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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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Performing Utopia
ISBN: PB: 9780857423863, Seagull Books, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
In her landmark study "Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre", Jill Dolan departed from historical writings on utopia, which suggest that social reorganization and the redistribution of wealth are utopian efforts, to argue instead that u...
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£26,50
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Points of Convergence Alternative Views on Performance
ISBN: PB: 9788364177385, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, March 2017
240 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 40 colour plates, 20 halftones
Not for sale in Poland! Thanks to its very nature, performance enters into natural dialogue with art, new media, politics, and the social sphere as a whole. Always happening in the here and now, and with a unique freedom and openness to the unknown...
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£22,00
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Puppet and the Modern
ISBN: HB: 9788074670565, DAP, Arbor Vitae, October 2014
456 pp., 33x21.5 cm, 750 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Czechoslovakia's unique culture of puppet theater reached a glorious apex between about 1900 and 1950, and its visual style was integral to the development of modernist and contemporary theater and animation. "The Puppet an...
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£65,00
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Pop Goes the Avant-Garde Experimental Theater in Contemporary China
ISBN: PB: 9780857420459, Seagull Books, April 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
"Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China" is the first comprehensive review of the history and development of avant-garde drama and theater in the People's Republic of China since 1976. Drawing on a range of critical pers...
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£19,00
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Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226005508, ISBN: HB: 9780226309583, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 22x14 cm, 24 halftones, 4 colour illus.
The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gestu...
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£11,50
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£20,00
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Persecution, Plague, and Fire Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England
ISBN: HB: 9780226500195, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
256 pp., 22.9x16 cm, 9 halftones
The theater of early modern England was a disastrous affair. The scant record of its performance demonstrates as much, for what we tend to remember today of the Shakespearean stage and its history are landmark moments of dissolution: the burning down...
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£39,00
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Performance in Place of War
ISBN: HB: 9781906497149, Seagull Books, March 2010
392 pp., 23.9x16 cm, 26 halftones
From the Greeks and Shakespeare to the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, war has often been a major theme of dramatic performances. However, many of the most extraordinary theater projects in recent years not only have been about war but also have origin...
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£22,00
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Playwriting The Structure of Action
ISBN: PB: 9780300107241, Yale University Press, October 2005
336 pp., 21x14 cm
This practical guide provides the principles of dramatic writing. Playwrights and screenwriters will discover these essential principles and acquire the tools to put them to use. Sam Smiley incorporates extensive new material in "Playwriting: The Str...
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£19,00
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Pictures in the Air The Story of the National Theatre of the Deaf
ISBN: PB: 9781563681400, Gallaudet University Press, January 1994
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the late 1950s, a small group of theater professionals met in New York City to establish a troupe that would showcase the unique talents of deaf actors. Pictures in the Air tells of their success in starting the National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD),...
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£26,00
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