Making Theatre: From Text to PerformanceThe reality of a play is in its performance. Making Theatre focuses on the processes by which performance is realized, analyzing three major areas: "Words" and the interpretation of text; "Vision" including scenery, costume and lighting; and "Music" which illustrates the importance of music in all stage action.The forms of theater covered include straight drama, the musical and opera. Taking productions well-known on both sides of the Atlantic, Peter Mudford examines plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Pirandello, Beckett, Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and David Mamet; musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim; and operas by Verdi, Wagner and Berg.This account of what makes theater important and how it works will be invaluable to teachers and students of drama and performance, as well as all those interested in theater as art. |
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... Opera . I. Title PN1707.M83 2000 792'.023 - dc21 00-055882 Distributed in The United States , Canada and South America by Transaction Publishers 390 Campus Drive Somerset , New Jersey 08873 All rights reserved . No part of this ...
... Opera . I. Title PN1707.M83 2000 792'.023 - dc21 00-055882 Distributed in The United States , Canada and South America by Transaction Publishers 390 Campus Drive Somerset , New Jersey 08873 All rights reserved . No part of this ...
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... Opera ) , 2000 : see p . 150 . 8. Set by Tanya Moseiwitch for Shakespeare's Histories ( Richard II - Henry V ) ( Stratford - on - Avon ) , 1951 , see p . 141 . 9. Set by Jocelyn Herbert for Brecht's Gallileo , Act One , ( Royal National ...
... Opera ) , 2000 : see p . 150 . 8. Set by Tanya Moseiwitch for Shakespeare's Histories ( Richard II - Henry V ) ( Stratford - on - Avon ) , 1951 , see p . 141 . 9. Set by Jocelyn Herbert for Brecht's Gallileo , Act One , ( Royal National ...
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... Opera which opened in Paris in 1867 , contained 28 miles of piping and 960 gas - jets . The technology of the theatre in the last one hundred and fifty years has radically altered the nature of dramatic art in the Western world ...
... Opera which opened in Paris in 1867 , contained 28 miles of piping and 960 gas - jets . The technology of the theatre in the last one hundred and fifty years has radically altered the nature of dramatic art in the Western world ...
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... Opera , Cats and Les Miserables . All this sophistication half - conceals the fact that , for theatre to occur , all that is required is a space , an audience and someone per- forming in that space so that the audience wonders at their ...
... Opera , Cats and Les Miserables . All this sophistication half - conceals the fact that , for theatre to occur , all that is required is a space , an audience and someone per- forming in that space so that the audience wonders at their ...
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... opera . In the Court masque for which elaborate stage machinery was required , costing then as now immense sums , the clouds . could part , and Heaven be revealed . But the illusion could only be sustained if the machinery was concealed ...
... opera . In the Court masque for which elaborate stage machinery was required , costing then as now immense sums , the clouds . could part , and Heaven be revealed . But the illusion could only be sustained if the machinery was concealed ...
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