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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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Fount of Time The Last Kindom II
ISBN: HB: 9780857428493, Seagull Books, June 2021
342 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Last Kingdom is a set of books that... is neither philosophical argumentation nor little disparate, scholarly essays, nor novelistic narrative; gradually, for me, all genres have fallen away".   So writes Pascal Quignard of his monumental book serie...
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£18,99
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Golden Horde Revolutionary Italy, 1960-1977
ISBN: HB: 9780857427465, Seagull Books, May 2021
600 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and '70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven together with an original commentary, the volume widens our understanding of the full complexity and richnes...
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£35,00
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Writer and the People
ISBN: HB: 9780857423429, Seagull Books, May 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Originally published in 1965, "The Writer and the People" was one of the key books in the revitalization and invigoration of the young Left in late-1960s Italy. Aiming to demystify the myth of populism, Alberto Asor Rosa takes on Marxism and its lega...
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£26,50
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It All Tastes of Farewell Diaries, 1964-1970
ISBN: HB: 9780857427809, Seagull Books, May 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
It All Tastes of Farewell is a frank account of one woman's life and loves in 1960s East Germany. As a writer, Brigitte Reimann could not help but tell a compelling story, and that is born out here in her diaries, which are gripping as any novel. She...
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£25,00
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Kong's Finest Hour A Chronicle of Connections
ISBN: HB: 9780857428479, Seagull Books, May 2021
342 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 114 halftones
In a world full of devils, the giant ape Kong defends what he loves the most. But who and what is this undomesticated animal? Might it reside within us? As we tread confidently, is this where the earth opens up beneath us?   In Kong's "Finest Hour",...
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£27,99
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Performing Stories Narrative as Performance
ISBN: PB: 9780857428462, Seagull Books, May 2021
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
Retelling performances, collecting things, reading traces, mapping memories, gaming autobiographies: in European and Anglo-American theater since the turn of the millennium, a range of new nonliterary narrative practices such as these have taken root...
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£34,99
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Seedtime III Notebooks, 1995-1998
ISBN: HB: 9780857428486, Seagull Books, May 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Writers' notebooks sometimes prove more revelatory than diaries or intimate journals. At first they might appear to be rag-and-bone shops of ideas, insights, hesitations, doubts, and records of things seen, heard, read, dreamt. But eventually they co...
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£16,99
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Chess with My Grandfather
ISBN: HB: 9780857427953, Seagull Books, April 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
After immigrating with his German Jewish family to South America in the 1930s, Heinz Magnus hopes to escape the Nazi regime and build a new life for himself. But with the storm clouds of war gathering over Europe, the Politeama Theatre in Buenos Aire...
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£18,99
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Rabbit Between Us
ISBN: HB: 9780857427977, Seagull Books, April 2021
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
One morning as they parted, Victor Menza's young daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder anew why rabbits were their symbol of visitation: "How did this kind of creature become such a powerful way of feeling your presence"?  ...
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£18,99
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