Ric Knowles, Richard Knowles, Knowles Ric

Reading the Material Theatre

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
Demonstrates a method of theatrical performance analysis taking into account the entire theatre experience, from production to reception.

Main description
Reading the Material Theatre develops and demonstrates a method of theatrical performance analysis that takes into account the entire theatre experience, from production to reception. Beginning with semiotic and cultural materialist theory, Knowles quickly moves into detailed politicized analysis of the ways in which specific aspects of theatrical production, and specific contexts of reception, shape the audience's understanding of what they experience in the theatre. It concludes with five case studies of the cultural work performed by a major Shakespearean repertory theatre, a small nationalist theatre devoted to new play development, a major New York-based avant-garde touring theatre company, a British socialist company dedicated to the work of Shakespeare, and a range of international festivals. This accessible volume provides a first-step introduction to key terms and areas of performance theory, including reception history, performance analysis, and production analysis.

Table of contents:
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Theory and Practice: 1. Theory: towards a materialist semiotics; 2. Practice: conditions of production and reception; Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Case Studies: 3. The Stratford Festival; 4. Tarragon Theatre; 5. The Wooster Group; 6. The English Shakespeare Company; 7. International festivals; Conclusion; Index.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780521643313
• ISBN-10: 0521643317
• Artikelnr.: 21121250

Autorenporträt

Ric Knowles is Professor of Drama at the School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Ontario. He is author of Shakespeare and Canada: Essays on Production, Translation, and Adaptation. (2003) and The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning: Contemporary Canadian Dramaturgies (1999), editor of Theatre in Atlantic Canada (1988), and co-editor of Modern Drama: Defining the Field (2003) and Staging Coyote's Dream: An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Theory and Practice: 1. Theory: towards a materialist semiotics
2. Practice: conditions of production and reception
Conclusion to Part I
Part II. Case Studies: 3. The Stratford Festival
4. Tarragon Theatre
5. The Wooster Group
6. The English Shakespeare Company
7. International festivals
Conclusion
Index.