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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573611261Author Robert PatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 57Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Richard Schenkman / 6m, 3f / Drama / Unit Set After history professor John Oldman unexpectedly resigns from the University, his startled colleagues impulsively invite themselves to his home, pressing him for an explanation. But they're shocked to hear...

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Using examples from popular culture, dramatic texts and applied theatre it analyses how theatre and performance reveals economies of...

An essential resource for anyone studying Princess & The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba for GCSE English Literature - featuring a complete guide to the text, plus sample questions and answers to help you prepare for assessment. Get to grips with...

Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.Martha: Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537093Author MoliereFormat HardbackPage Count 1134Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

"This book is a fascinating cri de coeur and made me question everything I think about musicals" Alan Cumming A book for those who can't stand musicals, those who love them, and every theatregoer, academic, practitioner and student in between...

Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri. A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the glare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573701597Author Deceased Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

After fifty years of working in the theatre, TV and films (half a century of joy and fear, excitement and pain, frustration and fulfilment), Denis Quilley remembers his first job in rep with twenty-somethings Paul Scofield, Peter Brook and Stanley Baker;...

Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.About the AuthorConstantin Stanislavski (1863-1938), arguably the most influential director in the...

Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian.'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' - Financial TimesA...

The Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In this dark, exuberant comedy, Stoppard...

The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment.Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1 includes A Chorus of...

Stuff happens... And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.'The famous response of American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the looting of Baghdad at a press conference in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626540361Author Stanley McCandlessFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Echo Point Books & Media, LLCPublisher Echo Point Books & Media, LLCWeight(grams)...

In the first major academic work to examine British variety theatre, Double provides a detailed history of this art form and analyses its performance dynamics and techniques. Encompassing singers, comedians, dancers, magicians, ventriloquists and diverse...

Verbatim Theatre Methodologies for Community-Engaged Practice offers a framework for developing original community-engaged productions using a range of verbatim theatre approaches. This book's methodologies offer an approach to community-engaged...

EChildsplayE is a very charming and enchanting book a and an important book for children who want to act! Not only can they use this wonderful collection as a guide to the sorts of plays and parts that are available to them they will discover here how...

This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British playwrights' (Independent on Sunday).The volume also includes the...

'Modern classics: elegantly written and breathtaking in their honesty' Daily ExpressSian Phillips has a long and celebrated career on both stage and screen. For the first time, her two bestselling volumes of memoir Private Faces and Public Places will...

When a small community agency, the Preston Creative Living Centre embarked upon the risky and exciting venture of engaging local people in artistic programs, it became a thriving centre for performances of theatre, music, circus, dance, visual arts,...

National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and popular playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385066174Author Bennett CerfFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 209mm...

Frantic Assembly have had a powerful and continuing influence on the popularisation of devising practices in contemporary theatre-making. Their work blends brave and bold physical theatre with exciting new writing, and they have collaborated with some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573709470Author Alexis ScheerFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

In 2021, its Diamond Jubilee year, the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) undertook to revise Theatre Buildings: A Design Guide (Routledge, 2010). This new edition (Routledge, 2023) has substantially re-written text with fresh images and...

The essential playwriting career guide, from the team behind acclaimed new writing theatre company Papatango. Writing a good play is only a small part of making it as a successful playwright; understanding the business side of building a career is...

Anyone working with lighting in the entertainment industries will find this an immensely readable source of information. The authors, themselves experienced lighting practitioners, have collected a wealth of essential lighting technology and data into...

Who were the giants of the twentieth-century stage, and exactly how did they influence modern theatre?Robert Leach's Makers of Modern Theatre is the first detailed introduction to the work of the key theatre-makers who shaped the drama of the last...

Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces.This book provokes embodied and intellectual discomfort for the reader to take risks with their ideologies, identities, and...

Theatre & Feminism tells the story of the movement known as feminist performance theory. It explores key debates from its 40-year history, engages with the work of groundbreaking thinkers including Elin Diamond, Jill Dolan, Peggy Phelan and Elaine Aston,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702839Author Dave MalloyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Vince uses written and artifactual evidence of theatre history to explain the nature of its current state. His study of theatre's early forms discloses a wealth of significant...

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature...

This phenomenal work by the Dean of American Hypnotists is the most comprehensive text ever to be published on stage hypnotism. It also has widespread therapeutic applications. The first section, Mastering Hypnosis, covers the history of the subject...

Playwriting offers a practical guide to the creation of text for live performance. It contains a wealth of exercises for amateur and professional playwrights. Usable in a range of contexts, the book works as:a step-by-step guide to the creation of an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345805683Author William EsperFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...