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An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political, and intellectual...

The Dancing God: Staging Hindu Dance in Australia charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in Australia. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, colonialism, orientalism and...

Moving through Conflict: Dance and Politics in Israel is a pioneering project in examining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through dance. It proposes a research framework for study of the social, cultural, aesthetic and political dynamics between Jews...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889225817Author Drew Hayden TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 128g

A reference for high school theatre teachers covering both curricular and extracurricular problems - everything from how to craft a syllabus for a theatre class to what to say to parents about a student's participation in a school play.Book...

On a warm evening a man is crying Howl, howl, howl as he carries in his arms the body of a young woman. This isn't urban violence, it's Gorilla Rep's production of King Lear. There are no sets. The action uses available space: a parking lot, a pedestrian...

Audition Speeches for 6-16 Year Olds offers a generous helping of carefully selected speeches that children can prepare for auditions. Each speech is introduced with commentary to set the scene and help the young actor.About the AuthorJean Marlow is...

New Playwriting Strategies offers a fresh and dynamic approach to playwriting that will be welcomed by teachers and aspiring playwrights alike.Book InformationISBN 9780878301355Author Paul C. CastagnoFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Routledge Member...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868195759Page Count 192Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty LtdWeight(grams) 265g

For British playwright, John Osborne, there are no brave causes; only people who muddle through life, who hurt, and are often hurt in return. This study deals with Osborne's complete oeuvre and critically examines its form and technique; the function of...

Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations, Jim Ellis considers Jarman's wide-ranging oeuvre to present a broad...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780815318774Author Leslie KaneFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint CRC Press IncPublisher Taylor & Francis IncWeight(grams) 522g

This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.Book InformationISBN 9780815323495Author Kimball...

First published in 1997Book InformationISBN 9780815324782Author William KerwinFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint CRC Press IncPublisher Taylor & Francis IncWeight(grams) 454g

The author takes a new approach to teaching notation through movement exercises, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement and choreography as well as the traditional dance notation students.Updated and enlarged to reflect the most...

A study of the colourful history and controversial films of the Welsh Film Board (1971-86), a body established solely for the purposes of Welsh-language film production.About the AuthorKate Woodward is a Lecturer in Film Studies at Aberystwyth University...

''Timmy Creed's explosive one-man show...this intense production fearlessly tackles Irish masculine stereotypes.'' SUNDAY TIMES Timmy plays hurling, the fastest field sport in the world. He loves it. He hates it. Honest, brave and hard-hitting, Spliced...

Andy Warhol remains one of the world's most influential artists, and his reputation has only grown since his death in 1987. He first picked up a film camera in 1963. Within the space of five years, he made around 650 films. These are now recognised as a...

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and...

Instant Guides are packed with essential information and useful facts covering a wide variety of subjects from survival skills to stargazing. Portable, easy to use and durable they contain all the basics whether you're studying the subject or just...

This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with a particular focus on festivals and performances in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The editors ask how performance practices are affected by urbanisation,...

Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance. This study reflects on what it would mean to take opera’s decisive attribute—voice—as the foundation of its staged performance. The book thinks of staging...

This book is about some of the ways we remember the dead through performance. It examines the dramaturgical techniques and strategies that enable artists to respond to the imperative: ‘Remember Me’ – the command King Hamlet’s ghost gives to his son in...

Borderlands Children’s Theatre highlights the social and performative construction of Chicana/o Mexican-American Childhood. Borderlands Children’s Theatre teach and educate Anglo citizens on Chicana/o Mexican-American culture. Borderlands Children’s...

This study analyses the Finnish National Theatre’s activities throughout the decades during which the post-war generation with its new societal and theatrical views was rising to power, and during which Europe, divided by the Iron Curtain, was maturing...

Creating trauma-sensitive, interdisciplinary performance and research Vital need for trauma-informed performance practice Adding scholarship on Cecilia Vicuna and Renée Green specifically, as BIPOC female artists Trauma studies and performance studies...

Making Another World Possible offers a broad look at an array of socially engaged cultural practices that have become increasingly visible in the past decade, across diverse fields such as visual art, performance, theater, activism, architecture, urban...

Foundations of Stage Makeup is a comprehensive exploration into the creative world of stage makeup. Step-by-step makeup applications paired with textual content create an enriching experience for future performers and makeup artists. Students will learn...

theatre, philosophy, new materialism, environmental humanities, gesture, and the ontology of response. Book InformationISBN 9781032138459Author Zornitsa DimitrovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Performing Institutions: Contested Sites and Structures of Care builds upon scholarly work rooted in the social and cultural histories of education, self-organization, activist practices, performance, design, and artistic research, (at)tending to the...

This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of theatre, visual art, and performance.Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning. The book encourages active engagement with theatre...

Wendy Wasserstein: A Casebook contains in-depth discussions of the playwright's major works, including her recent play 1 An American Daughter. Wasserstein's plays and essays are explored within diverse traditions, including Jewish storytelling, women's...

At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching film-examining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at...

Shakespeare's Contested Nations argues that performances of Shakespearean history at British institutional venues between 2000 and 2016 manifest a post-imperial nostalgia that fails to tell the nation's story in ways that account for the agential impact...

• This book investigates performance cultures as diverse cultures of doing, feeling and thinking that enable performance-makers and spectators to continuously (re)generate particular ways of knowing, knowledges and epistemologies. • Would be recommended...

A comprehensive resource for professional voice coaches, mapping out all important parts of the profession. This book has a broad market, not least as more and more university courses today focus on entrepreneurship and employability, increasing the...

Lessons in life from the fabulous, fearless, and phenomenal world of drag Drag is a world of larger-than-life personalities, glamorous looks, and attitude to die for. When you feel lacking in confidence, unsure of yourself, or just plain unhappy, who...

eddic and skaldic poems, Vikings, poetry, old norse poetry, medieval Scandinavia, performance, theatre, historyBook InformationISBN 9781032252315Author Brian McMahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book analyses Rabindranath Tagore’s contribution to Bengali drama and theatre. Throughout this book, Abhijit Sen locates and studies Rabindranath’s experiments with drama/theatre in the context of the theatre available in nineteenth-century Bengal,...

First Published in 1943, The New Soviet Theatre presents Joseph Macleod’s take on the development and rapid changes in the Soviet Theatre since late 1930s. Through scattered articles and reports, books and bulletins, and his own visits to the USSR,...