Contemporary Theatres in Europe (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Companion
Redaktion: Kelleher, Joe; Ridout, Nicholas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe.

From ThA(c)atre du Soleil to SocA¬etas Raffaello Sanzio, the authors reconsider the possibilities of theatre practice, its relation to history and location and its place in Europe at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Contemporary Theatres in Europe examines a wide range of topics including:

• mainstream European theatre
• experimental performance
• music theatre
• theatre for children
• dance theatre.

Tailor-made for students, offering clear examples of different ways of thinking and writing about performance, this is a richly detailed introduction which brings key themes to life for all students of European theatre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134331130
• Artikelnr.: 47885174

Autorenporträt

Joe Kelleher, Nicholas Ridout

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1. Human Stuff: Presence, Proximity and Pretend 2.
Investigating the Entrails: Post-Operatic Music Theatre in Europe 3.
Encountering Memory: Acco Theater Center's Arbeit macht frei MiToitland
Europa 4. On the Border as Theatrical Space: Appearance, Dis-location and
the Production of the Refugee 5. Foreign Bodies: Performing Physical and
Psychological Harm at the Mladi Levi Festical, August 2003 6. Dying Bodies,
Living Corpses: Transition, Nationalism and Resistance in Croatian Theatre
7. Desire Amongst the Dodgems: Alain Platel and the Scene of Seduction 8.
'Constitutive Ambiguities': Writing Porfessional or Expert Performance
Practices, and the Théâtre du Soleil, Paris 9. Marshfield Mummers: The Old
Time Paper Boys 10. The Gift of Play: Ubung and the Secret Signal of
Gesture 11. Authority, Empowerment and Fairy Tales: Theatre for Young
People 12. Make Believe: Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio Do Theatre 13. After the
Fall: Dance-Theatre and Dance-Performance 14. What State Am I In? Or, How
to be a Spectator

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Preface Introduction 1. Human Stuff: Presence, Proximity and Pretend 2. Investigating the Entrails: Post-Operatic Music Theatre in Europe 3. Encountering Memory: Acco Theater Center's Arbeit macht frei MiToitland Europa 4. On the Border as Theatrical Space: Appearance, Dis-location and the Production of the Refugee 5. Foreign Bodies: Performing Physical and Psychological Harm at the Mladi Levi Festical, August 2003 6. Dying Bodies, Living Corpses: Transition, Nationalism and Resistance in Croatian Theatre 7. Desire Amongst the Dodgems: Alain Platel and the Scene of Seduction 8. 'Constitutive Ambiguities': Writing Porfessional or Expert Performance Practices, and the Théâtre du Soleil, Paris 9. Marshfield Mummers: The Old Time Paper Boys 10. The Gift of Play: Ubung and the Secret Signal of Gesture 11. Authority, Empowerment and Fairy Tales: Theatre for Young People 12. Make Believe: Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio Do Theatre 13. After the Fall: Dance-Theatre and Dance-Performance 14. What State Am I In? Or, How to be a Spectator