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Free Download Sarah Hoover, "Reflective Affective Dramaturgies of Participatory Theatre: Larping Audiences into Performance"
English | ISBN: 3031644581 | 2024 | 202 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 7 MB
As the popularity and diversity of participatory theatre productions increase, scholarly and artistic attention toward the audience as agentive contributors and interpreters must keep pace. Simultaneously, the COVID-19 pandemic has added urgency to the collective artistic encounter and its value to individual and community health. This book proposes "reflective affective" dramaturgies of participatory theatre aimed toward incorporating participants’ reflections and affective responses as material in an emergent exploration of represented systems of power. The volume’s interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks stem from performance studies discourses including feminist materialism, phenomenology and affect theory, bringing them together with larp scholarship on character/self performance, agency and emergence. Through its integration of the practical and theoretical, this work serves as an essential study for scholars, students and artists in theatre studies, performance studies, visual art studies, role-play studies, cultural studies, and philosophy.

Free Download Jonas Vanderschueren, "Queering Polishness in Polish Theatre Since 2005: Dissenting Bodies"
English | ISBN: 3031645375 | 2024 | 265 pages | EPUB, PDF | 559 KB + 4 MB
Theatre has long been an art form at the centre of public life in Poland. Whether it is the self-professed poet-prophets of the Romantic era, or the dissident theatre makers working under the strictures of state socialism, the art form has played a vital role in the development of Polish culture and politics in the context of shifting foreign occupations. This book explores the relationship between contemporary Polish theatre makers and contemporary notions of Polishness and argues that queer theory, and specifically a Polish appropriation of queer theory, can be a crucial element to better understand the politicality of the contemporary Polish theatre field. It does this by focusing on critical theatre productions which are produced at the margins of the Polish theatre field, a choice which has been made as the field is dominated by traditional drama theatres which reproduce a Polish variation on the Western canon. This makes smaller, atypical, and independent theatre productions all the more significant, as they signify a refusal to continue the traditional role of the Polish theatre field in reproducing the canon of Polish Romanticism. As such, the book argues that contemporary Polish theatre has been marked by a struggle between those building performances and state authorities that see those creations as a threat to their authority.

Free Download Thomas Riggs, "Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television"
English | 2008 | pages: 503 | ISBN: 1414400225 | PDF | 3,0 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. Recent biographees include:

Free Download Thomas Riggs, "Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television"
English | 2008 | pages: 503 | ISBN: 1414400225 | PDF | 3,0 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. Recent biographees include:

Free Download Catherine Burroughs, "The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism"
English | ISBN: 0367439875 | 2023 | 690 pages | PDF | 21 MB
The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers.

Free Download Márcia Abreu, Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, "The Cultural Revolution of the Nineteenth Century: Theatre, the Book-Trade and Reading in the Transatlantic World"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1784531774, 1350153907 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 2.1 mb
The beginnings of what we now call ‘globalization’ dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect ‘the four parts of the world’. From the end of the eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth centuries, technical advancements, such as the growth of the European rail network and the increasing ease of international shipping, narrowed the physical and imagined distances between different parts of the globe. Books, printed matter and theatrical performances were a crucial part of this process and the so-called ‘long nineteenth century’ saw a remarkable increase in readership and technological improvements that significantly changed the production of printed matter and its relationship with culture. This book analyzes this sea-change in knowledge and sharing of ideas through the prism of the transatlantic diffusion of French, Brazilian, Portuguese and English print-cultures. In particular, it charts the circulation of printed matter, ✅Publishers, booksellers and actors between Europe and South America. Featuring a new original essay from Roger Chartier, The Cultural Revolution of the 19th Century is an essential new benchmark in global and transnational history.

Free Download Kelly Kessler, "Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Musical Theatre: He/She/They Could Have Danced All Night"
English | ISBN: 1789386195 | 2023 | 350 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Established and emerging musical theater scholars wrestle with the complexities of the gendered and sexualized musical theater form.

Free Download Joachim Küpper, "Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires: Looking at Early Modern England and Spain"
English | ISBN: 3110536870 | 2018 | 245 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This volume presents the proceedings of the international conference "Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires: Looking at Early Modern England and Spain", held in 2012 as part of the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet). Implementing the concept of culture as a virtual network, it investigates Early modern European drama and its global dissemination. The 12 articles of the volume – all written by experts in the field teaching in the United Kingdom, the USA, Russia, Switzerland, India and Germany – focus on a selection of English and Spanish dramas from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Analysing and comparing motifs, formal parameters as well as Description structures, they discuss the commonalities and differences of Early modern drama in England and Spain.

Free Download Tony Fisher, "The aesthetic exception: Essays on art, theatre, and politics"
English | ISBN: 1526170167 | 2023 | 288 pages | EPUB | 1417 KB
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.

Free Download KennethM Tynan, "Kenneth Tynan: theatre writings"
English | 2007 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1854590502, 1854595431 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
The best of Tynan’s theatre criticism, selected and edited by his biographer Dominic Shellard – with a foreword by Tom Stoppard.