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Re-Dressing the Canon examines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical analysis. Alisa Solomon discusses both canonical texts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081764Author Mary DepnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 314g

The art, practice, and technique of scene painting is an essential part of theatre design. A scenic artist is responsible for translating the vision of the scenic designer to the realized scenery.Unlike all other scene painting books, this text will take...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692245477Author Alison McGarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Steele Spring Stage RightsPublisher Steele Spring Stage RightsWeight(grams) 127g

Understanding Dance is a comprehensive introduction to the aestethetics of dance, and will be an essential text for all those interested in dance as an object of study. Focusing on the work of a number of major choreographers, companies and critics...

Learn 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...

From the Algonquin Round Table to the Gershwins and the Hollywood moguls, Moss Hart knew and delighted everybody. Vanity Fair has called him "one of American theatre's greatest geniuses," the man responsible for such indelible successes as A Star Is...

This selection consists of the easier and more obviously amusing part of the Birds strung together to form a continuous play. The Introduction gives background on the theatre and City Dionysia. The Greek text is accompanied by notes, synopses of omitted...

Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance, and theatre, offering reflection on the ethical issues inherent to the field. It is both a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773236735Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

From the construction of its first theatre in 1740, Birmingham has boasted a huge array of entertainment - from plays and music festivals to circuses and 'mops' (and even the 'onion fair'). It was here that many household names such as Laurence Olivier,...

This essential book, now in its second edition, has been expanded and updated to address new hazards, unique health and safety problems, and particular regulations that threaten anyone working in the entertainment industries today.Artists' advocate...

"[Her] dialogue bristles with smart, eloquent talk...Ms. Ziegler's quietly lyrical language has a luminous beauty, and her talent for creating characters whose complicated depths are just visible on their surfaces is still more remarkable." (The New York...

The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member, and breaks new ground by, counterintuitively, claiming that viewing performance is not a...

Paris and the Musical explores how the famous city has been portrayed on stage and screen, investigates why the city has been of such importance to the genre and tracks how it has developed as a trope over the 20th and 21st centuries.From global hits An...

Grounded equally in discussions of theater history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner's Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama explores the conflict between avant-garde theater and modernism. While the avant-garde celebrated all...

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, More Comedies and Tragedies, includes the following plays: The Comedy of Errors ...

Concert Design: The Road, The Craft, The Industry offers an exceptional journey though the world of concert design, exploring not only its unique design attributes but also the industry that has grown around it and how to make a career of 'the road'...

This text represents the distillation of over 30 years experience as a music hall chairman. It provides both a source book for music hall chairmen and an historical insight into the genre, as well as over 600 song titles of the period given, together...

What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. Theatre is, above all, spectacle. It is a fleeting performance, delivered by actors and intended for spectators. It is a work of the...

Character Sketch outlines a theory of costume rendering that explores how a designer conceptualizes and creates a character on the page. Beginning with how to develop a sense of character through active, gestural poses, this book explores and explains...

If you're looking for a fast, focussed and effective way to revise for your AS or A2 exams, Revision Express is the answer. Now fully updated for the new A-levels, Revision Express covers everything you need for success in your exams. Each chapter is...

The Art of Unarmed Stage Combat is a guide to the principles and techniques of theatrical violence, combining detailed discussions of the mechanics of stage fighting with the nuances of acting decisions to make fighting styles reflect character and story...

In The Art and Practice of Costume Design, a panel of seven designers offer a new multi-sided look at the current state and practice of theatrical costume design. Beginning with an exploration of the role of a Costume Designer, the subsequent chapters...

This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant. Sounds are weighted with meaning, offering a complex system of allusions. Playwrights such as Jonson and Shakespeare developed increasingly...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854890993Author Nicky ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Rivers Oram PressPublisher Rivers Oram PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

In recent years, the recognition of Gilles Deleuze as one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century has heightened attention to his brilliant and complex writings on film. What is the place of Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 in the corpus of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879100810Author Robert VaughnFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

If theatre is a way of seeing, an event onstage but also a fleeting series of moments; not a copy or double but more vitally metamorphosis, transformation, and change, how might we speak to - and of - it? How do we envision and frame a fluid reality that...

Following in the footsteps of his renowned teacher Konstantin Stanislavsky, Michael Chekhov's work as an actor, author and theatre practitioner gave great insight into how to access the creative self. This revised and updated edition of Michael Chekhov...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538131688Author Mimi PockrossFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

This popular book describes in detail a stage manager's job. It provides those just starting out in the profession with a solid grounding in theatre stage management practices and procedures. The disciplines of lighting, set design and sound are...

MULE. Who created us? ROCINANTE. What kind of dumb question is that? The great master Cervantes, of course. Who else? MULE. God. ROCINANTE. Listen you obstinate fool. We're animals. We don't have to believe in God. That's meant for the superior species...

How can theatre thrive in a culture dominated by film and television? Interviews with stage actors, playwrights, theatre directors and others, including Julie Taymor, Tony Kushner, Anna Deavere Smith, Peter Hall, Wallace Shawn, Frank Rich, Simon Callow,...

This book locates the theatre of Marina Carr within a female genealogy that revises the patriarchal origins of modern Irish drama. The creative vision of Lady Augusta Gregory underpins the analysis of Carr's dramatic vision throughout the volume in order...

In Tough Acts Berkoff writes in fascinating detail about many of the legendary directors and actors he has worked with, including Stanley Kubrick, Mikhall Baryshnikov, Christopher Walken, Sylvester Stallone, Leonard Rossiter, Roman Polanski, Eddie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841502816Author Monica PrendergastFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956585400Author Sarah AinslieFormat HardbackPage Count 115Imprint ComplicitePublisher Complicite

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780868197623Author Terence O'ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd