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Directors have long been the main figures on Eastern European stages. During the last three decades some of the most outstanding among them have risen to international stardom thanks to their ground-breaking productions that speak to audiences far beyond local borders. Not by chance, a considerable number of these directors have won the second-biggest theatre award on the continent – the European Prize for (New) Theatrical Realities. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the top directors of the region have been pushing contemporary theatre as a whole ahead into new territories. This book offers informative and in-depth portraits of twenty of these directors, written by leading critics, scholars, and researchers, who shed light on the directors’ signature styles with examples of their emblematic productions and outline the reasons for their impact. In addition, in two chapters the selected directors themselves discuss their artistic family trees as well as the main stakes theatre faces today. The book will be of interest to theatre scholars, students, and anybody engaged with theatre on a global scale.
This is a collection of lectures by 11 active researchers, renowned specialists in a number of modern, promising, dynamically-developing research directions in condensed matter/solid state theory. The lectures are concerned with phenomena, materials and ideas, discussing theoretical and experimental features, as well as with methods of calculation.Readers will find up-to-date presentations of the methods of carrying out efficient calculations for electronic systems and quantum spin systems, together with applications to describe phenomena and to design new materials. These applications include systems of quantum dots, quantum gates, semiconductor materials for spintronics, and the unusual characteristics of warm dense matter.
In Search of Singularity introduces a new “compairative” methodology that seeks to understand how the interplay of paired texts creates meaning in new, transcultural contexts. Bringing the worlds of contemporary Polish and Chinese poetry since 1989 into conversation with one another, Joanna Krenz applies the concept of singularity to draw out resonances and intersections between these two discourses and shows how they have responded to intertwined historical and political trajectories and a new reality beyond the human. Drawing on developments such as AI poetry and ecopoetry, Krenz makes the case for a fresh approach to comparative poetry studies that takes into account new forms of poetic expression and probes into alternative grammars of understanding.
This volume is the seventh in a series of proceedings on theoretical physics related to various aspects of the structure of condensed matter and to appropriate mathematical methods for adequate description. Three main topics are considered: conformal symmetry, central charge, condensation of flux; rigged string configurations, Yang-Baxter equations and their applications in solid state physics; and energy band structure in solids.
This volume is the seventh in a series of proceedings on theoretical physics related to various aspects of the structure of condensed matter and to appropriate mathematical methods for adequate description. Three main topics are considered: conformal symmetry, central charge, condensation of flux; rigged string configurations, YangOCoBaxter equations and their applications in solid state physics; and energy band structure in solids."
A beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in America’s thirties and forties. Its eastward migration resulted in a barrage of Polish screen musicals that relied on the country’s famous cabaret stars, while in the Soviet Union it inspired the audience-pleasing kolkhoz musicals of Ivan Pyr’ev and their urban counterpart, directed by Grigorii Aleksandrov. Like Stalin, Slavic moviegoers delectated tuneful melodies, mobile bodies in choreographed dance numbers, colorful costumes, and the notion that “all’s well that ends well.” Yet Slavic versions of the musical elaborated scenarios that differed from the Hollywood model. This volume examines the vagaries of this genre in both countries, from its early instantiations to its contemporary variations almost a century after its dramatic birth.
Czy teatr jest, czy nie jest medium? To środek przekazu taki jak media elektroniczne czy inny? Jakie miejsce zajmuje teatr i performanse na żywo we współczesnej mediasferze? Tom zbiorowy zatytułowany Teatr wśród mediów stanowi próbę głębszego zastanowienia nad złożonością relacji teatr – media bez przeciwstawiania i ostrych rozgraniczeń. We współczesnej kulturze aż roi się od prób włączania teatru i performansów na żywo w obszar mediów, rozwijają się dynamicznie nowe formy teatru remediowanego (teatru telewizji, radia) i wchodzącego w multimedialne relacje z innymi środkami przekazu. Ten silny bodziec płynący z różnych obszarów eksperymentowania z nowymi...
Das Lesebuch umfasst 17 Geschichten, die zeigen, wie faszinierend und erkenntnisreich Theatergeschichte sein kann. Erzählt werden sie von Theaterwissenschaftler*innen, die ihre Forschung damit einem Lesepublikum näherbringen. Es geht um die Elektrifizierung von Theatergebäuden, den Walkürenritt in der Zirkusmanege, eine Frauenbewegung im deutschen Theater um 1910, selbstbewusste Roboter in einem Science Fiction-Drama, den Papagei einer Opernsängerin, verbotene "Betten-Dramatik", einen desillusionierten Produktionsdramaturgen, altmodische Seepferde und Nixem im Wiener Augarten u. v. a. m.