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  • Designing Modern America

    Broadway to Main Street

    by Professor Christopher Innes ...
    From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of America” and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadway stage designers and directors who turned their prodigious talents to other projects, becoming mavericks first in industrial design and then in ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing

    by Christopher Innes, Maria Shevtsova ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    This Introduction is an exciting journey through the different styles of theatre that twentieth-century and contemporary directors have created. It discusses artistic and political values, rehearsal methods and the diverging relationships with actors, designers, other collaborators and audiences, and treatment of dramatic material. Offering a compelling analysis of theatrical practice, Christopher ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Twentieth-Century British and American Theatre

    A Critical Guide to Archives

    by Christopher Innes, Katherine Carlstrom, Scott Fraser ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1999, this volume aims to develop the field of theatre studies by promoting the study of performative elements and thus fostering their consideration in the critical interpretation of dramatic literature. The authors additionally suggest ways of approaching and evaluating the work of individual performers, as well as of directors, designers and producers. It is an archival guide ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights

    by Tom Adler, Professor Scott T. Cummings, Jochen Achilles, Dr. Ken Urban, Klaus Benesch, Russell Vandenbroucke, James Fisher, Christopher Innes, Christopher Innes, Prof. Toby Zinman0, Susan Abbotson1, Annalisa Brugnoli2, Ilka Saal3, Aurélia Sanchez4, Deborah Geis5, Annette J. Saddik6, Jorge Huerta7, Joanna Mansbridge8, Pia Wiegmink9, Frazer Lively0, Sandra G. Shannon1, Birgit Daewes2, Dr. Peter Paul Schnierer3, Dr. Peter Paul Schnierer5, Prof. Martin Middeke6, Prof. Martin Middeke8, Katherine Weiss9, Professor Kerstin Schmidt0, Dr. Matthew C. Roudané2, Professor Jill S. Dolan3 ...
    Series series Guides to Contemporary Drama
    Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years.This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Edward Gordon Craig: A Vision of Theatre

    by Christopher Innes ...
    Edward Gordon Craig's ideas regarding set and lighting have had an enormous impact on the development of the theatre we know today. In this new and updated edition of his well-known study of Edward Gordon Craig, Professor Christopher Innes shows how Craig's stage work and theoretical writings were crucial to the development of modern theatre. This book contains extensive documentation and re ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre

    Edited by Christopher Innes ...
    A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides essential primary sources which document one of the key movements in modern theatre. Christopher Innes has selected three writers to exemplify the movement, and six plays in particular:* Henrik Ibsen - A Dolls House and Hedda Gabler* Anton Chekhov - The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard* George Bernard Shaw - Mrs Warren's Profession and Heartbreak House ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Avant Garde Theatre

    1892–1992

    by Christopher Innes ...
    Examining the development of avant garde theatre from its inception in the 1890s right up to the present day, Christopher Innes exposes a central paradox of modern theatre; that the motivating force of theatrical experimentation is primitivism. What links the work of Strindberg, Artaud, Brook and Mnouchkine is an idealisation of the elemental and a desire to find ritual in archaic traditions. This ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw

    Edited by Christopher Innes ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensable guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theatre. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing on both the political and theatrical context, while the extensive illustrations showcase productions from ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • On Directing and Dramaturgy

    Burning the House

    by Eugenio Barba ...
    "A theatre which is able to speak to each spectator in a different and penetrating language is not a fantastic idea, nor a utopia. This is the theatre for which many of us, directors and leaders of groups, trained for a long time....." - from the IntroductionOn Directing is Eugenio Barba's unprecedented account of his own life and work. This is a major retrospective of Barba's working methods, his ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Theatre Studies: The Basics

    by Robert Leach ...
    Series series The Basics
    Now in a second edition, Theatre Studies: The Basics is a fully updated guide to the wonderful world of theatre. The practical and theoretical dimensions of theatre – from acting to audience – are woven together throughout to provide an integrated introduction to the study of drama, theatre and performance. Topics covered include:dramatic genres, from tragedy to political documentarytheories of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Shifting Point

    Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946-87

    by Mr Peter Brook ...
    Series series Biography and Autobiography
    Hailed as "the theatrical event of this century" (Sunday Times), Peter Brook's unique dramatisation of India's great epic poem, The Mahabharata played to ecstatic audiences worldwide. In The Shifting Point, his first book since The Empty Space, Brook assesses the lessons of his pioneering work from his brilliant debut at Stratford and the West End in the 1960s to the triumphant success of The ... Read more

    $24.19 USD

  • Fifty Key Theatre Directors

    Edited by Shomit Mitter, Maria Shevtsova ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Fifty Key Theatre Directors covers the work of practitioners who have shaped and pushed back the boundaries of theatre and performance. The authors provide clear and insightful overviews of the approaches and impact of fifty of the most influential directors of the twentieth and twenty-first century from around the world. They include:Anne BogartPeter BrookLev DodinDeclan DonnellanJerzy ... Read more

    $48.99 USD