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Studio 54 Night Magic by Matthew Yokobosky
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $96.17There has never been and will never be another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. Now, in the first official book on the legendary club, co-owner Ian Schrager presents a spectacular volume brimming with... -
Colder than Here by Laura Wade
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.60"I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing" Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9781350423213
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.60We need the theatre, couldn't, couldn't do without it. Could we? A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress... -
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramovic 9780241974520
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.52'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' ObserverThis memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us... -
Performing Arts in Transition: Moving between Media Susanne Foellmer 9780367732356
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $73.91Artists especially from dance and performance art as well as opera are involved to an increasing degree in the transfer between different media, not only in their productions but also the events, materials, and documents that surround them. At the same... -
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs 9781399610353
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $32.43'The best non-fiction book I've ever read. It's magical. Stunning' Dan Schreiber, No Such Thing As a Fish'A pop biography for people who don't read pop biographies' Dorian Lynskey, Guardian'Brilliant, discursive and wise' Ben Goldacre'Utterly... -
Supertato: Presents Jack and the Beanstalk: – a show-stopping gift this Christmas! by Sue Hendra 9781398511644
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.88A fee-fi-fo-festive treat for Supertato fans this Christmas - an unmissable adventure in this super bestselling series! As seen on TV! It's showtime in the supermarket as Supertato and the veggies put on their very own production of Jack and the... -
Deviations in Contemporary Theatrical Anthropology: New Myths and Performative Rituals between XR, Robots and AI Ester Fuoco 9781032676906
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $84.96This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in that system.This book explores a "New Humanism" in the performing arts, unique in the sense of human's ability to co-create and... -
Bitch Boxer by Charlie Josephine
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $20.12Bitch Boxer was the winner of the Holden Street Theatres Awards 2013 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Meet Chloe, 21 from Leytonstone. She likes the simple things in life: cherry sambuca, hairbrush-in-the-mirror karaoke with Rihanna and winding her... -
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See by Bianca Bosker 9781911630463
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $24.47AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker trained her insatiable curiosity, journalist's knack for infiltrating exclusive circles and eye for unforgettable characters on the wine world as she trained to become a sommelier. Now she... -
Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery Roger Kneebone 9780241392058
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.08'Roger Kneebone is a legend' Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters'Fascinating and inspiring' Financial Times'The pandemic has made the necessity of relying on experts evident to all . . . this is a rich exploration of lifelong learning' GuardianWhat... -
Many Moons by Alice Birch
Booksplease Price: $25.19Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is and Meg has resigned herself to never having it. As these four people move through a July day in London, they orbit each other, unaware that they are hurtling... -
Marina Abramovic: A Visual Biography Katya Tylevich 9780857829467
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $106.86The definitive guide to the life and work of Marina Abramovic, the world's most famous performance artist.Combining brand-new interviews, never-before-seen images and fascinating ephemera, this book is a testament to the extraordinary life and work of... -
Spatial Practices: Modes of Action and Engagement with the City by Melanie Dodd 9780815351870
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.92This book explores 'spatial practices', a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban. Acting upon and engaging with the public realm, the field... -
Auditioning for Film and Television: A Post #MeToo Guide Nancy Bishop 9781350155947
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.79"This is a terrific guide for young actors...I read it cover to cover and then went out and bought copies for all my kids because, truthfully, it puts an experienced eye on pretty much all of life's early encounters." - Donald Sutherland "When I was... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9781849434256
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.10"We need the theatre, couldn't, couldn't do without it. Could we?" A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress... -
Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone by Bo Burnham
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.60Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, mostly absurd collection of poetry and essays from comedy superstar and creator of Netflix phenomenon Inside Bo Burnham.Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting... -
Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place by Patrick Elliott
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $30.07Joan Eardley (1921-1963) is one of Scotland's most admired artists. During a career that lasted barely fifteen years, she concentrated on two very distinct themes: children in the Townhead area of central Glasgow, and the fishing village of Catterline,... -
Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches by Kirsten Innes 9781913630980
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.44Nightclub, theatre, creative hub, party place, and one of the most important venues in Scotland, Britain and Europe: for almost 25 years, The Arches was the beating heart of Glasgow. In 1991, former punk-turned-theatre director Andy Arnold walked... -
Anne Imhof: Sex by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev 9788857247540
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $51.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857247540Author Carolyn Christov-BakargievFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2720g -
Apollo's Angels: A History Of Ballet Jennifer Homans 9781847082565
RRP: $43.88Booksplease Price: $31.61Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century... -
Ballet and Modern Dance by Susan Au
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $16.89This cornerstone of the World of Art series is a succinct, vivid and authoritative guide to the rich history of western dance in all its incarnations from 16th-century court ballet to the genre-shattering contortions of 21st-century theatrical dance... -
The Outstanding Actor: Seven Keys to Success by Mr Ken Rea
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $43.06Drawing on Ken Rea's 35 years' teaching experience and research, as well as interviews with top actors and directors, The Outstanding Actor identifies seven key qualities that the most successful actors manifest, along with practical exercises that help... -
Dear Green Sounds - Glasgow's Music Through Time and Buildings: The Apollo, Glasgow Pavilion, Mono, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut and More Kate Molleson 9781849341936
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $22.83Glasgow has always been known for its live music, and at the heart of any music community it is the live venues and buildings that are important, and play host to local and touring acts. One of the main reasons for Glasgow's continued blossoming as a... -
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been... -
In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance by Amelia Jones 9780367533762
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $57.93This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.Addressing... -
Theatre and the Macabre Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 9781786838452
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $55.42The 'macabre', as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre - and more broadly, performance - for thousands of years. In its embodied meditations on death and dying, its thematic and aesthetic grotesquerie, and its sensory-rich environments,... -
The Disco Files 1973-78 by Vince Aletti
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $47.09A new edition of the essential chronicle of disco culture In 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for... -
Orphans Dennis Kelly (Author) 9781350265929
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.76Helen and Danny keep themselves to themselves. But the outside world comes crashing into their lives one day when Helen's brother turns up. Covered in blood. Dennis Kelly's new play is a thrilling contemporary suspense story which takes its audience... -
Alexander Calder - From the Stony River to the Sky by Jessica Holmes, Susan Braeuer Dam 9783906915258
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $40.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915258Author Jessica Holmes, Susan Braeuer DamFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth -
Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches Sharrell Luckett 9781138907621
RRP: $83.83Booksplease Price: $71.12Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics,... -
Untitled by Sue Hendra
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.58A fee-fi-fo-festive treat for Supertato fans everywhere! It's showtime in the supermarket as Supertato and the veggies put on their very own production of Jack and the Beanstalk, starring The Evil Pea as Jack and Supertato as Jack's mum. There are... -
Ultimate Drama Activities for the Classroom by Joanne Watkinson 9781914228131
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.01Packed full of games, activities and exercises, this book is designed to be a drama teacher's best friend. Written by a drama teacher with over twenty years' experience which includes heading up a performing arts faculty in a secondary school, GCSE and... -
Nine Ways of Seeing a Body by Sandra Reeve
RRP: $24.38Booksplease Price: $20.65This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the... -
William Kentridge by Stephen Clingman 9781912520732
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $41.34The South African artist William Kentridge Hon RA was born in Johannesburg in 1955 and lives and works there to this day. He is internationally renowned for the expressionism of his work in numerous media, among them charcoal, printmaking, sculpture and... -
Lovesong by Abi Morgan
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $20.12'That is the story of our beginning. And this is the story of...the end' Lovesong is the story of one couple, told from two different points in their lives - as young lovers in their 20s and as worldly companions looking back on their relationship... -
I Wish I Was Lonely/The Oh Fuck Moment by Hannah Walker
Booksplease Price: $29.11Two performance texts by Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe The Oh Fuck Moment Fucking up is the truest, funniest, most terrifying moment you can experience. Poet Hannah Jane Walker and theatre-maker Chris Thorpe examine the poetic guts of... -
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.19NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW'A gripping account of an extraordinary life' Daily Telegraph Born on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement... -
Wicked: The Grimmerie by David Cote 9781401308209
RRP: $60.43Booksplease Price: $48.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401308209Author David CoteFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 1440gDimensions(mm) 310mm * 238mm * 30mm -
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $22.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528649Author Shayda KafaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press