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Understanding Theatre
ISBN: PB: 9780857426130, Seagull Books, June 2021
440 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Over the past three decades, theater studies has undergone a radical worldwide development and renewal. This happened through two different yet complementary paths: the first (North American in origin) led to the birth of the discipline of performanc...
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£40,50
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Choreographer's Score Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartok
ISBN: PB: 9780300251296, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2020
248 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 150 black&white illus.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary dance. Her 1982 debut with Fase immediately attracted the attention of the international dance scene; since then, De Keersmaeker and her company, Rosas, have creat...
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£22,00
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mPalermu, Dancers, and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780997228755, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2020
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Emma Dante's passionate and brutal plays stem from a need to confront important familial and societal realities in contemporary southern Italy. Her twenty-first century tales challenge stereotypes of the country and stage acts of resistance against t...
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£24,00
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Subversive Stages Reflections on Czech Theatre
ISBN: PB: 9788024639536, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The motto "Narod sobe" – "From the Nation to Itself" – inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague's National Theatre symbolizes the great importance theater holds for the Czechs. It also...
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£20,00
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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Rosas 2007-2017
ISBN: HB: 9780300236873, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2018
256 pp., 33.5x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) is a renowned Belgian choreographer who over nearly four decades has created a legendary and internationally lauded oeuvre, a continuous exploration of the relationship between dance and music that borrows formal...
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£45,00
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Character, Scene, and Story New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion
ISBN: PB: 9780226393506, ISBN: HB: 9780226393476, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Will Dunne first brought the workshop experience down to the desk level with "The Dramatic Writer's Companion", offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now w...
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£15,00
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£45,00
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Dramatic Writer's Companion (Second Edition) Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories
ISBN: PB: 9780226494081, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In just eight years, "The Dramatic Writer's Companion" has become a classic among playwrights and screenwriters. Thousands have used its self-contained character, scene, and story exercises to spark creativity, hone their writing, and improve their s...
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£15,00
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Theatre Theory Reader Prague School Writings
ISBN: PB: 9788024635781, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2017
646 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 46 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The "Theatre Theory Reader" provides the first comprehensive and critical anthology of texts reflecting on the development of the theater theory of the Prague School – or Prague Linguistic...
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£30,00
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Sunday Pierre Droulers Choreographer
ISBN: PB: 9780300230260, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2017
432 pp., 31x21.8 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
This book celebrates 40 years of work by Pierre Droulers (b. 1951), a pioneer of contemporary dance and choreographer of more than 30 works. A key figure in France and Belgium since the 1970s, Droulers was one of the first students to graduate from t...
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£25,00
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Points of Convergence Alternative Views on Performance
ISBN: PB: 9788364177385, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, March 2017
240 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 40 colour plates, 20 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! Thanks to its very nature, performance enters into natural dialogue with art, new media, politics, and the social sphere as a whole. Always happening in the here and now, and with a unique freedom and openness to the unknown...
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£22,00
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