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Three Uses Of The Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet
€21.21Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this short but arresting series of essays, David Mamet explains... -
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward 9781350353497
RRP: €13.08€9.97"Some of [Coward's] most sparkling dialogue ever... This play is about something substantial - the way past relationships come back to haunt us - but it's the gossamer-like nature of the piece, its sheer levity of spirit, that makes it such an enduring... -
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib 9780141995793
RRP: €13.08€10.33**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List**Winner of the Gordon Burn PrizeWinner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spievogel... -
Modernism and Opera by Richard Begam 9781421420622
€50.18At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows-the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically... -
Strategic Love Play by Miriam Battye 9780571387687
RRP: €13.08€8.71And when you see what's out there. What do you want with it. Do you want to fuck it. Like, weekly? Or do you want to sort of. Put your hands in its pockets. Take it to your mother. Love it until you die. Sort of thing. With acid wit, Miriam Battye's... -
Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama: Reception and Afterlives by Amy Garnai
RRP: €36.89€32.56A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and... -
Harold Pinter Plays 1: The Birthday Party; The Room; The Dumb Waiter; A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; A Night Out; The Black and White; The Examination by Harold Pinter
RRP: €22.60€15.27This volume contains Harold Pinter's first six plays, including The Birthday Party.The Birthday PartyStanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a... -
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
RRP: €13.08€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573697142Author John BuchanFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Teaching Musical Theatre: The Essential Handbook: 16 Ready-to-Go Lesson Plans to Build a Better Actor by Denver Casado 9780692973097
RRP: €21.31€18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692973097Author Denver CasadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Beat by Beat PressPublisher Beat by Beat PressWeight(grams) 186g -
The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney
RRP: €15.46€10.19Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles's Philoctetes tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without... -
Dramatherapy: The Nature of Interruption by Richard Hougham
RRP: €42.83€37.71This book investigates the nature and phenomena of interruption in ways that have relevance for contemporary dramatherapy practice. It is a timely contribution amidst an 'age of interruption' and examines how dramatherapists might respond with agency and... -
Economies of Early Modern Drama: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton by Prof Anne Enderwitz 9780192866813
RRP: €92.82€84.35This book provides new insights into how theatre responded to changing economic practices and structures. It reviews discourses on household management and commerce to create a rich context for the discussion of socio-economic actions and transactions in... -
Retrograde Ryan Calais Cameron 9781350419001
RRP: €13.08€11.50Mr Parks, this isn't just a movie, it's a whole movement. Whether you like it or not is irrelevant. The Golden Age of Hollywood. Behind closed doors, aspiring actor Sidney Poitier is offered a lucrative contract that could make him a superstar. But... -
After the End by Dennis Kelly 9781350339217
€13.15A city under attack from a nuclear blast. As the dust settles, Louise wakes to find herself in a fallout shelter with Mark, the colleague who has saved her life. They have enough water and food to last two weeks. Now they just need to find a way of... -
Everyman by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: €13.08€8.71Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. Forced to abandon the life he has built, he embarks on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to speak in his defence. But Death is close behind, and time is running... -
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative by Mieke Bal 9781442628342
RRP: €30.93€26.76Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and non-literary. Providing insights into how readers interpret... -
Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook Tanya Pollard (Montclair State University in New Jersey) 9781405111942
RRP: €52.30€45.72Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater... -
The Big Life: The Ska Musical by Paul Sirett 9781350497108
RRP: €15.46€14.93EROS!! Do your thing! It's 1950s London, and Ferdy, Bernie, Dennis and Lennie arrive from the West Indies full of expectations and aspirations. Eager to make successes of themselves, they are optimistic about what the future holds. Building this... -
The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist: A Handbook for Collaboration Rebecca Applin Warner (Urdang Academy, UK) 9781350229402
RRP: €23.79€19.68Dramaturgy is at the heart of any musical theatre score, proving that song and music combined can collectively act as drama. The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist: A Handbook for Collaboration offers techniques for approaching a musical with the... -
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
RRP: €13.08€8.71It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success, and its production history since it was first performed in 1960 has established the work as a landmark in twentieth-century drama.The obsessive caretaker, Davies, whose papers are in... -
Handbook of Set Design by Colin Winslow
RRP: €23.74€19.99"The Handbook of Set Design" is a comprehensive guide to designing scenery of all kinds for a wide variety of stages, large and small. From concept to final dress rehearsal and performance, it takes you through the practical process of turning... -
The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present by Michael Billington
RRP: €17.84€11.66Having surveyed post-war British drama in State of the Nation, Michael Billington now looks at the global picture. In this provocative and challenging new book, he offers his highly personal selection of the 101 greatest plays ranging from the Greeks to... -
National Theatre Connections 2023: 10 Plays for Young Performers Simon Longman 9781350382695
RRP: €23.79€21.10National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions... -
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: €13.08€9.25Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by... -
Blackbird by David Harrower
RRP: €13.08€8.71Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship.They haven't set eyes on each other since.Now, years later, she's found him again.Blackbird premiered at King's Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, in August 2005, and transferred to... -
Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume: 'Period Dress' in Twenty-First-Century Performance by Ella Hawkins
€33.31The meanings originally communicated by Elizabethan and Jacobean dress have long been confined to history. Why, then, have doublets, hose, ruffs and farthingales featured in many Shakespeare productions staged since the turn of the 21st century? This... -
Stage Management: The Essential Handbook by Gail Pallin
RRP: €20.22€14.84"Stage Management: The Essential Handbook" is aimed at students, graduates and all aspirants to stage management, amateur or professional, whether the production is on a large or small scale. Complete with charts and helpful checklists, it... -
Stage Lighting Design: The Art, The Craft, The Life by Richard Pilbrow
RRP: €32.12€24.01The definitive text for today's and tomorrow's lighting designers, covering the complete history, theory and practice of lighting design. With over four hundred illustrations and nearly sixty colour photographs, as well as interviews with many... -
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides 9781603847353
RRP: €15.46€13.16Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and... -
The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War by James Shapiro 9780571372768
RRP: €23.80€16.49From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall.1935. As part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's progressive New... -
Brecht On Theatre by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: €29.74€27.68Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First published in 1964 and on reading lists ever since,... -
Theatre Craft: A Director's Practical Companion from A to Z by John Caird 9780571237371
RRP: €29.75€20.93'This book is written with such humour and common sense that I may have to carry it around with me all the time.' JUDI DENCHA definitive guide to contemporary theatre practice from a world-renowned director.Theatre Craft is an all-encompassing, practical... -
The Glow by Alistair McDowall
€15.28People find me. When it's dark. 1863. An asylum. A woman locked in a windowless cell, with no memory as to who she is, or how she arrived there. When spiritualist medium Mrs Lyall requires a new assistant, this nameless woman seems the perfect... -
Disgraced by Mr Ayad Akhtar
RRP: €13.08€9.97"A continuously engaging, vitally engaged play about thorny questions of identity and religion in the contemporary world, with an accent on the incendiary topic of how radical Islam and the terrorism it inspires have affected the public discourse." The... -
Social Media in Musical Theatre Trevor Boffone 9781350358560
RRP: €13.08€10.72This book introduces readers to the widespread phenomenon of how social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok become an extension of long-standing aspects of musical theatre engagement. Although casual observers may dismiss social... -
So You Want To Be A Playwright by Tim Fountain
RRP: €15.46€11.02How to write a play and get it produced - a manual for playwrights. Playwright and former literary manager Tim Fountain guides the budding playwright over the many hurdles involved in getting a play on - from finding a story that only you know,... -
African American Perspectives in Musical Theatre Eric M. Glover (Yale University, USA) 9781350247710
RRP: €13.08€10.72From Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins's 1879 musical Peculiar Sam to Lynn Nottage's 2021 musical MJ, the 'Black musical' does not get the credit it deserves for sustaining the genre we know and love. This introductory book is devoted to representative... -
A Teacher's Guide to Musical Theatre Professor Kenneth Pickering 9781350213920
RRP: €20.22€16.91Are you a teacher of musical theatre who struggles to plan and construct lessons? Are you looking for a structured approach to teaching musical theatre to students of all abilities? Do you know your Ivor Novello from your Stephen Sondheim? Despite... -
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Going to the Theatre (But Were Too Sloshed To Ask, Dear) by West End Producer
RRP: €15.46€11.02Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the West End... West End Producer, the masked man of Theatreland and author of the definitive guide to acting*, returns with the ultimate guide to the theatregoing experience - for anyone who's ever been... -
The Children's Inquiry Matt Woodhead 9780571393916
RRP: €13.08€8.71Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.