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  • Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage

    In History’s Wings

    by Alexander Feldman ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    The Autobiography

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    We wept at his Oscar-winning role in Marty. . .we gasped when he took on Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity. . .we were riveted by his compelling performances in The Dirty Dozen, Bad Day at Black Rock, and Ice Station Zebra. . .and we laughed at his television sitcom McHale's Navy. We loved all of Ernest Borgnine's many portrayals, but what did we know about the man behind the famous roles? ... Read more

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  • Playwriting

    A Writers' and Artists' Companion

    by Mr Fraser Grace, Ms Clare Bayley ...
    Series series Writers’ and Artists’ Companions
    Full of inspiration and practical advice, Playwriting: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is a comprehensive companion to writing for the stage.PART 1 includes reflections on the art and the craft of playwriting, guidance on writing for a full range of genres and spaces and a brief history of playwriting itself.PART 2 contains inspiring advice and reflections from leading playwrights:April De Angelis ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • An Ideal Theater

    Founding Visions for a New American Art

    by Todd London ...
    An Ideal Theater is a wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American theatre movement as told by the visionaries who goaded it into being. This anthology collects over forty essays, manifestos, letters and speeches that are each introduced and placed in historical context by the noted writer and arts commentator, Todd London, who spent nearly a decade assembling this collection. This ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Acting Is Everything

    An Actor's Guidebook For A Successful Career

    by Judy Kerr ...
    In this actor's guidebook, renowned acting coach Judy Kerr shares her lifetime of techniques and tricks of the trade. She opens the doors of Hollywood to acting hopefuls and professionals with a straightforward road map for building their dreams and careers. The previous 11 editions have contributed to the success of thousands of readers. In this new Ebook Judy shares brand new content: including ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Theatre of the Real

    by C. Martin ...
    Series series Studies in International Performance
    This book proposes a new way to consider theatre and performance that claims a special relationship to reality, truth and authenticity. It documents innovations in devising and staging theatre and performance that takes reality as its subject, cultural shifts that have generated theatre of the real, some of its problems and some possibilities. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Postdramatic Theatre and the Political

    International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance

    Edited by Dr Karen Jürs-Munby, Dr Jerome Carroll, Prof. Steve Giles ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brecht's ideas of political theatre, for example? How can we account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new forms of theatre, playwriting, and performance?The chapters in this book discuss crucial aspects of the issues raised by the postdramatic turn in theatre in the late twentieth and early twenty-first ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Disability Theatre and Modern Drama

    Recasting Modernism

    by Professor Kirsty Johnston ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    Bertolt Brecht's silent Kattrin in Mother Courage, or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum in The Threepenny Opera; Tennessee Williams' limping Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and hard-of-hearing Bodey in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Samuel Beckett's blind Hamm and his physically disabled parents Nagg and Nell in Endgame – these and many further examples attest to ... Read more

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  • Murder, Mayhem and Music Hall

    The Dark Side of Victorian London

    by Barry Anthony ...
    The Strand is one of London's most iconic streets - today the bustling and thriving home of West End theatres and the luxurious Savoy hotel; in the Victorian era, the Strand was a much more seedy and destitute part of the city. Barry Anthony here explores the criminal and socially subversive behaviour which abounded in and around the Victorian Strand. He introduces us to a vast range of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting

    by Jonathan Pitches ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Providing new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition with reference to parallel developments in science. Rooted in practice, it presents an alternative perspective based on philosophy, physics, romantic science and theories of industrial management.Working from historical and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Captive Stage

    Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North

    by Douglas A. Jones Jr. ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    In The Captive Stage, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum north, even though chattel slavery had virtually disappeared from the region by the turn of the nineteenth century—and that northerners cultivated their proslavery imagination most forcefully in their performance practices. Jones explores how multiple ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Adapturgy

    The Dramaturg's Art and Theatrical Adaptation

    by Jane Barnette ...
    Series series Theater in the Americas
    Dramaturg Jane Barnette has put together an essential guide for theatre scholars and practitioners seeking to understand and participate in the process of adaptation for the stage. Employing the term “adapturgy”—her neologism for the art of adaptation dramaturgy—Barnette redefines the dramaturg’s role and thoroughly refutes the commonplace point of view that adapted works are somehow less creative ... Read more

    $18.79 USD