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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... -
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
£24.11Published 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
£75.12'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... -
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company Deborah C. Payne 9781350352681
£27.99Co-authored by the resident dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company and a long-time scholarly consultant, this book chronicles how a small repertory troupe at the Folger Theatre on Capitol Hill became an internationally renowned company performing in a... -
Reanimating Grief: Waking the Dead in Literature, Theatre and Performance William McEvoy 9781526176691
RRP: £85.00£74.51Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song. It examines the way cultural works reanimate the dead in the form of ghosts, memories or scenes of mourning, and uses critical and creative writing... -
Theatre, Activism, Subjectivity: Searching for the Left in a Fragmented World Bishnupriya Dutt 9781526178565
RRP: £90.00£78.81Through the lens of performance and politics, this collection zooms in on the context-specific dimensions, analogies, and micro-histories of the Left to better understand the larger picture. It proposes a search for the Left not from totalising Leftist... -
Performance Making: a pedagogy for precarious times Anna Furse 9781032730172
£35.21Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making provides a comprehensive insight on the impact the artform has had across the wider arts and humanities.Drawing on over 40+ years’... -
Theatre, Performance and Commemoration: Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood Miriam Haughton 9781350306790
RRP: £28.99£24.64How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration? How and why does commemorative theatre operate as a conceptual, historical and political site from which to interrogate ideas of nationalism and nationhood? This volume explores how... -
Theatre Histories: An Introduction Daphne P. Lei 9781032027920
RRP: £135.00£117.28This updated fourth edition of Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods, integrating them chronologically or thematically, and showing how they have... -
The Theatre of Paula Vogel: Practice, Pedagogy, and Influences Dr Lee Brewer Jones 9781350251755
RRP: £28.99£24.64In this volume, Lee Brewer Jones examines Paula Vogel as both a playwright and renowned teacher, analyzing texts and early reviews of Vogel’s major plays—including Indecent, Desdemona, How I Learned to Drive, and The Baltimore Waltz—before turning... -
Milestones in Feminist Performance Tiina Rosenberg 9781032389929
RRP: £135.00£114.75This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual ‘origins’ of feminist performance, offering a fresh and open-ended guide to the moments and movements that have come to define this vital field.Designed for... -
Milestones in Feminist Performance Tiina Rosenberg 9781032389912
RRP: £35.99£30.59This accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual ‘origins’ of feminist performance, offering a fresh and open-ended guide to the moments and movements that have come to define this vital field.Designed for... -
Theatre Histories: An Introduction Daphne P. Lei 9781032027906
RRP: £68.99£59.52This updated 4th edition of Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods, integrating them chronologically or thematically, and showing how they have often... -
Performance Making: a pedagogy for precarious times Anna Furse 9781032730189
RRP: £130.00£110.50Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making provides a comprehensive insight on the impact the artform has had across the wider arts and humanities.Drawing on over 40+ years’...