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Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present by Marvin A. Carlson 9780801429354
£100.62Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new... -
The Business of Ballet: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Between Profit and the Avant-Garde by Ira Nadel 9781666945805
RRP: £81.00£71.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666945805Author Ira NadelFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books -
Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking by Giovanni Aloi 9781517913076
£85.74Interdisciplinary essays on Manuela Infante’s award-winning play explore the relationship between critical plant studies and performance art in the Anthropocene Since its first staging in 2016, Estado Vegetal, Manuela Infante’s riveting piece of... -
Under the Greenwood Tree: A Celebration of Kentucky Shakespeare by Tracy E. K'Meyer 9780813198842
RRP: £32.00£29.56In the summer of 1960, director C. Douglas Ramey took his Carriage House Players theater company down the street from their Old Louisville venue to Central Park, where the actors performed scenes from the Shakespeare classic Much Ado about Nothing... -
Mormons in Paris: Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892 by Corry Cropper 9781684482368
£35.81In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent 'others,' however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their... -
Race and Performance after Repetition by Soyica Diggs Colbert 9781478007807
£84.43The contributors to Race and Performance after Repetition explore how theater and performance studies account for the complex relationship between race and time. Pointing out that repetition has been the primary point of reference for understanding both... -
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 30: Theatre and Politics by Chase Bringardner 9780817370176
RRP: £34.95£31.67For the thirtieth volume of Theatre Symposium, the editors return to a topic first proposed over twenty years ago in volume 9 (theatre and politics in the twentieth century), reimaged for a broader, more comprehensive time frame. In this volume on... -
Sharkey: When Sea Lions Were Stars of Show Business (1907-1958) by Gary Bohan 9781438487120
£13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438487120Author Gary BohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 152g -
When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature by Alan L. Boegehold 9780691242224
£30.01When a Gesture Was Expected encourages a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and... -
The Second Wave: British Drama for the Seventies by John Russell Taylor 9780415727907
RRP: £91.99£79.80In the 1970s the revolution that had swept the British theatre in the 1950s had already become accepted as the new establishment. Areas that had been previously regarded as remote ideals - including permanent repertory companies, a lively provincial... -
Elite Theatre in Ming China, 1368-1644 by Grant Guangren Shen 9780415343268
RRP: £135.00£117.28Theatre occupied a particularly important place in the life of the elite, for whom owning a theatre troupe was highly fashionable and for whom theatre performances were an integral part of formal gatherings, various rituals and ceremonies. Based on an... -
Representing China on the Historical London Stage: From Orientalism to Intercultural Performance by Dongshin Chang 9780367738501
RRP: £38.99£34.22This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century-which corresponds with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China's last... -
The Dark Theatre: A Book About Loss by Alan Read 9780367436377
RRP: £135.00£117.28The Dark Theatre takes stock of a quarter-century's turn towards financialization and precarity in Western Europe - from its theatrical institutions all the way up to the fabric of its societies. Written as a critical response to his first book,... -
Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage: Land, People, Culture by Susanne Julia Thurow 9780367242725
RRP: £135.00£117.28Over the past 50 years, Indigenous Australian theatre practice has emerged as a dynamic site for the discursive reflection of culture and tradition as well as colonial legacies, leveraging the power of storytelling to create and advocate contemporary... -
Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater by Peilin Liang 9780367205331
RRP: £135.00£117.28In Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater, Peilin Liang develops a theory of bodily transformation. Proposing the concept of transformance, a conscious and rigorous process of self-cultivation toward a reconceptualized body,... -
Neoliberalism, Theatre and Performance by Andy Lavender 9780367190422
RRP: £49.99£43.50Neoliberalism, Theatre and Performance tackles one of the most slippery but significant topics in culture and politics. Neoliberalism is defined by the contributors as a political-economic system, and the ideas and assumptions (individualism, market... -
Behind Spanish American Footlights by Willis Knapp Jones 9780292737242
£42.97Across a five-hundred-year sweep of history, Willis Knapp Jones surveys the native drama and the Spanish influence upon it in nineteen South American countries, and traces the development of their national theatres to the 1960s. This volume, filled with... -
El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movement by Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez 9780292708013
RRP: £25.99£23.26Born in 1965 as an organizing tool within Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers union, El Teatro Campesino became the premier Chicana/o performance ensemble to emerge out of the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. This study demythologizes and... -
Contemporary Street Arts in Europe: Aesthetics and Politics by Susan C. Haedicke 9780230220263
RRP: £64.99£20.30Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the site for audiences who experience it. This book looks at how the dynamic interrelationship of performance, participant and place creates a... -
Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre: The New York Reign of "Blood and Thunder" Melodramas by Thomas A. Bogar 9783319684055
RRP: £88.00£87.91This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of "blood and thunder" melodramas with working class audiences... -
Mapping Global Theatre Histories by Mark Pizzato 9783030127268
RRP: £54.99£49.36This textbook provides a global, chronological mapping of significant areas of theatre, sketched from its deepest history in the evolution of our brain's 'inner theatre' to ancient, medieval, modern, and postmodern developments. It considers prehistoric... -
A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyogen from 1300 to 1600 by Noel John Pinnington 9783030061395
RRP: £74.99£67.73This book traces the history of noh and kyogen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts. Going beyond P. G. O'Neill's Early No Drama of 1958, it covers the full period of noh's medieval development and includes a chapter dedicated to the comic art of... -
On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man by Rachel Bowditch 9781906497255
RRP: £26.50£22.49During the week before Labor Day every year, nearly fifty thousand people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the center of Black Rock City is a forty-foot wooden effigy of a man, an icon around which art, performance, and... -
People Theater And Grassroots Empowerment In Cameroon by Gilbert Doho 9781592214914
RRP: £24.95£16.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592214914Author Gilbert DohoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 337g -
Deaf Side Story: Deaf Sharks, Hearing Jets and a Classic American Musical by M. Rigney 9781563681455
RRP: £19.00£16.20The 1957 classic American musical West Side Story has been staged by countless community and school theater groups, but none more ambitious than the 2000 production by MacMurray College, a small school in Jacksonville, Illinois. Diane Brewer, the new... -
The Theatre of Christopher Durang by Miriam Chirico 9781474288927
£98.86The Theatre of Christopher Durang considers the works of one of the foremost comedic writers for the American stage. From Durang's early success with the controversial Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (1974) to his recent Tony Award-winning... -
Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration by Ashley E. Lucas 9781472508416
RRP: £80.00£70.20Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view. Inside the walls, imprisoned people all over the world stage theatrical productions that enable them to assert their humanity and capabilities. Prison... -
Topicality and Representation: Islam and Muslims in Two Renaissance Plays by Hammood Khalid Obaid 9781443850605
RRP: £44.99£25.77This book focuses on the importance of topical reading in understanding Islamic figures and themes, and applies this approach to two landmark Elizabethan plays: George Peele's Battle of Alcazar and William Percy's Mahomet and his Heaven. The former is... -
Performing Specimens: Contemporary Performance And Biomedical Display by Dr Gianna Bouchard 9781350228153
RRP: £29.99£17.03Through an examination of examples from performance, museum displays and popular culture that stage the body as a specimen, Performing Specimens maps the relations between these performative acts and the medical practices of collecting, storing and... -
Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy: A Stage of Their Own by Daniela Cavallaro 9781349957262
RRP: £89.99£28.51This book explores an important moment in Italian women's theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-1960s, authored for the most part by women and performed exclusively by women. Because they featured only... -
Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play by Alexandra Poulain 9781349949625
RRP: £89.99£28.51This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge's The... -
The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism by Catherine Burroughs 9780367439866
RRP: £125.00£107.86A comprehensive anthology of women's theatre writing, spanning the history of modern and romantic theatre.This book caters to contemporary syllabi across theatre studies, covering major courses across BA degrees.No other collection of women's theatre... -
Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi: Volume One: From Exorcism to Entertainment by Xioahuan Zhao 9781032121215
RRP: £38.99£34.22Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi is the first book in any language entirely devoted to a historical inquiry into Chinese theatre through Nuoxi and Mulianxi, the two most representative and predominant forms of Chinese... -
The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism by Catherine Burroughs 9780367439873
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers. Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, the collection... -
Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine by Meredith Conti 9781138703117
RRP: £135.00£117.28Few life occurrences shaped individual and collective identities within Victorian-era society as critically as witnessing or suffering from illness. The prevalence of illness narratives within late nineteenth-century popular culture was made manifest on... -
Black British Drama: A Transnational Story by Michael Pearce 9781138917859
RRP: £135.00£117.68Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA. Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and... -
The Boar's Head Theatre: An Inn-yard Theatre of the Elizabethan Age by C. J. Sisson 9781138887565
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Boar's Head Theatre, first published in 1972, provides an account of one of the Elizabethan inn-yard theatres. It is a reconstruction of considerable importance in our understanding of the performance conditions affecting Elizabethan drama, the mode... -
Post-War British Theatre Criticism by John Elsom 9781138839717
RRP: £24.99£22.21This book, first published in 1981, sets out the critical reaction to some fifty key post-war productions of the British theatre, as gauged primarily through the contemporary reviews of theatre critics. The plays chosen are each, in their different ways,... -
Cold War Theatre by John Elsom 9781138839021
RRP: £37.99£33.38Cold War Theatre, first published in 1992, provides an account of the theatrical history within the context of East/West politics. Its geographical span ranges from beyond the Urals to the Pacific Coast of the US, and asks whether the Cold War... -
A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900-1939: Citizenship, surveillance and the body by Maggie B. Gale 9781138304376
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book provides a new social history of British performance cultures in the early decades of the twentieth century, where performance across stage and screen was generated by dynamic and transformational industries. Exploring an era book-ended by...