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Theatre studies
Brand: Nick Hern Books
'We - artists, thinkers, creators - have a responsibility to communicate the truth of the climate emergency. The world is shape-shifting and our culture must too.' This book is a guide to one hundred brilliant plays addressing the most urgent and im..
19.30£
(Book). This book is a thorough account of the year that caught everyone's ear. Elvis was sighted in the top spot of "The Billboard 200." The Rolling Stones rocked the album charts at #2. An "American Idol" grabbed Pop chart glory. Nelly nabbed #1 f..
49.14£
Since 1660 when actresses first began performing on the English stage, women have forged bright careers in theatre, while men called the shots. Four hundred years of women playwrights, from Aphra Behn to Caryl Churchill, yet plays by women make up l..
32.81£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Theatre was at the very heart of culture in Graeco-Roman civilizations and its influence permeated across social and class boundaries. The theatrical genres of tragedy, comedy, satyr play, mime and pantomime operate in Antiquity alongside the concep..
33.81£
Brand: Columbia University Press
Gregory S. Brown's A Field of Honor: The Identities of Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field from Racine to the Revolution offers a multilevel study of the intellectual, social, and institutional contexts of dram..
70.51£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Butô is rarely given the credit it deserves as one of the most innovative forms of dance and theater that emerged throughout the 20th century. One of the world's leading experts on the form, author Bruce Baird offers in The History of Butô a new acc..
36.11£
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Poland is celebrated internationally for its rich and varied performance traditions and theatre histories. This groundbreaking volume is the first in English to engage with these topics across an ambitious scope, incorporating Staropolska, the Polis..
139.88£
Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked him with such influential directors as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Brecht, and Gro..
38.38£
Graham Chapman reveals what it was like to be part of the revolutionary and zany Monty Python team Required reading for Monty Python fans, this true and false memoir is Graham Chapman's own hilarious account of his life as a Python and as a homosexu..
17.60£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of w..
24.41£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Fascinating, never-before-published interviews with Broadway's leading men offer behind-the-scenes looks at the careers of some of the most beloved perfomers today. In A Wonderful Guy, a follow up to Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great..
36.40£
Brand: Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN: 9781250050892Publisher: St. Martin's GriffinImprint: St. Martin's GriffinPublished date: 11 Feb 2014DEWEY: 812.52DEWEY edition: 23Language: EnglishNumber of pages: viii, 452Weight: 476gHeight: 231mmWidth: 155mmSpine width: 36mm..
27.69£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film studio when she 'consents' to perform in a series of films, thus legitimising acting for what some mi..
122.09£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
This vital resource will steer you through the hugely competitive industry of stage, film and TV acting, offering wise advice on everything from writing an eye-catching résumé to finding an agent. It will give you a clear understanding of how acting..
31.60£
Brand: Faber & Faber
In 1997 the 50-year-old playwright David Hare decided to visit the 50-year-old state of Israel and write a play - Via Dolorosa - about the conflict. He then chose to become the actor of his own play and set about learning to act the monologue for an..
11.36£
Brand: Princeton University Press
An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality..
28.43£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
"The best theatrical read of the year." - British Theatre Guide A book of selected theatre reviews from 1992 to 2020 from one of the foremost authorities on British theatre. Each chapter starts with a brief commentary on the developments of that era..
33.41£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
In this survey of theatre forms in sub-Saharan Africa from pre-colonial times to the present day, popular theatre is interpreted widely to include not only conventional drama, but such non-literary forms of performance as dance, mime, dramatised sto..
28.71£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This open issue of African Theatre is a departure from the traditional themed format to showcase the plethora of styles, approaches and perspectives that populate the contemporary field of African theatre studies, with contributions from Ethiopia, M..
81.53£
In Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema, James Goodwin draws on contemporary theoretical and critical approaches to explore the Japanese director's use of a variety of texts to create films that are uniquely intertextual and intercultural. Surveyi..
33.80£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
In the late 1970s, the alternative comedy scene exploded into life in Britain and completely changed the style, subject matter and politics of British stand-up. Contemporary critics talked about it as 'anti-matter comedy' that 'makes you ..
87.64£ 90.97£
An inclusive history of the professionalization of American scenic design The figure of the American theatrical scenic designer first emerged in the early twentieth century. As productions moved away from standardized, painted scenery and toward ind..
51.74£
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Colley Cibber was one of the most derided men in eighteenth-century London. Mocked for his work in the theatre and as Poet Laureate, he was nevertheless a prolific actor and playwright, and co-managed the Theatre Royal Drury Lane for 24 years. His r..
107.95£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
This is the first textbook designed for students, practitioners and scholars of the performing arts who are curious about the power of the cognitive sciences to throw light on the processes of performance. It equips readers with a clear understandin..
29.37£