by Darwin Reid Payne, Ronald Naversen and Brad M. Carlson
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
The Scenographic Model, third edition, builds upon the theories and exercises of noted scenographer and author, Darwin Reid Payne, to provide a contemporary exploration of the art, resources, and practice of theatrical modelmaking. Bringing together a vast array of information on subjects like traditional and contemporary materials, tools, and techniques used in theatrical modeling, each chapter introduces the reader to fundamental aspects of modelmaking. The book serves as a foundational guide to understanding the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of scenographic modelmaking, making it essential for the beginner, generalist, and professional design practitioner.
With the Chicago Tribune Articles That Inspired It
Edited by Thomas H. Pauly
by Maurine Watkins
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
In 1924, the murder trials of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner shocked the world, providing the real-life inspiration for Maurine Watkins’s unforgettable characters, Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly. Now, a century later, this reissue of Watkins’s play offers a fresh look at the origins of the story that has since become a household name.
First published in 1987 and revised in 1997 and 2007, Stage Rigging Handbook remains the only book in any language that covers the design, operation, and maintenance of stage rigging equipment. This landmark text imparts the foundations for understanding and implementing rigging systems, such that upon completion of the book, the reader is ready to begin hands-on training and practice.
Since its release in 2010, Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy has become the international standard for dramaturgy training and practice. As the field of dramaturgy continues to shift and change, this new editionprepares theatre students and practitioners to create powerful, relevant performances of all types.
An inclusive history of the professionalization of American scenic design The figure of the American theatrical scenic designer first emerged in the early twentieth century. As productions moved away...
Systemic Dramaturgy offers an invigorating, practical look at the daunting cultural problems of the digital age as they relate to performance. Authors Michael Mark Chemers and Mike Sell reject the incompatibility of theatre with robots, digital media, or video games. Instead, they argue that technology is the original problem of thatre: How can we tell this story and move this audience with these tools? And if we have different tools, how can that change the stories we tell?
Standby proposes a practical philosophy of contemporary theatrical design that addresses all design disciplines, all theatrical collaborators, and all forms of theatre, from the traditional to the avant-garde. In a field that is too often dismissed as purely technical, Joshua Langman celebrates design as a transformative force with the power to elevate a performance and enable it to resonate beyond the bounds of its physical production. Beginning with the proposition that design contributes essential layers of meaning to an experience, Standby argues for a unique approach centered on the creation of revelatory theatrical moments.
Barry B. Witham reclaims the work of Manny Fried, an essential American playwright so thoroughly blacklisted after he defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1954, and again in 1964, that his work all but completely disappeared from the canon. Drawing on never-before-published interview materials, Witham reveals the details of how the United States government worked to ruin Fried’s career.
Sympathy, Science, and the Representation of Movement
by Sara Newman and Sigrid Streit
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Authors Sara Newman and Sigrid Streit study Irish educator, clergyman, and author Gilbert Austin’s theoretical system and consider how Austin’s efforts to incorporate movement and integrate texts and images intersect with present-day interdisciplinary studies of embodiment.
Tools and Techniques for Managing Extraordinary Performances
by Rich Dionne
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Dionne reframes the theatre production as a project and provides essential tools for understanding and managing it efficiently, whether it be a stage play, an opera, a dance piece, or other performance that requires the collaboration of the artists and artisans creating the visual and aural landscape for it.
Ferdman illustrates five distinct ways artists have challenged the framework of site-specific theatre: blurring boundaries between fictional and real; changing how the audience and actor interact; fabricating sites; staging live situations; and challenging preconceived notions of time and space.
Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations
Edited by Katherine A Foss
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Foss looks at popular depictions of prison such as Orange Is the New Black and Oz, television and film’s function and influence in shaping discourse on prison life, and wide-ranging personal experiences of incarceration, ultimately challenging the media’s inaccuracies and misrepresentations about the prison experience.
Gibb argues that the mid-nineteenth-century encounter between Anglos and californios resulted not only in the Americanization of California but also the “Mexicanization” of Americans. Employing performance studies methodologies in his analysis of everyday and historical events, Gibb traces how oligarchy evolved and developed in the region.
From the colonial period to independence and into the twenty-first century, Latin American culture has been mapped as a subordinate “other” to Europe and the United States. In reaction to these shifting power dynamics, theatre scholars and artists have continuously rewritten and remapped Latina/o American cultural histories. Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas, edited by Jimmy A. Noriega and Analola Santana, reconsiders geographical space and power and the ways in which theatrical and performance histories have been constructed throughout the Americas. Essays bridge political, racial, gender, class, and national divides that have traditionally restricted and distorted our understanding of Latin American theatre and performance.
In this work examining Argentine theatre over the past four decades and drawing on contemporary research, Noe Montez considers how theatre can serve as activism and alter public reception to a government addressing human rights violations by its predecessor.
Barnette offers her book as a resource for those who seek to understand and participate in the process of adaption for the stage—that is, producing a stage piece based upon another medium. Adapturgy offers both practical and theoretical tools for understanding and creating new work.
