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Staging History 1780-1840
ISBN: PB: 9781851244560, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
224 pp., 21x21 cm, 79 colour illus.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical subjects became some of the most popular topics for stage dramas of all kinds on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of essays examines a number of extraordinary theatrical wor...
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£25,00
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Alexandra Sequence
ISBN: PB: 9781784102043, Carcanet, September 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
In "The Alexandra Sequence" John Redmond views contemporary urban life through the suggestive prism of the "mummers play", a seasonal British folk-theatre staged in the streets and door-to-door. The book's title takes its name from an area of Liverpo...
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£9,99
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50 Drawings to Murder Magic
ISBN: PB: 9780857423504, Seagull Books, September 2016
96 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 50 halftones
A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor, and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the French avant-garde. A key text for understanding his thought and his appeal, "50 Drawings to Murder Magi...
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£16,00
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Tahrir Tales Plays from the Egyptian Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9780857423412, Seagull Books, August 2016
360 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
The ten plays in this collection offer unprecedented grassroots perspectives on the jubilation, terror, hope, and heartbreak of mass uprising as seen during and in the wake of the Tahrir Square demonstrations. Collectively tracing events as they unfo...
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£34,00
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Architecture of Story A Technical Guide for the Dramatic Writer
ISBN: PB: 9780226181912, ISBN: HB: 9780226181882, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables
While successful plays tend to share certain storytelling elements, there is no single blueprint for how a play should be constructed. Instead, seasoned playwrights know how to select the right elements for their needs and organize them in a structur...
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£13,50
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£38,50
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Why Acting Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300195743, ISBN: HB: 9780300195781, Yale University Press, March 2016
192 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm
Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking essay, Thomson tackles this most elusive of subjects, exam...
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£19,00
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£19,99
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America Dancing From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk
ISBN: HB: 9780300201314, Yale University Press, December 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bil...
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£25,00
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Objects as Actors Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy
ISBN: HB: 9780226312958, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
"Objects as Actors" charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items in the form of theatrical props. In this b...
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£44,00
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Serial Black Face
ISBN: PB: 9780300211375, Yale University Press, November 2015
128 pp., 22.9x14 cm
The year is 1979 and a serial killer in Atlanta is abducting and murdering young black children. Against a backdrop of fear and uncertainty, playwright Janine Nabers explores the emotional battleground where an African-American single mother wars wit...
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£14,00
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Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory Embodied Memory, Witnessing and Transmission in the Grotowski Work
ISBN: PB: 9780857423177, Seagull Books, November 2015
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition pro...
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£26,50
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