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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615951690Author Katherine Tartaglia DumontFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Soggy Noodle Children's TheatrePublisher Soggy Noodle Children's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578415314Author Jay O SandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Plunder Productions, Ltd.Publisher Plunder Productions, Ltd.Weight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374283599Author Jon Robin BaitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707650Author Sheila CallaghanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics of its day. It sets the stage for the reader to discover the revolutionary traditions of Egyptian and Irish theatre, very distinct in...

Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best-loved comedies of James Shirley, considered to be one of the most important Caroline dramatists. The play showcases strong female characters who excel at rebuking the outlandish courtship of various suitors. Shirley's...

I’m a monster. You can’t marry me. Jay and Paul are both serving life sentences for homophobic murders. Incredibly, they fall in love and seek permission to marry. Inspired by real-life events, Kiss Marry Kill is a provocative new play that reimagines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909585591Author Tadeusz BradeckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions

Mad – Foolish – Ridiculous – I’ve been called many things. On an uneventful Wednesday in a drab Borough of East London, an ordinary man has a startling revelation: life is an unhappy accident in a meaningless universe. He gets himself a gun. But...

Living the Dream: Building a Sustainable Career in the Performing Arts offers an accessible guide to understanding one’s arts career as a business. This essential companion to the inner workings of the arts world begins with defining the dream, including...

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy. Although the origins of...

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a thorough and varied overview of the many forms comedy took in the 19th century. Given the...

Commemorating over 75 years of Broadway greatness with never-before told stories, rare photos from the American Theatre Wings' archives, and interviews with major honorees like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, and Hugh Jackman, The Tony Awards is the...

Steve Waters examines how the very idea of film has defined him as a playwright and a person in this book. Through the the lens of cinema, it provides a cultural and political snapshot of life in Britain from the 2nd part of the 20th century up to the...

While Ibsen's plays were seldom performed in Romania in the first half of the 20th century, historical sources highlight his strong impact on the national theatre practice. To address this contradiction, Gianina Druta approaches the reception of Ibsen in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832542139Author Jenny CooganFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

Seeking to transform community-based theatre-making, this book explores the transformative potential of abolitionist theatre, as theatre artists and teachers collaborate with marginalized communities to challenge systems of oppression and inspire...

Theatre in Practice, third edition, is an accessible and wide-ranging exploration of the central practices and key practitioners covered on the various syllabi at A level, IB, and at undergraduate level.Exploring Stanislavski, Brecht, Artaud, Lecoq,...

Reads canonical works of modern drama in relation to the economic ideas of their era Emerging amid the turbulent rise of market finance and wider socioeconomic changes, modern drama enacted vital critiques of art and life under capitalism. Alisa Zhulina...

A banging musical about an unremarkable teenager. Expelled from school and not even able to get a job at the chippy, Jax (she/they/whatever) is a cocky, loveable teen living with her Nan in a tiny, boring village. When Jax meets Ffion, with her smart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551068Author Peter HonriFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

This book highlights the important creative work of Belarusian theatre and filmmakers seeking to raise awareness of the Pro-democracy movement and human rights abuses in Belarus and to build communities of care and mourning following the fraudulent 2020...

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new...

The title of this book, Refugee Performance, suggests there is a constituency of practices that might be unified under a definite term or god forbid to propose a new field of study. This is far from the intentions of the collection. This collection has...

Commercial theater is thriving across Europe and the UK, while public theater has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption-as well as sharp reductions in government subsidies for the arts. At a time when the rationale behind these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841501345Author Michael ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841501055Author Rick MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783204199Author Judith RudakoffFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books

Voice and speech training has long been a part of the fabric of actor training and the training of those whose task it has been to persuade through the voice: primarily actors politicians lawyers and other public speakers. EVoice and Speech Training...

Acting Together, Volume ll, continues from where the first volume ends documenting exemplary peacebuilding performances in regions marked by social exclusion structural violence and dislocation. Acting Together: Performance and the Creative...

With Brecht and Meyerhold, Antonin Artaud was one of the great visionaries of twentieth-century theatre, best known perhaps for what he called the "Theatre of Cruelty." This revised and updated edition of Artaud on Theatre contains all of his key...

Robert Brustein’s new book is not simply a collection of his theatre writings. It also functions as a precise barometer of contemporary society, measuring the pressures of our current cultural climate. Never one to shy away from controversy, Mr. Brustein...

The doors are open on these grand old theaters! The authors combed the state to locate the best of historical theaters that won't give up the ghost (sometimes literally). Their research and interviews showcase these theaters.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836472Author Andrew J. WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836458Author Theodore MannPage Count 418Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 717g

Written by leading theatre voice and speech coaches, this volume comprises 63 articles, essays, interviews, and reviews covering a wide variety of professional concerns, including: How should an actor scream safely? What are the best ways to orchestrate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557831323Author Harold ClurmanFormat HardbackPage Count 1101Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 2032g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557830319Author Jack PoggiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

DAH Theatre: A Sourcebook is a collection of essays about the work of one of the most successful and innovative performance groups in contemporary history. With a direct line of descent from Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba, DAH Theatre, founded during...

Many of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) plays Paul Gagliardi analyzes in All Play and No Work feature complex portrayals of labor and work relief at a time when access to work was difficult. Gagliardi asks, what does it mean that many plays produced by...