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Playing Bit Parts in Shakespeare is a unique survey of the small supporting roles - such as foils, feeds, attendants and messengers - that feature in Shakespeare's plays. Exploring such issues as how bit players should conduct themselves within a scene,...

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.Book InformationISBN...

Reviews of the First Edition `...valuable and enjoyable reading for all studying Shakespeare's plays.' Following in the patternestablished by John Russell Brown for the excellent series (Theatre and Production Studies), he provides first an account of...

The Decroux Sourcebook is the first point of reference for any student of the 'hidden master' of twentieth century theatre. This book collates a wealth of key material on Etienne Decroux, including: an English translation of Patrice...

Understanding the theatre space on both the practical and theoretical level is becoming increasingly important to people working in drama, in whatever capacity. Theatre architecture is one of the most vital ingredients of the theatrical experience and...

The Process of Drama provides an original and invaluable model of the elements of drama in context, and defines how these are negotiated to produce dramatic art. John O'Toole takes the reader through a lively, fascinating account of the relationships...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138147584Author Alice HelpernFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

The Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory clearly and accessibly explains the major theoretical approaches now deployed in the study of the moving image, as well as defining key theoretical terms.This dictionary provides readers with the...

Where do we find the dead? Do the dead appear in our dreams? What is it like to play dead? This book is an exciting exploration of the relationship between death and play in performance. Exploring a range of artists and creative disciplines that...

Theatre of Good Intentions examines limitations of theatre in the creation of social and political change. This book looks at some of the reasons why achieving such goals is hard; examining what theatre can and can't do. It examines a range of applied...

`one hell of a seminal read ... Here is a book that grapples, with energy, ingenuity and terrific intellectual rigour, with a bewildering forest of issues around gender and politics ... illuminating, insightful, perceptive.' - Women's ReviewBook...

Barry Forshaw celebrates with enthusiasm the British horror film and its fascination for macabre cinema. A definitive study of the genre, British Gothic Cinema discusses the flowering of the field, with every key film discussed from its beginnings in the...

The last twenty years or so have seen a surge of interest in the philosophy of music. However there is comparatively little philosophical literature devoted specifically to songs, singing and vocal music in general. This new collection of essays on the...

Girls, Performance and Activism offers artists, activists, educators and scholars a comprehensive analysis, celebration and critique of the ways in which teenage girls create and perform activist theater. Girls, particularly Black and Latinx...

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...