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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... -
Stage Makeup by Richard Corson
RRP: $102.90$91.82Widely referred to as the "bible of stage makeup," the timely revision of this classic text addresses principles and techniques in the use of makeup for the contemporary performer.This extensive exploration of the application and use of stage makeup and... -
Greasepaint Puritan: Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes by Maya Cantu 9780472056576
RRP: $44.51$31.78Greasepaint Puritan details the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel 42nd Street, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based. Each of Ropes's long-forgotten novels was inspired by his own experiences as a... -
Mechanical Design for the Stage by Alan Hendrickson
RRP: $80.60$67.96Scenic effects involving rotating turntables, tracking stage wagons, and the vertical movement of curtains and painted drops have become common in both Broadway and Regional theatre productions. The machines that drive these effects range from small... -
Refrains for Moving Bodies: Experience and Experiment in Affective Spaces by Derek P. McCormack
RRP: $41.15$35.01In Refrains for Moving Bodies, Derek P. McCormack explores the kinds of experiments with experience that can take place in the affective spaces generated when bodies move. Drawing out new connections between thinkers including Henri Lefebvre, William... -
Draping Period Costumes: Classical Greek to Victorian by Sharon Sobel
RRP: $56.59$48.61Draping Period Costumes provides you with the skill set you need to break away from two-dimensional patterns to drape three dimensional costumes. The basics of draping are explained in precise detail, followed by step-by-step draping projects from... -
Theatre and Tourism by Margaret Werry 9781350349957
RRP: $17.14$14.12How does tourism impact theatre? How do theatrical ways of seeing, knowing, and acting shape tourism? How do economic and political processes like colonization or neoliberalization influence them both? And what is the future of these twinned global... -
The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy: A Critical Study by Robert J. Andreach 9780786470976
RRP: $68.59$57.60The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older works by American, British, and European playwrights. This book analyzes recent American works by Caucasian, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic... -
Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays by James Al-Shamma 9780786458875
RRP: $42.87$35.85Although not yet 40, two-time Pulitzer finalist Sarah Ruhl has established herself as one of America's most innovative and productive playwrights. She is known for charting complex currents of desire and broaching weighty topics such as bereavement with... -
American Voices: Five Contemporary Playwrights in Essays and Interviews by Esther Harriott 9780786476039
RRP: $49.73$41.25Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, David Mamet, Charles Fuller, and Marsha Norman were born and began their writing careers within ten years of one another. Thus while they are not linked as representatives of a particular movement or school, they are fellow... -
Drama, Performance and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland by Alan J. Fletcher 9781859182451
RRP: $44.60$36.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859182451Author Alan J. FletcherFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Cork University PressPublisher Cork University PressWeight(grams) 859g -
Land/Scape/Theater by Elinor Fuchs 9780472097203
$174.46Land/Scape/Theater proposes landscape as a necessary paradigm for understanding modern theatre's increasingly spatialised aesthetic as well as its engagement with the cultural meanings of place and space.Embracing subjects as diverse as the "landscape... -
Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide by Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) 9781032355290
RRP: $85.75$77.36In 2021, its Diamond Jubilee year, the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) undertook to revise Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide (Routledge, 2010). This new edition (Routledge, 2023) has substantially re-written text with fresh images and... -
Stage Turns: Canadian Disability Theatre by Kirsty Johnston 9780773539952
$47.21Over the past three decades, disability theatre artists have claimed greater space on Canadian and world stages. While disabled figures and themes are theatre mainstays, productions tend to employ disability figuratively rather than engage with actual... -
Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance by Elise Morrison 9780472073269
$142.70Discipline and Desire examines how surveillance technologies, whenplaced within the frames of theater and performance, can be used tocritique and critically reimagine the politics of surveillance in everydaylife. In this way, the rapid proliferation of... -
Reckoning with Spirit in the Paradigm of Performance by Donnalee Dox 9780472072972
$157.48Performance has become a paradigm for analyzing contemporary culture, a pattern that structures a particular view of human interaction and experience. Performance is also widely used to better understand how we express values and ideas, including... -
Staging a Spanish Classic: The House of Fools with Hugh A. Harter by John D. Mitchell 9780873590532
$2.45 - $60.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873590532Author John D. MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint IastaPublisher Iasta -
Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage: Language, Identity, Nation by Jane Koustas 9780773546752
$51.30A leader in theatre production for a global community, Robert Lepage - actor, cineaste, and director - revolutionized the Toronto theatre scene from the 1980s onwards by challenging conventional notions of language, identity, and national belonging... -
Resisting Spirits: Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People's Republic of China by Maggie Greene 9780472054305
RRP: $37.65$30.77Resisting Spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through 1966, specifically focused on Mao-era culture workers' experiments with ghosts and ghost plays. Maggie... -
Hysteria in Performance by Jenn Cole 9780228005568
RRP: $157.81$122.61The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpetriere hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The hysteric's public appearance was a continual ethical provocation, pointing not only to the vulnerability of her person but to the... -
Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research by Ben Spatz 9780810146587
RRP: $61.67$50.72Enacts a radically interdisciplinary intersectionality to position performance-based research in solidarity with decoloniality This boldly innovative work interrogates the form and meaning of artistic research (also called practice research, performance... -
Theatricality of the Closet: Fashion, Performance, and Subjectivity between Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan by Michelle Liu Carriger 9780810145894
RRP: $65.10$53.45A richly illustrated exploration of fashion and its capacity for generating controversy and constructing social and individual identities Clothing matters. This basic axiom is both common sense and, in another way, radical. It is from this starting point... -
The Dybbuk Century: The Jewish Play That Possessed the World by Debra Caplan 9780472056439
$75.54A little over a hundred years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk opened in Warsaw. In the century that followed, The Dybbuk became a theatrical conduit for a wide range of discourses about Jews, belonging, and modernity. This timeless... -
Viewers in Distress: Race, Gender, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century by Stefka Mihaylova 9780472056323
$58.83Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a different story. Beginning in the... -
Microdramas: Crucibles for Theater and Time by John H. Muse 9780472073634
$141.48In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that tiny plays (i.e., shorter than twenty minutes) deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice. Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a... -
Sonic Strategies: Performing Mexico's War on Drugs, Mourning, and Feminicide by Christina Baker 9780826505989
RRP: $51.37$41.39Sonic Strategies for Performing the Modern Nation highlights what author Christina Baker refers to as the “sonic strategies” employed by contemporary performance artists in Mexico in response to the violence surrounding the government’s so-called War on... -
Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski by Phillip B. Zarrilli 9780415334570
RRP: $231.57$201.86Psychophysical 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... -
Technical Design Solutions for Theatre: The Technical Brief Collection Volume 2 by Ben Sammler 9781138126633
RRP: $231.57$201.86The Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publication is to share creative solutions to technical... -
Shakespeare in Catalan: Translating Imperialism by Helena Buffery 9780708320112
RRP: $42.87$34.80Who was Xespir? Why are Catalan adaptations and performances of Shakespeare currently causing such a stir internationally? What happens to the Shakespeare we think we all know when he is translated into a minority culture? "Shakespeare in... -
Shakespeare and Canada: Essays on Production, Translation, and Adaptation by Ric Knowles 9789052019895
RRP: $57.46$50.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052019895Author Ric KnowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint European Interuniversity PressPublisher European Interuniversity PressWeight(grams) 330g -
Voice by Jane Boston 9781137301956
RRP: $162.95$162.61This 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... -
Verbatim Theatre Methodologies for Community Engaged Practice: Perspectives from Australian Theatre by Sarah Peters 9780367726409
RRP: $231.57$201.17Sets out a clear set of methods for making verbatim theatre with local communities. Aimed at professional theatre makers and teachers, at all levels, including applied theatre and theatre in education practitioners. Draws on a genuinely diverse range... -
Our Town Illustrated by Thornton Wilder 9780060535254
RRP: $41.17$25.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060535254Author Thornton WilderFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Stephen Ward: A Musical by Christopher Hampton 9780571314515
$11.90 - $25.42Stephen Ward charts the rise and fall from grace of the man at the centre of the Profumo Scandal. Friend to film stars, spies, models, government ministers and aristocrats, his rise and ultimate disgrace coincided with the increasingly permissive... -
The Mysteries: The Passion by Bernard Sahlins
$26.96Following on his enormously successful The Mysteries: Creation, Bernard Sahlins has adapted the stories of The Passion to make an engaging drama for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series.Book InformationISBN 9781566630238Author Bernard... -
Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy by Debra Caplan
RRP: $58.23$48.01Yiddish Empire tells the story of how a group of itinerant Jewish performers became the interwar equivalent of a viral sensation, providing a missing chapter in the history of the modern stage. During World War I, a motley group of teenaged amateurs,...