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The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud 9780802150301 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£3.91Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ibsen in Practice: Relational Readings of Performance, Cultural Encounters and Power by Frode Helland 9781472513694 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99£15.83Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Great North American Stage Directors Volume 5: Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, Anne Bogart Joan Herrington 9781350526105
RRP: £21.99£18.69Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, and Anne Bogart share a spirit of profound adventure and that adventure is the redefinition of theatre itself. They are rare hybrids; the confluence of their theatrical roles as directors, scholars, theorists and teachers... -
Great North American Stage Directors Volume 6: Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson Ann M. Shanahan 9781350526112
RRP: £21.99£18.69This volume assesses the work of Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, and Robert Wilson, three artists who have revolutionized the craft of directing and the art of theatre in both related and unique ways. Though their early artistic backgrounds differ,... -
Great North American Stage Directors Volume 3: Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, Lloyd Richards Harvey Young 9781350525931
RRP: £21.99£18.69This volume chronicles the lives and artistry of Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, and Lloyd Richards. Their commitment to staging new works, which often focused on the experiences of immigrant and working-class families, significantly expanded the scope and... -
Great North American Stage Directors Volume 1: David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Margaret Webster Cheryl Black 9781350525917
RRP: £21.99£18.69This volume assesses the contributions of David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, and Margaret Webster, whose careers shaped the artistic and specialist identity of the Broadway director. Their work spans almost a century and captures the rapidly changing social... -
Great North American Stage Directors Volume 7: Elizabeth LeCompte, Ping Chong, Robert Lepage Professor James Peck 9781350526129
RRP: £21.99£18.69This volume focuses on three artists who embrace media and technology as essential elements of their theatrical expression: Elizabeth LeCompte, Ping Chong, and Robert Lepage. Diverse in their aesthetic interests, they nevertheless share an approach to... -
Great North American Stage Directors Volume 4: George Abbott, Vinnette Carroll, Harold Prince Henry Bial 9781350525948
RRP: £21.99£18.69George Abbott, Vinnette Carroll, and Harold (Hal) Prince were trailblazing figures who helped shape and define the Broadway musical over the course of the 20th century. Their careers expanded the boundaries of the genre, highlighting the critical role... -
Great North American Stage Directors Volume 2: Harold Clurman, Orson Welles, Margo Jones Jonathan Chambers 9781350525924
RRP: £21.99£18.69This volume assesses the accomplishments of three mid-20th-century, North American stage directors: Harold Clurman, Orson Welles, and Margo Jones. Though their theatre-making endeavours were distinct, each produced work that challenged preconceived... -
Noël Coward Russell Jackson 9781032331133
RRP: £36.99£31.44Noël Coward combines a fresh appraisal of major plays by one of the twentieth century’s most popular dramatists, with an account of critical and theatrical responses to his life and work.For almost the entirety of the Twentieth Century, Noël Coward was... -
Noël Coward Russell Jackson 9781032331140
RRP: £135.00£114.75Noël Coward combines a fresh appraisal of major plays by one of the twentieth century’s most popular dramatists, with an account of critical and theatrical responses to his life and work.For almost the entirety of the Twentieth Century, Noël Coward was... -
A History of English Costume Iris Brooke 9781032915111
RRP: £60.00£51.00Originally published in 1937 and reprinted as a fourth edition in paperback in 1979, this is a history of dress in England from the Norman Conquest to the mid-20th century. Despite being an excellent resource for the student or designer, this book also... -
Dress and Undress: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century Iris Brooke 9781032914947
RRP: £60.00£51.00Originally published in 1958, this book deals with the details of dress – formal and informal – from the time of Charles II to the end of the eighteenth century. Most of the illustrations are taken from existing garments preserved in private collections... -
Noh: Japanese Classical Dance-drama Dr Diego Pellecchia 9781350371446
RRP: £65.00£55.25This volume provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the rich traditions of noh, traditional Japanese dance-drama, both in Japan and abroad. Drawing from up-to-date, specialized scholarship in Japanese, and also from across contemporary... -
Mess and Contemporary Performance: Complexity, Containment, and Collapse Harriet Curtis 9781032034195
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains.Using a... -
To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore: Performing Tagore's Plays Konar Rajdeep 9781032389264
£41.27Rabindranath Tagore (1861‒1941) was a prolific playwright with more than thirty plays to his credit. He is also known for his life-long, passionate engagement with theatre, first at Jorasanko and then at Santiniketan, in multiple roles as actor,... -
A Quick Ting On: Theatre Sh*t Tobi Kyeremateng 9781913090579
RRP: £12.99£11.04Storytelling and performance have been at the centre of Black traditions for as long as Black existence.From griots and underground raves to protests and defiant speeches, Black performance translates across time, space and memory. In the UK, a growing... -
The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre Dr Marissia Fragkou 9781350360259
RRP: £130.00£110.50This handbook provides a detailed exploration of the rich and diverse theatrical work produced by women in the first two decades of 21st-century British theatre. The book explores key issues and methodologies relevant to women working in the UK’s... -
Revolutionary Messages Antonin Artaud 9781350179028
RRP: £65.00£55.25Published here in its entirety in English, Artaud’s Revolutionary Messages collects Antonin Artaud’s political, aesthetic and philosophical writings during his travels to Mexico in 1936. Written around the same time as his seminal work The Theatre and... -
The Play's the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016) James Magruder 9780300215007
RRP: £45.00£38.25An insider’s spirited history of Yale Repertory Theatre In this serious and entertaining chronicle of the first fifty years of Yale Repertory Theatre, award-winning dramaturg James Magruder shows how dozens of theater artists have played their parts in... -
Applied Theatre: Voice: Performance and Social Justice Dr Sarah Weston 9781350371392
RRP: £85.00£72.25Applied Theatre: Voice is a unique exploration of the conceptual and practical understandings of voice in relation to applied theatre. Voice is fundamental to much practice that takes place in applied and community performance and is regularly the go-to... -
Livecasting in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre: NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materiality and Engagement Heidi Lucja Liedke 9781350341005
RRP: £28.99£24.64This significant contribution to the study of the live and recorded broadcasting of stage plays focuses on National Theatre Live a decade after its launch in 2009. Assessing livecasting through the concepts of spectacle, materiality and engagement, it... -
Theatre and Class Paul Murphy 9781350350649
RRP: £9.99£8.49What is the relationship between theatre and class? How has this relationship developed over time, from the age of empire to the advent of social democracy and on to contemporary times? What impact has late capitalism had on the theatre industry? What... -
Metamodernism in Contemporary British Theatre: A Politics of Hope/lessness Dr Tom Drayton 9781350286429
RRP: £85.00£72.25Postmodern theatre is dead. A new theatre is rising – one that combines the well-worn postmodern aesthetics of irony, detachment, and deconstruction with a paradoxical interest in authenticity, engagement, and re-construction. Whilst recent scholarship... -
The Inheritor: A Play Kate Bredeson 9780810147829
RRP: £19.95£16.96The first English-language translation of the 1968 activist play about inequality and access to education In The Inheritor, surrealist imagery and experimental forms convey the uncanny experience of attending an institute of higher education... -
The Drama and Theatre of Annie Baker Amy Muse 9781350320017
RRP: £28.99£24.64In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, one of the most critically acclaimed playwrights in the United States today and winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur “genius” grant, Amy Muse analyzes Baker’s plays and... -
Documentary Theatre and Performance Andy Lavender 9781350137141
RRP: £50.00£49.86What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years, and to what effect? What is its relationship to truth and reality, and defining moments of civic unrest and political change? In... -
Queen Henrietta's Men and the Cockpit Repertory: Drama on the Drury Lane Stage, 1625-37 Eleanor Collins 9780719090868
RRP: £75.00£63.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719090868Author Eleanor CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Manchester University PressPublisher Manchester University Press -
Performing Left Populism: Performance, Politics and the People Dr Goran Petrovic Lotina 9781350347083
RRP: £28.99£24.64This interdisciplinary volume offers new insights into the connections between populism and performance. As a driving force of the contemporary left, the populist logic offers a way for progressive politics to radicalize actions against the elite,... -
Revolutionary Messages Antonin Artaud 9781350179011
RRP: £21.99£18.69Published here in its entirety in English, Artaud’s Revolutionary Messages collects Antonin Artaud’s political, aesthetic and philosophical writings during his travels to Mexico in 1936. Written around the same time as his seminal work The Theatre and... -
Documentary Theatre and Performance Andy Lavender 9781350137134
RRP: £16.99£15.22What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years, and to what effect? What is its relationship to truth and reality, and defining moments of civic unrest and political change? In... -
Nautanki: The Musical Theatre of North India Devendra Sharma 9781350296725
RRP: £65.00£55.25Drawing on more than 4 decades of experience working in Nautanki as a writer, director, singer, and actor, Sharma’s book is the first major study to analyse Nautanki not only through its literary bases, but also through live performances, considering it... -
The Mee-Ow Show at 50: From Cultural Rebellion to Comedy Institution Joseph B. Radding 9780810148215
RRP: £34.95£29.71The fifty-year history of the Mee-Ow Show at Northwestern University and its influence on contemporary comedy In the fall of 1973, two students at Northwestern University resolved to create something on stage that was wholly their own. Soon, they would... -
Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance Susan Marshall 9781032375984
RRP: £135.00£114.75Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance presents a comprehensive study of historical and contemporary examples of scenographic costume – the type of costume that creates an almost complete stage environment by itself, simultaneously acting as... -
Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance Susan Marshall 9781032375977
RRP: £36.99£31.44Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance presents a comprehensive study of historical and contemporary examples of scenographic costume – the type of costume that creates an almost complete stage environment by itself, simultaneously acting as... -
Creating Life Story Theatre: A Guide for Applied Theatre Practitioners Alison O’Connor 9781350405905
RRP: £24.99£21.24Balancing practical exercises and case studies, this book equips practitioners, students and academics with guidance for exploring the process of making theatre from personal stories. Inviting you to consider the challenges and rewards of this... -
Creating Life Story Theatre: A Guide for Applied Theatre Practitioners Alison O’Connor 9781350405868
RRP: £75.00£63.75Balancing practical exercises and case studies, this book equips practitioners, students and academics with guidance for exploring the process of making theatre from personal stories. Inviting you to consider the challenges and rewards of this... -
Staging Change: Toward a Theatrical Theory of Activist Performance Dr Victoria L. Scrimer 9781350445635
RRP: £85.00£72.25Exploring a wide variety of examples of activist performances, such as David Buckel’s self-immolation, and the January 6th capitol insurrection, this book analyses activist performance through the lens of post-dramatic theatre theory. Staging Change... -
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company Deborah C. Payne 9781350352643
RRP: £75.00£63.75'This is a timely and valuable study, for the story of Shakespeare in America is inseparable from that of the nation’s capital. It’s a fascinating history, with many twists and turns, and Drew Lichtenberg and Deborah C. Payne do a superb job of bringing... -
Theatre History Studies 2024, Vol 43 Jocelyn L. Buckner 9780817371180
RRP: £29.95£25.46Captures how this journal serves theatre historians, as scholars and laborers, as they work to attend and tend to their field.Book InformationISBN 9780817371180Author Jocelyn L. BucknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The University of Alabama...