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Tallulah: My Autobiography by Tallulah 1902-1968 Bankhead 9781014062659
RRP: $58.23$49.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014062659Author Tallulah 1902-1968 BankheadFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Theatre and Feminism by Kim Solga
RRP: $11.99$11.49Theatre & 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,... -
Dennis Kelly: Plays Two: Our Teacher's a Troll; Orphans; Taking Care of Baby; DNA; The Gods Weep by Dennis Kelly
RRP: $37.72$35.35Dennis Kelly is one of the UK's finest contemporary dramatists. This second volume of his work collects together: Our Teacher's a Troll, Orphans, Taking Care of Baby, DNA and The Gods Weep. Also features a foreword by journalist, author and critic, Aleks... -
Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples by Friedrich Perzynski 9780486440149
RRP: $20.57$13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486440149Author Friedrich PerzynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Being a Playwright: A Career Guide for Writers by Chris Foxon
RRP: $22.28$15.47The 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... -
The Ash Girl by Timberlake Wertenbaker
RRP: $17.14$11.49When an invitation to The Ball arrives at the Ash girl's house, from Prince Amir, she can't bring herself to believe that she, like her sisters, can go. With her mother dead and her father away, she must learn to fight the monsters that have slithered... -
How to Swing in Musical Theatre: A Guide to Covering the Ensemble by Jaye J. Elster 9781032183893
RRP: $54.87$48.59How to Swing in Musical Theatre shines a light on the most universal techniques used by cast members who, in response to absence, can perform multiple roles across an ensemble.This entertaining guide can be used not only to build a step-by-step... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9781492334620
RRP: $15.44$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492334620Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre: The First Four Hundred Years by Aleks Sierz
RRP: $20.57$18.90British theatre is booming. But where do these beautiful buildings and exciting plays come from? And when did the story start? To find out we time travel back to the age of the first Queen Elizabeth in the 16th century, four hundred years ago when there... -
Lovesong by Abi Morgan
RRP: $20.57$18.90'That is the story of our beginning. And this is the story of...the end' Lovesong is the story of one couple, told from two different points in their lives - as young lovers in their 20s and as worldly companions looking back on their relationship... -
Not about Heroes by Stephen MacDonald 9780573640445
RRP: $18.85$16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573640445Author Stephen MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc -
Digital Costume Design and Collaboration: Applications in Academia, Theatre, and Film by Rafael Jaen
RRP: $60.02$51.36Digital Costume Design and Collaboration gives in-depth instruction on how to draw, render, and fully design costumes using online tools and software. Grounded in the use of Photoshop, the book explains the process of building a costume design from... -
Pygmalion & Other Plays by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: $18.85$12.01George Bernard Shaw is one of the most famous and celebrated Irish playwrights and this new collection brings together the very best of his witty and entertaining comedies in one volume; Pygmalion, Major Barbara and Androcles and the Lion.Part of the... -
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot 9780571362790
RRP: $18.85$12.56Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935, was one of T. S. Eliot's first dramatic achievements, and it remains one of the great plays of the century. It takes as its subject matter the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of... -
Drag: A British History by Jacob Bloomfield 9780520393325
RRP: $42.88$32.90"A must-read for anyone interested in the history of drag performance."- Publishers WeeklyA rich and provocative history of drag's importance in modern British culture. Drag: A British History is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and... -
Steven Berkoff Plays 2: Decadence; Kvetch; Acapulco; Harry's Christmas; Brighton Beach Scumbags; Dahling You Were Marvelous; Dog; Actor by Steven Berkoff
RRP: $32.57$22.01Written with characteristic Berkoff flair and an understanding of the subtle power and violence of the English language, this second collection of his plays includes Decadence, described by the Guardian as being 'enthused with Berkoff's violent, imagist,... -
The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall by Eliot Cohen 9781541644861
RRP: $42.88$28.10William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it works, how it is gained, and how it is lost. In The Hollow Crown, Eliot A. Cohen reveals how the battling princes of Henry IV and scheming senators of Julius Caesar can teach us to better... -
The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone 9780573618215
RRP: $18.85$16.86Drama Characters: 1 male, 1 female Interior Set Rose, a shy dimestore salesgirl whose life centers around reveries and daydreams, lives in a dreary Philadelphia apartment. Into her life saunters Cliff, a hard working, hard drinking truck driver. He is... -
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen 9780571194292
RRP: $18.85$12.56The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.Dr Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to... -
Reasons to be Graeae: A Work In Progress by Jenny Sealey
$49.61Graeae has been a force for change in world-class theatre since it was founded in 1980, placing D/deaf and disabled actors centre stage and challenging preconceptions. A work in progress contains the full script of Reasons to be cheerful, a brief... -
Pina Bausch's Dance Theater: Company, Artistic Practices, and Reception by Gabriele Klein
RRP: $58.30$48.05This volume provides new, ground-breaking perspectives on the globally renowned work of the Tanztheater Wuppertal and its iconic founder and artistic director, Pina Bausch. The company's performances, how it developed its productions, the global transfer... -
Robert Icke: Works One: Oresteia; Uncle Vanya; Mary Stuart; The Wild Duck; The Doctor by Robert Icke 9781350407299
RRP: $34.29$32.26Robert Icke's thrilling and radical adaptations of some of the great texts of Western theatre have enthralled theatregoers in London, in New York and around the world. This is the first collection of his multi-award-winning work. Includes: ... -
Amazing Theatres of the World: Theatres, Arts Centres and Opera Houses by Dominic Connolly
RRP: $34.29$24.60While often some of the most beautiful, opulent buildings in a town or city, a theatre is so much more than a space for the performance of a play. It is a cultural hub, a meeting place for people from all walks of life and, through the stories told... -
The Art Of Drama Teaching by Mike Fleming
RRP: $60.02$52.92This classic edition of Mike Fleming's The Art of Drama Teaching provides a multitude of practical ideas for teachers of drama and for those who are interested in using drama to teach other subjects. It takes the form of detailed discussion of... -
The Prop Effects Guidebook: Lights, Motion, Sound, and Magic by Eric Hart
RRP: $61.73$52.76In The Prop Building Guidebook, author Eric Hart demonstrated how to cut, glue, sculpt, and bend raw materials to build props. Now in The Prop Effects Guidebook, he shows us how to connect and assemble components and parts to make those props light up,... -
Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging by David Bordwell 9780520241978
RRP: $51.46$41.65A film tells its story not only through dialogue and actors' performances but also through the director's control of movement and shot design. Figures Traced in Light is a detailed consideration of how cinematic staging carries the story, expresses... -
The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia by Josephine Machon
RRP: $61.73$54.36The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia is the definitive book on the company's work to date, marking eighteen years of Punchdrunk's existence. It provides the first full-scale, historical account of one of the world's foremost immersive theatre companies, drawn... -
Theatre and The Visual by Dominic Johnson 9780230246621
$13.81Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Johnson examines the spectator's role in the theatre, exploring pleasure,... -
Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr 9780199658770
RRP: $13.71$9.93The story of modern drama is a tale of extremes, testing both audiences and actors to their limits through hostility and contrarianism. Spanning 1880 to the present, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr shows how truly international a phenomenon modern drama has... -
Travesties by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $18.85$13.33'Tom Stoppard's Travesties is witty, playful and wise. Forty years on, it is starting to look timeless as well.' Sunday Times'It is a champagne cocktail, compounded of a balletic nimbleness of invention, a bewildering intricacy of design which reaches... -
Sucker Punch by Roy Williams
RRP: $18.85$13.98Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock-down no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go. In the red corner: Leon Davidson - Black British champ or... -
Jumpers by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $18.85$12.56The 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... -
Performance Theory by Richard Schechner
RRP: $29.14$26.11Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual and performance. When this seminal... -
Broadway Musicals: Show by Show by Stanley Green
RRP: $51.46$37.91This updated edition of one of the bestselling and comprehensive Broadway reference books, first published in 1985, has been expanded to include many of the most important and memorable productions of American musical theatre, including revivals... -
Theatre as Sign System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance by Elaine Aston
RRP: $61.73$54.36This invaluable student handbook is the first detailed guide to explain in detail the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practice of drama in performance. Beginning at the beginning, with accessible explanations of the meanings and... -
Circus Bodies: Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance by Peta Tait
RRP: $63.45$55.80This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies.Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the... -
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1 by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $32.57$22.01The 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... -
Corsets and Crinolines by Norah Waugh 9781138665668
RRP: $60.02$55.39In this classic book, Norah Waugh explores the changing shapes of women's dress from the 1500s to the 1920s. Simple laced bodices became corsets of cane, whalebone and steel, while padding at shoulders and hips gave way to the structures of farthingales,... -
Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People by Richard Eyre
RRP: $25.71$18.63A superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it. In Talking Theatre, Richard Eyre uses his unrivalled access to leading theatre people to allow us to eavesdrop on the stories behind many of the most important... -
Scenes from my Life by Michael K. Williams
RRP: $34.31$23.69The New York Times BESTSELLERA moving, unflinching memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give back - from the late iconic actor beloved for his roles in The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, and Lovecraft Country.When...