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  • Applied Theatre with Youth Applied Theatre with Youth
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    Applied Theatre with Youth

    Applied Theatre with Youth is a collection of essays that highlight the value and efficacy of applied theatre with young people in a broad range of settings, addressing challenges and offering concrete solutions.This book tackles the vital issues of our...
    $96.82

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  • Reading the Puppet Stage Reading the Puppet Stage
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    Reading the Puppet Stage

    Drawing on the author's two decades of watching, writing, and teaching about puppetry from a critical perspective, this is a collection of insights into how we watch, understand, and appreciate puppetry.
    $86.89

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  • The Bodies That Were Not Ours The Bodies That Were Not Ours
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    The Bodies That Were Not Ours

    Interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco is one of North America's leading interpreters of intercultural theory and practice. This volume gathers together her finest writings since 1995 and includes critical essays by Jean Fisher and Caroline...
    $111.59

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  • Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre
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    Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre

    Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre offers unique insight into the question of 'voice' in learning disabled theatre and what is gained and lost in making performance. It is grounded in the author's 18 years of making theatre with...
    $78.20

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  • Shakespeare & Company Shakespeare & Company
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    Shakespeare & Company

    Shakespeare Company: When Action is Eloquence is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the...
    $336.34

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  • The Theatre and the State in Singapore The Theatre and the State in Singapore
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    The Theatre and the State in Singapore

    This book provides a comprehensive examination of the contemporary theatre field in Singapore. Based on extensive original research it provides a wealth of information on theatre in Singapore overall, not just theatre-state relations.
    $388.08

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    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...
    $100.31

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  • Statecraft and Stagecraft Statecraft and Stagecraft
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    Statecraft and Stagecraft

    In this second edition of Statecraft and Stagecraft Robert Schmuhl brings up to date his provocative exploration of the involvement of the media in our public life by including a new chapter on the Persian Gulf War.
    $183.54

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  • Sets on a Shoestring Sets on a Shoestring
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    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...
    $25.94

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  • An Actress Prepares An Actress Prepares
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    An Actress Prepares

    'Every day, thousands of women enter acting classes where most of them will receive some variation on the Stanislavsky-based training that has now been taught in the U.S. for nearly ninety years. Yet relatively little feminist consideration has been...
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  • Russians in Britain Russians in Britain
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    Russians in Britain

    From Komisarjevsky in the 1920s, to Cheek by Jowl's Russian 'sister company' almost a century later, Russian actor training has had a unique influence on modern British theatre. Russians in Britain, edited by Jonathan Pitches, is the first work of its...
    $375.76

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  • The Lighting Supervisor's Toolkit The Lighting Supervisor's Toolkit
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    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...
    $89.38

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  • Integrated Access in Live Performance Integrated Access in Live Performance
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    Integrated Access in Live Performance

    Twelve per cent of UK theatregoers have a disability. This compares with 18% of the UK's adult population. Directors can help build audiences as diverse as the population at large by making their art accessible to all. Live performances are...
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  • Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture
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    Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture

    Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture examines the recent history of advanced technologies, including new media, virtual environments, weapons systems and medical innovation, and considers how theatre, performance and culture at large have evolved...
    $413.95

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  • Memos from a Theatre Lab Memos from a Theatre Lab
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    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...
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  • Theatre and Performance Design Theatre and Performance Design
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    Theatre and Performance Design

    Theatre and Performance Design: a reader in scenography gives a critical and contextual framework for analysing theatre and performance design. This book is vital for those interested in visual compositions of performance and scenographic practices.
    $111.59

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  • On Caravan On Caravan
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    On Caravan

    Paul Kirby and Adriana Kelder have spent their lives in the theatre. In the late sixties, the couple who would later be called the Bonnie and Clyde of Canadian theater, helped run an alternative newspaper in Montreal. Charges of obscenity and sedition...
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  • Global Ibsen Global Ibsen
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    Global Ibsen

    Ibsen's plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting...
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  • Post-war British Drama Post-war British Drama
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    Post-war British Drama

    In this extensively revised and updated edition of her classic work, Look Back in Gender, Michelene Wandor confirms the symbiotic relationship between drama and gender in a provocative look at key, representative British plays from the last fifty years...
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  • Patricia Plays A Part Patricia Plays A Part
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    Patricia Plays A Part

    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...
    $93.64

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  • Acoustics of Multi-Use Performing Arts Centers Acoustics of Multi-Use Performing Arts Centers
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    Acoustics of Multi-Use Performing Arts Centers

    Explores the Science and Practice Of Acoustics for Arts Centers Employing the experiences of a world-renowned acoustician celebrated for the successful design of multi-use performing arts centers, Acoustics of Multi-Use Performing Arts Centers examines...
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  • Navigating a Career in Technical Entertainment Navigating a Career in Technical Entertainment
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    Navigating a Career in Technical Entertainment

    Navigating a Career in Technical Entertainment: Your Creative Career Guidebook explores tools, strategies, and motivational advice from a wide range of industry professionals for navigating an artistic career in design and technology in entertainment...
    $84.41

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  • Trusting Performance Trusting Performance
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    Trusting Performance

    This exciting new work argues for the exploration of drama as a conduit to deep emotional learning that has the ability to change the somatic identity of performers and audiences alike. Rokotnitz suggests that the preference for reciprocity exhibited by...
    $89.28

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  • Readings in Performance and Ecology Readings in Performance and Ecology
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    Readings in Performance and Ecology

    This ground-breaking collection of essays focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Leading scholars and practitioners explore the ways that familiar and new works of theatre and dance...
    $91.62

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  • Two Plays And A Rhapsody Two Plays And A Rhapsody
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    Two Plays And A Rhapsody

    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...
    $59.39

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  • Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange
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    Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange

    Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of "vectors of the radical" shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they...
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  • Refugees, Theatre and Crisis Refugees, Theatre and Crisis
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    Refugees, Theatre and Crisis

    Using examples of refugee arts and theatrical activity since the 1990s, this book examines how the 'refugee crisis' has conditioned all arts and cultural activity with refugees in a world where globalization and migration go hand in hand.
    $240.22

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  • Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research
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    Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research

    Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and humanities have tended to structure a gap between practice and analysis. This book examines differences and similarities between Performance as Research...
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  • Theatre, Youth, and Culture Theatre, Youth, and Culture
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    Theatre, Youth, and Culture

    There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances under which theatre for children and youth-birth through twenties-is generated and perceived. Offering multiple, intersecting narratives, this book...
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  • Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America
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    Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America

    Christin Essin documents theatre's backstage history through the cultural roles played by designers during the modern development of their profession. Featuring work by Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson, Aline Bernstein, Norman Bel Geddes, Mordecai...
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  • Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage
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    Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage

    This is the first book-length study, in any language, of the influence of Mei Lanfang - the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles - on the twentieth-century international stage. Focusing on Mei Lanfang's tours of Japan, the...
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  • Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway
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    Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway

    Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of dramas such as Augustus Thomas's Arizona (1900), Owen Wister and Kirke La Shelle's The Virginian (1904), Edwin Milton Royle's The...
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    Stanislavski For Beginners
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    Stanislavski For Beginners

    Stanislavski was the first person to develop a cogent and practical system of acting. Throughout his life he sought the answers to such fundamental questions as: "What is great acting?" and "How can you find inspiration in every performance?"...
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  • Richard III: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Richard III: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Richard III: The 30-Minute Shakespeare This edition of Richard III features seven scenes, opening with the Duke of Gloucester's villainous "Winter of our discontent" speech and followed by his audacious wooing of Lady Anne. Queen Margaret's...
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  • Henry V: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Henry V: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+This edition of Henry V presents eight scenes, using all actors as Chorus. Included in this riveting cutting are Henry's inspiring "band of brothers" oration to his men, a merry interlude with Bardolph and friends, and an...
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  • The 30-Minute Shakespeare Anthology
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    The 30-Minute Shakespeare Anthology

    Age range 12+Drawing on his eighteen years of experience as a teaching artist for Folger Shakespeare Library, Nick Newlin offers eighteen scenes to get young actors on their feet performing Shakespeare with confidence, understanding, and fun!Each scene...
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  • Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents eight spellbinding scenes from this timeless masterpiece. The action begins as the soothsayer warns Caesar of the Ides of March and continues as Brutus conspires against Caesar...
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  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents six captivating scenes from this high-spirited play. Proteus pledges his love to Julia, but then falls in love with Silvia, who had planned to elope with Proteus's...
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  • Hamlet: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Hamlet: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+Hamlet: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five scenes from this enduring tragedy. The Ghost of Hamlet's father calls for vengeance, and Hamlet uses the players to prove Claudius guilty. The cutting includes the murder of Polonius,...
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  • Henry IV, Part 1: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Henry IV, Part 1: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+King Henry IV, Part I: The 30-Minute Shakespeare combines comedy, tragedy, and history into a rollicking six-scene drama performable in a half hour.This adaptation includes tavern revelry, highway robbery, and the telling...
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  • Othello: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    Othello: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+Othello: The 30-Minute Shakespeare is a gripping seven-scene interpretation of this Shakespearean masterpiece.There is a dramatic build as each successive event draws Othello closer to jealous rage. Iago convinces Othello that...
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  • King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare renders six powerful scenes from this enduring tragedy. Starting with Lear's banishment of Cordelia, the plot advances irresistibly, featuring scenes of brother Edmund's villainous plotting and...
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  • The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare
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    The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    Age range 12+The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five raucous scenes from this extravaganza of mistaken identity.The abridgement begins with a dramatic physical enactment of the twins' separation at sea. The play continues...
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