Direction & Production

Merging the theoretical framework with the practical elements of staging an ancient Greek play, this indispensable guide offers directors and actors an excellent starting point for mounting their production. Considering the conditions of ancient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838132620Author David PustanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Extreme ImprovPublisher Extreme Improv

Offering one of the first scholarly examinations of digital and distanced performance since the global shutdown of theaters in March 2020, Barbara Fuchs provides both a record of the changes and a framework for thinking through theater's transformation. ...

Russian theatre director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, has been called the Picasso of modern theatre. A ceaseless experimenter with new forms and techniques and the leader of an aesthetic revolution, he left no body of theoretical writings. What takes their place...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615433998Author Curt JacksonFormat PaperbackImprint Moosehead PublishingPublisher Moosehead PublishingWeight(grams) 200g

Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach is the first book to apply the Practical Aesthetics acting technique to the craft of directing.Lee Cohn lays out a step-by-step, no-nonsense methodology for the director that includes a deep dive into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080361Author David GroteFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312227463Author Elizabeth SchaferFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439145777Author Mickey RapkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 20mm

A useful, practical handbook for local community groups, youth theatres, amateur players, universities and colleges, students of Community Theatre/Theatre Studies and others wanting to stage a successful community play. Drawing on a wealth of personal...

Getting a new show up and running? Planning a revival? Taking over a long-running show? Going on the road? On Broadway, off Broadway, in regional repertory, or on tour, the only book you need as your professional companion is Peter Lawrence's...

The Comedy Improv Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to University Improvisational Comedy in Theatre and Performance is a one-stop resource for both improv teachers and students, covering improv history, theory, maxims, exercises, games, and structures. You...

The Director's Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to the role of the theatrical director. Following the chronology of the directing process, the book discusses each stage in precise detail, considering the selection and analysis of the script, the audition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365741Author Barry EdelsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932658Author Peter D. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams)...

A 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,...

Expert, Practical Advice for Everyone in Show Business Now updated and expanded, this second edition of The Stage Producer's Business and Legal Guide is the ultimate survival kit for anyone presenting live entertainment. The information contained in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930452742Author Arthur BartowFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Innovation & Digital Theatremaking introduces a blueprint for how to think differently about Theatre, how to respond creatively in uncertainty, and how to wield whatever resources are available to create new work in new ways.In 2020, the COVID-19...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763507844Author Dorita HannahFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)...

DreamWork: A Training for Directors provides a theoretical basis and a highly detailed, practical, step-by-step blueprint for developing a directorial concept for a play.Directing is a complex, multi-staged artistic process which, for the most part, is a...

A Poetics of Third Theatre offers an in-depth, critical analysis of Third Theatre, a transnational community of theatre groups and artists united by a shared set of values and a laboratory attitude.This book takes a genealogical account of Third Theatre...

A 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...

This book provides a conceptual understanding of objectives and trends of lighting design and technology so that the reader will be able to wisely keep up with the rapid and never-ending expansion of the field.Uniquely explores how quietive practices can...

The Director as Collaborator teaches essential directing skills while emphasizing how directors and theater productions benefit from collaboration. Good collaboration occurs when the director shares responsibility for the artistic creation with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604977691Author Jennifer LanipekunFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622737055Author Nandita DineshFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959685074Author Gillette ElvgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Integratio PressPublisher Integratio PressWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936381456Author Edward EatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Dragonfly Publishing, IncorporatedPublisher Dragonfly Publishing,...

This monograph centres on the history of musical theatre in a space of cultural significance for British identity, namely the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which housed many prominent American productions from 1924-1970. It argues that during this period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934844595Author Amelia Howe KritzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Teneo PressPublisher Teneo PressWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990460423Author Dick MuellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Camp Mueller Publishing LLCPublisher Camp Mueller Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385288999Author Dr Shanta GokhaleFormat PaperbackImprint Speaking Tiger BooksPublisher Speaking Tiger BooksWeight(grams) 336g

The Production of King Oedipus is a masterful behind-the-scenes account of the production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex at the Festival Theatre Stratford, Ontario, in 1954. Written by the theatre's Artistic Director, Tyrone Guthrie, and the theatre's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734059229Author Jeffrey W AubuchonFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint 92252 PressPublisher 92252 PressWeight(grams) 259g

Amidst the turmoil of political revolution, the stage directors of twentieth-century Russia rewrote the rules of theatre making. From realism to the avant-garde, politics to postmodernism, and revolution to repression, these practitioners shaped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734059236Author Jeffrey W AubuchonFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint 92252 PressPublisher 92252 PressWeight(grams) 381g

Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in Rhetorical Performance is an innovative workbook for both students and teachers in advanced communication performance. Meeting at the nexus of English composition, advanced rhetoric, theater, music, and...

Providing one of the first critically sustained engagements with the new forms of verbatim and testimonial theatre that emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this book examines what distinguishes verbatim theatre from the more established...

An international arts organisation and network engaging with music, dance, theatre and visual art, Phakama creates adventurous, site-responsive performances with large groups of people from diverse backgrounds. With contributions from participants,...