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CEREMONIAL ORDER OF THE CLINIC by 9780415087964
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Can 'stage presence' be acquired? Why do some actors appear more dynamic in performance than others? In The Actors Way four experienced actors talk about the secrets and the practical realities of... -
Notes From An Odin Actress: Stones of Water by Julia Varley
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73'As an actress I sit, speak, run, sweat and, simultaneously, I represent someone who sits, speaks, runs and sweats. As an actress, I am both myself and the character I am playing. I exist in the... -
A Poetics of Third Theatre: Performer Training, Dramaturgy, Cultural Action Jane Turner (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9780367740252
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99A Poetics of Third Theatre offers an in-depth, critical analysis of Third Theatre, a transnational community of theatre groups and artists united by a shared set of values and a laboratory attitude... -
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham Lucy Hughes-Hallett 9780008126599
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88*PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE* 'SUBLIME' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE... -
Acting (Re)Considered: A Theoretical and Practical Guide by Phillip B. Zarrilli
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance. This second edition includes... -
Performance Making and the Archive by Ashutosh Potdar 9781032340913
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book investigates theories and practices shaped by a performance's relationship to the archive. The contributions in the volume examine how the changing nature of performance practices has made... -
Eugenio Barba Jane Turner 9780815364207
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret, he continues to... -
Towards a Third Theatre: Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret by Ian Watson 9780415127646
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Eugenio Barba is one of Europe's leading theatre directors, at the forefront of experimental and group theatre for more than twenty years. Ian Watson provides the most comprehensive and systematic... -
On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the House by Eugenio Barba
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83"A theatre which is able to speak to each spectator in a different and penetrating language is not a fantastic idea, nor a utopia. This is the theatre for which many of us, directors and leaders of... -
Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge Claudia Tatinge Nascimento 9780415884006
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49A sophisticated analysis of how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination inform performance, Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work redirects the intercultural debate by... -
Time and Performer Training Mark Evans 9780815396284
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and conceptual thinking of performer training. Notions of time are embedded in... -
Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre by Franc Chamberlain 9780415270250
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre brings together the first collection of essays in English to focus on Lecoq's school of mime and physical theatre. For four decades, at his school in Paris,... -
Intercultural Acting and Performer Training Phillip B. Zarrilli (University of Exeter, UK) 9781138352148
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Intercultural Acting and Performer Training is the first collection of essays from a diverse, international group of authors and practitioners focusing on intercultural acting and voice practices... -
Performer Training and Technology: Preparing Our Selves by Maria Kapsali
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Performer Training and Technology employs philosophical approaches to technology, including postphenomenology and Heidegger's thinking, to examine the way technology manifests, influences and becomes... -
A Theory of Dramaturgy Janek Szatkowski 9780815354710
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £40.57A Theory of Dramaturgy is the first text of its kind to define concepts and combine arguments into a coherent dramaturgical theory supported by an operative systems theory. This is a wide-ranging... -
A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer by Eugenio Barba 9780415378611
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £57.49First Published in 2005. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology subtly juxtaposes visual demonstrations of the performer's craft, from a wealth of Eastern and Western sources. More than just a... -
Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen by Louisa Stuart Costello 9781108019897
Booksplease Price: £39.40Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) was a poet and artist who supported her family with her paintings. As well as writing a number of historical novels, Costello researched and wrote the biographies... -
The Greensboro Review: Number 114, Fall 2023 by Terry L Kennedy 9781469679785
Booksplease Price: £10.51The 114th Greensboro Review features the winner of the Amon Liner Poetry Prize, Madeleine Poole's "Pile of Maggots," flash fiction by Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Beth Konkoski, and an Editor's Note by... -
Citizens of Memory: Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina Silvia R. Tandeciarz 9781684485833
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.63Citizens of Memory explores efforts at recollection in post-dictatorship Argentina and the hoped-for futures they set in motion. The sites, images, narratives, and practices it analyzes address the... -
The Dandelion Seed: Lose yourself in the decadent and dangerous London of James I by Lena Kennedy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Like a dandelion seed adrift on the wayward winds, Marcelle de la Strange is an innocent in the decadent and dangerous London of James I.When her mother's violent death leaves Marcelle at the mercy... -
James I , The King Who United Scotland and England by Keith Coleman 9781399093590
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The life of King James VI who united England and Scotland under one crown and became James I in 1603 is marked by contradictions. Generally praised as a good king of Scotland and a poor English one,... -
Digging Miami by Robert S. Carr 9780813080055
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.42Unearthing the rich 11,000-year human heritage of the Miami area The pace of change of Miami since its incorporation in 1896 is staggering. The seaside land that once was home to several thousand... -
The Dangerous Kingdom of Love by Neil Blackmore
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Witty, original and clever, this tale of Jacobean power and lust is a blast' THE TIMES, Best Historical Fiction of the YearFrancis Bacon, philosopher, politician, writer, is an outsider at the... -
Working Class to College: The Promise and Peril Facing Blue-Collar America by Robert Owen Carr
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34Unfortunately, many economically struggling families today see college as beyond their reach--academically, culturally and financially. Working-class young people need a college degree to earn a... -
The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader by Ileana Rodriguez 9780822327127
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Sharing a postrevolutionary sympathy with the struggles of the poor, the contributors to this first comprehensive collection of writing on subalternity in Latin America work to actively link... -
The FAB Diet by Rosemary Conley 9780099580461 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £3.24When Rosemary Conley appeared on Dancing on Ice at the age of 65 looking younger and fitter than many of the contestants on there, she proved that her diet and exercise programmes really work. She is... -
The Complete English Works by George Herbert 9781857152043
Booksplease Price: £13.04An entirely new edition of Herbert's collected poems with nots, chronology and introduction by the distinguised scholar Anne Pasternak Slater, this volume is designed to complement the editions of... -
Herbert Poems by George Herbert
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Herbert experimented brilliantly with a remarkable variety of forms, from hymns and sonnets to "pattern poems," the shape of which reveal their subjects. Such technical agility never seems...