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La Divina Caricatura Bunraku Meets Motown
ISBN: PB: 9780857425577, Seagull Books, March 2019
216 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
This unique book is a graphic novel and performance poem, a mixed-media musical cartoon, an animated feature film come to life. Lee Breuer's "La Divina Caricatura" is in the pataphysical tradition of Alfred Jarry – if Jarry had been a Dante fan. In t...
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£22,00
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Like a Bomb Going Off Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia
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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£63,00
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Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays
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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£60,00
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Lillian Hellman An Audacious Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300164978, Yale University Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm
Glamorous, talented, audacious – Lillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of twenty-nine she had written "The Children's Hour", the first of four hit Broadway plays, and soon she was considered a member of Americ...
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£18,99
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Leading Roles 50 Questions Every Arts Board Should Ask
ISBN: HB: 9781584659068, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not-for-profit arts organizations struggled to survive the recent economic recession. In this increasingly hardscrabble environment, it is absolutely imperative that the boards of these organizations function as energetically, creatively, and efficie...
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£23,00
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Lidless
ISBN: PB: 9780300160307, ISBN: HB: 9780300169423, Yale University Press, September 2010
96 pp., 21x14 cm
It's been fifteen years since Guantanamo, fifteen years since Bashir last saw his U. S. Army interrogator, Alice. Bashir is now dying of a disease of the liver, an organ that he believes is the home of the soul. He tracks down Alice in Texas and dema...
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£15,00
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£25,00
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