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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...

"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

Theater's materiality and reliance on human actors has traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of aesthetic autonomy and depersonalization. Spectral Characters argues that modern dramatists in fact emphasized the extent to which humans are...

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138159242Author John HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

This book promotes healthy collaborations between scene and costume designers.It presents case studies for a deepening of the understanding of professional careers across a broad spectrum of venues.It acknowledges and offers equity to fields in technical...

WHY PUBLISH: - The author applies over 15 years experience and insights as a theatre practitioner to her argument. - The book offers a fresh vantage point for a play that has been exhaustively analysed. - Shakespeare scholarship travels well globally,...

A History of Equestrian Drama in the United States documents the history of equestrian drama in the United States and clarifies the multi-faceted significance of the form and of the related stage machinery developed to produce hippodramas. The...

This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, comparatively studying work coming out of Burundi and Rwanda...

Originally published in 1934, Palmer's biography of famous playwright Ben Jonson delves into his life and works and what he achieved in both. As first poet laureate of England, Jonson's life presents a fascinating look into the state of literature and...

Outlines ten of the most formative moments in the development of musical theatre both on Broadway, the West End and beyond. Aimed at undergraduate students on BA and BFA Musical Theatre degrees, as well as those on BA theatre studies and performing arts...

An in-depth account of making theatre that involves people with intellectual disabilities, based on 18 years of experience. Written for a growing market of theatre-makers, company leaders and performers making contemporary theatre with an inclusive...

This is the first book to explore the involvement of John Ruskin with the popular theatre of his time. Based on original archival research, this book offers a fresh look at the aesthetic and social theories of Ruskin and his direct and indirect influence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760622121Author Alison CroggonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Currency Press Pty LtdPublisher Currency Press Pty Ltd

A History of Equestrian Drama in the United States documents the history of equestrian drama in the United States and clarifies the multi-faceted significance of the form and of the related stage machinery developed to produce hippodramas. The...