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Teaching Critical Performance Theory: In Today's Theatre Classroom, Studio, and Communities by Jeanmarie Higgins
RRP: £31.99£28.33Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and theatre studies disciplines. The book's seventeen chapters collectively ask: What use is theory to an... -
Feminism and Theatre by Sue-Ellen Case 9780416015010
RRP: £39.99£35.06This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre.Book InformationISBN 9780416015010Author Sue-Ellen CaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Egmont Books LtdPublisher Egmont UK... -
La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
RRP: £31.99£28.33La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Artists, into a pedagogical matrix suited for use as a performance handbook and conceptual tool for artists,... -
Digging Up Mother by Doug Stanhope
£11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825385Author Doug StanhopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Antonin Artaud: A Critical Reader by Edward Scheer
RRP: £35.99£31.69This resource collects for the first time some of the best criticism on Artaud's life and work from writers such as Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Blanchot, Herbert Blau, Leo Bersani and Susan Sontag.Antonin Artaud was one of the most brilliant... -
The Magic World of Orson Welles by James Naremore
RRP: £18.99£15.47Prodigy. Iconoclast. Genius. Exile. Orson Welles remains one of the most discussed figures in cinematic history. In the centenary year of Welles's birth, James Naremore presents a revised third edition of this incomparable study, including a new section... -
Laura Sullivan - Piano Sheet Music Collection by Laura Sullivan 9780615256023
RRP: £13.50£12.21This book of piano sheet music by Laura Sullivan contains some of her best loved pieces and adaptations from her first 4 albums: Piano Solos, Pianoscapes for the Trails of North America, Mystical America and Feast of Joy and Love. Songs included are:... -
Analysing Performance: A Critical Reader by Patrick Campbell 9780719042508
RRP: £19.99£17.82Each chapter in this important critical reader tackles the theory and practice of modern performance work, and enables students and teachers to see what is at stake in analysing dance, drama, music and videos using contemporary critical theories... -
Body Voice Imagination: ImageWork Training and the Chekhov Technique by David Zinder
RRP: £31.99£28.33David Zinder's Body Voice Imagination is written by one of the master teachers of the Michael Chekhov technique of acting training. This book is a comprehensive course of exercises devoted to the development of actors' creative expressivity, comprising... -
The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance by Lizbeth Goodman
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and including new... -
West End Women: Women and the London Stage 1918 - 1962 by Maggie Gale 9780415084963
RRP: £36.99£32.53Maggie Gale's West End Women uncovers groundbreaking material about women playwrights and the staging of their performances between the years 1918 and 1962. It documents a dynamic era of social and theatrical history, analysing the transformations that... -
Satan's Children: Celebrities who sold their souls for Fame by Rebecca Scott 9781481122184
RRP: £20.00£16.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481122184Author Rebecca ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Eisenstein Reader by Sergei Eizenshtein
£36.59Presents, in a concise form, a selection of Sergei Eisenstein's significant writings. The texts, drawn from the BFI's "Selected Works of Eisenstein", address subjects including sound, film language, and his theories of "montage". This reader provides an... -
Engaging Audiences: A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre by Bruce McConachie 9780230116733
RRP: £49.99£33.99Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the theatre. Bruce McConachie introduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention,... -
Kelly Reichardt by Katherine Fusco
RRP: £18.99£15.88Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. Her work since then has communed with--yet remained apart from--postwar European realisms, the American... -
Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance by Jon McKenzie 9780415247696
RRP: £35.99£31.69'Performance' has become one of the key terms for the new century. But what do we mean by 'performance'? In today's world it can refer to experimental art; productivity in the workplace; and the functionality of technological systems. Do these disparate... -
Violence. Speed. Momentum. by Dr Disrespect 9781982153885
RRP: £18.99£12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982153885Author Dr DisrespectFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 262mm * 137mm *... -
Penelope Cruz by Ann Davies
£25.15Part of a vanguard of Spanish talent claiming success at home and in Hollywood, Penelope Cruz is one of the best known European stars today. Focusing on Cruz's key films and their surrounding discourse, Ann Davies charts the development of Cruz's star... -
The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos by Freddy Decreus
RRP: £38.99£34.22The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos outlines the story of the Athenian-based Attis Theatre and the way its founder and director, Theodoros Terzopoulos, introduced bio-energetic presences of the body on the stage, in an attempt to redefine and... -
500 Chess Puzzles, Mate in 3, Intermediate Level by Chess Akt 9781006892592
RRP: £10.97£9.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006892592Author Chess AktFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g -
Painting the Stage: Artists as Stage Designers by Denise Wendel-Poray
RRP: £55.00£37.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857230061Author Denise Wendel-PorayFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1760g -
Collecting Visible Evidence by Jane Gaines 9780816631360
RRP: £21.99£17.94A redefinition of the nature of documentary film.In documentary studies, the old distinctions between fiction and nonfiction no longer apply, as contemporary film and video artists produce works that defy classification. Coming together to make sense of... -
Head West! by Ben Bridges 9780244390129
RRP: £6.70£6.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244390129Author Ben BridgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 191g -
Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices by Michael Renov 9780816623303
RRP: £21.99£20.35This text provides an account of video art, and activism, practice and theory. The follow-up to a project conducted by LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), this volume comprises original articles by a variety of video artists, filmmakers and... -
The New Television Handbook by Jonathan Bignell
RRP: £43.99£38.84The New Television Handbook provides an exploration of the theory and practice of television at a time when the medium is undergoing radical changes. The book looks at television from the perspective of someone new to the industry, and explores the place... -
Victor Spinetti Up Front...: His Strictly Confidential Autobiography by Victor Spinetti
RRP: £16.99£12.49Described by Sir Paul McCartney as "the man who makes clouds disappear", Victor Spinetti is one of Britain's best-loved and most outrageous performers. He became known to the Sixties generation through his comedic roles in the landmark Beatles... -
The Expert at the Card Table by S W Erdnase 9781937620189
£33.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937620189Author S W ErdnaseFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Charles & Wonder LLCPublisher Charles & Wonder LLCWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
The Laban Sourcebook by Dick McCaw 9780415543323
RRP: £36.99£32.53Rudolf Laban (1879 - 1958) was a pioneer in dance and movement, who found an extraordinary range of application for his ideas; from industry to drama, education and therapy. Laban believed that you can understand about human beings by observing how they... -
Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader by John Keefe 9780415362528 [USED COPY]
RRP: £36.99£3.59Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader is an invaluable resource for students of physically orientated theatre and performance. This book aims to trace the roots and development of physicality in theatre by combining practical experience of the field with... -
Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader by John Keefe
RRP: £36.99£32.93Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader is an invaluable resource for students of physically orientated theatre and performance. This book aims to trace the roots and development of physicality in theatre by combining practical experience of the field with... -
Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre by Elin Diamond
RRP: £36.99£32.53In Unmaking Mimesis Elin Diamond interrogates the concept of mimesis in relation to feminism, theatre and performance. She combines psychoanalytic, semiotic and materialist strategies with readings of selected plays by writers as diverse as Ibsen,... -
Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld 9781982112721
RRP: £18.00£12.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982112721Author Jerry SeinfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 214mm *... -
On the Art of the Theatre by Edward Gordon Craig
RRP: £35.99£31.69First published in 1911, On the Art of the Theatre remains one of the seminal texts of theatre theory and practice.Actor, director, designer and pioneering theorist, Edward Gordon Craig was one of twentieth century theatre's great modernisers. Here, he... -
Torch Song (2018) by Harvey Fierstein
£11.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708015Author Harvey FiersteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Shakespeare, Performance and the Archive by Barbara Hodgdon
RRP: £36.99£32.53Shakespeare, Performance and the Archive is a ground-breaking and movingly written exploration of what remains when actors evacuate the space and time of performance. An analysis of 'leftovers', it moves between tracking the politics of what is... -
Theatre and Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance by Alan Read 9780415069410
RRP: £36.99£32.53Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the... -
"Near Dublin" The Story of Laurel and Hardy in Ireland by Liam Muldowney 9780244465384
RRP: £30.47£27.08Containing over two decades of research, Near Dublin tells the story of the visits to Irish shores in the early 1950s of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Drawing on newspaper interviews, personal recollections and archive material, it follows their every... -
100 Shakespeare Films by Daniel Rosenthal 9781844571703
£18.87From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Directors as diverse as Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli,... -
Mike Leigh by Sean O'Sullivan
RRP: £18.99£15.88In this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist--a filmmaker deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative dimensions. In contrast with Leigh's prevailing reputation as... -
Nicole Kidman by Pam Cook 9781844574889
£25.15Pam Cook's study of the star persona of Nicole Kidman traces Kidman's career trajectory through an examination of her (sometimes controversial) film choices and places her in the context of a globalised media and celebrity culture.About the AuthorPAM...