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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... Space , Methuen , London , 1968 Brook , Ring , ' Preface ' to Jean Anouilh , Ring round the Moon , translated by Christopher Fry , Methuen , London , 1950 . Brook , SP , Peter Brook : The Shifting Point , Forty Years of Theat- rical ...
... Space , Methuen , London , 1968 Brook , Ring , ' Preface ' to Jean Anouilh , Ring round the Moon , translated by Christopher Fry , Methuen , London , 1950 . Brook , SP , Peter Brook : The Shifting Point , Forty Years of Theat- rical ...
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... spaces , and with resources from those of the simplest kind to those of techno- logical wizardry which as in Peter Pan can make actors seem to fly . Books of many kinds have been written about the history of the drama , its trends in ...
... spaces , and with resources from those of the simplest kind to those of techno- logical wizardry which as in Peter Pan can make actors seem to fly . Books of many kinds have been written about the history of the drama , its trends in ...
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... space ; or that every performance is an interpretation . Audiences for many forms of theatre are growing all over the world . Drama and Performance play a large part in school and university courses in many different countries . But ...
... space ; or that every performance is an interpretation . Audiences for many forms of theatre are growing all over the world . Drama and Performance play a large part in school and university courses in many different countries . But ...
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... space create a different rela- tion , and make quite different demands on the audience to the projection of a film in the cinema . A play comes closer to life : a film tells us what to see , while the theatre plays on , and with , the ...
... space create a different rela- tion , and make quite different demands on the audience to the projection of a film in the cinema . A play comes closer to life : a film tells us what to see , while the theatre plays on , and with , the ...
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... space . Greek theatres were cut into a hill - side , and the audience looked down on the acting area . The performance started early in the morning , and the watchman who sees the sun rising at the start of Aeschylus's Agamemnon would ...
... space . Greek theatres were cut into a hill - side , and the audience looked down on the acting area . The performance started early in the morning , and the watchman who sees the sun rising at the start of Aeschylus's Agamemnon would ...
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