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Live Art and Performance by Adrian Heathfield 9781854375018
RRP: €29.75€22.16Live, or performance, art is one of the most controversial and hotly discussed areas of art practice to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century. The history of live art is one of challenge to audiences, art traditions and cultural values. With... -
Unmasked by Andrew Lloyd Webber
RRP: €15.46€10.09"You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you've had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre." ... -
Boys on the Verge of Tears by Sam Grabiner 9780571390175
RRP: €13.08€8.78'Wild, thrilling, brutally honest and beautifully tender. This is a truly extraordinary new play.' Lucy KirkwoodWINNER OF THE VERITY BARGATE AWARD 2022A father waits for his son. Kids hang around skipping school. Fights break out after nights of drinking... -
The Permanent Way by David Hare
RRP: €13.08€8.71In 1991, before an election they did not expect to win, the Conservative government made a fateful decision to privatize the railways. As a result, the taxpayer subsidizes rail more lavishly then ever before. In The Permanent Way, David Hare, working... -
True West by Sam Shepard
RRP: €13.08€8.71Austin, working on his Hollywood screenplay, is disturbed by the arrival of his estranged brother, Lee, just returned from three months in the desert. During a brief spell of uneasy cohabitation in their absent mother's house, Lee employs himself as a... -
Theatre and The Visual by Dominic Johnson 9780230246621
€9.58Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Johnson examines the spectator's role in the theatre, exploring pleasure,... -
The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form by Cormac McCarthy
RRP: €11.89€8.65Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian.'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' - Financial TimesA... -
Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie Professor Sonia Massai (Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy, and King's College, London, UK) 9781350031548
RRP: €39.26€34.78This book offers a wealth of resources, critical overviews and detailed analysis of Ivo van Hove's internationally acclaimed work as the foremost director of theatre, opera and musicals in our time. Stunning production photos capture the power of van... -
Britain Had Talent: A History of Variety Theatre by Oliver Double 9780230284609
€38.41In the first major academic work to examine British variety theatre, Double provides a detailed history of this art form and analyses its performance dynamics and techniques. Encompassing singers, comedians, dancers, magicians, ventriloquists and diverse... -
Verbatim Theatre Methodologies for Community Engaged Practice: Perspectives from Australian Theatre Sarah Peters 9780367726393
RRP: €38.07€33.71Verbatim Theatre Methodologies for Community-Engaged Practice offers a framework for developing original community-engaged productions using a range of verbatim theatre approaches. This book's methodologies offer an approach to community-engaged... -
Staging Youth Theatre: a Practical Guide by Rex Doyle
RRP: €17.84€17.47This title offers a practical guide to starting or running a theatre for young people. From the initial idea to form the company, through the tense days of rehearsal, to the final performance of the first production, it covers all aspects of youth... -
The Country Wife William Wycherley 9781408179895
RRP: €11.89€10.50'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.' This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes fun at the humourless, the jealous, and the adulterous alike. It features a country wife, Margery,... -
Musical Theatre For Dummies Seth Rudetsky 9781119889502
RRP: €21.41€14.92Discover what goes on behind the curtains of your favorite musical Do you want to know more about the fascinating history of Broadway musicals, the stars of yesterday and today, and what goes on behind the curtain of a musical production? In Musical... -
we were promised honey! by Sam Ward
€15.15The show that we're about to do is a story about the future. The story that we're going to tell is the story of us; the story of our future. It's a story that we are going to tell together. I hope that sounds okay. From the makers of Five Encounters... -
Theatre in Practice: A Student's Handbook Nick O'Brien (The Stanislavski Experience, UK) 9781032420820
RRP: €46.40€41.20Theatre in Practice, third edition, is an accessible and wide-ranging exploration of the central practices and key practitioners covered on the various syllabi at A level, IB, and at undergraduate level.Exploring Stanislavski, Brecht, Artaud, Lecoq,... -
Invisible Friends by Alan Ayckbourn
€13.59Alan Ayckbourn's play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy. With her father glued to the cowboys on the telly, her mother preoccupied with neighbourly gossip and her brother enclosed in his ear-phones, no one wants to know about her place in... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9780571237357
RRP: €13.08€8.71I know now, Kostya, I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure.The Seagull is one of the great plays about... -
Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts by Roger T. Dean
RRP: €36.89€30.52This book addresses one of the most exciting and innovative developments within higher education: the rise in prominence of the creative arts and the accelerating recognition that creative practice is a form of research. The book considers how creative... -
Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 1: The Enemy Within; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Loves of Cass McGuire; Lovers (Winners and Losers); Crystal and Fox; The Gentle Island by Brian Friel
RRP: €23.79€16.01This marks the first of five volumes collecting together the complete work of Brian Friel. The Enemy Within (1962) Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964)The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966) Lovers (Winners and Losers) (1967) Crystal and Fox (1968) The Gentle... -
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful . . . compulsively readable' - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?When Robert McCrum began... -
Beginning by David Eldridge
€14.73You didn't fancy it then? Fancy what? Getting in the taxi. No. Every story starts somewhere. It's the early hours of the morning and Danny's the last straggler at Laura's party. The flat's in a mess. And so are they. One more drink? David... -
Simon Stephens: A Working Diary by Simon Stephens
€32.112014 was a spectacular year for playwright Simon Stephens, who has been described by the Independent as 'a brilliant writer of immense imagination' and by the Financial Times as having 'emerged in this millennium as an outstanding playwright'. 2014... -
Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch
RRP: €15.46€11.65"Alice Birch's new play is scored like a piece of music ... It is an extraordinary echoing text, full of pain and strange beauty. The three stories play out simultaneously on stage, the dialogue from one scene overlapping with the other two in a manner... -
The Costume Making Guide: Creating Armor & Props for Cosplay Svetlana Quindt 9781440345166
RRP: €26.17€17.33Bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands! The Best Cosplay Tutorial Guide Ever! Get ready to impress ordinary mortals with your superhuman costume-making skills. You can do it no matter what your experience level with this, the... -
Eigengrau by Penelope Skinner
RRP: €13.08€8.71Eigengrau / [ay-gen-gr-ow ] - noun. intrinsic light; the colour seen by the eye in perfect darkness Rose believes in true love and leprechauns. Her flatmate Cassie is engaged in a fervent struggle against patriarchal oppression. Across London, Mark... -
The Wonderful World of Dissocia by Anthony Neilson 9781350370012
RRP: €13.08€11.50Life's full of clatter, but none of it matters, only who'll hold your paw when you die. What would you do if you lost an hour from your day? How far would you go to rescue what you've lost? In search of a lost hour that has tipped the balance of... -
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig
RRP: €13.08€8.71One wintry morning academic Prudencia Hart sets off to a conference in the Scottish Borders. Stranded there by snow, she is swept off on a dream-like journey of self discovery, complete with magical moments, devilish encounters and wittily wild music... -
Patriots by Peter Morgan
RRP: €11.89€7.97If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibility but the duty to become Russian heroes.1991. The Fall of the Soviet Union.With the dawning of a new Russia, there are winners and losers, and today's... -
Cock by Mike Bartlett 9781474229630
RRP: €13.08€9.97But that's what this is, isn't it? The ultimate bitch fight. When John takes a break from his boyfriend, his accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out . . . ... -
Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: €11.89€11.13Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece charts love, politics, past and future, with plenty of twists thrown in for good measure. Rosmersholm is positioned against the backdrop... -
The Topsy Turvy World of Gilbert and Sullivan by Keith Dockray 9781781557761
RRP: €19.04€14.58No musical partnership has enjoyed greater success during its time span, or bequeathed a more powerful and enduring legacy, than that of Gilbert and Sullivan in the later nineteenth century. Even before their first successful collaboration in 1875, both... -
An Actor's Work Konstantin Stanislavski 9781138688384
RRP: €23.79€22.24Stanislavski's 'system' has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionized standards... -
Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions by Mark Eden Horowitz 9781538125502
RRP: €29.75€27.24From his early work as lyricist for West Side Story to acclaimed creations such as A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, and Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the most important figure in musical theater since the... -
Treasure Island by Bryony Lavery 9780571324361
RRP: €13.08€8.71Not one of us must breathe a word of what we've found.It's a dark and stormy night. Jim, the inn-keeper's granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor's feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in - and... -
Katie Mitchell: Beautiful Illogical Acts Benjamin Fowler 9781138082366
RRP: €44.02€38.71Katie Mitchell: Beautiful Illogical Acts offers the first comprehensive study of Britain's most internationally recognised, influential, and controversial theatre director. It examines Mitchell's innovations in fourth-wall realism, opera, and Live Cinema... -
Sound Design for the Stage by Gareth Fry
RRP: €28.56€23.72Sound Design for the Stage is a practical guide to designing, creating and developing the sound for a live performance. Based on the author's extensive industry experience, it takes the reader through the process of creating a show, from first contact... -
The Young Vic Theatre Book: Theatre Work and Play by C. Higginson 9780413771100
€31.45This book introduces young people to the theatrical processes behind the scenes of one of the country's best known and best loved theatres. The Young Vic is famous for its hugely successful productions of classic and modern plays, which have attracted... -
South Pacific: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical The Applause Libretto Library by Oscar Hammerstein
RRP: €15.46€13.04EMusic by Richard RodgersETHELyrics by Oscar Hammerstein IIETHEBook by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua LoganETHEAdapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelE Tales of the South Pacific Eby James A. MichenerETHTHWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and... -
Damned by Despair by Frank McGuinness
RRP: €13.08€8.71Obsessed with his own salvation, the hermit Paulo dedicates himself to ten years of prayerful penance. When his faith wavers, the ever-watchful Devil seizes the moment to convince him that he shares the fate of one Enrico, a notorious Neapolitan gangster... -
I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir by Harvey Fierstein
RRP: €29.75€21.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593320525Author Harvey FiersteinFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc