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Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China by Jim Glassman 9780824833374
RRP: £48.95£41.84In this milestone work, prominent China film scholar Yingjin Zhang proposes 'polylocality' as a new conceptual framework for investigating the shifting spaces of contemporary Chinese cinema in the age of globalization. Questioning the national cinema... -
Theatre History Studies 2015, Volume 34 by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix 9780817371098
RRP: £29.95£24.13Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography. The five essays are arranged... -
Treating the Public: Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World by Rachael Ball 9780807165089
RRP: £36.95£30.37In Treating the Public, Rachael Ball presents a comparative history of commercial theater, public opinion, and charitable organizations in eight cities across the Spanish and Anglo-Atlantic worlds during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This... -
Paul McPharlin and the Puppet Theater by Ryan Howard 9780786424337
RRP: £28.99£24.05Paul McPharlin is one of the 20th century's most important contributors to the art of puppetry. Over a period of nine years he created some 20 productions with marionettes, rod puppets, hand puppets and shadow figures. He was also a prolific writer whose... -
Oberammergau and Its Passion Play by Elisabethe H Corathiel 9781015155633
RRP: £18.95£16.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015155633Author Elisabethe H CorathielFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 259g -
Modern Czech Theatre: Reflector and Conscience of a Nation by Jarka M. Burian 9780877457220
RRP: £24.95£20.26The story of Czech theatre in the 20th century involves generations of mesmerizing players and memorable productions. Beyond these artistic considerations, however, lies a larger story: a theatre that has resonated with the intense concerns of its... -
The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance by Charlotte M. Canning 9780877459415
RRP: £30.95£26.01Between 1904 and the Great Depression, Circuit Chautauquas toured the rural United States, reflecting and reinforcing its citizens' ideas, attitudes, and politics every summer through music (the Jubilee Singers, an African American group, were not always... -
Theatre Symposium, Volume 23: Theatre and Youth by David Samuel Charles Thompson 9780817370107
RRP: £29.95£24.13The essays in volume 23 of Theatre Symposium offer a rich exploration of depictions of youth in works of theatre as well as the role youth play in the creation and performance of drama. The curtain rises on Theatre and Youth, volume 23 of Theatre... -
Alternative theatre in South Africa: Talks with prime movers since the 1970s by Rolf Solberg 9780869809501
RRP: £18.95£15.62This is a collection of interviews with 15 South African theatre practitioners who have made their mark on the development of anti-apartheid theatre. The project was launched out of curiosity to find out what kept alternative theatre alive and kicking... -
Contradictory Characters: Interpretation of the Modern Theatre by Albert Bermel 9780810114418
RRP: £18.95£15.62Winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism Playwright and critic Albert Bermel examines thirteen modern plays to assess the underpinnings of dramatic conflict. Contradictory Characters inspects the three well-known types of dramatic... -
The Standard Theatre of Victorian England by Allan Stuart Jackson 9780838633922
RRP: £59.00£48.25This book is the first major study of the Douglass family from 1848 to 1889 and the institution of the National Standard Theatre. Also detailed are the naturalistic staging techniques developed after 1879 that included railway trains on tracks, ocean... -
Off Sites: Contemporary Performance beyond Site-Specific by Bertie Ferdman 9780809334704
RRP: £44.95£36.71Off Sites: Contemporary Performance beyond Site-Specific rethinks current definitions of "site-specific performance"-a genre of theatre that adopts spaces outside of traditional theatre buildings and uses the experience of space, place, and situation as... -
A Student Guide to Play Analysis by David Rush 9780809326082
RRP: £65.00£52.61With the skills of a playwright, the vision of a producer, and the wisdom of an experienced teacher, David Rush offers a fresh and innovative guide to interpreting drama in A Student Guide to Play Analysis, the first undergraduate teaching tool to... -
Theatre Symposium, Volume 21: Ritual, Religion, and Theatre by E. Bert Wallace 9780817370084
RRP: £29.95£24.13Volume 21 of Theatre Symposium presents essays that explore the intricate and vital relationships between theatre, religion, and ritual. Whether or not theatre arose from ritual and/or religion, from prehistory to the present there have been clear and... -
Theatre Symposium, Volume 26: In Other Habits: Theatrical Costume by Sarah McCarroll 9780817370138
RRP: £29.95£24.13A substantive exploration of theatrical costume. Stage costumes reveal character. They tell audiences who the character is or how a character functions within the world of the play, among other things. Theatrical costuming, however, along with other... -
Theatre History Studies 2016, Volume 35 by Sara Freeman 9780817371104
RRP: £29.95£24.53Essays in part one of Theatre History Studies, Vol. 35 address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German theatre "from the rubble of Berlin" and German nationalist mass spectacles. Essays in part two are... -
Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May '68 by Kate Bredeson 9780810138155
RRP: £34.95£28.78Occupying the Stage: the Theater of May '68 tells the story of student and worker uprisings in France through the lens of theater history, and the story of French theater through the lens of May '68. Based on detailed archival research and original... -
In the Eye of the Storm: Contemporary Theater in Barcelona by Sharon G. Feldman 9780838757222
RRP: £93.95£72.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838757222Author Sharon G. FeldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.Publisher Associated University Presses -
Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History by Kim Marra 9780472067497
RRP: £26.95£22.21Staging Desire gathers critical and biographical essays on notable stage personalities who made their mark before 1969, when the Stonewall riots accelerated the lesbian and gay rights movement in the United States. How they staged their unconventional... -
Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers: Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theatre by Kate Davy 9780472071227
RRP: £46.95£38.30A rich and detailed picture of a particular historical moment that has now passed . . . I found myself immersed in the world of the East Village theatre scene and its connections to the larger world of feminism, theatre, and politics. Davy's... -
A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater by David Savran 9780472068364
RRP: £25.95£21.04In this eclectic collection, leading theater critic and cultural commentator David Savran explores the intersections between art and culture, offering smart, compelling interpretations of the economic and social contexts of theatrical texts and practices... -
Staging Philosophy: Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy by David Krasner 9780472069507
RRP: £31.95£26.80This work investigates the fundamental issues in theater and performance from a wide range philosophical perspectives. The fifteen original essays in ""Staging Philosophy"" make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of... -
The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s): Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance by James M. Harding 9780472036103
RRP: £28.95£23.36The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) offers a strikingly new perspective on key controversies and debates within avant-garde studies and on contemporary forms of avant-garde expression within a global political economy. At the most basic level, the book... -
The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s): Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance by James M. Harding 9780472118748
RRP: £64.00£51.81Pronouncements such as "the avant-garde is dead," argues James M. Harding, have suggested a unified history or theory of the avant-garde. His book examines the diversity and plurality of avant-garde gestures and expressions to suggest... -
Artaud and His Doubles by Kimberly Jannarone 9780472035151
RRP: £27.95£22.58Artaud and His Doubles is a radical re-thinking of one of the most influential theater figures of the twentieth century. Placing Artaud's writing within the specific context of European political, theatrical, and intellectual history, the book reveals... -
Taking it to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka by Harry J. Elam 9780472107933
RRP: £64.00£51.81The performances of Luis Valdez's El Teatro Campesino, the farmworkers' theater, and Amiri Baraka's (LeRoi Jones's) Black Revolutionary Theater (BRT) during the 1960s and 1970s, offer preeminent examples of social protest theater during a momentous and... -
America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts: Cultural Mobility and Exchange in New York, 1952-2011 by Barbara E. Thornbury 9780472036783
RRP: £29.95£24.13America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts studies the images andmyths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music,and dance in the United States since the 1950s. Soon after World WarII, visits by Japanese performing artists to the... -
Act Like a Man: Challenging Masculinities in American Drama by Robert Vorlicky 9780472065721
RRP: £26.95£21.81How men communicate with each other on stage when no women are present--and what it tells us about power and genderBook InformationISBN 9780472065721Author Robert VorlickyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The... -
Staging Philosophy: Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy by David Krasner 9780472099504
RRP: £73.00£59.35This work investigates the fundamental issues in theater and performance from a wide range philosophical perspectives. The fifteen original essays in ""Staging Philosophy"" make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy... -
Mirrors of Our Playing: Paradigms and Presences in Modern Drama by Thomas R. Whitaker 9780472110254
RRP: £73.00£58.95Focusing on both scripts and performance, Mirrors of Our Playing takes a fresh look at modern English-speaking drama, from its Anglo-Irish beginnings to its contemporary cross-fertilizations and international dispersals. It shows how most important... -
Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theaters and Their Legacies by James M. Harding 9780472099542
RRP: £81.00£66.48Restaging the Sixties examines the artistry, politics, and legacies of radical theater groups - the Living Theatre, the Open Theatre, the Performance Group, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, El Teatro Campesino, At the Foot of the Mountain, the Free... -
Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love by Nicholas Ridout 9780472119073
RRP: £46.95£38.30Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theatre: the story of a romantic attachment to theatre's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theatre-Chekhov's... -
The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China: Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics by Luo Liang 9780472052172
RRP: £33.95£27.99The Avant-Garde and the Popular in China examines avant-garde performance as an important political force shaping popular culture in modern China, focusing on artist and activist Tian Han. This is the first book to analyze Han's art and activism and to... -
10,000 Nights: Highlights from 50 Years of Theatre-Going by Marvin Carlson 9780472037544
RRP: £25.95£21.04Esteemed scholar and theater aficionado Marvin Carlson has seen an unsurpassed number of theatrical productions in his long and distinguished career. Ten Thousand Nights is a lively chronicle of a half-century of theatre-going, in which Carlson recalls... -
Mabou Mines: Making Avant-Garde Theater in the 1970s by Iris Smith Fischer 9780472035182
RRP: £26.95£21.81The theater company Mabou Mines has for the past forty years created pathbreaking new theater by combining the latest concepts in music, visual arts, and technology with traditional forms of creative expression: puppetry, text, movement, theater design... -
Riot and Great Anger: Stage Censorship in Twentieth-century Ireland by Joan Fitzpatrick Dean 9780299196608
RRP: £44.95£36.71Joan FitzPatrick Dean's Riot and Great Anger suggests that while there was no state censorship, the theatre often evoked heated responses from theatergoers, sometimes resulting in riots and the public denouncement of playwrights and artists. Dean... -
French Theatre Today: The View from New York, Paris and Avignon by Edward Baron Turk 9781587299926
RRP: £29.95£24.13In 2005 literary and film critic Edward Turk immersed himself in New York City's ACT FRENCH festival, a bold effort to enhance American contact with the contemporary French stage. This dizzying crash course on numerous aspects of current French theatre... -
Beryl Halley: The Life and Follies of a Ziegfeld Beauty, 1897-1988 by Jacob L. Bapst 9781476676432
RRP: £21.99£18.55Born in rural Ohio in 1897, Beryl Halley was educated at a strict Freewill Baptist school. After briefly teaching in a one-room schoolhouse, she joined the navy in 1918 before her unlikely path led her to Broadway, then to the Ziegfeld Follies... -
Renegades, Showmen and Angels: A Theatrical History of Fort Worth, 1873-2001 by Jan L. Jones 9780875653181
RRP: £29.95£25.72Jan L. Jones' second volume on Fort Worth's theatrical heritage presents for the first time a richly illustrated, comprehensive history of the showmen, performers, theaters, and events that shaped the city's theatrical fortunes in the nineteenth and... -
Billy Rose Presents...Casa Manana by Jan Jones 9780875651996
RRP: £33.95£27.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875651996Author Jan JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Texas Christian University Press,U.S.Publisher Texas Christian University Press,U.S...