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"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 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...

Modern 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...

'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...

Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de Medicis prior to Henri IV's assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on...

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Finalist 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...

In 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 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 explores theories and techniques for deepening the individual actor's capacity to concentrate and focus attention. Going well beyond the common exercises found in...

This updated edition of Costumes for the Stage aims at simplicity in all aspects of designing and making costumes. It is designed primarily for those who need to dress plays on a small budget, whether for amateur, semi-professional, or professional...

From 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...

Costumes 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...

Apologies 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)...

If 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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910457139Author Raymond HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Silvermoon PublishingPublisher Silvermoon PublishingWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

The 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 ...

The 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 integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary studies and relevant social sciences) with insights from theatre and performance...

You 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...

Performing Interdisciplinarity proposes new ways of engaging with performance as it crosses, collides with, integrates and/or disturbs other disciplinary concerns. From Activism and Political Philosophy to Cognitive Science and Forensics, each chapter...

Challenging 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,...

Errol John wrote Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (1958) after becoming disillusioned about the lack of good roles for black actors on the British theatre scene. While this situation has only slightly improved since, his response has become the most revived black...

"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...

This book describes the first 75 years of the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, written in inimitable style by the man who knew it best: David Conville, who has run the Theatre since 1962. It includes a foreword by Judi Dench.Published to mark the 75th...

Augusto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. At last this major director, practitioner, and author of many books on community theatre speaks out about the subjects most important to him...

Contemporary actor training in the US and UK has become increasingly multicultural and multilinguistic. Border-crossing, cross-cultural exchange in contemporary theatre practices, and the rise of the intercultural actor has meant that actor training...

Costume Craftwork on a Budget demonstrates how to use inexpensive materials to create durable costumes and props in a short amount of time. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions teach readers how to use 3-D makeup and create teeth, wigs, masks,...

Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project offers accessible frameworks for devising original theatre, developing critical understandings of racial and gender justice, and supporting youth to imagine, create, and...

Supervision of Dramatherapy offers a thorough overview of dramatherapy supervision and the issues that can arise during the supervisory task.Phil Jones and Ditty Dokter bring together experts from the field to examine supervision in a range of contexts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708091Author Theresa RebeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Theatre Studios explores the history of the studio model in England, first established by Konstantin Stanislavsky, Jacques Copeau and others in the early twentieth century, and later developed in the UK primarily by Michel Saint-Denis, George Devine,...

The Fake Food Cookbook: Props You Can't Eat for Theatre, Film, and TV contains step by step instructions on how to create the most realistic prop food for a theatrical production. From appetizers such as oysters on a half shell and chicken wings, entrees...

Contemporary theatre is going through a period of unparalleled excitement and challenge. Terms like 'postmodern' and 'postdramatic' have their own contested and defended histories, while notions of truth in verbatim theatre are open to serious critical...

Stagecraft Fundamentals, Fourth Edition, is an entry-level how-to guide and reference on backstage theatre, covering every aspect of basic theatre production.The history of stagecraft, safety precautions, lighting, costumes, scenery, special effects,...

The art of acting in restoration comedy the buoyant often bowdy romps which celebrated the reopening of the English theatres after Cromwell's dour reign is the subject of Simon Callow's bold investigation. There is cause again to celebrate as Callow ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014786906Author David HannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

David Wood has been called by the London Times "the national children's dramatist." Presenting theatre for children as a separate art form, Mr. Wood here draws upon his experience as a magician, actor, director, producer, composer, and playwright, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809005505Author Martin EsslinFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theater enthusiasts looking for new and compelling short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our...