Stephen Joseph Theatre Pioneer And Provocateur

Author : Paul Elsam
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472515501
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Stephen Joseph: Theatre Pioneer and Provocateur written by Paul Elsam and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1967 obituary in The Times labelled Stephen Joseph 'the most successful missionary to work in the English theatre since the second world war'. This radical man brought theatre-in-the-round to Britain, provoked Ayckbourn, Pinter and verbatim theatre creator Peter Cheeseman to write and direct, and democratised theatregoing. This monograph investigates his forgotten legacy. This monograph draws on largely unsorted archival material (including letters from Harold Pinter, J. B. Priestley, Peggy Ramsay and others), and on new interviews with figures including Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Trevor Griffiths and Sir Ben Kingsley, to demonstrate how the impact on theatre in Britain of manager, director and 'missionary' Stephen Joseph has been far greater than is currently acknowledged within traditional theatre history narratives. The text provides a detailed assessment of Joseph's work and ideas during his lifetime, and summarises his broadly-unrecognised posthumous legacy within contemporary theatre. Throughout the book Paul Elsam identifies Joseph's work and ideas, and illustrates and analyses how others have responded to them. Key incidents and events during Joseph's career are interrogated, and case studies that highlight Joseph's influence and working methods are provided.

Author : Paul Elsam
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408185377
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Stephen Joseph: Theatre Pioneer and Provocateur written by Paul Elsam and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1967 obituary in The Times labelled Stephen Joseph 'the most successful missionary to work in the English theatre since the second world war'. This radical man brought theatre-in-the-round to Britain, provoked Ayckbourn, Pinter and verbatim theatre creator Peter Cheeseman to write and direct, and democratised theatregoing. This monograph investigates his forgotten legacy. This monograph draws on largely unsorted archival material (including letters from Harold Pinter, J. B. Priestley, Peggy Ramsay and others), and on new interviews with figures including Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Trevor Griffiths and Sir Ben Kingsley, to demonstrate how the impact on theatre in Britain of manager, director and 'missionary' Stephen Joseph has been far greater than is currently acknowledged within traditional theatre history narratives. The text provides a detailed assessment of Joseph's work and ideas during his lifetime, and summarises his broadly-unrecognised posthumous legacy within contemporary theatre. Throughout the book Paul Elsam identifies Joseph's work and ideas, and illustrates and analyses how others have responded to them. Key incidents and events during Joseph's career are interrogated, and case studies that highlight Joseph's influence and working methods are provided.

Author : Bob Millington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911357957
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Remembering Stephen Joseph written by Bob Millington and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graley Herren
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476624739
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Text & Presentation, 2015 written by Graley Herren and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together some of the best work from the 2015 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this book covers subjects from ancient Greece to 21st century America with a variety of approaches and formats, including two transcripts, 10 research papers and six book reviews. This year's highlight is the keynote conversation featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. This volume is the twelfth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest research in the fields of comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis.

Author : Alistair Fair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192534432
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Modern Playhouses written by Alistair Fair and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Playhouses is the first detailed study of the major programme of theatre-building which took place in Britain between the 1950s and the 1980s. Drawing on a vast range of archival material - much of which had never previously been studied by historians - it sets architecture in a wide social and cultural context, presenting the history of post-war theatre buildings as a history of ideas relating not only to performance but also to culture, citizenship, and the modern city. During this period, more than sixty major new theatres were constructed in locations from Plymouth to Inverness, Aberystwyth to Ipswich. The most prominent example was the National Theatre in London, but the National was only the tip of the iceberg. Supported in many cases by public subsidies, these buildings represented a new kind of theatre, conceived as a public service. Theatre was ascribed a transformative role, serving as a form of 'productive' recreation at a time of increasing affluence and leisure. New theatres also contributed to debates about civic pride, urbanity, and community. Ultimately, theatre could be understood as a vehicle for the creation of modern citizens in a consciously modernizing Britain. Yet while recognizing, as contemporaries did, that the new theatres of the post war decades represented change, Modern Playhouses also asks how radically different these buildings really were, and what their 'mainstream' architecture reveals of the history of modern British architecture, and of post-war Britain.

Author : Helen Nicholson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137508108
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre written by Helen Nicholson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study of amateur theatre, offering new perspectives on its place in the cultural and social life of communities. Historically informed, it traces how amateur theatre has impacted national repertoires, contributed to diverse creative economies, and responded to changing patterns of labour. Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research, it traces the importance of amateur theatre to crafting places and the ways in which it sustains the creativity of amateur theatre over a lifetime. It asks: how does amateur theatre-making contribute to the twenty-first century amateur turn?

Author : Jen Harvie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421806
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945 written by Jen Harvie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to post-war British theatre's huge variety and expansion, exploring the diverse contexts that shaped it.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 9780748742899
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Gizmo written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2001 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first of these two plays, a new technology allows a man who has been paralyzed by fear to move again and, in the second, a household of bizarre misfits is saved from eviction by Antunes o Rei, King of Musicians.

Author : Robert Hewison
Publisher : London : Methuen London
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Footlights! written by Robert Hewison and published by London : Methuen London. This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: