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Serial Black Face

Nabers Janine, Norman Marsha

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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Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 A Critical Anthology

Knopf Robert, Listengarten Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780300206739, Yale University Press, September 2015
546 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

An essential volume for theatre artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century,...

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Time We Share Reflecting on and through Performing Arts - One Introduction, Three Acts, and Two Intermezzos

Blanga-Gubbay Daniel, Kwakkenbos Lars, Bel Jerome, Castellucci Romeo, Lepecki Andre, Mouffe Chantal, Siegmund Gerald, Stengers Isabelle

ISBN: PB: 9780300211771, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2015
400 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Marking the 20th anniversary of Belgium's Kunstenfestivaldesarts – a major international arts festival – this ambitious book examines a wide range of critical perspectives on two decades of performing arts. The authors look closely at performing arts...

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New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater Play and Playtext

Mujica Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780300109566, Yale University Press, February 2015
800 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 black&white illus.

This anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age brings together the work of canonical writers, female writers who are rapidly achieving canonical status, and lesser-known writers who have recently gained critical attention. It contains the full t...

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Like a Bomb Going Off Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia

Ross Janice, Garafola Lynn

ISBN: HB: 9780300207637, Yale University Press, December 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 61 black&white illus.

Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside the USSR know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his a...

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Still

Silverman Jen, Norman Marsha

ISBN: PB: 9780300206357, Yale University Press, November 2014
120 pp., 21x14 cm

In this darkly comic exploration of loss, intimacy and motherhood, three women are joined by a baby who never lived. Morgan, in her middle years, is the grieving mother of a stillborn child. Elena, the failed midwife, burdened by guilt, is considerin...

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Performing Arts

Faust A Tragedy, Parts One and Two

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von, Greenberg Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780300189698, Yale University Press, August 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

A classic of world literature, Goethe's "Faust" is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humour and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text's varied metre and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles – dramatic and...

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Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays

Manley Lawrence, Maclean Sally-Beth

ISBN: HB: 9780300191998, Yale University Press, July 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In this major contribution to theatre history and cultural studies, authors Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean paint a lively portrait of the now-forgotten acting troupe, "Lord Strange's Men", a daring company of players that dominated the London...

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Soviet Theater A Documentary History

Senelick Laurence, Ostrovsky Sergei

ISBN: HB: 9780300194760, Yale University Press, July 2014
768 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 61 black&white illus.

In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theatre from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years' worth of archival documentation, the...

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O'Neill Transformation of Modern American Theater

Sweet Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780300195576, Yale University Press, July 2014
320 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 250 black&white illus.

As the old ways of the commercial theatre were dying and American playwriting was in crisis, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center arose as a midwife to new plays and musicals, introducing some of the most exciting talents of our time (including August W...

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