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The Cambridge Companion to Moliere by David Bradby 9780521837590
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €83.93A detailed introduction to Moliere and his plays, this Companion evokes his own theatrical career, his theatres, patrons, the performers and theatre staff with whom he worked, and the various publics... -
Beckett: Waiting for Godot by David Bradby 9780521595100
RRP: €44.03Booksplease Price: €41.21Waiting for Godot is a byword in every major world language. No other twentieth-century play has achieved such global currency. His innovations have affected not only the writing of plays, but all... -
The Theater of Michel Vinaver by David Bradby 9780472750443
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €28.73Michel Vinaver is considered the outstanding French dramatist of his generation. No other contemporary playwright commands such respect in his own country. Vinaver is the first playwright since the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Moliere by David Bradby 9780521546652
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €27.27A detailed introduction to Moliere and his plays, this Companion evokes his own theatrical career, his theatres, patrons, the performers and theatre staff with whom he worked, and the various publics... -
Beckett: Waiting for Godot by David Bradby 9780521594295
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €88.81Waiting for Godot is a byword in every major world language. No other twentieth-century play has achieved such global currency. His innovations have affected not only the writing of plays, but all... -
The Paris Jigsaw: Internationalism and the City's Stages by David Bradby
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.25Paris has always exerted a magnetic force on artists; it has historically offered safety to those escaping oppressive regimes in Europe and farther afield. In recent years it has welcomed performers,... -
Modern French Drama 1940-1990 by David Bradby 9780521408431
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €47.71This is an updated account and comparison of all the major traditions and tendencies in the French theatre from the outbreak of the Second World War to the opening of the 1990s. In the fifty-year... -
Jean Genet David Bradby (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9780415375061
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65'This volume is a gem. Written by two experts in modern French theater, whose stated objective is to render the complexity of Genet's work exhilarating rather than intimidating, the book bears... -
Freedom's Pioneer: John McGrath's Work in Theatre, Film and Television by David Bradby 9780859897495
RRP: €20.83Booksplease Price: €18.40John McGrath's plays are compulsory reading and viewing for students of drama, film and television courses in many University and Further Education departments and yet despite recognition of the... -
Freedom's Pioneer: John McGrath's Work in Theatre, Film and Television by David Bradby 9780859897488
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €74.10John McGrath's plays are compulsory reading and viewing for students of drama, film and television courses in many University and Further Education departments and yet despite recognition of the... -
Performance and Politics in Popular Drama: Aspects of Popular Entertainment in Theatre, Film and Television, 1800-1976 by David Bradby 9780521285247
Booksplease Price: €38.22Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often... -
Frontline Drama : The French Issue: v. 6: One More Wasted Year; Agnes; The Northern Fox; Mickey the Torch; A Desire to Kill... by David Bradby 9780413713308
Booksplease Price: €40.27Published in conjunction with the Royal Court Theatre, this volume includes translations of five extraordinary new plays from France which were presented as part of the French Theatre Season in... -
![Vinaver Plays: v. 1: "Overboard"; "Situation Vacant"; "Dissident", "Goes without Saying"; "Nina", "That's Something Else"; "A Smile on" by Michel Vinaver 9780413717801](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4753401/4752669/9780413717801__41784.1721122695.jpg?c=1 "Vinaver Plays: v. 1: "Overboard"; "Situation Vacant"; "Dissident", "Goes without Saying"; "Nina", "That's Something Else"; "A Smile on" by Michel Vinaver 9780413717801")
Vinaver Plays: v. 1: "Overboard"; "Situation Vacant"; "Dissident", "Goes without Saying"; "Nina", "That's Something Else"; "A Smile on" by Michel Vinaver 9780413717801
Booksplease Price: €29.56The first collection of plays by one of France's most prominent playwrights Overboard: "Combines Shakespearian tragedy, Aristophanic farce and a Chekhovian drama of lives consumed and memories that... -
![Vinaver Plays: v.2: "High Places", "The Neighbours", "Portrait of a Woman", "The Television Programme" by Michel Vinaver 9780413720702](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5215912/5293173/9780413720702__52992.1724694379.jpg?c=1 "Vinaver Plays: v.2: "High Places", "The Neighbours", "Portrait of a Woman", "The Television Programme" by Michel Vinaver 9780413720702")
Vinaver Plays: v.2: "High Places", "The Neighbours", "Portrait of a Woman", "The Television Programme" by Michel Vinaver 9780413720702
Booksplease Price: €29.65The second collection of plays by one of France's most prominent playwrights High Places: "A drama which, from second to second, maintains the spectator in suspense, and which, by the same stroke,... -
File on Frayn by Malcolm Page 9780413653109
Booksplease Price: €23.75"Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Michael Frayn is a... -
![Landmarks Of French Classical Drama: "The Cid", " Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love", " The Marriage of Figaro" by Moliere 9780413631008](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5223535/5300796/9780413631008__19694.1724712848.jpg?c=1 "Landmarks Of French Classical Drama: "The Cid", " Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love", " The Marriage of Figaro" by Moliere 9780413631008")
Landmarks Of French Classical Drama: "The Cid", " Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love", " The Marriage of Figaro" by Moliere 9780413631008
Booksplease Price: €40.27Contains five works from the classical period of French theatre - "The Cid", "Phedra", "Tartuffe", "The Lottery of Love" and "The Marriage of Figaro".Contains five works from the classical period of... -
Theatre of Movement and Gesture by Jacques Lecoq
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €42.60Published 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... -
Staging Decadence: Theatre, Performance, and the Ends of Capitalism by Adam Alston 9781350237049
Booksplease Price: €108.75Winner of the 2024 TaPRA David Bradby Monograph PrizeHow is decadence being staged today - as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for... -
Staging Decadence: Theatre, Performance, and the Ends of Capitalism Adam Alston 9781350237087
Booksplease Price: €36.34Winner of the 2024 TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize How is decadence being staged today - as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look... -
The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853-1893) by Rashna Darius Nicholson 9783030658380
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €72.64The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southeast Asia's most influential cultural phenomenon and the precursor of the Indian... -
Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre by Dr Siân Adiseshiah 9781350349315
Booksplease Price: €37.91Shortlisted for The TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2023 As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in Western drama from antiquity to the present, Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre... -
Contemporary French Theatre and Performance by Clare Finburgh 9780230580510
Booksplease Price: €55.07This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses... -
Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia by Selina Busby 9781350086111
Booksplease Price: €114.66Shortlisted for the 2022 TaPRA David Bradby Monograph PrizeApplied Theatre is a widely accepted term to describe a set of practices that encompass community, social and participatory theatre making... -
File on Gorky by Maxim Gorky 9780413650603
Booksplease Price: €23.75Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Circus by Gillian Arrighi
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €28.27The Cambridge Companion to the Circus provides a complete guide for students, scholars, teachers, researchers, and practitioners who are seeking perspectives on the foundations and evolution of the... -
Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance by Hannah Simpson 9783031041327
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €121.62Beckett's plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances - that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as 'disabled'... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Circus by Gillian Arrighi 9781108485166
RRP: €97.58Booksplease Price: €93.38The Cambridge Companion to the Circus provides a complete guide for students, scholars, teachers, researchers, and practitioners who are seeking perspectives on the foundations and evolution of the... -
File on Nichols: Peter Nichols by Peter Nichols 9780413656001
Booksplease Price: €23.75"We are not short of good playwrights in Britain, but I know of none with Nichols' power to put modern Britain on the stage and send the spectators away feeling more like members of the human race"... -
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot by Mark Taylor-Batty 9780826495945
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.85This title provides informative critical introduction to Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", one of the most commonly studied modern plays."Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot" is not only an indisputably... -
Watching War on the Twenty-First Century Stage by Clare Finburgh 9781350099418
Booksplease Price: €43.82What do we watch when we watch war? Who manages public perceptions of war and how? Watching War on the Twenty-First-Century Stage: Spectacles of Conflict is the first publication to examine how... -
Prison Cultures - Performance, Resistance, Desire by Aylwyn Walsh 9781789381054
Booksplease Price: €126.81Prison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist approach to reach beyond tropes of 'bad girls' and simplistic... -
Choreomania: Dance and Disorder by Kelina Gotman 9780190840426
Booksplease Price: €78.64When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and uncouth, the disorder being described is choreomania. At once a catchall... -
Prison Cultures: Performance, Resistance, Desire by Aylwyn Walsh 9781789388633
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €33.34Prison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist approach to reach beyond tropes of 'bad girls' and simplistic... -
Thinking Through Theatre and Performance by Maaike Bleeker
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €35.68Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance. Instead of topics, genres, histories or theories, the book starts with the... -
The Schaubuhne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier: Reinventing Realism by Professor Peter M. Boenisch 9781350190702
Booksplease Price: €40.27Over 20 years on from artistic director Thomas Ostermeier's time at Berlin's Schaubuhne Theatre, international theatre scholars come together to reflect on the contribution the theatre has made to... -
DNA by Dennis Kelly 9781350188044
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.96This new Student Edition of Dennis Kelly's popular play DNA contains introductory commentary and notes by Clare Finburgh Delijani, which gives an in-depth analysis of the play's context and themes. ... -
The Schaubühne Berlin under Thomas Ostermeier: Reinventing Realism by Professor Peter M. Boenisch 9781350165793
Booksplease Price: €134.60On the 20th anniversary of artistic director Thomas Ostermeier's time at Berlin's Schaubuhne Theatre, this important study reflects on the contribution the theatre has made to contemporary theatre,... -
Watching War on the Twenty-First Century Stage: Spectacles of Conflict by Clare Finburgh 9781472598660
Booksplease Price: €134.96What do we watch when we watch war? Who manages public perceptions of war and how? Watching War on the Twenty-First-Century Stage: Spectacles of Conflict is the first publication to examine how... -
Staging Politics and Gender: French Women's Drama, 1880-1923 by Cecilia M. Beach 9781349529179
Booksplease Price: €55.07In Staging Politics and Gender , Cecilia Beach examines the political and feminist plays of French playwrights who have largely been overlooked until now. Beach highlights the importance of...