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How Theatre Means by Ric Knowles 9780230232365
$53.49In this wide-ranging study, Ric Knowles demonstrates how the examination and practice of theatre is enhanced by an expanded semiotic approach. Moving from the history and theory of performance analysis to its practical application and paying particular... -
Madness, Art, and Society: Beyond Illness Anna Harpin 9781138784284
RRP: $72.13$63.43How is madness experienced, treated, and represented? How might art think around - and beyond - psychiatric definitions of illness and wellbeing? Madness, Art, and Society engages with artistic practices from theatre and live art to graphic fiction,... -
The Other National Theatre: 350 Years of Shows in Drury Lane by Robert Whelan 9780957598003
RRP: $39.00$29.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957598003Author Robert WhelanFormat HardbackPage Count 564Imprint Jacob TonsonPublisher Jacob TonsonDimensions(mm) 240mm * 152mm * 46mm -
The Production Manager's Toolkit: Successful Production Management in Theatre and Performing Arts by Cary Gillett 9780367406356
RRP: $243.75$210.33The Production Manager's Toolkit Second Edition offers an up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to a career in theatrical and special event production for new and aspiring professionals, given by expert voices in the field. The book discusses... -
Hapgood by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $19.48$13.86I can't remember which side I'm supposed to be working for, and it is not in fact necessary for me to know.The Cold War is approaching its endgame and somebody in spymaster Elizabeth Hapgood's network is leaking secrets. Is her star double agent really a... -
Theatre and Medicine Stanton B. Garner, Jr. (University of Tennessee, USA) 9781350330153
RRP: $19.48$16.05Theatre and Medicine offers a tour of this interdisciplinary terrain. Organized into four distinct topics, each represents crucial ways of understanding the theatre-medicine relationship. From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that... -
Dance History: An Introduction by Janet Adshead-Lansdale
RRP: $68.23$60.16Originally published in 1983 the first edition rapidly established itself as a core student text. Now fully revised and up-dated it remains the only book to address the rationale, process, techniques and methodologies specific to the study of dance... -
Theatre Management: Arts Leadership for the 21st Century by Anthony Rhine 9781352001747
$57.23An essential introductory textbook that provides a comprehensive and student-friendly overview of the key processes involved in developing and managing a theatre in the 21st century. It covers a complete range of topics fundamental to successful... -
On Bear Ridge by Ed Thomas
RRP: $23.38$23.30One minute we had customers, the next minute there was no-one. In a lost village, blurred by redrawn borders, hidden under a crumb on the map, Bear Ridge Stores still stands. After a hundred years, the family butchers and grocers - a place for odds... -
The Monologue Audition: A Practical Guide for Actors by Karen Kohlhaas 9780879102913
RRP: $35.08$26.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102913Author Karen KohlhaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 218mm... -
Journey's End: A Biography of a Classic War Play by Robert Gore-Langton 9781849433952
$22.27R C Sherriff's Journey's End is a syllabus text and the most famous play about World War One. First staged in 1928, this book tells the story of what went into the making of this extraordinary and powerful trench drama. It outlines Sherriff's career from... -
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro by Richard Rodgers
$24.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573709265Author Richard RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
No Applause -Just Throw the Money by S.D. Trav 9780865479586
$24.12Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn 9780573627521
RRP: $36.95$27.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573627521Author Michael FraynFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc -
A Method of Lighting the Stage 4th Edition by Stanley McCandless 9781626540361
$24.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626540361Author Stanley McCandlessFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Echo Point Books & Media, LLCPublisher Echo Point Books & Media, LLCWeight(grams)... -
New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting by Mark Bly
RRP: $38.98$34.50In New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting, Mark Bly offers a new playwriting book with nine unique play-generating exercises.These exercises offer dramaturgical strategies and tools for confronting and overcoming... -
Reading Contemporary Performance: Theatricality Across Genres by Gabrielle Cody
RRP: $72.13$64.21As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key... -
Fifty Key Theatre Directors by Shomit Mitter
RRP: $44.83$39.31Fifty Key Theatre Directors covers the work of practitioners who have shaped and pushed back the boundaries of theatre and performance. The authors provide clear and insightful overviews of the approaches and impact of fifty of the most influential... -
Voice by Jane Boston
RRP: $58.48$55.58This wide-ranging volume explores the technical and physical aspects of voice as a craft, questioning its definitions, its historical presence, training practices and its publications. Drawing on a wealth of experience, Jane Boston presents a selection... -
Principles of Dramaturgy Robert Scanlan 9781032091471
RRP: $37.03$32.90In Principles of Dramaturgy, Robert Scanlan explains the invariant principles behind the construction of stage and performance events of any style or modality. This book contains all that is essential for training a professional stage director and/or... -
Theatre and the Digital by Bill Blake 9781137355775
$21.53Why should the digital bring about ideas of progress in the theatre arts? This question opens up a rich seam of provocative and original thinking about the uses of new media in theatre, about new forms of cultural practice and artistic innovation, and... -
The Art of Writing for the Theatre: An Introduction to Script Analysis, Criticism, and Playwriting Luke Yankee (California State University, Fullerton, USA) 9781350155572
RRP: $42.88$37.85Filled with practical advice from an award-winning playwright, with a range of resources to guide you in the craft and business of theatre writing, The Art of Writing for the Theatre provides everything you need to write like a seasoned theatre... -
Elizabethan Jacobean Drama: The Theatre in Its Time by G. Blakemore Evans
RRP: $29.23$25.41The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to... -
Good Nights Out: A History of Popular British Theatre Since the Second World War by Aleks Sierz
RRP: $44.83$39.21London's West End is a global success story, staging phenomenal hit shows that have delighted millions of spectators and generated billions of pounds in revenue. In Good Nights Out, Aleks Sierz provides a thematic survey of such popular theatre shows... -
The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism by Elinor Fuchs
RRP: $29.23$26.15"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty... -
Sondheim and Wheeler's Sweeney Todd by Aaron C. Thomas
RRP: $19.48$17.45Sweeney Todd, the gruesome tale of a murderous barber and his pastry chef accomplice, is unquestionably strange subject matter for the musical theatre - but eight Tony awards and enormous successes on Broadway and the West End testify to its enduring... -
What is Scenography? Pamela Howard 9781138504783
RRP: $83.83$75.25The third edition of Pamela Howard's What is Scenography? expands on the author's holistic analysis of scenography as comprising space, text, research, art, performers, directors and spectators, to examine the changing nature of scenography in the... -
Mask Making Techniques: Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre, Cosplay, Film, and TV by Mary C. McClung 9781032379913
RRP: $72.13$65.99Features step by step instructions on how to create a variety of different masksDetailed full-color photographs illustrate each stepCovers a wide range of materials, including latex, paper and fabric mache, cold foam, thermoplastics, urethane and EVA... -
A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Color Jeanette deJong 9780815352150
RRP: $48.73$42.53A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Color provides readers with the skills and knowledge to create coherent color schemes for costumes.Drawing on decades of experience in the costume shop, the author guides readers through every step of the process,... -
Live Art in the UK: Contemporary Performances of Precarity by Ms Maria Chatzichristodoulou
RRP: $48.73$42.47Since entering the performance lexicon in the 1970s, the term Live Art has been used to describe a diverse but interrelated array of performance practices and approaches. This volume offers a contextual and critical introduction to the scene of... -
D’Oyly Carte: The Decline and Fall of an Opera Company by Paul Seeley 9780367610579
RRP: $76.03$66.73This book considers and discusses aspects of the management of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century since the death of its founder Richard D'Oyly Carte, and concentrates on key events that contributed to its demise in 1982. In this... -
The Best Men's Monologues from New Plays, 2020 by Lawrence Harbison
RRP: $29.23$22.48Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published men's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both... -
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
RRP: $21.43$16.34"Ziegler's thoughtful, empathetic play brings home with bitter comedy the unlovely male-domination of this world in the 1950s ... glorious." Independent London 1953. Scientists are on the verge of discovering what they call the secret of life: the DNA... -
The Outsider (L'Etranger) by Ben Okri 9781786826657
$23.40Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri. A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the glare... -
Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski by Phillip B. Zarrilli
RRP: $83.83$73.30Psychophysical Acting is a direct and vital address to the demands of contemporary theatre on today's actor. Drawing on over thirty years of intercultural experience, Phillip Zarrilli aims to equip actors with practical and conceptual tools with which to... -
Disobedient Theatre: Alternative Ways to Inspire, Animate and Play by Chris Johnston 9781350014541
$54.58Theatre is at its best when it is disobedient, when it argues back to society. But what enables it to achieve this impact? What makes it a force to be reckoned with? What are the principles and the tools of the trade that shape it to be effective,... -
The Assistant Lighting Designer's Toolkit by Anne E. McMills
RRP: $70.18$63.75This ground-breaking text returns in its second edition, unlocking the insider secrets and proven, time-tested methods to succeed as a professional assistant lighting designer.This definitive guide outlines, step-by-step, the daily challenges that... -
Richard Bean Plays 6: One Man, Two Guvnors; Young Marx; The Hypocrite by Richard Bean
RRP: $42.88$40.15The sixth collection of plays from award-winning playwright Richard Bean, including the world-conquering hit One Man, Two Guvnors, as well as Young Marx, his riotous take on Karl Marx's life in London, which launched London's new Bridge Theatre and The... -
Stiletto Beach by Sadie Hasler
RRP: $23.38$23.30Best mates Leanne and Kelly have lived in Southend-on-Sea their whole lives. Larger-than-life Leanne is happy staying put, but Kelly secretly dreams of escaping her dull job and seeing the world. When out-of-towner journalist Helen can't afford... -
The Aesthetics of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal
RRP: $83.83$73.30Augusto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. At last this major director, practitioner, and author of many books on community theatre speaks out about the subjects most important to him...