1st Edition

Style: An Approach to Appreciating Theatre

By E. Bert Wallace Copyright 2022
294 Pages 82 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 82 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 82 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Style: An Approach to Appreciating Theatre offers brief, readable chapters about the basics of theatre as a starting point for discussion, and provides new adaptations of classic plays that are both accessible to students learning about theatre and fit for production. In this text, style is the word used to describe the various ways in which theatre is done in real space and time by humans... Read more

1. What is Theatre?  2. What is Style?  3. Style: Realism. Realistic Play: Trifles by Susan Glaspell  4. Style: Theatricalism. Theatricalistic Play: The Insect Play by the Brothers Čapek□  5. Style: Expressionism. Expressionistic Play: The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill  6. Style: Classicism. Classical Play: Antigone by Sophocles  7. Style: Musical Theatre  8. Playwrights  9. Directors  10. Designers  11. Actors and Other Collaborators

Biography

E. Bert Wallace is a Professor of Theatre at Campbell University in Buies Creek, NC. In addition to Introduction to Theatre, he teaches Theatre History, Directing, Playwriting, and Theatre Education courses as well as regularly writing and directing plays. His full-length adaptation of Paul Green’s novel This Body the Earth was originally produced in conjunction with the Paul Green Foundation, Chapel Hill, NC, and continues in development. His play The Purse was recently published by Lazy Bee Scripts.