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Through the intensive examination of films, magazines, advertising and critical texts, Dyer analyses the historical, ideological and aesthetic significance of stars, changing the way we understand screen icons. Paying particular attention to icons...

Students, teachers, youth theatres, theatre lovers and those involved in the presentation of youth drama.Students, teachers, youth theatres, theatre lovers and those involved in the presentation of youth drama.About the AuthorRikki Beadle-Blair is a...

A practical guide to the skills, characters and history of Commedia Dell'Arte through graded games and illustrated exercises - a useful tool in any actor's training and a discipline for all forms of physical theatre. Chapters include: * Warm-Up...

Celebrate more than 100 years of magical Disney storytelling.The ideal gift for Disney, animation, and movie fans! From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Wish, Mary Poppins to The Little Mermaid, Disneyland to Tokyo DisneySea, and fireworks to fan...

The Alexander Technique is a method of muscular re-education, which has become standard training for actors, dancers and singers, and is practised for health reasons all over the world. Its founder, Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955), was an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578622125Author Judy CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Comedy WorkshopsPublisher Comedy WorkshopsWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976940067Author John L FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Galactic BooksPublisher Galactic BooksWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography. In My Life in Pieces Simon Callow retraces his life through the multifarious performers, writers, productions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645769227Author Bart MeehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Bart MeehanPublisher Bart MeehanWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739717605Author Xenia Pestova BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Brompton Cove PressPublisher Brompton Cove PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825610554Author Richard ClaydermanPage Count 144Imprint AMSCO MusicPublisher AMSCO Music

Actors and other professional voice users need to speak clearly and expressively in order to communicate the ideas and emotions of their characters - and themselves. Whatever the native accent of the speaker, this easy communication to the listener must...

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is one of the greatest shows on earth. Around 220,000 people attend each year. It is seen on TV by a further 100 million. Alasdair Hutton is the Voice of the Tattoo. This book is the story of the Tattoo, told by the...

The gap between theory and practice in rehearsal is wide. many actors and directors apply theories without fully understanding them, and most accounts of rehearsal techniques fail to put the methods in context.Systems of Rehearsal is the first systematic...

Mediating Memory in the Museum is a contribution to an emerging field of research that is situated at the interface between memory studies and museum studies. It highlights the role of museums in the proliferation of the so-called memory boom as well as...

Big music, raggle taggle, sonic rock, spiritual visionaries: the music of Mike Scott and the Waterboys has meant many things to different people over the last forty yeatrs. They can rock with the best of them, play folk tunes that bring admiration from...

Rwanda to Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe to Bosnia, answers are demanded, reconciliation hard to hear and the truth reluctant to be told. 'I will not stay standing to have you accuse me. And I will not sit there and be accused.' debbie tucker green's...

Whether you want to participate in ballet or just watch it, the ballet experience can excite and inspire you. Ballet is among the most beautiful forms of expression ever devised: an exquisite mix of sight and sound, stunning, aesthetics, and awesome...

A collection of seven plays from Scottish writers, reflecting the upsurge in Scottish playwriting in the late twentieth century. Selected and introduced by Alasdair Cameron, the collection draws on adventurous theatres such as the Edinburgh Traverse...

Homer Vol. IV. Odyssey (Books XIII-XXIV)Book InformationISBN 9780198145325Author D. B. MonroFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839751Author Simon CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd

Joe Penhall's screenplay for the film of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel provides a gripping and unforgettable text for use in English at Key Stage 4. The novel won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the the film starring Viggo Mortensen...

Exam Board: Pearson BTECAcademic Level: BTEC NationalSubject: Performing ArtsFirst teaching: September 2016First Exams: Summer 2017 For all four of the externally assessed units 1, 3, 5 and 7. Builds confidence with scaffolded practice questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739302016Author Joe MeloyFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Beercott BooksPublisher Beercott Books

Discover music that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy - causing fascination and intrigue in some and rejection and scorn in others. This is what happens when people take tradition and rip it up.MusicQuake tells the...

The 2019 Chinese drama Chen Qing Ling (CQL; translated The Untamed) quickly became a massive phenomenon, drawing millions of viewers in China and beyond. Its resonant story, rich cast of characters, and striking production captured audience attention...

A revealing, funny and wonderfully moving portrait of four women who sign up to join the Women's Land Army during World War II. Based on one hundred and fifty letters and interviews with original Land Girls, along with songs from the period, Lilies on...

A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence. A seemingly normal detention in a seemingly normal modern-day comprehensive school. A teacher valiantly battles on with biology revision. She believes only education will set her pupils...

Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual and performance. When this seminal...

Homer Vol. I. Iliad (Books I-XII)ReviewsExcellent standard text. * Jeanne G. Kurtz, University of New Hampshire *Book InformationISBN 9780198145288Author D. B. MonroFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University...

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological...

This is the tale of Jonah, Sophie, and a fox called Scruffilitis. It's a love story. A dysfunctional, voyeuristic and darkly funny love story, but a love story all the same. This new play by the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner Phil Porter, is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788890977350Author Mauricio DupuisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Mauricio Gabriel DupuisPublisher Mauricio Gabriel DupuisWeight(grams)...

Community theatre is an important device for communities to collectively share stories, to participate in political dialogue, and to break down the increasing exclusion of marginalised groups of citizens. It is practised all over the world by growing...

A modern classic about the bitter rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin and fellow ruler, Elizabeth I of England - retold by Scotland's most popular playwright. 'Once upon a time, there were twa queens on the wan green island, and the...

The 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...

Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom! In a bygone era, when Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and drug pushers, disenfranchised moviegoers flocked to the grindhouses along 42nd Street. If the gore epics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525574545Author Elizabeth WeitzmanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

The second volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern...

Funny yet down-to-earth, honest yet full of exaggeration, actor Walter Matthau (1920-2000) will always occupy a place in America's heart as one of the great comic talents of his generation. Born Walter Matuschanskayasky into Jewish tenements on New...