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Performance Theory by Richard Schechner
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.12Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of... -
The Grotowski Sourcebook by Richard Schechner 9780415131117
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.24This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski's long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Grotowski's life and work... -
Performance Theory by Richard Schechner 9781138127913
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.05Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of... -
Environmental Theater by Richard Schechner 9781557831781
Booksplease Price: £16.21Here are the exercises which began as radical departures from standard actor training etiquette and which stand now as classic means through which the performer discovers his or her true power of... -
Between Theater and Anthropology by Richard Schechner
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the... -
By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual by Richard Schechner 9780521339155
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £48.01The field of performance studies embraces performance behaviour of all kinds and in all contexts, from everyday life to high ceremony. This volume investigates a wide range of performance behaviour -... -
Performance Studies: An Introduction Richard Schechner (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, USA) 9781138284562
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £40.93Richard 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... -
The Rise of Performance Studies: Rethinking Richard Schechner's Broad Spectrum by James M. Harding 9781349318063
Booksplease Price: £46.74Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that define Performance Studies. The Rise of Performance Studies is... -
The Rise of Performance Studies: Rethinking Richard Schechner's Broad Spectrum by James M. Harding 9780230242913
Booksplease Price: £46.28Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that define Performance Studies. The Rise of Performance Studies is... -
Great North American Stage Directors Volume 5: Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, Anne Bogart Joan Herrington 9781350526105
Booksplease Price: £25.95Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, and Anne Bogart share a spirit of profound adventure and that adventure is the redefinition of theatre itself. They are rare hybrids; the confluence of their... -
Do This: Liturgy as Performance by Richard D. McCall
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Dramatic elements have always been apparent in the historic Christian liturgy. Because the liturgy is a structured action and not merely a verbal narrative, it has historically been both illuminated... -
The Great North American Stage Directors Set 2: Volumes 5-8: Directors and the Theatrical Avant-garde, post-1970 by Professor James Peck 9781350526143
Booksplease Price: £94.93Across the four volumes this set provides a uniquely rich study of the genealogy and development of a practice through focus on individual directors and the wider context and art form in which they... -
Drama/Theatre/Performance by Simon Shepherd 9780415234931
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.08What is implied when we refer to the study of performing arts as 'drama', 'theatre' or 'performance'? Each term identifies a different tradition of thought and offers different possibilities to the... -
Theater and Crisis: Myth, Memory, and Racial Reckoning in America, 1964-2020 by Patrice D. Rankine 9781643150598
Booksplease Price: £23.29Racial reckoning was a recurrent theme throughout the summer of 2020, a response to George Floyd's murder and the unprecedented impact of COVID on marginalized groups. Theater and Crisis proposes a... -
Drama/Theatre/Performance by Simon Shepherd
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95What is implied when we refer to the study of performing arts as 'drama', 'theatre' or 'performance'? Each term identifies a different tradition of thought and offers different possibilities to the... -
Experiential and Performative Anthropology in the Classroom: Engaging the Legacy of Edith and Victor Turner by Pamela R. Frese 9783030419943
Booksplease Price: £50.76The contributors gathered here revitalize "ethnographic performance"-the performed recreation of ethnographic subject matter pioneered by Victor and Edith Turner and Richard Schechner-as a... -
The Rasaboxes Sourcebook: Theory, Performer Training, and Practice by Rachel Bowditch 9781138680012
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £119.27Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer... -
Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises Rachel Bowditch 9781138680029
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer... -
The Performance of Religion: Seeing the sacred in the theatre Cia Sautter 9781138385993
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The performing arts are uniquely capable of translating a vision of an ideal or sacred reality into lived practice, allowing an audience to confront deeply held values and beliefs as they observe a... -
Experiential and Performative Anthropology in the Classroom: Engaging the Legacy of Edith and Victor Turner by Pamela R. Frese 9783030419974
Booksplease Price: £50.76The contributors gathered here revitalize "ethnographic performance"-the performed recreation of ethnographic subject matter pioneered by Victor and Edith Turner and Richard Schechner-as a... -
The Great North American Stage Directors by Professor James Peck 9781350045330
Booksplease Price: £99.59Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, and Anne Bogart share a spirit of profound adventure and that adventure is the redefinition of theatre itself. They are rare hybrids; the confluence of their theatrical... -
Artistic Citizenship: A Public Voice for the Arts Mary Schmidt Campbell 9780415978668
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Artistic Citizenship asks the question: how do people in the creative arts prepare for, and participate in, civic life? This volume, developed at NYU's Tisch School, identifies the question of... -
A Performance Cosmology: Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past by Judie Christie 9780415372589
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.54Exploring thirty years of work by The Centre for Performance Research (CPR), A Performance Cosmology explores the future challenges of performance and theatre through a diverse and fascinating series... -
The Senses in Performance by Sally Banes 9780415281867
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance. Senses in Performance presents a multifaceted approach to the... -
The Revisionist Stage: American Directors Reinvent the Classics by Amy S. Green 9780521028929
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £33.89This book explores the vision and talents of a controversial group of artists who, depending on one's perspective, either revitalised or disfigured the standard dramatic repertoire by adapting... -
Brecht: Mother Courage and her Children by Peter Thomson 9780521597746
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £39.65This is the first comprehensive study of Brecht's Mother Courage. Peter Thomson locates the sources of the play in Brecht's own experience and heritage, and provides a detailed account of Brecht's... -
Performance Studies in Motion: International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century by Atay Citron
Booksplease Price: £41.24Performance Studies in Motion offers multiple perspectives on the current field of performance studies and suggests its future directions. Featuring new essays by pioneers Richard Schechner and... -
Ron Vawter's Life in Performance by Theresa Smalec 9780857425522
Booksplease Price: £22.93From 1974 to 1994, Ron Vawter was a staple of New York's downtown theater scene, first with the Performance Group and later as a founding member of the Wooster Group. Ron Vawter's Life in Performance... -
Teaching Performance Studies by Nathan Stucky 9780809324668
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82An organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice and pedagogy. This collection of 18 essays by scholars and educators seeks to reflect the emergent and contested nature of performance... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Performance Theory by Simon Shepherd 9781107696945
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.25What does 'performance theory' really mean and why has it become so important across such a large number of disciplines, from art history to religious studies and architecture to geography? In this... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Performance Theory by Simon Shepherd 9781107039322
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £44.52What does 'performance theory' really mean and why has it become so important across such a large number of disciplines, from art history to religious studies and architecture to geography? In this... -
The Ends of Performance by Peggy Phelan 9780814766460
Booksplease Price: £90.87A broad and inclusive volume of the celebrations and critiques of performance arts Focusing on the living arts-dance, theatre, music, performance art, ritual, and popular entertainment-performance... -
Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook by Joel Schechter 9780415258302
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.82Bertolt Brecht turned to cabaret; Ariane Mnouchkine went to the circus; Joan Littlewood wanted to open a palace of fun. These were a few of the directors who turned to popular theatre forms in the... -
The Ends of Performance by Peggy Phelan
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12A broad and inclusive volume of the celebrations and critiques of performance arts Focusing on the living arts-dance, theatre, music, performance art, ritual, and popular entertainment-performance... -
Creativity/Anthropology by Renato Rosaldo
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumstances. In this lively volume, fourteen... -
The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics Since 1910 by Loren Kruger
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52The Drama of South Africa comprehensively chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance from 1910, when the country came into official existence, to the advent of post-apartheid... -
Theatre & History by Rebecca Schneider 9780230246614
Booksplease Price: £9.14This provocative book meets the supposedly 'live' practices of performance and the 'no-longer-live' historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the 'and' of the title, it... -
Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance by Janice Ross 9780520260054
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.38Anna Halprin pioneered what became known as 'postmodern dance', creating work that was key to unlocking the door to experimentation in theater, music, Happenings, and performance art. This first... -
Physical Dramaturgy: Perspectives from the Field Rachel Bowditch 9781138682887
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14What is physical dramaturgy? While the traditional dramaturg shares research intellectually, the physical dramaturg does so viscerally and somatically. By combining elements of text, history,... -
Placeness and the Performative Production of Space Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic 9781350349810
Booksplease Price: £98.79How can performance create and transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this...