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    The Poker musical

    by David Litvin ...
    High stakes poker is the backdrop for a roller coaster ride through the lives of professional poker players. Follow our "heroes" Ace, Deuce and Trey through a crazy world full of gamblers and losers, wise guys and dumb luck, Can they grow their bankrolls, stay off tilt and avoid all the temptations of a life on the road from casino to casino? In the spotlight, can they reach for the ultimate prize ... Read more

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  • Dramaturgia do imaterial

    performatividade, teatro de sombras e a cidade

    A performance para rua é criada através de camadas sobrepostas que incorporam a cidade e seus habitantes, a arquitetura, o cenário revelado, trilha sonora, diferentes elementos, objetos, equipamentos e os corpos dos performers, isso resulta numa experiência onírica. As intervenções cênicas urbanas Sombras na arquitetura são formadas pela mesma matéria dos sonhos. Por isso não-narrativa, um quase ... Read more

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  • The Art of Disobedience

    by Daniel Gorman ...
    Series series Fresh Perspectives
    The world is becoming more political. Politics is entering ‘through the back door and lying in your bed’. What role do artists have at this key moment, where political engagement and apathy lie side by side? What is art for? Starting from the assumption that all art is political, and that artists have the power to create and to transform reality, this book goes straight to the heart of crucial ... Read more

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  • Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World

    Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities

    The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area ... Read more

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  • Kadın Boşamak Kolay mı?

    Series Book 5 - Lacivert Tiyatro Oyunlari
    Bazılarının tezine göre kadın boşamak kolaydır, bazılarının tezine göre zor. Tamamen birbirinin zıttı olsa da herkes kendi tezini savunacaktır, normal olarak. Karısına inat evden kaçan erkeklerin aksine bir kısım erkekler de evde aslan kesilir. Bunların dışında kalan tipler ise edebiyat kahramanı olamayacak kadar naiftirler. Bana soracak olursanız, benim düşüncem bu oyunun özüdür zaten.. ... Read more

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  • Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance

    Meetings with Remarkable Women

    As the first examination of women's foremost contributions to Jerzy Grotowski's cross-cultural investigation of performance, this book complements and broadens existing literature by offering a more diverse and inclusive re-assessment of Grotowski's legacy, thereby probing its significance for contemporary performance practice and research. Although the particularly strenuous physical training ... Read more

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  • Transas na cena em transe

    teatro e contracultura na Bahia

    A obra é fruto de tese defendida no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Cênicas da UFBA, em 2007. Aborda questões relativas ao teatro em meio ao ideário contracultural, investindo sua argumentação contra a afirmação de que a produção teatral que se dá de 1968 a 1974 é destituída de criticidade. Propondo outro ponto de vista, o livro apresenta e analisa a produção teatral para afirmar que não houve ... Read more

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  • Macford: A Tragical Historie of York 2010 - 2014

    by Bob Dundas ...
    After a praised king is murdered in uncertain circumstances, a charismatic leader is elected to wear the weighty mantle. His reign is marked by an untrustworthy brother, selfless wife, devoted friend, and many more comic and tragic characters.When addiction threatens to destroy his legacy, Macford's actions change the course of York's history forever.Macford is a five act Shakespearean tragedy ... Read more

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  • Center Stage

    Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe

    by Philipp Ther ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few, mostly royal, opera theaters, ... Read more

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  • Nearly Natal

    A Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy

    by Kerry Taylor ...
    Melissa Adams is the idle mother and sets up a mother's group.For both mothers-to-be and mothers to communicate about their experiences.She regrets her decision when she has children thinking that her Gucci shoes are potty's and pregnant women giving birth during one of the sessions.The perfect Melissa discovers she isn't so perfect, in Nearly Natal. ... Read more

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  • Oriental, Black, and White

    The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater

    by Josephine Lee ...
    In this book, Josephine Lee looks at the intertwined racial representations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American theater. In minstrelsy, melodrama, vaudeville, and musicals, both white and African American performers enacted blackface characterizations alongside oriental stereotypes of opulence and deception, comic servitude, and exotic sexuality. Lee shows how blackface types were ... Read more

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  • Teatro de sombras ao vivo

    conversas com artistas latinoamericanos

    Este livro traz falas e reflexões de 17 artistas latino-americanos que se dedicam ao Teatro de Sombras. São observações nascidas em um projeto de lives organizadas pelo Grupo Penumbra, de Cuiabá (MT), durante o ano de 2020, momento em que nos isolamos por conta da pandemia de Covid-19. Aquela temporada longe dos palcos — e de tudo mais — se mostrou interessantemente benéfica aos estudos em todos ... Read more

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  • Suzan-Lori Parks in Person

    Interviews and Commentaries

    Edited by Philip C Kolin, Harvey Young ...
    This collection of interviews offers unprecedented insight into the plays and creative works of Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as being an important commentary on contemporary theater and playwriting, from jazz and opera to politics and cultural memory.Suzan-Lori Parks in Person contains 18 interviews, some previously untranscribed or specially undertaken for this book, plus commentaries on her work by ... Read more

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  • Jerzy Grotowski

    L'eredità vivente

    by AA.VV. ...
    Series series Mimesis Journal Books
    Il XXI secolo è destinato a diventare il “secolo di Grotowski” perché, come dimostrano i saggi raccolti in questo volume a cura di Antonio Attisani, in diversi paesi del mondo stanno nascendo nuove riflessioni e nuove pratiche del teatro all’insegna dell’incontro più che della rappresentazione e dello spettacolo e ciò soprattutto per merito del Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. ... Read more

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  • Sortir des cases. L'art et le genre

    Series series Fresh Perspectives
    Cette nouvelle publication de la série « Nouvelles Perspectives » traite d'un sujet complexe et délicat, aux contours souvent flous : le genre. Elle met en évidence certains points-clés, tels que les définitions de genre et d'identité de genre, le féminisme, les préjugés et la discrimination liés au genre, et explore comment ceux-ci se croisent pour former un réseau personnel et social complexe. ... Read more

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  • La Cerisaie

    Madame Ranievskaïa revient d'un long voyage passé à Paris où elle a dilapidé son argent. De retour à la Cerisaie, elle devrait vendre la propriété, mais les souvenirs de bonheurs passés, l'empêche de s'y résoudre... «La Cerisaie» est la dernière pièce de théâtre écrite par Tchekhov.Édition Ebooks libres et gratuits. ... Read more

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  • L'illusion comique

    Comédie : Voilà dix ans que Pridamant cherche son fils Clindor dont il a provoqué la fuite par son autoritarisme. Dorante le conduit en Touraine chez le magicien Alcandre, qui annonce à Pridamant qu'il reverra son fils. Alcandre éloigne Dorante et explique que Clindor, après avoir exercé divers métiers, est entré à Bordeaux au service d'un capitan, Matamore. Le magicien entraîne Pridamant dans sa ... Read more

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  • VIE FESTIVAL 13-23 october 2016

    Modena/Bologna/Carpi/Vignola Theatre/Dance/Music/Cinema

    VIE Festival inaugurated in 2005 as an attempt to experience contemporary times, discover new identities and individuals in the world of live performance. It is an annual event held in the month of October in some cities of Emilia Romagna Region. Organizer and founder is ERT Fondazione Teatro Nazionale based in Modena with the financial support of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena. The ... Read more

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  • VIE FESTIVAL 13-25 ottobre 2015 - English version

    Modena/Bologna/Carpi/Vignola Theatre/Dance/Music

    VIE Festival was founded in 2005 with the goal of crossing the contemporary world, of intercepting new identities and subjectivities which stand out in the field of live performance. It takes place yearly every October in Emilia-Romagna Region, and it is organized by Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, National Theatre based in Modena. The project spring from the ten-year lucky experience of Le vie ... Read more

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  • Βιργινία

    Κάπου στο Μεσαίωνα, δύο πλούσιες οικογένειες ανταγωνίζονται για περισσότερο χρήμα και εξουσία. Ανάμεσά τους, η Βιργινία, ηγέτιδα μίας παράνομης γυναικείας επαναστατικής οργάνωσης. Η σύγκρουση του "αρσενικού" με τον "θηλυκό" τρόπο σκέψης είναι αναπόφευκτη. Γιατί "Η γυναίκα για ό,τι κι αν ποθεί, τον εαυτό της δίνει, με πόνο και μ' αγάπη. Ο άνδρας πάντα παίρνει. Κι αδιαφορεί, μίσος και πόνο αν σκορπά ... Read more

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  • La Guerre

    La Guerre devait être une pièce à grand spectacle pour le Châtelet, basé sur un récit inspiré des souvenirs du père d'Erckmann à l'armée d'Helvétie, et découpé en scènes et en tableaux par Erckmann et Chatrian. Pour maîtriser à fond son sujet, Erckmann fit un voyage en Suisse, jusqu'à la Via Mala, pour contempler les décors grandioses dans lesquels s'était déroulée cette campagne. Le directeur du ... Read more

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  • Music as Labour

    Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present

    Series series Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries
    This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism.With a specific emphasis on inequalities in the music industries, this book will be essential reading for scholars seeking to understand the collective actions and initiatives that ... Read more

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  • Gemeinsam/Together

    Kognitiv beeintraechtigte Menschen in europaeischen Theatern – Theorie und Praxis/People with Learning Disabilities in European Theatres – Theory and Practice. Unter Mitarbeit von Soledad Pereyra

    Series Book 4 - Images of Disability. Literature, Scenic, Visual, and Virtual Arts / Imágenes de la diversidad funcional. Literatura, artes escénicas, visuales y virtuales
    Can society mitigate hermeneutical injustice towards persons with learning disabilities? How do European theatres meet this challenge? How can artists with learning disabilities «have a voice»? The present volume searches for answers to these questions in theoretical approaches and in interviews with stage directors. ... Read more

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  • DIE BARACKE.

    Theaterstück. Deutsch/Englisch

    by Aiat Fayez ...
    DE: DIE BARACKE - Übersetzer: Frank Weigand EN: THE SHACK - Translator, Kate McNaughton Editor: Union des Théâtres de l´Europe TERRORisms is a cooperation project led by the 'Union des Théâtres de l´Europe' with the support of the 'Culture' programme of the European Union. Developed in collaboration between five theatres in Stuttgart, Oslo, Belgrade, Tel Aviv and Reims, the TERRORisms project ... Read more

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