The careers, directing accomplishments, ideas and techniques of six directors of the European stage are surveyed in this study: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Max Reinhardt, Jacques Copeau, Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Louis Barrault - representative of the spectrum of directorial art as it has developed in this century. In the ...
Complete texts of Benten Kozo, Pulling the Carriage Apart and The Village School, Shunkan, and Naozamurai. Commentary on each play by actors and critics. Nearly 100 photographs.
Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905, is the fourth and final volume in a monumental new series that traces kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. The twelve plays translated in Volume 4 cover the remarkable Meiji period, which followed the restoration of the emperor as the leader of Japan. They reflect the years in ...
International in scope, this book encompasses a range of artists, past and present, including: avant-gardists, deconstructionists, text worshippers, director-choreographers, and classical revivalists. It examines the contributions of influential and accomplished men and women stage directors. There are contributions on JoAnne Akalaitis, David ...
This multifaceted study, the companion volume to Leiter's "From Stanislavsky to Barrault - Representative Directors of the European Stage", provides accounts of the careers and accomplishments of eight directors of the English-speaking stage as well as separate bibliographies and chronologies of each. Samuel L.Leiter selected directors David ...
A collection of Kabuki play translations which trace Kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. Each translation is accompanied by an introduction that contextualizes the play.
Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, is the third volume in a monumental new series - the first collection of kabuki play translations to be published in nearly a quarter of a century. Fifty-one plays, published in four volumes, vividly trace kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. The fourteen plays translated in ...
As part of its programme to promote democracy in Japan after World War II, the American Occupation, headed by General Douglas MacArthur, undertook to enforce rigid censorship policies aimed at eliminating all traces of feudal thought in media and entertainment, including kabuki. Faubion Bowers (1917-1999), who served as personal aide and ...
Unique in any Western language, this is an invaluable resource for the study of one of the world's great theatrical forms. It includes essays by established experts on Kabuki as well as younger scholars now entering the field, and provides a comprehensive survey of the history of Kabuki; how it is written, produced, staged, and performed; and its ...
This volume presents a broad picture of the theatrical controversies, developments, and talents of the 1970s. Among the many topics discussed are the avant-garde's stretching of the traditional boundaries, the redefinition of the musical theatre, the expansion of Off Off-Broadway productions, institutionalized and subsidized productions, the ...
Masterpieces of Kabuki contains eighteen outstanding dramas taken from the landmark four-volume series Kabuki Plays On Stage. Together they cover the entire spectrum of kabuki drama from 1697 to 1905, the period during which kabuki's dramaturgy flourished prior to the onset of Western dramatic influence. Major playwrights, chronological periods of ...
"The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre" explains the origins, traces the developments of Japanese theatre, and shows how, while clinging to its roots, it has also kept up with the times. This is done through a general introduction, a chronology, and hundreds of dictionary entries, all of which can be supplemented by consulting ...
A collection of Kabuki play translations which trace Kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. Each translation is accompanied by an introduction that contextualizes the play.
The second volume in a series devoted to the New York stage in the 20th century. It provides a description of approximately 1800 theatrical productions given in the New York professional theatre during the decade 1930-1940. Every legitimate theatre production - including plays, musicals, revues and revivals - is chronicled in an easily referenced, ...
"An important resource for any scholar working on the production history of Shakespeare's plays. . . . Because each entry has a complete list of sources, the book can be used as a helpful bibliography for locating reviews of productions." Choice
As part of its programme to promote democracy in Japan after World War II, the American Occupation, headed by General Douglas MacArthur, undertook to enforce rigid censorship policies aimed at eliminating all traces of feudal thought in media and entertainment, including kabuki. Faubion Bowers (1917-1999), who served as personal aide and ...
"The central feature of this 'encyclopedia' is an alphabetical list of approximately 2,500 professional theatrical productions mounted in Manhattan during the decade of the 1920s. A description of each production, based on the newspaper reviews of the time, includes information as to source, type, producers, directors, theater, opening date, ...
The most reliable source for data on productions of the New York stage, both Broadway and Off Broadway, is now complete from 1920 through 1950 with the publication of this third volume devoted to the 1940s. The volumes for 1920-1930 and 1930-1940 have been called "invaluable," "indispensable," "essential," and other superlatives by reviewers, ...
From puppets to living players and musical speech to colloquial prose, Asian theatre is a rich world of contrasting expressions. While it has thrived for centuries and embodies the folk traditions of the Asian people, it also reflects contemporary concerns and innovative theatrical practices. At a time when Asia is of tremendous importance in the ...
Kabuki has been a part of Japanese culture for nearly four centuries. The plays performed today are generally selected from a classic repertoire that gradually ceased to develop once Japan broke the chains of its isolationist policy and began the surge toward Westernization. The plays largely reflect the values of feudal Japan and they portray a ...
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