "epic theatre" in Germany. The Piscator Notebook documents the author Malina's intensive and idiosyncratic training at Piscator's school.

Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587290340
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Performance of Power written by Sue-Ellen Case and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Arts Council of Great Britain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erwin Piscator: Political Theatre 1920-1966 written by Arts Council of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maria Ley-Piscator
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Piscator Experiment written by Maria Ley-Piscator and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deutsche Akademie der Künste zu Berlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erwin Piscator written by Deutsche Akademie der Künste zu Berlin and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. D. Innes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erwin Piscator's Political Theatre written by C. D. Innes and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: