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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060938376Author Richard ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1230gDimensions(mm)...

From well-known auteur of the American theatre scene, Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act is a fascinating and accessible book about directing theatre, acting and the collaborative creative process.Writing clearly and passionately, Bogart speaks to a wide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941599047Author Bruce FifeFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Piccadilly Books,U.S.Publisher Piccadilly Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736290040Author Patrushkha MierzwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mark and Patrushkha, Inc.Publisher Mark and Patrushkha, Inc.Weight(grams)...

"Extraordinarily valuable, illuminating, and even entertaining, Forest of Pressure brims with the types of information that only a key insider can get his hands on."-Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, New York University Ogawa Productions-known in Asia as...

Cicero Orationes. Vol. II (Pro Milone, Caesarianae, Philippicae.)Book InformationISBN 9780198146063Author A. C. ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 194mm * 131mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760620974Author Leah PurcellFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm * 6mm

This core teaching text provides a thorough overview of the recently emerged field of transnational film studies. Covering a range of approaches to analysing films about migrant, cross-cultural and cross-border experience, Steven Rawle demonstrates how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733324024Author Craig SchuftanFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint ABC BooksPublisher ABC BooksWeight(grams) 475g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901764Author William E. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

Passionate, 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...

If you think about it, all languages are made up - some are just more open about it than others.In The Universal Translator, Yens Wahlgren heads up an expedition through time, space and multiple universes to explore the words that have built worlds. From...

Scotland's greatest export. The world's first super spy. Voted the sexiest man on the planet. Sir Sean Connery was a titanic figure on screen and off for over half a century. Behind the son of a factory worker, growing up in near-poverty on the harsh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804250129Author David PollockFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Luath Press LtdPublisher Luath Press LtdDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 20mm

Get Started in Film Making is the essential guide for all budding film makers, empowering and inspiring anyone to unleash their creative side. Completely revised and updated, it is the perfect manual for smartphone Spielbergs, Go-Pro adrenaline junkies,...

The first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theatre, computer arts and politics, "The Politics of New Media Theatre" is an investigation into the political...

It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men...

Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies is a strikingly authoritative and wide ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Its three-part structure moves from the first steps in starting to...

A collection of powerful, evocative and hilarious songs collected in the 1970s, My Song is My Own takes the reader on a musical journey of courtship, desire and sex, marriage, motherhood,childhood and work from the last five centuries. With full sheet...

In Stanislavski and the Actor , Stanislavski scholar and biographer Jean Bendetti has recovered materials that can stand as a final, last work by the great director and teacher. In this volume readers will find the first English text of Stanislavski s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRichard Kelleher is a curator of medieval and modern money at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.Book InformationISBN 9781913645335Author Richard...

Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story. Ben Power weaves the text of Romeo and Juliet into a provocative new tale of love and sacrifice. Re-imagining Shakespeare's story, A Tender Thing is an elegiac yet ultimately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486217451Author Thoinot ArbeauFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The history of science fiction film now spans more than 100 years, during which time more than 1000 science fiction films of various kinds have been made, thanks to the contributions of filmmakers from around the world. The versatility of science fiction...

How is one to think the significance of the art of film for philosophy? What would it mean to introduce film as a question into the heart of the philosophical enterprise? How would this transform our understanding of film, on the one hand, and of...

An encyclopedic treasure trove from the mastermind behind "The Greatest Show on Earth"An encyclopedic treasure trove from the mastermind behind "The Greatest Show on Earth"About the AuthorJames W. Cook is an associate professor of history and American...

A heart-in-mouth YA horror-thriller, perfect for teen fans of The Haunting of Hill House ... Iris is obsessed with star YouTube ghost hunting duo, Zach and Lucas, who disappeared at an undisclosed location several months...

Lionel Tertis was internationally recognised to have been perhaps the greatest viola player of all time. That the viola is today an important solo instrument and orchestral unit is entirely his achievement, and his design of a large but easily manageable...

Goat Island are one of the world's leading contemporary performance ensembles. Their intimate, low-tech, intensely physical performances represent a unique hybrid of strategies and techniques drawn from live art, experimental theatre and postmodern dance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1988.Book InformationISBN 9780930452896Author Alfred UhryFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578472249Author Donna HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Rvg BooksPublisher Rvg BooksWeight(grams) 1161gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 26mm

First 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...

The Politics of Performance^ addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation into post-war alternative and community theatre. It proposes a theory of performace as ideological transaction,...

Two by Two is a fast-paced swirl through the dancing scene in L.A., where Leonardo DiCaprio has been known to swing at The Derby and Sandra Bullock salsas at El Floridita. Eve Babitz, a writer known for her hip, off-the-cuff, idiosyncratic style, spends...

A Sourcebook on African-American Performance is the first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990s.As with all titles in the Worlds of Performance...

Theatre and war have long been bedfellows. This brief study looks beyond theatre that is about war, and instead focuses on the relationship between theatre and war: how they feed into and inform one another, from rehearsal to post-production analysis...

'Robert Cohen's book, Acting Power, follows the tradition of his other book, Acting One, and has been the veritable bible for acting teachers for the last quarter century.' - David Krasner, Emerson College'This book, above all else, is an attempt to...

Thirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles. * Brian Cox on Titus Andronicus in Deborah Warner's visceral RSC production * Judi Dench on being directed by...

From a professional magician and New York Times bestselling author, 116 tricks, stunts, and brainteasers that will engage the grandchildren and provide giggles, jaw-dropping awe, and wonderful memories. Guaranteed to make grandparenting even more fun,...

What can performers in the West learn from the technical performance traditions of Africa and Asia?The Intercultural Performance Handbook opens up a new world of technique for performers. The first ever full-length, fully illustrated manual for...