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Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938) was one of the most innovative and influential directors of modern theatre and his system and related practices continue to be studied and used by actors, directors and students. Maria Shevtsova sheds new light on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933826823Author Rainer Werner FassbinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Performing Arts JournalsPublisher Johns Hopkins University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015467Author Peter HandkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

The complete collection of Buchner's plays in one volume Buchner was acknowledged by figures as divergent as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht to be the forefather of modern theatre. On his death at the age of 23, he left behind some outstanding dramatic...

Two powerful plays about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by two of Ukraine's leading playwrights. 'They've mobilised all the living now, the fifth call took the last of the living. But...

Includes the plays Transformation, Masses Man, Hoppla, We're Alive! Preface by Charles Wood. Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was a formative figure in the development of theatrical modernism, yet his plays have not been available in English since the 1920s and...

Josef and Karel Capek were the best known literary figures of liberated Czechoslovakia after 1918. Josef won a considerable reputation as a painter of the Cubist school, later developing his own playful primitive style. He collaborated with his brother...

Ontroerend Goed is a Belgian, Ghent-based theatre performance group of international renown. The group is made of young creators who explore the space between theatre and performance, writing their own texts from a strong basic concept and adapting...

A triumphant transformation of mediaeval mystery plays into radical political theatre Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, recreates the irreverent vitality of the popular mediaeval theatre. It is based on careful research into the work of the...

First publication in English of France's most successful contemporary playwright Don Juan on Trial: 'Brilliant dialogue' (Le Figaro); The Visitor: 'An overwhelming triumph ...a masterpiece' (Paris Match); 'Sharp, biting, unexpected and cunning' Le...

Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade...

This updated Companion offers students crucial guidance on virtually every aspect of the work of this complex and controversial writer. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners, and this edition introduces more...

"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner) Includes three of...

A unique dramatization of India's greatest epic poem, fifteen times longer than the Bible, The Mahabharata has played to enthralled audiences throughout Europe, the Far East and America. Regarded as the culmination of Peter Brook's extraordinary research...

You could do insane twenty hours shifts in theatre. You could be mother of ten children. You could be toughest whore on the block. You contain all possibilities. You are the ultimate cliche of youth's incredible potential.Promiscuous, pitiless and bored,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951587799Author Sian EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530370Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434457288Author Edmond GuiraudFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Elsa Bernstein lived at the center of Munich's cultural life from the 1890s into the next century. Her literary salon was frequented by such authors as Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor Fontane, Henrik Ibsen, and Thomas Mann. Her plays, written under the...

'He's a vampire. He sucks the life out of people because his own life bores him so much.' A plague rages across Europe. On a remote island, former actress Alice and army Captain Edgar are quarantined together - locked in a bitter, brutal, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441421899Author Alejandro CasonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 127mm...

When the knight Adelbert leaves his beloved Adelheit for the Crusades, her father arranges for her to marry the rich and powerful Robert von Rastenberg, whom she does not love. Several years later, while strolling through the forest, Adelheit encounters...

A poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several "Sacre Rappresentazioni" - one-act plays on Christian...

For Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), theater was a fabulous world apart, in which human beings, statues, and animals change places by magical transformations. Gozzi's stage becomes a multiscenic home for adventures, loves, enmities, and dazzling visual...

A collection of translated plays from Tolstoy.Book InformationISBN 9780810113954Author L.N. TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *...

Going Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent times in Spain. It both contributed to and documented La Movida, a drug-fuelled youth movement that placed Madrid firmly on the global...

This book presents an integrated approach to the literary and non-literary writings of the major German author, Heinrich von Kleist. Analysis of Kleist's early letters, in particular, illuminates the oblique and unique processes by which he became aware...

'Memory never stops. It pairs the dead with the living, real with imaginary beings, dreams with history.' She strikes a pose and the camera shutter clicks: a child playing in the debris of the Second World War. Click. A student discovering parties and...

Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the...

Federico Garcia Lorca was born near Granada in 1898. Initially set on studying music in Paris, after his piano teacher died in 1916 he became involved in a literary and artistic group, including H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling. This move towards a more ...

This, the fourth volume to be published in the series Theatre in Europe: A Documentary History, charts the development of theatrical presentation at a time of great cultural and political upheaval and is, for today's theatre practitioner, historian and...

Written by an international team of experts, this book brings together the fruits of recent research into all areas of Russian theatre history. Of particular interest are the chapters written by senior Russian academics, who not only reveal previously...

A new German and Catalan play together in one volume Sugar Dollies by Klaus Chatten (Germany) Dressed as Batman and Robin, Babette and her overweight daughter, Tabea enter the ratings-topping blind date TV show - Sugar Dollies. At the auditions they...

This book chronicles the emergence of a national feeling in the theatres of Northern and Eastern Europe from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. Using original documents and sources, including architects' plans, royal edicts, censors'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213607Author Edmond RostandFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

With the aim of providing a comprehensive history of Italian drama from its origins to the time of its publication in 2006, this book treats theatre in its widest sense, discussing the impact of all the elements and figures integral to the collaborative...

Presents Shiller's dramatic masterpiece, the "Wallenstein" trilogy, and "Mary Stuart" in their entirety. Includes notes on the historical background of both plays.Book InformationISBN 9780826403360Author Walter HindererFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Published in conjunction with the Royal Court Theatre, this volume includes translations of five extraordinary new plays from France which were presented as part of the French Theatre Season in London during 1997 One More Wasted Year by Christopher...

This is the third volume to be published in the series Theatre in Europe. This book makes available for the first time an overview of a significant segment of European theatre history and, with few exceptions, none of the documents presented have been...

Contains five works from the classical period of French theatre - "The Cid", "Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love" and "The Marriage of Figaro".Contains five works from the classical period of French theatre - "The Cid", "Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The...