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The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics by Stephen Abbott 9780691206080
RRP: £30.00£22.82How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the infinite, incompleteness, and chaos theory... -
As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women by Penny Gay 9780415096966
RRP: £44.99£39.28As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique amongst both Shakespearian and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics... -
Antonin Artaud by Blake Morris
RRP: £35.99£31.69Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance... -
Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From <I>Gone with the Wind</I> to <I>The Passion of the Christ</I> by Thomas M. Leitch
RRP: £30.50£28.65I would highly recommend Leitch's study, in particular for its diversity and complexity. The author demonstrates that he is familiar with a large and heterogeneous corpus, including canonical as well as popular or marginal films and texts, which... -
Mitchell and Trask's Hedwig and the Angry Inch by Caridad Svich
RRP: £9.99£8.95'... love creates something that was not there before.' - HedwigJohn Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened on Valentine's Day,1998, in New York City, and ever since, it and its genderqueer heroine have captivated audiences... -
Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS by David Roman
RRP: £21.99£19.87From cabarets and candlelight vigils to full-scale Broadway productions such as Angels in America and Rent, over the past 15 years public performances and dramatic texts have shaped, and been shaped by, the history of AIDS. Author David Roman examines... -
Novels into Film by George Bluestone
RRP: £28.00£27.39First published in 1957, this seminal work of film theory analyzes the process-"the mysterious alchemy"-by which novels are transformed into films. Beginning with a discussion of the aesthetic limits of both the novel and the film, George Bluestone goes... -
My Life in Art by Konstantin Stanislavski
RRP: £43.99£39.44Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian director who transformed theatre in the West with his contributions to the birth of Realist theatre and his unprecedented approach to teaching acting. He lived through extraordinary times and his unique contribution... -
Playhouse Wills: 1558-1642 by E. Honigmann 9780719030178
RRP: £25.00£18.80This edition, now available in paperback, constitutes an archive of source materials in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. It is a collection of over one hundred wills left by those who participated in the life of the theatre - from actors... -
Theatre and Australia by Julian Meyrick 9781350331358
RRP: £9.99£9.36How has Australia developed, culturally? What is the relationship between European theatre and Aboriginal performance? How do the concepts of memory, space, and love intersect and inform all Australian drama? Theatre and Australia is a stark look at the... -
The Craft and Art of Scenic Design: Strategies, Concepts, and Resources by Robert Klingelhoefer 9781138937642
RRP: £56.99£48.38The Craft and Art of Scenic Design: Strategies, Concepts, and Resources explores how to design stage scenery from a practical and conceptual perspective. Discussion of conceptualizing the design through script analysis and research is followed by a... -
Robert Lepage by Aleksandar Sasa Dundjerovic
RRP: £36.99£32.53Robert Lepage is one of Canada's foremost theatre authors and directors. His company, Ex Machina, has toured to international acclaim and he has lent his talents to areas as diverse as opera, film, solo performance and installation art. His most... -
Elizabethan Costume Design and Construction by Helen Q. Huang
RRP: £135.00£112.30Learn how to create historically accurate costumes for Elizabethan period productions with Elizabethan Costume Design and Construction! Extensive coverage of a variety of costumes for both men and women of all social classes will allow you to be prepared... -
Contemporary European Theatre Directors by Maria M. Delgado
RRP: £39.99£35.06This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past 30 years.This book is a vivid account of the vast range of work... -
The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq by Mark Evans
RRP: £46.99£41.37The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq presents a thorough overview and analysis of Jacques Lecoq's life, work and philosophy of theatre. Through an exemplary collection of specially commissioned chapters from leading writers, specialists and... -
An Untidy Career: Conversations with George Hall by Lolly Susi
£12.29A great read for students, academics, practitioners, and theater buffs. Lolly Susi's interviews with the actor and teacher George Hall is a unique insight into the mind of one of the greatest theatrical authorities. This book is full of revealing... -
Audition by Michael Shurtleff
£6.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553272956Author Michael ShurtleffFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Actors on Guard: Training, Rehearsal and Performance Techniques with the Rapier and Dagger for the Stage and Screen by Dale Anthony Girard
RRP: £39.99£35.06Actors on Guard, Second Edition is the most comprehensive book covering the current practices in learning, rehearsing and performing safe and dynamic swordfights with the single rapier and the rapier and dagger for both stage and screen.Focusing... -
Essential Dramaturgy: The Mindset and Skillset by Theresa Lang
RRP: £35.99£30.36Essential Dramaturgy: The Mindset and Skillset provides a concrete way to approach the work of a dramaturg. It explores ways to refine the process of defining, evaluating, and communicating that is essential to effective dramaturgical work. It then looks... -
The Philosophical Actor: A Practical Meditation for Practicing Theatre Artists by Donna Soto-Morettini 9781841503264
£27.96There have been many books published on acting, actor training, and practical theories for preparing for a role, but none of these books have ever looked philosophically at the language and the concepts that we use when we talk about acting. The... -
Knightstone: The Story of Weston-Super-Mare's 'Island' Theatre by Jonathan Shorney 9781908326720
RRP: £12.50£7.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908326720Author Jonathan ShorneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press LtdDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 8mm -
Present Laughter by Noël Coward 9781350354029
RRP: £10.99£8.15"An honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos." - The Hollywood Reporter At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old,... -
Media Design and Technology for Live Entertainment: Essential Tools for Video Presentation by Davin Gaddy 9781138216211
RRP: £36.99£32.02Media Design and Technology for Live Entertainment is a guide to understanding the concepts and equipment used in projection and video design for live performances. After an introduction in the principles of design elements as well as information on... -
The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory by Bill Bissell 9780819577757
RRP: £21.50£17.60All modes of human inquiry, from the artistic to the scientific, are archived as body knowledge. The Sentient Archive gathers together the work of scholars and practitioners in dance, performance, science, and the visual arts. These twenty-eight rich and... -
Moonset by Maryam Hamidi 9781350405196
RRP: £10.99£10.78Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2023 I can imagine myself in the future looking back on this all. And looking back I can feel when the fire was lit. Fifteen-year-old Roxy is burning. Lost somewhere between the bonfire of girlhood and... -
Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s by Katherine E. Kelly
RRP: £38.99£34.22Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from... -
Benjamin Britten and Montagu Slater's Peter Grimes by Sam Kinchin-Smith
RRP: £9.99£8.95'Who can turn skies back and begin again?'-PeterThis book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential operas of the 20th century, is also one of the British theatre's finest 'lost' plays. Seeking to liberate... -
Woyzeck: Georg Buchner by Nicholas Rudall 9781566634496
RRP: £8.99£6.64In a new translation and adaptation by Nicholas Rudall. Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck is one of drama's first anti-heroes. He serves a German captain and makes money by allowing a doctor to experiment on him, but his deeper morality... -
A History of the Theatre Costume Business: Creators of Character by Triffin I. Morris
RRP: £35.99£31.69A History of the Theatre Costume Business is the first-ever comprehensive book on the subject, as related by award-winning actors and designers, and first hand by the drapers, tailors, and craftspeople who make the clothes that dazzle on stage.Readers... -
Advanced Consciousness Training for Actors: Meditation Techniques for the Performing Artist by Kevin Page
RRP: £36.99£32.53Advanced Consciousness Training for Actors: Meditation Techniques for the Performing Artist explores theories and techniques for deepening the individual actor's capacity to concentrate and focus attention. Going well beyond the common exercises found in... -
Musical Stages: An Autobiography by Richard Rodgers
£21.60From Oklahoma! to Carousel , The Sound of Music to The King and I , the sights and sounds of Broadway were dominated by Richard Rodgers for the better part of the twentieth century. "A memoir worthy of one of the great names in the American... -
The Well-Dressed Puppet: A Guide to Creating Puppet Costumes by Cheralyn Lambeth
RRP: £31.99£27.13Costumes are an integral part of any performance, adding believability, conveying setting, or establishing the tone, a fact that is no less true when your performer is a puppet! The only book of its kind, The Well-Dressed Puppet will show you how to... -
QED: A Play Inspired by the Writings of Richard Feynman and Tuva or Bust! by Ralph Leighton by Peter Parnell 9781557835925
£5.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557835925Author Peter ParnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)... -
Village Idiot by Samson Hawkins 9781350420717
RRP: £10.99£10.77If I were an animal there would be legislation to protect my home, but because I'm just a bloody human they can do whatever the f**k they like. Welcome to the village of Syresham; it's not quite the Cotswolds. Townies have decided they want a lie-in,... -
One-Hour Shakespeare: The Comedies by Julie Fain Lawrence-Edsell
RRP: £36.99£32.53The 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 Comedies, includes the following plays: As You Like It Love's Labour's Lost ... -
Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir by Sheri Chinen Biesen
RRP: £23.00£20.67Challenging conventional scholarship placing the origins of film noir in postwar Hollywood, Sheri Chinen Biesen finds the genre's roots firmly planted in the political, social, and material conditions of Hollywood during the war. After Pearl Harbor,... -
Arthur Miller Plays 6: Broken Glass; Mr Peters' Connections; Resurrection Blues; Finishing the Picture by Arthur Miller 9781350354425
RRP: £19.99£17.73The final volume in Methuen Drama's acclaimed series of work by Arthur Miller who, during his lifetime, was acknowledged as "the greatest American dramatist of our age" (Evening Standard). Featuring two plays from the 1990s and his final two plays... -
The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science by Rick Kemp
RRP: £42.99£37.59The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary studies and relevant social sciences) with insights from theatre and performance... -
O, Island! by Nina Segal
RRP: £10.99£9.66You do not feel pain. You do not feel hunger. Now get out there and dance as though you love this island. When a river breaks its banks one night resulting in a massive flood, one medium-sized village (or very very very small town) finds itself... -
Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust by Vivian M. Patraka
RRP: £12.99£11.49"This is the first extended study I know of what the author calls a "Holocaust performative," . . . .[The author] asks what a "holocaust performative" might look like and how such a study might illuminate "events of this particular genocide that are...