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Clown: The Physical Comedian by Joe Dieffenbacher
$56.22Clown: The Physical Comedian is a detailed and comprehensive workbook for those interested in the art of clowning and physical theatre, including actors, directors, improvisers, stand-up comedians, circus artists, mask performers and devisers of new work... -
Technical Theater for Nontechnical People by Drew Campbell
RRP: $33.13$29.19Here is help for actors, directors, stage managers, producers, and event planners who want to understand every aspect of technical theater-from scenery, lighting, and sound to props, costumes, and stage management.In this thoroughly revised new edition,... -
The Pleasures of Horror by Matthew Hills 9780826458889
RRP: $81.88$81.33This exploration of horror fictions - literary, cinematic and televisual - looks at the emotions they engender in their audiences. The text is divided into three sections. The first examines how horror is valued and devalued in different cultural fields;... -
Toward a Future Theatre: Conversations during a Pandemic by Caridad Svich
RRP: $42.88$38.18Featuring conversations with theatre makers in the US and UK during the first 8 months of the Covid-19 lockdown, this collection reveals the innovations in digital theatre as artists, companies and theatres had to adjust to the restrictions and formulate... -
From Blitz to Glitz: The Autobiography of Jess Conrad OBE by Jess Conrad 9781837914562
RRP: $72.13$38.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837914562Author Jess ConradFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Oak Tree BooksPublisher Andrews UK LimitedWeight(grams) 608g -
The Exorcist by Mark Kermode
RRP: $25.33$21.53Inspired by an alleged real case of demonic possession in 1949, The Exorcist became an international phenomenon on its release in 1973. A blockbusting adaptation of a best-selling novel, it was praised as 'deeply spiritual' by some sections of the... -
Kim Newman's Video Dungeon: The Collected Reviews by Kim Newman
RRP: $29.23$15.50Ripped from the pages of Empire magazine, the first collection of film critic, film historian and novelist Kim Newman's reviews of the best and worst B movies. Some of the cheapest, trashiest, goriest and, occasionally, unexpectedly good films from the... -
Writing for the Cut: Shaping Your Script for Cinema by Greg Loftin 9781615933006
RRP: $43.88$29.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615933006Author Greg LoftinFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese Productions -
The Divine Ideas Tradition in Christian Mystical Theology by Mark A. McIntosh 9780199580811
RRP: $163.80$148.65By the time of early modernity, a widely deployed tenet of Christian thought had begun to vanish. The divine ideas tradition, the teaching that all beings have an eternal existence as aspects of God's mind, had functioned across a wide range of central... -
Elizabethan Jacobean Drama: The Theatre in Its Time by G. Blakemore Evans
RRP: $29.23$25.80The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to... -
Fifty Key Theatre Directors by Shomit Mitter
RRP: $44.83$39.31Fifty Key Theatre Directors covers the work of practitioners who have shaped and pushed back the boundaries of theatre and performance. The authors provide clear and insightful overviews of the approaches and impact of fifty of the most influential... -
Yes So I Said Yes by David Ireland
$21.55It's harder to kill people when there's a peace process on. Ulster Loyalist Alan Black is kept awake every night by his neighbour McCorrick's dog barking. To add to his difficulties, McCorrick refuses to acknowledge that he even owns a dog, let alone... -
Up in the Cheap Seats: A Historical Memoir of Broadway by Ron Fassler 9780999315392
$29.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999315392Author Ron FasslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Griffith Moon PublishingPublisher Griffith Moon PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Style: Acting in High Comedy by Maria Aitken 9781557832146
$17.59(Applause Books). This book isn't a critical examination of high comedy. Rather, it's a collection of suggestions for the middlemen: the actors who have to catch the comic spark from the playwright and pass it on to the audience. The effort involved must... -
The Tattooed Lady: A History by Amelia Klem Osterud 9781589799967
RRP: $29.23$27.94Living in a time when it was scandalous even to show a bit of ankle, a small number of courageous women covered their bodies in tattoos and traveled the country, performing nearly nude on carnival stages. These gutsy women spun amazing stories for... -
The Film Buff's Bucket List: The 50 Movies of the 2000s to See Before You Die by Chris Stuckmann 9781633537620
RRP: $29.23$25.58#1 Best Seller Film Buff Movie GuideBest movies, best films, best indies. Theaters around the world are dominated by comic book heroes, ice princesses, apocalyptic love-struck teens, and whatever masterpiece Pixar is rolling out. It's clear that cinema... -
Moments that Made the Movies by David Thomson 9780500516416
RRP: $77.90$50.78In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments - which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery - from seventy-two carefully selected films across a hundred-year time span... -
The Vision of Modern Dance: In the Words of Its Creators by Jean Morrison Brown 9780871272058
$45.08This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other modern dance artists come to life in... -
Being a Director: A Life in Theatre by Di Trevis
RRP: $62.38$55.24Di Trevis is a world-renowned director, whose work with Britain's National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and directing productions worldwide, has deeply informed her knowledge of the director's craft.In Being a Director, she draws on a wealth of... -
Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age by Adrian Johns
RRP: $40.95$34.18When the pirate operator Oliver Smedley shot and killed his rival Reg Calvert in Smedley's country cottage on June 21, 1966, it was a turning point for the outlaw radio stations dotting the coastal waters of England. Situated on ships and offshore forts... -
The Innocence of Memories by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: $29.23$19.62The Innocence of Memories is an important addition to the oeuvre of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Comprised of the screenplay of the acclaimed film by Grant Gee from 2015 (by the same name), a transcript of the author and filmmaker in... -
The Vakhtangov Sourcebook by Andrei Malaev-Babel
RRP: $62.38$56.02'Scrupulously compiled and skillfully translated by Andrei Malaev-Babel, The Vakhtangov Sourcebook ... provides the most comprehensive addition to English readers' knowledge of the philosophy, pedagogy, and legacy of Vakhtangov.' - Modern Language... -
This Is Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780306808340
$65.05Innovative film and theatre director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915-1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such great radio works as "War of the Worlds" to his... -
Inclusive Character Analysis: Putting Theory into Practice for the 21st Century Theatre Classroom by Jennifer Thomas
RRP: $62.38$55.24Inclusive Character Analysis foregrounds representations of race, gender, class, ability, and sexual orientation by blending script analysis with a variety of critical theories in order to create a more inclusive performance practice for the classroom... -
Booking ""Hawaii Five-O: An Episode Guide and Critical History of the 1968-1980 Television Detective Series by Karen Rhodes 9780786431083
RRP: $35.08$29.00On September 26, 1968, ""Hawaii Five-O"" premiered on CBS. The show's exotic locale and quality writing and acting made it a fixture in the network's line-up for the next 12 years. Today the detective series continues to be very popular in syndication... -
Dressing the Part: Television's Most Stylish Shows by Hal Rubenstein 9780063272590
RRP: $58.50$38.08From longtime fashion director, consultant, media personality, and author, Hal Rubenstein, comes a lush, full color, illustrated guide to the most influential fashion on television from the 1950s to today, revealing the surprising ways our favorite shows... -
Downton Abbey: Series 2 Scripts (Official) by Julian Fellowes 9780007487400
RRP: $39.00$30.07Immerse yourself in Julian Fellowes' multi-award-winning drama. The full scripts of Series Two include previously unseen dialogue and drama. Downton Abbey has become a national phenomenon and the most successful British drama of our time... -
The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter by Kathleen Rowe
RRP: $46.78$40.64Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman-often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or "woman on... -
Silent Visions by John Bengston 9781595800572
$41.77Highlighting visions of a bygone age preserved in the background of Harold Lloyd's films, this history explores the landscapes of popular film locations through archival photographs, vintage maps and scores of then-and-now photographs. From Coney Island... -
So You Want to be a Producer by Lawrence Turman 9780413775849
$47.17So You Want to Be a Producer is packed with information and advice from top Hollywood producers, writers and directors and is a must-read for anyone interested in what it really takes to get a film made, including: * Finding your story * Obtaining the... -
Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies: The Screenwriters Guide to 50 Films from the Masters by Salva Rubio 9780984157662
RRP: $38.03$36.54In his best-selling book, Save the Cat! (R) Goes to the Movies, Blake Snyder provided 50 "beat sheets" to 50 films, mostly studio-made. Now his student, Salva Rubio, applies Blake's principles to 50 celebrated non-studio films (again with 5 beat sheets... -
Charlie Kaufman And Hollywood's Merry Band Of Pranksters, Fabulists And Dreamers: An Excursion into the American New Wave by Derek Hill 9781842432532
$6.79Since the late 1990s, a subtle, subversive element has been at work within the staid confines of the Hollywood dream factory. Young filmmakers like Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry, David O. Russell, Richard Linklater, and Sofia Coppola rode in... -
Joan Littlewood Nadine Holdsworth 9781138571686
RRP: $76.03$67.26This book uses original archival material to consider the theatrical and cultural innovations of Joan Littlewood and her company, 'Theatre Workshop'. Littlewood had a huge impact on the way theatre was generated, rehearsed and presented during the... -
Theatre and Tourism Margaret Werry 9781350349957
RRP: $19.48$16.50How does tourism impact theatre? How do theatrical ways of seeing, knowing, and acting shape tourism? How do economic and political processes like colonization or neoliberalization influence them both? And what is the future of these twinned global... -
Sleepaway Camp: Making the Movie and Reigniting the Campfire by Jeff Hayes 9781948221283
RRP: $27.28$20.22As featured in Fangoria, Movieweb, ComingSoon, Queerty, Rue Morgue, Yahoo News, Bloody Disgusting, and more!In 1983, Robert Hiltzik's Sleepaway Camp was quickly disregarded by film reviewers. Variety called it a "tired version of teen oriented horror... -
Bond Plays: 10: Dea; The Testament of this Day; The Price of One; The Angry Roads; The Hungry Bowl by Edward Bond
RRP: $42.88$41.67Bond Plays: 10 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved, Lear, The Pope's Wedding and Early Morning. The volume comprises four previously unpublished plays, one previously published play and a comprehensive introduction... -
Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition by Bill Nichols
RRP: $87.75$81.32The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps... -
Humour by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $21.43$19.46A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we... -
Gus Van Sant: The Art of Making Movies by Katya Tylevich
RRP: $39.00$28.37The first book to talk about the creative process of one of Hollywood's most iconic directorsFrom Drugstore Cowboy to Elephant, Milk and Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant's films have captured the imagination of more than one generation. Acclaimed as both... -
Clue: The Musical by Peter DePietro
$23.65Musical comedy Book by Peter DePietro. Music by Galen Blum, Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci. Lyrics by Tom Chiodo. Based on the Parker Brothers' Board Game. Characters: 5male, 3female Unit set. The internationally popular game is now a fun filled...