Theatre as Sign System

Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415049320
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
An invaluable handbook explaining the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practice of drama in performance. It also explains the meanings and methods of semiotics and addresses key texts from Sophocles to Caryl Churchill.

Theatre as Sign System

Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136112286
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
This invaluable student handbook is the first detailed guide to explain in detail the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practice of drama in performance. Beginning at the beginning, with accessible explanations of the meanings and methods of semiotics, Theatre as Sign System addresses key drama texts and offers new and detailed information about the theories of performance.

Signs of Performance

Author: Colin Counsell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136153241
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
Signs of Performance provides the beginning student with working examples of theatrical analysis. Its range covers the whole of twentieth century theatre, from Stanislavski to Brecht and Samuel Beckett to Robert Wilson. Colin Counsell takes an historical look at theatre as a cultural practice, clearly tracing connections between: * Key practitioners' ideas about performance * The theatrical practices prompted by those ideas * The resulting signs which emerge in performance * The meanings and political consequences of those signs It provides an understandable theoretical framework for the study of theatre as a an signifying practice, and offers vivid explanations in clear, direct language. It opens up this fascinating field to a broad audience.

The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

Author: Keir Elam
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134465122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
Keir Elam showed how this new 'science' could provide a radical shift in our understanding of theatrical performance, one of our very richest and most complex forms of communication.

Theatre Theory and Performance

Author: Siddhartha Biswas
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527502600
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
Over the last few centuries, the world as we know it has seen remarkable change and the arts – including theatre – have faced new challenges. Theatre is now no longer a simple point of entertainment laced with instruction or dissent, but is perceived as a more collaborative idea that looks at ever-changing paradigms. All over the world, theatre now is a dynamic process that simultaneously retains tradition and delves into extreme experimentations. This book represents a starting point for a much-needed critical interrogation. It looks at the constant features of European theatre and brings in some Indian elements, positing both in their respective locations, as well as looking at the symbiosis that has been functioning for some time.

Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880

Author: Julie Stone Peters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199262168
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth of modern theatre.

Theatre Semiotics

Author: Marvin Carlson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description

Dramaturgy in American Theater

Author: Susan Jonas
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 622

Book Description
This comprehensive work is truly the first textbook in the field of dramaturgy. Most of the material-much of it by leaders in all areas of the theater-was commissioned for this collection, rather than being reprinted. Its currency and importance cannot be overestimated. A review of the history of dramaturgy as a profession, together with its European antecedents, gives students a sense of historical context. Selections from respected and recognized names in theater provoke student interest and communicate the benefits of those experts' experiences.

The Theory and Analysis of Drama

Author: Manfred Pfister
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423830
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The material on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods. His approach is systematic rather than historical, combining more abstract categorisations with detailed interpretations of sample texts.

The Art of Light on Stage

Author: Yaron Abulafia
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317429710
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
The Art of Light on Stage is the first history of theatre lighting design to bring the story right up to date. In this extraordinary volume, award-winning designer Yaron Abulafia explores the poetics of light, charting the evolution of lighting design against the background of contemporary performance. The book looks at the material and the conceptual; the technological and the transcendental. Never before has theatre design been so vividly and excitingly illuminated. The book examines the evolution of lighting design in contemporary theatre through an exploration of two fundamental issues: 1. What gave rise to the new directions in lighting design in contemporary theatre? 2. How can these new directions be viewed within the context of lighting design history? The study then focuses on the phenomenological and semiotic aspects of the medium for light – the role of light as a performer, as the medium of visual perception and as a stimulus for imaginative representations – in selected contemporary theatre productions by Robert Wilson, Romeo Castellucci, Heiner Goebbels, Jossi Wieler and David Zinder. This ground-breaking book will be required reading for anyone concerned with the future of performance.