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About the book:
Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production investigates both the history and current realities of life and work in professional theatrical production in the United States and explores labor practices that are equitable, accessible, and sustainable.
In this book, Brídín Clements Cotton and Natalie Robin investigate the question of artmaking, specifically theatrical production, as work. When the art is the work, how do employers navigate the balance between creative freedom and these equitable, accessible, and sustainable personnel processes? Do theatrical production operations value the worker? Through data analyses, worker narratives, and analogues to the evolving gig economy, Theatre Work questions everything about theatrical production work – including our shared history, ways of operating, and assumptions about how theatre is made – and considers what might happen if the American Theatre was reborn in an entirely new form.
Written for members of the theatrical production workplace, leaders of theatrical institutions and productions, labor organizers, and industry union leaders, Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production speaks to the ways that employers and workers can reimagine how we work.
Order : https://bookshop.org/a/103131/9781032361345
Publisher : Focal Press; 1st edition (April 29, 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 1032361352
ISBN-13 : 978-1032361352
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Reviews and Press:
Live Design: Book Marks (June 2024)
Young-Howze Theater Journal (2024)
American Theater (November 2024)
Theatre Topics (November 2024)
Live Design Magazine
Diamond Design for Bon Iver Autumn Tour (February 2020)
Inadvertent Cathedrals: Pig Iron’s Superterranean - Scenic, Lighting, Sound (January 2020)
Korn Brings LED Video Mirrors On The Nothing Tour (October 2019)
Digitizing Opera: Lighting (September 2019)
Digitizing Opera: Video (August 2019)
Cornucopia: Björk's Move Into Theatricality (July 2019)
Imagining Madoff, Part Two: Lighting Design (June 2019)
Imagining Madoff, Part One: Set Design (June 2019)
Building Bridges for Josh Groban (January 2019)
Big Apple Circus: Lighting the Big Tent Atmosphere (June 2018)
Big Apple Circus: Costume Design Embraces Humanity (May 2018)
Big Apple Circus: A Celebratory Production Design (May 2018)
UNLV Uses Epson Laser Projectors for Pregame Show (April 2018)
Miles Ahead: Georama: An American Panorama Told on 3 Miles of Canvas (October 2017)
A New Rhythm: Bandstand on Broadway (August 2017)
Getting Immersive for Holiday House: Sets and Lighting, Costumes, Space & Sound (March 2017)
Psycho Killer: Lighting for American Psycho (June 2016)
Psycho Killer: Projection for American Psycho (June 2016)
Party City: Supercinema Film-Themed Parties at the McKittrick Hotel (April 2016)
White House Dinner (September 2015)
Hall of Flame: Wolf Hall Scenic Design (June 2015)
Hall of Flame: Wolf Hall Lighting Design (June 2015)
Around Town Part Two: Projection and Sound Design (December 2014)
Around Town Part One: Lighting and Scenic Design (December 2014)
All Aboard: Design of the Passenger Part One: Scenic Design (September 2014)
All Aboard: Design of the Passenger Part Two: Lighting Design (September 2014)
All Aboard: Design of the Passenger Part Three: Sound Design (September 2014)
Noble Concepts: Queen of the Night (March 2014)
Q+A: Bob Crowley and Natasha Katz (November 2013)
One Singular Sensation: Michael Jackson ONE Part 5: Set Design (September 2013)
One Singular Sensation: Michael Jackson ONE Part 4: Projection Design (September 2013)
Stages of Sleep No More Part 1, 2, 3 (April 2013)
Flying to New Heights with Quixotic (December 2012)
A Royal Setting (November 2011)
Collective Media Part 1 and Part 2 (November 2010)
Stuffed Animal Instincts (October 2010)
Spaced Out (September 2010)
War Crimes (September 2008)
Stage Directions Magazine
Off the Shelf: "Unbuttoned" (April 2017)
Off the Shelf: Essentials of Period Style (February 2017)
Off the Shelf: Perspectives on "Dance Production: Design & Technology" (August 2016)
Off the Shelf: Sounds From All Angles (March 2016)
Off the Shelf: Guiding Artists to Saving and Investing (January 2016)
Off the Shelf: Examining Falling (January 2016)
Off the Shelf: Beautiful Chaos (October 2015)
100 Shows and Still Smiling (November 2013)
Designing A World in a Single (Small) Space (August 2013)
Revisiting the Roadmap (October 2012)
The Color of Rep (August 2012)
Putting It All on The Table (March 2012)
A Scaffold for Light (January 2012)
Yes Men (September 2011)