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The Theatre of Paula Vogel: Practice, Pedagogy, and Influences by Dr Lee Brewer Jones 9781350251755
Booksplease Price: $64.13In 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... -
Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again by Sarah Ruhl
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $22.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478152Author Sarah RuhlFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts: The Staging of Illusion Across Time and Cultures Ann C Hall 9781350371736
Booksplease Price: $64.13Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the... -
Eurydice by 9781636700090
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $27.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636700090Author Sarah RuhlFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint -
Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience Professor Sherry Kramer (Bennington College, USA) 9781350338265
Booksplease Price: $53.89" Reading and digesting the lessons in this book can be of greater value to an aspiring dramatist than years in an MFA program. Whether you are writing for the stage, screen or audio, this book is an... -
Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience by Professor Sherry Kramer 9781350338272
Booksplease Price: $157.88" Reading and digesting the lessons in this book can be of greater value to an aspiring dramatist than years in an MFA program. Whether you are writing for the stage, screen or audio, this book is an... -
The Theatre of Paula Vogel: Practice, Pedagogy, and Influences by Dr Lee Brewer Jones 9781350251717
Booksplease Price: $190.20In 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... -
Mini Musings: Miniature Thoughts on Theatre and Poetry by Keith Garebian
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $25.79Inspired by American playwright Sarah Ruhl's 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, this collection is a series of miniature reflections, meditations, and ruminations on subjects encompassing matters... -
Orlando by Virginia Woolf 9780573711312
Booksplease Price: $35.62An adaptation of the "longest and most charming love letter in literature," written by Virginia Woolf for her lover, Vita Sackville-West,Orlandois a theatrical, wild, fantastical trip through space,... -
Exceptional Monologues 2 for Men and Women by Various Authors
Booksplease Price: $33.85This year's edition in our Exceptional Monologues series features a wide range of selections from some of our most recent publications. Hand selected by the Samuel French editorial staff and complete... -
Exceptional Monologues for Men & Women Volume 1 by Roxane Heinze-Bradshaw 9780573697975
Booksplease Price: $33.58In an effort to foster awareness of new plays, and provide for the ever-constant need of audition material, we are proud to announce a new series of monologue books highlighting the latest Samuel... -
Playwriting, Dramaturgy and Space by Sara Freeman 9781009467940
Booksplease Price: $117.87Theatre has come back to text, but with perspectives shifted by the experimental practices of the twentieth century across performance forms. Contemporary playwriting brings its scenographic... -
Performing Religion on the Secular Stage Sharon Aronson-Lehavi 9781032225487
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the ongoing cultural power of religious texts, icons, and... -
Playwriting, Dramaturgy and Space by Sara Freeman 9781009370226
Booksplease Price: $41.41Theatre has come back to text, but with perspectives shifted by the experimental practices of the twentieth century across performance forms. Contemporary playwriting brings its scenographic... -
Text & Presentation, 2021 by Amy Muse 9781476682891
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $83.12This volume is the seventeenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama and performance. Featuring eleven essays from the 2021 Comparative Drama... -
Text & Presentation, 2019 by Amy Muse 9781476670386
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $83.12This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis. Featuring some of the best work... -
Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Professor Julia Listengarten 9781350215498
Booksplease Price: $73.16The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a... -
Dramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales and Legends: Essays on Recent Plays by Verna A Foster 9780786465125
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $54.29These new essays explore the ways in which contemporary dramatists have retold or otherwise made use of myths, fairy tales and legends from a variety of cultures, including Greek, West African,... -
Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts: The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures by Ann C. Hall 9781350371699
Booksplease Price: $190.20Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the... -
Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country and Broadway's Rebirth Todd Almond 9781350407381
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $45.89The incredible journey of a musical from potential disaster to success, and the Broadway industry that managed to stay alive during the pandemic shutdown of 2020-22. Despite historic, seemingly... -
Contemporary Plays from Iraq: A Cradle; A Strange Bird on Our Roof; Cartoon Dreams; Ishtar in Baghdad; Me, Torture, and Your Love; Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad; Summer Rain; The Takeover; The Widow by A. Al-Azraki
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $46.28Contemporary Plays from Iraq is a ground-breaking collection of Middle Eastern drama translated into English for the very first time. With works from both established and emerging male and female... -
Gluten Is My Bitch: Rants, Recipes, and Ridiculousness for the Gluten-Free by April Peveteaux
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.83Living gluten-free is not a whole lot of fun, but at least April has managed to make it funny. Gluten Is My Bitch is a brutally honest, entertaining look at what living a g-free life entails. Gluten... -
The Drama and Theatre of Annie Baker Amy Muse 9781350320017
Booksplease Price: $64.13In 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... -
New Playwriting Strategies: Language and Media in the 21st Century Paul Castagno (University of North Carolina, USA) 9780415491488
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second... -
Contemporary Monologues for Twentysomethings by Jessica Bashline 9781495064852
Booksplease Price: $31.98The theater of the 21st century in many ways is expanding to require new muscles of its actors and so should their monologue choices. EContemporary Monologues for TwentysomethingsE is a... -
A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller 9781350245785
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $17.72The law is nature. The law is only a word for what has a right to happen. When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it... -
Maria Irene Fornes by Scott T. Cummings
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78Maria Irene Fornes is the most influential female American dramatist of the 20th century. That is the argument of this important new study, the first to assess Fornes's complete body of work. Scott T... -
The Art of Dramaturgy by Anne Cattaneo
RRP: $78.75Booksplease Price: $78.67An introduction to the mysterious theater role of a dramaturg by a legend in the field"This book is marvelous. . . . Fascinating. . . . An absolute joy to read."-Gil Roth, Virtual Memories podcast... -
In the Studio with Joyce Piven: Theatre Games, Story Theatre and Text Work for Actors by Joyce Piven 9781408173879
Booksplease Price: $60.00In the Studio with Joyce Piven takes you directly inside the creative process of the renowned Piven Workshop led by Joyce and Byrne Piven.The Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago has nurtured theatre... -
Time Remaining: Poems James Lenfestey 9781571315748
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14An exuberant collection celebrating the body and the soul of language, wringing delights and amazements out of the latter years of life.In his seventh decade and seventh full length collection, poet... -
The Play's the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016) James Magruder 9780300215007
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $93.43An 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... -
Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38'GORGEOUS, VIVIDLY ALIVE' NEW YORK TIMES'BOLD, HONEST AND SUPERBLY WELL-WRITTEN' ANDRE ACIMAN, AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME'GRACEFUL AND SOUL-BARING' MELANIE REID, THE TIMES'WHAT A GIFT . . . HAS... -
Arthur Miller: American Witness by John Lahr 9780300276794
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights "Lahr's cogent analyses are revelatory. . . . He does not... -
Did I Ever Tell You?: The most moving memoir of 2024 Genevieve Kingston 9781529424140
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'[A] heartfelt memoir' New York Times'Compelling and heartbreaking' Ann NapolitanoA deeply moving memoir of a young daughter, her dying mother - and the trail of letters and gifts she left behind... -
Did I Ever Tell You?: The most moving memoir of 2024 by Genevieve Kingston 9781529424102
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $27.32'[A] heartfelt memoir' New York Times'Compelling and heartbreaking' Ann NapolitanoA deeply moving memoir of a young daughter, her dying mother - and the trail of letters and gifts she left behind... -
Writing Adaptations and Translations for the Stage: A Guide and Workbook for New and Experienced Writers Jacqueline Goldfinger 9781032056616
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.99Writing Adaptations and Translations for the Stage is a practical guide for writing adapted works for theatrical performance.Broadway translator and dramaturg Allison Horsley and award-winning... -
The End of My Life Is Killing Me: Essays by Annabelle Gurwitch 9798992377071
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.75Instant National Bestseller A book of small rescues against despair.In this deftly comedic and deeply contemplative memoir, the New York Times bestselling author faces life's biggest curveball only... -
Easy Beauty: On Seeing and Being Seen by Chloé Cooper Jones
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR'An exquisite exploration of disability, identity and the human capacity to do (and be) more than we've ever dreamed' Time'Gorgeously, vividly alive'...