Theater

I have a boy. He is across the border, I know he is. A few miles between. The same stars Shine on him Summer 1947. Sixteen million people are on the move between India and the newly-formed Pakistan. Amid the violent political upheaval, young Pali's...

The Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publication is to share creative solutions to technical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365819Author Richard MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Stanislavsky's system of actor-training has revolutionised modern theatre practice, and he is widely recognised to be one of the great cultural innovators of the twentieth century. The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky is an essential book for students...

Brings theatre to life for students by showing the relationship and relevance of the performing arts to their everyday lives The Enjoyment of Theatre's balanced coverage of performance and history provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to...

I came to New York when I was seventeen. I had all these ideas about how my life was gonna turn out. When I think about those ideas now, I don't know if I should laugh or shit. In a back street in the West Village, Jacob Towney tries to save the...

During the mid-19th century, the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner sparked an impulse toward German cultural renewal and social change that drew on religious myth, metaphysics, and spiritualism. The only problem was that their works were...

The book contains three accounts of five public speeches and conversations with the public of two outstanding figures of theatre and performance, Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwik Flaszen, from 1993 to 1997. Their speeches concern their output and their current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997874693Author Delbert L HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Spring Knoll PressPublisher Spring Knoll PressWeight(grams) 653g

The Motional Improvisation of Al Wunder takes readers on a journey through the life history, creative genealogies and unique working processes of one of the master teachers of Euro-American postmodern movement-based improvisational performance who has,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585109227Author Michael WainsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876390542Author Jimmy KachulisPage Count 30Imprint Berklee Press PublicationsPublisher Berklee Press Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999616499Author Lessac ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Lessac Training and Research InstitutePublisher Lessac Training and Research Institute

A century ago this year, productions of W. B. Yeats's The Countess Cathleen and Edward Martyn's The Heather Field inaugurated the Irish Literary Theatre, which was to take its name from its home in Abbey Street, Dublin. Despite riot, fire, and critical...

Theatre of the Ridiculous is a significant movement that highlighted the radical possibilities inherent in camp. Much of contemporary theatre owes this form a great debt but little has been written about its history or aesthetic markers. This book...

The night before the funeral was when he told us that he was getting the lot and I said, I said only then in retaliation, you know, and I am not proud of this, but how Dad had, how he had smashed his glass and cried, cried for Simon when he rang home to...

Acting the Essence examines the theory, practice, and history of the art of the performer from the perspective of its inner nature as work on oneself, within, around, and beyond the pedagogy of the actor.Ref lecting primarily on the legacy of Jerzy...

This foundational study offers an accessible introduction to Native American and First Nations theatre by drawing on critical Indigenous and dramaturgical frameworks. It is the first major survey book to introduce Native artists, plays, and theatres...

Jana Sanskriti is internationally recognised as the most iconic post-Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed operation in the world today. This fully illustrated book by the Bengali company's founder and artistic director Sanjoy Ganguly, edited by Ralph Yarrow,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423472711Author Stephen SondheimPage Count 240Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

What if I said I am not what you think you see? A southpaw boxer is on the verge of their pro debut when their wife signs the adoption papers for a Korean boy. The boy's original adoptive father was all set to hand him over to a new home... until he...

This essential pocket guide to this enduringly popular art, is a perfect introduction to over eighty of the most performed ballets today. Spanning nearly two centuries of classical dancing, this indispensable book begins in the Romantic era of the 1830s,...

Why is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers...

An articulate, exceptionally researched study of Chinese theater." - ChoiceBook InformationISBN 9780824812201Author Colin MackerrasFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i Press

A celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Bush Theatre Two new plays, Mackerel Sky by Hilary Fannin and Caravan by Helen Blakeman, are accompanied by highlights and reminiscences from Bush writers, actors and directors including Alan Plater, Dominic...

Plays from Romania: Dramaturgies of Subversion reflects the diversity of dramatic writing exploring the past and present of Romania, and takes stock thirty years after the collapse of communism. In addition to plays originally written in Romanian, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080521Author Adrea GibbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 505g

This volume examines the development and nature of the theatre in Wales since the late 1970s. The essays cover such topics as: the belated recognition of drama in Wales; the continuing presence of a lively amateur stage; and Wales's particular...

Most writers, composers, librettists, and music directors who make their careers in musical theatre do so without specific training or clear pathways to progress through the industry. Conversations with Women in Musical Theatre Leadership addresses that...

No medieval writer reveals more about early English drama than John Lydgate, Claire Sponsler contends. Best known for his enormously long narrative poems The Fall of Princes and The Troy Book, Lydgate also wrote numerous verses related to theatrical...

Arguing that the cultures of small nations offer vital insights into the way people relate to national identity in a globalized world, Theatre and Performance in Small Nations features an array of case studies that examine the relationships between...

This pioneering introduction to Stanislavsky's methods and modes of actor training covers all of the essential elements of his System. Recreating 'truthful' behaviour in the artificial environment, awareness and observation, psychophysical work, given...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996985666Author Tess OnwuemeFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint International Images NetPublisher International Images NetWeight(grams) 95g

African Theatres & Performances looks at four specific performance forms in Africa and uses this to question the tendency to employ western frames of reference to analyze and appreciate theatrical performance. The book examines:masquerade theatre in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081481Author Suzi ZimmermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 744g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101268Author David HaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

This edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night reprints the Bevington edition of the play along with seven sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and the early...

PUBLIC/PRIVATE blends a behind-the-scenes view of the Public Theater's dazzling history with an affecting memoir of the author's life with Joe Papp. She opens with the Public's beginnings in the Sixties and Seventies and the twenty-five year association...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840940008Author Ian HornbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint New Theatre PublicationsPublisher New Theatre Publications

Bullets are not sexy. They are not sexy. Armadillo - little armoured one. [Spanish] A teenage girl disappears from a small town in America where fifteen years earlier, another teenage girl was kidnapped. Now a woman, she watches the news. She...