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Meyerhold on Theatre

Nora B. Beeson, +3 more
- Vol. 22, Iss: 2, pp 226
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A major reissue of a book which is used by students of Meyerhold across the world is presented in this paper, covering his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939.
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A major reissue of a book which is used by students of Meyerhold across the world This was the first collection of Meyerhold's writings and utterances to appear in English and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939. These are supplemented by a critical commentary, relating Meyerhold to his period and containing descriptions, based on eye-witness accounts, of all his major productions.

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The Cambridge introduction to theatre studies

TL;DR: Theories of theatre 1: Historical paradigms 5 Theory of theatre 2: Systematic and critical approaches 6. Theatre Historiography 7. Text and performance 8. Performance analysis 9. Music theatre 10. Applied theatre 11. Theatre Studies between Disciplines as mentioned in this paper 12.
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Theatricality: The Specificity of Theatrical Language

Josette Féral, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2002 - 
TL;DR: In the 20th century, the very foundations of theater were turned upside-down, as were those of other arts as discussed by the authors, and what had been a clearly defined theatrical aesthetic at the end of the 19th century outlining normative practice, was systematically reexamined.
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Effector patterns of basic emotions: a psychophysiological method for training actors

TL;DR: In this article, actors were trained to perform respiratory-postural-facial effector patterns of the basic emotions of happiness, sadness, anger, fear, eroticism and tenderness.
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Movement Training for the Modern Actor

Mark Evans
TL;DR: ‘Pure movement’ is seen by the students as movement which connects the body directly and without interference to the actor’s imaginative and emotional impulses.
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The Cambridge introduction to theatre studies

TL;DR: Theories of theatre 1: Historical paradigms 5 Theory of theatre 2: Systematic and critical approaches 6. Theatre Historiography 7. Text and performance 8. Performance analysis 9. Music theatre 10. Applied theatre 11. Theatre Studies between Disciplines as mentioned in this paper 12.
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Theatricality: The Specificity of Theatrical Language

Josette Féral, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2002 - 
TL;DR: In the 20th century, the very foundations of theater were turned upside-down, as were those of other arts as discussed by the authors, and what had been a clearly defined theatrical aesthetic at the end of the 19th century outlining normative practice, was systematically reexamined.
Journal ArticleDOI

Effector patterns of basic emotions: a psychophysiological method for training actors

TL;DR: In this article, actors were trained to perform respiratory-postural-facial effector patterns of the basic emotions of happiness, sadness, anger, fear, eroticism and tenderness.
Book

Movement Training for the Modern Actor

Mark Evans
TL;DR: ‘Pure movement’ is seen by the students as movement which connects the body directly and without interference to the actor’s imaginative and emotional impulses.