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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"British theatre"”.
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Shakespeare in Present-Day British Theatre: Where Text Meets Practice
Thesis Abstract Shakespeare in Present-Day British Theatre: Where Text Meets Practice Tobias Andrew Giles Wright An actor today, beginning rehearsals for a Shakespeare play, is faced with the challenge of diachronically assigning character-based acting techniques to a rich network of dramatic …
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Narratives of Continuity & Change: British Theatre Design 1945-2003, An Oral History
… contends that continuity is evident within British theatre design practice across the second half of the twentieth century despite the concurrent emergence of new performance spaces and revolutionary approaches to theatre making. During this period, British practitioners have been …
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The British theatre economics and management in the 1990s as an effect of Thatcherite capitalism
… in the dominance of capitalist values in theatre, under which theatre companies inevitably compete with each other, and are, thereby, increasingly inclined towards safe, popular, commercial products. By contrast, alternative oppositional activities that can play a role in checking and …
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The development of stage machinery in the nineteenth century British theatre : a study of physical and documentary evidence
… equipment. This in turn meant that many of the theatres built in the eighteenth century, especially in the provinces, were sadly inadequate for housing the vast quantities of equipment which machinists needed to install above and below the stage. As a result architects, began improving and …
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Ideas, forms and development in the British workers' theatre, 1925-1935
This thesis traces the development of British workers' theatre in the period 1925 - 1935, focussing on the institution which eventually constituted itself as the Workers' Theatre Movement, and relating the particular character of this organisation to the nature of British theatre as a whole. …
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The convergence of influences on and evolving praxis of mid-twentieth century British theatre design (1935-1965) through a close study of selected works by Motley and Jocelyn Herbert
This thesis examines key developments in theatre design in Britain between 1935-1965 through the lens of the praxis of the design trio known as Motley (active 1932-78) and of theatre designer Jocelyn Herbert (1917-2003). Analysis of their roles in the creation of the four theatre productions that …
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The Artist as a Dramatic Character in Contemporary British Drama: A Critical Study of Stoppard, Barker and Wertenbaker
… representation of the artist as a character in British theatre. In this study, which includes three chapters and one introductory chapter, I attempt to show that British playwrights, whether male or female, use their main fictional characters as artists either for self-reflexivity or to comment …
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The changing situation of institutions and practitioners in British twentieth century theatre
… Within the broad subject of twentieth century theatre practice, the thesis looks at my published works in two main and distinct but related sub-areas, the institution and the individual. It deals with my investigation of the ideological currents and tensions within British theatre practice, …
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Devising Solo Performance: A Practitioner’s Enquiry
… as a means for specifying a category of theatre-making that has been little discussed, compared to group devising, in existing literature on devising and postdramatic theatre. Primary source material was obtained through carrying out extended interviews with five experienced British …
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The playwright and his theatre : Howard Brenton, David Hare and Snoo Wilson
In the context of changes in British theatre theory and practice, in particular in the post-1968 Fringe, is it possible to consider playscripts as literary works,expressing the views of individual writers?The emphasis within the early Fringe was on collectively organized workshops and group …
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Criminal Justice in British Playwriting and Theatre Practice, 1979-2017
… through the art of playwriting/dramaturgy and theatre practice. It investigates how playwrights, and theatre companies have created and curated these narratives by employing a spectrum of techniques from the conventional to the immersive play, from forum theatre to cognitive behavioural therapy …
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The German classics on the British stage : the reception of Goethe, Schiller and Kleist since 1945
… they were only gradually introduced onto the British stage. The long-lasting rejection is usually explained with reference to the rivalries between Britain and Germany since the late nineteenth century and, after 1945, by post-war resentment. In showing that there are more complex mechanisms …
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
The popular British theatre of the late nineteenth century has often been regarded as both aesthetically and politically bankrupt: bombastic and spectacular, it offered a vision of sensational theatricality lacking both the formal innovation and the intellectual charge of the later avant-garde …
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Illuminating the Eighteenth-Century British Stage: Perfecting Performance through Education
<p>Actress studies has become “a truly interdisciplinary field” that “intersect[s] with art, music, literature, history, economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and fashion” (Engel 752). While much scholarship has been conducted on the actress’ life, interaction with material culture, …