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A sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century A material history of racialized performance throughout the Anglophone imperial world, Transoceanic Blackface: Empire,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558702905Author Glen CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint North Light BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 515g

This is a compilation of theatrical anecdotes, legends and one-liners on a variety of subjects. Contributors include Edith Evans, Dorothy Parker, Maggie Smith and Gore Vidal. The author presents the Radio Four programme, "Loose Ends".Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780844257730Author McGraw HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NTC Publishing Group,U.S.Publisher NTC Publishing Group,U.S.Weight(grams) 374g

From the moment that nineteen-year-old Ronald Barker threw up his steady job in an Oxford bank for life as an actor in a tatty Aylesbury repertory theatre, he knew he was where he belonged. In "Dancing in the Moonlight", he tells the droll and wickedly...

One morning, as I was writing, I suddenly understood that as a species, through incredible stubbornness, we were able to write love into our genetic makeup, and that this is enough to redeem us all. We were given mouths to bite with, and with deep...

This concise Companion is an essential reference work for anyone interested in the history of the world's treatre. Based on the original Oxford Companion to the Theatre, Third Edition, this volume is more than an abridgement. Each article has been...

The autobiography of Sian Phillips. It covers her early life growing up as an only child in the remote Welsh countryside, her determination to be an actress at an early age, her first short-lived marriage, and how she arrived in London to learn her trade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860516798Format HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Robson Books LtdPublisher Robson Books LtdWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780340429266Author John GielgudFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hodder & Stoughton LtdPublisher Hodder & Stoughton General DivisionWeight(grams)...

A guide to acting by one of the most celebrated English actors of the century, drawing on his extensive experience in stage and film acting.Book InformationISBN 9780340412381Author Laurence OlivierFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint SceptrePublisher...

This is the autobiography of actor, author and artist Anthony Sher. It offers an insight into his first 50 years. Starting with his time in the sinister paradise of white South Africa, we follow Sher through his time as a rifleman during conscription in...

The book tells the story of how Agatha Christie's world famous mysteries have been adapted for TV.Book InformationISBN 9781852272739Author Peter HainingFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Virgin BooksPublisher Ebury PublishingWeight(grams) 822g

Written for students taking the AQA GCSE drama specification, this text aims to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding students need to succeed in the course. The book takes a hands-on approach with activities and practice in both the written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722533Author Frederick BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

What made Steven Berkoff? Born in the East End in 1937 and educated at Hackney Downs Grammar (Harold Pinter's old school), throughout his life as actor, director and playwright, Steven Berkoff has been variously described as exciting, controversial,...

Peter Brook is one of the giants of twentieth-century theatre, a unique creative genius who, through his groundbreaking productions of King Lear, Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Night's Dream and especially The Mahabharata, has virtually reinvented the way...

Theory/Theatre: An Introduction provides a unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. Mark Fortier lucidly examines current theoretical approaches, from semiotics, poststructuralism, to cultural...

Enthusiastically praised by Charles Lamb and A. C. Swinburne but unjustly neglected since the early twentieth century, Thierry and Theodoret dramatizes events from medieval French history. With its disenchanted depiction of royalty, its eerie instability...

Greek theatre was one of the glories of the ancient world. It survives not only in cultural traditions, but in plays which can still be read and seen and in artistic images. This book examines the history of Greek theatre as seen through representations...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478713500Author Nicholas Divine C PFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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No other dancer has matched, nor ever will, Leslie Edwards' career with the Royal Ballet: more than 60 years of performances, starting in January 1933 and continuing even beyond his official retirement in November 1993. In addition, for the first six...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860513503Author Victoria WoodImprint Sound Entertainment LimitedPublisher Sound Entertainment Limited

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This revelatory study explores how Scottish history plays, especially since the 1930s, raise issues of ideology, national identity, historiography, mythology, gender and especially Scottish language. Covering topics up to the end of World War Two, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954660208Author Noel Clive StockFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Derwent EntertainmentsPublisher Derwent Entertainments

James Shirley's Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best Caroline city comedies, building upon the Elizabethan and Jacobean traditions to partake in new considerations of London space, power, and courtship. The play especially warrants sustained critical...

Few institutions have as profound an impact on the American theatrical landscape as the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 provides a sample of...

Maria Martinez Sierra is the greatest female playwright you've never heard of. The wife of celebrated 20th century playwright Gregorio Martinez Sierra whose plays were popular in Spain, South America and in translation on Broadway and London's West End,...

This book presents a compilation of articles on the subject of game studies written over the last ten years. These texts reflect a decade of research in European computer game studies from a theoretical perspective that combines philosophy, cultural...

Through a contemporary Gothic lens, the book explores theatre theories, processes and practices that explore; the impacts of continuing drought and natural disaster, the conflicts concerning resource extraction and mining and current political debates...

This revelatory study explores how Scottish history plays, especially since the 1930s, raise issues of ideology, national identity, historiography, mythology, gender and especially Scottish language. Covering topics up to the end of World War Two, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781669869535Author Edward ErikssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Xlibris UsPublisher Xlibris UsWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947826373Author Charles WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Apocryphile PressPublisher Apocryphile PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838635025Author Keiko I. McDonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University PressPublisher Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980563276Author James WaitesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Currency House IncPublisher Currency House Inc