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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762970Author Jane ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

'A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and insight. A play to savour.' Punch on Otherwise Engaged'Life in the theatre hasn't brought me anything more rewarding than directing Simon Gray's plays.'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1988.Book InformationISBN 9780930452896Author Alfred UhryFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

"Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century" Observer The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplin use an old story of the old man married to the young wife to expose the social attitudes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953675760Author Jenny SealeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

Rhythm is often referred to as one of the key elements of performance and acting, being of central importance to both performance making and training. Yet what is meant by this term and how it is approached and applied in this context are subjects seldom...

As the twenty-first century moves towards its third decade, applied theatre is being shaped by contemporary economic and environmental concerns and is contributing to new conceptual paradigms that influence the ways in which socially engaged art is...

"I need you to get in the wardrobe." Faye's afraid. She's not sleeping, she doesn't trust ducks and all she's had to eat this week is a box of dry Rice Krispies. A doctor recommends a form of exposure therapy, so Faye enlists the help of her...

Well, that's one down, isn't it. Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? Let's have a crack at that one next, shall we? Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long. Moments after taking over his...

'When does libertarian become Nitroglycerine? When does protest become Semtex? At what point does the conviction you are right...become Gelgnite?' Charles Jennings QC arrives at a respected national hospital for a heart transplant. He is awoken into a...

This is all we are. This is all sex is. The attempted obliteration of the self. That's why it's so brutal. All there is the plane of nature. It was what was before and will always be, and our complete annihilation, this leisurely murdered world, is after...

All things pass - is this your philosophy? Is there no room for love in your philosophy of life? Renowned and best-selling novelist William Boyd, CBE, adapts two Chekhov short stories, A Visit to Friends and My Life, to weave a comic tale about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710179Author Rachel WagstaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine. Elizabeth I is tottering at death's door. Conspirators are everywhere. Lucius Bodkin, an...

Martin McDonagh is one of the world's most popular dramatists. This is a highly readable and illuminating account of his career to date that will appeal to the legions of fans of his work for the stage and of his films Six Shooter and In Bruges. As a...

An Englishman, a Northern Irishman, a Scotsman and a Welshman walked into a recording studio and created The Union. Commercially successful and critically acclaimed, the pioneering indie rock band is now on the verge of breaking up. When financial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868198392Author Tony McNamaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd

Technical automation – the ability of man-made (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously – is not just the province of engineering or science fiction. In this book, Maria Gerolemou, by taking as her starting point the close semantic and...

In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors, Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879960756Author Anne Elizabeth ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Aunt Lute BooksPublisher Aunt Lute Books

Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s centenary adaption of J. M. Synge’s classic The Playboy of the Western World had a sold-out run when it was produced at Dublin’s Abbey Theater in 2007 and was brought back by popular demand in 2009. The new version is set in...

"Macmillan doesn’t shy away from difficult questions about addiction and recovery and, rightly, doesn’t answer them ... this is a bold, timely and searching play" - Financial Times Emma was having the time of her life. Now she’s in rehab. Her first step...

New RSC Classics series highlights rarely performed Tudor and Jacobean plays.Book InformationISBN 9781854596963Author John MarstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nick Hern BooksPublisher Nick Hern BooksWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573133725Author Tatty HennessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573024016Author Vinnie FeavenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Lyn Gardner's The Guardian Recommended Shows 2017 Exeunt recommended shows 2017, The Word of Mouth Favourites Leah and Sophie have been together, here, for a long time. They are happy here. But there's a problem. There's a fucking massive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710285Author Becca SchlossbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573681127Author Richard O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French IncWeight(grams) 64g

Democracy, argues David Wiles, is actually a form of theatre. In making his case, the author deftly investigates orators at the foundational moments of ancient and modern democracy, demonstrating how their performative skills were used to try to create a...

This Element considers the concept of performance diagrams and shows their historical, epistemic and aesthetic functions in theatre and dance. In three sections, the author surveys the architectural model of theatre by Vitruvius, the woodcut of Marlow's...

This Element considers the concept of performance diagrams and shows their historical, epistemic and aesthetic functions in theatre and dance. In three sections, the author surveys the architectural model of theatre by Vitruvius, the woodcut of Marlow's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362252Author Caryl ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Theatre Communications GroupPublisher Theatre Communications GroupWeight(grams) 85g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557834461Author Judith E. BarlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Applause Theatre Book...

This Instructor's Manual is intended as a handbook to accompany, clarify, and supplement the philosophy, methodology, and procedures presented in the text, A Road Map to Education, THE CRE-ACT WAY. It includes the CREative ACTing Principles and guide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241164423Author Thomas DuffettFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634909426Author E P GarthFormat PaperbackImprint Booklocker.comPublisher Booklocker.comWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039101504Author Carolin DuttlingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 259Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 370g

Contemporary Latina/o Performing Arts of Moraga, Tropicana, Fusco, and Bustamante demonstrates the crucial significance of looking at theatrical performance for rethinking critical inquiry. Leah Garland closely analyzes the theoretical tools with which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557834614Author Richard StrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Applause Theatre Book...

Henry VI, Part 2 presents a kind of story that was popular before Shakespeare began writing, tracing the fall of powerful individuals to their untimely deaths. The first to go is the Duke of Gloucester, Lord Protector of England and the most powerful man...