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Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his...

The definitive guide to writing music for the stage, by the Composer-in-Residence at the Donmar Warehouse. Music has played a vital part in drama since the earliest days of theatre. For composers, writing music for the stage is an opportunity to...

Hollywood superstar; Oscar-winning director; greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. His era abounded in greats - Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole - but none could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power. By the 1940s he had...

This second edition of Making an Entrance is a practical and thought-provoking introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non-disabled students, updated with expanded coverage, new and revised exercises, and chapters that cover post-pandemic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702563Author Kieron BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004.'Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we...

The perfect gift for all musical fans, this beautiful book gives readers an extraordinary inside look at In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda's breakout Broadway debut, written with Quiara Alegria Hudes, now a Hollywood blockbuster.'This book is a...

Actor Julie Hesmondhalgh's working diary begins in November 2016 at the end of a full and exciting year of theatre-making with her company, Take Back. The company is a northern-based collective creating immediate script-in-hand responses to social and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955999864Author Juliet AceFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Country SettingPublisher Country Setting

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309940Author ZeamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573613975Author Philip BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre and Film, Second Edition is the one-stop shop for the knowledge and skills you need to create and style wigs. Covering the basics, from styling tools to creating beards, it ramps up to advanced...

Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging...

Thomas Ostermeier is the most internationally recognised German theatre director of the present. With this book, he presents his directorial method for the first time. The Theatre of Thomas Ostermeier provides a toolkit for understanding and enacting the...

Stanislavski in Practice is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski's system. Author Nick O'Brien makes this cornerstone of acting accessible to teachers and students alike through the use of practical exercises that allow students to develop...

Features step-by-step guides to common processes used by all prop makers.Includes descriptions and images of the most common tools used in various crafts.Covers carpentry, metal-work, plastics fabrication, fabric, upholstery, sculpting, molding and...

In 1963, a young man from Limerick took his GBP25 savings and journeyed to London to become an actor. To pay his way through drama school he worked as a security guard (once for The Beatles) and served drinks to Miss World contestants at the Lyceum...

Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as 'completely unprintable'. The company that first presented them was prosecuted for obscenity in 1921. It was only when Max Ophuls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became...

The definitive guide to the life and work of Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty is one of the most vital forces in world theatre, yet the concept is one of the most frequently misunderstood. In this incisive study, Albert Bermel looks...

Comedy / 5m, 3f / Unit set. In this hilarious comedy by the author of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo , two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the...

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Twenty-First Century Musicals stakes a place for the musical in today's cinematic landscape, taking a look at leading contemporary shows from their stage origins to their big-screen adaptations. Each chapter offers a new perspective on a single musical,...

A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting offers pattern drafting instructions for men's most popular tailored garment styles from 1850 to 1900, used in theatres and film productions today.The book features a wide range of 19th-century garments, providing...

A play about what it means to be a "girl" in this day and age. The girls in this play show great strength, revealing their vulnerabilities in language that is honest and extremely compelling. Split into three sections, the characters speak entirely in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080033Author HalpernFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 235g

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks.Each of the chapters...

This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573609343Author Loos ColetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Insightful, in-depth and evocative, this book is a collection of conversations with nine of the most innovative theatre directors of our time in Europe and North America: * Eugenio Barba * Lev Dodin * Declan Donnellan * Elizabeth LeCompte * Robert LePage...

This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British playwrights' (Independent on Sunday).The volume also includes the...

Since 1960, a Broadway season without a Neil Simon play has been a rare one. For more than thirty years, Simon's wry and astute observations on life, love, and the human condition have been making audiences laugh uproariously even as his beautifully...

In What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the first time, a rigorous theory of embodied technique as knowledge. He argues that viewing technique as both training and research has much to offer current debates over the role of practice in the...

This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market. As well...

The brain builds a narrative to steady us from moment to moment, but it is absolutely an illusion. There is no me, there is no you, and there is certainly no self.Princeton, New Jersey. 1955. Thomas Stoltz Harvey performs the autopsy on Albert Einstein -...

Di Trevis is a world-renowned director, whose work with Britain's National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and directing productions worldwide, has deeply informed her knowledge of the director's craft.In Being a Director, she draws on a wealth of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573690860Author Hugh WhitemoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This first volume in the 4x45 series investigates the work of theatre director Katie Mitchell. Pausing to reconsider a career in progress, it engages with some of Mitchell's most recent work in the UK and Europe across theatre, opera, and Live Cinema. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707179Author Amy HerzogFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 127g

A thoughtful and deeply personal book by a master theatre-maker. In Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, playful and wise look at topics such as the subtle, telling differences between French and English, and the many levels on which we...

The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook, fourth edition, provides respected and clear coverage of the process of programming automated lighting fixtures from basic principles to advanced production preparations.This guide helps lighting programmers...