Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Directions for Directing Directions for Directing: Theatre and Method lays out contemporary concepts of directing practice and examines specific techniques of approaching scripts, actors, and the stage. Addressed to both young and experienced directors but also to the broader... RRP: $375.76 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the 'living' traditions of performances in Spain,... RRP: $104.28 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Theatre, Body and Pleasure Breaking new ground in the study of performance theory, this maverick and powerful project from renowned Renaissance scholar and queer theorist Simon Shepherd presents a unique take on theory and the physical reality of theatre.Examining a range of... RRP: $102.82 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre interrogates the paradoxical nature of theatre texts, which have been understood both as separate literary objects in their own right and as material for performance. Drawing on analysis of... RRP: $94.34 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sports Plays Sports Plays is a volume about sports in the theatre and what it means to stage sports. The chapters in this volume examine sports plays through a range of critical and theoretical approaches that highlight central concerns and questions both for sports... RRP: $372.01 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Ultimate Musical Writer's Planner The Ultimate Musical Writer's Planner is an all-in-one workbook to help brainstorm, develop, plan and calendar your new musical. Much more than a simple notebook or calendar, the Ultimate Musical Writer's Planner is the only musical writing... RRP: $56.61 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Strangeness in Jacobean Drama Callan Davies presents "strangeness" as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama-one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural... RRP: $372.01 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Collaborative Stage Directing Collaborative Stage Directing: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment focuses on the director's collaboration with actors and the creative team, and the importance of communication and leadership skills to create and manage a... RRP: $372.01 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Oedipus at Kolonos Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus at Kolonos is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet Robert... RRP: $14.99 $14.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added On Directing and Dramaturgy "A theatre which is able to speak to each spectator in a different and penetrating language is not a fantastic idea, nor a utopia. This is the theatre for which many of us, directors and leaders of groups, trained for a long time....." - from the... RRP: $375.76 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management The Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions, providing an invaluable step-by-step guide.Beginning with a brief history of opera and detailing its... RRP: $84.41 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Poetics of Third Theatre A Poetics of Third Theatre offers an in-depth, critical analysis of Third Theatre, a transnational community of theatre groups and artists united by a shared set of values and a laboratory attitude. This book takes a genealogical account of Third Theatre... RRP: $100.31 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson's dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. RRP: $104.28 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added البُعدُ الآخر للضَّوء حينما يحلق الكاتب المسرحيّ بعيداً في فضاء الأسطورة، يجد نفسه وسط هالة من الإدهاش، لينزوي قليلاً عن عوالم الواقع الرتيب، والحقائق الجامدة، وليخلق حوله معالم متحركة من الابتكار في مواسم المواعدة مع الحداثة، والمحاكاة المعاصرة بينه وبين (الملحمة) التي تحاكي... RRP: $23.34 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sets on a Shoestring For every theater director who has years of experience and a hefty budget to work with, there’s another individual out there who has only a love of theater and a commitment to children as a starting place. Whether it be an elementary school... RRP: $25.94 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Anger and After (Routledge Revivals) When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and has since brought forward such dramatists as Brendan Behan,... RRP: $111.59 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A History of the American Musical Theatre From the diverse proto-theatres of the mid-1800s, though the revues of the '20s, the 'true musicals' of the '40s, the politicisation of the '60s and the 'mega-musicals' of the '80s, every era in American musical theatre reflected a unique set of... RRP: $145.46 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Elements of Theatrical Expression The Elements of Theatrical Expression puts forward 14 essential elements that make up the basic building blocks of theatre. Is theatre a language? Does it have its own unique grammar? And if so, just what would the elements of such a grammar be? Brian... RRP: $101.79 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Collaborative Playwriting In Collaborative Playwriting, five collectively written plays apply polyvocal methods in which clash and frisson replace synthesis, a dialogic approach to collective writing that has never before been articulated or documented. Based on the EU Collective... RRP: $96.82 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added What Happened to Our Friend Mikey? Two years ago, Theo Sedjwick's good friend, Mikey, someone he had known for thirty years, murdered his wife. He bludgeoned her to death with a wine bottle in their shared apartment in Houston. Then he disappeared, or so claimed the headlines; the... RRP: $13.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Contemporary Rehearsal Practice This book provides the first comprehensive study of Anthony Neilson's unconventional rehearsal methodology. Neilson's notably collaborative rehearsal process affords an unusual amount of creative input to the actors he works with and has garnered much... RRP: $372.01 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance As the first examination of women's foremost contributions to Jerzy Grotowski's cross-cultural investigation of performance, this book complements and broadens existing literature by offering a more diverse and inclusive re-assessment of Grotowski's... RRP: $388.08 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre is a critical introduction to the most influential and innovative theatre practitioners in the Americas, all of whom have been pioneers in changing the field. The chosen artists work through... RRP: $64.08 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Eugene O'Neill's Philosophy of Difficult Theatre Through a close re-examination of Eugene O'Neill's oeuvre, from minor plays to his Pulitzer-winning works, this study proposes that O'Neill's vision of tragedy privileges a particular emotional response over a more "rational" one among his audience... RRP: $372.01 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Cutting Plays for Performance Cutting Plays for Performance offers a practical guide for cutting a wide variety of classical and modern plays. This essential text offers insight into the various reasons for cutting, methods to serve different purposes (time, audience, story), and... RRP: $375.76 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Re-Purposing Suzuki Re-Purposing Suzuki: A Hybrid Approach to Actor Training introduces a system of text analysis that synthesizes physical, psychological, and vocal components in order to truthfully embody heightened texts and contexts.By understanding how the author has... RRP: $89.38 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Fruto en sazón Al igual que Jarry, Pipo Carreño, con 'almadreñas', se desmarca del teatro popular asturiano, y despliega en "Fruto en sazón" su idea de un ruralismo más profundo, subrayando las pocas desviaciones que el bable tiene. Junto a sentencias wildeanas,... RRP: $11.23 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Piscatorbühne Century This study of the Piscatorbühne season of 1927-1928 uncovers a vital, previously neglected current of radical experiment in modern theater, a ghost in the machine of contemporary performance practices. A handful of theater seasons changed the course of... RRP: $375.76 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Property and Finance on the Post-Brexit London Stage A guide to the contemporary London stage as well as an argument about its future, the book walks readers through the city's performance spaces following the Brexit vote.Austerity-era London theatre is suffused with the belief that private ownership... RRP: $372.01 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Lighting Supervisor's Toolkit The Lighting Supervisor's Toolkit guides readers through the Lighting Supervisor's production process with an emphasis on the importance of the collaborative nature of the role.Lifting the veil on a process regularly learned on the job, this book offers... RRP: $89.38 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Frantic Assembly Frantic Assembly have had a powerful and continuing influence on the popularisation of devising practices in contemporary theatre-making. Their work blends brave and bold physical theatre with exciting new writing, and they have collaborated with some of... RRP: $99.31 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Short Plays with Great Roles for Women Short Plays with Great Roles for Women is an antidote to the traditional underrepresentation of women on stage, by offering twenty-two short plays that put women right at the centre of the action.The push for more women's roles has gathered force over... RRP: $372.01 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Comedy Matters Comedy Matters traces the long tradition of the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity that manages to survive even in some of mankind's darkest moments. Demastes argues that comedy has a hard-nosed, pragmatic dimension that can be... RRP: $91.62 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Theatrical Improvisation Theatrical Improvisation provides an in-depth analysis of short form, long form, and sketch-based improv--tracing the development of each form and the principles that define and connect the styles of performance. Brimming with original interviews from... RRP: $91.62 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added National Myth and Imperial Fantasy Eighteenth-century drama is often dismissed as homogenous, aesthetically uninteresting, or politically complacent. This book reveals the incredibly intriguing and intricate nature of the periods history plays and their often messy dramatisaton of the... RRP: $91.62 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Re-Framing the Theatrical Alison Oddey takes us on a spectator's journey engaging with art forms that cross boundaries of categorization. She questions the role of the spectator and director, including interviews with Deborah Warner; the nature of art works and performance with... RRP: $91.62 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Theatre-Making Exploring modes of authorship in contemporary theatre, Theatre-Making: Interplay Between Text and Performance in the 21st Century seeks to transcend the heritage of binaries from the twentieth century, such as: text-based vs. devised theatre, East vs... RRP: $121.54 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Sustainable Theatre Using the famed Hedgerow Theatre as an example, Witham illustrates how theatres can be self-sufficient and experimental (outside of the establishment.) RRP: $89.28 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Fifty Key Theatre Designers Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set, costume, lighting, and projection designers since the Renaissance. RRP: $346.39 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Nine Years Of An Actor's Life (1833) This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as... RRP: $77.41 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Memoranda On The Tragedy Of Hamlet (1879) This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as... RRP: $59.39 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Rib Of The Man This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as... RRP: $68.40 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Performance in a Pandemic This edited collection gathers UK and international artists, academics, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of contemporary performance, dance, and live art to offer creative-critical responses to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their... RRP: $137.94 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Memos from a Theatre Lab What does Immersive Theatre 'do'?By contrasting two specific performances on the same theme - one an 'immersive' experience and the other a more conventional theatrical production - Nandita Dinesh explores the ways in which theatrical form impacts upon... RRP: $60.22 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Dramaturgy of Performing Science This is a concise survey of new play projects that bring together the worlds of science and performance, and the benefits that dramaturgical praxis can bring to both disciplines. RRP: $142.96 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Daring to Play Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brecht's theatre by Manfred Wekwerth, Brecht's co-director and former director of the Berliner Ensemble. RRP: $375.76 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Theatrical Firearms Handbook The Theatrical Firearms Handbook is a start-to-finish guide to staging firearms violence for theatrical or cinematic productions, including props selection, backstage protocol, safe staging, tactical firearms techniques for actors, and more. It provides... RRP: $100.31 Add to Cart The item has been added
