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The Actor and the Character: Explorations in the Psychology of Transformative Acting by Vladimir Mirodan
RRP: $63.45$55.80Transformative acting remains the aspiration of many an emerging actor, and constitutes the achievement of some of the most acclaimed performances of our age: Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, Meryl Streep as Mrs Thatcher, Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter -... -
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
$19.18Dramatic Comedy / 5m, 2f / Unit Set In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and... -
Classical Tragedy Greek and Roman: Eight Plays with Critical Essays by Robert W. Corrigan
RRP: $25.71$24.55A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: The Oresteia a Aeschylus; Prometheus Bound a Aeschylus; Oedipus the King a Sophocles; Antigone a Sophocles; Medea a Euripides; The Bakkhai a Euripides; Oedipus a... -
Jacques Lecoq by Simon Murray
RRP: $66.88$58.70This volume offers a concise guide to the teaching and philosophy of one of the most significant figures in twentieth century actor training. Jacques Lecoq's influence on the theatre of the latter half of the twentieth century cannot be overestimated.Now... -
What's the Story: Essays about art, theater and storytelling by Anne Bogart 9780415750004
RRP: $51.44$45.70Anne Bogart is an award-winning theatre maker, and a best-selling writer of books about theatre, art, and cultural politics. In this her latest collection of essays she explores the story-telling impulse, and asks how she, as a 'product of... -
The Other National Theatre: 350 Years of Shows in Drury Lane by Robert Whelan 9780957598003
RRP: $34.31$26.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957598003Author Robert WhelanFormat HardbackPage Count 564Imprint Jacob TonsonPublisher Jacob TonsonDimensions(mm) 240mm * 152mm * 46mm -
Stage Rights!: The Actresses’ Franchise League, Activism and Politics 1908–58 by Naomi Paxton
RRP: $42.88$34.82Stage rights! explores the work and legacy of the first feminist political theatre group of the twentieth century, the Actresses' Franchise League. Formed in 1908 to support the suffrage movement through theatre, the League and its membership opened up... -
American Psycho by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
RRP: $18.85$17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707230Author Roberto Aguirre-SacasaFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Fifty Key Theatre Directors by Shomit Mitter
RRP: $39.43$34.58Fifty Key Theatre Directors covers the work of practitioners who have shaped and pushed back the boundaries of theatre and performance. The authors provide clear and insightful overviews of the approaches and impact of fifty of the most influential... -
Sound and Music for the Theatre: The Art & Technique of Design by Deena C. Kaye
RRP: $63.45$54.13Covering every phase of a theatrical production, this fourth edition of Sound and Music for the Theatre traces the process of sound design from initial concept through implementation in actual performances. The book discusses the early evolution of sound... -
Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s by Allison Lowery
RRP: $61.73$56.07Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s, 2nd edition, is a guide to creating beautiful, historically accurate hairstyles for theatrical productions and events. This volume covers hairstyles from Ancient Egypt through Romantic/Biedermeier... -
Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do? by Carl Lavery
RRP: $66.88$58.70In comparison with Literary Studies and Media and Film Studies, the disciplines of Theatre and Performance, with their strong anthropocentric heritage, have been relatively slow in responding to such things as climate change, species extinction, or... -
Roy Williams Plays 5: Kingston 14; The Firm; Advice for the Young at Heart; Death of England; Death of England: Delroy by Roy Williams
RRP: $34.29$30.41In his fifth collection of Plays, the work ranges from a spirited, raging drama that investigates police corruption in Jamaica through to two thrilling monologue plays written either side of the Covid-19 pandemic, first presented at London's National... -
Decentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the Stage by Carolyn M. Dunn 9781032218083
RRP: $60.02$52.92Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and underrepresented storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters hegemonic... -
Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry 9780573613975
$20.62Apologies 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 -
The Kindness Of Strangers: The Life Of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto 9780306808050
$34.22This is the first complete, critical biography of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), one of America's finest playwrights and the author of (among many important works) The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,... -
Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving and Color-Changing Lights by Richard Cadena
RRP: $89.18$75.90Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving and Color-Changing Lights, Third Edition (formerly Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light) continues to be the most trusted text for working and aspiring lighting professionals. Now in... -
Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski by Phillip B. Zarrilli
RRP: $73.74$64.48Psychophysical Acting is a direct and vital address to the demands of contemporary theatre on today's actor. Drawing on over thirty years of intercultural experience, Phillip Zarrilli aims to equip actors with practical and conceptual tools with which to... -
Clue: The Musical by Peter DePietro
RRP: $18.85$16.88Musical comedy Book by Peter DePietro. Music by Galen Blum, Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci. Lyrics by Tom Chiodo. Based on the Parker Brothers' Board Game. Characters: 5male, 3female Unit set. The internationally popular game is now a fun filled... -
What is Scenography? by Pamela Howard 9781138504783
RRP: $73.74$66.19The third edition of Pamela Howard's What is Scenography? expands on the author's holistic analysis of scenography as comprising space, text, research, art, performers, directors and spectators, to examine the changing nature of scenography in the... -
Theatre and Medicine by Stanton B. Garner, Jr.
RRP: $17.14$14.12Theatre and Medicine offers a tour of this interdisciplinary terrain. Organized into four distinct topics, each represents crucial ways of understanding the theatre-medicine relationship. From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that... -
Elizabethan Jacobean Drama: The Theatre in Its Time by G. Blakemore Evans
RRP: $25.71$24.58The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to... -
Dance History: An Introduction by Janet Adshead-Lansdale
RRP: $60.02$52.92Originally published in 1983 the first edition rapidly established itself as a core student text. Now fully revised and up-dated it remains the only book to address the rationale, process, techniques and methodologies specific to the study of dance... -
The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism by Elinor Fuchs
RRP: $27.43$23.88"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty... -
New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting by Mark Bly
RRP: $32.57$28.94In New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting, Mark Bly offers a new playwriting book with nine unique play-generating exercises.These exercises offer dramaturgical strategies and tools for confronting and overcoming... -
One-Hour Shakespeare: The Early Comedies and Romances by Julie Fain Lawrence-Edsell
RRP: $63.45$55.80The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, The Early Comedies and Romances, includes the following plays: A Midsummer Night's... -
Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon 9780573702570
RRP: $18.85$16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702570Author Joshua HarmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Best Men's Monologues from New Plays, 2020 by Lawrence Harbison
RRP: $25.71$19.31Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published men's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both... -
Disobedient Theatre: Alternative Ways to Inspire, Animate and Play by Chris Johnston 9781350014541
$47.10Theatre is at its best when it is disobedient, when it argues back to society. But what enables it to achieve this impact? What makes it a force to be reckoned with? What are the principles and the tools of the trade that shape it to be effective,... -
The Outsider (L'Etranger) by Ben Okri 9781786826657
$21.30Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri. A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the glare... -
Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting by Robert Vaughn
RRP: $24.00$18.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879100810Author Robert VaughnFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Taking on the Empire: How We Saved the Hackney Empire for Popular Theatre by Roland Muldoon 9781907352065
RRP: $25.73$25.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907352065Author Roland MuldoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Just PressPublisher Just PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment by Rebecca Schneider
RRP: $68.59$60.14'At last, the past has arrived! Performing Remains is Rebecca Schneider's authoritative statement on a major topic of interest to the field of theatre and performance studies. It extends and consolidates her pioneering contributions to the field through... -
Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories by Bryan Reynolds
$56.18The field of performance studies analyses the production and impact of on-stage performance, such as in a theatre or circus, and off-stage performance, such as cultural rituals and political protests. Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories... -
Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? by Adam P Kennedy
RRP: $18.85$4.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573663529Author Adam P KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
How to Read a Play: Script Analysis for Directors by Damon Kiely
RRP: $66.88$58.70How to Read a Play outlines the cruicial work required for a play before the first rehearsal, the first group reading or even the before the cast have met. Directors and dramaturgs must know how to analyze, understand and interpret a play or performance... -
A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting by Steven Louis Shelley
RRP: $90.89$77.29Combining theory and application, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting provides a comprehensive analysis of lighting systems along with examples and illustrations of the technical tools and methods used in the industry. An entertaining and educational... -
The Life of the Drama by Eric Bentley 9781557831101
RRP: $22.28$16.06Eric Bentley's radical new look at the grammar of theatre...is a work of exceptional virtue... The book justifies its title by being precisely about the ways in which life manifests itself in the theatre...This is a book to be read again and again. a... -
Scenic Art for the Theatre by Susan Crabtree
RRP: $89.18$75.90Now in its Third Edition, Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques continues to be the most trusted source for both student and professional scenic artists. With new information on scenic design using Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and other... -
Theatre and Animals by Lourdes Orozco
$14.61Lourdes Orozco considers different representations of animals in performance; suggesting that all animals have the ability to make us question the human, and its relationship to the other. She examines ways in which animals challenge theatre's ability to...