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Barbra Streisand Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300230611, Yale University Press, November 2017
296 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful... talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age". Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a p...
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£10,99
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Utility
ISBN: PB: 9780300224429, Yale University Press, November 2017
112 pp., 22.9x14 cm
Marking the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series for emerging playwrights, Emily Schwend's powerful work centers on Amber, a young woman struggling to raise a family in East Texas. Amber is juggling two nearly full-time jobs and three kids. Her...
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Character, Scene, and Story New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion
ISBN: PB: 9780226393506, ISBN: HB: 9780226393476, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Will Dunne first brought the workshop experience down to the desk level with "The Dramatic Writer's Companion", offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now w...
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£45,00
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Dramatic Writer's Companion (Second Edition) Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories
ISBN: PB: 9780226494081, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In just eight years, "The Dramatic Writer's Companion" has become a classic among playwrights and screenwriters. Thousands have used its self-contained character, scene, and story exercises to spark creativity, hone their writing, and improve their s...
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Nikolaj Evreinov "The Storming of the Winter Palace"
ISBN: PB: 9783037349915, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2017
250 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 85 halftones
In 1920, on the third anniversary of the October Revolution, dramatist Nikolai Evreinov directed a cast of 10,000 actors, dancers, and circus performers – as well as a convoy of armored cars and tanks – in "The Storming of the Winter Palace". The mas...
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£30,00
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Theatre Theory Reader Prague School Writings
ISBN: PB: 9788024635781, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2017
646 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 46 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The "Theatre Theory Reader" provides the first comprehensive and critical anthology of texts reflecting on the development of the theater theory of the Prague School – or Prague Linguistic...
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£30,00
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Dumb Type Reader
ISBN: PB: 9788763544931, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, August 2017
256 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 20 colour plates
From the 1980s into the early 2000s, the Japanese group Dumb Type mounted multimedia performances that broke substantial new ground in new media dramaturgy and influenced countless performers to follow. This book gathers essays on the group's work, a...
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"I Love XXX" and Other Plays
ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780857423849, Seagull Books, August 2017
320 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 60 halftones
Since premiering his pioneering linguistic experiment "I Love XXX" in Beijing nearly twenty-five years ago, Meng Jinghui has been credited with revitalizing Chinese theater by popularizing the avant-garde. Mixing high culture with mass culture, his p...
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£34,00
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"Unofficial Roxelana" and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857423856, Seagull Books, August 2017
328 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
At a time when Turkey is struggling for its secular identity, resisting the influence of ISIS, and finding itself at the heart of the European refugee crisis, accomplished Turkish playwright Ozen Yula offers a deep, artistic portrait of the country a...
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Sunday Pierre Droulers Choreographer
ISBN: PB: 9780300230260, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2017
432 pp., 31x21.8 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
This book celebrates 40 years of work by Pierre Droulers (b. 1951), a pioneer of contemporary dance and choreographer of more than 30 works. A key figure in France and Belgium since the 1970s, Droulers was one of the first students to graduate from t...
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£25,00
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