The Truth About The Theater

Author : William Egginton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804773491
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theater of Truth written by William Egginton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The Neobaroque, rather than being a return to the stylistic practices of a particular time and place, should be described as the continuation of a cultural strategy produced as a response to a specific problem of thought that has beset Europe and the colonial world since early modernity. This problem, in its simplest philosophical form, concerns the paradoxical relation between appearances and what they represent. Egginton explores expressions of this problem in the art and literature of the Hispanic Baroques, new and old. He shows how the strategies of these two Baroques emerged in the political and social world of the Spanish Empire, and how they continue to be deployed in the cultural politics of the present. Further, he offers a unified theory for the relation between the two Baroques and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth about the Theater written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vikram Paralkar
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1948226545
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Theater written by Vikram Paralkar and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surgeon must bring a dead family back to life in this fabulist debut novel set in rural India, called “otherworldly” and “a haunting contemplation of life, death, the liminal space in between, and the dogged search for resurrection” (Kirkus Reviews, starred). Fleeing scandal in the city, a surgeon accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they tell the surgeon that they have been offered a second chance at living if the surgeon can mend their wounds before sunrise. So begins a night of quiet work, “as if the crickets had been bribed,” during which the surgeon realizes his future is tied more closely to that of the dead family than he could have imagined. By dawn, he and his assistant have gained knowledge no mortal should have. In this inventive novel charged with philosophical gravity and sly humor, Vikram Paralkar takes on the practice of medicine in a time when the right to health care is frequently challenged. Engaging earthly injustice and imaginaries of the afterlife, he asks how we might navigate corrupt institutions to find a moral center. Encompassing social criticism and magically unreal drama, Night Theater is a first novel as satisfying for its existential inquiry as for its enthralling story of a skeptical physician who arrives at a greater understanding of life's miracles.

Author : James R. Hamilton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405113537
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Theater written by James R. Hamilton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Theater argues for the recognition of theatrical performance as an art form independent of dramatic writing. Identifies the elements that make a performance a work of art Looks at the competing views of the text-performance relationships An important and original contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of theater

Author : William C. Boles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350215864
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theater in a Post-Truth World written by William C. Boles and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine how the concept and disagreements around post-truth have been explored in the world of theater and performance. It covers a wide spectrum of manifestations and expressions-from the plays of Caryl Churchill, Anne Washburn, and David Henry Hwang, to the inherent theatricality of press conferences, FBI interviews and protests that embrace the confusion created by post-truth rhetoric to muddy issues and deflect blame, to theatrical performance, where the nature of truth is challenged through staged visuals which run counter to what the audience hears, provoking a debate about where the truth actually lies. With contributions by scholars from around the world, Theater in a Post-Truth World considers a wide array of examples from American and British drama and politics, Australian theater, and the work of performance artist Marina Abramovic. Together these provide a glimpse into how the theater in its many forms provides a venue to raise awareness and encourage critical thinking about the contemporary ubiquity of post-truth.

Author : Teya Sepinuck
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1849053820
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre of Witness written by Teya Sepinuck and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring diverse human experiences in the US, Poland and Northern Ireland, this book is of interest to practitioners and students of applied theatre, peace and conflict studies, professionals working in conflict resolution, counselors, psychotherapists, professionals in the field of criminal and restorative justice, and spiritual seekers.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559361873
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ground on which I Stand written by August Wilson and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 2001 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.

Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330096468
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth About the Theater written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Truth About the Theater The author of this book is one of the best known theatrical men in New York. For ten years he has enjoyed the confidence of his business associates and the respect of the thousands of men and women of the stage who have been in the employ of his firm. His word with all of these is as good as his bond. What he says here he has said deliberately, after long reflection, and with the sole idea of telling the truth that the truth may help those who need to know it most. Young men and women ambitious to go on the stage, to write plays or to associate themselves in some other manner or capacity with the theater will find in what he has written the plain facts as he knows them - without adornment, exaggeration or excuse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Robin Belfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848424913
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telling the Truth written by Robin Belfield and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to creating and producing verbatim theatre, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.

Author : Paul Downs Colaizzo
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822227487
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Really Really written by Paul Downs Colaizzo and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary drama that pushes the edges and embraces the harsh reality of today's youth. At an elite university, when the party of the year results in the regret of a lifetime, one person will stop at nothing to salvage a future that is suddenly slipping away. In this quick-witted and gripping comic tragedy about 'Generation Me,' it's every man for himself.