Directing Postmodern Theater: Shaping Signification in Performance (Theater--Theory/Text/Performance) - Softcover

Whitmore, Jon

 
9780472065578: Directing Postmodern Theater: Shaping Signification in Performance (Theater--Theory/Text/Performance)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0472065572 ISBN 13: 9780472065578
Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 1994

Synopsis

An introduction to theatrical directing using the concepts and terminology of semiotic theory

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Review

An original contribution that aims to show how semiotic theory can be made useful and practical in the staging of plays." -James M. Symons, University of Colorado, Boulder ". . . the cumulative effect of Directing Postmodern Theater is . . . an exhilarating sense of the almost unlimited possibilities theatre affords for the production of multileveled, complex, challenging, evocative and provocative performance events. . . . For Whitmore, it would seem, the playwright, and the play, may be dead. Long live the director." -Theatrum Magazine "Whitmore's project is not to throw out conventional Western methods of directorial approach, based around psychological and illusionistic consistencies, but to broaden the base to accommodate the vigorous relativistic and multidisciplinary adventures which have been created by the arrival, during the past thirty years, of a more cross-cultural perception of theatre-making." -Essays in Theatre/Etudes Theatrales

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Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0472065572
ISBN 13 
9780472065578
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
254

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