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Edwin Booth: A Biography and Performance History by Arthur W. Bloom 9781476681269
RRP: $32.24$26.17The great nineteenth-century stage actor Edwin Booth began his long career in 1849 as a young teenager, following in his father's footsteps. This biography traces his life and career as a tragic actor, including his childhood; his early acting tours of... -
The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Francis Beaumont by Sheldon Zitner
RRP: $19.34$14.34This play is a celebration of London life and theatre in which Francis Beaumont's comic genius is given free rein. A grocer, his wife and their two apprentices attending the theatre in holiday mood interrupt and finally replace a fatuous love comedy with... -
Charles Dickens by Simon Callow 9780007445318
RRP: $15.47$10.14An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Simon Callow's sparkling biography explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the... -
Deep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre by Stephen Bourne
RRP: $24.50$18.47Deep 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... -
Josephine Baker in Art and Life: THE ICON AND THE IMAGE by Bennetta Jules-Rosette
RRP: $28.37$25.27Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Neither an exercise in postmodern deconstruction... -
Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism by Jonathan Dollimore 9780719043529
RRP: $25.79$19.65The 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... -
Theatre and Religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare by Richard Dutton 9780719063633
RRP: $25.79$22.99This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic.In the Introduction, Richard Wilson reviews the history of the debate... -
Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy by Professor Richard Schoch 9781350409354
RRP: $32.25$24.36In 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... -
Culture in Nazi Germany by Michael H. Kater
RRP: $16.76$14.78A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a... -
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: $29.66$29.48One 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... -
Theatre and Sexuality by Tim Miller
RRP: $10.31$8.62Theatre& 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... -
Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion by Elizabeth S. Belfiore 9780691607382
RRP: $77.40$60.76Elizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the Aristotelian corpus and in the context of Greek culture in general. In Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Politics, and the ethical, psychological,... -
The National Theatre Story by Daniel Rosenthal
RRP: $58.05$57.60Winner 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... -
Theatre Histories: An Introduction Daphne P. Lei 9781032027906
RRP: $89.00$76.78This 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... -
Circus Bodies: Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance by Peta Tait
RRP: $47.72$41.96This 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... -
The Wind in the Willows by Alan Bennett
RRP: $14.18$9.44'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... -
Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp
RRP: $14.18$10.28Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attempts to destroy her? Or attempts to destroy herself? Is Anne the object of violence? Or its terrifying practitioner? Martin Crimps 17 scenarios for the... -
Performance Studies: An Introduction Richard Schechner (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, USA) 9781138284562
RRP: $56.75$50.88Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global performance. The publication of Performance Studies: An... -
Obedience, Struggle and Revolt by David Hare
RRP: $12.89$8.64What is a political playwright? Does theatre have any direct effect on society? Why choose to work in a medium which speaks to so few? Is theatre itself facing oblivion? All frequent questions addressed to David Hare over the last thirty-five years, as... -
Staging Detection: From Hawkshaw to Holmes Isabel Stowell-Kaplan 9780367632656
RRP: $47.72$41.96Staging 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... -
Up Your Ass: Or From the Cradle to the Boat Or The Big Suck Or Up from the Slime Valerie Solanas 9783956796050
$15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796050Author Valerie SolanasFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm) 180mm *... -
'Love Me or Kill Me': Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes by Graham Saunders 9780719059568
RRP: $25.79$22.99Blasted brought Sarah Kane to the theatre pages of the broadsheets, the front pages of the tabloids, and to the notice of the nation. Covers all Kane's major plays and productions, contains hitherto unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her... -
The Young Pretender by Michael Arditti
RRP: $16.76$10.73"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... -
Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany by Stephen Sondheim
RRP: $77.40$50.74Apologies 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)... -
Never Apologise: The Collected Writings of Lindsay Anderson by Lindsay Anderson
RRP: $25.79$8.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653176Author Lindsay AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
How to do Shakespeare by Adrian Noble
RRP: $45.14$39.80'Adrian Noble vigorously highlights the extraordinary rhythmic, linguistic patterns Shakespeare gives the speaker. Any actor will find this book invaluable. For any student of Shakespeare it should be essential.' (From the Foreword by Ralph Fiennes)'How... -
Staging and Re-cycling: Retrieving, Reflecting and Re-framing the Archive by John Keefe 9780367501754
RRP: $47.72$41.96In Staging and Re- cycling , John Keefe and Knut Ove Arntzen re-visit and reappraise a selection of their work to explore how the retrieval, re-approaching and re-framing of material can offer pathways for new work and new thinking. The book includes a... -
The Young Pretender Michael Arditti 9781529422573
RRP: $12.89$8.77'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... -
Postdramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann 9780415268134 [USED COPY]
RRP: $67.07$19.57Newly 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... -
Postdramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann
RRP: $67.07$58.30Newly 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... -
Burt Lancaster: An American Life by Kate Buford 9780306810190
$24.96Now 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, ... -
Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture by Philip Auslander 9780367468170
RRP: $42.56$37.62Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media and digital technologies?Since its... -
Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim by Rob Kapilow 9781631490293
RRP: $41.27$41.05Few 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,... -
The Science Of Acting by Sam Kogan
RRP: $46.43$40.88What 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... -
Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created 'Sunday in the Park with George' by James Lapine
RRP: $27.08$18.43Putting It Together chronicles the two-year odyssey of creating the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George. In 1982, James Lapine, at the beginning of his career as a playwright and director, met Stephen Sondheim, nineteen years his... -
Shakespeare and I by Theodora Papadopoulou
$32.83This is a provocative exploration of how the self is revealed or exposed in the experience of reading, viewing and writing about Shakespeare. Following the ethos and ambition of the "Shakespeare Now!" series, and harnessing the energy, challenge and... -
Stanislavski and the Actor: The Final Acting Lessons, 1935-38 by Jean Benedetti
RRP: $23.21$21.96Stanislavski and the Actor offers a clear, modern presentation of Konstantin Stanislavski's methods of actor training and rehearsal. It is based on the course Stanislavski designed and taught with a team of hand-picked assistants in the last three years... -
Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795 by Carolyn Dowdell 9781032080512
RRP: $47.72$44.98This book provides a deep-dive into the dressmaking of the late Eighteenth Century.By combining the author's experience with drafting patterns from surviving eighteenth-century garments with fashion plates and period-correct reproduction methods this... -
The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler
RRP: $32.25$23.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635571769Author Isaac ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 784g -
The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today by Ali Campbell
$29.93How has the work and legacy of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed been interpreted and practised around the world? What does it look like in different working contexts? This book provides an accessible introduction to the political and artistic...