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American Play, 1787-2000
ISBN: PB: 9780300170047, Yale University Press, September 2011
416 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm
In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theatre. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how...
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£33,00
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Conversations Across Borders
ISBN: HB: 9781906497507, Seagull Books, September 2011
452 pp., 19.1x21.6 cm, 35 halftones
For the last fifteen years, performance artist and writer Guillermo Gomez-Pena has led a series of ongoing conversations with cultural luminaries from both North and South America. These dialogues with theorists, curators, activists, and fellow artis...
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£30,00
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Nippon Wars and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857420022, Seagull Books, August 2011
390 pp., 19x15 cm, 20 halftones
"Nippon Wars and Other Plays" provides a unique and fascinating window into the last thirty years of Japan's dynamic theater scene. This collection of plays from renowned Japanese theater artist Takeshi Kawamura gathers together for the first time in...
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£19,00
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Solum and Other Plays from Turkey
ISBN: PB: 9780857420015, Seagull Books, August 2011
270 pp., 19x15 cm, 35 halftones
This anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, and displacement while shedding light on current cultural and political matters in Turkey, a country liter...
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£19,00
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War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9781906497705, Seagull Books, August 2011
240 pp., 19x15 cm, 15 halftones
Yasmine Beverly Rana's "The War Zone Is My Bed and Other Plays" follows journeys of spiritual destruction and redemption from the banks of the Mississippi River and the fallen levees of New Orleans to the conflict-ravaged streets of Sarajevo and Kabu...
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£19,00
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Shaping Society through Dance Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes
ISBN: DVD: 9780226520070, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
0 pp., 0x0 cm
During the patron saint fiesta in the Andean town of San Jeronimo, Peru, crowds gather at sunset in the town square, eagerly awaiting the entrance of the colorful dance troupes, or comparsas. With their masks, music, and surprising interpretations of...
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£45,00
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Stravinsky's Ballets
ISBN: HB: 9780300118728, Yale University Press, May 2011
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Igor Stravinsky was a towering composer of the twentieth century and closely linked to dance. His early commissions for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes – "The Firebird", "Petrouchka", and "The Rite of Spring" – put him on the international map and propell...
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£25,00
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Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome
ISBN: PB: 9780300176995, Yale University Press, March 2011
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
The presentations in the theater, gladiatorial combats, chariot races in the circus, animal hunts, triumphal processions, and other public entertainments of early imperial Rome served as tangible expressions of Roman ideology and power. This engaging...
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£20,00
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Persecution, Plague, and Fire Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England
ISBN: HB: 9780226500195, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
256 pp., 22.9x16 cm, 9 halftones
The theater of early modern England was a disastrous affair. The scant record of its performance demonstrates as much, for what we tend to remember today of the Shakespearean stage and its history are landmark moments of dissolution: the burning down...
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£39,00
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