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  • David Mamet and Male Friendship

    Buddy Plays and Buddy Films

    by Arthur Holmberg ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Using insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, and the history of sexuality, Holmberg explores the ambiguity that drives male bonding. Personal interviews with Mamet and with the actors who have interpreted his major roles shed light on how and why men bond with each other and complement close analysis of Mamet's texts. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • No Applause—Just Throw Money

    The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous

    by S. D. Trav ...
    This chronicle of vaudeville is "an essential (and very funny) history of American popular entertainment" (Greg Kotis, creator of Urinetown ).When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, variety entertainment had been going on for decades in America, and like Harry Houdini, Milton Berle, Mae West, and countless others, these performers got their start on the vaudeville stage. From 1881 to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Postdramatic Theatre

    by Hans-Thies Lehmann ...
    Translated by Karen Juers-Munby ...
    Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre.In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theatre ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Staging Philosophy

    Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy

    Edited by David Krasner, David Z. Saltz ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use these insights to develop new theories about theater. Each of the contributors—leading scholars in the fields of performance and philosophy—breaks new ground, presents new arguments, and offers new theories that will pave the way for ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Seneca: Oedipus

    by Professor Susanna Braund ...
    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient mythology. Through the centuries, his story has inspired works of epic poetry, lyric poetry, tragedy, opera, a gospel musical and more. The myth has been famously deployed in psychology by Sigmund Freud. It may not be too bold to claim that Oedipus is the name from Greco-Roman mythology best known beyond the academy at the present ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Trumpets in the Mountains

    Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba

    by Laurie Frederik, Laurie Aleen Frederik ...
    Trumpets in the Mountains is a compelling ethnography about Cuban culture, artistic performance, and the shift in national identity after 1990, when the loss of Soviet subsidies plunged Cuba into a severe economic crisis. The state's response involved opening the economy to foreign capital and tourism, and promoting previously deprecated cultural practices as quintessentially Cuban. Such ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • So Much Wasted

    Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance

    by Patrick Anderson, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which they do so, he examines the diagnostic history of anorexia nervosa, fasts staged by artists ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Theatre of Fear & Horror: Expanded Edition

    The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962

    by Mel Gordon ...
    "Bloodcurdling shrieks, fiendish schemes, deeds of darkness, mayhem and mutilation—we all have a rough idea of what Grand Guignol stands for. But until now it has been hard to find out much more about it than that. According to the American theater historian Mel Gordon, no major history of the theater so much as mentions it, although it is a form of entertainment that held its own on the Paris ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville

    by Anthony Slide ...
    The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Alan Bennett

    A Critical Introduction

    by Joseph O'Mealy ...
    Series series Studies in Modern Drama
    Alan Bennett is perhaps best known in the UK for the BBC production of his Talking Heads TV plays, while the rest of the world may recognize him for the film adaptation of his play, The Madness of King George. O'Mealy points out that Bennett is a social critic strongly influenced by Beckett and Swift, interested in depicting and analyzing the role playing of everyday life, a'la sociologist Ervin ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • A Sustainable Theatre

    Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow

    by B. Witham ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow's legacy is a living library of over 200 productions created by Jasper Deeter's idealistic and determined pursuit of 'truth and beauty.' ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl

    by Lynette Goddard ...
    Series series The Fourth Wall
    Errol John wrote Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (1958) after becoming disillusioned about the lack of good roles for black actors on the British theatre scene. While this situation has only slightly improved since, his response has become the most revived black play in Britain, from its original production at the Royal Court in 1958, to the National Theatre in 2012. It depicts the lives of a black ... Read more

    $16.99 USD