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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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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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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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On the Royal Road The Burgher King
ISBN: HB: 9780857427786, Seagull Books, August 2020
178 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is known as a writer who works in response to contemporary crises and cultural phenomena. Perhaps none of her works display that quality as clearly as "On the Royal Road". Three weeks after Donald Trump's election,...
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£16,99
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Stories under Occupation and Other Plays from Palestine
ISBN: PB: 9780857427472, Seagull Books, June 2020
288 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
Palestinian theater today is drawing increasing interest throughout the Arab world and beyond, as theaters and universities in the English-speaking world are becoming familiar with companies like the Freedom Theatre, Al-Kasaba Theatre, Ashtar, Al-Row...
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£35,00
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Kaddish Pages on Tadeusz Kantor
ISBN: PB: 9780857427489, Seagull Books, May 2020
64 pp., 17.7x10.7 cm, 16 halftones
Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was renowned for his revolutionary theater performances in both his native Poland and abroad. Despite nominally being a Catholic, Kantor had a unique relationship with Jewish culture and incorporated many elements of Jewish...
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£13,99
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Dancing Odissi Paratopic Performances of Gender and State
ISBN: PB: 9780857425539, Seagull Books, February 2020
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones, 22 facsimiles
Odissi holds iconic status as one of the eight classical dance forms recognized and promoted by the Indian government. This book traces the dance's transformation from its historical role as a regional artistic practice to its modern incarnation as t...
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£22,00
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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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Three Plays "Rechnitz", "The Merchant's Contracts", "Charges (The Supplicants)"
ISBN: PB: 9780857427120, Seagull Books, October 2019
480 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
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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£14,99
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Citizens of Tokyo Six Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857425515, Seagull Books, September 2019
360 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
"Citizens of Tokyo" is the first collection in English of plays by one of Japan's most important contemporary playwrights, Oriza Hirata, whose works have been performed all over the world. The first part of Citizens of Tokyo, "At Home and Abroad," pr...
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£25,00
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