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A 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...

Lourdes 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...

Drawing 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...

Anne 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...

This 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...

Stage 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...

This 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...

`In Comes I' explores performance and land, biography and locality, memory and place. The book reflects on performances past and present, taking the form of a series of excursions into the agricultural landscape of eastern England, and drawing from...

The 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...

James 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...

Historical 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...

Comprising 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...

The book contains comprehensive coverage for men and women's styles of this popular garment.Includes step-by-step instructions for design and construction.Includes industry terminology and lists of suppliers.About the AuthorJ. Francois-Campbell currently...

"A fascinating account of the trials and tribulations behind what turned into a triumphant South African production of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy, Titus Andronicus" (Independent) "Shakespeare in Tarantino mode" is how actor...

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486436999Author Ernest FenollsaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

In this wide-ranging study, Ric Knowles demonstrates how the examination and practice of theatre is enhanced by an expanded semiotic approach. Moving from the history and theory of performance analysis to its practical application and paying particular...

How is madness experienced, treated, and represented? How might art think around - and beyond - psychiatric definitions of illness and wellbeing? Madness, Art, and Society engages with artistic practices from theatre and live art to graphic fiction,...

Apologies 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

The Production Manager's Toolkit Second Edition offers an up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to a career in theatrical and special event production for new and aspiring professionals, given by expert voices in the field. The book discusses...

Theatre 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...

Originally 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...

An 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102913Author Karen KohlhaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 218mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573709265Author Richard RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This volume analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Theatre des Funambules in Paris in the context of Romantic art, literature and socio-political thought. Deburau and the Theatre des Funambules are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573627521Author Michael FraynFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626540361Author Stanley McCandlessFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Echo Point Books & Media, LLCPublisher Echo Point Books & Media, LLCWeight(grams)...

In 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...

As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key...

Fifty 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...

This 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...

In Principles of Dramaturgy, Robert Scanlan explains the invariant principles behind the construction of stage and performance events of any style or modality. This book contains all that is essential for training a professional stage director and/or...

Why should the digital bring about ideas of progress in the theatre arts? This question opens up a rich seam of provocative and original thinking about the uses of new media in theatre, about new forms of cultural practice and artistic innovation, and...

The 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...

"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...

The 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...

Features step by step instructions on how to create a variety of different masksDetailed full-color photographs illustrate each stepCovers a wide range of materials, including latex, paper and fabric mache, cold foam, thermoplastics, urethane and EVA...

A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Color provides readers with the skills and knowledge to create coherent color schemes for costumes.Drawing on decades of experience in the costume shop, the author guides readers through every step of the process,...

Renowned 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...