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Free Download The Theatre of Tibet: The State of the Art and Studies by Antonio Attisani
English | April 3, 2024 | ISBN: 8869774694 | 522 pages | PDF | 13 Mb
The theatrical culture of Tibet is probably the last to remain virtually unknown to the outside world, and to the West in particular. As well as describing the current situation of studies on Tibetan theatre, the current volume also provides an essay on imagination and how it is concretely manifested by the Tibetan people and their actors.

Free Download Sound and Sense in Contemporary Theatre: Mad Auralities by Matthew Tomkinson
English | February 12, 2025 | ISBN: 3031780337 | 179 pages | PDF, EPUB | 2.53 Mb
This book is among the first to consider the subject of mad auralities in theatre and performance, asking: what does it mean to hear and listen madly? Drawing widely upon mad studies, critical disability studies, theatre studies, sound studies, queer studies, and critical race theory, it seeks to explore the theatrical relationship between sound and mental health differences by examining a range of case studies in which audience members are immersed in auditory simulations of madness. Ultimately, however, this critical study investigates the shortcomings of simulation as a representational practice, in keeping with the critical tradition of disability studies and mad studies.

Free Download Singing Utopia: Voice in Musical Theatre by Ben Macpherson
English | November 25, 2024 | ISBN: 0197557643 | 288 pages | PDF | 8.94 Mb
Singing Utopia is a unique and ambitious work which asks us to listen differently to voice in musical theatre. Across fifteen case studies from Florodora to Hadestown, Ben Macpherson hears something utopian in the extraordinary, emotional, and situational directness of singing voices as they escape the confines of everyday life. Yet, as this book discovers, the very nature of utopia is paradoxical, fraught with undercurrents of nostalgia, melancholy, and the perpetual threat of the dystopian. Singing Utopia listens across these fault lines in our understanding of utopia and asks what it means for a musical to give voice to an imagined world which is always a contradiction in terms. Who gets to inhabit such a world? Who is excluded? How can we locate utopia in musical theatre voices, and what might be the consequences when its complexities are exposed?

Free Download Eugene Van Erven, "Community Theatre"
English | 2000 | pages: 284 | ISBN: 0415190312, 0415190347 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Community theatre is an important device for communities to collectively share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citizens. It is practised all over the world by growing numbers of people.

Free Download Jonathan Bollen, Adrian Kiernander, Bruce Parr, "Men at Play: Masculinities in Australian Theatre Since the 1950s"
English | 2008 | pages: 262 | ISBN: 9042023570 | PDF | 1,8 mb
How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations between men, and men’s experiences of war and migration?

Free Download David Carlton, Anne Etienne, "Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson"
English | 2008 | pages: 297 | ISBN: 0199260281 | PDF | 1,5 mb
Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives, David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne provide a new perspective on British cultural history. Statutory censorship was first introduced in Britain by Sir Robert Walpole with his Licensing Act of 1737. Previously theatre censorship was exercised under the Royal Prerogative. By giving the Lord Chamberlain statutory powers of theatre censorship, Walpole ensured that confusion over the relationship between the Royal Prerogative and statute law would prevent any serious challenge to theatre censorship in Parliament until the twentieth century.

Free Download Historical Dictionary of Russian Theatre (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts), 2nd Edition by Laurence Senelick
English | August 13, 2015 | ISBN: 1442249269 | True EPUB/PDF | 692 pages | 23.4/9 MB
A latecomer continually hampered by government control and interference, the Russian theatre seems an unlikely source of innovation and creativity. Yet, by the middle of the nineteenth century, it had given rise to a number of outstanding playwrights and actors, and by the start of the twentieth century, it was in the vanguard of progressive thinking in the realms of directing and design. Its influence throughout the world was pervasive: Nikolai Gogol’, Anton Chekhov and Maksim Gor’kii remain staples of repertories in every language, the ideas of Konstantin Stanislavskii, Vsevolod Meierkhol’d and Mikhail Chekhov continue to inspire actors and directors, while designers still draw on the graphics of the World of Art group and the Constructivists. What distinguishes Russian theater from almost any other is the way in which these achievements evolved and survived in ongoing conflict or cooperation with the State.

Free Download Theatre of the Ridiculous: A Critical History by Kelly I. Aliano
English | November 23, 2018 | ISBN: 1476674035 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 4.5 MB
Theatre of the Ridiculous is a significant movement that highlighted the radical possibilities inherent in camp. Much of contemporary theatre owes this form a great debt but little has been written about its history or aesthetic markers. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the important practitioners, along with critical commentary of their work.

Free Download Joshua Edelman, "The Problem of Theatrical Autonomy: Analysing Theatre as a Social Practice"
English | ISBN: 9462980799 | 2016 | 224 pages | PDF | 1400 KB
As any devoted theatregoer will attest, watching a performance is a unique experience, as the social setting, rules, and standards of theatre often combine to create a feeling of liberation from the everyday world. This book explores the phenomenon of theatre as simultaneously distinct from and yet connected to society as a whole. Combining theoretical reflections with materials from European case studies, the authors offer intriguing new methods for the sociological study of theatre while contributing equally to theatre and performance studies.

Free Download Theatre of Sexual Attraction and Psychological Destruction: The Myth of Hercules and Omphale in the Visual Arts, 1500-1800
by Karl A E Enenkel
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9004694641 | 529 Pages | PDF | 141 MB