Shakespeare In The Theatre Peter Hall

Author : Stuart Hampton-Reeves
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147258709X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Hall written by Stuart Hampton-Reeves and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Hall (1930–2017) is one of the most influential directors of Shakespeare's plays in the modern age. Under his direction, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre rediscovered Shakespeare as a writer who could comment incisively on the modern world. Productions such as Coriolanus, The Wars of the Roses and Hamlet established his reputation as a director able to bring Shakespeare to the heart of contemporary politics. He later cemented his reputation with epic productions of Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra at the National. With the Peter Hall Company, Hall continued to work intensively on Shakespeare, directing plays in the UK and America. Reviewing Hall's work in its cultural and creative context, this study explores his approach to directing and rehearsal. This is the first book to analyse all of Hall's professional Shakespeare productions in a historical context, from the Suez crisis to the 9/11 attacks and beyond.

Author : Sir Peter Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849433550
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Advice to the Players written by Sir Peter Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling guide to acting Shakespeare in a new smaller and lighter handbook size. Shakespeare tells the actor when to go fast and when to go slow; when to pause, when to come in on cue and when to accent a word. His text is full of such clues. He tells the actor when but never tells him why or how. That is up to the actor. Much like bringing a musical score to life, Peter Hall guides us to 'speak the speech'. An essential text for classical training at drama school and an invaluable reference book for actors and directors working on Shakespeare productions. Peter Hall makes watching or reading Shakespeare a richer experience, for audiences as well as actors.

Author : Peter Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Advice to the Players written by Peter Hall and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new look at the art and process of Shakespeare for actors.

Author : Peter Hall
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854594020
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Necessary Theatre written by Peter Hall and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Peter Hall is one of the best-known names in British theatre. This book provides a controversial distillation of Hall's current thinking about the theatre in which he has lived his whole life.

Author : Peter Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783192208
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Hall's Diaries written by Peter Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these intimate diaries, Hall chronicles the eight frenzied years between 1972 and 1980 when he conducted the historic move of the National Theatre from the Old Vic to the South Bank, and then triumphantly consolidated its position as the leading showcase for theatre in Britain. With remarkable candour Hall describes his relationship with Lord Olivier; with actors Paul Scofield, Ralph Richardson, Alec Guinness, John Gielgud, Albert Finney and Peggy Ashcroft; with playwrights Harold Pinter, John Osborne, Samuel Beckett, David Hare, Peter Shaffer and Howard Brenton; and with directors John Schlesinger, John Dexter, Bill Bryden, Christopher Morahan and Jonathan Miller. In his startlingly frank, incisive style, he creates sometimes affectionate, sometimes acid portraits of his friends and enemies, of great actors in rehearsal. In his foreword, Hall casts a critical eye over the state of British theatre today and, through a discussion of politics and the arts in the eighties and nineties, contemplates its future.

Author : Tirzah Lowen
Publisher : Amadeus Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Hall Directs Antony and Cleopatra written by Tirzah Lowen and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Theatre written by Stanley Wells and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare in the Theatre offers a rich, varied, and wonderfully evocative collection of eyewitness accounts of Shakespearian performances over the centuries. Theatre generates an excitement that stimulates fine prose: here are Hazlitt's famous accounts of Edmund Kean as Richard III and Hamlet, Bernard Shaw on Forbes-Robertson's Hamlet and his hilarious descriptions of Augustin Daly's productions, Max Beerbohm on Gordon Craig, and Kenneth Tynan on Olivier and Wolfit. Here too are lesser-known pieces by great writers: the German novelist Theodor Fontane on Charles Kean, Evelyn Waugh on Olivier, Virginia Woolf on Twelfth Night at the Old Vic. Taken together these pieces represent an appreciation of the work of the finest Shakespearian interpreters, and a survey of changing styles of Shakespearian production--ranging right across the canon--from the seventeenth century to the present, in England, America, and further afield. The collection also provides extensive coverage of the postwar period right up to the present day, with vivid accounts of landmark productions by directors such as Peter Brook, Peter Hall, John Barton, Deborah Warner, Trevor Nunn, and Declan Donellan. Stanley Wells introduces the volume with an essay on "Shakespeare and the Theatre Critics," and supplies each review with a helpful headnote and explanatory references. This unique compendium will delight all lovers of the Bard and avid theater-goers of all kinds.

Author : Peter Kirwan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474223303
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Theatre: Cheek by Jowl written by Peter Kirwan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheek by Jowl, founded by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod in 1981, is one of the world's most critically acclaimed classical theatre companies. Across seventeen productions of Shakespeare (as well as several by his contemporaries and other European dramatists), Cheek by Jowl's experiments with text, space, light and bodies have produced bold reinventions of canonical and lesser-explored plays. Despite the pre-eminence of the company, its multiple awards and central place in the European repertory, this is the first substantive study of the company's body of work. This book situates Cheek by Jowl's work within the key institutions and traditions that have shaped the company's development from low-budget beginnings at the Edinburgh Festival to international celebration, while also focusing specifically on the company's use of Shakespeare to drive forward its practice. Drawing on the company's work in English, Russian and French, the book uses key productions as case studies to interrogate the company's unique style and build an argument for the distinctive insights offered by Cheek by Jowl's approach. The book draws on new interviews with creative and administrative company members from the full span of Cheek by Jowl's history as well as a full appraisal of the Cheek by Jowl archives, offering the first scholarly overview of the company's work.

Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719014888
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Myth written by Graham Holderness and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John BARTON (of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780563065135
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wars of the Roses written by John BARTON (of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: