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ISBN10: 1266298355 | ISBN13: 9781266298356
The Theatre Experience
ISBN10: 1266298355
ISBN13: 9781266298356
By Alvin Goldfarb and Megan Geigner
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The Theatre Experience prepares students to be well-informed and appreciative theatre audience members. With an audience-centered narrative that engages today's students, a vivid photo program that brings concepts to life, and features that teach and encourage a variety of skill sets, students master core concepts and learn to think critically about theatre and the world around them. As a result, students are better prepared for class and better prepared for theatre-going. The textbook is noted for its lively writing style and for helping students recognize how theatre relates to our everyday lives.
PART 1 The Audience
1 The Audience: Its Role and Imagination
2 Background and Expectations of the Audience
3 Theatre Spaces
PART 2 The Performers and the Director
4 Acting for the Stage
5 The Director and the Producer
PART 3 The Designers
6 Scenery
7 Stage Costumes
8 Lighting and Sound
PART 4 The Playwright and the Play
9 Creating the World of the Play
10 Dramatic Structure and Dramatic Characters
11 Theatrical Genres
12 Alternative and Experimental Dramatic and Theatrical Forms
13 Diverse and Inclusive Plays, Playwrights, and Theatrical Forms
Plays That May Be Read Online
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About the Author
Alvin Goldfarb
Alvin Goldfarb is President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Western Illinois University. Dr. Goldfarb has also served as Provost, Dean of Fine Arts, and Chair of the Department of Theatre at Illinois State University. He holds a Ph.D. in theatre history from the City University of New York and a master’s degree from Hunter College.
He is also the co-author of Living Theatre as well as co-editor of The Anthology of Living Theatre with Edwin Wilson. Dr. Goldfarb is also the co-editor, with Rebecca Rovit, of Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He has published numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals and anthologies.
Dr. Goldfarb has served as a member of the Illinois Arts Council and president of the Illinois Alliance for Arts Education. He has received service awards from the latter organization as well as from the American College Theatre Festival. Dr. Goldfarb also received an Alumni Achievement Award from the CUNY Graduate Center’s Alumni Association, and another Alumni Award from Hunter College, CUNY.
Dr. Goldfarb currently serves as a member and treasurer of Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Theatre Awards Committee, which recognizes excellence in the Chicago theatre, as well as a board member of the Arts Alliance of Illinois.
Megan Geigner
Megan E. Geigner is a theatre historian, performance scholar, and writing specialist who teaches in the Cook Family Writing Program at Northwestern University. Her courses focus on racial and ethnic representation, design, business and technical communication, and self-expressive writing. Dr. Geigner has had the pleasure of teaching theatre courses at Illinois State University, City Colleges of Chicago, the United States Naval Academy, and the University of Chicago. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama from Northwestern University.
Dr. Geigner is a co-author of Living Theatre with Drs. Goldfarb and Wilson. She is the co-editor of Makeshift Chicago Stages (Northwestern UP) and Theatre after Empire (Routledge). A specialist in Chicago theatre history specifically, she has published extensively on the city's performance history, including pieces on Columbus Day, the Little Theatre movement, Irish dance, and August Wilson. She serves in leadership for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and she works on theatre productions at such places as Chicago's TimeLine Theatre, Court Theatre, and Remy Bumppo, among others.
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