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Boy from the North Country by Sam Sussman 9781804711286
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A remarkable novel' TONY KUSHNER'A monumental event for anyone who cares about Dylan' DAVID YAFFE'A debut novel of rare power' MARIA SEMPLE'A pleasure to read' VIVIAN GORNICK'A dazzling book'... -
Theater and Integrity: Emptying Selves in Drama, Ethics, and Religion by Larry D. Bouchard 9780810125629
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64Four decades ago Tom F. Driver brought theater into discussion with religion and modern theology. It has been a rich ongoing dialogue, but one that now demands a bold new engagement. In Theater and... -
The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation Brian Kulick 9781138334601
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83What 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... -
Mike Bartlett by William C. Boles 9781032191935
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Hailed as one of the most talented playwrights to have emerged in the late 2000s, Mike Bartlett's diverse range of plays strike at the heart of the various crises predominant in the early... -
Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation by Paul Finkelman 9780821422274
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90"When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed. Lincoln understood this, and said as much in his first inaugural... -
Contemporary American Drama by Annette J. Saddik 9780748624935
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that... -
Conversations with Maurice Sendak by Peter C. Kunze 9781496808868
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) stands out as one of the most respected, influential authors of the twentieth century. Though primarily known as a children's book writer and illustrator, he did not limit... -
The Myopia and Other Plays by David Greenspan by David Greenspan 9780472071739
Booksplease Price: £88.37Playwright and actor David Greenspan has been a leading figure in Manhattan's downtown performance scene for over twenty years. His numerous accolades include a Guggenheim fellowship and four Obie... -
The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture by Warren Hoffman 9780815632023
Booksplease Price: £27.34Tony Kushner's award-winning epic play ""Angels in America"" was remarkable not only for its sensitive engagement of Jewish-American and gay culture but also for bringing these themes to a mainstream... -
Vanishing Acts: Theater Since the Sixties by Gordon Rogoff 9780300087772
Booksplease Price: £33.01In this outstanding collection of critical writings, some published here for the first time, Gordon Rogoff tells the story of live theater in America over the past forty years. His view of modern... -
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Sharon Friedman 9781350215467
Booksplease Price: £34.84The Decades of Modern American Playwriting 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... -
The Lasting War: Society and Identity in Britain, France and Germany after 1945 by Monica Riera 9780230506718
Booksplease Price: £90.56The Second World War brought suffering and trauma to the people of Europe on an unprecedented scale. This volume addresses World War II as a common European trauma by focusing on key trans-national... -
Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater by Jonathan Kalb 9780472035496
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.31We know that size matters in many areas of human endeavor, but what about works of the imagination? Why do some dramatic creations extend to five hours or more, and how does their extreme length help... -
Suzan-Lori Parks by Deborah R. Geis 9780472069460
Booksplease Price: £21.75Suzan Lori-Parks is one of America's most distinctive playwrights. In 2007 her creation ""365 Plays/365 Days"" was produced in more than 700 theaters around the world. She has been named one of... -
The Myopia and Other Plays by David Greenspan by David Greenspan 9780472051731
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.76Playwright and actor David Greenspan has been a leading figure in Manhattan's downtown performance scene for over twenty years. His numerous accolades include a Guggenheim fellowship and four Obie... -
Urban Drama: The Metropolis in Contemporary North American Plays by J. Chris Westgate 9780230114531
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.92Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity... -
Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities by S. E. Wilmer 9780521050883
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £37.44Theatre has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national definition and as a way of exploring cultural and ethnic identity. In this book Steve Wilmer selects key... -
The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 42 - Recycling Brecht by Tom Kuhn 9780985195656
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24The leading publication on Brecht, his work, and topics of interest to him; this annual volume documents the International Brecht Society's 2016 symposium, "Recycling Brecht." Published for... -
From Inner Worlds to Outer Space: The Multimedia Performances of Dan Kwong by Dan Kwong 9780472068661
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.63Praise for Dan Kwong:"Somehow, Kwong has held onto his sense of childlike wonder about the cosmos, and that awe informs his free-wheeling and uproarious performance."-Asian Week"He weaves striking,... -
Holocaust Consciousness in Contemporary Britain by Andy Pearce
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79The Holocaust is a pervasive presence in British culture and society. Schools have been legally required to deliver Holocaust education, the government helps to fund student visits to Auschwitz, the... -
Urban Drama: The Metropolis in Contemporary North American Plays by J. Chris Westgate 9781349296019
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.58Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity... -
Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 by C. W. E. Bigsby 9780521794107
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £43.30In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and brings the reader up to 2000. While retaining the... -
The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities by Robert McRuer
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots ushered in the contemporary gay liberation movement, overt representations of same-sex desire in American literature and the arts were few and far between. Even in the... -
Contemporary Monologues: Men by Michael Earley 9780413681201
Booksplease Price: £20.70A collection of the best stage monologues of the eighties and nineties (including new translations) This volume brings together monologues of all types - from serious to comic and shades in between -... -
Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 by C. W. E. Bigsby 9780521790895
RRP: £114.00Booksplease Price: £105.09In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and brings the reader up to 2000. While retaining the... -
Obscene Gestures: Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century by Patrick Lawrence 9781531500092
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.66Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century... -
Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen by Henry Bial 9780472069088
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.63The history of the American entertainment industry and the history of the Jewish people in the United States are inextricably intertwined. Jews have provided Broadway and Hollywood with some of their... -
Upstaged: Making Theatre in a Media Age Anne Nicholson Weber 9780878301867
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28How can theatre thrive in a culture dominated by film and television? Interviews with stage actors, playwrights, theatre directors and others, including Julie Taymor, Tony Kushner, Anna Deavere... -
Playwrights in Rehearsal: The Seduction of Company by Susan Letzler Cole
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Playwrights in Rehearsal is an inside look at the writer's role in the creative process of bringing his or her words to life on stage. Susan Letzler Cole, granted rare access to some of the major... -
Walking on Fire: The Shaping Force of Emotion in Writing Drama by Jim Linnell
Booksplease Price: £32.56In this bold new way of looking at dramatic structure, Jim Linnell establishes the central role of emotional experience in the conception, execution, and reception of plays. Walking on Fire: The... -
Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights: Making the Radical Palatable by Jacob Juntunen
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book demonstrates the political potential of mainstream theatre in the US at the end of the twentieth century, tracing ideological change over time in the reception of US mainstream plays taking... -
Brecht in La: A Play by Rick Mitchell 9781841501055
Booksplease Price: £24.74Bertolt Brecht, perhaps the most important dramatist/director/theorist of the twentieth century, is still widely studied and his plays and theories remain staples in the curricula of university... -
The Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid Urvashi Vaid 9781478028444
Booksplease Price: £92.21The Dream of a Common Movement collects essays, interviews, and speeches by the late feminist and civil rights activist Urvashi Vaid, whose pioneering writing and organizing over the course of four... -
The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory by Jennifer Wylegala
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.94Jennifer Craig-Norton sets out to challenge celebratory narratives of the Kindertransport that have dominated popular memory as well as literature on the subject. According to these accounts, the... -
Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s-Present Day Dr Eithne Nightingale 9781350332607
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.25Almost half the people displaced worldwide are under 18, yet their voices are rarely heard. This book records the experiences of children arriving in Britain from Hitler's Europe in the 1930s to... -
Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque by Mary Ann Frese Witt 9781611475388
Booksplease Price: £85.65Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque is the first work to link the study of metatheater with the concepts of baroque and neobaroque. Arguing that the onset of European modernity in the... -
The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory by Jennifer Wylegala 9780253042217
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Jennifer Craig-Norton sets out to challenge celebratory narratives of the Kindertransport that have dominated popular memory as well as literature on the subject. According to these accounts, the... -
An Immigration History of Britain: Multicultural Racism since 1800 Panikos Panayi 9781405859172
Booksplease Price: £42.90Immigration, ethnicity, multiculturalism and racism have become part of daily discourse in Britain in recent decades - yet, far from being new, these phenomena have characterised British life since... -
Suzan-Lori Parks by Deborah R. Geis 9780472099467
Booksplease Price: £70.06Praise for playwright Suzan-Lori Parks:"Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced."---Tony Kushner"[Parks's] stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic... -
Body Blows: Six Performances by Tim Miller 9780299176846
Booksplease Price: £15.70Performance artist Tim Miller has performed infront of audiences all over the world. This volume gathers six of his best-known performances that chart the sexual, spiritual and political topography...