Experience theatre as "a performing art and humanistic event." THEATRE: A WAY OF SEEING is an exciting introduction to all aspects of theatre: who sees it, what is seen, and where and how it is seen. The author presents the theatre experience from the viewpoint of audiences exposed to a complex, living art that involves people, spaces, plays, designs, staging, forms, language, and productions.
Author(s): Milly S. Barranger
Edition: 7
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 416
Brief Contents
Contents
Features
Preface
Ch 1: Discovering Theatre
The Immediate Art
Theatre's Immediacy
Theatre's Aliveness
Reflections in the Mirror
Theatre's Fictions
Theatre's Spaces
Theatre's Audiences
Transition
Ch 2: The Seeing Place
Ritual and Theatre
Theatrical Performance
Western Theatre
Eastern Theatre
Transition
Ch 3: Alternative Theatrical Spaces
Environmental Theatre
Forerunners of Alternative Approaches
The Polish Laboratory Theatre
The Living Theatre
Theatre du Soleil
The Bread and Puppet Theatre
The Free Southern Theater
Transition
Ch 4: Image Maker: The Playwright
The Play and the Audience
The Playwright's Beginnings
The Playwright's Role
The Playwright's Tools
The Playwright's Industry
New American Writing: Alternative Voices
Transition
Ch 5: Theatrical Writing: Perspectives and Forms
Drama's Perspectives
Tragedy
Comedy
Tragicomedy
Melodrama
Farce
Epic Theatre
Absurdist Theatre
Transition
Ch 6: Structures of Seeing
The Playwright's Art
Play Structures
Recent Structures
Postmodern Texts
Visual and Audio Texts
Transition
Ch 7: Drama's Conventions
Writing Strategies
Conventions of Time
Conventions of Metaphor
Transition
Ch 8: Stage Language
Language for the Theatre
Types of Stage Language
Contemporary Trends in American Theatre
Transition
Ch 9: Image Maker: The Actor
Acting - As Imagination and Technique
The Actor's Reality
The Actor's Training
Trends in Training American Actors
Actors at Work
Transition
Ch 10: Image Maker: The Director
Forerunners
Director as Artist
Directors at Work
Staging: Approaches and Styles
Director as Auteur
Transition
Ch 11: Image Makers: Designers
The Scene Designer
The Costume Designer
Makeup, Wigs, Masks, and Puppets
Transition
Ch 12: Image Makers: Designers Lighting and Sound
The Lighting Designer
The Sound Designer
Computer-Aided Design for Scenery, Costumes, Lighting, Sound
Technical Production
Transition
Ch 13: Image Makers: Producers
Producing on Broadway
Producing off Broadway
Producing in Regional Theatres
Transition
Ch 14: The American Musical
Precedents
An American Musical Idiom
Post-Second World War Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre at Mid-Century
Sixties Alternatives to Broadway Musicals
New Directions
British Megamusicals
Broadway's Audiences
Transition
Ch 15: Viewpoints
Criticism
Seeing Theatre
The Professional Critic
Notes
Glossary
Index
