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A History of Theater on Cape Cod by Sue Mellen 9781467142878
RRP: £21.99£14.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142878Author Sue MellenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 18g -
The Theatre of Veenapani Chawla: Theory, Practice, and Performance by Shanta Gokhale 9780198097037
£32.34Veenapani Chawla is arguably the only practitioner of theatre in India who has fully articulated a theory of the theatre she practices. Exploring her Mumbai plays, the springboard of her later works, this book opens a window to her experiments with... -
The Dybbuk: Text, Subtext, Context by Fernando Penalosa 9781478357803
RRP: £19.95£17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478357803Author Fernando PenalosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Brazilian Theater, 1970-2010: Essays on History, Politics and Artistic Experimentation by Eva Paulino Bueno 9780786497034
RRP: £35.99£29.60How did Brazilian theatre survive under the military dictatorship of 1964-1985? How did it change once the regime was over? This collection of new essays is the first to cover Brazilian theatre during this period. Brazilian scholars and artists discuss... -
Rape, Rage and Feminism in Contemporary American Drama by Davida Bloom 9780786470358
RRP: £28.99£23.38This first-ever study of rape in modern American drama examines portrayals of rape, raped women and rapists in 36 plays written between 1970 and 2007, the period during which the feminist movement made rape a matter of public discourse. These dramas... -
Text & Presentation, 2011 by Kiki Gounaridou 9780786469956
RRP: £46.99£38.32Text & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre and performance scholarship. This new volume represents a selection of the best research presented at the 35th international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama... -
To Have or Have Not: Essays on Commerce and Capital in Modernist Theatre by James Fisher 9780786447176
RRP: £39.99£32.77In a rapidly changing world, the ways in which economic forces affect both personal and global change can be difficult to track, particularly in the arts. This collection of twenty new essays explores both obscure and famous plays dealing with economic... -
The Theatres of Boston: A Stage and Screen History by Donald C. King 9780786438747
RRP: £35.99£29.60The theatre had a difficult time establishing itself in Massachusetts. Colonial authorities in Boston were adamantly opposed to theatrical amusements of any kind. In the mid-eighteenth century, even theatricals performed in the homes of private citizens... -
The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights by Philip C. Kolin 9780786434756
RRP: £28.99£23.38The author of ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" and ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" was never shy about drawing on his personal and family drama for stage material. This collection of 15 essays examines how Williams' confessional style influenced a diverse range of... -
The New Theatre of the Baltics: From Soviet to Western Influence in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by Jeff Johnson 9780786429929
RRP: £28.99£23.38Although Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are culturally distinct, they share a common theatre history characterized by resistance, first as a response to Nazi occupation, then as an ideological weapon countering their annexation under strict Soviet... -
Theatre in a Media Culture: Production, Performance and Perception Since 1970 by Amy Petersen Jensen 9780786428779
RRP: £28.99£23.38As the media have increasingly become the lens through which we see the world, media styles have shaped even the fine arts, and contemporary theatre is particularly indebted to mass media's dramatic influence. In order to stay culturally and financially... -
Flower Drum Songs: The Story of Two Musicals by David H. Lewis 9780786422463
RRP: £28.99£23.38The return to New York in 2002 of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song - with a totally new book by playwright David Henry Hwang - was considered the most revolutionary chapter in the history of Broadway revivals. Why? The musical, a clear hit when... -
Sarah Bernhardt's First American Theatrical Tour, 1880-1881 by Patricia Marks 9780786414956
RRP: £28.99£23.38On October 15, 1880, with great excitement and fanfare, two Sarah Bernhardts set sail for New York from Le Havre for a theatrical tour of the United States. One wanted to introduce French culture to a backward country, and the other wanted to make money... -
Devised Theater’s Collaborative Performance: Making Masterpieces from Collective Concepts by Telory D Arendell 9780367644383
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book provides a fascinating and concise history of devised theatre practice. As both a founding member of Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theater Company and a Professor, Telory Arendell begins this journey with a brief history of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre... -
Spectacle Culture and American Identity 1815-1940 by Susan Tenneriello 9781349471959
RRP: £44.99£33.47Scenic spectacles collapse the borders of graphic and visual arts, multimedia technology, spectatorship and architecture. Drawing upon various systems of commercial, institutional and public spectacle that intersect with scenic stages of the national... -
Theatre and War: Theatrical Responses since 1991 by Jeanne Colleran 9781349434992
RRP: £44.99£33.05How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Colleran examines more than forty plays, many written in direct response to the 1991 war in Iraq as well as to... -
The Spaces of Irish Drama: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays by Helen Heusner Lojek 9781349296576
RRP: £44.99£32.80Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era increasingly aware of space.Book InformationISBN... -
Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen by J. Frick 9781349295647
RRP: £44.99£33.47No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the... -
Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933 by Valleri J. Hohman 9781349295388
RRP: £44.99£32.66Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance during the beginning of the... -
Staging the People: Community and Identity in the Federal Theatre Project by Elizabeth A. Osborne 9781349295098
RRP: £44.99£32.97The Federal Theatre Project, a New Deal plan to fund theatre and other live artistic performances during the Great Depression, had the primary goal of employing out-of-work artists, writers, and directors, with the secondary aim of entertaining poor... -
Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, Volume 4 by John Genest 9781344884082
£36.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781344884082Author John GenestFormat HardbackPage Count 678Imprint Arkose PressPublisher Arkose PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919: From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger by Thomas S. Hischak 9780810877719
RRP: £85.00£81.62Although the venue Off Broadway has long been the birthplace of innovative and popular musicals, there have been few studies of these influential works. Long-running champs, such as The Fantasticks and Little Shop of Horrors, are discussed in many books... -
The A to Z of Scandinavian Literature and Theater by Jan Sjovik 9780810868434
RRP: £42.00£40.69The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unknown... -
The Late Plays of Tennessee Williams by William Prosser 9780810863613
RRP: £72.00£67.90Praised as one of the finest American playwrights of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams left a legacy of theater classics, including The Glass Menagerie, Sweet Bird of Youth, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Though a winner of two... -
The Architecture of Drama: Plot, Character, Theme, Genre and Style by David Letwin 9780810861299
RRP: £57.00£53.90Many of the world's greatest dramas have sprung not only from the creative impulses of the authors but also from the time-honored principles of structure and design that have forged those impulses into coherent and powerful insights. An understanding of... -
Historical Dictionary of French Theater by Edward Forman 9780810849396
RRP: £108.00£102.03The term "French theater" evokes most immediately the glories of the classical period and the peculiarities of the Theater of the Absurd. It has given us the works of Corneille, Racine, and Moliere. In the Romantic era there was Alexander Dumas... -
Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety: Celebrity Turns by L. Woods 9781403975362
RRP: £44.99£33.64This book shows eminent actors performing under stringent conditions in vaudeville. It was a strange notion in 1900 that leading lights of the legitimate stage would ever join a bill of 'turns', with everything from song-and-dance to criminals regaling... -
The Regal Theater and Black Culture by Clovis E. Semmes 9781403971715
RRP: £44.99£33.59Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community. Semmes reveals the political, economic and business realities of... -
Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre: Fiorelli's Plaster by Odai Johnson 9781403971005
RRP: £44.99£33.76Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Staging Gertrude Stein: Absence, Culture, and the Landscape of American Alternative Theatre by Leslie Durham 9781403969347
RRP: £44.99£33.05Gertrude Stein's dramatic texts rely on the absence of many landmarks of traditional theatre, but absence is a very difficult thing to stage. Iconoclastic directors and production teams - including Virgil Thomson, the Living Theatre, the Judson Poets... -
Dramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity: A Study in the Theater and Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) by Katharine Rose Hanley 9780761853671
RRP: £41.00£36.08Dramatic Approaches to Creative Fidelity is a unique study of the work of Gabriel Marcel, a twentieth-century philosopher of international renown. This book brings a fresh perspective to the examination of Marcel's thought, highlighting facets that are... -
Theatre and War: Theatrical Responses since 1991 by Jeanne Colleran 9781137006295
RRP: £44.99£33.47How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Colleran examines more than forty plays, many written in direct response to the 1991 war in Iraq as well as to... -
Controversy in French Drama: Moliere's Tartuffe and the Struggle for Influence by Julia Prest 9781137343994
RRP: £44.99£33.47In 1664, Moliere's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important new light on 1660s France and the ancien regime more... -
A Sociosemiotic Theory of Theatre by Jean Alter 9780812230543
RRP: £76.00£75.27Analyzes the basic duality of theatre (the play is happening on a stage, but the story is happening at some other place and time), exploring how the two aspects both compete and complement each other, and suggesting the social factors that impact the... -
Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era by Na Na 9780312214180
RRP: £89.99£64.70The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black and... -
Theatre and Religion on Krishna's Stage: Performing in Vrindavan by D. Mason 9780230615298
RRP: £44.99£33.05Theatre and Religion on Krishna s Stage examines the history and form of India's ras lila folk theatre, and discusses how this theatre functions as a mechanism of worship and spirituality among Krishna devotees in India. From analyses of performances and... -
The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present by J. Clum 9780230338401
RRP: £89.99£63.13In studying performances of marriage in modern and contemporary British and American drama, Clum highlights the fact that - paradoxically - at a time when theatre was both popular entertainment and high culture, many of the most commercially and... -
Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits by B. Baird 9780230120402
RRP: £89.99£66.37Hijikata Tatsumi's explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an art form of contrasts, by turns shocking and serene. Since then, though interest has grown exponentially, and people all over the world are... -
Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension between Empiricism and Rationalism by M. Bennett 9780230116801
RRP: £44.99£33.10In this unique study, Michael Y. Bennett re-reads four influential modern plays alongside their contemporary debates between rationalism and empiricism to show how these monumental achievements were thoroughly a product of their time, but also universal... -
Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics by Christin Essin 9780230115071
RRP: £44.99£33.59By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic...