Theater Macabre

Author : Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 178683846X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre and the Macabre written by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘macabre’, as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre – and more broadly, performance – for thousands of years. In its embodied meditations on death and dying, its thematic and aesthetic grotesquerie, and its sensory-rich environments, macabre theatre invites artists and audiences to trace the stranger, darker contours of human existence. In this volume, numerous scholars explore the morbid and gruesome onstage, from freak shows to the French Grand Guignol; from Hell Houses to German Trauerspiel; from immersive theatre to dark tourism, stopping along the way to look at phantoms, severed heads, dark rides, haunted mothers and haunting children, dances of death and dismembered bodies. From Japan to Australia to England to the United States, the global macabre is framed and juxtaposed to understand how the theatre brings us face to face with the deathly and the horrific.

Author : Kealan Patrick Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989744300
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theater Macabre written by Kealan Patrick Burke and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hooded figure wanders a lonesome road waiting for a special someone...A criminal returns home to face old memories and new nightmares...A man awakes to find himself living in a mirror image of reality...and diners at a restaurant find themselves confronted with a terrifying revelation about who and what they are...These are the nineteen nightmarish tales that await you in the THEATER MACABRE... -

Author : Meredith Conti
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786838478
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre and the Macabre written by Meredith Conti and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘macabre’, as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre – and more broadly, performance – for thousands of years. In its embodied meditations on death and dying, its thematic and aesthetic grotesquerie, and its sensory-rich environments, macabre theatre invites artists and audiences to trace the stranger, darker contours of human existence. In this volume, numerous scholars explore the morbid and gruesome onstage, from freak shows to the French Grand Guignol; from Hell Houses to German Trauerspiel; from immersive theatre to dark tourism, stopping along the way to look at phantoms, severed heads, dark rides, haunted mothers and haunting children, dances of death and dismembered bodies. From Japan to Australia to England to the United States, the global macabre is framed and juxtaposed to understand how the theatre brings us face to face with the deathly and the horrific.

Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476675554
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horror on the Stage written by Amnon Kabatchnik and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are numerous publications about the horror genre in film and television, but none that provide information about horror on a legitimate stage until now. This book highlights the most terrifying moments in theater history, from classical plays like Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and Euripides' Medea to the violence of the Grand Guignol company productions in 18th-century France, and present-day productions like Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd, Stephen King's Carrie and dark 21st-century plays by Clive Barker and Conor McPherson. The book compiles the history and behind-the-scenes tales surrounding stage productions about monsters, hauntings and horrors both historical and imagined. Included are the nightmarish adaptations of popular writings from Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others, as well as plays starring popular characters like Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, and the Woman in Black. More than 500 plays are documented, accompanied by dozens of photographs. Entries include plot synopses, existing production data, and evaluations by critics and scholars.

Author : Marshall Everett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago's Awful Theater Horror written by Marshall Everett and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing a flash-light sketch of the holocaust, detailed narratives by participants in the horror, heroic work of rescuers, reports of the building experts as to the responsibility for the wholesale slaughter of women and children, memorable fires of the past, etc.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793643407
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century written by Simon Bacon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which to understand contemporary horror, but it also speaks to the changes wrought by technological development in creation, production, and distribution, as well as the ways in which those who are traditionally underrepresented positively within the genre- women, LGBTQ+, indigenous, and BAME communities - are finally being seen and finding space to speak.

Author : Robert Blumenfeld
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0879103728
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blumenfeld's Dictionary of Musical Theater written by Robert Blumenfeld and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you heard of the first American musical, "The Black Crook", which opened in 1866 and had fifteen revivals? Its chorus of ladies in pink tights was a sensation! Do you know Oscar Straus' hilarious parody of Wagner's Ring cycle, "Die lustigen Nibelungen" ("The Merry Nibelungs")? Do you know who the Ricci brothers, the Piccinni family, Edmond Audran, David Braham, or Francois-Joseph Gossec were? Look them up in this remarkable, thoroughly researched, lively book. Packed with nuggets of useful and fascinating information, with nearly 1,800 entries, this is a must-have research tool and handy reference for the theater and music lover, student, teacher, professional singer, director, and producer. Meant as a supplement and companion to Blumenfeld's "Dictionary of Acting and Show Business" (Limelight, 2009), this unique dictionary is chock-full of information about all the various genres of musical theater; thumbnail plot summaries of many well-known and some more obscure works; thumbnail biographies of composers and writers; and, dance, theatrical, and music terminology. Historical terms and foreign terms (with pronunciations) are included, along with information on available recordings of many obscure pieces. Convenient lists of the works of Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Gilbert and Sullivan, Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and many others are provided.

Author : Various
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465524622
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago's Awful Theater Horror written by Various and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marshall Everett
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040756542
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lest We Forget: Chicago's Awful Theater Horror written by Marshall Everett and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Lest We Forget": Chicago's Awful Theater Horror" by Marshall Everett. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Marshall Everett
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781294679998
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lest We Forget written by Marshall Everett and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Lest We Forget: Chicago's Awful Theater Horror Marshall Everett, Samuel Fallows (Bp.) Memorial Publishing Co., 1904 Performing Arts; Theater; Stagecraft; Baltimore (Md.); Iroquois Theater, Chicago; Performing Arts / Theater / Stagecraft