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Theatre studies
About: Theatre studies is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2043 publications have been published within this topic receiving 25132 citations. The topic is also known as: theatrology & dramatics.
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01 Jan 1979
TL;DR: As illiteracy has been shown to be a weapon of the ruling class, so Augusto Boal as discussed by the authors showed that theatre can be used as a weapon not only of bourgeois control but also of revolution.
Abstract: As illiteracy has been shown to be a weapon of the ruling class, so Augusto Boal shows theatre to be a weapon, not only of bourgeois control but of revolution. He demonstrates the ways in which theatre has come to reflect ruling-class control, drawing on the theories of Aristotle and Machiavelli. He then shows the process reversed in Brechtian/Marxist poetics. All the theory is related to his own experience of revolutionary theatre in Latin America, and illustrated with practical examples of exercises and games used in the People's Theatre of Peru. This is now a classic text on radical drama. Boal restores theatre to its proper place as a popular form of communication and expression, and points to the revolutionary potential of transforming the spectator into the actor.
1,738 citations
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01 Jan 1964
TL;DR: In this paper, a selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades, and includes notes and essays on the staging of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, Galileo and many others of his plays.
Abstract: This selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades. The volume demonstrates how the theories of Epic Theatre and Alienation evolved, and contains notes and essays on the staging of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, Galileo and many others of his plays. Also included is A Short Organum for the Theatre, Brecht's most complete statement of his revolutionary philosophy of the theatre. With over 32 pages of photographs of Brecht's productions and workshops, this is a key volume for Literature and Theatre Studies alike. "Admirably translated and annotated ...this book is a source of instruction, enlightenment, even fun" - New York Times
962 citations
TL;DR: Turner as discussed by the authors elaborates on ritual and theatre, persona and individual, role-playing and performing, taking examples from American, European, and African societies for a greater understanding of culture and its symbols.
Abstract: How is social action related to aesthetics, and anthropology to theatre? What is the meaning of such concepts as \"work,\" \"play, \"liminal,\" and \"flow\"? In this highly influential book, Turner elaborates on ritual and theatre, persona and individual, role-playing and performing, taking examples from American, European, and African societies for a greater understanding of culture and its symbols.
916 citations
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01 Jan 1980TL;DR: Signs in the theatre: Prague structuralism and the theatrical sign Typologies of the sign as discussed by the authors Theoretically, the sign is a symbol of the presence of the audience.
Abstract: General Editor's Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Preliminaries: Semiotics and Poetics: The Semiotics Enterprise How Many Semiotics? The material. 2. Foundations: Signs in the Theatre: Prague structuralism and the theatrical sign Typologies of the sign. 3. Theatrical Communication: Codes, Systems and the Performance Text: Elements of theatrical communication Theatrical Systems and Codes Theatrical competence: frame, convention and the role of the audience. 4. Dramatic Logic: The construction of the dramatic world Dramatic action and time Actant, dramatis persona and the dramatic model. 5. Dramatic Discourse: Dramatic Communication Context and deixis Universe of discourse and co-text Speech acts The said and the unsaid: implicatures and figures Textuality Towards a dramatological analysis. 6. Concluding Comments: Theatre, Drama, Semiotics: Dramatic Text/performance text A united enterprise? Suggestions for further reading. Bibliography. Index.
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