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Noh master Michishige Udaka is the only living actor to continue to create masks while still performing and teaching. In this book he presents 32 of the more than 200 masks he's made to date, accompanied by compelling revelations about the masks and the...

Ideas are the fuel of business, work and your career - it only takes one good one to make a difference. Distilled into this single, handy-sized volume are 60 of the most useful diagrams and visual techniques, many of which are used by consultants,...

This is a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance-noh, kyogen, kabuki, and bamrili puppet theater-in one comprehensive, authoritative volume. Organized by genre, each section features a rich selection of representative plays and...

Eight Plays from Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia Selected and Edited by Cheryl Robson and Aubrey Mellor Playwrights: Jean Tay, Floy Quintos, Tew Bunnag, Ann Lee, Nguyen Dang Chuong, Joned Suryatmoko,...

The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance provides a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the global art form butoh.Originating in Japan in the 1960s, butoh was a major innovation in twentieth century dance and performance, and it continues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912875382Author Isobel ScharenFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint M-Y BooksPublisher M-Y BooksWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772016161Author Sangeeta WylieFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 152g

for SATB and organ, and optional brass ensemble and timpani Make We Merry is an eight-movement piece which sets texts from the 15th to 19th centuries to a variety of choral textures with a highly characterful accompaniment. A vast array of sentiments...

The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895-1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473110Author Yukio MishimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Ashrafi and Bilal are orphaned siblings stranded and defined by the troubles in Kashmir. 18 year old Bilal is the pride of the region, part of a teenage football team set for great heights, and pushed to the limits by the violence around them. Haunted by...

Based on the Booker-shortlisted novel by Rohinton Mistry and adapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith, this programme text edition of A Fine Balance is published to coincide with Tamasha Theatre Company's 2007 revival and tour of the hit play...

People always think a woman who thinks for herself, who speaks her mind is dangerous. So I didn't talk about my dreams or what was in my heart. And I was scared. Scared to let you follow your dreams. I didn't know how to. But keeping quiet didn't make my...

Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Ronin, is the most famous and perennially popular of all Japanese dramas. Written around 1748 as a puppet play, it is now better known through Kabuki...

This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations of the plays' fourteenth-century editions. Almost all previous translations of Yuan-dynasty zaju...

This is one of the famous dramas by Lao She. The drama is set in a typical, old Beijing teahouse and follows the lives of the owner and his customers through three stages in modern Chinese history. The play spans fifty years and has a cast of over sixty...

This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Drama, designed for Chinese-language learners.How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese provides a versatile introduction to...

-- New England Theatre JournalThree plays by one of contemporary Japan's most prominent writers-Involuntary Homicide, The Green Stockings, The Ghost is Here-translated for this volume reveal Kobo Abe's deep love of absurdity in the face of universal...

A masterpiece of eighteenth-century Japanese puppet theater, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees is an action-packed play set in the aftermath of the twelfth-century Genji-Heike wars. It follows the adventures of the military commander, Yoshitsune,...

"Meet Karim, Rehaan and Ammi, three first- and second-generation Pakistani immigrants trying to make a living, a life and a home in the UK's cultural capital, London. Another day on Harlesden High Street and business is not going well. Karim needs...

South Korean drama has received considerable attention in Europe and Asia, but, until recently, received only scant attention in the United States. This anthology contains early works (1989-1993) by one of Korea's leading theatre artists. These works...

Climate change is poised to threaten, disrupt, and transform human life, and the social, economic, and political institutions that structure it. Philosophy and Climate Change argues that understanding climate change, and discussing how to address it,...

Blackstone's Police Q&As 2021 are the essential revision tool for all police officers sitting the NPPF Step Two Legal Examination. They are created to follow Blackstone's Police Manuals, the only study guides endorsed by the College of Policing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788306843Author Raahem SyedFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990919008Author Co StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Mbokodo PublishersPublisher Mbokodo PublishersWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615554174Author Patricia HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Wanderlust BooksPublisher Wanderlust BooksWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257043Author Malcolm BarowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425914400Author Arthur H WalnerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514380789Author Shannon MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Originally published in Dutch in 2017, this essay is a critique on the intellectual hold of destructive, non-sustainable capitalism on Western thought. It challenges the way that Soviet and Chinese totalitarianism has been used to discredit the idealism...

A landmark collection of Indonesian plays in English. Seven contemporary plays by established playwrights in Indonesia exploring topics such as the aftermath of political clampdown, gay lives, sex trafficking and the effects of urban redevelopment...

For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, SBS journalist and TEDx presenter Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898752014Author Tsao YuFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams) 195g

Staging British South Asian Culture: Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre looks afresh at the popularity of forms and aesthetics from Bollywood films and bhangra music and dance on the British stage.From Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams to the...

In 1978 Chum fled Cambodia and narrowly escaped the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Thirty years later he returns in search of his wayward daughter Neary. Jumping back and forth in time thrilling mystery meets rock concert as both father and daughter...

Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the world. It was considered by Augusto Boal to be the chief exponent of his methodology outside of its...

As the third part of a philosophy of Christian life, A Metaphysics of Love builds on a view of Christian life as shaped by the dynamic of call, response, and promise. It argues that love is the ultimate content of this dynamic and considers how far this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845358587Format HardbackPage Count 176Imprint D.C.Thomson & Co LtdPublisher D.C.Thomson & Co LtdWeight(grams) 140g