Format Hardcover Subject Performing Arts Theater Publisher Greenwood Press

Serf Actor: The Life and Art of Mikhail Shchepkin (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)

Senelick, Laurence

Humor & Entertainment

Praeger

Gordon Craig's Moscow Hamlet: A Reconstruction (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)

Format Hardcover Subject Literary Criticism General Publisher Macmillan

Anton Chekhov (Modern Dramatists)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Palgrave HE UK

The answers to these questions - and much, much more - are to be found in The Changing Room , which traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. It examines: * tribal rituals and shamanic practices in the Balkans and Chinese-Tibet * the gender-bending elements of Greek and early Christian religion * the homosexual appeal of the boy actor on the traditional stage of China, Japan and England * the origins of the dame comedian, the principal boy, the glamour drag artiste and the male impersonator * artists such as David Bowie, Boy George, Charles Ludlam, Dame Edna Everage, Lily Savage, Candy Darling, Julian Clary and the New York Dolls. Lavishly illustrated with unusual and rare pictures, this is the first ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism. It is a must for anyone interested in cross-dressing, theatre, and gender.

The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre (Gender in Performance)

Routledge

The Changing Room : Sex, Drag and Theatre (Gender in Performance)

This is the first cross-cultural study of Chekhov's plays in production. Many now consider Chekhov a playwright equal to Shakespeare, and this book studies how the reputation evolved, and how the presentation of his plays varied and altered from their initial productions in Russia to the most recent postmodern deconstructions of them. Particular attention is given to the staging of Chekhov in Russia before and after the Revolution, and under different regimes; in the English-speaking world, in Western and Eastern Europe, as well as in Japan.

The Chekhov Theatre: A Century of the Plays in Performance

Cambridge University Press

Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture

Offenbach's operas were a significant force for cultural change, both in his own time and in the decades to follow. In this book, Laurence Senelick demonstrates the ways in which this musical phenomenon took hold globally, with Offenbach's work offering an alternative, irreverent, sexualized view of life which audiences found liberating, both personally and socially. In the theatre, the composer also inspired cutting-edge innovations in stagecraft and design, and in this book, he is recognized as a major cultural influence, with an extensive impact on the spheres of literature, art, film, and even politics. Senelick argues that Offenbach's importance spread far beyond France, and that his provocative and entertaining works, often seen as being more style than substance, influenced numerous key artists, writers, and thinkers, and made a major contribution to the development of modern society.

Arts & Photography

Music

The A to Z of Russian Theater is the only reference work in English devoted exclusively to Russian theater and drama. It provides information on the popular plays and playwrights while also offering information on many persons, works, and phenomena omitted from standard encyclopedias. Through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, an appendix, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on directors, stage designers, actors, plays, playwrights, concepts, theater buildings, and troupes, this reference provides an unrivaled account of Russian theater.

The A to Z of Russian Theater (Volume 192) (The A to Z Guide Series, 192)

Reference

Scarecrow Press

The Age and Stage of George L. Fox, 1825-77

Performing Arts

Univ Pr of New England

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