Theatre : brief / Robert Cohen, Donovan Sherman

Author:: Cohen, Robert, 1938-
Additional Titles:: Theatre brief
Published:: New York, NY : McGraw-Hill Education, [2017]
Edition:: Eleventh edition.
Physical Description:: 1 volume (loose-leaf, various pagings) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Additional Creators:: Sherman, Donovan

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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 What Is Theatre? -- The Theatre Building -- The Company, or Troupe, of Players -- The Occupation of Theatre -- Work -- Art -- Impersonation -- Performance -- Live Performance -- Scripted and Rehearsed Performance -- SPOTLIGHT: Film Stars on Stage Acting -- ch. 2 What Is a Play? -- Classifying Plays -- Duration -- Genre -- STAGECRAFT: Genre-ly Speaking -- Dramaturgy: The Construction of Drama and Dramatic Performance -- Drama's Components: The Vertical Axis -- Plot -- Characters -- Theme -- Diction -- Music -- Spectacle -- Convention -- Drama's Timeline: The Horizontal Axis -- Pre-Play -- Play -- The Exposition -- The Conflict -- The Climax -- The Denouement -- Post-Play -- ch. 3 The Actor -- What is Acting? -- The Paradox of Acting---From Socrates to Stanislavsky -- STAGECRAFT: Basic Acting Exercises -- Acting Today -- Acting from The Inside: The Stanislavsky Legacy -- Acting from the Outside -- The Actor as Virtuoso -- Magic -- Becoming an Actor -- PHOTO ESSAY: Actor Sir Patrick Stewart -- The Actor's Approach -- The Actor's Instrument -- The Actor's Discipline -- The Actor's Routine -- Audition -- Rehearsal -- Performance -- The Actor in Life -- ch. 4 The Playwright -- Literary and Nonliterary Aspects of Playwriting -- Playwriting as Event Writing -- The Qualities of a Fine Play -- Credibility and Intrigue -- Speakability, Stageability, and Flow -- Richness -- Depth of Characterization -- Gravity and Pertinence -- Compression, Economy, and Intensity -- Celebration -- The Playwright's Process -- Dialogue -- Conflict -- Structure -- The Playwright's Rewards -- A Sampling of Current American Playwrights -- Tony Kushner -- David Henry Hwang -- Suzan-Lori Parks -- PHOTO ESSAY: Playwright Neil LaBute -- Theresa Rebeck -- Sarah Ruhl -- ch. 5 Designers and Technicians -- The Design Process -- What Design Does -- Scenery -- SPOTLIGHT: Henslowe's Diary -- Scenic Materials -- STAGECRAFT: Quince's "Significant" Moon -- The Scene Designer at Work -- PHOTO ESSAY: Scene Designer Scott Pask -- Lighting -- Contemporary Lighting Design -- The Lighting Designer at Work -- PHOTO ESSAY: Lighting Designer Don Holder -- Costumes -- The Functions of Costume -- The Costume Designer at Work -- STAGECRAFT: Importance of Small Details -- Makeup -- PHOTO ESSAY: Costume Designer Catherine Zuber -- Sound Design -- STAGECRAFT: The Makeup Kit -- PHOTO ESSAY: Sound Designer Scott Lehrer -- Puppets and Projections -- Puppets -- Projections -- Special Effects -- Digital Technologies in Theatre Design -- The Technical Production Team -- PHOTO ESSAY: Broadway Stage Manger Lisa Iacucci -- ch. 6 The Director -- A Historical Overview -- Teacher-Directors -- Directors of Realism -- Directors of Antirealism -- The Contemporary Director -- PHOTO ESSAY: Director Susan Stroman -- The Directing Process: Step by Step -- The Pre-Preparation Period -- The Preparation Period -- Preparing the Text -- Conceptualizing the Production -- The Core Concept -- The High Concept -- The Dramaturg -- Implementation Period -- SPOTLIGHT: Dramaturg Jerry Patch -- Selecting the Designers -- Collaborating with the Designers -- Casting the Actors -- Rehearsals -- PHOTO ESSAY: Casting Director James Calleri -- Staging -- Actor-Coaching -- STAGECRAFT: "This Is How It's Done!" -- Pacing -- Coordinating -- Presenting -- The Training of a Director -- PHOTO ESSAY: The School for Wives -- ch. 7 Theatre Traditions: East and West -- The Origins of Theatre -- Ritual -- Storytelling -- Shamanism, Trance, and Magic -- The Beginnings of Traditional Drama -- Traditional Drama in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Egyptian Drama -- Theatre in the West -- Greek Drama -- Roman Drama -- Medieval Drama -- Renaissance Drama -- SPOTLIGHT: Did Shakespeare Write Shakespeare? -- The Royal Theatre -- The Romantic Theatre -- Theatre in the East -- Indian Sanskrit Drama -- Indian Kathakali -- Chinese Xiqu -- Japanese No -- Japanese Kabuki -- The Theatrical Tradition Today: East and West -- ch. 8 The Modern Theatre -- Realism -- A Laboratory -- Pioneers Of Realism -- Naturalism -- Antirealism -- The Symbolist Rebellion -- The Era of Isms -- Stylized Theatre -- Surrealism and the Avant-Garde: Ubu Roi -- Expressionism: The Hairy Ape -- Metatheatre: Six Characters in Search of an Author -- Theatre of Cruelty: Jet of Blood -- Philosophical Melodrama: No Exit -- Theatre of the Absurd: Waiting for Godot -- Theatre of Alienation: The Good Person of Szechuan -- Comedy of Contemporary Manners: Bedroom Farce -- Political Satire: Serious Money -- ch. 9 The American Musical Theatre -- The Role of Music in Theatre History -- The Broadway Musical: America's Great Contribution to the Theatre -- Musical Comedy: Gershwin, Kern, Darktown Follies, and Rodgers and Hart -- A Golden Age -- The Contemporary Musical -- The Emergence of Choreographer-Directors -- Stephen Sondheim -- Black Musicals -- The Disney Monolith -- Foreign Invasions: British, French, and Disney -- Musicals of the Twenty-First Century -- ch. 10 Global Theatre Today -- What's Happening? -- An Open Theatre -- A Macaronic Theatre -- PHOTO ESSAY: Theatre in the Borderlands -- A Theatre of Difference -- Nontraditional Casting -- A Spectacular Theatre -- Performance Art -- Verbatim Theatre -- A Dangerous Theatre -- A Theatre of Community -- A Physical Theatre -- Solo Performance -- Puppet Performance -- Site-Specific Performance -- Theatre Today: Where Can You Find It? -- Finding Theatre in the United States -- Theatre in New York -- Broadway -- Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway -- Regional American Theatre -- Shakespeare Festivals -- Summer and Dinner Theatres -- Amateur Theatre: Academic and Community -- The Global Theatre -- Global Theatrical Luminaries of Today -- Robert Wilson -- Yasmina Reza -- Peter Brook -- Katie Mitchell -- Conclusions About Theatre Today? -- ch. 11 The Critic -- Critical Perspectives -- Social Significance -- Human Significance -- Artistic Quality -- SPOTLIGHT Performance Studies -- Relationship to the Theatre Itself -- Entertainment Value -- Critical Focus -- Professional Criticism -- Amateur Criticism -- We Are The Critics.

Subject(s):

Theater

ISBN:

9781259440014 (alk. paper)
125944001X (alk. paper)

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