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Wong Kar-wai by Peter Brunette
£16.72Called the leading heir to the great directors of post-WWII Europe and lavished with awards, Wong Kar-wai has redefined perceptions of Hong Kong's film industry. Wong's visual brilliance and emphasis on atmosphere over action have set him apart from... -
One Off by Ric Renton
£11.05If I owned Durham, and I owned hell, I'd rent out Durham and I'd live in hell. Born in Denton Burn, Ric Renton had a troubled upbringing that led to him spending his young adulthood in prison. During a stint in solitary confinement, he declined a... -
The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte by Judith Chaffee
RRP: £44.99£39.68From Commedia dell'Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera,... -
Shallow Grave by John Hodge
RRP: £9.99£7.32Set in the appropriately Gothic surroundings of contemporary Edinburgh, Shallow Grave presents a trio of affluent characters whose feckless lives are disrupted when they discover the corpse of their recently arrived flatmate, plus a suitcase bulging with... -
Adolphe Appia: Texts on Theatre by Richard C. Beacham 9780415513319
RRP: £42.99£37.59Adolphe Appia swept away the foundations of traditional theatre and set the agenda for the development of theatrical practice this century. In Adolphe Appia: Texts on Theatre, Richard Beacham brings together for the first time selections from all his... -
On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the House by Eugenio Barba
RRP: £36.99£32.53"A theatre which is able to speak to each spectator in a different and penetrating language is not a fantastic idea, nor a utopia. This is the theatre for which many of us, directors and leaders of groups, trained for a long time....." - from the... -
The Ends of Performance by Peggy Phelan
£24.54A broad and inclusive volume of the celebrations and critiques of performance arts Focusing on the living arts-dance, theatre, music, performance art, ritual, and popular entertainment-performance studies expands our understanding of "performance" as... -
Prometheus & The Archaeology of Sleep by Julian Beck 9780998279398
RRP: £30.00£18.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998279398Author Julian BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Fast BooksPublisher Fast BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 18mm -
Hollywood: Her Story, An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies by Jill Tietjen
RRP: £30.00£27.25The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blache, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blache, the first female director, made hundreds of movies during her career. Thousands of women with passion and commitment... -
Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann
RRP: £43.99£38.84This comprehensive, authoritative account of tragedy is the culmination of Hans-Thies Lehmann's groundbreaking contributions to theatre and performance scholarship. It is a major milestone in our understanding of this core foundation of the dramatic arts... -
Pina Bausch by Royd Climenhaga
RRP: £36.99£32.53This newly-updated second edition explores Pina Bausch's work and methods by combining interviews, first-hand accounts, and practical exercises from her developmental process for students of both dance and theatre. This comprehensive overview of her work... -
Children's Television in Britain: History, Discourse and Policy by Hannah Davies
£36.98The rise of more commercially-based, global media has significant implicaitons for the child audience. Many are concerned that the public service tradition of children's television is threatened, and that quality and diversity in programming will be... -
Jerzy Grotowski by James Slowiak
RRP: £36.99£32.53Master director, teacher, and theorist, Jerzy Grotowski's work extended well beyond the conventional limits of performance. Now revised and reissued, this book combines: an overview of Grotowski's life and the distinct phases of his work an... -
Children's Television in Britain: History, Discourse and Policy by Hannah Davies 9780851706856 [USED COPY]
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Integrative Performance: Practice and Theory for the Interdisciplinary Performer by Experience Bryon 9780415694483
RRP: £31.99£28.33Integrative Performance serves a crucial need of 21st-century performers by providing a transdisciplinary approach to training. Its radical new take on performance practice is designed for a climate that increasingly requires fully rounded artists. The... -
The Dissemination of Music: Studies in the History of Music Publishing by Hans Lenneberg
RRP: £44.99£39.28First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138967793Author Hans LennebergFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 299g -
The Phenomenology of Dance by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
£23.32When The Phenomenology of Dance was first published in 1966, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone asked: "When we look at a dance, what do we see?" Her questions, about the nature of our experience of dance and the nature of dance as a formed and performed... -
Porridge Scripts by Richard Webber
RRP: £10.99£7.78Regarded by many critics as Britain's best sitcom, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' tales of life inside Slade Prison first hit the screens in 1973 and ran until 1977. But it has never faded from the nation's consciousness. Ronnie Barker as Fletch the... -
Young People, New Theatre: A Practical Guide to an Intercultural Process by Noel Greig
RRP: £35.99£31.69Young People, New Theatre is a `how-to' book; exploring and explaining the process of collaborating creatively with groups of young people across cultural divides. Organized into exercises, case studies and specific topics, this book plots a route for... -
Makers of Modern Theatre: An Introduction by Robert Leach 9780415312417 [USED COPY]
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Makers of Modern Theatre: An Introduction by Robert Leach 9780415312417
RRP: £35.99£31.69Who were the giants of the twentieth-century stage, and exactly how did they influence modern theatre?Robert Leach's Makers of Modern Theatre is the first detailed introduction to the work of the key theatre-makers who shaped the drama of the last... -
Dance Words by Valerie Preston-Dunlop
RRP: £36.99£33.53First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718656059Author Valerie Preston-DunlopFormat PaperbackPage Count 740Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic... -
Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania by Kelly Askew
£53.55Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili musical performance, Kelly Askew... -
Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement by Andy Lavender
RRP: £35.99£31.69Performance in the Twenty-First Century: Theatres of Engagement addresses the reshaping of theatre and performance after postmodernism. Andy Lavender argues provocatively that after the 'classic' postmodern tropes of detachment, irony, and contingency,... -
Professional Wrestling: Politics and Populism by Sharon Mazer
RRP: £35.00£33.91A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of working contemporary events into storylines and commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, professional... -
The Radical in Performance: Between Brecht and Baudrillard by Baz Kershaw
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Radical in Performance investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance. It is the first full-length study to explore the link between a western theatre which, says Kershaw, is largely outdated and the... -
Dance and Light: The Partnership Between Choreography and Lighting Design by Kevin Dreyer
RRP: £34.99£30.85Dance and Light examines the interconnected relationship between movement and design, the fluid partnership that exists between the two disciplines, and the approaches that designers can take to enhance dance performances through lighting design.The book... -
Award Monologues for Women by Patrick Tucker
RRP: £32.95£22.25Award Monologues for Women is a collection of fifty-four monologues taken from plays written since 1980 that have been nominated for the Pullitzer Prize, the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards in New York, and The Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards... -
Agnes Varda by Kelley Conway
£16.72Both a precursor to and a critical member of the French New Wave, Agnes Varda weaves documentary and fiction into tapestries that portray distinctive places and complex human beings. Critics and aficionados have celebrated Varda's independence and... -
The Inter-galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction by Farah Mendlesohn 9780786435036
RRP: £24.99£20.29Science fiction is often considered the genre of ideas and imagination, which would seem to make it ideal for juveniles and young adults; however, the ideas are often dispensed by adults. This book considers the development of science fiction for... -
Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture by Patrice Pavis 9780415060387 [USED COPY]
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Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture by Patrice Pavis
RRP: £39.99£35.06Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake politically and aesthetically when cultures meet at the crossroads of... -
The Mentalist Code and The Search for Red John by David Daniel 9781495942228
RRP: £18.75£15.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495942228Author David DanielFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Anthems for Choirs 3 by Philip Ledger 9780193532427 [USED COPY]
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Anthems for Choirs 3 by Philip Ledger 9780193532427
RRP: £20.95£19.6624 anthems for soprano and altos (three or more parts)About the AuthorEducated at King's College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger CBE was Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge from 1974-1982 and Conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society... -
David Lynch by Justus Nieland
£17.60A key figure in the ongoing legacy of modern cinema, David Lynch designs environments for spectators, transporting them to inner worlds built by mood, texture, and uneasy artifice. We enter these famously cinematic interiors to be wrapped in plastic, the... -
Musicals magazine: The World of Musical Theatre from the West End to Broadway and beyond by Sarah Kirkup
£8.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739979652Author Sarah KirkupFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint MA Music, Leisure and TravelPublisher MA Music, Leisure and Travel -
Blue Sky Body: Thresholds for Embodied Research by Ben Spatz
RRP: £36.99£32.53Blue Sky Body: Thresholds for Embodied Research is the follow-up to Ben Spatz's 2015 book What a Body Can Do, charting a course through more than twenty years of embodied, artistic, and scholarly research.Emerging from the confluence of theory and... -
Lucrecia Martel by Gerd Gemunden
£17.60Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists. Though often allied with mainstream figures and genre frameworks, Martel works within art cinema, and since her 2001 debut The Swamp... -
39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance by Matthew Goulish 9780415213936
RRP: £44.99£39.28'A series of accidents has brought you this book.You may think of it not as a book, but as a library, an elevator, an amateur performance in a nearby theatre.Open it to the table of contents. Turn to the page that sounds the most interesting to you.Read...