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Mumbai's theatre scene is a dynamic and creative space that has continuously inspired young theatre practitioners from the 1960s to the present day. It is, filled with lessons learned and unlearned, techniques invented and reinvented. It is a space in which experimentation constantly takes place-where, as Shanta Gokhale says in her preface, 'the new' consciously opposes 'the old' and results in the kind of theatre that forces people to reconsider...
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50%-FRAUENQUOTE IN DER THEATERREGIE: DAS ENDE DER KUNST? Als die Leiterin des renommierten Berliner Theatertreffens Yvonne Büdenhölzer im Jahr 2019 die 50%-Frauenquote einführte, wurde sie scharf kritisiert. Schließlich verleitet die Quote geradezu reflexhaft zum Widerspruch: Trifft die eingeladenen Regisseurinnen nicht der Generalverdacht, dass sie es nur aufgrund der Frauenquote ins Rampenlicht geschafft haben? Ist bei so einer Vorgabe sogar...
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Un grupo de profesores especialistas del teatro español, francés e italiano reflexionan desde la teatralidad franciscana medieval hasta los orígenes de la tragedia, el teatro como espectáculo y el espacio escénico, sin dejar de lado a autores como Carlo Gozzi o Giovan Battista Gelli. Un elenco de investigadores que rinden un merecido homenaje a Federico Doglio, creador del «Centro Studi sul Teatro Medioevale e Rinascimentale», quien supo fusionar...
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Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, “The Best American Short Plays” has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, and Horton Foote. William W. Demastes made his debut as series editor with the well-received...
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Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published women's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights and future stars, including Michael Ross Albert, Don Nigro, Daniel Damiano, Molly Goforth, Seth Svi Rosenfeld, Brian Dykstra, Michael A. Jones, Sam Graber, Penny Jackson, Christi...
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CHAPTER I Egyptian, Assyrian, Hebrew and Phoenician Dancing. CHAPTER II Dancing with the Greeks. CHAPTER III Etruscan-South Italian, Roman Dancing, etc. CHAPTER IV The "Early English" and "Mediaeval" dance to the fourteenth century. CHAPTER V Society dancing from the fifteenth century. CHAPTER VI The Modern Theatre Dance. In this work it is not necessary to worry the reader with speculations as to the origin of dancing. There are other authorities...
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What do we mean by the term "animation" when we are discussing film? Is it a technique? A style? A way of seeing or experiencing "a world" that has little relation to our own lived experience of "the world"? In Animated Worlds, contributors reveal the astonishing variety of "worlds" animation confronts us with. Essays range from close film analyses to phenomenological and cognitive approaches, spectatorship, performance, literary theory, and digital...
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Renowned editor Larwrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published men's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both well-known playwrights and future stars, including Jonathan Yukitch, Don Nigro, Lloyd Su, Daniel Damiano, Molly Goforth, Carlyle Brown, Seth Svi Rosenfeld, Brian Dykstra, Steven Hayet, David MacGregor,...
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Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, and Horton Foote. This volume, Bill Demastes' first edition as series editor, illustrates how well...
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From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, “The Theatre of Black Americans” offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded into an American cultural institution. Among the essays: James Hatch—Some African Influences on the Afro-American Theatre; Shelby Steele—Notes on Ritual in the New Black Theatre; Sister M. Francesca Thompson OSF—The...
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The purpose of this book is to celebrate the transformative power of belly dance. The contributors have opened their lives and hearts to share their passion. Their stories of healing, compassion, joy, community, connection, and self-expression await you. As the idea for this book began to take shape, I placed an open call to belly dancers all over the world to submit essays for this book. The only guideline was that submissions should share how belly...
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When “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” was released in 1975, it initially received an indifferent reception in movie theatres, but it began to gain notoriety after it was embraced by audiences at midnight screenings in New York City and elsewhere. The movie tells of the misadventures of Brad and Janet, newly engaged, whose car breaks down in a rainstorm, forcing them to seek refuge in the castle of the bizarre and flamboyant Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
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In 10-Minute Plays for Kids, young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights – such as Sharyn Rothstein, Alex Broun, Jenny Lyn Bader, Claudia I. Haas, and Mark Harvey Levine, and by others less well known but equally terrific such as Sharai Bohannon, Suzanne Bailie, and Shirley King. The characters and situations portrayed are perfect for the kid actor. Some of the plays explore relatable tales of friendship and...
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A MOMENT ON THE CLOCK OF THE WORLD is an invitation to consider how we make the world, together. It collects the voices of people who respond to this invitation with their living lives and prolific work: artists, social justice practitioners, cultural critics and public intellectuals - Cornel West, Taylor Mac, Alisa Solomon, Robin D.G. Kelley and Laura Flanders among them - whose own inquiries intersected with that of the award-winning Foundry Theatre...
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This collection of 75 solo speeches and performance pieces for actors has been selected from the finest material being written today for theatre in America and England. Solo! presents dramatic monologues on the cutting edge. All selections include acting notes along with the quick and easy guide to the art of auditioning.
17) Circus
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Discover Series Books for Babies,Toddlers Step Right Up! It's time to visit the Big Top in the latest book from Xist Publishing's Discover Series. CIRCUS features full,color photos and captions for your child's viewing pleasure. Babies and toddlers will enjoy flipping through the images while learning new words and preschool and older children can use the images as fuel for their imaginations. Used as a jumpstart for interaction, Discover Series Picture...
18) Melbourne
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An illuminating and visually led guide to a selection of the films set wholly or in part in Melbourne, “World Film Locations: Melbourne” covers the big screen representations of life in the city from the Victorian era to the present day. Short analyses of iconic scenes and themed essays focusing on key directors and recurring themes and locations combine to highlight the city's relationship to cinema. Illustrated throughout with full colour film...
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It has been well known since Marius Barbeau's review of the first edition of Franz Boas's Tsimshian Mythology in 1917 that something was seriously amiss with Boas's alleged "translations" of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate. But what, exactly, was it that Boas was doing with Tate's stories? Ralph Maud answers this question in Transmission Difficulties.
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The first of its kind in English, this collection covers twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen scholars illuminate these filmmakers' negotiations of local and global politics, cinematic representation, and issues of gender and sexuality, covering works from the 1920s to the present. Writing from the disciplines of film, Asian, women's, and auteur studies,...
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