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  • Theatre Symposium, Vol. 23

    Theatre and Youth

    by David S. Thompson, Becky K. Becker, Camille L. Bryant, Jerry Daday, Andrea Dawn Frazier, Carol Jordan, Edward Journey, Aaron L. Kelly, Ashley Laverty, Sarah McCarroll0, Beth Murray1, Irania Macías Patterson2, Christopher Peck3, Amanda Rees4, Spencer Salas5, Kathryn Rebecca Van Winkle6, Seth Wilson7, Suzan Zeder8 ...
    Series Book 23 - Theatre Symposium Series
    The curtain rises on Theatre and Youth, volume 23 of Theatre Symposium with keynote reflections by Suzan Zeder, the distinguished playwright of theatre for youth, and presents eleven original essays about theatre’s reflections of youth and the role of young people in making and performing theatre.The first set of essays draws from robustly diverse sources: the work of Frank Wedekind in nineteenth ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops

    by Ken Mandelbaum ...
    The "essential and hilarious" book that highlights almost 200 musicals and examines how they became Broadway's biggest fails ( The New Yorker ).Ken Mandelbaum offers the behind-the-scenes story of the development of almost two hundred musical flops that played Broadway between 1950 and 1990, along with a reevaluative and often revisionist study of their quality.Here they all are, from such ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Grotowski Sourcebook

    Edited by RICHARD SCHECHNER, Lisa Wolford Wylam ...
    Series series Worlds of Performance
    This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski's long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Grotowski's life and work. Edited by the two leading experts on Grotowski, the sourcebook features: *essays from the key performance theorists who worked with Grotowski, including Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, Jan Kott, Eric ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Aesthetics of the Oppressed

    by Augusto Boal ...
    Translated by Adrian Jackson ...
    Series series Augusto Boal
    Augusto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. At last this major director, practitioner, and author of many books on community theatre speaks out about the subjects most important to him – the practical work he does with diverse communities, the effects of globalization, and the creative possibilities for all of us. ... Read more

    $65.99 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

  • 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

  • If I Can Make It There, I Can Make It Anywhere: How to Produce Plays and Musical Theater in New York

    by M. Stefan Strozier ...
    In this comprehensive, first and one-of-its-kind book, playwright and producer M. Stefan Strozier will guide you through how to produce a play or a musical in New York or Regional Theater, and how to become a professional producer yourself. The author will explain how to successfully produce theater on a shoestring, based on real experience and budgets in New York, where he was able to mount full ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • British Theatre Companies: 1980-1994

    Joint Stock, Gay Sweatshop, Complicite, Forced Entertainment, Women's Theatre Group, Talawa

    by Graham Saunders, Graham Saunders, Prof. John Bull ...
    Series series British Theatre Companies: From Fringe to Mainstream
    This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to the present. Each volume provides a survey of the political and cultural context, an extensive survey of the variety of theatre companies from the period, and detailed case studies of six of the major companies.Volume Two, 1980–1994, covers ... Read more

    $30.99 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

  • Acts of Conspicuous Compassion

    Performance Culture and American Charity Practices

    by Sheila C. Moeschen ...
    Charity has been a pervasive and influential concept in American culture, and has also served an important ideological purpose, helping people articulate their sense of individual and national identity. But what, exactly, compels our benevolence? In a social moment when countless worthy causes and deserving groups clamor for attention, it is worth examining how our culture generates the exchange ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • 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

    $49.99 USD

  • Tina Packer Builds A Theater

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Tina Packer Builds A Theater by Helen Epstein (30,000 words)Anyone interested in theater should read this small, engaging biography about a woman who founded a regional theater. Tina Packer began as a young actress from Nottingham, England who emigrated to the United States in the early 1970s and, with Kristin Linklater and Dennis Krausnick, developed her own company in Edith Wharton’s abandoned ... Read more

    $5.99 USD