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Montecchi, Fabrizio. "Creation processes in contemporary shadow theatre." Móin-Móin - Revista de Estudos sobre Teatro de Formas Animadas 2, no. 21 (December 20, 2019): 293–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.5965/2595034702212019293.
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Is there a particular form of stage writing and direction for contemporary shadow theatre? What are the processes involved in creation? What is the director’s role in designing and directing in shadow production? These are some of the questions that are dealt by Fabrizio Montecchi, according to his theatrical practice and his directing work and which falls within the merits of the most characteristic features of the shadow theatre.
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Kreicberga, Zane. "LATVIAN THEATRE IN TRANSITION . THE ROOTS IN THE 1990s." Culture Crossroads 19 (October 11, 2022): 78–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.55877/cc.vol19.30.
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This paper focuses on the emergence and evolution of the so-called independent theatre scene in Latvia in the radically changing socio-political and institutional context of the 1990s. The analysis concerns the question why in Latvia the independent theatres did not become a significant alternative from the inherited institutional repertory theatre system until the second decade of the new century. Examples of the independent theatres Kabata, Skatuve and Mūris help to illustrate the general tendencies showing that a lack of a strong artistic vision and managerial strategy in difficult economic circumstances lead to the underdevelopment of a diversity of production models in performing arts in Latvia. In addition, after a short loss of direction, institutional theatres in the mid-90s started to attract nearly all artistically interesting new initiatives, especially if it already had proved itself within the independent scene. The New Riga Theatre and The Atelier of Unbearable Theatre characterize these processes, moreover indicating that the avant-garde directors of the time – Alvis Hermanis, Dž. Dž. Džilindžers, Viesturs Kairišs, Gatis Šmits and Regnārs Vaivars – were interested in a radical break with the past in terms of aesthetics of theatre, but they were not interested in politics. The comparison with the independent theatre scene in Estonia and Lithuania shows that the similar initial circumstances may lead to different outcomes.
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Mojžišová, Michaela. "Peter Konwitschny, Opera and Theatre Director Shaping the Profile of the Bratislava Opera of a New Millennium." Slovenske divadlo /The Slovak Theatre 65, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): 266–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sd-2017-0015.
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Abstract The paper examines the work of the acclaimed German opera and theatre director Peter Konwitschny at the Opera of the Slovak National Theatre. The authoress bases herself on an analysis of the productions of Eugen Onegin (2005) [Eugene Onegin], by Tchaikovsky, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (2007) and Bohéma (2013) [La bohème], Janáček‘s Vec Makropulos (2015) [The Makropulos Affair], and Halévy‘s Židovka (2017) [La Juive], all of which, save for Janáček‘s opera, the Opera of the Slovak National Theatre has borrowed from foreign theatre scenes. The authoress makes a stocklist of the basic principles of Konwitschny’s direction signature and his contribution to theatre production, as well as to the artistic ensemble of the Bratislava Opera.
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Mark Gasper, Tekena. "Approaches to Play Directing in Contemporary Nigerian Theatre: A Study of Segun Adefila and Bolanle Austen-Peters." Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 7, no. 2 (November 7, 2019): 314–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2019-0022.
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Abstract Documentation remains one of the major challenges of the Nigerian theatre; as a result many theatrical performances have gone into oblivion. Studies have been conducted that have given birth to the many approaches to play production and theories of directing in the Nigerian theatre. However, most of these studies focused on directors in educational theatres, as many directors outside the academia seem not to have attracted much scholarly interest in terms of documentation. This research documents the directorial approaches of two Nigerian directors – Segun Adefila and Bolanle Austen-Peters – using four productions and will be of benefit to theatre scholarship and the industry. The study employs a qualitative method of research, and the findings reveal Segun Adefila as an anti-realistic director and Bolanle Austen-Peters as a realistic director. Also, both directors use film to support live drama in their productions. This study therefore recommends that directors embrace the use of film in live theatre, in line with technological trends around the world.
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Jones, Nesta. "Looking at Lear: the Voice Work and Direction of Cicely Berry." New Theatre Quarterly 35, no. 02 (April 15, 2019): 135–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x19000058.
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Since her death on 15 October 2018 at the age of 92 many tributes have been paid to Cicely Berry, and no doubt more will follow. Her legacy is assured, however, through the many actors, directors, and young people she encouraged, inspired, and transformed during her long and illustrious career as Director of Voice (and subsequently Advis ory Director) of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and other organizations where she shared her practice internationally, often with the assistance of translators in order to work in the language of the host communities. Moreover, her words and a myriad of examples of exercises on voice and text processes remain in print and on digital media for the benefit of future generations.1 In this article, Nesta Jones focuses on one specific piece of work and moment in time. Cicely Berry had directed a touring production of Hamlet for the Education Department at the National Theatre in 1986, with Tim McInnerny in the title role; then, two years later, came the production appraised in detail here – King Lear for the RSC, first staged at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1988, and at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 1989. Nesta Jones recently retired as Professor and Director of Research at Rose Bruford College ot Theatre and Performance, and was previously Reader in Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Lindovská, Nadežda. "Ján Jamnický’s Ten Days with Soviet Theatre." Slovenske divadlo /The Slovak Theatre 65, no. 2 (June 27, 2017): 121–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sd-2017-0008.
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Abstract Art was perceived in the Soviet Union as a part of ideology and propaganda aimed not only at the domestic environment but also at foreign countries. State cultural policy was presented through a series of magnificent meetings and shows, to which also participants from abroad were invited. In the 1930s Moscow was the venue of several theatre festivals, which were attended by Czechoslovak theatre makers. In 1936 it was also attended by Ján Jamnický, the novice theatre director of the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. The Slovak theatre maker saw a lot of inspiring productions and experienced the initial period of a campaign aimed at suppressing the freedom of artistic expression. He became a witness to the twilight of Russian theatre avant-garde. The present paper describes the theatre experiences of Ján Jamnický in the Soviet Union and their impact on his life, production and style of direction. It points to a series of overlooked facts which are necessary for a complete understanding of the historical and artistic context of Soviet theatre and Jamnický’s journey.
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Barnes Lipscomb, Valerie. "“The play’s the thing”: theatre as a scholarly meeting ground in age studies." International Journal of Ageing and Later Life 7, no. 2 (April 12, 2013): 117–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.1272a6.
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Addressing three current critical turns in gerontology, this article proposes the theatre as a fertile ground for various theoretical angles in age studies - including the performative on and off stage, the narrative in the script and the critical questioning of age and ageism in the multiple realities of performance. Beginning from a shared site in the theatre, researchers may be able to establish greater common ground, resulting not only in multi-disciplinary efforts but also in truly interdisciplinary work. With a foundation in performance studies, this article suggests promising directions for age studies and theatre scholarship by examining three aspects of theatrical production: a play script, Jan de Hartog’s popular The Fourposter (1951); a collaborative development of a script and production, Jeanette Mathewes Stevens’ 2010 senior drama ElderSpeak; and a performance, a 2011 song-and-dance revue staged by an established senior theatre troupe, the Sarasota Senior Theater.
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Podmaková, Dagmar. "Alexander Dubček Twice – An (Un)Known Side of Him." Slovenske divadlo /The Slovak Theatre 66, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 242–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sd-2018-0015.
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Abstract The authoress, using two visual works, i.e. theatre production #dubček and film Dubček (both 2018), compares two different approaches to and forms of the work with the personality of Alexander Dubček against the backdrop of the reforms and political upheaval in Czecho-Slovakia1, in 1968. Theatre production #dubček (Aréna Theatre, Bratislava, direction Michal Skočovský) has three levels. The first one is acting game having the form of a rehearsal of a new text about the politician Alexander Dubček; its component part is the projection of period archival film shots. The second level involves the actors stepping out of characters and commenting on Dubček’s attitude and on historical events. The third level entails monologue scenes, in which actors reveal their personal attitudes via narrated stories at the time of normalization2 which had a negative impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. In the film Dubček (Slovak-Czech co-production, direction Ladislav Halama), through Dubček’s reminiscing the past, political events interweave with the scenes from the life of Dubček’s family. Although both the works employ period image documentary material and fiction, they fail to create a dramatic conflict and they are illustrative for the bigger part.
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JACOBSHAGEN, ARNOLD. "Staging at the Opéra-Comique in nineteenth-century Paris: Auber's Fra Diavolo and the livrets de mise-en-scène." Cambridge Opera Journal 13, no. 3 (November 2001): 239–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954586701002397.
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Printed stage-direction books, so-called livrets de mise-en-scène, count among the most important sources for the history of staging of nineteenth-century French opera. Their function was to document the then-current condition of a Paris production, and to serve as a model for provincial or foreign theatres. In this essay, a comparison of two such livrets for Auber's Fra Diavolo from Paris, by Vieillard Duverger and Louis Palianti, shows that the staging of successful works underwent significant changes over time. One cannot, however, assume that a published stage manual indicates the chronological fixity of a production. Indeed, directors even in the nineteenth century did not aim at an ‘‘objective” reproduction of a staging, but rather at an innovative, lively, and ever-changing music theatre within the framework of contemporary operatic aesthetics.
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FitzPatrick Dean, Joan. "Hilton Edwards, Brecht and the Brechtian." Review of Irish Studies in Europe 4, no. 1 (June 14, 2021): 82–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.32803/rise.v4i1.2622.
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The Dublin Gate Theatre Company’s repertory of international, often experimental plays offers perhaps the clearest distinction between the Gate and the Abbey in the mid-twentieth century. A growing body of scholarship focuses on how Hilton Edwards and Micheál mac Liammóir deployed innovative, non-realistic staging techniques and brought to Ireland design elements associated with European artists. The Gate’s international remit can also be seen in its production of plays not merely authored by foreign playwrights, but focused on issues outside the conventional purview of Irish politics, including anti-Semitism and totalitarianism. Throughout his career, Hilton Edwards often sought out non-realistic dramaturgies to critique modern institutions. Some of the plays chosen by Edwards and mac Liammóir were so provocative, socially-conscious, and politically-charged that they challenged the prevailing ethos in Catholic Ireland and incurred the wrath of the Catholic Cinema and Theatre Patrons’ Association. Edwards’ exposure to Bertolt Brecht’s plays, theories, and the 1956 London performances by the Berliner Ensemble prompted not only his production of Mother Courage in 1959 and Saint Joan of the Stockyards two years later, but also his greater willingness to comment on theatre, for example on the radio and in his book The Mantle of Harlequin (1958). Edwards shared with Brecht an awareness of music as integral to performance and a vision of theatre unconstrained by realism and the proscenium arch. Although the Gate repertory of new productions in the post-Emergency era may appear unsurprising, that perspective is informed by the half century in which dramatists such as Arthur Miller and Brecht emerged canonical figures. Hilton Edwards’ direction of Mother Courage and Saint Joan of the Stockyards advanced the Gate’s internationalism and helped to reshape the political nature of Irish theatre. Keywords: Hilton Edwards, Dublin Gate Theatre, Bertolt Brecht, Irish theatre, theatre and politics, Brechtian
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Anderson, Martin. "London, English national Opera: ‘The Handmaid's Tale’." Tempo 57, no. 225 (July 2003): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298203220246.
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Poul Ruders's opera The Handmaid's Tale is hardly an unknown quantity: its world-première production in Copenhagen in 2000 was recorded by da capo (8.224165–66) in a three-CD set that received justly loud encomia. But the UK stage première, transferring the Danish production for a run at the English National Opera that began on 3 April, revealed – in a way that the recording obviously could not – what a superior piece of theatre it is: music, libretto, direction, stage design, costumes and lighting all coalesce to thrilling effect. A depressing number of operatic productions sacrifice musical integrity to directorial whim, so it's deeply heartening to report that, for once, everything pulled dedicatedly in the same direction, with outstanding results: it has been years since I've seen something this good.
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Yelchyk, Oksana. "Screen Adaptation of Theatrical Performances of the 1970–1980s: Preconditions, Trends of Formation and Development." Folk art and ethnology, no. 4 (December 30, 2022): 82–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/nte2022.04.082.
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The first decades of the 20th century are marked with certain changes in the technologization of our society cultural development. In particular, during this time the cinematography absorbs ceaselessly – cinifies – the branches of artistic activity in the spheres of various arts. Undoubtedly, the development of cinema has one of the most perceptible effects on the theatre. It is known that the theatre art is often based on the events and plots, those are included already into the history, have a certain social resonance; its progressiveness is reduced to the systematic search for new forms of emotional spectrum transmission, the embodiment of old paintings in a new way with the use of the synthesis of various types of art. The problem of theatre cinemafication is considered as an important one in the study of the relationship between theatre and cinema. Prerequisites for the development of screen adaptations of theatrical performances include: a relatively quick and cheap method of production, the impossibility of watching theatrical productions of the country’s leading theatres in its the most remote corners. That’s why the performances have been filmed directly on the theatre stage – in a cinematic way, as well as the rapid development of television, which came to the late 1960s, the ethers of which have needed to be filled. It is just television that has given impulse to the mass production of adaptations of theatrical performances, becoming full-fledged creative achievements, using cinema and television art. The positive trend is that the theatre has become a starting point for film art, without absorbing it in any way. They continue to adopt each other’s best practices in the context of scenery, make-up, directing and script writing, musical accompaniment, but remain completely autonomous.
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Stuart, Ian. "Revisiting ‘The Sea’: Bond's English Comedy in Toulouse." New Theatre Quarterly 15, no. 2 (May 1999): 178–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00012859.
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Edward Bond's The Sea was first presented at the Royal Court Theatre under William Gaskill's direction in 1973, and later confirmed as a modern classic in its revival in 1991 at the National Theatre– where it was claimed that it could only have been written by an Englishman. But, as La Mer, it was chosen to open the Thėâtre de la Citė in Toulouse, where Bond scholar and editor Ian Stuart saw Jacques Rosner's production in October, and here reports on the resultant meeting between an English comedy and ‘French serenity’.
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Afandiyeva, Nazrin R. "Turandot by Carlo Gozzi in the Russian theatre reception of the 1910-1920s." Imagologiya i komparativistika, no. 18 (2022): 154–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/24099554/18/8.
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The article discusses the staging of the play Turandot by C. Gozzi in Russia in the 1910-1920s. The reasons why Russian directors turned to the play of C. Gozzi at that time were determined by the theatre aesthetics of the Silver Age, when the plots of the Italian comedy and its characters were perceived as a manifestation of a pure comedy aesthetics. The author analyses the productions by Fyodor Komissarzhevsky in 1912 and Evgeniy Vakhtangov in 1922 and concludes that Komissarzhevsky brought the comedy of masks closer to the comedy of characters, which resulted in an aesthetically contradictory rendition, while Vakhtangov rendered Turandot as an ironic fairy tale, in which actors did not play the characters, but the actors of a Venetian theatre troupe who played the comedy. Vakhtangov’s rendition of Princess Turandot premiered on February 28, 1922 at the Third Studio of the Moscow Art Theater. The author describes the cast, analyses the specificity of literary and stage interpretation of the play and reflects on Vakhtangov’s concept of the theater-holiday, the methods of “detachment”, stage grotesque, self-parody, and modernizing the improvisational text. The article also shows the critical reception of the production, drawin on the memoirs of the actor Boris Zakhava, who performed the role of Khan Timur in Vakhtangov’s production. In concludion, the author speaks about the influence of Vakhtangov’s production on the work of Evgeny Schwartz and directing of Svetlana Obraztsova and Georgy Tovstonogov. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
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Pekkala, Laura, and Riku Roihankorpi. "An Artistic Community and a Workplace." Nordic Theatre Studies 30, no. 1 (August 2, 2018): 115–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/nts.v30i1.106926.
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The article analyzes how money interacts with the practices and organizational activities of independent theatres in Finland in the 2010s. It discusses what kind of development the interaction entails or favors in the wider context of Finnish cultural policy. We share the results of Visio (2015-16), an empirical study and development project funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture and carried out with four professional independent theatres, which originated as group theatres, but are now institutionalized and operate with discretionary state subsidies. During the development project supported by Theatre Centre Finland, the study observed aspects of organizational development and learning as well as sustainable work in the said theatres. This was done via ethnographic and multiple case study methodologies. The study defined a theatre organization as a community for artistic work and a workplace for a diverse group of theatre professionals. The cases and the ethnographies were then reflected against current Finnish cultural policy.As descendants of the group theatre movement – arising from artistic ambition and opposition to commercialism – Finnish independent theatres have developed in different directions in their ideas of theatre, artistic visions, objectives, production models, and positioning in the field. Yet, there is a tendency to define independent theatres in opposition to theatres subsidized by law (the so-called VOS theatres), instead of laying stress on their specific artistic or operational visions or characteristics. This emphasis is present in public discussions, but also in the self-definitions of independent theatres. Money, and the economic affairs it underlines, strongly interact with the development, organizational learning, and working culture of Finnish independent theatres. Theoretically, we promote a Simmelian framework that stresses the socio-cultural dimension of money. Thus, we examine how the practices of the monetary economy are present in the practices and the development of independent theatres, and how this reflects their position within the current cultural policy and funding systems. Based on the above, the article suggests a more versatile approach to artistic independent theatres – one that emphasizes recognizing the heterogeneity of their operating models and artistic orientations, and their roles as diverse artistic communities aside from workplaces.
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Cantrell, Tom. "Directing actors in continuing drama." Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies 13, no. 3 (August 21, 2018): 297–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749602018781312.
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This article examines how three directors approach working with actors in one of the most exacting creative contexts – long-running television. Via new interviews with three directors of the flagship BBC continuing drama, EastEnders (1985–), this article explores their approaches in the context of the time constraints in production which preclude rehearsal and where directors and actors alike must work with great speed and precision. The three directors interviewed, Sophie Lifschutz, Kate Saxon and Rebecca Gatward, all trained in and have significant experience of theatre. This article thus explores the elements of their theatre training and experience that translated to their television work with actors, elements that required remodelling, and what was completely new to them and thus can be classified as medium specific. ‘Emotional action’ and ‘physical action’ emerge as key terms in the directors’ work, and the article explores how these directors worked to afford the actor creative space within such a formidable shooting schedule. With reference to Stanislavski’s writing on the ‘Method of Physical Action’ and the theatre technique of ‘actioning’, this article brings to light the hidden processes of television direction and locates the directors’ approach to working with actors as a creative labour which is a significant meaning-making component in continuing drama.
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Marowitz, Charles. "Otherness: the Director and the Discovery of the Actor." New Theatre Quarterly 14, no. 53 (February 1998): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00011684.
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Charles Marowitz worked extensively as a director in Britain from the late 'fifties through the 'seventies, and was one of the editors of the influential Encore magazine in the formative years of the ‘new wave’. His free-lance work included the co-direction with Peter Brook of the seminal ‘Theatre of Cruelty’ season, and the premiere production of Joe Orton's Loot. Later, in partnership with Jim Haynes, a season at the London Traverse Theatre led to the creation of his own, more enduring Open Space Theatre in a basement in Tottenham Court Road – one of the identifying events of 1968 and its theatrical aftermath. Since returning to his native United States, Marowitz has worked out of Malibu, and continued his parallel role as writer – in which he has become best known for his sequence of ‘collage’ Shakespeares ranging from Hamlet to The Shrew, and also as a self-professed ‘counterfeit critic’ and theoretician of acting and directing. The following article also forms the final chapter of his latest book, The Other Way: an Alternative Approach to Acting and Directing, to be published by Applause Books later this year. It represents, also, a concise charting of his own voyage of discovery – of the role of the director, and of the recognition of the autonomy and ‘higher calling’ of the actor that this has involved.
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Smart, Billy. "Three Different Cherry Orchards, Three Different Worlds: Chekhov at the BBC, 1962–81." Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies 9, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 65–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/cst.9.3.7.
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Unlike the theatre, there is no established tradition of plays being revived (new productions made from existing scripts) on television. The only instance of this mode of production in Britain has been the regular adaptation of classic theatrical plays. The existence of three separate BBC versions of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (1962, 1971, 1981) creates a rare opportunity to trace developing styles of direction and performance in studio television drama through three different interpretations of the same scene. Through close analysis of The Cherry Orchard, I outline the aesthetic and technological development of television drama itself over twenty years.
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Izvarina, О. M. "Opera directing in the Ukrainian Musical Theatre in 20s of 20th century." Musical art in the educological discourse, no. 3 (2018): 66–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2518-766x.2018.3.6670.
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The article highlights the prerequisites for the formation of Ukrainian opera directing on the basis of materials from rare editions, musical criticism of the 1920s, memoirs of contemporaries, modern scientific research. The close connection of the Ukrainian opera direction with the traditions of the direction of the Ukrainian music and drama theatre is considered. The assimilation of the experience and creative achievements of the directors of the «theatre of the coryphaeuses» M. Staritsky, M. Kropiwnicki and M. Sadovsky is covered. The features of the stage life of operas of the classical repertoire on the Ukrainian opera scene of the 1920s are analysed. It is shown the widespread differences between the director’s interpretations of classical operatic works of this period with the aim of the so-called «modernizing» and “approaching the viewer”. It possess characteristic of the stage productions of the Ukrainian operas of the 1920s, the estimation of the director’s decisions of M. Bogolyubov, O. Ulukhanova, V. Manzi, E. Jungvald-Khilkevich, Yu. Lishansky, S. Butovskiy with the musical-critical thought and periodical press of this period. The importance of the productions of Ukrainian operas of the 1920s for the progressive development of national opera art and Ukrainian opera directing is proved.
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Stuart, Ian. "Answering to the Dead: Edward Bond's ‘Jackets’, 1989–90." New Theatre Quarterly 7, no. 26 (May 1991): 171–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00005443.
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Sustaining his reputation for production work that is both original and challenging, Edward Bond worked closely with the directors ofJacketsduring its productions at Lancaster and in Leicester and London in 1989–90. After a mixed experience with the RSC directing hisWar Plays, Bond continued to develop his concept of ‘theatre events’, and to work towards the particular style of acting that is necessary for his work in performance. Ian Stuart, a doctoral candidate in dramatic art at the University of California, Santa Barbara, analyzes here how the resulting twin concepts of ‘theatre events’ and ‘theatre acting’ translated into practice, exploring both the workin-progress and its realization through setting, lighting, and critical response. Earlier reconstructions and analyses of Bond's plays in production in TQ and NTQ have included features onLearin TQ5 (1972) andThe Foolin TQ21 (1976), both at the Royal Court, and on his own production at the Cottesloe ofSummerin NTQ6 (1986).
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Brewster, Yvonne. "Drawing the Black and White Line: Defining Black Women's Theatre." New Theatre Quarterly 7, no. 28 (November 1991): 361–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00006060.
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Yvonne Brewster is best known in Britain as artistic director of Talawa Theatre, but she has also been active in the theatres of Jamaica, Africa, and America, having worked as a drama teacher, television production assistant and presenter, and film director in Jamaica before beginning her international theatre directing career. Talawa was founded in 1985 by four women, with Yvonne Brewster as director, and with the aim of using ‘the ancient African ritual and black political experience of our forebears to inform, enrich, and enlighten British theatre’. Although Talawa has as yet been unable to give the work of black women writers the attention it deserves, the company is itself primarily female: the artistic director and the majority of employees are women, all the designers to date have been women, and so predominantly are the technical and stage management staff. A medium- to large-scale touring company, Talawa worked without a building base until 1991, when the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre became its home. Yvonne Brewster has directed all Talawa's work to date, focusing primarily on productions of the classics with black performers and on introducing the work of black playwrights to British audiences. Her productions have included The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James (1985–86), An Echo in the Bone by Dennis Scott (1986–87), O Babylon! by Derek Walcott (1987–88), Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1988–89), The Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi (1989–90), The Dragon Can't Dance by Earl Lovelace (1990–91), and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1991–92). Yvonne Brewster is also the editor of Methuen's two volumes of Black Plays (1987 and 1989). Here she is interviewed by Lizbeth Goodman, who has just completed her doctoral dissertation on women's theatre in Britain at Cambridge, and is currently working with the Open University.
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Husin, Fazilah, Nik Fazli Mohamad, Zulkifli Mohamad, and Mohd Zariat Abdul Rani. "A PERFORMANCE APPROACH FOR DINSMAN's ISLAMIC THEATRES." International Journal of Creative Industries 1, no. 2 (December 15, 2019): 18–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/ijcrei.12002.
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The study focuses on a performance approach by Dinsman in his “Menunggu Kata Dari Tuhan” (Waiting for the Word of God's) (2016) and “Tamu Dari Medan Perang” (Guests of the Battlefield) (2017). Both theatres are analyzed based on the “Teater Fitrah” (Theatre of Fitrah) approach which outlined six principles in theatre production from the Islamic perspective. This approach is based on the principle that the essence of human life (nature) is to submit to the Creator i.e. Allah SWT including via theatre performance. According to “Teater Fitrah” (Theatre of Fitrah) approach, theatre performance can be a manifestation of man’s submission to the Creator through its content and implementation that is appropriate in the teaching of Islam. The six principles include story ending which in favour of the protagonist who believes in God, a character who is conscious about the nature of self-submission to Allah SWT, manifesting words about the human’s soul with good intentions, manifesting the faith in Allah SWT through particular actions, containing Islamic values that foregrounded with the purpose of submission as well as preserving ethics and etiquette in theatre staging. The research data is collected through observations on live staging practices or video recording. This study also pays attention to the issues and problems discussed. Both theatres are found to have raised different issues, but are closely linked to the issues, attitudes and thoughts among Muslim society. “Menunggu Kata Dari Tuhan” (Waiting for the Word of God) presents the issues of Muslim’s obedience and response to the commands of Allah SWT and His Messenger. The issue which directly relates to the actual behaviour of a Muslim, giving the audience an example of how they should react in a situation. Meanwhile, “Tamu dari Medan Perang” (Guests of the Battlefield) discusses on jihad and Muslim’s understanding about it. In conclusion, characters and story’s ending are in line with the principles outlined by pendekatan “Teater Fitrah” (Theatre of Fitrah). In the context of directing the performances, both theatres feature a relatively small number of characters. This strategy makes easy for the director in controlling the movements and interaction between one actors to another actor, especially among female and male characters.
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Mathers, Pete. "Edward Bond Directs ‘Summer’ at the Cottesloe, 1982." New Theatre Quarterly 2, no. 6 (May 1986): 136–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00002025.
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The early issues of the original Theatre Quarterly carried extensive coverage of the work of Edward Bond – a conscious editorial emphasis, which it became less important to maintain as Bond's work acquired its present international recognition and a corresponding share of critical attention. Yet the very distinctiveness of Bond's dramaturgy demands a no less distinctive approach from its critics – notably, a recognition and evaluation of the many non-literary strands of the ‘text’ as performed, especially when under the author's own direction. Pete Mathers, who teaches in the Film and Drama Division of Bulmershe College, here attempts to assess one of Bond's most recent plays, Summer, in close relationship to its original production by Bond himself, at the National's Cottesloe Theatre in 1982, examining every element through which its audiences experienced that production – including the poster and programme, as well as the more clearly crucial ingredients of design, performance, and the ‘gests’ through which they interconnect.
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Shevtsova, Maria. "Lev Dodin's ‘Musical Dramatic Art’ and the World of Opera." New Theatre Quarterly 20, no. 4 (October 25, 2004): 341–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x04000235.
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Lev Dodin has broken numerous boundaries with the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg, the company he has directed since 1983. Their collective devising, explorations, and discoveries for a repertory theatre based on the long-term development of its actors and the change, over time, of its productions make Dodin and the Maly unique on the international stage. Maria Shevtsova, whose recently published book Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance (Routledge, 2004) closely follows the company's work, here details Dodin's direction of opera, which, she argues, is inextricable from his approach to the theatre as such. Her discussion refers to opera productions which feature in her book, but she pays particular attention to Salomé and The Demon which, staged in 2003, could not be included in it. She also indicates Dodin's relation to such directors of opera as Strehler and Sellars. This article is a revised version of her keynote address at the FIRT/IFTR Annual Conference held in May 2004 in St Petersburg on the theme ‘The Director in the Theatre World’. Maria Shevtsova is co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly and Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths' College, University of London.
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ABELIOVICH, RUTHIE. "Work and Play: Rolf Hochhuth's The Representative in Tel Aviv (1964)." Theatre Research International 45, no. 3 (October 2020): 326–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883320000334.
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This paper probes into the 1964 Israeli performance of Rolf Hochhuth's controversial drama The Representative. Staged by Habima National Theatre under the direction of Avraham Ninio, the majority of the cast engaged in this production comprised European-born Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors. In its cultural context, the theatrical image of Jewish refugees dressed in Nazi uniforms or, conversely, staging visual, gestural or aural markers of Auschwitz prisoners imbued the drama with political meanings, triggering a debate about agency and forms of social and material participation in the aftermath of calamity. Examining the subterranean world of artists and craftsmen and women whose labour is deliberately obscured from view, I argue that the work of theatre emerges as a creative and generative energy that filters from the staged fiction into the ‘real’ world.
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Tugbokorowei, Martins Uze E., and Tunde Obado Oliogu. "The Director’s craft in the Nigerian Educational Theatre: A Study of Henry Leopold Bell-Gam’s Directorial Approach." Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 10, no. 9 (August 15, 2022): 20–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/gjahss.2013/vol10n92033.
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Directing involves the art and craft of coordinating the artistic and non-artistic personnel in a production in order to creatively and effectively communicate to the audience the intended meaning of a play. Dramatists, actors, and theatre managers have all attempted to direct or manage the process of coordinating play production over the years, but it wasn't until 1874 that the Duke of Saxe Meiningen entered the picture and assumed official responsibility as a director in guiding the affairs of the stage business as we now know it. In this study, the directing style of South South Nigerian educational theater director Henry Leopold Bell-Gam is evaluated. Henry Leopold Bell-Gam directed plays on stage (land) and in the water, according to the study, which used the qualitative research methodology with a focus on the literary/analytical, historical, and sociological methods. The Laissez-Faire method is used by Henry Leopold Bell-Gam to direct his plays. He employs the laissez-faire method, which allows the actors to be at ease so that their greatest work may shine in a production. The study found that in the course of employing or performing his directorial responsibilities, he runs into a number of difficulties, including insecurity in the aquatic environment and scheduling conflicts. The study makes several recommendations, including the need for more research in the field of directing with regard to educational theatre directors in Nigerian universities, the need for scholars to consider Henry Leopold Bell-Gam's works as viable ones that will inspire further scholarly investigation, and the need for the government to encourage, support, and fund aquatic productions as a means of socio-cultural integration, tourism attraction, and economic boost, particularly for people.
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Jirglová, Lucie. "The Correspondence of Bohuslav Martinů with Josef Munclinger and his Comments on the Stage Direction of the Four-Part Opera Hry o Marii in the Collections of the National Museum." Musicalia 10, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2018): 149–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/muscz-2018-0005.
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Abstract The collections of the Theatre Department at the National Museum in Prague contain a set of sources that allow us to see how Bohuslav Martinů participated in preparing productions of his stage works. This is a collection of the composer’s correspondence and comments on stage direction written on the occasion of the first Prague performance of the four-part opera Hry o Marii (The Plays of Mary), H 236 in 1936. The text publishes full transcripts of all of these sources with critical commentary. This involves two letters from Bohuslav Martinů addressed to Josef Munclinger, one letter from the management of the National Theatre in Prague to Bohuslav Martinů, and two lists of the composer’s comments on stage direction.
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Pogrebnіak, Galyna. "Topical Issues of Modern Directing Education." Bulletin of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Series in Audiovisual Art and Production 5, no. 2 (December 22, 2022): 189–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.31866/2617-2674.5.2.2022.269526.
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The purpose of the research is to identify the problems of training directors in the field of audiovisual art and production; to outline the prospects for modernization of the educational process in higher educational institutions of artistic direction in Ukraine. The research methodology is based on the methods of scientific analysis, comparison, and generalization. Analytical and systematic methods were used to study the art historical aspect of the problem. The empirical method was used to observe and study the educational process and production practice in the Kyiv National I K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, and Kyiv University of Culture. The scientific novelty of the study is that the problem of directing education in Ukraine in the context of the state support programs functioning time became the subject of a special study for the first; the concept’s content of “directing education” as specific integrity and unity of interrelated elements is argued; the worldview principles of training directors in the field of audiovisual art and production are singled out and characterized; the expediency of using communicative methods in the educational process of training directors is proved. Conclusions. Familiarization with the materials presented in the article expands the arsenal of knowledge about the specifics of providing quality educational services in higher education institutions of artistic direction in Ukraine and enables their use in pedagogical practices.
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Glytzouris, Antonis. "Karolos Koun in the 1930s and the Birth of Modernist Shakespeare in Greece." New Theatre Quarterly 30, no. 1 (February 2014): 40–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x14000062.
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The author aims in this article is to highlight a significant moment in the history of the reception of Shakespeare in modern Greek theatre. The article outlines the main developments in the perception of Shakespeare's work in Greece from the mid-nineteenth century until the Second World War, and examines Karolos Koun's early experiments in Shakespearean production. Koun's initiatives were diametrically opposed to local theatre traditions, which emphasized psychological or historical realism and pictorial or spectacular illusion. The use of non-realistic stage conventions such as masks and simple, abstract and allusive settings, flamboyant costumes, stylized acting, and the fact that all roles were played by young boys demonstrate the significance of Koun's contribution to a modernist Shakespeare in Greece, culminating in his Romeo and Juliet with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford in 1967. Antonis Glytzouris is Associate Professor in the School of Drama at the Aristotle University Thessaloniki, and is author of Stage Direction in Greece: the Rise and Consolidation of the Stage Director in Modern Greek Theatre (Herakleio: Crete University Press, 2011), among other publications.
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Quinn, Michael L. "‘Reading‘ and Directing the Play." New Theatre Quarterly 3, no. 11 (August 1987): 218–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00015190.
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A director's ‘reading’ of the play – the hierarchical implications of which were discussed by Peter Holland in the preceding article – normally begins with just that: a reading, of the printed or typewritten text. Here. Michael Quinn discusses the various factors through which this initial acquaintance becomes a stage production carrying the stamp of the resulting perceptions – some of which go unrecognized, as much by the director as by those who evaluate his work. These may vary from preconceptions (or a lack of them) about the writer himself to the prevailing modes of the director's own work, or from such imponderables as the ‘lingering’ effect of objects on stage whose original function has been fulfilled to the ‘intertextuality’ always present when a play has a previous production history. The author argues not for the impossible elimination of such influences, but for their proper recognition, so that the director may be better aware of the reasons behind the choices he makes in translating a ‘reading’ into a production. Michael L. Quinn has previously published essays on Brecht and Roman Jakobson, and is currently serving as a play-reader for the San Francisco Magic Theater while preparing his doctoral dissertation on the theatre semiotics of the Prague school.
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Gudkov, Maxim M. "Leonid Snegoff as Vakhtangov’s follower in the USA and his Broadway production of Dmitry Scheglov’s play “The Blizzard”." ТЕАТР. ЖИВОПИСЬ. КИНО. МУЗЫКА, no. 2 (2022): 10–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.35852/2588-0144-2022-2-10-33.
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The study focuses on the export of Eugene Vakhtangov’s theatrical methodology to American stage practices. The problem is specifically discussed based on the the acting and directing activities of Vakhtangov’s follower Leonid Snegoff. He staged the play by the Soviet playwright Dmitry Scheglov “The Blizzard” (“Purga”) on Broadway in 1929. The deep interest in Russian theatrical ideas and systems (Konstantin Stanislavsky, Eugene Vakhtangov, Vsevolod Meyerhold and Michael Chekhov) of the US practitioners in the interwar period are explained. The main two reasons are the absence of national acting school and thus theatre pedagogy. The characteristic of the main ways for exporting Vakhtangov’s ideas overseas are provided. Among them – the theatre tours abroad, translation and publication of Soviet theatrical literature about Vakhtangov and his method, the stage activities of Russian emigrant actors who studied with the Master or by him (Richard Boleslavsky, Rouben Mamulyan, Benno Schneider, Miriam Goldina). Theatre activities of Snegoff are analyzed along with the organicity of the poetics and the idea of “The Blizzard” play according to stage realization in the course of the Vakhtangov school. A brief analysis of the main productions of Scheglov’s play on the Soviet stage of the 1920s – in the Leningrad studio “Proletarian Actor”, Leningrad State Bolshoi Dramatic Theatre – BDT, Moscow Drama Theatre (former Korsh Theatre) and Studio of the Moscow State Maly Theatre – allows us to make a conclusion about the most successful of them. They were presented not in a ultra-realistic and naturalistic way, but in a Vakhtangov way – theatrically and conditionally. The author presents the analysis of Vakhtangov theatre ideas overseas on the basis of materials from the collections of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Houghton Library (Harvard University), the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts, as well as documents from the Museums of the Eugene Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre and the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre.
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Smole, Simon. "Dangerous promises." Maska 34, no. 198 (December 1, 2019): 60–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/maska.34.198-199.60_1.
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Abstract The article aims to look at the current Serbian theatre scene from several perspectives; in addition to its poetic and culturological level, it highlights the relations of domination in theatre and, more broadly, within the transitional and post-transitional cultural model of Serbia. It finds the novelty of the so-called »new Serbian drama« in its break with the Serbian theatre tradition and its representational and aesthetic conventions, while at the same time taking a critical stance on the lack of changes to the paradigm of how theatre works (its manners of directing, acting, organization and production).
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Carroll, Kathleen L. "The Americanization of Beatrice: Nineteenth-Century Style." Theatre Survey 31, no. 1 (May 1990): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557400000995.
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To nineteenth-century theatre managers, who believed in the play as a commercial venture rather than an aesthetic one, portrayal of the modern American woman presented a dilemma. Sophisticated theatregoers, familiar with the rhetoric of the women's suffrage movement, looked to female role models for direction on how to maintain a delicate balance between independence and subservience: to project strength of convictions without loss of femininity (traditionally measured by male desirability), and to remain dependent on the economic necessity of marriage (Ziff, 278–80). Speculative theatre managers found Shakespeare's comedies especially adaptable to modern audience's tastes because the plays lacked stage directions, required no royalty payments, were exempt from copyright laws, and centered on ambiguous female characters. American audiences, believing they were becoming cultured, supported Shakespearean revivals, and strongly applauded those plays Americanized by theatre managers. Two late nineteenth-century productions of Much Ado About Nothing, one in 1882 by Henry Irving, the other in 1896 by Augustin Daly, clearly demonstrate how each speculative manager, acting in the name of art, refashioned Shakespeare's text and interpreted Beatrice around his own ideal of femininity, an ideal each believed American audiences would endorse.
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Braun, Kazimierz. "Wprowadzenie do „Za kulisami” Cypriana Norwida." Tematy i Konteksty 16, no. 11 (2021): 400–413. http://dx.doi.org/10.15584/tik.2021.26.
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Kazimierz Braun introduces his stage adaptation of “Behind the Wings”, a drama considered the crowning achievement of the poet/playwright, Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883). Behind the Wings is composed of two parts. The action of one part takes place in the 19th Century in Warsaw. The other is situated in ancient Greece around the 7th Century BC. Both parts are bound by the structure of “theatre within theatre”, popularized by Shakespeare in Hamlet. The Danish Prince uses the production of “The Murder of Gonzago” to unmask the murderer King. The hero of “Behind the Wings”, Omegitt, uses his play Tyrtaeus to unmask the moral degradation of his contemporaries. The action of the entire play (composed of these two parts) takes place in a theatre, where, during a carnival ball, among other attractions, “Tyrtaeus” is performed. “Behind the Wings”, as many of Norwid’s works, was not published during the author’s life time and was preserved with significant loopholes. Thus, for a production of this play the existing text must be adapted and transformed into a working scenario. The article discusses major obstacles which hinder the entrance to the great and complex dramatic edifice of “Behind the Wings” – such as the problems of the multitude of the characters, and the specific use of space and time by Norwid. In addition to the analysis of “Behind the Wings”, Kazimierz Braun recalls his own works on this play, beginning by his studies of Polish Literature at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and at the Directing Department, Warsaw’s School of Drama. During his long career he directed fifteen productions of Norwid’s texts, both in theatres and in television in Poland. A literary adaptation and a miseen- scène project of “Behind the Wings” prepared by Kazimierz Braun was published in a book: Cyprian Norwid, “Za kulisami”, opracowanie literackie i inscenizacyjne Kazimierz Braun, Wydawnictwo Pewne, Kielce 2021.
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Chatterjee, Sudipto. "SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN THEATRE: (UN/RE-)PAINTING THE TOWN BROWN." Theatre Survey 49, no. 1 (May 2008): 109–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557408000069.
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In his second year at the University of California, Berkeley, Arthur William Ryder (1877–1938), the Ohio-born Harvard scholar of Sanskrit language and literature, collaborated with the campus English Club and Garnet Holme, an English actor, to stage Ryder's translation of the Sanskrit classic Mrichchhakatikam, by Shudraka, as The Little Clay Cart. The 1907 production was described as “presented in true Hindu style. Under the direction of Garnet Holme, who … studied with Swamis of San Francisco … [and] the assistance of many Indian students of the university.” However, in the twenty-five-plus cast, there was not a single Indian actor with a speaking part. The intended objective was grandeur, and the production achieved that with elaborate sets and costumes, two live zebras, and elephants. Seven years later, the Ryder–Holme team returned with Ryder's translation of Kalidasa's Shakuntala, “bear cubs, a fawn, peacocks, and an onstage lotus pool with two real waterfalls.” While the archival materials do not indicate the involvement of any Indian actors (barring one Gobind B. Lal, who enacted the Prologue), its importance is evinced by the coverage it received in the Oakland Tribune, the Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times.
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Spivakovskyi, Oleksandr. "Ukrainian performances of small form operas in the era of the 2000s." Ukrainian musicology 46 (October 27, 2020): 75–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.31318/0130-5298.2020.46.234597.
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The purpose of the work. The article defines the role of the small form operas in the development of Ukrainian music and drama theatre of the 2000s. The research methodology is based on key provisions, concepts of music directing, developed during the twentieth century and their diversification in today's realities. Such general scientific methods as art history, history, analysis and synthesis, and comparative methods were chosen to compare Ukrainian productions of small form operas of the 2000s. The scientific novelty of the work lies in rethinking functioning of small opera forms according to the realities of modern Ukraine and elucidating the factors influencing their modern development and changes. Conclusions. The role of operas of small forms in the repertoire of Ukrainian musical theatres and artistic-theatrical projects is increasing under various conditions such as: socio-cultural and political conflicts of a new millennium, the role of operas of small forms in the repertoire of Ukrai-nian musical theatres and artistic-theatrical projects is increasing. The modern audience is the part of information society, which exists on its own, often developing at an accelerated pace, and it must be taken into account by the directors of musical theatre when deciding on the repertoire for subsequent staging of an opera. The relevance of the drama of the selected works, ideological and artistic qualities, aesthetic and educational aspects of the opera, as well as the assessment of creative and material possibilities for the realization of the idea of the play are essential, crucial elements that should be taken into consideration in order to ensure effective opera staging and production. In the 2000s, art and theatre projects enriched Ukrainian stage by conducting research and experimenting with the scope and subject of performance as well as with their genre and style, thus confirming and updating small opera forms.
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Mitchell, Katie, and Mario Frendo. "A Conversation on Directing Opera." New Theatre Quarterly 37, no. 3 (July 19, 2021): 246–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x21000142.
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Katie Mitchell has been directing opera since 1996, when she debuted on the operatic stage with Mozart and Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni at the Welsh National Opera. Since then, she has directed more than twenty-nine operas in major opera houses around the world. Mitchell here speaks of her directorial approach when working with the genre, addressing various aspects of interest for those who want a better grasp of the dynamics of opera-making in the twenty-first century. Ranging from the director’s imprint, or signature on the work they put on the stage, to the relationships forged with people running opera institutions, Mitchell reflects on her experiences when staging opera productions. She sheds light on some fundamental differences between theatre-making and opera production, including the issue of text – the libretto, the dramatic text, and the musical score – and the very basic fact that in opera a director is working with singers, that is, with musicians whose attitude and behaviour on stage is necessarily different from that of actors in the theatre. Running throughout the conversation is Mitchell’s commitment to ensure that young and contemporary audiences do not see opera as a museum artefact but as a living performative experience that resonates with the aesthetics and political imperatives of our contemporary world. She speaks of the uncompromising political imperatives that remain central to her work ethic, even if this means deserting a project before it starts, and reflects on her long-term working relations with opera institutions that are open to new and alternative approaches to opera-making strategies. Mitchell underlines her respect for the specific rules of an art form that, because of its collaborative nature, must allow more space for theatre-makers to venture within its complex performative paths if it wants to secure a place in the future. Mario Frendo is Senior Lecturer of Theatre and Performance and Head of the Department of Theatre Studies at the School of Performing Arts, University of Malta, where he is the director of CaP, a research group focusing on the links between culture and performance.
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Saldivar, Nicholas, Thomas C. Varkey, Brianna J. Rafidi, Jack B. Ding, Taydan Tran, and Kartik Akkihal. "The Use of Scent Within the Changing Landscape of Theatre and Its Application to Long-Term Rehabilitation." International Journal of Medical Science and Clinical Invention 9, no. 09 (September 30, 2022): 6256–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijmsci/v9i09.05.
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The intentional and unintentional use of scents have long been implemented in the arts. As an element of design, the use of fragrances may increase audience immersion by engaging the sense of smell through the olfactory receptors, in addition to becoming a tool for the performers. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, most performing companies have been forced to shift the showcasing of work primarily online. Many of the subtle effects produced by both the cast and the design team that one may appreciate in-person are inevitably lost in virtual theatre, falling secondary to the screen. One potential solution for ensuring that digital productions can continue traditions of theatre while considering the safety of guests would be through the utilization of strategically crafted scents that support the performance’s story and the overall direction of the production. In virtual performances, the use of scent can be useful to ground both the audience and performers within the same world by linking the play to old memories or creating new ones. The paper finally looks at ways that this linkage can be utilized in longterm care facilities for the betterment of patients.
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Allen, David. "Jonathan Miller Directs Chekhov." New Theatre Quarterly 5, no. 17 (February 1989): 52–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00015335.
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David Allen's sequence of features for NTQ on modern British approaches to directing Chekhov began in No. 8 (1986) with a documentary study of Mike Alfreds's productions, and continued with a reconstruction of David Jones's production ofIvanovfor the RSC in No. 15 (1988). Here, he explores the approach to Chekhov of Jonathan Miller (currently artistic director at the Old Vic), mainly through an analysis of Miller's production ofThree Sisters, first seen at Guildford in April 1976, and subsequently transferred to the Cambridge Theatre, London, on 22 June of that year. This is complemented by original interview material with the director, and David Allen also draws on Miller's Chichester production ofThe Seagullin 1973, which was revived for Greenwich Theatre in January 1974. The analysis focuses especially on Miller's sense of the ways in which Chekhov perceived and dramatized human passions, his presentation of the nuances of personality, and of the changes wrought by passing time.
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Merolla, Daniela. "De La Parole aux Videos. Oralite, Ecriture et Oralite Mediatique Dans la Production Culturelle Amazigh (Berbere)." Afrika Focus 18, no. 1-2 (February 15, 2005): 33–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-0180102004.
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From the Spoken Word to Video: Orality, Literacy, Mediated Orality, and the Amazigh (Berber) Cultural Production This article presents new directions in Tamazight/Berber artistic productions. The development of theatre, films and videos in Tamazight are set in the framework of the historical and literary background in the Maghreb and in the lands of Amazigh Diaspora. It also includes the interview with the video-maker and director Agouram Salout.
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Romanska, Magda. "BETWEEN HISTORY AND MEMORY: AUSCHWITZ IN AKROPOLIS, AKROPOLIS IN AUSCHWITZ." Theatre Survey 50, no. 2 (November 2009): 223–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557409990056.
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In 1962, Polish director Jerzy Grotowski mounted an adaptation of playwright Stanisław Wyspiański's 1904 play Akropolis. When James MacTaggart filmed it in 1968, the production gained immediate cult status among American theatre critics, scholars, and practitioners. Although Grotowski's production had already been seen internationally (though by a very limited audience), the film made it available to those outside major theatre centers. Notwithstanding the buzz that surrounded the film's release, most of the interest was focused on the acting and the set design; the fact that the show was based on an obscure modernist drama evoked little critical comment. Although the film's voice-over translated some lines of the play, the dialogue was not the main focus of commentary about the film or criticism of the play after the film was released. In 1974, Harold Clurman wrote that “the lines [of Grotowski's adaptation] spoken at incredible speed are not dialogue; they are tortured exclamations projected in the direction of another being, but with no shape as personal address. (It has been said that a knowledge of Polish does not make the lines readily intelligible… ” Clurman sidestepped discussing the text altogether, arguing that one does not need to understand it in order to understand the production.
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Chebotarev, Sergey A. "Art of theater direction in the 20th–21st centuries." Neophilology, no. 28 (2021): 718–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2021-7-28-718-725.
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We analyze the cultural and historical development of art of theater direction in the 20th–21st centuries. We consider the features of director’s theater on the example of Anatoly Vasiliev’s theater, Mark Zakharov’s theater, Zhenovach’s theater, Pyotr Fomenko’s theater, etc. We note that throughout the entire period there is a transformation of the role of the director in the theater. We note that throughout the entire period there is a transformation of director’s role in the theater. The significance of the theater director – artist grows into more complex forms of his existence: the playwright – the organizer of the performance – the teacher and educator of the theatrical collective. We conduct an analysis of directing schools allow us to draw the following conclusions. Firstly, the Russian theater at the turn of the 20th–21st centuries managed to preserve its traditions even in the conditions of the most powerful computer and television boom. Secondly, the theater continued to occupy one of the leading places in the spiritual, moral and aesthetic edu-cation of society. Thirdly, the direction of domestic theater adopted and multiplied the best tradi-tions of realistic art, coming from K. Stanislavsky, V. Nemirovich-Danchenko, E. Vakhtangov, M. Chekhov, taking into account modern trends and interests of the audience. Fourthly, there was an active search for new forms in directing and acting, experimental theaters and studios were formed. Fifthly, a huge place in directing was given to the production of classics. We note that the period under review provided an opportunity to fully reveal the originality in directing and acting.
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Tulloch, John, Tom Burvill, and Andrew Hood. "Reinhabiting ‘The Cherry Orchard’: Class and History in Performing Chekhov." New Theatre Quarterly 13, no. 52 (November 1997): 318–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00011441.
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Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard is clearly ‘about’ the end of one social order – about time changing and time static. Yet different interpretive communities – academics in journal articles and students in their classrooms, newspaper reviewers, theatre writers like Trevor Griffiths and David Mamet, and theatre directors like Adrian Noble and Richard Eyre – ‘read’ Chekhov's representation of history and class change in different ways. The authors of this study have been exploring these different reading formations in a three-year project funded by the Australian Research Council, ‘Chekhov: in Criticism, Performance, and Reading’. Here – grounding their work in industry ‘readings’ via production study and interviews – they focus on production and performance of The Cherry Orchard, contrasting the Richard Eyre/Trevor Griffiths production of 1977 (reproduced in 1981 for BBC TV) with Adrian Noble's production at the Swan Theatre, Stratford, in 1995. In particular, they discuss the writing, directing, acting, and staging of Chekhov's ‘modernity’ in these productions, suggesting that whereas Noble referenced and yet simultaneously occluded class in his rehearsal style and staging, Griffiths and Eyre worked for a production which not only embodied the intra-class mobility of the Thatcher era in 1981, but also the ‘then’ of Chekhov's own particular engagement with modernity and environment. John Tulloch, Professor of Cultural Studies at Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, is author of Chekhov: a Structuralist Study. Tom Burvill is Associate Professor of Drama and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, where Andrew Hood is a PhD student working on reception cultures.
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Woźniak, Katarzyna. "Pirandello jako widz zawodowy." Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia Historicolitteraria 17 (October 12, 2018): 126–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20811853.17.11.
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Pirandello as professional spectatorAbstractLuigio Pirandello’s drama were unfailingly popular with Polish directors between the beginningof the 1960s until the 1970s. Native creators have undertaken dramas from differentperiods of the Nobelist’s output and covering various topics – bourgeois comedy to metatheatricalworks. Most probably those do not include all that were staged then.It appears that an increased interest in the author is to be connected with the 25th anniversaryof his death, as is suggested by Mieczysław Brahmer in the 1961 Tak jest, jak się państwu zdaje(directed by Zofia Wiercińska).The fact that both then and now critics and researchers in the majority of cases assumed, notnecessarily consciously, they are writing about an artist that is mainly a writer and only thena critic of stage productions of his dramas and a stage producer for his own texts is significant.As a consequence they focused mainly on deconstructing the “pirandellism” condemned byBrahmer, in particular on its canonical interpretation by Adrian Tilgher. Therefore, the followingquestion comes to mind: what kind of interpretations are possible when Pirandello’sworks (especially the first part of the so-called trilogy of “theatre in a theatre” which consistsof Six Characters in Search of an Author, Each In His Own Way and Tonight We Improvise) areconsidered from the perspective of purpose, that is individual theatrical activity of Pirandelloas a co-founder, principal and stage producer of Teatro D’Arte in Rome (in operation between1924 and 1928). The present article attempts at showing the possible direction of a search foran answer to said question with the starting point being the 1962 production of Sześć postaciscenicznych w poszukiwaniu autora (Six Characters in Search of an Author) directed by MariaWiercińska in Stefan Jaracz Theatre in Łódź.Keywords: Pirandello in Poland, Maria Wiercińska, first theatre directors in Italy
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Ghelardi, Marco. "Doing Things with Words: Directing Dario Fo in the UK." New Theatre Quarterly 18, no. 3 (August 2002): 222–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x02000313.
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By the early 'eighties, Dario Fo seemed to have achieved a unique place in British theatre, with both Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Can't Pay? Won't Pay! enjoying long West End runs, while he himself retained the respect of the alternative and fringe community for his radical politics and championship of popular theatre forms. Yet although he was subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, interest in Fo's work seems to have gone into a steady decline in Britain. This is only in part attributable, argues Marco Ghelardi, to a less favourable political and theatrical climate: it has also to do with the topicality and adaptability which is integral to Fo's approach to playwriting, and more especially with an acting style apparently inimical to British traditions – a style based in the collective and the situational rather than the individual and the psychological. Marco Ghelardi is a young playwright, director, and producer whose career has involved him in both the British and Italian traditions. He has also been an assistant director in opera (notably at Covent Garden), and with his theatre company, Outlaw Theatre, he has recently managed to bring a Fo production, Johan Padan and the Discovery of America, back to the Riverside in London, where it opened in May of this year.
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Shishkin, Andrei Gennadievich. "Repertory theater of production type – trends in the dialogue of cultures in modern music and theater culture (on the example of the Ural Opera Ballet Theater)." Культура и искусство, no. 5 (May 2021): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0625.2021.5.35614.
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This article reviews a new model of repertory opera theater of production type, which has emerged at the intersection of traditional repertoire and project, or production theaters: it represents a special channel of intercultural communication. Opera performance creates a space simultaneously in several dimensions – musical, verbal, and visual; it resembles a form of polylogue of the authors and stage directors of the performance, becomes a realization of the dialogue of cultures, and turns into a unique form of art involving the representatives of different cultural systems. This is proven by particular artistic experiences of the dialogue of cultures in modern opera on the example of Ural Opera Ballet Theater in Yekaterinburg and its projects “Satyagraha”, “The Passenger”, “The Greek Passion”, and “Three Sisters”. A number of important ideas of theoretical and historical culturology find practical substantiation: the paramount prerequisite for the effectiveness of any activity – the unity of theory and practice is realizes in the sphere of artistic culture. It is determined that within the framework of repertory theatre, production direction must take consider the time requirements that are solved in the field of the dialogue of cultures. The article demonstrates that the dialogue of cultures manifests as the dominant trend in the development of theatrical culture, allowing a more effective response of the creative process to the demands of time. It is proven that the work created in the process of the dialogue of cultures, which contains polyphony of voices, requires peculiar work with the audience, who is also engaged in dialogue with the performance.
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Laird, Andrew. "Roman Epic Theatre? Reception, performance, and the poet in Virgil'sAeneid." Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 49 (2003): 19–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068673500000936.
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Past responses to ancient literature and the reading practices of previous centuries are of central relevance to the contemporary exegesis of Greek and Roman authors. Professional classicists have at last come to recognise this. However, accounts of reception still tend to engage in a traditional form ofNachleben, as they unselfconsciously describe the extent of classical influences on later literary production. This process of influence is not as straightforward as it may first seem. It is often taken for granted in practice, if not in theory, that the movement is in one direction only – from antiquity to some later point - and also that the ancient text which ‘impacts on’ on the culture of a later period is the same ancient text that we apprehend today. Of course it isneverthe same text, even leaving aside the problems of transmission. The interaction between a text and its reception in another place, in another time, in another text, is really a dynamic two-way process. That interaction (which has much in common with intertextuality) involves, or is rather constituted by, our own interpretation of it.
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Lēvalde, Vēsma. "Digimodernisms teātrī: perspektīva un naratīvs." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā: rakstu krājums, no. 25 (March 4, 2020): 276–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2020.25.276.
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The digital era has created a new form of textuality, defined ten years ago by British cultural critic Alan Kirby as digimodernism, manifested in both literature and art, and gradually replacing postmodernism. The new media-language theorist Lev Manovich sees similarities in digital art and the aesthetics of the Left Avant-Garde of the 1920s, as well as cinema. In the early and middle 20th-century cinema development produced an impact on modernism art. In the 21st century, digital technologies emerging from film aesthetics leave the footprints in contemporary art and theatre. Identifying the key principles of Kirby’s theory in particular productions allows partial revising Hans-Thies Lehmann’s concept of post-dramatic theatre, and raising a thesis on digimodernism as one of the contemporary tendencies in theatre. Thus, fundamental categories of theatrical language – space, time, character, narrative – are becoming relevant. The article aims to research the narrative in digital art and look for a similar strategy of sense construction in theatre productions, drawing conclusions on the effects of digimodernism on theatre. If a narrative is perceived as a sign system, there are two dimensions – the syntagmatic or “real narrative” and the paradigmatic or a range of choices from which narrative is selectively created. Manovich’s theory proves that in new media language paradigm and syntagma interchange, therefore the paradigm becomes a sense-bearer. Similar principles are applied in modern theatre directing. A typical example is the selected production by Latvian director Elmars Senkovs based on the classic play “Blow, wind!” (Pūt, vējiņi!) by Latvian poet and playwright Rainis. The author of the research concludes that the principles of digimodernism in theatre can change the visual perspective of the stage space, namely, the concepts of “downstage” and “upstage” are often replaced by the terms “top” and “bottom”, making the stage “flat”, similar to a screen. Meanwhile, the central perspective or the narrative as a sense-construction strategy still depends on the intellectual capacity and emotional sensitivity of theatre-makers as interpreters.
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Adeoye, ARA. "The Thesis and Synthesis of Production Philosophy in the African Literary Theatre Directing." African Research Review 9, no. 2 (July 1, 2015): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/afrrev.v9i2.2.
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Gow, Sherrill. "Queering Brechtian feminism: Breaking down gender binaries in musical theatre pedagogical performance practices." Studies in Musical Theatre 12, no. 3 (December 1, 2018): 343–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt.12.3.343_1.
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This article explores how musical theatre pedagogy might begin to dismantle modes of practice that perpetuate exclusion and a dualistic, gendered perspective. I draw on my experience of directing postgraduate musical theatre students at Mountview in a production of Pippin (1972). Casting a trans man as Pippin – in many respects an archetypal male hero role – set in motion a process of queering and subverting norms. However, casting is only one element of creating an inclusive practice: in this work, I developed a hybrid approach that honoured students’ identities and experiences and took a critical, political view of the material being presented. My approach brings together Elin Diamond’s feminist theoretical framing of Brecht with queer concepts including heteronormativity and chrononormativity, which are then applied to David Barnett’s practical explanation of a Brechtian process. I argue that feminist and queer approaches can work together to meaningfully critique hegemonic forces influencing musical theatre training and production processes.