Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television by Emily McMurray

Fifteen One-Act Plays

Packed with wry, darkish humor, unheard of mind's eye, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard's performs have earned him huge, immense acclaim during the last 5 a long time. In those fifteen one-acts, we see him at his most sensible, exhibiting his trademark skill to painting human relationships, love, and lust with infrequent authenticity.

Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae: Philosophizing Theatre and the Politics of Perception in Late Fifth-Century Athens (Cambridge Classical Studies)

Aristophanes' comedian masterpiece Thesmophoriazusae has lengthy been famous among the performs of outdated Comedy for its deconstruction of tragic theatricality. This ebook finds that this deconstruction is grounded no longer easily in Aristophanes' wider engagement with tragic realism. fairly, it demonstrates that from its outset Aristophanes' play attracts upon Parmenides' philosophical revelations touching on truth and phantasm, making use of Eleatic strictures and imagery to philosophize the theatrical state of affairs, criticize Aristophanes' poetic rival Euripides as promulgator of destructive deceptions, disclose the harmful complicity of Athenian theatre audiences in tragic phantasm, and articulate political suggestion to an viewers negotiating a interval of political turmoil characterised by means of deception and uncertainty (the months earlier than the oligarchic coup of 411 BC).

Une pièce écrite en collaboration

Ils sont là, encore et toujours, ces personnages que depuis plusieurs des livres de Danielle Mémoire on retrouve : habitants du château de Brioine, qui s’agitent et parlent, vivent et meurent et échangent leurs rôles et jusqu’à leur propre histoire, cette fois sous los angeles forme théâtrale.

Identity and Theatre Translation in Hong Kong

During this publication, Shelby Chan examines the connection among theatre translation and identification development opposed to the sociocultural historical past that has ended in the recognition of translated theatre in Hong Kong. A statistical research of the improvement of translated theatre is gifted, setting up a correlation among its attractiveness and significant socio-political tendencies.