The Making of theatre : from drama to performance / [compiled by] Robert W. Corrigan.
| Other author | Corrigan, Robert W. (Robert Willoughby), 1927-1993. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Glenview, Ill. : Scott, Foresman, ©1981. |
| Description | 340 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Theatrical impulse. How drama is born within us / Jean-Louis Barrault -- Many faces of man / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Dwelling place of wonder / Robert Sherwood -- Holy theatre / Peter Brook -- Experience of the theatre / Eugène Ionesco -- Other world of the play. Timeless world of the play / Tennessee Williams -- Secrets / Jean Vilar -- Dramatic illusion / Susanne Langer -- Actor's freedom / Michael Goldman -- Theatrical event / David Cole -- Making of drama. Aristotle's Poetics and the modern reader / Francis Fergusson -- Street scene / Bertolt Brecht -- Character change and the drama / Harold Rosenberg -- Language of drama / Conor A. Farrington -- Conventions of performance / Elizabeth Burns -- Dramatic forms. Nature of tragedy / Arthur Miller -- Tragedy and melodrama: speculations on generic form / Robert B. Heilman -- Comedy / Christopher Fry -- Note on farce / John Dennis Hurrell -- Tragicomedy / Robert W. Corrigan -- |
| Contents | Actor and the role. Hard job of being an actor / Konstantin Stanislavski -- Acting and being / Charles Marowitz -- Statement of principles / Jerzy Grotowski -- Context of performance / Joseph Chaikin -- Actor's motives / Ronald Hayman -- Playwright and the script. Some thoughts on playwriting / Thornton Wilder -- Writing for actors / John Whiting -- Cannibal theatre / Peter Shaffer -- Writer in the theatre / Harold Pinter -- Problems of the theatre / Friedrich Duerrenmatt -- Director and the play. Audience of one / Tyrone Guthrie -- Is the beginning the word? / Peter Hall -- Murder of the director / Jean Vilar -- Brecht as director / Carl Weber -- I can't go on, I'll go on / Alan Schneider -- Designer and theatrical space. To a young scene designer / Robert Edmond Jones -- What does a scenic designer do? / Ming Cho Lee -- Light and space / Adolphe Appia -- Costume / Anne Hollander -- Some principles and concepts of environmental design / Jerry Rojo -- Audiences and critics. Audience / Elmer Rice -- Theatre and therapy / Eric Bentley -- Short view of dramatic criticism / Alfred Emmet -- Divine pastime / Harold Clurman -- Necessity for destructive criticism / Richard Gilman -- Theatre and society. Conditions of dramatic art / Henri Ghéon -- Some unconscious influences in the theatre / Ann Jellicoe -- Drama and society / Martin Esslin -- Re-creations / John Lahr and Jonathan Price -- Future of the avant-garde and the paradigms of post-modernism / Robert W. Corrigan. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Other forms | Also issued online. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Making of theatre. Glenview, Ill. : Scott, Foresman, c1981 |
| LCCN | 80019046 |
| ISBN | 0673154033 |
| ISBN | 9780673154033 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN1655 .M15 1981 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |