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Street Scenes
Street Scenes offers a theory of late medieval acting and performance through a fresh and original reading of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge. The performance theory perspective employed here, along with the examination of actor/character dialectics, paves the way to understanding both religious theatre and the complexity of late medieval theatricalities. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi demonstrates the existence of a late medieval discourse about the double appeal of theatre performance: an artistic medium enacting sacred history while simultaneously referring to the present lives of its creators and spectators.
Performing Religion on the Secular Stage
This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theatre and performance. The book analyses a new and original historiography of a uniquely modern theatrical phenomenon, a study that is of high importance considering the reemergence of religion in contemporary culture and politics.
Performance Studies in Motion
Performance Studies in Motion offers multiple perspectives on the current field of performance studies and suggests its future directions. Featuring new essays by pioneers Richard Schechner and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and by international scholars and practitioners, it shows how performance can offer a new way of seeing the world, and testifies to the dynamism of this discipline. Beginning with an overview of the development of performance studies, the essays offer new insights into: contemporary experimental and postdramatic theatre; participatory performance and museum exhibitions; the performance of politicians, political institutions and grassroots protest movements; theatricality...
Wanderers and Other Israeli Plays
"An anthology of seven contemporary Israeli plays, offering a look into the variety of Israeli drama, theatre, and performance, reflecting central questions of identity in Israeli society. This volume includes a substantive introduction discussing the theatrical contexts of the plays and some of the major issues that Israeli society deals with nowadays, an overview of the dramatic and theatrical work of the playwrights as well as an analysis of the plays." "Joshua Sobol's Wanderers is a reconstruction of the life of an Israeli double-agent who goes through an identity crisis; Yosefa Even-Shoshan's The Maiden of Ludmir: A Story of a Woman Who Asked for a Man's Soul examines the place of women within orthodox texts and social structures; Taher Najib's In Spitting Distance tells the story of an actor who lives in the West Bank but holds an Israeli passport and tries to fly from Paris to Tel Aviv one year after 9/11; Hanoch Levin's Those Who Walk in the Dark: A Late-Night Spectacle is --
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Christmas family drama. With his mother Winnie (Alexandra Paul) about to lose her job just before the Christmas holidays, cynical teenager Riley Blackwood (Aaron Jaeger) is visited by a Christmas spirit named Hope (Vanessa Angel) intent on restoring some festive cheer to the family.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eleven new articles and reviews of twelve books.
Contesting Performance
Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies.
Performance Studies in Motion
Performance Studies in Motion offers multiple perspectives on the current field of performance studies and suggests its future directions. Featuring new essays by pioneers Richard Schechner and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and by international scholars and practitioners, it shows how performance can offer a new way of seeing the world, and testifies to the dynamism of this discipline. Beginning with an overview of the development of performance studies, the essays offer new insights into: contemporary experimental and postdramatic theatre; participatory performance and museum exhibitions; the performance of politicians, political institutions and grassroots protest movements; theatricality...
