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Free Theatre Christchurch

Index Free Theatre Christchurch

Free Theatre Christchurch in Christchurch, New Zealand, was established in 1979, and is New Zealand’s longest running producer of experimental theatre. [1]

27 relations: Afterlife, Augusto Boal, Bertolt Brecht, Christchurch, Christchurch Arts Centre, Cowboy Mouth, Doctor Faustus (play), Eugenio Barba, Experimental theatre, Fantasia (1940 film), Jerzy Grotowski, King Lear, New Zealand, Peter Brook, Philoctetes, Richard Schechner, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, RNZ National, Salome, Tadashi Suzuki, Théâtre Libre, The Earthquake in Chile, Ubu Roi, University of Canterbury, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Woyzeck, 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

Afterlife

Afterlife (also referred to as life after death or the hereafter) is the belief that an essential part of an individual's identity or the stream of consciousness continues to manifest after the death of the physical body.

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Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theater practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Christchurch

Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region.

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Christchurch Arts Centre

The Christchurch Arts Centre is a hub for arts, crafts and entertainment in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Cowboy Mouth

Cowboy Mouth is a band based in New Orleans, Louisiana known for fusing alternative rock with album-oriented rock, roots rock, and jam band influences.

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Doctor Faustus (play)

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593.

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Eugenio Barba

Eugenio Barba (born 29 October 1936 in Brindisi, Italy) is an Italian author and theatre director based in Denmark.

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Experimental theatre

Experimental theatre (also known as avant-garde theatre) began in Western theatre in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular and, in general, the dominant ways of writing and producing plays.

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Fantasia (1940 film)

Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt Disney Productions.

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Jerzy Grotowski

Jerzy Marian Grotowski (11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was an innovative Polish theatre director and theorist whose approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today.

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King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s.

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Philoctetes

Philoctetes (Φιλοκτήτης, Philoktētēs; English pronunciation:, stressed on the third syllable, -tet-), or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of King Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly.

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Richard Schechner

Richard Schechner is a University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and editor of TDR: The Drama Review.

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.

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RNZ National

This article is about RNZ's domestic radio channel.

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Salome

Salome (translit; translit, deriving from lit; between 62 and 71) was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias.

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Tadashi Suzuki

is a theatre director, writer and philosopher working out of Toga, Toyama, Japan.

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Théâtre Libre

The Théâtre Libre (French for "Free Theatre") was a theatre company that operated from 1887 to 1896 in Paris, France.

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The Earthquake in Chile

The Earthquake in Chile (Das Erdbeben in Chili) is a novella written by Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) and published in 1807.

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Ubu Roi

Ubu Roi (Ubu the King or King Ubu) is a play by Alfred Jarry.

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University of Canterbury

The University of Canterbury (Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation Cantuar. or Cant. for Cantuariensis, the Latin name for Canterbury) is New Zealand's second oldest university.

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Vsevolod Meyerhold

Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (Все́волод Эми́льевич Мейерхо́льд; born Karl Kasimir Theodor Meierhold; 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer.

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Woyzeck

Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner.

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2011 Christchurch earthquake

A earthquake occurred in Christchurch on at 12:51 p.m. local time (23:51 UTC).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Theatre_Christchurch

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