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Pina Bausch's Dance Theater: Company, Artistic Practices, and Reception by Gabriele Klein
RRP: £33.99£28.01This volume provides new, ground-breaking perspectives on the globally renowned work of the Tanztheater Wuppertal and its iconic founder and artistic director, Pina Bausch. The company's performances, how it developed its productions, the global transfer... -
Deep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre by Stephen Bourne
RRP: £18.99£14.00Deep Are the Roots celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825, when Ira Aldridge made history as the first Black actor to play Shakespeare's Othello in the United Kingdom, and ending in 1975 with the success of Britain's first... -
Broadway Musicals: Show by Show by Stanley Green
RRP: £30.00£22.10This updated edition of one of the bestselling and comprehensive Broadway reference books, first published in 1985, has been expanded to include many of the most important and memorable productions of American musical theatre, including revivals... -
Circus Bodies: Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance by Peta Tait
RRP: £36.99£32.53This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies.Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the... -
Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States by Oscar G. Brockett
RRP: £76.00£67.41Theatrical scene design is one of the most beautiful, varied, and lively art forms. Yet there are relatively few books on the subject, and almost none for a general audience that combine expansive scholarship with lavish design. Making the Scene offers... -
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to ACT by Isaac Butler
RRP: £30.00£19.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635574777Author Isaac ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
The Costumes of Burlesque: 1866-2018 by Coleen Scott
RRP: £42.99£37.00The Costumes of Burlesque: 1866-2018 is the first volume to inclusively document burlesque costume from its birth in the 1860's through the global burlesque movement in 2018. This lushly illustrated book presents the history and development of this... -
The Globe Guide to Shakespeare: The plays, the productions, the life by Andrew Dickson
RRP: £19.99£18.61The Globe Guide to Shakespeare is the ultimate guide to the life and work of the world's greatest playwright: William Shakespeare. With full coverage of the 39 Shakespearian plays, including a synopsis, full character list, stage history and a critical... -
Trish Arnold: The Legacy of Her Movement Training for Actors by Lizzie Ballinger 9781350264557
RRP: £25.99£21.22'All you have is yourself, no words, no script in hand, no music to dance to, nothing to hide behind. It was just me - the pure expression of my desire.' Trish Arnold (1918-2017) was a pioneer in the field of movement. Her work stands alongside that... -
Theatre of Movement and Gesture by Jacques Lecoq
RRP: £35.99£31.69Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his... -
Postdramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann
RRP: £51.99£45.19Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann's groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions... -
Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism by Jonathan Dollimore 9780719043529
RRP: £19.99£15.23The new wave of cultural materialists in Britain and new historicists in the United States here join forces to depose the sacred icon of the "eternal bard" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates and exploits political, cultural and ideological forces... -
The Wind in the Willows by Alan Bennett
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Believe me, my young friend, there is absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In them or out of them, it doesn't matter. Whether you get away or you don't, whether you arrive at your destination or whether you never... -
Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah by Jean Racine
RRP: £12.99£9.09Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a... -
Stars and Spies by Chris Andrew
RRP: £20.00£15.42A vastly entertaining and unique history of spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.'Perfect...read as you settle into James Bond on Christmas afternoon' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 2021Throughout history, there has... -
Present Past Past Present: A Personal Memoir by Eugene Ionesco 9780306808357
£15.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorEugene Ionesco (1910-1994), a Romanian-born Frenchman, was central to the theatre of the Absurd, a dramatic movement that abandons logical plot development,... -
Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy by Professor Richard Schoch 9781350409354
RRP: £25.00£18.49In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 - known colloquially as the 'Birthplace' - remains the chief shrine. It's not as romantic as Anne Hathaway's thatched cottage, it's not... -
Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany by Stephen Sondheim
RRP: £60.00£40.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307593412Author Stephen SondheimFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1701gDimensions(mm)... -
A History of the French New Wave Cinema by Richard Neupert
RRP: £26.95£23.58The French New Wave cinema is arguably the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques. ""A History of the French New Wave Cinema"" offers a fresh look at the social, economic, and aesthetic... -
The Lear Diaries: The Story of the Royal National Theatre's Productions of Shakespeare's "Richard III" and "King Lear" by Brian Cox 9780413698803
RRP: £22.99£22.85One of the most frank and authentic accounts yet written of the pressures placed on today's stars King Lear is perhaps the most challenging role in the Shakespearian canon. In 1991, directed by Deborah Warner, Brian Cox gave a highly-acclaimed... -
Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts by Matthew Reason 9780367695842
RRP: £42.99£38.59The Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance.This study considers audiences contextually and historically, through both... -
Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York by Michael V. Pisani 9781609382308
RRP: £34.95£29.18Throughout the nineteenth century, people heard more music in the theatre - accompanying popular dramas such as Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lady Audley's Secret, The Corsican Brothers, The Three Musketeers, as well as historical... -
The National Theatre Story by Daniel Rosenthal
RRP: £45.00£43.87Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs - and the occasional disaster. This definitive account takes readers from the National Theatre's... -
The Science Of Acting by Sam Kogan
RRP: £35.99£31.69What is good acting? How does one create believable characters? How can an actor understand a character if they do not understand themselves?In The Science of Acting, Sam Kogan uses his theories on the relationship between neuroscience, psychology and... -
Burt Lancaster: An American Life by Kate Buford 9780306810190
£19.27Now in paperback, here is the critically acclaimed, best-selling biography of one of Hollywood's legendary stars. Burt Lancaster is known to audiences around the world as the electrifying performer of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, From Here to Eternity, ... -
Theatre and Sexuality by Tim Miller
RRP: £7.99£6.68Theatre& Sexuality explains the critical validity of using sexuality as a lens for examining theatre's creation and reception. The book offers clear introductions to sexual identity politics, ways of 'reading' sexuality on stage and a select history of... -
In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self by Ruth Padel 9780691037660
RRP: £45.00£34.67Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness... -
History of British Film (Volume 2): The History of the British Film 1906 - 1914 by Rachael Low
RRP: £38.99£34.22This set is one of the cornerstones of film scholarship, and one of the most important works on twentieth century British culture. Published between 1948 and 1985, the volumes document all aspects of film making in Britain from its origins in 1896 to... -
The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy by Larry Wolff
RRP: £21.99£18.55A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau... -
History of British Film (Volume 3): The History of the British Film 1914 - 1918 by Rachael Low
RRP: £38.99£34.22This set is one of the cornerstones of film scholarship, and one of the most important works on twentieth century British culture. Published between 1948 and 1985, the volumes document all aspects of film making in Britain from its origins in 1896 to... -
Deburau: Pierrot, Mime, and Culture by Edward Nye 9781032225647
RRP: £38.99£34.22This volume analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Theatre des Funambules in Paris in the context of Romantic art, literature and socio-political thought. Deburau and the Theatre des Funambules are... -
The History of British Film (Volume 1): The History of the British Film 1896 - 1906 by Rachael Low
RRP: £38.99£34.22This set is one of the cornerstones of film scholarship, and one of the most important works on twentieth century British culture. Published between 1948 and 1985, the volumes document all aspects of film making in Britain from its origins in 1896 to... -
The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention by Baz Kershaw
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Politics of Performance^ addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation into post-war alternative and community theatre. It proposes a theory of performace as ideological transaction,... -
Three Renaissance Usury Plays: The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, the Hog Hath Lost His Pearl by Lloyd Kermode
RRP: £19.99£17.61This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabethan and Jacobean 'usury plays' - The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, and The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an... -
Staging Detection: From Hawkshaw to Holmes by Isabel Stowell-Kaplan 9780367632656
RRP: £36.99£32.53Staging Detection reveals how the new figure of the stage detective emerged in nineteenth-century Britain. The first book to explore the productive intersections between detection and performance across a range of Victorian plays, Staging Detection... -
Theatre: A Very Short Introduction by Marvin A. Carlson
RRP: £8.99£6.45From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street theatre, this complex art has utilized all other art forms such as dance, literature, music, painting,... -
What is a Playhouse?: England at Play, 1520-1620 by Callan Davies
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book offers an accessible introduction to England's sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses. It builds on recent scholarship... -
The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation by Brian Kulick
RRP: £36.99£32.53What is the secret DNA of theater? What makes it unique from its sister arts? Why was it invented? Why does it persist? And now, in such an advanced technological age, why do we still feel compelled to return to a mode of expression that was invented... -
The Young Pretender by Michael Arditti 9781529422573
RRP: £9.99£6.80'An engrossing, enthralling and utterly captivating read, The Young Pretender tells a simply remarkable story with bounce, energy, wit, and lively authenticity . . . Michael Arditti's brilliant imaginative achievement offers high comedy, dark tragedy and... -
Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim by Rob Kapilow 9781631490293
£32.38Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth- century American music as Rob Kapilow, the composer, conductor, and host of the hit NPR music radio program, What Makes It Great? Now, in Listening for America,...