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Ellen Stewart and La Mama: A Bio-Bibliography by Barbara Lee Horn 9780313287343
€86.36This study chronicles the life and career of Ellen Stewart and her experimental theater, Cafe La Mama. Once an accomplished Black fashion designer, Stewart--with no experience in theater--founded and developed one of the most influential experimental... -
Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance by Professor J. R. Mulryne 9780333485880
RRP: €107.09€106.95Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance studies interrelationships between English and Italian Theatre of the Renaissance period, including texts, performance and performance spaces, and cultural parallels and contrasts. Connections are traced... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakesspeare 9780645064322
RRP: €13.03€11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645064322Author William ShakesspeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Bibliologica PressPublisher Bibliologica PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Performing Class in British Popular Music by Nathan Wiseman-Trowse 9780230219496
RRP: €53.54€53.51This new study of British popular music shows how it engages with class in mythical ways that allow audiences to perform class-based identities. Case studies on folk rock, punk and indie rock show how this performance works and explore the implications... -
The Theatre Team: Playwright, Producer, Director, Designers, and Actors by Sidney Berger 9780313300509
€99.06Successful theatrical productions are a team effort and require the close cooperation of the playwright, producer, director, designers, and actors. The group responsible for selecting a play and the style of its production must first reach a consensus on... -
Performing Contagious Bodies: Ritual Participation in Contemporary Art by Chris Braddock 9780230292703
RRP: €107.09€106.95Performing Contagious Bodies explores live/body art and installation practices through theories of ritual and magic. Featuring discussion of a wide range of contemporary international practice, this book explores the intersections of performance studies,... -
Gotta Dance!: A Musical Fractured Fairytale by S J Henschel 9780692245446
RRP: €11.19€9.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692245446Author S J HenschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Steele Spring Stage RightsPublisher Steele Spring Stage RightsWeight(grams) 82g -
Intermedial Praxis and Practice as Research: 'Doing-Thinking' in Practice by Joanne Scott 9781137602336
RRP: €65.44€37.20Nominated for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize 2018 In this book, Jo Scott shares writing and documentation from her practice as research (PaR) project, which explored and analysed a mode of performance she developed, called live intermediality. The... -
The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 Volume 1: Volume One 1900-1932 by Steve Nicholson 9780859896382
RRP: €89.25€72.52This is the first volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson's well-reviewed four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence archives. It... -
A Biographical Dictionary of Scenographers: 500 B.C. to 1900 A.D. by Robin Thrower Lacy 9780313274299
€87.07The end result of a forty-year avocation, this unique dictionary presents information about scenographic practitioners from ancient Greece through the nineteenth century in those countries with major theatre traditions. Although occasional volumes have... -
From Stanislavsky to Barrault: Representative Directors of the European Stage by Samuel Leiter 9780313276613
€78.46The careers, directing accomplishments, ideas, and techniques of six distinguished directors of the European stage--each considered a master of the art--are surveyed in depth by author Samuel L. Leiter in this groundbreaking study. Konstantin... -
Ethel Merman: A Bio-Bibliography by George B. Bryan 9780313279751
€86.36This new book contains the most comprehensive bibliography of Ethel Merman's work and materials written on this great American entertainer. She dominated the American musical stage as no other performer has, yet she appeared in only fifteen Broadway... -
Stage It with Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Musical Theatre by Thomas S. Hischak 9780313287084
€86.36A one-stop, up-to-date source for information on the history of the American musical theatre, Stage It with Music packs an astonishing quantity and variety of facts as well as insights and anecdotes into a convenient dictionary format. Coverage extends... -
Audience Participation: Essays on Inclusion in Performance by Susan Kattwinkel 9780313316715
€113.55Scholarly work on the impact of an active audience on theatrical and dance performance is a relatively new phenomenon, one that until now has manifested itself largely in the form of scattered dialogue on the subject. Audience Participation: Essays on... -
Bernhardt and the Theatre of Her Time by Eric Salmon 9780313237553
€66.59Sarah Bernhardt, possibly the greatest actress of the late nineteenth century, was a symbol of French Romantic theatre at its height and of the melodramatic excesses that led to its demise. The theatre of Bernhardt's time was changing rapidly, and Salmon... -
Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts by Kim Solga 9780230219540
RRP: €53.54€53.51Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus and The Changeling, this book, now in paperback with a new Preface, reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era... -
Playing to the Crowd: London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830 by F. Burwick 9780230116863
RRP: €53.54€53.51The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.Book InformationISBN 9780230116863Author F. BurwickFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Black Theatre and Performance: A Pan-African Bibliography by John Gray 9780313268755
€86.36This volume represents the first major bibliography on Black theatre and performance in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Canada. Unlike previous bibliographies on the topic, this work gives equal weight to Africa and the African... -
Performance, Ethics and Spectatorship in a Global Age by Helena Grehan 9780230518018
RRP: €107.09€106.95This book takes performance studies in exciting new directions, exploring the ways in which ethics can be used to understand the complex questions facing contemporary spectators. Engaging with five key performances, the book reflects on the emotional and... -
Lucille Lortel: A Bio-Bibliography by Sam McCready 9780313276057
€86.36This book provides a detailed record of the life and career of Lucille Lortel, one of the great producers of Off-Broadway theater. The volume begins with a biography of Lortel and a chronology follows, in which the chief events in her life are presented... -
The Pursuit of Acting: Working Actors Share Their Experience and Advice by Starra H. Andrews 9780275962814
€36.54What is it like to pursue a career in acting? Forty working actors comment on auditions, day jobs, agents, rejection, and what drives them to keep going when there is no work. These personal essays have been drawn from interviews with actors at different... -
The American Musical Stage Before 1800 by Julian Mates 9780313253249
€99.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313253249Author Julian MatesFormat HardbackPage Count 343Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Actors and the Art of Performance by Susanne Valerie Granzer 9781013267338
RRP: €51.11€44.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013267338Author Susanne Valerie GranzerFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
New York Theater Review 2008 by Brook Stowe 9780615200569
RRP: €18.45€16.51NYTR's 2008 edition contains three new plays, three original commissioned essays, an extended roundtable chat with six leading NYC theater and performance bloggers, and a sit-down give and take with that singular sonic performance onslaught also known as... -
Theatrical Designers: An International Biographical Dictionary by Thomas J. Mikotowicz 9780313262708
€86.36This book provides biographical and analytical data on significant historical and contemporary practitioners and theorists of the theatrical design field who have contributed to the development of the art. Beginning with a historical survey on the... -
Experimenters, Rebels, and Disparate Voices: The Theatre of the 1920s Celebrates American Diversity by Arthur Gewirtz 9780313324666
€99.06The theatre and drama of the 1920s reflect a synergy of art, glitter, and glitz-a decade of great mainstream playwrights and a flourishing popular and commercial theatre, but it was also a decade in which discontented artists and a variety of people on... -
Theatrical Directors: A Biographical Dictionary by John W. Frick 9780313274787
€87.07Designed primarily for use by students and theatre generalists, this volume contains biographical sketches, arranged alphabetically, of over 300 individuals distinguished for their stage directing. It includes both contemporary directors and those who... -
Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925-1940 by Edna Nahshon 9780313290633
€99.53The Artef (1925-1940) began as a radical Yiddish workers' theatre and developed into a major American Yiddish theatre company. It was among the acknowledged pillars of the Theatre of Social Consciousness, a movement that redefined the course for the... -
Richard Wagner and Festival Theatre by Simon Williams 9780313274350
€99.06In contrast to most books on Richard Wagner, this biography focuses primarily on Wagner as an important figure in the development of the theatre. While his contribution to music history has been exhaustively documented and analyzed, his theatrical... -
A Guide to the Baltimore Stage in the Eighteenth Century: A History and Day Book Calendar by David Ritchey 9780313225895
€86.36Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313225895Author David RitcheyFormat HardbackPage Count 342Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Politics and Violence in Cuban and Argentine Theater by K. Ford 9780230613140
RRP: €53.54€53.51This book looks at Cuban and Argentine theater of the late 1960s and early 1970s to see how the idea of spectacle as violence was used to comment on and question the social and political violence that was unfolding offstage.Book InformationISBN... -
Theatre Workshop by Robert Leach 9780859897594
RRP: €89.25€72.52Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain's most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company's aims and achievements in their social, political... -
Performing Citizenship by Gesa Ziemer 9781013274558
RRP: €60.63€53.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274558Author Gesa ZiemerFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Edwin Booth: A Bio-Bibliography by L. Terry Oggel 9780313261954
€86.36Edwin Booth was the foremost Shakespearean actor in late nineteenth-century America, enjoying almost mythic status. This comprehensive analysis and documentation of his career provides an aperture from which to view theatre and society of the period. The... -
Eva Le Gallienne: A Bio-Bibliography by Robert A. Schanke 9780313260964
€72.29This is the first published resource on the life and seventy-year theatrical career of award-winning actress Eva Le Gallienne. It traces Le Gallienne's acting debut in 1914, her travels to the United States, and the successes and failures of her New York... -
The Dawning of American Drama: American Dramatic Criticism, 1746-1915 by Jurgen C. Wolter 9780313290282
€78.46This book seeks to bring to life the prolonged dawning of American drama, to outline America's continued quest for a national drama and theatre, and to provide a survey of the development of dramatic criticism in the United States. For more than a... -
Helen Hayes: A Bio-Bibliography by Donn B. Murphy 9780313277931
€86.36This reference traces in fascinating detail the exceptionally long career of Helen Hayes, the First Lady of the American Theatre. In addition to a biography of the actress, which charts the development of her unique talent and the successes and tragedies... -
The Independent Monologue in Latin American Theater: A Primary Bibliography with Selective Secondary Sources by Duane Rhoades 9780313250804
€72.29Following an outline history of the monologue as an independent genre in the theater of Latin America, this bibliography incorporates all published and unpublished, staged and unstaged monologue pieces written in Latin America. The bibliographical... -
Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture by Tobias Doring 9780230001534
RRP: €107.09€106.95This study takes a look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were historically staged? Drawing on performance studies, it provides... -
Repetition in Performance: Returns and Invisible Forces by Eirini Kartsaki 9781137430533
€120.92This book explores repetition in contemporary performance and spectatorship. It offers an impassioned account of the ways in which speech, movement and structures repeat in performances by Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Lone Twin Theatre,...