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Author Mudford, Peter.

Title Making theatre : from text to performance / Peter Mudford
Published London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 236 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations and References in Text; Foreword: A Personal Note; 1 The Stage and Performance; 2 Words; 3 Vision; 4 Music; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
Summary The reality of a play is in its performance. Making Theatre focuses on the processes by which performance is realized, analyzing three major areas: ""Words"" and the interpretation of text; ""Vision"" including scenery, costume and lighting; and ""Music"" which illustrates the importance of music in all stage action. The forms of theater covered include straight drama, the musical and opera. Taking productions well-known on both sides of the Atlantic, Peter Mudford examines plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Pirandello, Beckett, Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and David Mamet; musicals by
Notes Includes index
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Subject Drama -- Explication.
Theater -- Production and direction.
Music in the theater.
Musicals.
Opera
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Stagecraft.
Drama -- Explication
Music in the theater
Musicals
Opera
Theater -- Production and direction
Theaterproduktion
Dramaturgie.
Toneelregie.
Muziek.
Genre/Form Musicals
Musicals.
Comédies musicales.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567323231
0567323234
1281783552
9781281783554
Other Titles Making theater