Theatre: A Way of Seeing
By Milly S. Barranger
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Consistently praised as "streamlined" and "clear and student friendly," THEATRE: A WAY OF SEEING offers the beginning theatre student an exciting, full-color introduction to all aspects of theatre. It presents the experience of theatre, who sees it, what is seen, and where and how it is seen largely from the viewpoint of audiences exposed to a complex, living art that involves people, spaces, plays, designs, staging, forms, language, and productions. The book includes the appropriate coverage of the history, diversity, and most critical moments in theatre in a way that encourages students to experience theatre as "a performing art and humanistic event."
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Consistently praised as "streamlined" and "clear and student friendly," THEATRE: A WAY OF SEEING offers the beginning theatre student an exciting, full-color introduction to all aspects of theatre. It presents the experience of theatre, who sees it, what is seen, and where and how it is seen largely from the viewpoint of audiences exposed to a complex, living art that involves people, spaces, plays, designs, staging, forms, language, and productions. The book includes the appropriate coverage of the history, diversity, and most critical moments in theatre in a way that encourages students to experience theatre as "a performing art and humanistic event."
The unique organization clearly outlines and answers "What is theatre?" "Who 'makes' theatre?" and "How do we see and experience theatre?"
"Model" or representative plays are included as examples of trends, styles, and forms of theatrical production to assist readers and theatre-goers. Ranging from the Greeks to the moderns, these representative plays include Oedipus the King, Macbeth, The Cherry Orchard, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, The Life of Galileo, The Bald Soprano, Buried Child, Fences, Juan Darién, the CIVIL warS, and Glengarry Glen Ross. The musical stage is represented by such musicals as Oklahoma!, West Side Story, Hair, and Miss Saigon.
All discussions in the book are supported by artists' insights, artists, and writers talking about their work, texts and scenes from plays, biographical sketches, diagrams and definitions, and colorful photographs of Eastern and Western stages and productions.
Cultural diversity and intercultural expressions of world theatre are threads woven throughout the fifteen chapters. Western and Eastern cultural and theatrical traditions, stages, and architecture are presented in their historical and present-day contexts.
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Chapters
Part One. Theatre's Seeing Places
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