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Though he is one of the undisputed giants of English literature, Ben Jonson is known to most people only as the author of one or two masterly plays which regularly appear in the drama repertory. He is much less well-known for his whole oeuvre, which...

Jana Sanskriti is internationally recognised as the most iconic post-Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed operation in the world today. This fully illustrated book by the Bengali company's founder and artistic director Sanjoy Ganguly, edited by Ralph...

This book situates the work of the renowned voice and movement trainer Arthur Lessac in the context of contemporary actor training as a whole. Melissa Hurt uses Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theories of embodiment to frame Lessac's approach in terms of...

'This work goes where other books fear to tread. It reaches the parts other scholars might imagine in their dreams but would neither have the international reach nor the critical acumen and forensic flourish to deliver.' Alan Read, King's College...

This book explores theatre and performance as participatory research practices for exploring the everyday of the city. Taking an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa as its central case study, the book considers how theatre and performance...

Cinema has always been "literary" in its desire to tell stories and in its need to borrow plots and narrative techniques from novels. But the French New Wave directors of the 1950s self-consciously rejected the idea that film was a mere extension of...

The Motional Improvisation of Al Wunder takes readers on a journey through the life history, creative genealogies and unique working processes of one of the master teachers of Euro-American postmodern movement-based improvisational performance who has,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876390542Author Jimmy KachulisPage Count 30Imprint Berklee Press PublicationsPublisher Berklee Press Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999616499Author Lessac ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Lessac Training and Research InstitutePublisher Lessac Training and Research Institute

Jana Sanskriti is internationally recognised as the most iconic post-Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed operation in the world today. This fully illustrated book by the Bengali company's founder and artistic director Sanjoy Ganguly, edited by Ralph Yarrow,...

This essential pocket guide to this enduringly popular art, is a perfect introduction to over eighty of the most performed ballets today. Spanning nearly two centuries of classical dancing, this indispensable book begins in the Romantic era of the 1830s,...

This essential pocket guide to this enduringly popular art, is a perfect introduction to over eighty of the most performed ballets today. Spanning nearly two centuries of classical dancing, this indispensable book begins in the Romantic era of the 1830s,...

Women with pizzazz. Dances to shock and enchant. With heroines like Josephine Baker and Isadora Duncan, this was never going to be a conventional history. Buonaventura's book is rich with fascinating anecdotes (like the New Jersey girl arrested for...

This pioneering introduction to Stanislavsky's methods and modes of actor training covers all of the essential elements of his System. Recreating 'truthful' behaviour in the artificial environment, awareness and observation, psychophysical work, given...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996985666Author Tess OnwuemeFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint International Images NetPublisher International Images NetWeight(grams) 95g

African Theatres & Performances looks at four specific performance forms in Africa and uses this to question the tendency to employ western frames of reference to analyze and appreciate theatrical performance. The book examines:masquerade theatre in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081481Author Suzi ZimmermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 744g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101268Author David HaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

This edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night reprints the Bevington edition of the play along with seven sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and the early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840940008Author Ian HornbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint New Theatre PublicationsPublisher New Theatre Publications

Dramaturgy of Form examines verse in twenty-first-century theatre practice across different languages, cultures, and media. Through interdisciplinary engagement, Kasia Lech offers a new method for verse analysis in the performance context.The book traces...

This 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...

Based on the massively popular Theatremonkey.com website, this indispensable guide has everything you need to enjoy the best of London's West End. Featuring: Trusted advice based on the opinions of thousands of other theatregoers. Colour-coded seating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860516033Format HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Robson Books LtdPublisher Robson Books LtdWeight(grams) 585g

Site-specific performance - acts of theatre and performative events at landscape locations, in village streets, in urban situations. In houses, chapels, barns, disused factories, railway stations; on hillsides, in forest clearings, underwater. At the...

A volume of 5 studies which give an account of the national theatre companies that enriched the Welsh cultural scene during the twentieth century, concentrating on how social, political and cultural factors played a part in various campaigns to set up a...

This guide to the fundamentals of stage lighting includes a series of projects to allow experimentation, discussion and analysis. The necessary equipment is described in relation to its purpose, along with checklists and hints for practical use. The...

Voice and Identity draws from the knowledge and expertise of leading figures to explore the evolving nature of voice training in the performing arts. The authors in this international collection look through both practical and theoretical lenses as they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350384972Author Sam StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Methuen DramaWeight(grams) 454g

This edited volume discusses the topic of immersion, approaching it from the perspective of various media and stakeholders: experiencers and creators. While the concept of immersion has gained widespread currency in the last decades beyond video games,...

Jatinder Verma has been a pioneering figure in the development of British South Asian theatre, and a prominent spokesperson for the importance of increased diversity amongst playwrights, actors, directors, designers, and producers on the mainstream...

Jatinder Verma has been a pioneering figure in the development of British South Asian theatre, and a prominent spokesperson for the importance of increased diversity amongst playwrights, actors, directors, designers, and producers on the mainstream...

Representing the output of the research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, this volume brings together diverse voices, methods and formats in the discussion and practice of performance conservation.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032444352Author Helen NicholsonImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book is a study of the performing arts, the body and language. Inspired by contemporary artistic research and performance philosophy, Esa Kirkkopelto proposes a new understanding of embodiment that has no direct counterpart in existing philosophies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032150536Author Rebecca ClodeImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

ILBIJERRI Theatre Company is Australia's longest established First Nations theatre company, producing powerful works for over 30 years. This open access book documents and critically reflects on their Social Impact stream of performances, aimed at health...

How does theatre, one of the most ancient and physical arts, relate to the modern, dynamic technology that is social media? How have changes in the use of social media affected the theatre? How does social media itself operate as a performance space?...

Originally published in 1969, this was the first book of its kind: an attempt to describe the different approaches that the actor needs to make to different media – theatre, film and television – and to show how the art of acting, which never stops...

This book explores how theater artistry melds the forces of collaboration and leadership, igniting creativity from the first spark of an idea to the climactic curtain call. It throws the spotlight on the dynamic interplay of roles, covering the...