Item type: book ISBN: The story of modern drama is a tale of extremes, testing both audiences and actors to their limits through hostility and contrarianism.
Spanning to the present, Modern Drama: A Very Spanning to the present, Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction shows how truly international a phenomenon modern drama has become, and how vibrant and diverse in both text and performance.
It explores the major developments of modern drama, covering two decades per chapter, from early modernist theatre through post-war developments to more recent and contemporary theatre. The emergence of new theories from the likes of Brecht and Beckett are tracked alongside groundbreaking productions to illuminate the fascinating evolution of modern drama. From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world.
The author manages to define and introduce key concepts with precision. Though it may need read as unbiased to the novice, the author does delineate behavior and concepts in a highly objective manner. Immersive theatre, post-dramatic theatre, environmental theatre and post-modern theatre praxis often use unusual or site-specific spaces, projections, video, or film. Since these more new styles of theatre are quickly proliferating, the elements addressed in the book may not remain as relevant for too long.
The text is highly consistent in terms of terminology and framework; recurring phrases or definitions are used with precise regularity. The text is easily and readily divisible into smaller reading sections, making it supremely useful for class reading assignments. The text is not self-referential and can be reorganized or realigned with various subunits of a course.
The topics in the text are presented in a logical and clear fashion. Though I would suggest beginning and ending with etiquette and safety since those concepts are so crucial for success.
The text is mostly free of interface issues--I did have some issues navigating, though that might have been because of my laptop systems Overall, an excellent, solid introduction to technical theatre which can easily align with course work and make important terminology and concepts clear to the beginning technical theatre student. This book provides a very brief overview of technical theatre.
The glossary is quite good, though the text could have benefited from internal links as the words are not defined within the text, just within the glossary. While a good survey, this Comprehensiveness rating: 4 see less. While a good survey, this is not a text that I would use for a course for students focusing on technical theatre and design, but would be better suited to other students in theatre and non-theatre students. There is no index within the text, only on the webpage. The "For Further Explanation" sections at the end of each module provide other textbooks, most of which I already use or reference, and weblinks that are nice to have.
These could easily be further expanded upon as there is ample blank space in the text. The book is mostly error free. There were a few minor things that I found to be incorrect and made note of them in my own copy, but for the most part, the text is accurate.
The text is fairly up-to-date. A few things could be added, such as a mention of an intimacy coordinator in the list of roles in the theatre.
Lighting technology module already needs some updating. The text is quite easy to read. I think it would be useful to have more definitions within the text instead of in a glossary, but this isn't a problem for anyone already familiar with the terms. There are a few structural personnel relationships that should be further clarified.
The text is fairly consistent. I think that it does sometimes go off on a tangent, like explaining how to hang a lighting fixture during the lighting design module when it hasn't given any technical explanations in other design modules and the module that follows is about lighting equipment.
Modules are quite short and self-contained. Easy to rearrange and prior modules are not necessary to comprehend subsequent modules. The actual technical modules could easily be expanded upon. Some of the modules could have been combined into a single, slightly longer module, while others should have been broken apart, especially the scenic painting and color theory module.
There are sections within several modules that do not directly fit and seem to have been included in a more stream of conscious manner or after thought. It would have been nice to have an index with clickable links as well a way to link to definitions within the text. Too many blank filler pages. Overall a decent book. The book covers a broad survey of topics, stepping beyond the scope of its title. As a result the subject is not covered as thoroughly as it should be for a college-level text.
It reads as a survey rather than a practical manual. The student is Comprehensiveness rating: 3 see less. The student is expected to learn how things are done rather than how to do them, that theatre happens rather than how to make it happen. The author writes with the insight of practical experience, giving us the perspective of a working professional.
That is a real strength. In some cases familiarity has gotten in the way of accuracy. There are statements that are misleading and others that confuse in their brevity. The text is relevant in the broader strokes, and most relevant in its survey of theatre practice. The technical areas are rendered in broad strokes without detail that will require update, with exception of the Lighting Equipment module, which is already out of date, particularly as it relates to emerging LED technology.
In most instances the jargon is defined in context, which makes it more jarring in the several instances where terms are introduced without context. When those terms are then explained further down the page it seems out of order.
In like manner, a concept or information is sometimes referred to as common knowledge before it has been introduced as specialty information.
There is a distinct shift in writing style about halfway through, where the desire to be comprehensive seems to collide with the need to be brief.
Technical areas are defined by lists with little of the depth of discussion that would be necessary to make the information practical for the reader. Orientation and background perspective are important, but it works against modularity to have the specifically Technical Theatre topics in relatively few modules. It would help to expand or increase the technical theatre modules to include greater depth in those areas. Organization is more successful in the early modules and less developed later on.
Discussion tends to run-on without a clear logical progression in some instances. Technical instruction could be expanded upon with clear sub-topic areas.
Doing so would encourage a more logical organization. It would benefit from more illustrations in the technical sections. It would be most helpful to have hyperlinks within the pdf so that glossary words could be defined without having to page to the end and then manually find your place again.
Pop-up definitions would be nice, or hyperlink to the glossary entry and back to the place where the word was used. Barring that, or in addition to that, including a glossary at the end of each chapter would serve both to group the entries and make them more accessible.
There is some very fine writing here, particularly in the early chapters. In fact, the first two pages include some of the most succinct and well expressed description of collaboration that I've run across. That eloquence begins to break down a bit around module 7, and there is increasing evidence of insufficient proofreading in the latter half of the book, including omitted words, incomplete sentences, awkward sentence structure, and extra verbs. There is nothing in my reading that would be construed as culturally insensitive or offensive.
There is an overarching assumption that theatre as a practice, and this information, is available to all. The text is primarily a discussion of theatre practice in the U. This is either a missed opportunity or an unnecessary call out. The an attempt to find meaning and become frustrated, Theatre of the Absurd portrays humans who have chaotic and absurd. The cycle of frustration lost their social status.
Pinter articulates that it is continues leading characters to devastation. The through language that wars took place and caused characters are unable to change even after making destruction and disaster in the world. Thus vigorous efforts. Such activities merely waste Further, the Theatre of the Absurd their time and give rise to chaotic existence.
An simultaneously cautions and confronts the individual who struggles to maintain his sanity in audience with its multiple levels of such a world goes mad because of the insensitivity dehumanisation. Its whole thrust is to make the of society to the problems faced by the individual. It is a vision of modernist world that intellectual world theatres that seem to be funny, forces humans to action through dramatic wildly exaggerated, oversimplified, vulgar, and frustrations.
It exposes the reality of the modern garish, but it confronts the audience with the bitter life and human truth. The realistic world is seen truth of life that their endeavour to communicate is turning out to be totally absurd. The humans are ridiculous and irrational. And I think what I try and is associated with numerous problems related to do in my plays is to get to this recognisable to human beings.
It generally does not have a reality of the absurdity of what we do and how we beginning or an end. So absurd plays represent life behave and how we speak Qtd.
The audience Slavonic Papers Thus, the Theatre of the Absurd Absurd. Dukore, Bernard F. Gale Review. Esslin, Martin. Jobless Jester. The Theatre of the Absurd. London: Methuen Drama, Tiwari, Chandra Shekhar.
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If you enjoy this book, Edited by B. Panda please leave a review or connect with the author. Theatre of the Absurd By Gargi Sengupta. Password Please enter your Password. Forgot password? Don't have an account? Sign in via your Institution. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. Contents Front Matter List of illustrations 1. What is theatre? Religion and theatre 3.
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