Directing Postmodern Theater: Shaping Signification in Performance (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

Directing Postmodern Theater brings together critical theory and contemporary theater practice to provide valuable tools for directing in today's expansive performance world.Postmodern theater places new and novel demands on stage directors. It is more experimental, and the boundaries of what constitutes a performance have shifted. Dialogue is no longer always the primary mode of communication, and music, sound, movement, and other visual elements are being explored as ways to make meaning onstage.Directing Postmodern Theater identifies the key communications systems at work in the theater: linguistic, visual, aural, olfactoral, and physical. Further, it pinpoints and examines twenty semiotic sign-systems that can be manipulated by directors to bring about meaningful communications. It is also the first book to bridge the gap between theoretical discussions of semiotics and the actual practice of producing theater. For those theories to have an impact, argues Whitmore, they must be linked to the process of transforming a playscript or concept into a living performance. This book fills the gap in practical yet provocative ways, grounding theoretical discussions in examples from specific postmodern productions.Read More

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  • 0472065572
  • 9780472065578
  • Jon Whitmore
  • 30 June 1994
  • The University of Michigan Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 254
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