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Stage Voices
Theaters worldwide have exhibited a bewildering array of form, style, tone and subject in the late 20th- and the early 21st centuries, and this range of work has been determined largely by its directors. This book documents this procession of theatre in interviews with 28 directors who've been most recognized and influential on the global stage. Their ideas are varied, even dissonant, indicating the protean nature of theatre and the rich weave of work that's made our theater so rewarding. Interviewees include Judith Malina, Ping Chong, Julie Taymor and Robert Icke, among others who have defined modern theater.
Theater Voices
According to Sir Peter Hall, "The theatre's been dying for two thousand years, and I'm sure will continue to." In the meantime, Hall and other leading figures of the stage have continued to influence theater productions throughout the world. In this collection of interviews, twenty-seven theater artists explore issues of theater theory and practice, illuminated by their wide range of perspectives. From traditional attitudes toward theatre to more avant-garde approaches, every facet of stage performance is addressed. Taken as a whole, these interviews reveal both the strength and extraordinary mutability of theater, as expressed by some of the most honored and well-regarded names of the stage, including Julie Harris, Quentin Crisp, Spalding Gray, Martin Sherman, Karen Finley, Eddie Izzard, Alan Ayckbourn, Robert Brustein, Uta Hagen, John Lahr, Stephen Daldry, and Edward Albee.
Backpacker
Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
Edward Albee
This work covers the canon of playwright Edward Albee, perhaps best known as the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Comprehensive entries detail the plays and major characters. Other features include biographical information and insights into Albee's artistic beliefs, his understanding of the playwright's responsibility, the importance of music in drama, and the technical craft of writing plays.
Steven Spielberg
Until the first edition of Steven Spielberg: A Biography was published in 1997, much about Spielberg's personality and the forces that shaped it had remained enigmatic, in large part because of his tendency to obscure and mythologize his own past. But in this first full-scale, in-depth biography of Spielberg, Joseph McBride reveals hidden dimensions of the filmmaker's personality and shows how deeply personal even his most commercial work has been. This new edition adds four chapters to Spielberg's life story, chronicling his extraordinarily active and creative period from 1997 to the present, a period in which he has balanced his executive duties as one of the partners in the film studio Dr...
Steven Spielberg
A biography of the director details his many films and describes how his unique and evocative gift for storytelling evolved from experiences in his own life, including his parents' divorce and his return to Judaism after his son was born.
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Although the blockbuster is the most popular and commercially successful type of filmmaking, it has yet to be studied seriously from a formalist standpoint. This is in opposition to classical Hollywood cinema and International Art cinema, whose form has been analyzed and deconstructed in great detail. Directed By Steven Spielberg fills this gap by examining the distinctive form of the blockbuster. The book focuses on Spielberg's blockbusters, because he is the most consistent and successful director of this type of film - he defines the standard by which other Hollywood blockbusters are judged and compared. But how did Spielberg attain this position? Film critics and scholars generally agree...
Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging
Exercise 5.10 Vroom Vroom, Kid's Play -- Advice from the Pros: On Acting and Directing in the Arena-Or, Give Me Back My Third Dimension by Lynn Musgrave -- 6 Sharing the Treasures -- Exercise 6.1 The Refrain -- Exercise 6.2 Bubble -- Exercise 6.3 Character Gestures and Jewelry: Vary the Repetition -- Exercise 6.4 Music as Character: Your Inner Monologue -- Exercise 6.5 Tornado: Activating Personal Atmosphere through the Body and Voice -- Advice from the Pros: Costuming in the Round-A Question of Your Point of View by Sue Picinich -- 7 Entering the Experience -- Exercise 7.1 The Helpers -- Exercise 7.2 The Revelation Spell -- Exercise 7.3 Gifts -- Exercise 7.4 Upgrade -- Exercise 7.5 Combining Gifts and Upgrade -- Exercise 7.6 The Garden -- Exercise 7.7 Beauty Quilting -- Exercise 7.8 Good Vibrations: Ritualizing Group Sound -- Exercise 7.9 Holiday Fun -- Exercise 7.10 Angel Walk: Support for the Individual Performer -- Advice from the Pros: The Power of Suggestion by Karel Blakeley -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendix: Short List of Exercises in Book Organized by Corresponding Michael Chekhov Tools -- Bibliography -- Notes on Author and Contributors -- Index.
The Mother of God Visits Hell (A Play in Iambic Pentameter)
"The Mother of God Visits Hell" by Daniel Guyton... is tightly structured, with an amazing premise... The story captivates you. It has a premise that is delectable to the nth degree." -- "What the Butler Saw" theatre review --------- The Mother of God Visits Hell is a full-length poetic play about the Virgin Mary. It is written in iambic pentameter, and based on a poem described in "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in which the Virgin Mary travels to hell to comfort the souls in torment. While there, she becomes so moved by their plight that she pleads with God to forgive them. When he refuses, a war erupts between Heaven and Hell, as the two forces battle over good and evil... --www.danguyton.com
