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Theatre: Collaborative Acts, 3/E
ISBN-10: 020562569X
ISBN-13: 9780205625697
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Copyright: 2010
Format: Paper; 384 pp
Published: 01/07/2009
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Theatre: Collaborative Acts stimulates creative thinking and discussions of artistic, social, and ethical questions through its interwoven themes of theatre as culture, collaboration, spatial art, and a fusion of the past and present. The central premise of Theatre: Collaborative Acts is that theatre is entertainment and art. It allows us to escape, relax, and refocus. Through their study of theatre, students develop lifelong tools to help them enjoy, analyze, understand, read, visualize, and get the most out of many different types of theatre experiences. This Third Edition continues to emphasize the diversity of purpose and effect of theatre, and the collaborative nature of the theatrical process.
Features
Four major themes and principles:
o Theatre is cultural study: looking at theatrical events and how they are created provides a window into the way a society
views itself, drawing examples from multicultural theatre, not just the Western tradition.
o Theatre is collaboration: theatre-making is a shared experience including both theatre practitioners and audience
members.
o Theatre is a spatial art: critical to theatrical collaboration is the way space is used, adapted, transformed, and the way
theatrical artists interact in and with that space.
o Theatre is a dynamic fusion of past and present: it represents a unique opportunity to see how the past and present
are interrelated.
Boxed features:
o “Exploring Collaboration” boxes include profiles of successful artistic teams and feature a variety of approaches to the
artistic process.
o “Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives” boxes offer a window on specific theatrical events.
o “Artists of the Theatre” boxes feature colorful and influential theatrical figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Special features:
o “Interpreting Space and Design” photo essay demonstrates ways in which spaces and characters have been redefined
by directors and designers and examines the human figure in space and the dynamics of three-dimensional performance.
o "Key Theatrical Events" timeline of selective theatrical, social, and artistic events allows students to place their
explorations in a wider context.
o “Theatre of Diversity” photo essay demonstrates diversity in types of theatre and theatrical experiences.
Pedagogy:
o “For Further Exploration” provides a reference list of articles, books, videos, and websites.
o “Questions and Activities” provide springboards for class discussions and outside projects.
o “Key Terms and Concepts” (in boldface in the chapter) are arranged by topic and followed by page reference number.
o A Bibliography brings together all the major sources included in the “Further Exploration” sections.
New To This Edition
- Includes new information about important professional productions throughout the text, looking critically at the ethical questions and important life messages these plays address—and the ways in which different theatrical traditions address them.
- Updated with examples from current Broadway and off Broadway productions, including Spring Awakening (2006), The Adding Machine (2007), August: Osage County (2007), and Richard III (2007).
- Reorganized with additional production material and a new chapter on the producer.
- Contains new artist and historical boxes on the Stagehands Union strike of 2007, National Theatre of the Deaf, deus ex machina, and more.
- Increased focus on race and gender diversity in contemporary and period theatre throughout the text.
- Features an updated timeline of important events in theatre, taking students through theatrical traditions and influences across cultures and time
- Presents over 30 percent new photographs.
Table of Contents
I. Theatre and Its Audience
1. Cultural Collaboration: Theatre and Society
Theatre as Entertainment and Art
Exploring Cultural and Historical Perspectives: The Lure of Safe Conduct and Invisible Rabbits
The Social Functions of Theatre
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Theatre of War
Exploring Artists of the Theatre: National Theatre of the Deaf
Social Control of Theatre
Exploring Collaboration: Citizen Play Juries
Theatrical Choice in North America
Cultural Context and Personal Experience
2. Experiencing Theatre: Collaboration of Actor, Audience, and Space
The Audience
Exploring Collaboration: Spatial Collaboration: Commune and Pinocchio
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Brecht versus Wagner
The Nature of Acting
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Hypokrites to Actor
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Makeup as Mask: Kathakali
From Play to Production
Space
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Drottningholm Court Theatre
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Stratford Festival Theatre
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Performing Garage
Theatre and Transformation
3. Analyzing Theatre: Thinking and Writing about Live Performance
Theatre, Film, and Television
Analyzing Production
Thinking about Actor Performances
Thinking about Space and Design
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Effect of Audience Space on Angels in America
Understanding Style
Evaluating Production
The Role of the Critic
Writing about Production
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Theatre or Theater? It Is More Than a Building
When It All Works
4. Understanding the Play: A Theatrical Blueprint
Plot
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Deus ex Machina
Character
Thought
Language
Exploring Collaboration: Improvised Text
Music
Spectacle
5. Interpreting the Play: Understanding Genre, Reading, and Writing
Dramatic Genre
Reading a Play
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: “Exit, Pursued by a Bear”: Those Problematic Stage Directions
Writing about a Play
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Juliet Was a Guy in Drag? Changing Theatrical Conventions
Photo Gallery: Theatrical Diversity
II. COLLABORATION IN ART AND PRACTICE
6. The Director: Vision and Leadership
Has Someone Always Been in Charge?
Interpretation
Developing Concept
Artists of the Theatre: Peter Brook
Communicating and Managing the Artistic Vision
Collaborating with the Playwright
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: “Who Owns the Work?”
Directors and Absent Playwrights
Collaborating with Designers
Collaborating with Actors
Exploring Collaboration: Metamorphoses
Artists of the Theatre: George C. Wolfe
Collaborating with the Stage Manager
The Rehearsal Process
Opening the Production
7. The Actor: From Mask to Contemporary Performance
Development of the Actor
Artists of the Theatre: Bernadette Peters
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Contemporary Cross-Dressing
Acting Styles and Methods
Artists of the Theatre: James Earl Jones
The Actor’s Work
Exploring Collaboration: Actors as Collaborators
8. The Playwright: Imagination and Expression
The Changing Position of the Playwright
Artists of the Theatre: Suzan-Lori Parks
The Playwright and Production
Exploring Collaboration: The Sondheim/Lapine Collaboration
Artists of the Theatre: Michael Frayn
Development of New Plays
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Humana Festival of New American Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville
Exploring Collaboration: The Rent Controversy
9. The Designer: Materializing Conception and the World of the Play
The Development of the Designer
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Development of the Revolve
The Designers’ Choices
Artists of the Theatre: Ming Cho Lee
The Scenic Designer’s Work
Exploring Collaboration: Robert Edmund Jones with Arthur Hopkins
The Lighting Designer’s Work
Artists of the Theatre: Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer
The Costumer Designer’s Work
Artists of the Theatre: William Ivey Long
The Sound Designer’s Work
Integrating All the Designs
10. The Producer: Coordination, Promotion, Economics
Early Producers
The Role of the Producer
Artists of the Theatre: Harold Prince
The Economics of Theatre
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Stagehands Union 2007 Strike
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Federal Theatre Project
Photo Gallery: Interpreting Space and Design
III. COLLABORATION IN HISTORY
11. Foundations: Classical Theatrical Forms
Classical Greece
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Rediscovering Menander
Classical Rome
Medieval Europe
Exploring Collaboration: The Community, the Church, and the Feast of Corpus Christi
Classical India
Classical China
Classical Japan
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Kabuki Cross-Dressing: The Onnagata
12. Reinterpretations: Europe Rediscovers the Western Classics
The Italian Renaissance
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Renaissance Court Entertainment
Elizabethan England
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Rediscovery of the Rose and Globe Theatres
The Spanish Golden Age
Seventeenth-Century France
Restoration England
Eighteenth-Century Europe and the Americas
Exploring Collaboration: The Hallam Company in the American Colonies: A Family Affair
13. Revolutions: Romanticism to Postmodern Experiment
Romanticism
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Audience Has Its Say: Theatre Riots and Demonstrations
Nineteenth-Century Melodrama
Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives: Nineteenth-Century Women Theatre Managers in Britain and the United States
Nineteenth-Century Realism and Naturalism
The Avant-Garde from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s
Exploring Collaboration: Founding an Alternative Theatre: The Provincetown Players
Modern and Contemporary Popular Theatre
The Recent Avant-Garde and Postmodern Experiment
Key Theatrical Events
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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o Theatre is cultural study: looking at theatrical events and how they are created provides a window into the way a society
views itself, drawing examples from multicultural theatre, not just the Western tradition.
o Theatre is collaboration: theatre-making is a shared experience including both theatre practitioners and audience
members.
o Theatre is a spatial art: critical to theatrical collaboration is the way space is used, adapted, transformed, and the way
theatrical artists interact in and with that space.
o Theatre is a dynamic fusion of past and present: it represents a unique opportunity to see how the past and present
are interrelated.
Boxed features:
o “Exploring Collaboration” boxes include profiles of successful artistic teams and feature a variety of approaches to the
artistic process.
o “Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives” boxes offer a window on specific theatrical events.
o “Artists of the Theatre” boxes feature colorful and influential theatrical figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Special features:
o “Interpreting Space and Design” photo essay demonstrates ways in which spaces and characters have been redefined
by directors and designers and examines the human figure in space and the dynamics of three-dimensional performance.
o "Key Theatrical Events" timeline of selective theatrical, social, and artistic events allows readers to place their
explorations in a wider context.
o “Theatre of Diversity” photo essay demonstrates diversity in types of theatre and theatrical experiences.
Pedagogy:
o “For Further Exploration” provides a reference list of articles, books, videos, and websites.
o “Questions and Activities” provide springboards for class discussions and outside projects.
o “Key Terms and Concepts” (in boldface in the chapter) are arranged by topic and followed by page reference number.
o A Bibliography brings together all the major sources included in the “Further Exploration” sections.
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