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This book engages with the relationship between ruins, dilapidation, and abandonment and cultural events performed within such spaces. Following the author’s fieldwork in the UK, Bosnia Herzegovina, Poland, Germany, Greece, and Sicily, chapters describe, investigate,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-17
Collection :
Performing Landscapes
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This book looks at the connection between contemporary theatre practices and cosmopolitanism, a philosophical condition of social behaviour based on our responsibility, respect, and healthy curiosity to the other. Advocating for cosmopolitanism has become a necessity in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-07
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This book analyses the work of applied theatre practitioners using a new framework of ‘responsivity’ to make visible their unique expertise. In-depth investigation of practice combines with theorisation to provide a fresh view of the work of artists and facilitators....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-30
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This book offers a theory and methodology of transmedia arts activism within the technocultural and sociopolitical landscape of expanded documentary production, distribution, reception and participation. Through a detailed analysis of the author’s transmedia project on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-07-23
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Over the last two decades, philosophers have been increasingly inclined to consider science fiction films as philosophical exercises that center on the nature of human consciousness and existence. Albert Camus’ philosophy of the absurd, however, has almost never been...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-17
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'Playboys of the Western World is a model of contemporary performance studies.'
'The book is remarkably well-focused: half is a series of production histories of Playboy performances through the twentieth century in the UK, Northern Ireland, the USA, and Ireland. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-15
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This book traces the transformation of traditional Chinese theatre’s (xiqu) aesthetics during its encounters with Western drama and theatrical forms in both mainland China and Taiwan since 1978. Through analyzing both the text and performances of eight adapted plays...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-11
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This is a book of insight and imagination. It is a literary tour de force, where 28 Irish plays are examined and their rich cultural context exposed in a way that educates and excites. To read Anne O'Reilly's analysis leaves one longing to return to theatre and to play....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-16
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For over fifty years, the Dublin Theatre Festival has been one of Ireland’s most important cultural events, bringing countless events, bringing countless new Irish plays to the world stage, while introducing Irish audiences to the most important international theatre...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-16
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This book questions the reliance on melodrama and spectacle in social performances and cultural productions by and about migrants from Mexico and Central America to the United States. Focusing on archetypal characters with nineteenth-century roots that recur in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-09
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Out of History is the first book to appear on the work of award-winning Irish author Sebastian Barry. Barry is recognized as one of Ireland's greatest living writers and his works now appear regularly on syllabuses in U.S.colleges, in Irish Studies and in Drama...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-09
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'The Drunkard is a wonderfully eloquent play.’Young Edward Kilcullen's life is blighted by alcohol. Lawyer McGinty desires possession of all the Kilcullens ever owned and relishes the prospect of his demise. However, the temperance preacher and philanthropist Sir Arden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-08
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The essays collected in Edna O’Brien: New Critical Perspectives illustrate the range, complexity and interest of O’Brien as a fiction writer and dramatist. Together they contribute to a broader appreciation of her work and to an evolution of new critical approaches, as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-08
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Last year when Garry Hynes asked me to edit a book on Synge, I realised that a great seachange had taken place in relation to his work. Once, he would have been viewed by many readers and writers as an old-fashioned figure whose influence was harmful, whose...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-08
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When Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey opened at the Barrymore on Christmas day, 1940, it flew in the face of musical comedy convention. The characters and situation were depraved. The setting was caustically realistic. Its female lead was frankly sexual and yet not purely...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-01
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Since the 1990s, Palestinian theatrical activities in the West Bank have expanded exponentially. As well as local productions, Palestinian theatre-makers have presented their work to international audiences on a scale unprecedented in Palestinian history. This book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-21
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Just once in a while, actors and performers change the whole way in which they approach the words in their scripts. Such a change happened in the early-to-middle years of the twentieth century; and the person behind it was "Dadie" Rylands. He was a man with an ear...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his ongoing resonance with audiences and his place in world...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-27
Collection :
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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The lively, informative and incisive collection of essays sheds fascinating new light on the literary interrelations between Ireland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic. It charts a hitherto under-explored history of the reception of modern Irish culture...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-02-11
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With such plays as The Beauty Queen (1996), The cripple of Irishman (1997), The Lonesome West (1997), A skull in Connemara (1997), The Lieutenant of Irishmore (2001), and The Pillowman (2003) Martin McDonagh has made a huge reputation for himself internationally,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-12-05
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