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Eric Salmon contends that modern theatre is artistically endangered. This book is his evaluation of the present state of English-speaking theatre and an examination, through examples of twentieth-century plays, both good and bad, of the reasons for it...

The theatre and drama of the 1920s reflects a great synergy of art, glitter, and glitz-a decade of experimentation and incubation for mainstream American playwrights coexisting with important revivals of European playwrights and Shakespeare, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313243653Author Simon WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 197Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

A groundbreaking, cross-cultural reference work exploring the diversity of expression found in rituals, festivals, and performances, uncovering acting techniques and practices from around the world. Acting: An International Encyclopedia explores the...

This compendium opens the stagedoor for those with little or no practical experience in acting. For actors and other theatre specialists grappling with the challenges posed by performing or staging the works of the great Bard, here is useful instruction...

Modern international studies of world theatre and drama have begun to acknowledge the Arab world only after the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Within the Arab world, the contributions of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco to modern drama and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986412424Author Gary Neal HansenFormat PaperbackImprint Gary Neal HansenPublisher Gary Neal HansenWeight(grams) 64g

A companion to UEP's Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). A genre that has left more of a mark on British and American culture than we may imagine" (Gothic Studies). London's Grand Guignol was established in the...

A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313207631Author Lytton StracheyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293955Author Franc ChamberlainFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008971639Author Catherine LaidlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 127g

The book includes a complimentary DVD providing an album of rare and previously unpublished items from private collections: historical documents, programmes, designs, photographs, and clips from recordings of rehearsals and productions. British South...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578689067Author Marvin CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Tough Poets PressPublisher Tough Poets PressWeight(grams) 313g

Theater critic Jerry Tallmer, remarking on Joseph Papp's death on October 31, 1991, said, He was a guy from Brooklyn who had a passion for Shakespeare and a passion for people. He was able to combine the two like no one else ever did. Barbara Horn,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313220432Author J. M. WaltonFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This collection of essays defines and explores American theatres that consciously appealed primarily to workers. The scope of the book extends from the 1830s to the 1980s. Different authors focus on how various plays related to the audience as a class,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313225956Author L. W. ConollyFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313224942Author Laurence SenelickFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This reference book has entries for some 300 women in American theater, ranging from actors, directors, choreographers, playwrights, and designers, to critics, agents, and managers, and should provide focus for future scholars of women's studies and...

What 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...

This lively, engaging book explores how women were depicted in the antebellum American theatre during the period when the entertainment industry was taking shape and the first women's rights movement emerged. Through a series of vivid biographical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313238246Author R. KohanskyFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Tallulah Bankhead was an actress whose talents were greatly overshadowed by her antics. Indeed, the Bankhead personality was much better known than her acting roles. While it is impossible to study her career without exploring her highly charged...

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...

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...

Because of its contemporary coverage, this volume is particularly interesting and useful. . . . Reference collections that deal with theater questions could find it a good source even without its two predecessor volumes, but the set as a whole is...

In this book, Arvid F. Sponberg provides a view of what some of the most important people in the commercial theater think about the state of their business. With one exception, none of those interviewed has ever before had an extended opportunity to...

George Frederick Cooke was a member of that select company of legendary actors -- Garrick, Kemble, Henderson, Kean -- who dominated the English stage during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the first important actor to cross the Atlantic...

Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight into the ways in which great dramatists of our time have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837185231Author Robert HellmanFormat HardbackPage Count 339Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837138329Author John DolmanFormat HardbackPage Count 313Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837105338Author George Henry LewesFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837198521Author William T. StanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806529509Author Wilfred GranvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 358g

The founder and director of the Yale Repertory theatre, as well as Harvard's American Repertory theatre, and a drama critic for more than thirty years, Robert Brustein is a living legend in theatrical circles. Letters to a Young Actor not only inspires...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399576553Author Richard GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359140725Author Fred DuprezFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 100g

The book relates to the study of spirit and spirituality; mind, intelligence, consciousness and epistemology; literature and theatre. From a basis in recorded experience it rethinks the nature of spirit and relates spirit to the human mind, and it...

Still the most influential and popular songwriting team in the history of the American Musical Theatre, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein represent Broadway musicals at their finest. The team revolutionized the musical play with Oklahoma! in 1943 and...