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Popular theatre : a sourcebook / edited by Joel Schechter.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Worlds of Performance
- Worlds of performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater.
- Theater and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bertolt Brecht turned to cabaret; Ariane Mnouchkine went to the circus; Joan Littlewood wanted to open a palace of fun. These were a few of the directors who turned to popular theatre forms in the last century, and this sourcebook accounts for their attraction.<BR>Popular theatre forms introduced in this sourcebook include cabaret, circus, puppetry, vaudeville, Indian jatra, political satire, and physical comedy. These entertainments are highly visual, itinerant, and readily understood by audiences. <EM>Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook</EM> follows them around the world, from the bunraku puppetry
- Contents:
- part I. What is popular theatre?
- part II. Puppets from Bread and Puppet Theatre to Bunraku and Broadway
- part III. Masks : commedia dell'arte and topeng
- part Ivolume Circus, clowns and jesters
- part volume Cabaret, vaudeville and the Fun Palace
- part VI. Political theatre as popular entertainment.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-41220-4
- 0-415-25830-8
- 1-315-01305-3
- 1-136-41213-1
- 9781315013053
- OCLC:
- 870591174
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