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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407576Author Rachel DratchFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm...

Training in somatic techniques-- holistic body-centered movement that promotes psycho-physical awareness and well-being--provides an effective means of improving dance students' efficiency and ease of movement. However, dance educators do not always have...

"one of the most important plays of our time" --Howard Taubman, The New York TimesIn Vichy France in 1942, eight men and a boy are seized by the collaborationist authorities and made to wait in a building that may be a police station. Some of them are...

Foreword by John Boyega Just in time for the next blockbuster, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, this unique and beautifully designed compendium with removable features traces one of the franchise's most iconic characters-the stormtrooper-from initial...

Showrunners is an insider's guide to creating and maintaining a hit show in today's golden age of television. The official companion to the documentary Showrunners, this highly informative book features exclusive interviews with such acclaimed and...

Six plays by some of the most exciting and distinctive female voices in British theatre, exploring the heartbreaking truth about the lives of women in the criminal justice system. The plays were commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theatre and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984878991Author Erich SchwartzelFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

This title offers a practical guide to starting or running a theatre for young people. From the initial idea to form the company, through the tense days of rehearsal, to the final performance of the first production, it covers all aspects of youth...

Urban Sensographies views the human body as a highly nuanced sensor to explore how various performance-based methods can be implemented to gather usable 'felt data' about the environment of the city as the basis for creating embodied mappings.The...

This fully updated edition includes the 25th Bond film, No Time To Die, and also features a chapter covering Never Say Never Again, which starred Sean Connery as Bond but was not an official Eon film. The Bond films have entertained annoyed, excited,...

When David Tennant took over as the Tenth Doctor in 2005, the rejuvenated science fiction series was still in its infancy, having just completed its first series. Under the direction of showrunner Russell T. Davies, Doctor Who had burst back onto our...

'One of the best things published about cinema.' Sight & SoundHerzog was once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most important director alive. Famous for his frequent collaborations with mercurial actor Klaus Kinski - including the epics Aguirre, the...

Digital Costume Design and Collaboration gives in-depth instruction on how to draw, render, and fully design costumes using online tools and software. Grounded in the use of Photoshop, the book explains the process of building a costume design from...

Beginning with early trailblazers like Different from the Others, Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema's greatest queer films to guide you through the eras. From Hitchcock's Rope and cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show through the New Queer...

You're a part of this too. Dive deeper into Matt Reeves' remarkable film The Batman with this one-of-a-kind edition of the screenplay. The Batman follows the Caped Crusader early in his career, as faces off against sinister serial killer The Riddler,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080033Author HalpernFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 235g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398816220Author Eric SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

In Seven Samurai (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Akira Kurosawa's celebrated film, regarded by many to be the major achievement of Japanese cinema, is an epic that evokes the cultural upheaval brought on by the collapse of...

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks.Each of the chapters...

From Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins's 1879 musical Peculiar Sam to Lynn Nottage's 2021 musical MJ, the 'Black musical' does not get the credit it deserves for sustaining the genre we know and love. This introductory book is devoted to representative...

The three-act structure is so last century! Unlike other screenwriting books, this unique storytelling guide pushes you to break free of tired, formulaic writing by bending or breaking the rules of storytelling as we know them. This new edition dives...

This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online. ...

The town of Port Talbot has long been seen (quite literally) as synonymous with the steel industry. Yet it also has another claim to fame as the actors' capital of Wales. It has produced a remarkable number of actors since the inter-war years. Richard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573609343Author Loos ColetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Aardman Animations are, unquestionably, one of the biggest success stories in animated films: their masterpieces include Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run and Shaun the Sheep, as well as much-loved characters such as Morph. Cracking Animation is...

Insightful, in-depth and evocative, this book is a collection of conversations with nine of the most innovative theatre directors of our time in Europe and North America: * Eugenio Barba * Lev Dodin * Declan Donnellan * Elizabeth LeCompte * Robert LePage...

All the world's a stage. Have you ever been trapped in a bad relationship, playing a role that doesn't suit you? Jen and Sam are also trapped ... in a multiverse of Shakepeare's complete works. On their quest to discover the doorway back to reality...

Line of Duty holds its status as the defining TV crime drama of today. The conspiracy theme of the series chimes at a time when public institutions and representatives are distrusted. Ted Hastings, the show's head of anti-corruption, has emerged as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345803221Author Christopher PlummerFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm)...

Stop writing? This was your first play. Did Shakespeare let Titus Andronicus put him off? An experimental tragedy about a pie? You've just begun!Drury Lane, 1800. Mrs Sarah Siddons, universally acclaimed as the greatest actress of all time, holds...

Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth- century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor, and host of the hit NPR music radio program, What Makes It Great? Now, in Listening for America,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983141266Author Linda JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Writers Tribe BooksPublisher Writers Tribe BooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

All About Lunar New Year: Things to Make and Do is the perfect gift! Lunar New Year is one of the most significant holidays celebrated across Asia. This beautiful book is filled with crafts and recipes, fun...

During his career, Michael Mann has drawn a singular and innovative line within the Hollywood industry. The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Revelations, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice, and even Public Enemies, have reshuffled the cards of American cinema to the...

Within seventeen years of the first public broadcast in Britain, the nation again found itself at war. As the Second World War progressed, the BBC eventually realised the potential benefits of public radio and the service became vital in keeping an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425271025Author Nathan Robert BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market. As well...

Just in time for the 25th Anniversary of the beloved sci-fi class Stargate, Chevrons Locked arrives as one of the most comprehensive histories of the franchise to ever exist. You're loved the tv shows, the movies, and the podcasts, now get ready to dive...

At the centre of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in...