Tag: Theatre

Free Download Revolutionary Messages (Theatre Makers) by Antonin Artaud, translated by Joel White
English | September 19, 2024 | ISBN: 1350179027, 1350179019 | True EPUB/PDF | 256 pages | 0.5/9.9 MB
Published here in its entirety in English, Artaud’s Revolutionary Messages collects Antonin Artaud’s political, aesthetic and philosophical writings during his travels to Mexico in 1936. Written around the same time as his seminal work The Theatre and its Double, it captures a crucial point in Artaud’s life shortly before he was admitted to a mental asylum in which he was to spend a significant part of his later life.

Free Download Women Experimenting in Theatre: Early Modern to Contemporary
by Kate Aughterson and Deborah Philips
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031636880 | 374 Pages | True PDF | 9.5 MB

Free Download U. Canton, "Biographical Theatre: Re-Presenting Real People?"
English | ISBN: 023025277X | 2011 | 218 pages | EPUB | 621 KB
Marilyn Monroe, Vincent van Gogh or the victims of rendition flights – the number and variety of historical and contemporary figures represented on British stages is amazing. This book develops a new theoretical framework for the representation of real life figures on stage and examines different ways in which they can be included in performances.

Free Download Anthony D. Fredericks, "Fairy Tales Readers Theatre"
English | 2009 | pages: 151 | ISBN: 1591588499 | PDF | 1,6 mb
A collection of fairy tales converted to readers theatre scripts, allowing students to play the parts as they develop their literacy skills.

Free Download Elisa Ganser, "Theatre and Its Other Abhinavagupta on Dance and Dramatic Acting "
English | ISBN: 9004449817 | 2022 | 428 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In Theatre and Its Other, Elisa Ganser revisits a telling debate on the intertwined natures of dance and dramatic acting; preserved in Abhinavagupta’s eleventh-century commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, it reflects complex historical shifts in aesthetic theory and performance practice.

Free Download Henryk Jurkowski, "Aspects of Puppet Theatre Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1137338431 | 2014 | 216 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Henryk Jurkowski’s seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis. Henryk Jurkowski’s seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis.

Free Download In Praise of Theatre by Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong
English | October 26, 2015 | ISBN: 0745686966, 0745686974 | True EPUB | 90 pages | 0.1 MB
In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou’s latest work on the ‘most complete of the arts,’ the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike, elaborates the theory of the theatre developed by Badiou in works such as Rhapsody for the Theatre and the ‘Theses on Theatre’ and enquires into the status of a theatre that would be adequate to our ‘contemporary, market-oriented chaos.’

Free Download Thomas Riggs, "Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television"
English | 2010 | pages: 526 | ISBN: 1414439938 | PDF | 2,9 mb
This popular series brings you extensive biographical and career information on more than 20, 000 professionals currently working in the entertainment industry, including performers, choreographers, directors, technicians, writers, composers, producers, executives, designers, critics and more.

Free Download Bishnupriya Dutt, "Theatre, activism, subjectivity: Searching for the Left in a fragmented world "
English | ISBN: 1526178567 | 2024 | 320 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Through the lens of performance and politics, this collection zooms in on the context-specific dimensions, analogies, and micro-histories of the Left to better understand the larger picture. It proposes a search for the Left not from totalising Leftist ideological positions and partisan politics but from ethical dimensions through smaller-scale Left-leaning struggles; not from the political to the aesthetic, but from the potentiality of art to offer new political imagination and critique; not from the individual subordinated to the collective, but from the dialectics of subjectivity and collectivity. This is not an attempt at a sweeping global overview of Leftist cultures either, but a collection that brings together culture-specific and comparative perspectives. This book searches for fragments of and on the Left, past and present, through which to rethink and patch a fragmented world.

Free Download Tony Fisher, "The aesthetic exception: Essays on art, theatre, and politics"
English | ISBN: 1526170167 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 22 MB
The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discount the role of aesthetic autonomy, to impulsively reassert art as an effective form of social engagement. But it equally challenges those on the flipside of the efficacy debate, who insist that art’s politics is limited to a recondite space of ‘autonomous resistance’. The book shows how each side of the efficacy debate overlooks art’s exceptional status and its social mediations. Mobilising philosophy and cultural theory, and employing examples from visual art, performance, and theatre, it proposes four alternative tests to ‘effect’ to offer a nuanced account of art’s political character. Those tests examine how art relates to politics as a practice that articulates its historical conjuncture, and how it prefigures the ‘new’ through simulations capable of activating the political life of the spectator.