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Radio Family
ISBN: PB: 9780857428172, ISBN: HB: 9780857421913, Seagull Books, March 2021
400 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. Influenced by Hans Weigel and the legendary literary circle Gruppe 47, Bachmann gained international renown for her p...
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£12,99
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£20,50
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Rusalka A Lyrical Fairy-tale in Three Acts
ISBN: PB: 9788024643816, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
100 pp., 19x12.7 cm, 20 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Famous as the libretto for Antonin Dvorak's opera of the same name, Jaroslav Kvapil's poem "Rusalka" is an intriguing work of literature on its own. Directly inspired by Hans Christian And...
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£10,00
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Ron Vawter's Life in Performance
ISBN: PB: 9780857425522, Seagull Books, February 2020
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
From 1974 to 1994, Ron Vawter was a staple of New York's downtown theater scene, first with the Performance Group and later as a founding member of the Wooster Group. "Ron Vawter's Life in Performance" is the first book focused on this incomparable a...
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£22,00
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Reflection And Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857424945, Seagull Books, November 2018
320 pp., 19x15.2 cm
Celebrated Indian playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar has experimented with many forms of dramatic expression in a career that now spans more than four decades, producing works that range from the realist to the symbolic, expressionist to the theater of the...
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£18,99
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Rechnitz, and The Merchant's Contracts
ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780857422255, Seagull Books, February 2015
240 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contempora...
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£34,00
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Rhythm Field The Dance of Molissa Fenley
ISBN: PB: 9780857422194, Seagull Books, December 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 halftones
Molissa Fenley, one of the most influential artists of postmodern dance, has had a lasting impact on performance. In dance, she has explored extreme effort and duration in highly crafted patterns and performed with an explosive, joyous energy that in...
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£34,00
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Rituals of Rented Island Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama - Manhattan, 1970-1980
ISBN: PB: 9780300195866, Yale University Press, December 2013
176 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 140 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
This important volume explores three unique performance art practices of the 1970s and early 1980s: "object theater" (in which artists engage directly with the objects in the world around them); "loft performance" (where artists performed in lofts, s...
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£20,00
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Real Shakespeare Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-94
ISBN: PB: 9780300072822, Yale University Press, September 1997
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In an account of the first 30 years of Shakespeare's life, Eric Sams controverts all orthodox editions, biographics and reference books. He reveals how, in conventional Shakespeare scholarship, the playwright's youth has been concealed within a web o...
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£12,95
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Roofed Theaters of Classical Antiquity
ISBN: HB: 9780300046854, Yale University Press, October 1992
258 pp., 28.9x30.5 cm
This book explores the roofed theatre sites of classical antiquity. George Izenour examines 24 Greek, Graeco-Hellenistic, and Roman buildings. He provides architectural drawings of their probable original appearance and discusses how these huge space...
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£215,00
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