The Theatre Of Les Waters

Author : Scott T. Cummings
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000533492
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Les Waters written by Scott T. Cummings and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather combines original writings from Les Waters with short essays by a wide range of his collaborators, creating a personal and multi-faceted portrait of an influential director, revered mentor, and inspirational theatre artist. The book begins with a critical introduction of Waters’s work, followed by essays written by a wide range of Waters's collaborators over the past four decades. These essays are framed by shorter pieces of writing by Waters himself: reflections, inspirations, observations, and personal anecdotes. At the heart of this book lies the notion that the director’s central position in theatrical production is defined by collaboration and that a study of directing should take into account how a director works with playwrights, designers, actors, stage managers, and dramaturgs to turn artistic vision into concrete reality on stage. An insightful resource for early career or student directors in theatre programs, The Theatre of Les Waters sheds light on the art of theatre directing by exploring the work of a major theatre artist whose accomplished career sits at the heart of American theatre in the 21st century. Drawing on aspects of memoir, case study, interview, miscellany, biography, and criticism, this is also an enlightening read for anyone with an interest in how theatre artists bring their creative vision to life.

Author : Sarah Ruhl
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1636700101
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eurydice written by Sarah Ruhl and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Eurydice is a luminous retelling of the Orpheus myth from his beloved wife’s point of view. Watching it, we enter a singular, surreal world, as lush and limpid as a dream—an anxiety dream of love and loss—where both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious… Ruhl’s theatrical voice is reticent and daring, accurate and outlandish.” —John Lahr, New Yorker A reimagining of the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice journeys to the underworld, where she reunites with her beloved father and struggles to recover lost memories of her husband and the world she left behind.

Author : Caryl Churchill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839040269
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What If If Only written by Caryl Churchill and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your partner's died, could things have been different? This edition also includes the resonant and surreal short piece, Air.

Author : Lucas Hnath
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822227557
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Tax written by Lucas Hnath and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescript draft, dated 5-18-12. Unmarked script of a play that received its world premiere in the 2012 Hunana Festival of New Plays at the Actors Thatre of Louisville.

Author : Caryl Churchill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408162067
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serious Money written by Caryl Churchill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A breathless, exhilarating crash course in the low morality of high finance" Independent Serious Money is perhaps Caryl Churchill's most notorious play. A satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang, it premiered at the Royal Court in 1987 and transferred to the West End. Since then, it has prompted city financiers the world over to applaud and decry its presentation of their lives. British Telecom refused to provide telephones for the Wyndham's production, writing to say that "This is a production with which no public company would wish to be associated". This student edition contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play, a discussion of the various interpretations and notes on individual words and phrases in the text.

Author : Anne Bogart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317703685
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's the Story written by Anne Bogart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Bogart is an award-winning theatre maker, and a best-selling writer of books about theatre, art, and cultural politics. In this her latest collection of essays she explores the story-telling impulse, and asks how she, as a ‘product of postmodernism’, can reconnect to the primal act of making meaning and telling stories. She also asks how theatre practitioners can think of themselves not as stagers of plays but ‘orchestrators of social interactions’ and participants in an on-going dialogue about the future. We dream. And then occasionally we attempt to share our dreams with others. In recounting our dreams we try to construct a narrative... We also make stories out of our daytime existence. The human brain is a narrative creating machine that takes whatever happens and imposes chronology, meaning, cause and effect... We choose. We can choose to relate to our circumstances with bitterness or with openness. The stories that we tell determine nothing less than personal destiny. (From the introduction) This compelling new book is characteristically made up of chapters with one-word titles: Spaciousness, Narrative, Heat, Limits, Error, Politics, Arrest, Empathy, Opposition, Collaboration and Sustenance. In addition to dipping into neuroscience, performance theory and sociology, Bogart also recounts vivid stories from her own life. But as neuroscience indicates, the event of remembering what happened is in fact the creation of something new.

Author : Elizabeth A. Osborne
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809334208
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working in the Wings written by Elizabeth A. Osborne and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind-the-scenes in this essay collection that considers, challenges, and revises our understanding of work, theatre, and history.

Author : Elizabeth Egloff
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822213833
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swan written by Elizabeth Egloff and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Dora Hand lives by herself in a suburb on the Nebraska prairie. She's gone through three husbands and now seems destined to play the lonely mistress to her married milkman, Kevin--until a swan crashes into her living room window setting D

Author : Amy Muse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350007803
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drama and Theatre of Sarah Ruhl written by Amy Muse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Ruhl is one of the most highly-acclaimed and frequently-produced American playwrights of the 21st century. Author of eighteen plays and the essay collection 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, she has won a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, been nominated for a Tony Award for In the Next Room or the vibrator play and twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for The Clean House and In the Next Room. Ruhl is a writer unafraid of the soul. She writes not about “this or that issue,” but “about being,” creating plays that ask “big questions about death, love, and how we should treat each other in this lifetime.” In this volume, Amy Muse situates Ruhl as an artist-thinker and organizes her work around its artistic and ethical concerns. Through a finely-grained account of each play, readers are guided through Ruhl's early influences, the themes of intimacy, transcendence, and communion, and her inventive stagecraft to dramatize “moments of being” onstage. Enriched by essays from scholars Jill Stevenson, Thomas Butler, and Christina Dokou, an interview with directors Sarah Rasmussen and Hayley Finn, and a chronology of Ruhl's life and work, this is a companionable guide for students of American drama and theatre studies. Amy Muse specializes in dramatic literature and performance studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department. She is the author of “Sarah Ruhl's Sex Ed for Grownups” (Text & Presentation 2013) and essays on Romantic drama, intimate theatre, female Hamlets, and travel in Romantic Circles, Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture & Criticism, Frontiers, and other journals. METHUEN DRAMA CRITICAL COMPANIONS Series Editors: Patrick Lonergan (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, USA)

Author : Sara Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1009370235
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playwriting, Dramaturgy and Space written by Sara Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre has come back to text, but with perspectives shifted by the experimental practices of the twentieth century across performance forms. Contemporary playwriting brings its scenographic engagement to the foreground of the text, reflecting the spatial turn in theory and practice. In production, this spatiality has renewed and enlivened the status and impact of text-based theatre. Theatre studies needs to better describe the artfulness of contemporary text-based theatre, bringing to it the same sophisticated lenses scholars and critics have used for performance-based theatre and other experimental theatre practices. This Element does that by presenting the work of Caryl Churchill, Naomi Iizuka, and Sarah Ruhl as exemplary of the way text-based theatre, both its scripts and productions, now creates and expects a spatialized imaginary and demonstrates the potentials of text-based theatre in an increasingly visual and spatial field of cultural production.