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Titolo: | Popular theatre : a sourcebook / / edited by Joel Schechter |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina: | 792 |
Soggetto topico: | Theater |
Theater and society | |
Classificazione: | 24.13 |
Altri autori: | SchechterJoel <1947-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | part I. What is popular theatre? -- part II. Puppets from Bread and Puppet Theatre to Bunraku and Broadway -- part III. Masks : commedia dell'arte and topeng -- part Ivolume Circus, clowns and jesters -- part volume Cabaret, vaudeville and the Fun Palace -- part VI. Political theatre as popular entertainment. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Bertolt Brecht turned to cabaret; Ariane Mnouchkine went to the circus; Joan Littlewood wanted to open a palace of fun. These were a few of the directors who turned to popular theatre forms in the last century, and this sourcebook accounts for their attraction.<BR>Popular theatre forms introduced in this sourcebook include cabaret, circus, puppetry, vaudeville, Indian jatra, political satire, and physical comedy. These entertainments are highly visual, itinerant, and readily understood by audiences. <EM>Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook</EM> follows them around the world, from the bunraku puppetry |
Titolo autorizzato: | Popular theatre |
ISBN: | 1-136-41220-4 |
0-415-25830-8 | |
1-315-01305-3 | |
1-136-41213-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910810816003321 |
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