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Rediscovering Stanislavsky by Maria Shevtsova
RRP: $68.23$62.77Konstantin 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... -
Modern French Drama 1940-1990 by David Bradby 9780521408431
RRP: $76.03$64.86This is an updated account and comparison of all the major traditions and tendencies in the French theatre from the outbreak of the Second World War to the opening of the 1990s. In the fifty-year period covered by this book, French theatre has undergone... -
Feydeau Plays: v. 2: "The Girl from Maxim's"; "She's All Yours"; "A Flea in Her Ear"; "Jailbird" by Georges Feydeau 9780413769206
RRP: $46.78$46.41Kenneth McLeish's definitive translations of the most successful French dramatist of the Belle Epoque Georges Feydau (1862-1921) was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest of... -
Little Eyolf by Richard Eyre
RRP: $19.48$14.18Ibsen's forensic examination of a marriage as it falls apart, in a version by Richard Eyre. How is a life well-lived? Alfred Allmers comes home to his wife Rita and makes a decision. Casting aside his writing, he dedicates himself to raising his son... -
Cherry Orchard by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 9781853992568
$47.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853992568Author Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)... -
Crime Passionnel by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780413310101 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$3.47"A highly entertaining political political thriller...the play shows where that peculiarly Gallic combinations of sex, politics and suspense has its origins" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Crime Passionnel reflects Sartre's fascination with the mentality... -
Crime Passionnel by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780413310101
$22.27"A highly entertaining political political thriller...the play shows where that peculiarly Gallic combinations of sex, politics and suspense has its origins" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Crime Passionnel reflects Sartre's fascination with the mentality... -
Five Tales for the Theatre by Carlo Gazzi 9780226305806
RRP: $58.50$57.04For 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... -
The Dutch Courtesan by John Marston 9780713644753
$20.42Although it was written shortly before or after Queen Elizabeth's death in 1603 and performed by the boy company at Blackfriars, this play foreshadows the light ladies and callous gallants of Restoration comedy. Passion is a scourge, love is humiliation,... -
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen 9780486406572
RRP: $7.78$6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486406572Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm)... -
Federico Garcia Lorca by Maria M. Delgado
RRP: $56.53$48.93Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dali, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico Garcia Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond. This study offers a fresh examination of one of the... -
Tartuffe by Moliere 9780872209503
RRP: $25.33$21.57Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters in a slightly compressed and formalized way that comes very close to the original effect created by... -
Lucifer by Joost Van Den Vondel 9780948230370
$24.12An influential and controversial work by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), the colossus of Dutch literature, regarded as a major influence on Milton's Paradise Lost. An angel returns from Eden, his wings singed by the beauty of Adam and Eve's world,... -
Am Ed Ee: The New Tenant ; Victims of Duty by Eugene Ionesco 9780802131010
RRP: $31.20$19.44The author of such modern classics as The Bald Soprano, Exit the King, Rhinoceros, and The Chairs, Eug ne Ionesco is "one of the most important and influential figures in the modern theater" (Library Journal). This crucial collection combines... -
The Ubu Plays: "Ubu Rex", "Ubu Cuckolded", "Ubu Enchained", "Writings on the Theatre" by Alfred Jarry 9780413679901
RRP: $46.78$46.41A re-issue of three plays that ushered in the great age of absurdist theatre There was a riot at the first performance of Ubu Roi on 10 December 1896, when Firmin Gemier, playing Ubu, strode to the footlights and roared: "Merde!" at the... -
Tartuffe, by Moliere by Richard Wilbur 9780156881807 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23$7.72The renowned French playwright Moliere's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning translator Richard Wilbur. The rich bourgeois Orgon has become a bigot and prude. The title... -
Tartuffe, by Moliere by Richard Wilbur
RRP: $29.23$23.54The renowned French playwright Moliere's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning translator Richard Wilbur. The rich bourgeois Orgon has become a bigot and prude. The title... -
Introduction to the Mystery Plays of Rudolf Steiner by Eileen Hutchins 9781855844025
RRP: $25.33$21.47'The great importance of these plays is not that we are given many thoughts to further our understanding of anthroposophy, but that we are shown the transforming power of spiritual striving in individual lives, and especially the development in human... -
The Anarchist by Karina Wiedman
RRP: $21.43$15.46'In the morning they'll shut the streets, roll the tanks in and begin the arrests. Everyone who tries to leave will be taken in for days, weeks, years. If I don't board the flight tonight, I'll be here forever.' Middle-aged, middle-management Dasha is... -
Biography - A Game Max Frisch 9781803092157
RRP: $27.28$23.89A reissue of a comic and tragic play that asks just how much of our life we could-or would-change if we got another chance. In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behavioral researcher Kurmann is given the opportunity to... -
Humanist Comedies by Gary R. Grund
RRP: $58.40$46.92The five comedies included in this volume, three of which have never been translated into English, present a characteristic sampling of comic form as it was interpreted by some of the most important Latin humanists of the Quattrocento. Pier Paolo... -
Le Cid and the Liar by Richard Wilbur 9780156035835
RRP: $35.10$24.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156035835Author Richard WilburFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
Rediscovering Stanislavsky by Maria Shevtsova 9781107607033
RRP: $44.83$38.14Konstantin 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... -
Samuel Beckett by Andrew Karpati Kennedy 9780521274883
RRP: $60.43$46.41While providing a critical introduction for the student of Samuel Beckett's work and for other readers and theatre-goers who have been influenced by it, this study also presents an original perspective on one of the twentieth century's greatest writers... -
Quick Change: Essays on Theatre by Daniel Gerould
$38.84Contains previously uncollected writings, including articles about Witkacy's doubles, historical and medical simulations, the Battleship Potemkin, comedie rosse at the Grand Guignol, Polish theater, Grotowski and Kantor, Mrozek and Rozewicz, Polish and... -
Verbal Violence in Contemporary Drama: From Handke to Shepard by Jeanette R. Malkin 9780521383356
RRP: $175.50$131.14In this book, Jeanette Malkin considers a broad spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created, coerced and destroyed by language. The playwrights examined include Handke, Pinter, Bond, Albee, Mamet and Shepard, as well as Vaclav Havel and... -
Paradise Hotel by Georges Feydeau 9780929587455
RRP: $15.58$11.97A consummate farce in which a middle-aged man arranges a rendezvous in a seedy little hotel with the beautiful young wife of his best friend.About the AuthorThe Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the... -
The Theatrical Public Sphere by Christopher B. Balme
RRP: $60.43$44.56The concept of the public sphere, as first outlined by German philosopher Jurgen Habermas, refers to the right of all citizens to engage in debate on public issues on equal terms. In this book, Christopher B. Balme explores theatre's role in this crucial... -
Three Plays by Jean Racine 9780226150772
RRP: $37.05$36.08"George Dillon has elected for speed and clarity; his speed, of which short quotations can impart no notion, is his equivalent for Racine's impetuous dexterity with the French Alexandrine. . . . Momentum, in such a version, is everything. It stands as a... -
Faust: Part I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780553213485
RRP: $13.63$11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213485Author Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The New Trial by Peter Weiss 9780822326908
RRP: $37.03$32.60The New Trial is Peter Weiss's final drama, completed only months before his death in 1982 and never before published in English. One of Europe's most important twentieth century playwrights-often considered as influential as Brecht and Beckett-Weiss is... -
Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard by James N. Loehlin 9780521533300
RRP: $52.63$44.46Chekhov's masterpiece, about a Russian family losing its ancestral home, combines a lament for a vanishing past with a hopeful dream of the future. In the century since its first performance, The Cherry Orchard has undergone a wide range of conflicting... -
The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage by Michael Richard Booth 9780521453752
RRP: $109.20$97.99This 1996 book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital, turbulent era whose preoccupations and paranoias echo those of our own day. Responding to recent shifts of attitude towards the Edwardians and... -
"The Government Inspector" by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 9780413584700
RRP: $23.38$22.27Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Performance and Politics in Popular Drama: Aspects of Popular Entertainment in Theatre, Film and Television, 1800-1976 by David Bradby 9780521285247
RRP: $60.43$46.41Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does... -
Theatre in Spain, 1490-1700 by Melveena McKendrick 9780521429016
RRP: $60.43$46.41This is the first book to examine the rise of Spain's extraordinary national theatre in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in all its aspects - the commercial theatre, the court drama and the Corpus autos, the organisation of theatrical life, the... -
I Run by Line Morkeby
RRP: $19.48$18.74A new Danish play by Line Morkeby shining a light on how we talk about death. A dad loses his six-year-old daughter to cancer, and his world falls apart. He doesn't know how to process the life-shattering void following her premature death. He starts... -
Pirandello:Six Characters in Search of an Author by Jennifer Lorch 9780521646185
RRP: $64.33$55.34Since its explosive premiere in Rome in 1921, Six Characters in Search of an Author has gained worldwide recognition. Pirandello's challenge to the very notion of stage representation was taken up by the leading directors of the time. The playwright... -
German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage by David F. Kuhns 9780521035224
RRP: $76.03$64.86German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage considers the powerfully stylized, anti-realistic styles of acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921. It relates this striking departure from the dominant European acting tradition... -
Brecht on Film and Radio by Bertolt Brecht 9780413727602
$49.63From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century. Bertolt...