| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
xxxi, 280 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Foundations of total theatre: Opera affirms the separation of the arts / Richard Wagner -- Essence of drama is knowing through feeling / Richard Wagner -- Wagner, Appia, and the idea of musical design / George R. Kernodle -- Appia's theory of acting: eurhythmics for the stage / Clark M. Rogers -- pt. 2. Abstract man: the essence of total theatre: Actor and the Übermarionette / Edward Gordon Craig -- Gordon Craig's concept of the actor / Charles R. Lyons -- Man -as monster, or God / Walter Kerr -- pt. 3. Futurism and the theatre of the future: Futurism and the theatre / F.T. Marinetti -- Futurist scenography (manifesto) / E. Prampolini -- Futurism and the French Théâtre d'avant-garde / Joseph Cary -- Theatre, circus, variety / L. Moholy-Nagy -- pt. 4. Creative staging: a key to total theatre: Meyerhold's theatre / Nikolai A. Gorchakov -- Vakhtangov and the American theatre of the 1960s / William Kuhlke -- Music and dance in the productions of Max Reinhardt / Margret Dietrich -- pt. 5. Oriental stage: hieroglyphic form: Unexpected / Sergei Eisenstein -- Kabuki and the Elizabethan theatre / Leonard C. Pronko -- Modern drama and music / Paul Claudel -- On the "total theatre" and Christopher Columbus / Jean-Louis Barrault -- On the Balinese theatre / Antonin Artaud -- Classic Chinese theatre / Sophia Delza -- pt. 6. Light and environment: the context of total theatre: Piscator's The good soldier / Mordecai Gorelik -- Light and the artist / Thomas Wilfred -- Environmental theatre / Michael Kirby. |
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Theater.
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Theater. |
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Théâtre. |
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