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Stories under Occupation and Other Plays from Palestine

Al-Saber Samer, English Gary M.

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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Subversive Stages Reflections on Czech Theatre

Day Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9788024639536, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The motto "Narod sobe" – "From the Nation to Itself" – inscribed over the proscenium arch of Prague's National Theatre symbolizes the great importance theater holds for the Czechs. It also...

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Sentence to Hope A Sa'dallah Wannous Reader

Wannous Sa'dallah, Myers Robert, Saab Nada

ISBN: HB: 9780300221343, Yale University Press, May 2019
464 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Sa'dallah Wannous is acknowledged to be one of the Arab world's most significant playwrights, writers, and intellectuals of the twentieth century. This first English-language collection brings together his major plays and essays. Selections include t...

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Strategic Planning in the Arts A Practical Guide

Kaiser Michael M.

ISBN: HB: 9781512601749, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Planning today is more important than ever. Both acquisition and allocation of resources are increasingly difficult for arts organizations as a result of emerging technologies, reduced arts education, aging donors, and the advent of new forms of ente...

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Poetry

Strange Footing Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

Chaganti Seeta

ISBN: PB: 9780226548043, ISBN: HB: 9780226547992, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 25 halftones

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the...

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Political Science

Season in the Congo

Cesaire Aime

ISBN: PB: 9780857424877, ISBN: HB: 9781905422944, Seagull Books, February 2018
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Cesaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. "A Season in the Congo" follows Lumumba's efforts to free the...

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Sunday Pierre Droulers Choreographer

Droulers Pierre

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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Staging History 1780-1840

Burden Michael, Heller Wendy, Hicks Jonathan, Lockhart Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9781851244560, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
224 pp., 21x21 cm, 79 colour illus.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical subjects became some of the most popular topics for stage dramas of all kinds on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of essays examines a number of extraordinary theatrical wor...

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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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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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