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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874403077Author Scott Lynch-GiddingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Baker's PlaysPublisher Baker's PlaysWeight(grams) 101gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In the two decades since the publication of the second edition, Learning Through Theatre has further established itself as an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners and educators interested in the complex interrelations between teaching and...

This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the...

Drama / 3m, 2f / Interior Written by acclaimed Irish author Frank McGuinness, whose Someone Who'll Watch Over Me earned a Tony(R) Award nomination, Gates of Gold is an acerbic duel between two lovers, the fashionable and eloquent theatrical trailblazers...

The classic 16th century morality play, recently revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company.Book InformationISBN 9781854593863Author ANONFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Nick Hern BooksPublisher Nick Hern BooksWeight(grams) 65gDimensions(mm) 160mm *...

This set is one of the cornerstones of film scholarship, and one of the most important works on twentieth century British culture. Published between 1948 and 1985, the volumes document all aspects of film making in Britain from its origins in 1896 to...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573616372Author Robert AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

A film tells its story not only through dialogue and actors' performances but also through the director's control of movement and shot design. Figures Traced in Light is a detailed consideration of how cinematic staging carries the story, expresses...

Comedy Characters: 3 male, 7 female Interior Set Perfect for any theatre group, this is the hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty authoress who keeps revising the script...

The Live Event Video Technician covers terms, format types, concepts, and technologies used in video production for corporate meetings, concerts, special events, and theatrical productions.The book begins by providing a history of the industry and an...

Treats, through excerpts from contemporary opinion and official documents, various aspects of the little world of theatre in the full context of Elizabethan-Jacobean life and times.Book InformationISBN 9780941533133Author Blakemore G. EvansFormat...

The Routledge Companion to Scenography is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays to survey the historical, conceptual, critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly important aspect of theatre and performance studies. ...

Performance as Research (PAR) is characterised by an extraordinary elasticity and interdisciplinary drive. Performance as Research: Knowledge, Methods, Impact celebrates this energy, bringing together chapters from a wide range of disciplines and eight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916260477Author BertFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 400g

This first collection of Nick Dear's work for the stage displays the breadth and achievement of one of the most talented and inventive dramatists writing in Britain today. The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art...

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare isn't a book that gently instructs. It is a passionate, yes-you-can guide designed to prove that anybody can act Shakespeare. Patrick Tucker's classic manual encourages trained and amateur actors alike to look to the...

"People of the internet, people of the world, you wanna see your Environment Minister SOLVE some shit, this is the soundtrack..." What happens when the unstoppable force of climate change meets the immovable object of Australian politics? ...

Dancers are top performance athletes on stage - to keep fit andhealthy proper nutrition is an integral part of an optimal dancetraining. Nutrition for Dancers provides the principles of nutritionfor dancers of all genres. Authors Liane Simmel and...

World Theatre: The Basics presents a well-rounded introduction to non-Western theatre, exploring the history and current practice of theatrical traditions in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Oceania, the Caribbean, and the non-English-speaking cultures of...

Examining the artistic, intellectual, and social life of performance, this book interrogates Theatre and Performance Studies through the lens of display and modern visual art. Moving beyond the exhibition of immaterial art and its documents, as well as...

Arts Entrepreneurship: Creating a New Venture in the Arts provides the essential tools, techniques, and concepts needed to invent, launch, and sustain a business in the creative sector.Building on the reader's artistic talents and interests, the book...

This is a book about the exhilaration and the catastrophe of embodiment. Analyzing different instances of injured bodies, Peggy Phelan considers what sustained attention to the affective force of trauma might yield for critical theory. Advocating what...

Craig on Theatre presents the essence of Edward Gordon Craig's ideas This selection, accompanied by Craig's own drawings and designs includes key sections from his most influential book On the Art of the Theatre, as well as essays from his own theatre...

This set is one of the cornerstones of film scholarship, and one of the most important works on twentieth century British culture. Published between 1948 and 1985, the volumes document all aspects of film making in Britain from its origins in 1896 to...

'... 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...

The Method Acting Exercises Handbook is a concise and practical guide to the acting exercises originally devised by Lee Strasberg, one of the Method's foremost practitioners. The Method trains the imagination, concentration, senses and emotions to...

"Its fusion of passion and mischief remains striking and there is something undeniably heady about its celebration of a kind of sexual liberation that looks a lot like flippancy" - Evening Standard From 1930s bohemian Paris to the dizzying heights of...

Sometimes a lie is a wish. Once upon a time there was a lonely carpenter, a curious cat, and a little wooden puppet who one day came to life... In this spectacular new version of the much-loved classic tale, Pinocchio discovers why it's best to...

The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance presents the most influential and widely-known, critical work on gender and performing arts, together with exciting and provocative new writings. It provides systematically arranged articles to guide the...

Beautiful and talented, versatile and charismatic, Elizabeth Robins was one of the foremost actresses of her day. Yet, this enduring character was also an active and lifelong feminist. This biography examines Elizabeth's historical identity and provides...

An accessible introduction to Harold Pinter's work, covering his entire career and drawing on his own archives to shed new light on his methods and processes. Aimed at undergraduate students studying modern and contemporary drama, playwriting and...

Whether you're in a professional or a community theatre, part of a historical re-enactment, or teaching costume construction, a well-made hat provides a much-needed finishing touch to a costume. Period Reproduction Buckram Hats: The Costumer's Guidebook...

Now in its seventh edition, Designing with Light introduces readers to the art, craft, and technology of stage lighting and media projection. The new edition is fully updated to include current information on the technology of stage lighting:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937645093Author David KoteenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Contact EditionsPublisher Contact Editions

Directions for Directing: Theatre and Method lays out contemporary concepts of directing practice and examines specific techniques of approaching scripts, actors, and the stage. Addressed to both young and experienced directors but also to the broader...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836151Author Leon KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

In 2022, my first book, 'Fire! Fire! The Theatre's on Fire', was published. It focused on the devastating effect of theatres impacted by fire. It was nominated for 'The STR Theatre Book Prize 2022' which is awarded each year by the Society for Theatre...

Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theatre created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers. In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theatres-The Compass and...

From Acting to Performance collects for the first time major essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander. Together these essays provide a survey of the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic...