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Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage by Sirkku Aaltonen 9781138088801
RRP: £135.00£117.28Code-Choice and Identity Construction on Stage challenges the general assumption that language is only one of the codes employed in a theatrical performance; Sirkku Aaltonen changes the perspective to the audience, foregrounding the chosen language... -
Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays by Maisha S. Akbar 9781138479616
RRP: £49.99£43.50Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays examines several lynching plays to foreground black women's performances as non-normative subjects who challenge white supremacist ideology. Maisha S. Akbar re-maps the study of lynching... -
Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage: In History's Wings by Alexander Feldman 9781138107892
RRP: £42.99£37.59This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation... -
Eroding the Language of Freedom: Identity Predicament in Selected Works of Harold Pinter by Farah Ali 9781138080195
RRP: £135.00£117.68Let down by the uncertainties of memory, language, and their own family units, the characters in Harold Pinter's plays endure persistent struggles to establish their own identities. Eroding the Language of Freedom re-examines how identity is shaped in... -
Bernard Shaw's Irish Outlook by David Clare 9781137543554
RRP: £60.00£18.81Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to... -
Studying Musical Theatre: Theory and Practice by Millie Taylor 9781137270955
£88.04This lively textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and practice of this popular theatre form. Bringing critical theory and musical theatre together, Millie Taylor and Dominic Symonds explore the musical stage from a broad range... -
Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage: Land, People, Culture by Susanne Julia Thurow 9781032090269
RRP: £38.99£34.22Over 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... -
Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories by S. E. Wilmer 9780877459064
£48.23Historians of theatre face the same temptations and challenges as other historians: they negotiate assumptions (their own and those of others) about national identity and national character; they decide what events and actors to highlight - or omit - and... -
Desperate Stages: New Brunswick's Theatre in the 1840s by Edward Mullaly 9780864920676
RRP: £7.99£5.23This book tells the stories of a disgraced one-time playwright, a starving actor, and a failed actor-manager, whose lives crossed in Fredericton in 1845. Together they provided New Brunswick with some of its most exciting drama and its wildest theatre... -
Performing Utopia by Rachel Bowditch 9780857423863
RRP: £26.50£25.31In her landmark study Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, Jill Dolan departed from historical writings on utopia, which suggest that social reorganization and the redistribution of wealth are utopian efforts, to argue instead that utopia... -
Black Power TV by Devorah Heitner 9780822354093
£91.61In Black Power TV, Devorah Heitner chronicles the emergence of Black public affairs television starting in 1968. She examines two local shows, New York's Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant and Boston's Say Brother, and the national programs Soul! and Black... -
Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy by Olga Kekis 9780815368731
RRP: £135.00£117.28Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy investigates the adaptation of classical drama for the contemporary stage and explores its role as an active, polemical form of theatre which addresses present-day issues. The book's premise... -
Sherlock Holmes on the Stage: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Plays Featuring the Great Detective by Amnon Kabatchnik 9780810861251
RRP: £95.00£83.12One of the world's most well known fictional characters, Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887. The detective was featured in four novels and 56 short stories written by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Within a decade of his creation... -
American Theatre: History, Context, Form by Dr. Theresa Saxon 9780748645206
£81.97Argues for the recognition of American theatre history as long, rich, diverse and critically compelling. Embracing all epochs of theatre history, from pre-colonial Native American performance rituals and the endeavours of early colonisers in the... -
In Praise of Theatre by Alain Badiou 9780745686967
RRP: £35.00£31.27In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou s latest work on the most complete of the arts, the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike, elaborates the theory of the theatre developed by Badiou in... -
Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance by Patrick Duggan 9780719085420
RRP: £85.00£60.17Trauma-tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can represent the 'unrepresentable' of trauma. Throughout, there is a focus on how such representations might be achieved and if they could help us to understand trauma on personal and social... -
Staging the Old Faith: Queen Henrietta Maria and the Theatre of Caroline England, 1625-1642 by Rebecca Bailey 9780719076732
RRP: £85.00£60.17Staging the Old Faith is the first book length study to examine Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic community are staged. Rebecca Bailey juxtaposes a detailed analysis of Queen Henrietta Maria's ground-breaking... -
Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the Household by Catherine Richardson 9780719065446
RRP: £80.00£56.69In a theatre which self-consciously cultivated its audiences' imagination, how and what did playgoers 'see' on the stage? This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process. It considers a range of printed and documentary evidence - the... -
Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage by Felicity Dunworth 9780719076329
RRP: £85.00£60.17Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. It explores a range of genres: moralities, histories, romantic comedies, city... -
Female Performance Practice on the Fin-De-SieCle Popular Stages of London and Paris: Experiment and Advertisement by Catherine Hindson 9780719074851
RRP: £85.00£60.17This study focuses on seven women who used the fin-de-siecle's popular stage as a space to develop their experimental performance practices: acts that won them international fame and critical acclaim. The diverse entertainment careers of Maud Allan... -
Three Renaissance Usury Plays: The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, the Hog Hath Lost His Pearl by Lloyd Kermode 9780719072628
RRP: £90.00£64.31This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabeth and Jacobean 'usury plays' - The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an extensive... -
Les collections des arts du spectacle et leur traitement- Performing Arts Collections and Their Treatment: Congres de Rome SIBMAS (2002)- SIBMAS Congress in Rome (2002) by Nicole Leclercq 9789052018188
RRP: £31.40£27.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052018188Author Nicole LeclercqFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires... -
Off-Broadway/Off-West End: American Influence on the Alternative Theatre Movement in Britain 1956-1980 by David Weinberg 9783838210322
RRP: £30.00£24.17David Weinberg argues that American experimental theatre practice was one key factor in the development of an important phase in the history of the alternative theatre movement in Britain during the period 19561980. His analysis draws on key concepts and... -
A Reflective Practitioner's Guide to (Mis)Adventures in Drama Education -or- What Was I Thinking? by Peter Duffy 9781783204731
RRP: £40.95£36.04This collection of essays from many of the world's preeminent drama education practitioners captures the challenges and struggles of teaching with honesty, humour, openness and integrity. Collectively the authors possess some two hundred years of shared... -
Stanislavsky Secret: Not a System, Not a Method But a Way of Thinking by Irina Levin 9781566080798
RRP: £17.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080798Author Irina LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 168g -
Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A History by John C. Greene 9781611461008
RRP: £110.00£90.27Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A History, the first comprehensive history of the Dublin theatres in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, reconstructs the milieu of popular public entertainment in the city of Dublin during these seventy-five... -
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945 by Gunter Berghaus 9781571819017
RRP: £27.95£22.58Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars waged against other countries. However, much less attention has... -
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945 by Gunter Berghaus 9781571818775
RRP: £99.00£79.83Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars waged against other countries. However, much less attention has... -
Theatre and War 1933-1945: Performance in Extremis by Michael Balfour 9781571817624
RRP: £99.00£79.83One evening in 1934, on the River Arno in Florence, an air squadron, an infantry, a cavalry brigade, fifty trucks, four field and machine gun batteries, ten field radio stations, and six photoelectric units presented a piece of theatre. One of eleven... -
The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe by Michael Cherlin 9781571811738
RRP: £99.00£79.83Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics,... -
Theatre and War 1933-1945: Performance in Extremis by Michael Balfour 9781571814975
RRP: £27.95£22.58One evening in 1934, on the River Arno in Florence, an air squadron, an infantry, a cavalry brigade, fifty trucks, four field and machine gun batteries, ten field radio stations, and six photoelectric units presented a piece of theatre. One of eleven... -
The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe by Michael Cherlin 9781571814036
RRP: £27.95£22.58Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics,... -
Performance Histories by Bonnie Marranca 9781555540777
RRP: £13.99£9.26This collection of essays and interviews by the editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art covers a wide range of current topics, such as avant-garde legacies, performance and ethics, art as spiritual practice, and the theater of food. The volume... -
Holocaust Theater: Dramatizing Survivor Trauma and its Effects on the Second Generation by Gene A. Plunka 9781138685062
RRP: £135.00£117.28Facts about the Holocaust are one way of learning about its devastating impact, but presenting personal manifestations of trauma can be more effective than citing statistics. Holocaust Theater addresses a selection of contemporary plays about the... -
Theatre in Madrid and Barcelona, 1892-1936 by David J. George 9780708317372
RRP: £29.99£24.16"Theatre in Madrid and Barcelona, 1892-1936" is an account of a period of momentous transformation in Spanish cultural history. It provides detailed analysis of the artistic, political and linguistic contexts of Spanish and Catalan theatre before the... -
Poison on the Early Modern English Stage: Plants, Paints and Potions by Lisa Hopkins 9781526159922
RRP: £85.00£60.57Many early modern plays use poison, most famously Hamlet, where the murder of Old Hamlet showcases the range of issues poison mobilises. Its orchard setting is one of a number of sinister uses of plants which comment on both the loss of horticultural... -
Mysticism in the Theater: What’s Needed Right Now by Tom Block 9781032034362
RRP: £38.99£34.22This book offers a clear and novel method from inserting mystical ideals into theatrical productions. This book introduces a new way of understanding the history of theatre. This book gives an east-to-understand overview of mystical thinking. This... -
French Theatre, Orientalism, and the Representation of India, 1770-1865: India Lost and Regained by David Hammerbeck 9780367644291
RRP: £38.99£34.22This book examines the French theatricalization of India from 1770 to 1865 and how a range of plays not only represented India to the French viewing public but also staged issues within French culture including colonialism, imperialism, race, gender, and... -
Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960: Making Tracks by Gilli Bush-Bailey 9780367519667
RRP: £38.99£34.22This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.It investigates songlines, drama, opera, music... -
After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil's Post-Dictatorship Generation by Claudia Tatinge Nascimento 9781138608443
RRP: £135.00£117.28After the Long Silence offers a ground-breaking, meticulously researched criticism of Brazilian contemporary performance created by its post-dictatorship generation, whose work expresses the consequences of decades of state-imposed censorship. By...