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What 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...

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'All you have do is shut up and enjoy the hospitality.' TerryHarold Pinter's Party Time (1991) is an extraordinary distillation of the playwright's key concerns. Pulsing with political anger, it marks a stepping stone on Pinter's path from iconic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478249740Author Trisha SugarekFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Revised edition (2003), with new material and a new introduction by the author.Farce has always been relegated to the lowest rung of the ladder of dramatic genres. Distinctions between farce and more literary comic forms remain clouded, even in the light...

Sometimes you surprise people into being better than they are. Laura and Anna, half-sisters, plan a grand net stretching across the skyline of North London as a way to unite their community. But not everyone's convinced. Meanwhile Hala, a Syrian...

Winner of a OneOff Special Award for 2023 at the Offies Awards 2024 Finalist for Best Production (Plays) at the Offies Awards 2024 This is just me joining the family business exposing massive global injustice. Latinx Women from South London take...

A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing addresses all three genres of dramatic writing - for theatre, film and TV - in a comprehensive, one-semester, 14-week masterclass for the dramatic writer.This book is tightly focused on the practical outcome of...

The latest collection of plays from one of the most celebrated, influential and studied playwrights in the English-speaking world. Howard Barker's plays continue to challenge, unsettle and expose. Barker's theatre has never sought to reproduce the...

As the Kremlin's crackdown on freedom of expression continues to tighten, Russian playwrights and directors are using documentary theatre to create space for the public discussion of injustice in the civic sphere and its connections to the country's...

Safety and Health for the Stage: Collaboration with the Production Process is a practical guide to integrating safety and health into the production process for live entertainment in the context of compliance with applicable codes, standards, and...

This ambitious study traces the strategies of human rights activists to show how world-changing reform movements were shaped by women and men from modest backgrounds who were deeply attuned to the power of performance. Tracy C. Davis explores...

While the infamous Theatre du Grand-Guignol in Paris closed its doors in 1962, the particular form of horror theatre it spawned lives on and has, moreover, witnessed something of a resurgence over the past twenty years. During its heyday it inspired many...

Curated 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...

Unlike collections of essays which focus on a single century or whose authors are drawn from a single discipline, this collection reflects the myriad performance options available to London audiences, offering readers a composite portrait of the music,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995955523Author Keith JohnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint International Theatresports InstitutePublisher International Theatresports...

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Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Multilingual Encounters in Contemporary Theatre examines the function of dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg in making a theatre performance situated at the crossroads of multiple theatre forms and performative...

This introduction to theatre design explains the theories, strategies, and tools of practical design work for the undergraduate student. Through its numerous illustrated case studies and analysis of key terms, students will build an understanding of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574241341Author Andy VolkPage Count 296Imprint Centerstream PublishingPublisher Centerstream Publishing

What is power without principle? What are principles without power? It's Spring 1996: Kevin Keegan's Newcastle United are riding high in the Premier League and Tony Blair's New Labour are gathering pace. Hope is in the air and victory seems within...

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...

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The modern era in the theatre is remarkable for the extraordinary role and influence of theoretical practitioners, whose writings have shaped our sense of the possibilities and objectives of performance. This study offers a critical exploration of the...

What is the relationship between touring and other kinds of theatre work? How should theatre circulate, and how are we to understand this circulation? What impact do tour routes have beyond the dissemination of what is on stage? Whose travel stories are...

The Freelancer's Guide to Corporate Event Design is the only book that will get the reader up to speed on the ever-changing and growing industry of corporate production. Written by one of the industry's leading designers, this book uses a candid and...

Casting a Movement brings together US-based actors, directors, educators, playwrights, and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting.Drawing on the notion of a "welcome table"-a space where artists of all backgrounds can come together as...

Theatrical Makeup clearly and concisely explains the basics of theatrical makeup techniques to allow stage actors to put their best face forward! Readers will gain understanding of the physiology of the human face and, using cream based makeup, as well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888408089Format PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Rebeats PublicationsPublisher Rebeats PublicationsWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 6mm

Budd Schulberg's classic story of the New York waterfront and the kid who "coulda been a contender" is best known in its memorable movie version with Marlon Brando. But here, adapted for the stage by Mr. Schulberg and Stan Silverman, it remains a moving...

In Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema, James Goodwin draws on contemporary theoretical and critical approaches to explore the Japanese director's use of a variety of texts to create films that are uniquely intertextual and intercultural. Surveying...

A historical, theoretical, and comparative study of the emergence of the director-as-author phenomenon, posing questions of authorship and redefining the relationship between 'playwright' and the director-playwright.Springer Book ArchivesAbout the...

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Martin Sherman's worldwide hit play Bent took London by storm in 1979 when it was first performed by the Royal Court Theatre with Ian McKellen as Max (a character written with the actor in mind). The play itself caused an uproar. It educated the world ...

In setting foot on stage, every performer risks the possiblity of failure. Indeed, the very performance of any human action is inextricable from its potential not to succeed. This inherent potential has become a key critical trope in contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988508903Author Jan BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Academy of Theatrical CombatPublisher Academy of Theatrical CombatWeight(grams)...

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and conceptual thinking of performer training. Notions of time are embedded in almost every aspect of performer training, and so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781975914127Author Kate Al HadidFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

'You're my special girl.' It's such a bloody cliche. Larry said that, he said, 'it's a cliche'. He could've said, you're my favourite one. Or you're the one I love the most. But then love could mean something else, couldn't it? The whole family knew...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532817977Author Colin CharmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...