TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE THEATRE»
The term «the theatre» is quite widely used and occupies the
26.354 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
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10 QUOTES WITH «THE THEATRE»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
the theatre.
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.
You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.
My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE THEATRE»
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the theatre in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
the theatre and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Impro: Improvisation and
the Theatre
Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commissioned a play from him.
2
Dictionary of
the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, and Analysis
An encyclopedic dictionary of technical and theoretical terms, the book covers all aspects of a semiotic approach to the theatre, with cross-referenced alphabetical entries ranging from absurd to word scenery.
3
The Theatre of Robert Wilson
The first comprehensive study of the leading American avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson.
4
Theories of
the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, ...
In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new concluding chapter that focuses on theoretical developments since 1980, emphasizing the impact of feminist theory.
5
Drafting for
the Theatre
Drafting for the Theatre, second edition assembles in one book all the principal types of drawings, techniques, and conventional wisdom necessary for the production of scenic drafting, design, and shop drawings.
Dennis Dorn, Mark Shanda, 2012
6
'Love Me Or Kill Me': Sarah Kane and
the Theatre of Extremes
This book is the first study of the most significant British dramatist in post-war theatre and includes unpublished interview material with Sarah Kane herself.
7
On
the Art of
the Theatre
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Edward Gordon Craig, 2009
8
A Life in
the Theatre: A Play
Two actors, one a veteran and the other a novice, go through an entire wardrobe and a cycle of onstage and offstage roles
9
Theater of
the Oppressed
In this classic work on radical drama, Augusto Boal exposes the machinations that the ruling classes exercised on theatre to take control out of the hands of ordinary citizens. He shows how Brechtian and Marxian drama reverses this trend.
10
The Theatre and
the State in Singapore: Orthodoxy and Resistance
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the contemporary theatre field in Singapore. Based on extensive original research it provides a wealth of information on theatre in Singapore overall, not just theatre-state relations.
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE THEATRE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
the theatre is used in the context of the following news items.
Sir Michael Gambon calls time on theatre career after memory struggle
Sir Michael Gambon has decided to stop working in the theatre, bringing down the curtain on an illustrious stage career, after struggling to remember his lines. «The Guardian, Feb 15»
Theatre by candlelight opens at the Globe
This second theatre is designed to replicate the indoor playhouses of the early 17th ... The theatre holds 340 people with two tiers of galleried seating and an ... «BBC News, Jan 14»
Danny Boyle's Frankenstein, National Theatre, review
Boyle, returning to the theatre after his Oscar-winning success with Slumdog Millionaire, pulls off something truly spectacular here. The Frankenstein story has ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 11»
