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The End of Ends by Tadeusz Bradecki 9781909585591
RRP: €14.28€10.04Apologies 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 -
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9781350500976
RRP: €13.08€12.82Mad – 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 by Kirstin Chávez 9781032600772
RRP: €39.26€34.70Living 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... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity by Michael Ewans 9781350440692
€34.59Drawing 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... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire by Matthew Kaiser 9781350440708
€36.70Drawing 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... -
A Life in 16 Films: How Cinema Made a Playwright by Steve Waters 9781350205222
RRP: €89.25€50.27Steve 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... -
Ibsen at the Theatrical Crossroads of Europe: A Performance History of Henrik Ibsen's Plays on the Romanian Stages, 1894-1947 by Gianina Druta 9783837670189
RRP: €67.82€55.51While 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... -
Practicing Dance: A Somatic Orientation by Jenny Coogan 9783832542139
€35.57Apologies 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 -
Into Abolitionist Theatre: A Guidebook for Liberatory Theatre-making by Rivka Eckert 9781032472348
RRP: €44.02€39.19Seeking 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... -
Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life by Alisa Zhulina 9780810146341
€48.24Reads 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... -
Feral Monster by Bethan Marlow 9781914595936
RRP: €10.71€7.69A 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... -
Music Hall Warriors by Peter Honri 9781871551068
RRP: €29.69€28.23Apologies 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 -
Belarusian Theatre and the 2020 Pro-Democracy Protests: Documenting the Resistance by Valleri J Robinson 9781839987953
RRP: €24.98€23.97This 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: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race by Noémie Ndiaye 9781512826074
RRP: €28.55€24.80Scripts 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... -
Refugee Performance: Practical Encounters by Prof. Michael Balfour 9781841506371
RRP: €63.01€60.52The 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... -
Resetting the Stage: Public Theatre Between the Market and Democracy by Dragan Klai'c 9781841505473
RRP: €34.45€33.47Commercial 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... -
Performing Spanishness: History, Cultural Identity and Censorship in the Theatre of Jose Maria Rodriguez Mendez by Michael Thompson 9781841501345
RRP: €34.45€33.47Apologies 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 -
Brecht in La: A Play by Rick Mitchell 9781841501055
RRP: €28.50€27.16Apologies 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 -
Dramaturging Personal Narratives: Who am I and Where is Here? by Judith Rudakoff 9781783204199
RRP: €52.30€50.55Apologies 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 in the New Millennium: Conversations with Master Teachers by Nancy Sakland 9781617740589
RRP: €17.84€16.26Voice 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 II: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict: Building Just and Inclusive Communities by Cynthia Cohen 9781613320006
RRP: €20.22€18.41Acting 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... -
Artaud on Theatre by Claude Schumacher 9781566635585
€19.49With 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... -
Cultural Calisthenics: Writings on Race, Politics, and Theatre by Robert Brustein 9781566632669
€17.73Robert 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... -
Grand Old Texas Theaters: That Won't Quit by Joan Upton Hall 9781556228841
RRP: €17.84€15.29The 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... -
The Voice Preparation by Andrew J. Wade 9781557836472
RRP: €7.08€6.60Apologies 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)... -
Journeys in the Night: Creating a New American Theatre with Circle in the Square: A Memoir by Theodore Mann 9781557836458
RRP: €35.70€27.18Apologies 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 -
The Voice in Violence: And Other Contemporary Issues in Professional Voice and Speech Training by Rocco Dal Vera 9781557834973
RRP: €28.50€27.39Written 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... -
The Collected Works of Harold Clurman by Harold Clurman 9781557831323
RRP: €45.22€44.91Apologies 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 -
The Monologue Workshop: from Search to Discovery in Audition and Performance by Jack Poggi 9781557830319
RRP: €15.46€13.67Apologies 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 by Dennis Barnett 9781498527149
RRP: €113.05€98.91DAH 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... -
All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project by Paul Gagliardi 9781439922163
RRP: €28.55€24.80Many 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... -
All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project by Paul Gagliardi 9781439922156
RRP: €108.29€93.91Many 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... -
Staging Trauma: Bodies in Shadow Miriam Haughton 9781137536624
RRP: €130.89€120.94This book investigates contemporary British and Irish performances that stage traumatic narratives, histories, acts and encounters. It includes a range of case studies that consider the performative, cultural and political contexts for the staging and... -
Trauma and Embodied Healing in Dramatherapy, Theatre and Performance by J. F. Jacques 9781032344836
RRP: €154.70€133.89This edited volume explores the singularity of embodiment and somatic approaches in the healing of trauma from a dramatherapy, theatre and performance perspective.Collating voices from across the fields of dramatherapy, theatre and performance, this book... -
The Denting of a Wave by Ralph Thompson 9780948833625
RRP: €9.51€6.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948833625Author Ralph ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd -
Five and Eighty Hamlets by J. C. Trewin 9780941533607
RRP: €17.84€16.05Hamlet is probably the most famous play in the world. The distinguished English critic, J. C. Trewin, saw his first performance of it in 1922, and thereafter, professionally, as drama critic successively of the Observer, Punch, and the Illustrated London... -
The Social Significance of Modern Drama by Emma Goldman 9780936839615
RRP: €8.32€7.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936839615Author Emma GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)... -
Under the Greenwood Tree: A Celebration of Kentucky Shakespeare by Tracy E. K'Meyer 9780813198835
RRP: €74.97€68.03In the summer of 1960, director C. Douglas Ramey took his Carriage House Players theater company down the street from their Old Louisville venue to Central Park, where the actors performed scenes from the Shakespeare classic Much Ado about Nothing... -
Rust Belt Burlesque: The Softer Side of a Heavy Metal Town by Erin O'Brien 9780804012195
RRP: €23.79€21.35The performance art of burlesque, once a faded form, has made a comeback in the twenty-first century, and it has shimmied back to life with a vengeance in Cleveland. Thanks to fans and entrepreneurs, neo-burlesque has taken the stage-and it's more... -
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780801878404
€62.32In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing...