scholarly journals Intermedial Performance Aesthetics in Patricia Fagundes' A Midsummer Night's Dream

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-156
Author(s):  
Anna Stegh Camati
Keyword(s):  
Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
A Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
And Shifts

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1594-1595), Shakespeare introduces elements borrowed from court masques, mainly music and dance. After a brief exploration of critical arguments claiming that Shakespeare’s play is the model for musical versions produced during and after the Restoration, this essay investigates the negotiations and shifts of meaning in the homonymous Brazilian adaptation (2006), staged by Cia. Rústica and directed by Patrícia Fagundes. The intermedial processes, articulated in the transposition from page to stage, will be analyzed in the light of contemporary theoretical perspectives.

scholarly journals A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Reflections on Benjamin Britten’s Chamber Opera

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 33796
Author(s):  
Anna Stegh Camati
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Chamber Opera ◽  
Benjamin Britten ◽  
Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
Theater Music ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
A Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
A Performance

Opera performances, located at the intersection of literature, theater music and the visual arts, tend to fuse specificities of several art forms. This essay reflects on the libretto and score of the chamber opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1960), by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), based on Shakespeare’s homonymous text (1595-1596), and analyses the 1981 operatic adaptation at Glyndebourne, directed by the renowned theatre director and régisseur Peter Hall (1930-2017). The intermedial dialogues among Shakespeare, Britten and Hall will be investigated in the light of theoretical perspectives by Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Claus Clüver, Jorge Coli, Freda Chapple and others.***Sonho de uma noite de verão: reflexões sobre a ópera de câmara de Benjamin Britten***Situada na interface da literatura, teatro, música e artes visuais, a performance operística é caracterizada pela fusão de especificidades de diversas formas de arte. Este ensaio reflete sobre o libreto e a partitura de Sonho de uma noite de verão (1960), ópera de câmara de Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), composta a partir do texto homônimo (1595-1596) de Shakespeare, e analisa a adaptação operística de 1981 apresentada em Glyndebourne, dirigida pelo renomado diretor de teatro e régisseur Peter Hall (1930-2017). Os diálogos intermidiáticos entre Shakespeare, Britten e Hall serão investigados à luz de considerações teóricas de Linda e Michael Hutcheon, Claus Clüver, Jorge Coli, Freda Chapple e outros.Palavras-chave: Shakespeare; Benjamin Britten; Peter Hall; Adaptação;Intermidialidade

Shakespeare Afoot

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kerrigan
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
As You Like It ◽  
A Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

That Shakespeare adds a limp to the received characterization of Richard III is only the most conspicuous instance of his interest in how actors walked, ran, danced, and wandered. His attention to actors’ footwork, as an originating condition of performance, can be traced from Richard III through A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It into Macbeth, which is preoccupied with the topic and activity all the way to the protagonist’s melancholy conclusion that ‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player | That struts and frets his hour upon the stage’. Drawing on classical and early modern accounts of how people walk and should walk, on ideas about time and prosody, and the experience of disability, this chapter cites episodes in the history of performance to show how actors, including Alleyn, Garrick, and Olivier, have worked with the opportunities to dramatize footwork that are provided by Shakespeare’s plays.

Digital canopy: high-end computation/low-tech construction

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-245
Author(s):  
Kristina Shea
Keyword(s):  
Digital Design ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
A Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
Design And Construction

The design and construction of this canopy and landscape for a small courtyard [1] took the form of an adventure in digital design and low-tech construction. The installation was for the end of year party in June 2002 at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. The courtyard occupies a central space in the school adjacent to the main lecture hall and contains a historic cobblestone court [2]. One of the design team, Neil Leach, proposed that it should be transformed into an enchanted garden suggestive of Dutch greenhouses and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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