Understanding PlaysUnderstanding Plays As Texts for Performance offers seventeen plays with critical commentaries that span the range of Western writing for the theatre from the Greeks to the post-moderns. This book introduces readers to dramatic writing as "pre-texts" for theatrical performance written not only to be read, but also to be performed by actors before audiences. |
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... audience . In today's theaters , audiences find a variety of performance spaces . Broadway's proscenium playhouses with elaborate lighting and sound systems hold the audience at a formal remove from the stage . Arena and thrust stages ...
... audience . In today's theaters , audiences find a variety of performance spaces . Broadway's proscenium playhouses with elaborate lighting and sound systems hold the audience at a formal remove from the stage . Arena and thrust stages ...
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... audience and a rela- tionship between the two . As we read plays , we are aware that they are written to be performed . While the stage where a play is produced may be almost any type - proscenium , arena , thrust , environmental - the ...
... audience and a rela- tionship between the two . As we read plays , we are aware that they are written to be performed . While the stage where a play is produced may be almost any type - proscenium , arena , thrust , environmental - the ...
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... audience as they introduce the citizens of Laramie and represent them as recognizable people . The audience never loses sight of the ac- tors as they slip in and out of the thirty - one roles . As the director , Moisés Kaufman faced the ...
... audience as they introduce the citizens of Laramie and represent them as recognizable people . The audience never loses sight of the ac- tors as they slip in and out of the thirty - one roles . As the director , Moisés Kaufman faced the ...
Contents
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
Copyright | |
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