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The Rasaboxes Sourcebook: Theory, Performer Training, and Practice by Rachel Bowditch
RRP: $68.23$60.16Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer training exercises developed by Richard Schechner and... -
Dance Medicine in Practice: Anatomy, Injury Prevention, Training by Liane Simmel
RRP: $97.48$84.83Dance Medicine in Practice is the complete physical textbook for dance, written specifically to help dancers understand the anatomy, function and care of their bodies. Specific chapters are devoted to focusing on the spine, pelvis, hips, knees, feet,... -
Unbuttoned: The Art and Artists of Theatrical Costume Design by Shura Pollatsek
RRP: $95.53$65.54Unbuttoned: The Art and Artists of Theatrical Costume Design documents the creative journey of costume creation from concept to performance. Each chapter provides an overview of the process, including designing and shopping; draping, cutting, dyeing, and... -
A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre by Christopher Innes 9780415152297
RRP: $72.13$63.43A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides essential primary sources which document one of the key movements in modern theatre. Christopher Innes has selected three writers to exemplify the movement, and six plays in particular: * Henrik Ibsen - A Dolls... -
My Sister in This House by Wendy Kesselman 9780573618727
RRP: $21.43$19.25Wendy Kesselman Full Length, Drama New Revised Version Characters: 4 female Combination Interior Set Winner of the Playbill Award. This extraordinary drama, produced to acclaim at the Actors Theatre of Louisville originally, and at NYC's Second Stage is... -
Blink by Phil Porter 9781350321953
RRP: $21.43$21.02This is the tale of Jonah, Sophie, and a fox called Scruffilitis. It's a love story. A dysfunctional, voyeuristic and darkly funny love story, but a love story all the same. This new play by the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner Phil Porter, is an... -
The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2019 by Lawrence Harbison 9781493053315
RRP: $29.23$25.41Renowned editor Larry Harbison brings together approximately one-hundred never-before-published women's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both... -
Unmarked: The Politics of Performance by Peggy Phelan
RRP: $76.03$66.73Unmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture. Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic... -
Labanotation: The System of Analyzing and Recording Movement by Ann Hutchinson Guest
RRP: $83.83$74.08A definitive book for students of dance and movement studies, Labanotation is now available in a fourth edition, the first complete revision of the text since 1977. Initiated by the movement genius Rudolf Laban, and refined through fifty years of work... -
The Sneeze by Anton Chekhov 9780573625244
$22.48Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest precursors of modern drama. First published in 1989, this... -
Aesthetics of Absence: Texts on Theatre by Heiner Goebbels
RRP: $91.63$79.89Aesthetics of Absence presents a significant challenge to the many embedded assumptions and hierarchical structures that have become 'naturalised' in western theatre production. This is the first English translation of a new collection of writings and... -
Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography by Jane Collins
RRP: $77.98$69.15Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography is an essential resource for those interested in the visual composition of performance and related scenographic practices. Theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and... -
The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies by Erika Fischer-Lichte 9780415504201
RRP: $76.03$66.73Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies is a strikingly authoritative and wide ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Its three-part structure moves from the first steps in starting to... -
Kill Climate Deniers by David Finnigan
RRP: $27.28$25.47"People of the internet, people of the world, you wanna see your Environment Minister SOLVE some shit, this is the soundtrack..." What happens when the unstoppable force of climate change meets the immovable object of Australian politics? ... -
Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre & Film by Martha Ruskai
RRP: $263.25$220.16Wig 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... -
Directing Amateur Theatre by Helen E. Sharman 9780713668070
$43.62In the world of amateur theatre, the role of director is challenging and wide-ranging. As the leader of a team, you can face problems on any aspect of the production which you will be expected to solve. This book contains all the advice you will need to... -
The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre by Peter Brook 9781400077878
RRP: $37.05$26.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400077878Author Peter BrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
David Hare Plays 1: Slag; Teeth 'n' Smiles; Knuckle; Licking Hitler; Plenty by David Hare
RRP: $37.03$25.02This 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... -
Theatre by David Mamet
RRP: $25.33$16.69If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, 'many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical'. As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and... -
Elizabethan Jacobean Drama: The Theatre in Its Time by Blakemore G. Evans
$59.59Treats, through excerpts from contemporary opinion and official documents, various aspects of the little world of theatre in the full context of Elizabethan-Jacobean life and times.Book InformationISBN 9780941533133Author Blakemore G. EvansFormat... -
Here's to the Ladies: Conversations with More of the Great Women of Musical Theater by Eddie Shapiro 9780197585535
RRP: $60.43$52.98A fascinating look at the careers of some of Broadway's greatest female performers in their own words In Here's to the Ladies, the follow-up to Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater, theatre journalist Eddie... -
Theatre Audiences by Susan Bennett
RRP: $72.13$63.43Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences. Published here in a brand... -
The Whale by Samuel D Hunter
RRP: $21.43$19.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Drama) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780573701665Author Samuel D HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher... -
Power Plays: Dramatic Short Plays for Acting Students by Laurie Allen
RRP: $38.98$25.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566082075Author Laurie AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 244g -
Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays before 1950 by Kathy A. Perkins
RRP: $40.93$35.06"Fine reading and a superb resource." -Ms."Highly recommended." -Library Journal"Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-oriented introduction places the women and their works in a literary and historical context." -Choice"As well as being... -
Stage Fright in the Actor by Linda Brennan
RRP: $62.38$55.24Stage Fright in the Actor explores the phenomena of stage fright-a universal experience that ranges in intensity from a relatively easy-to-conceal sense of anxiety to an overwhelming feeling of terror-from the actor's perspective, unearthing its social,... -
D'Oyly Carte: Through the Lens by Roberta Morrell
RRP: $48.65$34.30D'Oyly Carte: Through the Lens is a beautiful book of photographs of the world-renowned D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, most of which have never previously been seen. The iconic company, which presented the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan around the world... -
A Life in 16 Films: How Cinema Made a Playwright by Steve Waters
RRP: $44.83$39.21Steve Waters examines how the very idea of film has defined him as a playwright and a person in this book. Through the the lens of cinema, it provides a cultural and political snapshot of life in Britain from the 2nd part of the 20th century up to the... -
Towards a Third Theatre: Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret by Ian Watson 9780415127646
RRP: $91.63$79.89Eugenio Barba is one of Europe's leading theatre directors, at the forefront of experimental and group theatre for more than twenty years. Ian Watson provides the most comprehensive and systematic study of Barba's work, including his training methods,... -
Entanglements of Two: A Series of Duets by Mary Paterson
RRP: $48.75$42.49Drawing out the particularities of working in twos, with a focus on collaborative performance making, this book considers the duet as a particular configuration in which to think, the duo a microcosm of humankind, and presents everyday entanglement of... -
African Theatres and Performances by Osita Okagbue 9780415304535
RRP: $214.50$185.46African Theatres & Performances looks at four specific performance forms in Africa and uses this to question the tendency to employ western frames of reference to analyze and appreciate theatrical performance. The book examines:masquerade theatre in... -
A New Brain by William Finn 9780573627132
RRP: $21.43$19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573627132Author William FinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Performance Studies Reader by Henry Bial
RRP: $91.63$80.67Since its first publication in 2002, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies. Now in its third edition, it continues to offer an unparalleled selection of work by the foremost in this... -
Analysing Gender in Performance by J. Paul Halferty
RRP: $97.48$87.69Analysing Gender in Performance brings together the fields of Gender Studies and Performance Analysis to explore how contemporary performance represents and interrogates gender. This edited collection includes a wide range of scholarly essays, as well... -
Theatre/Theory/Theatre: The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel by Daniel Gerould 9781557835277
RRP: $37.03$28.08Available for the First Time in Paperback!THFrom Aristotle's EPoeticsE to Vaclav Havel the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould's landmark work ETheatre/Theory/TheatreE collects history's most... -
Death Takes a Holiday by Alberto Cassella 9780573607882
$23.54Drama / Casting: 7m, 6f / Scenery: Interior Produced with great success on Broadway, this striking drama has established itself among the important plays of our time. It is based on the poetic conception of death suspending all activities for three days... -
Theatre Management: Arts Leadership for the 21st Century by Anthony Rhine 9781352001747
$57.23An essential introductory textbook that provides a comprehensive and student-friendly overview of the key processes involved in developing and managing a theatre in the 21st century. It covers a complete range of topics fundamental to successful... -
Sustainable Theatre: Theory, Context, Practice by Iphigenia Taxopoulou
RRP: $48.73$42.76How does the world of theatre and the performing arts intersect with the climate and environmental crisis? This timely book is the first comprehensive account of the sector's response to the defining issue of our time. The book documents a sector in... -
The Theatre of Revolt: An Approach to Modern Drama by Robert Brustein 9780929587530
RRP: $29.23$22.74In a new edition of this now-classic work, Robert Brustein argues that the roots of the modern theatre may be found in the soil of rebellion cultivated by eight outstanding playwrights: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill, and... -
Voice by Jane Boston
RRP: $58.48$41.54This wide-ranging volume explores the technical and physical aspects of voice as a craft, questioning its definitions, its historical presence, training practices and its publications. Drawing on a wealth of experience, Jane Boston presents a selection...