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"The greatest American dramatist of our age" Evening Standard This fifth volume of Arthur Miller's work contains two plays from the early nineties: his highly acclaimed The Last Yankee (1993), which the Guardian called "a fine and moving play . . ...

Features profiles of contemporary and other inspirational artists/traditions which presents mask work as a vibrant and engaging art that really happens outside the classroom.Contains step by step directions for creating some masks.Features a list of mask...

A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Fit explores the concept of fit in theatrical costumes - what it is, how to assess it, and how to achieve it. Being able to assess whether a costume fits or not is a learned skill, which takes practice as well as...

This book explores a fresh and insightful interpretation of Hamlet's Gertrude as a prominent and powerful figure within the play. It shows how traditional readings of this character, both performance-based and scholarly, have been guided and constrained...

Fifty Key Figures in Latin American and Latinx Theatre is a critical introduction to the most influential and innovative theatre practitioners in the Americas, all of whom have been pioneers in changing the field. The chosen artists bridge political,...

Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining and galvanising way. How to make data compelling and...

Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining and galvanising way. How to make data compelling and...

Performing Power explores 18th-century fabrication of the royal image by focusing on the example of King Gustav III (1746-1792) - one of Sweden's most acclaimed and controversial monarchs - who conspicuously chose theater as the primary media for his...

The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them. Jakub Boguszak shows how the idiosyncrasies of Jonson's comic characters were thrown into relief in actors' part-scripts-scrolls containing a single...

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,...

Theatre and Internationalization examines how internationalization affects the processes and aesthetics of theatre, and how this art form responds dramatically and thematically to internationalization beyond the stage. With central examples drawn from...

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre. The discussions in this book borrow from the literature on dementia’s representation in other artforms, while reflecting on theatre’s unique capacity to incorporate multiple artforms...

Performance in Popular Culture reveals the intricate relationship between performance and popular culture by exploring how theatrical conventions and dramaturgical tropes have informed the way the social is constructed for popular consumption.Staged as a...

This book explores the concept of playmaking and activism through three research projects in which culturally and linguistically diverse high school students and young adults created original theatre around the issues that inform their lives and...

The Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publication is to share creative solutions to technical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995955509Author Keith JohnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint International Theatresports InstitutePublisher International Theatresports...

"One of the most thought-provoking studies of [modern theater in Japan].... David Goodman shows a broad range of literary sympathies and skills in his introductions, translations, and commentaries, which I find exemplary.... A real contribution to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569768396Author Vince WaldronFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820440613Author Rohan QuinceFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 370g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101909Author Edward M. CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

On America will respond to the powerful presence in contemporary culture of aesthetic forms and political strategies derived from North America. Counterpointing Letters from Europe, this book will address the use and abuse of images of and from North...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138472952Author YarrowFormat HardbackImprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

British Theatre and the Red Peril examines how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge of collapse, the theatre played a significant part in...

This book examines the relationship between moments of significant social change on the island of Ireland and performance practice during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It examines how moments of significant change influence not only the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789392510496Author A.C. Woolner Lakshman SarupFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint Motilal Banarsidass,Publisher Motilal Banarsidass,

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390961160Author Vijay PadakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd

In Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive. Young argues for that will's illegibility, given the paucity of materials...

Taking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms. How can we understand the quality and significance of current...

A seminal study of a historically significant theater style.   Unrivaled in its long-term impact, Parsi theater remains a crucial component of South Asia’s cultural heritage. Like vaudeville in America, Parsi theater dominated mass entertainment in...

In this updated and extended edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre, scholar and practitioner J.Michael Walton revises and expands his visual approach to the theatre of classical Athens. From the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides to the old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415256472Author Miguel CasamayorFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ma Non TroppoPublisher Ma Non TroppoWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832551582Author Tuleka PrahFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832551308Author Emma BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757586835Author Kathleen NormingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

THE WORLD'S GREATEST SWORDSMEN...* A major new family comedy set in the world of the Three Musketeers… sort of. When the famous Musketeers are lost in a shipwreck on a routine mission across the channel, their hapless servants are left with no masters...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365819Author Richard MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493056941Author Neil FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams) 133g

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th century onwards.Specialists in theatre and performance studies, comparative literature, theology, political studies, history, and ethnology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493056965Author Neil FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams) 133g