Theatre: A Way of Seeing

Brief Contents
Contents
Features
Preface
Ch 1: Discovering Theatre
	The Immediate Art
	Theatre\'s Immediacy
	Theatre\'s Aliveness
	Reflections in the Mirror
	Theatre\'s Fictions
	Theatre\'s Spaces
	Theatre\'s Audiences
	Transition
Ch 2: The Seeing Place
	Ritual and Theatre
	Theatrical Performance
	Western Theatre
	Eastern Theatre
	Transition
Ch 3: Alternative Theatrical Spaces
	Environmental Theatre
	Forerunners of Alternative Approaches
	The Polish Laboratory Theatre
	The Living Theatre
	Theatre du Soleil
	The Bread and Puppet Theatre
	The Free Southern Theater
	Transition
Ch 4: Image Maker: The Playwright
	The Play and the Audience
	The Playwright\'s Beginnings
	The Playwright\'s Role
	The Playwright\'s Tools
	The Playwright\'s Industry
	New American Writing: Alternative Voices
	Transition
Ch 5: Theatrical Writing: Perspectives and Forms
	Drama\'s Perspectives
	Tragedy
	Comedy
	Tragicomedy
	Melodrama
	Farce
	Epic Theatre
	Absurdist Theatre
	Transition
Ch 6: Structures of Seeing
	The Playwright\'s Art
	Play Structures
	Recent Structures
	Postmodern Texts
	Visual and Audio Texts
	Transition
Ch 7: Drama\'s Conventions
	Writing Strategies
	Conventions of Time
	Conventions of Metaphor
	Transition
Ch 8: Stage Language
	Language for the Theatre
	Types of Stage Language
	Contemporary Trends in American Theatre
	Transition
Ch 9: Image Maker: The Actor
	Acting - As Imagination and Technique
	The Actor\'s Reality
	The Actor\'s Training
	Trends in Training American Actors
	Actors at Work
	Transition
Ch 10: Image Maker: The Director
	Forerunners
	Director as Artist
	Directors at Work
	Staging: Approaches and Styles
	Director as Auteur
	Transition
Ch 11: Image Makers: Designers
	The Scene Designer
	The Costume Designer
	Makeup, Wigs, Masks, and Puppets
	Transition
Ch 12: Image Makers: Designers Lighting and Sound
	The Lighting Designer
	The Sound Designer
	Computer-Aided Design for Scenery, Costumes, Lighting, Sound
	Technical Production
	Transition
Ch 13: Image Makers: Producers
	Producing on Broadway
	Producing off Broadway
	Producing in Regional Theatres
	Transition
Ch 14: The American Musical
	Precedents
	An American Musical Idiom
	Post-Second World War Musical Theatre
	Musical Theatre at Mid-Century
	Sixties Alternatives to Broadway Musicals
	New Directions
	British Megamusicals
	Broadway\'s Audiences
	Transition
Ch 15: Viewpoints
	Criticism
	Seeing Theatre
	The Professional Critic
Notes
Glossary
Index