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The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre by Laurence Senelick 9780415159869
RRP: £39.99£36.06The answers to these questions - and much, much more - are to be found in The Changing Room , which traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. It examines: * tribal rituals and shamanic practices... -
A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting: 1850-1900 Menswear for Theatre and Film, Volume 1 by Katerina Lawton
RRP: £38.99£34.22A 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... -
Physical Dramaturgy: Perspectives from the Field by Rachel Bowditch
RRP: £36.99£32.53What is physical dramaturgy? While the traditional dramaturg shares research intellectually, the physical dramaturg does so viscerally and somatically. By combining elements of text, history, dramatic structure, and the author's intent with movement... -
Sound Effects: Hearing the Early Modern Stage by Laura Jayne Wright 9781526159182
RRP: £85.00£74.51This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant. Sounds are weighted with meaning, offering a complex system of allusions. Playwrights such as Jonson and Shakespeare developed increasingly... -
The Family Reunion: With an introduction and notes by Nevill Coghill by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £10.99£7.32Eliot's haunting verse play, set in a country house in the north of England, was performed at the Westminster Theatre in London in March 1939, six months before the outbreak of war.'What is wonderful is the marvellous opening out of consciousness, the... -
Revise BTEC National Performing Arts Revision Workbook by Heidi McEntee
RRP: £18.69£17.08Exam Board: Pearson BTECAcademic Level: BTEC NationalSubject: Performing ArtsFirst teaching: September 2016First Exams: Summer 2017 For all four of the externally assessed units 1, 3, 5 and 7. Builds confidence with scaffolded practice questions... -
All's Well That Ends Well In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version by Bookcaps 9781477697160
RRP: £11.99£11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477697160Author BookcapsFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Sunderland Empire by Judith Robinson 9780752443409
RRP: £12.99£9.37The Sunderland Empire is one of the grand old provincial theatres. This collection of more than 150 archive photographs is a comprehensive history of the building. It charts the evolution of the Empire from the days of Victorian music hall to the Girl... -
The Wiz: The Adaptation of Frank Baum's "the Wizard of Oz" by Charlie Smalls
RRP: £11.99£10.95Musical / 11 Principals, Various small parts, Singers and Dancers / Various sets Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz have been set to music in a dazzling, lively mixture of rock, gospel and soul music. Everybody knows the story, but now it's a new... -
Live Art in LA: Performance in Southern California, 1970 - 1983 by Peggy Phelan
RRP: £36.99£32.53Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983 documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. The book forms part of the Getty Institute's Pacific Standard Time initiative - a series of... -
Matchbox Theatre: Thirty Short Entertainments by Michael Frayn
RRP: £11.99£8.52Matchbox Theatre presents a sketch show in miniature: thirty short entertainments by Michael Frayn, author of Skios and Noises Off, 'the funniest farce ever written' (New York Times).These tiny plays are offered here for performance in the smallest... -
The Method Acting Exercises Handbook by Lola Cohen
RRP: £35.99£32.97The Method Acting Exercises Handbook is a concise and practical guide to the acting exercises originally devised by Lee Strasberg, one of the Method's foremost practitioners. The Method trains the imagination, concentration, senses and emotions to... -
Method - or Madness? P/C by Lewis 9780573690334
£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573690334Author LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French IncWeight(grams) 201g -
Syrian Refugees, Applied Theater, Workshop Facilitation, and Stories: While They Were Waiting by Fadi Skeiker 9780367654054
RRP: £18.99£16.87This book analyzes and theorizes the efficacy of using applied theater as a tool to address refugee issues of displacement, trauma, adjustment, and psychological well-being, in addition to split community belonging.Fadi Skeiker connects refugee... -
Acting (Re)Considered: A Theoretical and Practical Guide by Phillip B. Zarrilli
RRP: £48.99£43.06Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance. This second edition includes five new essays and has been fully revised and updated,... -
A Performance Cosmology: Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past by Judie Christie
RRP: £52.99£47.63Exploring thirty years of work by The Centre for Performance Research (CPR), A Performance Cosmology explores the future challenges of performance and theatre through a diverse and fascinating series of interviews, testimonies and perspectives from... -
A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Fit by Jeanette deJong
RRP: £22.99£20.16A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Fit explores the concept of fit in theatrical costumes - what it is, how to assess it, and how to achieve it.Being able to assess whether a costume fits or not is a learned skill, which takes practice as well as... -
Hela by Mari Izzard
RRP: £10.99£10.78"Do's dim hawl 'da ti adael, Do's dim hawl 'da ti anghofio pwy wyt ti" "You don't get to leave, You don't get to forget who you really are" Erin, a young mother, has lost her son - but no one will listen. Driven and desperate, she must find him... -
The Bumper Book of Pantomimes by Patrick Prior
RRP: £10.00£9.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546568377Author Patrick PriorFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! by James Kirkwood
RRP: £10.99£9.59James Kirkwood Full Length, Comedy Characters: 3 male, 1 female Interior Set In the West Village of Manhattan, Jimmy Zoole, a thirty-ish actor is having a run of bad luck. He's been robbed twice (they even took the only copy of his first novel), fired... -
Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook by Richard Drain
RRP: £36.99£32.93Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook is an inspired handbook of ideas and arguments on theatre. Richard Drain gathers together a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original writings on theatre by its most creative practitioners - directors,... -
Nick Dear Plays 1: Art of Success; In the Ruins; Zenobia; Turn of the Screw by Nick Dear
RRP: £18.99£12.83This first collection of Nick Dear's work for the stage displays the breadth and achievement of one of the most talented and inventive dramatists writing in Britain today. The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art... -
The Secrets Of Noh Masks by Michishige Udaka
RRP: £25.00£16.37Noh master Michishige Udaka is the only living actor to continue to create masks while still performing and teaching. In this book he presents 32 of the more than 200 masks he's made to date, accompanied by compelling revelations about the masks and the... -
The Rules of Acting by Michael Simkins
RRP: £19.99£15.00Luvvies. Tyrannical directors. Useless agents. Less job security than an England football manager. Who'd be an actor?Michael Simkins isn't sure, even though he's been one himself for over thirty years. Join him backstage as he examines that business... -
Theatre and Dance by Kate Elswit
RRP: £7.99£7.58This succinct and engaging text explores the interdependence between theatre and dance. Making a compelling case for the significance of resisting genre distinctions in the arts, Kate Elswit demonstrates why and how the ampersand between theatre and... -
Stages of Reckoning: Antiracist and Decolonial Actor Training by Amy Mihyang Ginther
RRP: £29.99£26.64Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces.This book provokes embodied and intellectual discomfort for the reader to take risks with their ideologies, identities, and... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9780571237357
RRP: £10.99£7.32I 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... -
Shakespeare's Tragic Justice by C. J. Sisson
RRP: £34.99£30.85The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom. In this book, first published in 1963, four aspects of the problems of justice in action in Shakespeare's great tragedies are explored. This study is based on... -
Dyeing for Entertainment: Dyeing, Painting, Breakdown, and Special Effects for Costumes by Erin Carignan 9780815352327
RRP: £36.99£34.25Provides information on changing colors and surface textures using traditional and non-traditional scenic, fine-art, and metal-smithing techniques.Contains anecdotes of dos and don'ts from renowned artisans in the field. Online support material includes... -
Theatre Histories: An Introduction by Bruce McConachie
RRP: £51.99£46.19This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers a critical overview of global theatre and drama, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods. Bringing together a... -
August Wilson's Fences by Ladrica Menson-Furr
RRP: £18.99£17.91This title provides a guide to the political and historical context of the 1950s and to the African American cultural context.August Wilson is generally acknowledged to be the most respected African American playwright. His cycle of plays spanning the... -
Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance by Steve Dixon
RRP: £38.99£35.58Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from... -
Making History by Brian Friel
RRP: £10.99£7.32The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsale,... -
Stop the Show!: A History of Insane Incidents and Absurd Accidents in the Theater by Brad Schreiber
RRP: £13.99£12.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560258209Author Brad SchreiberFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm)... -
Production Management in Live Music: Managing the Technical Side of Touring in Today's Music Industry by Matt Doherty
RRP: £31.99£28.33Production Management in Live Music: Managing the Technical Side of Touring in Today's Music Industry is a handbook for the aspiring production manager looking to forge a career in the live music industry. This book outlines the role that a production... -
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard 9780571333721
RRP: £10.99£7.32Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, Tom Stoppard's witty and exhilarating play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.Tom Stoppard's reputation as a playwright was made when his dazzling debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, opened... -
Creating Solo Performance by Sean Bruno
RRP: £31.99£29.53Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you - the performer - with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space. The creation of a... -
Theatre and its Audiences: Reimagining the Relationship in Times of Crisis by Kate Craddock 9781350339170
RRP: £19.99£16.54Written in the aftermath of the Covid crisis, this book brings the past, present and future of theatre-going together as it explores the nature of the relationships between performance practitioners, arts organisations and their audiences. Proposing... -
Performance Costume: New Perspectives and Methods by Professor Sofia Pantouvaki 9781350098800
RRP: £24.99£23.92Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new focus in recent years on research in the area of costume has connected this practice in vital and new ways... -
Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way by Amy S. Osatinski 9780367086121
RRP: £36.99£32.53Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way is the first work of scholarship to comprehensively examine the history and production practices of Disney Theatrical Productions (DTP), the theatrical producing arm of the studio...