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Augusto Boal by Frances Babbage
RRP: $63.45$55.80This newly-updated volume looks at the scope of Augusto Boal's career from his early work as a playwright and director in Sao Paulo in the 1950s, to the development of his ground-breaking manifesto in the 1970s for a 'Theatre of the Oppressed'. Offering... -
How to Set up an Amateur Drama Group by Dr Ann Moore 9781523948321
RRP: $11.99$10.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523948321Author Dr Ann MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
World Theories of Theatre by Glenn A. Odom
RRP: $54.87$48.59World Theories of Theatre expands the horizons of theatrical theory beyond the West, providing the tools essential for a truly global approach to theatre. Identifying major debates in theatrical theory from around the world, combining discussions of... -
Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology by Helen Gilbert
RRP: $84.03$73.86This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and... -
Restaging the Future: Neoliberalization, Theater, and Performance in Britain by Louise Owen 9780810146044
$62.01An examination of neoliberal ideology's ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance practices Post-Thatcher, British cultural politics were shaped by the government's use of the arts in... -
The End of Acting: A Radical View by Richard Hornby 9781557832139
RRP: $22.28$20.21From Richard Hornby's preface: EThis book is written for those who act those who teach acting and those who are interested in seeing it. It is both a theoretical work and a call for action. This book is an unashamed attack on the American acting... -
Concert Sound and Lighting Systems by John Vasey
RRP: $89.18$74.19Concert Sound and Lighting Systems provides comprehensive coverage of equipment and setup procedures for touring concert systems. The new edition will cover the new equipment now available and discuss other venues where the skills and technology are... -
Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Women: The Comedies by Neil Freeman
RRP: $25.71$19.78Curated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeare's works are given new life and purpose for today's readers and actors alike. There are twelve titles in this... -
She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women over Forty by Lawrence Harbison
RRP: $29.14$22.20She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women Over Forty is a collection of monologues from plays by members of Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women over forty. About Honor Roll!:"Honor Roll! is an advocacy and action group of women+... -
Tactical Performance: The Theory and Practice of Serious Play by L. M. Bogad
RRP: $54.87$48.59'Lucid, sharp, funny, Bogad's Tactical Performance is the book we've been waiting for on creative activism.' Diana Taylor, Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University, and author of Performance'Tactical Performance... -
How to Rehearse a Play: A Practical Guide for Directors by Damon Kiely
RRP: $54.87$48.59Based on interviews with over forty award-winning artists, How to Rehearse a Play offers multiple solutions to the challenges that directors face from first rehearsal to opening night. The book provides a wealth of information on how to run a rehearsal... -
Theatre in Prison: Theory and Practice by Prof. Michael Balfour 9781841500669
RRP: $80.53$76.98From role-plays with street gangs in the USA to Beckett in Brixton; from opera productions with sex offenders to psychodrama with psychopaths, the book will discuss, analyse and reflect on theoretical notions and practical applications of theatre for and... -
Audience as Performer: The changing role of theatre audiences in the twenty-first century by Caroline Heim
RRP: $66.88$58.70'Actors always talk about what the audience does. I don't understand, we are just sitting here.' Audience as Performer proposes that in the theatre, there are two troupes of performers: the actors and the audience. Although academics have scrutinised how... -
Contemporary Mise en Scene: Staging Theatre Today by Patrice Pavis
RRP: $80.60$70.28'We have good reason to be wary of mise en scene, but that is all the more reason to question this wariness ... it seems that images from a performance come back to haunt us, as if to prolong and transform our experience as spectators, as if to force us... -
Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play by Phillip Zarrilli
RRP: $63.45$56.48Kathakali Dance-Drama provides a comprehensive introduction to the distinctive and colourful dance-drama of Kerala in South-West India for the first time. This landmark volume: * explores Kathakali's reception as it reaches new audiences both in India... -
Theatre and the USA by Charlotte Canning 9781350332775
RRP: $17.14$14.12How is the individual and the 'nation' constructed and promoted in American theatre? How does theatre enable a nation to invent and reinvent itself? Who are the 'people' in 'We the People'? This brief study examines the intersection of the USA's sense... -
Theatre, Exhibition, and Curation: Displayed & Performed by Georgina Guy
RRP: $73.74$64.48Examining 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... -
A Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance: On and Beyond the Stage by Carol Martin 9780415106450
RRP: $84.03$73.86This work is a unique collection of key articles on feminist theatre and performance form The Drama Review (TDR). Carol Martin juxtaposes theory and practice to provide an exceptionally comprehensive overview of the development of feminist theatre. This... -
A Theory of Dramaturgy by Janek Szatkowski
RRP: $63.45$58.05A Theory of Dramaturgy is the first text of its kind to define concepts and combine arguments into a coherent dramaturgical theory supported by an operative systems theory. This is a wide-ranging theory with historical and contemporary perspectives on... -
D'Eon: The bizarre and true story of The Chevalier D'Eon de Beaumont: Spy, diplomat, Prussian was hero, International drunk and transgender provocateur by Renny Krupinski
RRP: $13.72$11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781979752572Author Renny KrupinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity by Susan Broadhurst 9780230293656
RRP: $77.17$69.61This collection interrogates the interaction between new technologies and performance practice, linking the sensuous contact that must exist between the physical and virtual, together with the resultant corporeal transformation. It features writings from... -
Marching Song: A Play by Orson Welles 9781538125526
RRP: $51.46$45.76Before The Cradle Will Rock, before War of the Worlds, before Citizen Kane-there was Marching Song. At the age of 25 Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. But this was not... -
Our Town: A Play In Three Acts by Thornton Wilder
RRP: $25.71$18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063003996Author Thornton WilderFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 175gDimensions(mm)... -
Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four by Eric J McAnallen 9781500613686
RRP: $17.07$14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500613686Author Eric J McAnallenFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Sam Mendes at the Donmar: Stepping into Freedom by Matt Wolf 9780879109820
RRP: $30.86$27.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109820Author Matt WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
Art Isn't Easy: The Theater Of Stephen Sondheim by Joanne Gordon
$36.59The musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim probes deeply into the most disturbing issues of contemporary life. By challenging his audience with intricate music, biting wit, and profound themes, he flouts the traditional wisdom of the musical theatre... -
The Noh Theatre of Japan by Ernest Fenollsa 9780486436999
RRP: $29.14$22.86Apologies 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)... -
Autobahn: A Short-Play Cycle by Neil Labute 9780571211104
RRP: $32.59$20.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571211104Author Neil LabuteFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance by Holly Hughes 9780802135704
RRP: $25.71$20.00O Solo Homo is a diverse, definitive, and hugely entertaining collection representing the cutting edge of queer solo performance. The pieces in O Solo Homo touch nerves that run deep from sex, politics, community, and health to the struggles and joys... -
Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance by Katharine Eisaman Maus 9780226511245
RRP: $44.60$42.63This text explores the preoccupation of many Renaissance writers' with the inwardness and invisibility of truth. The perceived discrepancy between a person's outward appearance and inward disposition, it argues, influenced the ways in which English... -
Robert Wilson by Maria Shevtsova
RRP: $63.45$55.80Robert Wilson is an American-European director who is also a performer, installation artist, writer, designer of light and much more besides - a crossover polymath who dissolves both generic and geographical boundaries and is a precursor of globalisation... -
Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology by Jan Cohen-Cruz
RRP: $77.17$67.38Radical Street Performance is the first volume to collect together the fascinating array of writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street theatre around the world. More than thirty essays... -
Elizabethan Jacobean Drama: The Theatre in Its Time by G. Blakemore Evans
RRP: $25.71$22.35The 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... -
Performing in Comedy: A Student's Guide by Ian Wilkie
RRP: $63.45$58.05Ian Wilkie contends that comic acting is a distinct art form, and as such demands a unique skillset. By exploring the ways in which performance choices and improvised moments can work in conjunction with texts themselves, Performing in Comedy offers an... -
The Art of Theatre: Then and Now by William Downs 9781305954700
$98.96THE ART OF THEATRE: THEN AND NOW, 4th Edition, brings the fascinating world of theatre to life with lively coverage of the history, cultural diversity, creativity, controversy -- and even a typical day in the life -- of theatre. As the authors wrote each... -
A Dirty Broth: Early Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English by David Cottis
RRP: $25.71$21.58A Dirty Broth Early Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English Edited by David Cottis With an introduction by David Cottis and Alyce von Rothkirch When Caradoc Evans' play Taffy was first performed in London, the Western Mail reviewer... -
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni 9781566635363 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.71$4.53Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni 9781566635363
RRP: $13.71$10.53"First I've got no master, then all of a sudden I've got two!...I can't wait on both of them....Wait a minute....Get two pay packets, and eat and drink for two? Why not?" Carlo Goldoni's crafty servant who turns somersaults to please both his masters and... -
Tell it to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad by David Savran 9780190249533
RRP: $39.43$33.55What happens when Broadway goes abroad? Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad offers a look at how the Broadway musical travels the world, influencing and even transforming local practices and traditions. It traces especially how the... -
Harold Pinter's Party Time by White G. D. 9781138677258 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.14$12.16Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.