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Theatre studies
Brand: Duke University Press Books
Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and literature-this volume's contributors locate improvisation as a key site of mediation between the social and the aesthetic. As a catalyst for social experime..
45.46£
8-page color photo insert ISBN: 9781476874647Publisher: ApplauseImprint: ApplausePublished date: 01 Apr 2013DEWEY: 780.268DEWEY edition: 23Language: EnglishNumber of pages: xviii, 156 , 8 unnumbered of platesWeight: 274gHeight: 217mmWidth: 142mmSpi..
15.91£
Brand: McFarland Publishers
For over a century a vicious business war has been waged in Hollywood between studios and exhibitors. At stake, shares in what has now become a multi-billion-dollar business. Both sides were poor losers, exhibitors bringing down the wrath of law on ..
71.15£
Brand: Intellect Books
An educational method used to improve performance, the Alexander Technique teaches people to replace unnecessary muscular and mental effort with consciously coordinated responses, maximizing effectiveness while also relieving, if necessary, any chro..
49.93£
Like with the first volume, teachers will love having the entire Student Workbook in this teachers guide, along with over 80 additional pages of helpful information and tips, grading forms and scoring rubrics, student activities, and more. The secon..
46.43£
Discussing key works by important writers from Church of Ireland backgrounds (from Farquhar and Swift to Beckett and Bardwell), David Clare demonstrates that writers from this Irish subculture have a unique socio-political viewpoint which is imperfe..
70.33£
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge'..
102.34£
Several qualities set Theatre: The Lively Art apart from other introductory texts. A particularly important element is our emphasis on the audience. All students reading the book are potential theatregoers, not just during their college years but t..
75.07£
Favorite examples of cross-dressing or cross-gender performances include Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, Vesta Tilley as Burlington Bertie, Maxine Peake as Hamlet, and Drag Queen RuPaul outrageously fronting the RuPaul Drag Race. Cross-Dressing in Perfor..
23.35£
Brand: Dover Publications Inc.
New, information-packed introduction and extensive captions accompany more than 120 full-page plates of magnificent, elaborately carved, museum-quality masks worn by actors playing gods, warriors, beautiful women, feudal lords, and supernatural bein..
17.26£
Almost thirty years after Rock Opera, his first book on Jesus Christ Superstar, Ellis Nassour returns to the world of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to complete the fascinating story of the Broadway musical that rocked the stage and pushed boundar..
30.70£
Brand: Random House
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by general editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller..
12.70£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Kitty Clive (1711-1785) was a top London stage star. Singing powered her ascent and, for twenty years, was foundational to her success as she came to dominate spoken as well as musical comedy. Her protean powers transfixed audiences, whether in low-..
76.03£
A play about love, nostalgia, the seasons and how we learn to say goodbye. ISBN: 9780573708084Publisher: Samuel French LtdImprint: Samuel FrenchPublished date: 29 Apr 2019Number of pages: 72Weight: 82gHeight: 203mmWidth: 127mmSpine width: 4mm..
15.36£
Brand: Scholastic Corporation
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12.33£
"When I see a thing it is not a play for me, but when I write something that somebody else can see then it is a play for me." -Gertrude SteinIn the more than seventy-five plats Gertrude Stein wrote between 1913 and 1946, she envisioned a new dramatu..
42.83£
Brand: Nick Hern Books
This accessible, systematic guide will teach you how to memorise your lines quickly and effectively, and let go of the fear of forgetting them - helping you build confidence and focus, and reducing anxiety and stress around auditions, rehearsal and ..
12.56£
Brand: Faber & Faber
How do you prepare for your first day on the set? Why might a bad audition lead to a good job offer? How should you research? What's the effect of a long tour on your love-life? Can you have a glass of wine before a matinee? What's the difference be..
22.81£
Brand: Intellect Books
This volume brings together performance texts from nine productions by the experimental theatre company Lightwork and one playtext from Lightwork's precursor company Academy Productions, presented between 1997 and 2011. Lightwork specialized in coll..
96.84£
Brand: Liveright
"If you want to understand American history, listen to its popular music," writes renowned NPR host Rob Kapilow. "If you want to understand America's popular music, listen to its history." Through the songs of eight legendary American composers—Kern..
21.60£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Since entering the performance lexicon in the 1970s, the term Live Art has been used to describe a diverse but interrelated array of performance practices and approaches. This volume offers a contextual and critical introduction to the scene of cont..
29.81£
Brand: Liverpool University Press
Celebrating its eightieth birthday since being rebuilt in 1938, Liverpool's Royal Court Theatre is a vital part of the city's cultural identity. There has been a theatre on the site for nearly two hundred years, since Cooke's New Circus started life..
40.77£
Brand: University of Exeter Press
A companion to UEP's Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). A genre that has left more of a mark on British and American culture than we may imagine" (Gothic Studies). London's Grand Guignol was established in the ea..
31.84£
Brand: Manchester University Press
Love's Victory by Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1651) is the first romantic comedy written in English by a woman. The Revels Plays publishes for the first time a fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of the Penshurst manuscript, the only copy of the pla..
100.30£