Theater

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345805997Author Wendy SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

'Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow,Bloom and grow forever'Often dismissed as kitsch sentimentalism, Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music has proven an enduringly popular and surprisingly influential cultural icon, both within the field of...

Sometimes a person needs to create an act that destroys the world because the world is broken. The virus has ravaged Thebes. Millions are dead and the economy has tanked. Vaccinations have been administered and the Festival of Liberty is imminent...

Laurence likes pizza. Laurence is about to go to school. Laurence thinks it's okay to wee on mummy's pillow. Like any couple, Tamora and Martin have big hopes and dreams. But when your child is autistic, non-verbal, and occasionally violent,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840949087Author Douglas MayoFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint New Theatre PublicationsPublisher New Theatre PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Theatre designers need to be proficient in an extraordinarily diverse range of skills to carry out their work. They are expected to be able to draw, both creatively and technically, to be able to use colour imaginatively, to make accurate scale models of...

Transforming Space over Time: Set Design and Visual Storytelling with Broadway's Legendary Directors tells the stories of six diverse productions: five on Broadway and one Off-Broadway. Beowulf Boritt, theater designer and Tony Award winner, begins with...

If I don't want to tell anyone, it's up to me, right? Lucy knows James has avoided the battle. Mark knows Amanda has fought for her life. But speaking the truth could bring everything crashing down. What happens if we live a life of not talking? ...

Stevie is 17. She's peak cool, or so she thinks. In the middle of the wide-eyed stagger from girlhood to womanhood Stevie is sent to live in the middle of nowhere with her grandma. Suffolk - the home of doggers, folklore and Stan. Stan is peak geek, not...

The art created for a show provides audiences with a tangible, visual, and emotional connection with the theatrical experience. This collection of hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos, concept art, and posters, as well as personal anecdotes by and with...

Broadway musicals are one of America's most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thought to be just frothy entertainment, really have to say about our country and who we are as a nation? Now...

Provides concrete strategies for designing for devised productions that haven't yet been collected in one resource.Offers lessons learned from multiple experiences and perspectives through interviews with working practitioners.Gives step by step...

Celebrity personalities, who reign over much of our cultural landscape, owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image, to create an icon of the self. Rising Star is a fascinating look at the roots of this...

The poetry and plays of William Shakespeare continue to provide inspiration for designers in all aspect of media. Shakespearean Wig Styling offers detailed historical guidance on the styles and fashions of the day, and guides yo through twelve different...

From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of...

The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq presents a thorough overview and analysis of Jacques Lecoq's life, work and philosophy of theatre. Through an exemplary collection of specially commissioned chapters from leading writers, specialists and...

We just wait. Old light. And new light. We just wait. For each other, patiently wait. Patient Light follows a day in the life of a young person in Peterborough and how their vision of the future is blinded by carrying the weight of the world on their...

There have been many books published on acting, actor training, and practical theories for preparing for a role, but none of these books have ever looked philosophically at the language and the concepts that we use when we talk about acting. The...

The most frequently asked question about writing musicals is, "Which comes first, the music or the lyrics?" As anyone on Broadway will tell you, the answer is, "The book." Tony-winning book writer Robert L. Freedman takes you through the process of...

Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian director who transformed theatre in the West with his contributions to the birth of Realist theatre and his unprecedented approach to teaching acting. He lived through extraordinary times and his unique contribution...

"An honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos." - The Hollywood Reporter At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old,...

Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019 This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical...

Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts for the stage. It crystallises and makes concrete many of...

The book features chapters on Jean Ross and Christopher Isherwood a the real people behind the singular characters of Sally Bowles and Clifford Bradshaw/Brian Roberts a and includes background information on the original source material Isherwood's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403961709Author Allain PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave USA

Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de Medicis prior to Henri IV's assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on...

Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2023 I can imagine myself in the future looking back on this all. And looking back I can feel when the fire was lit. Fifteen-year-old Roxy is burning. Lost somewhere between the bonfire of girlhood and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956501370Author Alan StockwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Vesper Hawk PublishingPublisher Vesper Hawk PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

In a new translation and adaptation by Nicholas Rudall. Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck is one of drama's first anti-heroes. He serves a German captain and makes money by allowing a doctor to experiment on him, but his deeper morality...

The Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions, providing an invaluable step-by-step guide.Beginning with a brief history of opera and detailing its...

Staging Violence Against Women and Girls brings together three contemporary plays that denounce gendered violence, along with interviews with their creators and the practitioners who have staged them in different national contexts. Little Stitches...

Widely recognized as the standard history of Japanese theatre for Western readers, this work by Benito Ortolani is now available for the first time in paperback. From ancient folk and ritual performances to modern dance theatre, it provides concise...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904537991Author Alan KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 968Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press Ltd

I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you. Sam and his fiance Noel have been together for years. They have a house, a cat and their whole lives ahead of them. But when a sudden and permanent distance crashes into their relationship, it...

From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London's Grand Guignol - also published by UEP - this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English...

This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past 30 years.This book is a vivid account of the vast range of work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962970924Author Eric MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Ermor Enterprises,U.S.Publisher Ermor Enterprises,U.S.Weight(grams) 370g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253786Author Laura EngelFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480341593Author Robert ViagasFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Essential Dramaturgy: The Mindset and Skillset provides a concrete way to approach the work of a dramaturg. It explores ways to refine the process of defining, evaluating, and communicating that is essential to effective dramaturgical work. It then looks...