Performing Arts

Maureen Furniss surveys the cultural, political and economic context of how this dynamic industry evolved, emphasizing both artistic and technical achievements from around the world - from Hollywood to Tokyo, from Moscow to Sydney. Featuring a timeline...

Musical Theatre Song is a handbook for musical theatre performers, providing them with the wide-ranging skill set they need for success in today's competitive musical theatre environment. Breaking down the process into knowing how to select your song...

Screenplay: Building Story Through Character is designed to help screenwriters turn simple or intricate ideas into exciting, multidimensional film narratives with fully-realized characters. Based on Jule Selbo's unique 11-step structure for building...

During the '30s and '40s, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after divorce or separation. Their female protagonists were strong, independent, and sophisticated. Here, Stanley Cavell names this new...

A classic guide to dramatic writing now revised and expanded for a new generation of playwrights and screenwriters This practical guide provides the principles of dramatic writing. Playwrights and screenwriters will discover these essential principles...

The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new release a guaranteed box office hit. Yet this highly profitable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380798544Author Christine VachonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Branded as rebels and traitors, the members of the Alliance worked in the shadows, gathering information and support from across the galaxy to bring an end to the Empire's tyranny. Concealed within a secure case, their most vital and sensitive...

Following the global success of Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island comes the next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' cinematic Monsterverse, an epic action adventure that pits Godzilla against some of the most popular monsters in pop...

A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway. Winner of the 2003 Olivier Award for Best New Play. Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he...

This volume provides new, ground-breaking perspectives on the globally renowned work of the Tanztheater Wuppertal and its iconic founder and artistic director, Pina Bausch. The company's performances, how it developed its productions, the global transfer...

What do we mean when we talk about bodies in theatre? And how does theatre affect the way we think about the human body?Bodies are vital elements of theatre production and spectatorship. But the body is not just physical, it is also conceptual. Drawing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737450047Author Mark O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 454Imprint Mark O'Connor Musik InternationalPublisher Mark O'Connor Musik...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684115976Author Lillian HellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)...

'A delight from the first page to the last' Milly Johnson'Laugh-out-loud funny, as warm as it is witty...If you love Milly Johnson you will love Laura Kemp' Debbie JohnsonCharlotte Bold is nothing like her name - she is shy and timid and just wants a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602146Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010. 'I expect you have been told fairytales before. But you have never really heard...

The quintessentially English cricket commentator, writer, oenophile, bon viveur, collector and national treasure, fondly known as "Blowers", tells his riveting life story. Born in Norfolk and educated at Eton and Cambridge, Henry Calthorpe...

The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment.Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1 includes A Chorus of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419775963Author Nickelodeon NickelodeonPage Count 24Imprint ABRAMSPublisher ABRAMSWeight(grams) 17g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Best Play, Tony Awards 2005 and Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781559362764Author John Patrick ShanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint...

Whether it's a crew of two hundred shooting a cast of thousands on horseback, or a crew of twelve filming one person in a room, each and every successful movie production requires a strong First Assistant Director (AD) at its helm. In this new and...

She has sold more than 150 million albums, wowed sell-out audiences around the globe and starred in iconic music videos but Britney Spears' success has come with an unbearable price tag.This biography uncovers the story of how this church-going girl from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780896760820Author William BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Quite Specific Media GroupPublisher Quite Specific Media Group LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403961709Author Allain PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave USA

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'I wish I'd had this book when I was starting out as a young director... I cannot recommend it highly enough' Marianne Elliott, from her Foreword This dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book in the bestselling Drama Games series offers dozens...

This book examines the performance of Greek tragedy in the classical Athenian theatre. Whilst post structuralist criticism of Greek tragedy has tended to focus on the literary text, the analysis of stagecraft and the theatre has been markedly...

A full understanding and appreciation of narrative film, George Wilson argues, requires a concept of point of view necessarily distinct from, yet comparable to, contemporary theories of point of view in prose fiction. Now available in paperback,...

A revealing, funny and wonderfully moving portrait of four women who sign up to join the Women's Land Army during World War II. Based on one hundred and fifty letters and interviews with original Land Girls, along with songs from the period, Lilies on...

Book InformationISBN 9781782194231Author Chloe SimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint John Blake Publishing LtdPublisher John Blake Publishing Ltd

This one-of-a-kind maze book set in a galaxy far, far away is a fun, interactive way to explore the Star WarsTM universe. Expert maze creator and lifelong Star Wars fan Sean C. Jackson brings the saga to life through more than 30 beautifully...

The long-awaited, enormously entertaining memoir by one of the great artists of our time.In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life...

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy both passed away in the 1950s, yet their films still have the power to reduce audiences old and new to helpless laughter. There has been no comprehensive account of their lives and work, until now. The roots of their comic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136040Author Megan FairchildFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

It's a story that has a beginning, a middle, but as yet, no end. John McGrath's winding, furious, innovative play tracks the economic history and exploitation of the Scottish Highlands from the post-Rebellion suppression of the clans to the story of...

"So smart and entertaining it should come with its own popcorn"-PeopleCoinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the film version of Truman Capote's Breakast at Tiffany's, the acclaimed, New York Times bestseller that is the definitive account of Audrey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250178190Author Bruce CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm)...

A passionate, illuminating exploration of Shakespeare's greatest plays and characters, by the director of acclaimed theatre company Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory. Combining close textual analysis with practical insights based on his extensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578596898Author Marie D. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press