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Stage Management

Stage Management

Now in its twelfth edition Stage Management is the comprehensive go-to manual on stage management in all theatre environments. Revered as the authoritative resource for stage management this text is rich with practical resources including checklists diagrams examples forms and step-by-step directions. In addition to sharing their own expertise Stern and Gold have gathered practical advice from working stage managers of Broadway off-Broadway touring companies regional community and 99-seat Equity waiver theatres. This new edition has been fully updated with new technology and best practices including: New websites for stage management tools and software Updated Equity rules Additional safety and emergency protocols New voices from practicing stage managers in text boxes and case studies scattered throughout the book. This practical guide is written for students of Stage Management in Theatre programs as well as early career stage managers. The companion website features paperwork templates downloadable checklists suggested readings a list of websites and apps with today’s cutting-edge stage management technology and a list of over 500 internships and apprenticeships available across the United States.

GBP 44.99
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Stage Management Basics A Primer for Performing Arts Stage Managers

Stage Management Basics A Primer for Performing Arts Stage Managers

Stage Management Basics second edition offers a deep dive into the basics of stage management for theatre dance and opera productions. Without assuming any intrinsic prior knowledge of the theatrical field and its associated specialized terminology this book covers every aspect of stage management from reading a script meeting with a director and theatre staff and running auditions to communication best practices and opening night protocol. This new edition features brand new chapters on opera dance and unions information on working with intimacy and fight directors updated tips and tricks and vibrant color images. Using simple language and detailed explanations this book is the perfect primer for the beginning stage management student. The companion website contains blank form templates chapter comprehension tests a suggested reading list glossary flashcards and more. | Stage Management Basics A Primer for Performing Arts Stage Managers

GBP 24.99
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A History of Contemporary Stage Combat 1969 - Today

A History of Contemporary Stage Combat 1969 - Today

A History of Contemporary Stage Combat chronicles the development of stage combat from the origins of the Society of British Fight Directors in 1969 to the modern day. Featuring interviews with some of the pioneers of this art form the book analyzes how stage combat developed in response to the needs of the industry and the changing social mores in the United States United Kingdom Canada the European Continent Australia and New Zealand. It also explores the quality of theatrical weaponry as well as outcropping of stage combat such as intimacy design and theatrical jousting. A History of Contemporary Stage Combat is an excellent resource for actors directors stage combatants theatre historians and anyone with a love of action on stage and film. | A History of Contemporary Stage Combat 1969 - Today

GBP 35.99
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Foundations of Stage Makeup

Foundations of Stage Makeup

Foundations of Stage Makeup is a comprehensive exploration into the creative world of stage makeup. Step-by-step makeup applications paired with textual content create an enriching experience for future performers and makeup artists. Students will learn relevant history color theory makeup sanitation processes and the use of light and shadow to engage in discussions about the aspects of professional makeup. Those foundations are then paired with a semester’s-worth of descriptive engaging makeup applications. Old age makeup blocking out eyebrows gory burns and creating fantastical creatures are just a few of the rewarding techniques found in Foundations of Stage Makeup. The book is complemented by an eResource page featuring makeup tutorials and an instructor’s manual with example assignments and tips to teaching each chapter.

GBP 29.99
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Ireland on the World Stage

Ireland on the World Stage

For 2nd and 3rd year courses in Irish Politics European Politics or Comparative Politics International Relations or Economic Development. This book provides an up-to-date analysis of Ireland's place on the world stage exploring its international relations evolving economic power changing relationship with the EU its political role in the world and its changing relationship with England and Northern Ireland. The book traces Ireland's development from a rural and isolated country to one that has emerged as an influential player on the international stage. It looks at the continuing difficulties with the North Ireland's role of prominence in Europe and the way in which it has benefited from economic globalisation. | Ireland on the World Stage

GBP 175.00
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Stage Lighting Design Applications and More

Stage Lighting Design Applications and More

Stage Lighting: Design Applications and More builds upon the information introduced in Stage Lighting: The Fundamentals to provide an in-depth reference to a number of specialty areas of lighting design from traditional applications such as drama dance and designing for different venues to more advanced applications such as concert corporate film and video virtual architectural/landscape and other forms of entertainment lighting. Each chapter gives the essential background design practices and equipment details for each specialization so readers can make informed decisions and ask informed questions when encountering each field. The book provides insight on the latest technology and includes profiles of prolific designers such as James Moody Jeff Ravitz Alan Adelman and Paul Gregory. Stage Lighting: Design Applications and More is intended to help lighting designers translate their theatrical skills to other areas of lighting design and provides guidance on how to take those initial steps into new ventures in their lighting careers. | Stage Lighting Design Applications and More

GBP 38.99
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Real Animals on the Stage

Real Animals on the Stage

Through a series of case studies this book explores the role of live animals on the stage from the early modern era to the present time. The contributors deal with visual and textual representations of performing animals; typologies of animals in the theatre; the hybridization of the drama with the circus the zoo and the cinema; as well as the semiotic transfer of animal roles from the text to the stage. The focus lies on the changing historical fortunes of the four-footed actor and on exploring the ways that attitudes to the animal affect their dramatic representations – within aesthetic contexts but also in their dramatized scientific use. Exploring snapshots of acting animals from their earliest manifestation on the early modern stage the chapters contextualize and theorize particular uses of the animal actor and key into current debates on the cutting edge of animal performance studies. While seeking to consider how these theoretical perspectives were formed the collection delves into the multiple ways through which the animal presence problematizes the practice of theatricality. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studies in Theatre and Performance. | Real Animals on the Stage

GBP 38.99
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Designing with Light An Introduction to Stage Lighting

Designing with Light An Introduction to Stage Lighting

Now in its seventh edition Designing with Light introduces readers to the art craft and technology of stage lighting and media projection. The new edition is fully updated to include current information on the technology of stage lighting: lighting fixtures lamps cabling dimmers control boards as well as electrical theory. Readers will learn how designed light is used to enhance the audience’s understanding and enjoyment of a production. The book includes specific information on drafting the light plot explores the challenges of designing for different stage configurations and provides examples of lighting designs for dramas musicals and dance. It also features comments and thoughts from active designers from both mainstream theatrical productions and related industries. Written for students of Lighting Design and Technology as well as professional technicians and designers Designing with Light offers a comprehensive survey of the practical and aesthetic aspects of stage lighting design. | Designing with Light An Introduction to Stage Lighting

GBP 48.99
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Acting for the Stage

Acting for the Stage

Acting for the Stage is a highly accessible guide to the business of theater acting written for those interested in pursuing acting as a profession. This book is a collection of essays by and interviews with talented artists and businesspeople who have built successful careers in the theater; it’s a goldmine of career advice that might take years to find on your own. Herein the myths around professional acting are dispelled and the mysteries revealed. Acting for the Stage illuminates practical strategies to help you build a life as a theater professional and find financial rewards and creative fulfillment in the process. Contains essays by and interviews with working stage actors acting coaches directors writers and agents. Features discussions on selecting a graduate school program choosing acting classes and workshops making the most out of your showcase landing an agent networking and promoting yourself and the business of casting. Covers issues of money management balancing the highs and lows of the profession finding work to nourish your acting career and building your creative team and support network.

GBP 28.99
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Spon's First Stage Estimating Handbook

Spon's First Stage Estimating Handbook

Have you ever had to provide accurate costs for a new supermarket or a pub just an idea. a ballpark figure. ? The earlier a pricing decision has to be made the more difficult it is to estimate the cost and the more likely the design and the specs are to change. And yet a rough-and-ready estimate is more likely to get set in stone. Spon's First Stage Estimating Handbook is the only comprehensive and reliable source of first stage estimating costs. Covering the whole spectrum of building costs and a wide range of related MandE work and landscaping work vital cost data is presented as: costs per square metre elemental cost analyses principal rates composite rates. Compact and clear Spon's First Stage Estimating Handbook is ideal for those key early meetings with clients. And with additional sections on whole life costing and general information this is an essential reference for all construction professionals and clients making early judgements on the viability of new projects.

GBP 175.00
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Stage Makeup

Stage Makeup

Widely referred to as the bible of stage makeup the timely revision of this classic text addresses principles and techniques in the use of makeup for the contemporary performer. This extensive exploration of the application and use of stage makeup and makeup for a variety of performance venues covers all aspects in detail and contains over 1000 photographs drawings and diagrams demonstrating step-by-step procedures. Thoroughly updated and revised this classic text remains accurate and comprehensive providing information from which all readers – whether students new to the field or seasoned professional makeup artists – will benefit. New to this edition: Updated full-color photography throughout Expanded information on makeup design and application 48 new step-by-step instructions in color Expanded chapter on modeling with highlights and shadows New chapter on cross-gender makeup New instruction on making dentures noses and face casting New instructions for creating zombies animals aging effects and trauma Expanded information on makeup for television and film Up-to-date information on Special Effects makeup Up-to-date information on prosthetic makeup Updated chapters on facial hair and wigs Updated resources for products advanced training and health and safety

GBP 59.99
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Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice Cultivating a Creative Approach

Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice Cultivating a Creative Approach

Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice Second Edition offers theory and methodology for developing a unique and inclusive stage management style preparing stage managers to develop an adaptive approach for the vast and varied scope of the production process forge their own path and respond to the present moment with care and creativity. This book provides tactile strategies enabling stage managers to navigate different groups of collaborators venues and projects. Experiential stories based on extensive experience with world-renowned artists exemplify the practices and provide frameworks for self-reflection synthesis and engagement with theory-guided practice. This book empowers stage managers to guide any collaborative project to fruition by incorporating the How You with the How To. This second edition has been expanded and includes new experiential stories and a new chapter focused on inclusive processes that can be applied from pre-production through closing as well as the full text of the HowlRound Theatre essay We Commit to Anti-Racist Stage Management Education. Exploring topics such as group dynamics ethics culture and strategic communication Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice is an essential tool for advanced stage management students educators and professionals. | Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice Cultivating a Creative Approach

GBP 31.99
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Stage Lighting Second Edition The Fundamentals

Stage Lighting Second Edition The Fundamentals

Stage Lighting: The Fundamentals is written specifically for introductory stage lighting courses. The book begins with an examination of the nature of light perception and color then leads into a conversation of stage lighting equipment and technicians. Lamps luminaries controls/dimming and electricity form the basis of these chapters. The book also provides a detailed explanation and overview of the lighting design process for the theatre and several other traditional forms of entertainment. Finally the book explores a variety of additional areas where lighting designers can find related future employment such as concert and corporate lighting themed design architectural and landscape lighting and computer animation. New for this edition: enlarged full-color illustrations photographs light plots and examples of lighting design;updated information on LED lighting and equipment;expanded discussion of the practical use of color as a designer;expanded discussion of psychological/perceptual effects of color;new discussion of color mixing through light sources that make use of additive mixing;expanded discussion of industry professions;expanded discussion and illustrations relating to photometrics; expanded discussion and examples of control protocols and new equipment; andupdated designer profiles along with the addition of still more designer profiles. | Stage Lighting Second Edition The Fundamentals

GBP 66.99
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The Stage Director’s Prompt Book A Guide to Creating and Using the Stage Director’s Most Powerful Rehearsal and Production Tool

The Stage Director’s Prompt Book A Guide to Creating and Using the Stage Director’s Most Powerful Rehearsal and Production Tool

The Stage Director’s Prompt Book is a step-by-step detailed guide on how to create a practical and powerful rehearsal and performance tool—the director’s prompt book. A prompt book is a coordinating and organizational tool for the stage director. This book systematizes the creative process the director uses to analyze and interpret a play and coordinates all director-related rehearsal and production activities into a single self-contained interpretive and organizational system. This book guides the director through the necessary steps and stages of creating and using a prompt book—from play analysis and interpretation through the formation of a dynamic and theatrical director’s vision to a unique method of physicalizing a play in production. A prompt book of a one-act play is included in the book as a complete example of the system. Such techniques as redlining color coding and creating a three-column left-hand page are vividly illustrated for readers allowing them to assemble their own prompt books. In a clear and example-driven format The Stage Director’s Prompt Book offers a system of directorial interpretation that takes the director through a series of point-by point instructions to construct a strong effective and creative instrument for success. For the undergraduate and graduate student of theatre directing stage management and producing courses along with aspiring professional directors this book provides an interactive and intuitive approach to personalize the stage directing experience and assemble a graphically dynamic and creative director’s prompt book. | The Stage Director’s Prompt Book A Guide to Creating and Using the Stage Director’s Most Powerful Rehearsal and Production Tool

GBP 29.99
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Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage A History

Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage A History

Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History chronicles the development of dance with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day. This book explores the fascinating tug-and-pull between the European classical folk and social dance imports and America’s indigenous dance forms as they met and collided on the popular musical theatre stage. This historical background influenced a specific musical theatre movement vocabulary and a unique choreographic approach that is recognizable today as Broadway-style dancing. Throughout the book a cultural context is woven into the history to reveal how the competing values within American culture and its attempts as a nation to define and redefine itself played out through developments in dance on the musical theatre stage. This book is central to the conversation on how dance influences and reflects society and will be of interest to students and scholars of Musical Theatre Theatre Studies Dance and Cultural History. | Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage A History

GBP 34.99
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The Beginner’s Guide to Opera Stage Management Gathering the Tools You Need to Work in Opera

The Beginner’s Guide to Opera Stage Management Gathering the Tools You Need to Work in Opera

The Beginner’s Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions providing an invaluable step-by-step guide. Beginning with a brief history of opera and detailing its difference from musical theatre the book covers stage management best practices through prep rehearsals tech performance and wrap up. From the moment a manager accepts a contract right through to archiving paperwork this essential toolkit covers each step of a stage manager’s journey. Working with a score reading music working with singers conductors and musicians basic duties of a stage manager versus an assistant stage manager and other tasks specific to opera are also included in this comprehensive guide. This book is full of tips and tricks as well as the good bad and ugly stories from opera stage managers sharing both their experiences and mistakes. This is the perfect how-to book for the professional or emerging stage manager looking to work in opera or to expand their existing stage management skillset. | The Beginner’s Guide to Opera Stage Management Gathering the Tools You Need to Work in Opera

GBP 29.99
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Twenty-First Century Musicals From Stage to Screen

Twenty-First Century Musicals From Stage to Screen

Twenty-First Century Musicals stakes a place for the musical in today’s cinematic landscape taking a look at leading contemporary shows from their stage origins to their big-screen adaptations. Each chapter offers a new perspective on a single musical challenging populist narratives and exploring underlying narratives and sub-texts in depth. Themes of national identity; race class and gender; the ‘voice’ and ‘singing live’ on film; authenticity; camp sensibilities; and the celebration of failure are addressed in a series of questions including: How does the film adaptation provide a different viewing experience from the stage version? What themes are highlighted in the film adaptation? What does the new casting bring to the work? Do camera angles dictate a different reading from the stage version? What is lost/gained in the process of adaptation to film? Re-interpreting the contemporary film musical as a compelling art form Twenty-First Century Musicals is a must-read for any student or scholar keen to broaden their understanding of musical performance. | Twenty-First Century Musicals From Stage to Screen

GBP 36.99
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The Stage Manager's Toolkit Templates and Communication Techniques to Guide Your Theatre Production from First Meeting to Final Performance

The Stage Manager's Toolkit Templates and Communication Techniques to Guide Your Theatre Production from First Meeting to Final Performance

The Stage Manager’s Toolkit Third Edition provides a comprehensive account of the role of the stage manager for live theatre with a focus on both written and verbal communication best practices. The book outlines the duties of the stage manager and assistant stage manager throughout a production discussing not only what to do but why. It also identifies communication objectives for each phase of production paperwork to be created and the necessary questions to be answered in order to ensure success. This third edition includes: an updated look at digital stage management tools including script apps cloud storage and social media practices; a new discussion on creating a healthy and safe rehearsal space; updated paperwork examples; new information on Equity practices for the student and early career stage managers. Written for the stage management student and early career stage manager this book is a perfect companion to any university Stage Management course. A companion website hosts customizable paperwork templates instructional video links to additional information teacher tools for each individual chapter and a bonus chapter on teaching stage management. | The Stage Manager's Toolkit Templates and Communication Techniques to Guide Your Theatre Production from First Meeting to Final Performance

GBP 31.99
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The Gothic Novel and the Stage Romantic Appropriations

The Gothic Novel and the Stage Romantic Appropriations

In this ground-breaking study Francesca Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists. Saggini opens her study with a very useful and persuasive overview of the themes and forms of Gothic drama. In her view stage appropriation is the textual threshold in which novelistic and dramatic/ performative texts overlap on and disseminate through each other. She examines in details the use of three specific aspects of Gothic dramatic language as recorded by both novel and drama: music lighting and scene design. The following chapters informed by semiotic and narrative theory closely examine the stage appropriations respectively in and of the Gothic novel particularly though not exclusively the representation of the supernatural in Ann Radcliffe and Matthew G. Lewis. Boaden’s successful Gothic drama Fontainville Forest challenges a central aspect of Radcliffe’s poetics: her reliance on the so-called explained supernatural and puts it context by looking at contemporary stage presentations of the supernatural as offered for instance in Hamlet. The final part of the study frames Lewis’s representation of the supernatural in The Monk within the contemporary mechanics of staging and discusses the novel in relation to contemporary stage presentation and in the context of Romantic harlequinades and spectacular visual exhibits. Saggini makes a convincing argument for a transmedial and highly cooperative reading of Gothic texts and spectacles. Her approach does not seek to displace the novel or ‘the text’ from modern perceptions of the Gothic but wants to open the genre to plural and anti-hierarchical forms of reading and to recognise its resourcefulness in appropriating theatrical t | The Gothic Novel and the Stage Romantic Appropriations

GBP 39.99
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Baroque Lorca An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage

Baroque Lorca An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage

Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca’s trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience. It studies a wide range of dramatic writings that Lorca created for the theater in direct response to the conditions of his contemporary industry and situates the theory and praxis of his theatrical reform in dialogue with other modernist renovators of the stage. This book makes special emphasis on how Lorca engaged with the tradition of Spanish Baroque in particular with Cervantes and Calderón to break away from the conventions of the illusionist stage. The five chapters of the book analyze Lorca’s different attempts to change the dynamics of the Spanish stage from 1920 to his assassination in 1936: His initial incursions in the arenas of symbolist and historical drama (The Butterfly’s Evil Spell Mariana Pineda); his interest in puppetry (The Billy-Club Puppets and In the Frame of Don Cristóbal) and the two ‘human’ farces The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden; the central piece in his project of ‘impossible’ theater (The Public); his most explicitly political play one that takes the violence to the spectators’ seats (The Dream of Life); and his three plays adopting an altering the contemporary formula of ‘rural drama’ (Blood Wedding Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba). Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Baroque Lorca An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage

GBP 38.99
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The Physical Actor Contact Improvisation from Studio to Stage

The Physical Actor Contact Improvisation from Studio to Stage

The Physical Actor is a comprehensive book of exercises for actors. It is carefully designed for the development of a strong and flexible physical body able to move with ease through space and interact instinctively on-stage. Annie Loui draws on her training with Etienne Decroux Carolyn Carlson and Jerzy Grotowski to bring Contact Improvisation into the theatrical sphere. She explains how it can be used to develop alert and embodied listening skills in the actor and how to apply it to working with texts on stage. This book will guide the reader through a full course of movement skills including: Partnering skills Spatial awareness for groups and individuals Fine motor control through mime Heightened co-ordination and sustained motion New for this edition are additional partnering exercises in-depth applications of contact improvisation to monologues and scenes and a chapter on devising physical theatre performances. | The Physical Actor Contact Improvisation from Studio to Stage

GBP 34.99
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Imagined Theatres Writing for a Theoretical Stage

Imagined Theatres Writing for a Theoretical Stage

Imagined Theatres collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues prose poems and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre. Each scenario is mirrored by a brief accompanying reflection asking what they might mean for our thinking about the theatre. These many possible worlds circle around questions that include: In what way is writing itself a performance? How do we understand the relationship between real performances that engender imaginary reflections and imaginary conceptions that form the basis for real theatrical productions? Are we not always imagining theatres when we read or even when we sit in the theatre watching whatever event we imagine we are seeing? | Imagined Theatres Writing for a Theoretical Stage

GBP 35.99
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Collaborative Stage Directing A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment

Collaborative Stage Directing A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment

Collaborative Stage Directing: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment focuses on the director's collaboration with actors and the creative team and the importance of communication and leadership skills to create and manage a healthy working environment. Speaking directly to the student this compact resource walks the aspiring director through basic principles of group dynamics active listening open-ended questioning brainstorming and motivational leadership supported by examples and case studies offered by current professional and academic directors. With a focus on preparing the student director for resume-building opportunities beyond the studio lab Collaborative Stage Directing challenges readers with reflective activities a series of guiding questions to apply to three short plays and an extensive checklist to assist them with independent directing projects. As an easy-to-use resource Collaborative Stage Directing works as a supplement to a classic directing text or as a stand-alone guide. | Collaborative Stage Directing A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment

GBP 36.99
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Digital Design for Custom Textiles Patterns as Narration for Stage and Film

Digital Design for Custom Textiles Patterns as Narration for Stage and Film

Digital Design for Custom Textiles: Patterns as Narration for Stage and Film is a beginner's guide for creating custom textile patterns for performing arts production with an emphasis on storytelling through design using hand and digital design techniques. The book offers essential information for the beginning digital designer such as: methods of designing patterns appliqués and unique textures for custom textiles; custom textile examples including various styles of pattern repeats digital embroidery and cut and sew textiles; full-color step-by-step instructions and practice exercises; production timelines; a textiles and patterns glossary. Digital Design for Custom Textiles will allow students and design professionals to embrace digital media to enhance their work apply digital alternatives to find the perfect fabrics and embellishments and create more meaningful and personalized designs for the stage. | Digital Design for Custom Textiles Patterns as Narration for Stage and Film

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Representing China on the Historical London Stage From Orientalism to Intercultural Performance

Representing China on the Historical London Stage From Orientalism to Intercultural Performance

This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century—which corresponds with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) China’s last monarchy. The examples show that during this historical period the stage representations of the country were influenced in turn by Jesuit writings on China Britain’s expanding material interest in China the presence of British imperial power in Asia and the establishment of diasporic Chinese communities abroad. While finding that many of these works may be read as gendered and feminized Chang emphasizes that the Jesuits’ depiction of China as a country of high culture and in perennial conflict with the Tartars gradually lost prominence in dramatic imaginations to depictions of China’s material and visual attractions. Central to the book’s argument is that the stage representations of China were inherently intercultural and open to new influences manifested by the evolving combinations of Chinese and English (British) traits. Through the dramatization of the Chinese Other the representations questioned satirized and put in sharp relief the ontological and epistemological bases of the English (British) Self. | Representing China on the Historical London Stage From Orientalism to Intercultural Performance

GBP 38.99
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