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Stop the Show! A History of Insane Incidents and Absurd Accidents in the Theater

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The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched

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What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself. Defining theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that - at its most powerful - can change lives and (as some peoples believe) bring a divine presence to earth.
The Necessity of Theater analyzes the unique power of theater by separating it into the twin arts of watching and being watched, practiced together in harmony by watchers and the watched. Whereas performers practice the art of being watched - making their actions worth watching, and paying attention to action, choice, plot, character, mimesis, and the sacredness of performance space - audiences practice the art of watching: paying close attention. A good audience is emotionally engaged as spectators; their engagement takes a form of empathy that can lead to a special kind of human wisdom. As Plato implied, theater cannot teach us transcendent truths, but it can teach us about ourselves.
Characteristically thoughtful, probing, and original, Paul Woodruff makes the case for theater as a unique form of expression connected to our most human instincts. The Necessity of Theater should appeal to anyone seriously interested or involved in theater or performance more broadly. Read more...

Wabash Valley Farms Popcorn - Real Theater - Original - 5-pack

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Features: Everything needed to make great tasting popcorn just like that found in movie theatres is inclu... Pack of 5 pouches: each pouch makes 6 quarts (equivalent to 2 standard microwave popcorn bags)

Everything needed to make great tasting popcorn just like that found in movie theatres is included in these one step easy to use pouches: gourmet popcorn, popping oil, and seasoning. All ingredients are pre-measured for convenience and consistent results.
For use in any stovetop popcorn popper.
Pack of 5 pouches: each pouch makes 6 quarts (equivalent to 2 standard microwave popcorn bags)
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Technical Theater for Nontechnical People

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Completely updated to reflect state-of-the-art standards in today's fast-changing theater technology, Technical Theater for Nontechnical People helps actors, dancers, playwrights, and directors to understand every aspect of a traditional and digitally supported backstage environment-from scenery, lighting, and sound to props, costumes, and stage management. All sides of production are clearly explained in jargon-free prose, and unfamiliar terms are highlighted and defined in an appended glossary. In addition to discussions on the more traditional elements of technical theater, this book gives equal weight to the new technologies that have become mainstream, including software (DMX, MIDI, and SMPTI) for show control systems, software to build audio cues, and PC-based audio play-back systems.




• Affirmed by Library Journal as a book that "will certainly become a standard introductory text on trchnical theater."

• "The most down-to-earth, stright-forward survey of technical theater practice I have ever read."--John R. Lucas, managing director of theater, Brown University

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