1st Edition

The Elements of Theatrical Expression

By Brian Kulick Copyright 2020
214 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

The Elements of Theatrical Expression puts forward 14 essential elements that make up the basic building blocks of theatre. Is theatre a language? Does it have its own unique grammar? And if so, just what would the elements of such a grammar be? Brian Kulick asks readers to think of these elements as the rungs of a ladder, scaling one after the other to arrive at an aerial view of the... Read more

Acknowledgements  1. Introduction  2. Questions  3. Truth  4. Moments  5. Change  6. World  7. Character  8. States  9. Intentions  10. Actions  11. Obstacles  12. Events  13. Cores  14. About-ness  15. Remanence  Index

Biography

Brian Kulick is Chair of Columbia's School of the Arts Theatre Program, where he also teaches directing with Anne Bogart. In addition to staging the works of the ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Brecht, and Tony Kushner, he has been the Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company and an Artistic Associate for The Public Theatre.

Elements of Theatrical Expression, Brian Kulick’s lucid and accessible examination of the language and grammar of the stage, is the most clarifying and edifying book about the theater that I have encountered in a very long time. His ideas are rooted in a lifetime of directing and scholarship and will prove insightful and useful for all serious practitioners, students and lovers of the theater.

-- Anne Bogart