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How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look into representational practices in film, literature, fashion, and theatre and explore how they have fleshed out political struggles,...

Collective theatres are collectively organized and run performing groups, usually socially conscious and politically oriented, often aligned with the people's theatre movement. This book examines collectivization as a way of successfully challenging the...

A renowned and beloved international actress, first successful on the London stage, Jessica Tandy captured Broadway as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947, making that role forever hers. After a series of major...

The book is based on a series of unique oral histories and interviews with actors who love the stage first and foremost. Editor Joan Jeffri focuses on the experience of actors in their training and career development, and on their relationships to...

Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding Argentina's return to democracy and makes...

New in paperback with contextualising timeline and revised bibliography This is the second 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...

This book brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries...

This topical collection explores the relationship between violence and performance. The authors offer fresh theoretical perspectives and examine media as diverse as street theatre, performance art, photography and cinema in locations as diverse as Korea...

Lillian Russell was the Victorian era's symbol of talent, charm, and beauty. She was introduced by impresario Tony Pastor in 1880, and was considered an emblem of feminine beauty until the turn of the century. Although her voice still set a standard of...

This volume considers prewar theatre in Hitler's Germany, a previously neglected subject in theatre history. An extended introduction sets the theatre scene of 1933 and charts the major theatre regulations and organizations formed that year. The initial...

"This wise volume, written by a veteran director and observer of premodern plays, offers good advice for neophyte and experienced directors." ChoiceBook InformationISBN 9780313236853Author L. MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint...

Contemporary British Theatre surveys the complex and dynamic theatre of the eighties and early nineties reflecting a country that is multicultural, multiethnic and multinational. The contributors - artists, scholars and critics - offer insights into the...

Many women held positions of great responsibility and power in the United States during the 19th century as theatre managers: managing stock companies, owning or leasing theatres, hiring actors and other personnel, selecting plays for production,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615808505Author Mike ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Wordcrafts PressPublisher Wordcrafts PressWeight(grams) 127g

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313208867Author Weldon B. DurhamFormat HardbackPage Count 606Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Following on from the highly successful first anthology of critical and theoretical writings on performance studies, this is an updated and significantly expanded second edition which brings the anthology up to date with current debate. The new edition...

This book brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries...

Giving equal space to the sanctity of script and the artistic freedom of directors, this book addresses the difficulties encountered by playwrights and directors as they bring a script to the stage. Inspired directors can help a writer of genius turn his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995475304Author Neil S. ReddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dank House Manor PublishingPublisher Dank House Manor Publishing

Vince has provided a useful and, for the most part, usable reference work. His introduction should be required reading for anyone approaching medieval theater. Choice Scholars increasingly see medieval theatre as a complex and vital performance medium...

This companion volume to American Theatre Companies, 1749-1887 (Greenwood Press, 1986) is an indispensable guide to an aspect of American theatre covered by no other reference work. Salient facts about resident acting companies of the period in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313224959Author Laurence SenelickFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This insightful work fills a gap in theatre studies, illuminating how modernism influences theatrical interpretations and productions. Kindelan focuses on how contemporary practitioners evoke new renderings of classical playscripts, incorporating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988498266Author Jeffrey KinghornFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Rmj Donald, LLCPublisher Rmj Donald, LLCWeight(grams) 100g

The book explores European artists' critical engagement with the images and stories that politicians and the media use to advocate globalization.Book InformationISBN 9780230608221Author Katrin SiegFormat HardbackPage Count 227Imprint Palgrave...

This is the first complete edition of the letters and notebooks of actress Mary Devlin, Edwin Booth's first wife, and is the first reference of its kind in nineteenth-century American theatre scholarship. These documents provide a fascinating perspective...

'...this superb book should be required reading for every drama and literature student and all trainee actors and directors.' Times Higher Educational SupplementBook InformationISBN 9780333385739Author Julian HiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 181Imprint...

The stage portrayal of the Victorians in recent times is a key reference point in understanding notions of Britishness, and the profound politicisation of that debate over the last four decades. This book throws new light on works by canonical...

From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London's Grand Guignol - also published by UEP - this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English...

This ground-breaking study of cross-cultural theatre in the Australasian region focuses on theatrical events and practices in avant-garde and mainstream contexts. It explores the cultural and political dimensions of Australia's engagement with Asia and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983525332Author Elisabeth KehlFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Learning Logic PublicationsPublisher Learning Logic PublicationsWeight(grams) 324g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981943114Author Mark TroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Tinsel Road BooksPublisher Tinsel Road BooksWeight(grams) 153g

It would be difficult, indeed, to imagine anyone more qualified to give us a celebration, from the perspective of an insider, of the Broadway musical. From the first run of Guys and Dolls in 1950 to the recent debut of Rent, Stuart Ostrow, a...

How do theatre and performance transmit and dispute ideologies of neoliberalism? The essays in this anthology examine the mechanisms and rhetorics of contemporary multinational and transnational organizations, artists, and communities that produce...

An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313223143Author Fenwick Library StaffFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313210723Author Myron MatlawFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Publicity, nerve, and verve made David Merrick possibly the most successful producer in the history of Broadway. Not since the days of David Belasco or Florenz Ziegfeld had the theatre produced such a spectacular producer-star. He was dubbed The Barnum...

This fascinating work will prove valuable for collections in film, theater history, and Shakespearean production. . . . The book includes fascinating production photos and helpful notes in which the original acts and scenes are identified, thus showing...

This multifaceted study, the companion volume to Leiter's From Stanislavsky to Barrault: Representative Directors of the European Stage (Greenwood Press, 1991), provides exhaustively detailed, yet compact accounts of the careers and accomplishments of...