Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84714-001-2
Verlag: Continuum

Buch, Englisch, 896 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1688 g

Acclaimed, comprehensive encyclopedic companion to twentieth century theatre
- Includes over 2500 entries, more than 130 topic articles by 280 expert international contributors including both leading academics and theatre professionals
- Includes specially commissioned articles by leading theatre professionals talking about their own discipline including Peter Brook on 'Directing', Cicely Berry on 'Voice', Ian McKellen on 'Performing Shakespeare', Ben Kingsley on 'Preparing a Part', Jessica Lange on 'Performing Williams', Hal Prince on 'Directing Musicals', Harriet Walter on 'Women in Theatre'

International in scope, this book is designed to be the pre-eminent reference work on the English-speaking theatre in the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, it consists of some 2500 entries written by 280 contributors from 20 countries which include not only top-level experts, but, uniquely, leading professionals from the world of theatre. The twentieth century is the great century of change in the theatre, and the entries capture this modern dynamism and its huge diversity. No other reference work on the subject has the authentic smell of greasepaint in its prose.

Zielgruppe

General, Students & Scholars of Theatre & Performing Arts, Theatre Professionals

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chambers, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements
Reader's Guide
List of Contributors
Selective Reference Bibliography
The Companion
Contributors Include:

Cicely Berry; Peter Brook; Peter Cheeseman; Cyril Cusack; Gillian Diamond; Michael Gambon; John Gunter; John Haynes; Ann Jellicoe; Ben Kingsley; Jessica Lange; Ian McKellen; Edward Petherbridge; Hal Prince; Jason Robards; Ekkehard Schall; Nabil Shaban; Janet Suzman; Jennifer Tipton; Harriet Walter; Arnold Wesker; Billie Whitelaw
Key Topics Include:

Acting; Adaptation/translation; Amateur theatre; Ancient Greek drama in the 20c; Architecture; Asian American Theatre; Audience; Black theatre; Body art; Burlesque; Cabaret; Carnival; Censorship; Children's theatre; Choreography; Cinema; Circus; Comedy; Community theatre; Copyright; Costume design; Criticism; Dance; Design; Digital performance; Directing in the twentieth century; Disability; Documentary; Drag; Drama schools; Dramatherapy; Dramatic theory; Dramaturg; Eastern theatre, its influence on the West; Edinburgh Fringe; Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre in the twentieth century; Environmental theatre; Epic theatre; Eroticism in the theatre; Experimental theatre; Expressionism; Farce; Festivals; Food and drink; Gay theatre; German-language theatre; Improvisation; Independent theatre; Installation; Jazz; Laboratory theatre; Lesbian theatre; Librettists; Lighting, history of; Little theatre; Live art; Magic; Make-up; Marketing; Masks; Medieval theatre in the twentieth century; Mime; Modernism; Movement, dance and drama; Music; Music hall; Musical theatre; New vaudeville; Nineteenth century theatre, its influence in the 20thc; Off-broadway; Open stage; Opera; People's theatre; Popular theatre; Performance; Performance art; Physical preparation; Political theatre; Poor theatre; Pop music and theatre; Prop-making; Puppet theatre; Radio drama; Recording and researching theatre; Repertory movement; Resident theatre; Restoration drama in the twentieth century; Revue; Ritual; Roman drama in the twentieth century; Seasonal theatre; Shakespeare in the twentieth century; Sound; Sport and the theatre; Stage machinery; Stage management; Stand-up comedy; Student theatre; Surrealism; Symbolism; Television drama; Theatre anthropology; Theatre for development; Theatre for young people; Theatre in education; Theatre in the round; Theatre of cruelty; Theatre photography; Theatre publishing; Theatrical estates; Third theatre; Touring; Toy theatre; Tragedy; Unions; University drama departments; Variety; Vaudeville; Ventriloquism; Verismo; Verse drama; Voice training; West End; Wigs; Women in theatre; Workshop; Yiddish theatre; Youth theatre

Key Figures Covered:

Appia; Artaud; Ayckbourn; Beckett; Boal; Bond; Brecht; Brook; Chekhov; Churchill; Copeau; Eliot; Fo; Fugard; Federico; Gatti; Genet; Gershwin; Gielgud; Gorky; Granville Barker; Hall; Hytner; Ibsen; Ionesco; Jarry; Jones; Laughton; Lecoq; Littlewood; Lloyd webber; Marceau; Meyerhold; Miller; Mueller; Nunn; O'Casey; Odets; Olivier; O'Neill; Osborne; Pageant; Pinter; Pirandello; Piscator; Porter; Priestley; Rattigan; Reinhardt; Sartre; Schnitzler; Schaffer; Shaw; Shepherd; Soyinka; Stanislavsky; Stein; Stoppard; Strindberg; Wedekind; Welles; Wesker; Wilde; Williams; Yeats

Über Autor(innen)

Colin Chambers, former literary manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company, is Senior Research Fellow in Performing Art at De Montfort University, Leicester.