Haridy - Theatre Today

Theatre

TODAY

Theatre TODAY takes you on a panoramic expedition, a journey covering over 30 countries worldwide. Read and watch whats happening in the theatre today with access to over 3000 videos.

What are the undercurrent movements seeding the future of theatre in the 21st century?. How are the global communication tools affecting and changing the theatre?. What direction is Theatre moving toward?

This book records the works of modern theatre companies and lists the names of its artists for future reference.

Theatre TODAY is a communication forum to magnify and tell the story of each artist - or group of artists - that contributed, enriched, and expanded our understanding of the theatre worldwide.

It records the old movements that are feeding and contributing to the creation of the theatre today and the new movements born out of the technological changes in the last 50 years and the communication tools that wire us today.

It proves that the theatre is alive and well, and more than that, is incorporating the social, economic, and technological changes that are occurring in the world.

It is a must READ and HAVE for everyone working or interested in the theatre today.

Gaze on Publishing

Theatre

TODAY

By M A Haridy

2018 Edition

Gaze on Publishing

Theatre

TODAY

The theatre story through the centuries, is the story of many journeys, of many creative artists, who created the theatrical arts as we know it today.

The ashes of all these journeys through the centuries are what created the gigantic mountains of the theatrical arts as we know it today.

The gratitude we owe to these artists is beyond any comprehension. This book is nothing but a communication forum to magnify that, and to tell the story of each creative artist - or a group of artists - contributed, enriched, and expanded our understanding of the theatrical arts.

They work in silence and persist in their journeys to add to the theatrical arts without asking for any rewards.

This Book is about them, and for them.

2018 Edition

Introduction

Compiling and writing Theatre TODAY has been a wild, intriguing, captivating, comforting, and reassuring experience. Full of paradoxes, it was a panoramic journey to the heart of what's going in the theatre today, and how it is evolving at the beginning of 21st century.

I t proved that the theatre is alive and well, and more than that, it is taking in all the social, economic, and technological changes that are occurring in the world. And, yes, we can get a glimpse at the future of theatre in this unique fast moving world.

We can see the seeds of theatre's future coming from three directions.

First, in the experimental works in the new theatre groups and companies, which we may name it the off existing established theatres.

Second , in the rise of theatrical movements originated from the experimental works done in the last century.

Third, in the works of few established theatres - and here we stress the word "few"- these works done by some daring directors.

B efore we explain what we mean by that, let us put a caveat on that we are about to say. From the start, this book primary aim is to scan and record in a panoramic view the theatre as it is today, as objectively as possible, without judging the subjective quality of any theatrical companies or groups we have included.

Our purpose is to give the reader an opportunity to know and experience what's going in the theatre today. Any judgement is left to you, the reader.

Our team while researching and compiling the book argued for weeks about whether to scale each theatre company or groups works that listed in the book by a star marking from 1 to 6 stars. The intention was to examine to what level each of the theatre groups or companies work was shaping the future of the theatre.

In the end, we concluded that this wouldn't be a healthy move to judge the individual theatrical works in its embryonic stage of its evolution. What may seem a ridiculous work now, may sow the seeds for a future theatrical movement.

To condemn an artwork in its beginning is like condemning new born baby at the minute of her/his birth because of what we may think or imagine that he/her will do when they mature.

So, we decided not to judge any works of the theatre groups or companies listed in this book. We just record them and their works and left the judgement for the time which will prove to be the definitive critic.