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A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer by Eugenio Barba 9780415378611
RRP: €65.44€57.98First Published in 2005. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology subtly juxtaposes visual demonstrations of the performer's craft, from a wealth of Eastern and Western sources. More than just a dictionary, this is a handbook for theatre practitioners and a... -
How Love is Spelt by Chloe Moss
RRP: €16.65€11.82'She wanted spontaneity, adventure... I said I can be spontaneous... I just need a little bit of time to plan.' Peta is new in town and ready for whatever London has to throw at her. She's looking for romance, for friendship, for exciting people to... -
Misterman by Enda Walsh
RRP: €14.27€10.23A virtuosic study of one man's descent into religious mania in small-town Ireland. Inishfree might seem like a quaint Irish town, but fierce evangelist Thomas Magill knows better. He knows that jovial Dwain Flynn is a miserable drunk, that Timmy... -
The Articulate Body: The Physical Training of the Actor Anne Dennis 9781854596833
RRP: €20.22€14.84The highly regarded actor training manual by top movement teacher Anne Dennis. This inspirational and instructive book shows how actors can use their body to be as expressive and 'articulate' as they are with words. It attempts to rethink and analyse... -
The Shakespeare Revue by Christopher Luscombe 9781854592590
RRP: €16.65€11.82An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard. Devised for, and first performed by, the Royal Shakespeare Company, this show has been a hit with audiences all over the world. It includes songs and sketches by Alan Bennett, Noel... -
The Basics of Filmmaking: Screenwriting, Producing, Directing, Cinematography, Audio, & Editing by Blain Brown
RRP: €42.83€36.66The Basics of Filmmaking is an introductory textbook tailored to the needs of beginning and intermediate film students and independent filmmakers that expertly guides you through the entirety of the craft, from screenwriting all the way through to... -
Collected Screenplays by Harmony Korine
RRP: €22.60€16.04Only 23-years-old when he directed his extraordinary debut feature Gummo, Harmony Korine has since continued to serve notice that he is the riskiest, most radical young talent in independent US film. This collection of three screenplays displays his... -
The Modern Monologue: Men by Michael Earley 9780413672100 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.41€3.33The Modern Monologue in two volumes, one for men and one for women, is an exciting selection of speeches drawn from the landmark plays of the 20th century. The great playwrights of the British, American and European theatre-- and the plays most... -
The Modern Monologue: Men by Michael Earley 9780413672100
€25.09The Modern Monologue in two volumes, one for men and one for women, is an exciting selection of speeches drawn from the landmark plays of the 20th century. The great playwrights of the British, American and European theatre-- and the plays most... -
Auf Wiedersehen Pat by Pat Roach 9781858582924
€18.55This inspirational book is Pat Roach's final goodbye to the world, before his tragic death. The 'Gentle Giant' battled with cancer for six-and-a-half years, before it eventually claimed him, in the small hours of Saturday 17 July, 2004. His confidante... -
Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People by Richard Eyre
€33.75A superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it. In Talking Theatre, Richard Eyre uses his unrivalled access to leading theatre people to allow us to eavesdrop on the stories behind many of the most important... -
The Circus Fire by Stewart O'Nan 9780385496858
RRP: €20.17€13.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385496858Author Stewart O'NanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9781108461825
RRP: €10.70€8.81For this updated critical edition of Romeo and Juliet, Hester Lees-Jeffries has written a completely new introduction. It draws on recent research in theatre to set Romeo and Juliet in its mid-1590s context, making connections with other plays by... -
The Invisible City: Travel, Attention and Performance by Kyle Gillette 9780367134006
RRP: €44.02€38.71The Invisible City explores urban spaces from the perspective of a traveler, writer, and creator of theatre to illuminate how cities offer travelers and residents theatrical visions whilst also remaining mostly invisible, beyond the limits of attention. ... -
Oh Hello! by Dave Ainsworth 9780244789381
RRP: €11.89€10.42Dave Ainsworth's stage play dramatises the last days of actor Charles Hawtrey as he reflects on his life and career with humour and growing despair. "Dave Ainsworth's play ... is actually a moving study in decline and self-delusion" - The... -
Therese Raquin (National Theatre version) by Emile Zola 9781854599582
RRP: €13.08€9.44A gripping psychological thriller adapted for the stage by Emile Zola himself from his own notorious novel, in a version by Nicholas Wright. Stifled by an oppressive mother-in-law and a sickly husband, Therese Raquin falls passionately for another man... -
Taking Stock: The Theatre of Max Stafford Clark by Max Stafford-Clark
RRP: €17.84€13.24Inside accounts of the making of some of the most influential theatre productions of the last four decades. Max Stafford-Clark has been at the cutting edge of theatre in Britain for more than thirty years. Taking Stock draws on diaries, photos and... -
Perve by Stacey Gregg
RRP: €15.46€11.02An irreverent and unsettling play that interrogates paranoia, ambiguity and innocence in our highly sexualised world. Gethin has just finished his film course and reckons he's the next Scorsese. His mum is on at him to do her friend's wedding video -... -
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (stage version by Robert Tressell
RRP: €15.46€11.02Passionate, highly entertaining and gloriously funny - Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators is vividly adapted by Howard Brenton. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists... -
A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt
€20.00When Henry VIII set up his own Church of England with himself at its head, one of the few men who opposed him was Sir Thomas More. The play contrasts More's virtue of 'selfhood' with the cynical assertion that every man has his price. 14 parts: 11 male,... -
Edinburgh's festivals: A Biography by David Pollock 9781804250945
RRP: €17.84€13.24Following the publication of The Edinburgh Festival, Doing the Festival, by arts and culture writer David Pollock, is a deep dive into the history of the festivals and how they shaped modern Edinburgh, with a behind-the-scenes look at the events and... -
Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue by Rona Munro
RRP: €16.65€11.82Two plays, from the award-winning author of Iron. Your Turn to Clean the Stair is a comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement. Old Mrs Mackie has always been in charge of her stair, the communal stairwell she shares with... -
Nothing Is Impossible: My Story by Dynamo
RRP: €15.46€11.66'I immersed myself in magic. I read every book I could get my hands on and practised and practised, day after day and night after night. Magic became my world...some might say an obsession.'When you're a kid life can seem tough; tougher for some than... -
Misbehaving: Stories of protest sparked by the 1970 Miss World contest by Sue Finch
RRP: €19.03€17.22Protests at the Miss World contest in 1970 attracted headlines around the world. This book portrays the new and vibrant women's liberation movement of the 70s. It tells how women protested inside and outside the Albert Hall, who they were, what took... -
Radical Initiatives in Interventionist and Community Drama: Vol 1: New Directions in Drama and Performance by Peter Billingham 9781841500683
RRP: €34.45€33.47This new series of cutting edge critical essays and articles in issues concerning Drama and Performance opens with Volume I, which will focus on issues of Interventionist Drama and related examples of Drama as Community.The list of contributors is... -
Percy Maylam's The Kent Hooden Horse by Richard Maylam 9780752449975
RRP: €17.84€13.74In 1909, Canterbury antiquarian Percy Maylam published his research and remarkable photographs of the fascinating Kent tradition of the hooden horse. He caught the custom in its last traditional phase, but his work inspired a revival after the Second... -
Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties-Augmented: Rock Life in the Sixties-Augmented Edition by Ellen Sander 9780486828473
RRP: €17.24€12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486828473Author Ellen SanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Making Noise Quietly: three short plays by Robert Holman
RRP: €16.65€11.82An acclaimed trilogy of plays exploring the impact of war on ordinary lives. In Being Friends, two young men meet in a Kentish field in 1944 as doodlebugs whizz overhead. One is a conscientious objector, the other an artist, but an intense bond forms... -
Handling Edna: The Unauthorised Biography by Barry Humphries
€19.03The real story behind Dame Edna, the international superstar!Written by the legendary Barry Humphries himself.'I'm suing!!' Dame Edna Everage'Humphries is Australia's John Betjeman' Mail on Sunday'Full of the hilarious innuendo that we love' Woman's... -
Managing Stage Fright: A Guide for Musicians and Music Teachers by Julie Jaffee-Nagel 9780190632038
RRP: €28.55€18.69Why is it that well-prepared, talented, hardworking, and intelligent performers find their performance and self-esteem undermined by the fear of memory slips, technique failures, and public humiliation? In Managing Stage Fright: A Guide for Musicians and... -
Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" by Graley Herren
RRP: €28.55€24.92Time Out of Mind is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan's distinguished artistic career. The present book interprets the songs recorded for Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams by a single singer/dreamer. These... -
Marilyn: Lost Images from the Hollywood Photo Archive by Colin Slater and The Hollywood Photo Archive
RRP: €22.60€17.52From the beginning of her modeling career in 1944 as Norma Jeane Mortensen to her death as the voluptuous Hollywood icon in 1962, Marilyn Monroe posed for thousands of modeling and publicity photos, scores of which have long been forgotten or abandoned... -
A World Elsewhere by Steven Berkoff
RRP: €26.17€23.01A World Elsewhere is Steven Berkoff's bold attempt to describe his multifarious theatrical works.Berkoff outlines the methods that he uses, first of all as an actor, secondly as a playwright and thirdly as theatre director, as well as those subtle... -
After Mrs Rochester by Polly Teale
RRP: €15.46€11.02The hit show from Shared Experience Theatre Company based on the tortured and passionate life of Jean Rhys and her most famous book, Wide Sargasso Sea, the prequel to Jane Eyre. In Wide Sargasso Sea - 'one of the works of genius of the 20th century'... -
Theatre-Rites: Animating Puppets, Objects and Sites Liam Jarvis 9781138352278
RRP: €42.83€37.71Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance, creating ground-breaking work for family audiences since 1995. This book marks the company's 25th anniversary, offering the first in-depth exploration of... -
Yellow Face (TCG Edition) by David Henry Hwang
RRP: €21.41€13.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363402Author David Henry HwangFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U... -
Musical Theatre: A Workbook by David Henson
€35.89Drawing on the history and development of Musical Theatre, this engaging workbook provides a comprehensive overview of the nuts and bolts of the discipline. Introducing students to the basics of the theory and history of musical theatre, it covers all... -
Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theatre Erika Fischer-Lichte 9780415276764
RRP: €51.16€44.73In this fascinating volume, acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in Western cultures as mirrored in particular fusions of theatre and ritual. Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual... -
Performing Care: New Perspectives on Socially Engaged Performance by Amanda Stuart Fisher 9781526163967
RRP: €29.75€21.32This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of... -
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (stage version) by David Edgar
RRP: €15.46€11.02A superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde. During one of his audacious experiments trying to separate good from evil in human nature, the kind and gifted Dr Jekyll...