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Although 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...

This is an analysis of all the folkloric genres that comprise the repertoire of the marionette theatre in Sicily. Here, epic, farce, saints' lives, bandits' lives, fairytales, Christian myth and city legend offer the vehicles by which puppeteers comment...

Sam 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557831491Author Eric BentleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Sonic 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557831897Author Ralph AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557830739Author John GassnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557833457Author Alan ZweibelFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557835628Author Mayo SimonFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557833099Author VariousFormat HardbackPage Count 630Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109899Author Jonathan KalbFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight Editions

Proposes a methodology for incorporating concepts drawn from ancestor trance in Afrolatinx ritual for actors trained in Western methods. Danowski created four new works of theatrical performance, writing the play texts, and incorporating acting exercises...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557831682Author Arthur SainerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Applause Theatre Book...

Curating material from Applause's Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and Applause First Folio Editions, we've created the must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays. Along...

Reader-friendly and practical, ACTING: ONSTAGE AND OFF demonstrates how to adapt onstage training toward offstage performance, and how to apply skills for theatre and film to lead a rich, full life outside the theatre. Humorous, conversational writing...

Did you know that "an actor must believe to make his audience believe?" This is the key concept behind ACTING IS BELIEVING. Authors Charles McGaw and Larry D. Clark have influenced thousands of actors, and this Twelfth Edition has been completely updated...

THE ART OF THEATRE: THEN AND NOW, Third Edition, explores issues of cultural diversity and creativity, presents a full day-in-the-life of theatre, and offers comprehensive coverage of theatre history. The authors make timely and relevant connections...

Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to Cervantes, and is considered the founder of Spain’s classical theater. In this rich and informative study,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879100926Author Albert BermelFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight Editions

At the heart of the development of modern Japanese culture, the theatre mirrors the issues and concerns of a society transitioning from the Tokugawa era to the modern period. Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance fills a gap in current Japanese theatre...

The 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...

Fourteen scholars who work on campus or in the theater address this issue of what it means to play offstage. With their individual definition of what "offstage" could mean, the results were, predictably, varied. They employed a variety of...

Enacts 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...

Anton Chekhov is justly famous as an author and a playwright, with his work continuing to appear on stages around the world more than a century after his death. However, he is rarely studied for his intellectual and philosophical theories. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871300669Author Lincoln KirsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Eakins Press,N.Y.Publisher Eakins Press,N.Y.Weight(grams) 794g

Sonic 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 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...

The 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...

Who 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 Catalan" tells...

Apologies 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

The Dissident Politics in Václav Havel’s Vaněk Plays: Who Is Ferdinand Vaněk Anyway focuses on Ferdinand Vaněk, a semi-autobiographical character created by Václav Havel and featured in a series of nine plays written by Havel himself and three other...

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...

Sets 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781868143283Author Bhekizizwe PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Wits University PressPublisher Wits University Press

Following 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423492719Author Ben HodgesFormat HardbackPage Count 602Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557837554Author Stewart F LaneFormat HardbackImprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer parenting, embodied dramaturgy, cultural practice, and immigration.Across the breadth of these themes, we...

In this volume, we are particularly interested in approaching theatre and performance as a dynamic and evolving practice of continuous change, regeneration and cultural mobility. Neither the dramatic texts nor their stage versions should be viewed as...