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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “j boll”
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  • The New War Plays

    From Kane to Harris

    by J. Boll ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    How can war be represented on stage? How does the theatre examine the structures leading to violence and war and explore their transformation of societies? Springing from the discussion about 'New Wars' in the age of globalisation, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how these 'New Wars' bring forth new plays about war. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Bath Time

    by Anna J. Boll ...
    Narrated by Highlights for Children ...
    Series series Read With Highlight

    Unabridged

    A rhyming poem about the bubbles toys and fun that make bath time great! ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    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

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  • 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

  • Staging Modern American Life

    Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos

    by T. Fahy ...
    Series series What is Theatre?
    Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimental ... Read more

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  • 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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  • 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

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  • Rethinking Religion in the Theatre of Grotowski

    by Catharine Christof ...
    This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritual, nature of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski’s work. It corrects the lacunae in both theatre studies and religious studies by examining the interaction between the two fields in his artistic output.The central argument of the text is that ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Refugees, Theatre and Crisis

    Performing Global Identities

    by A. Jeffers ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Using examples of refugee arts and theatrical activity since the 1990s, this book examines how the 'refugee crisis' has conditioned all arts and cultural activity with refugees in a world where globalization and migration go hand in hand. ... Read more

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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan

    The Impresario in Political and Cultural Context

    Edited by Jack DeRochi, Daniel Ennis ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    This new collection of essays on Richard Brinsley Sheridan brings the most important British playwright of the eighteenth century back to the forefront of literary and cultural studies of the era. While his pyrotechnic life as a romantic hero, playwright, Member of Parliament, and theatre manager has generated a number of recent biographies, it is Sheridan’s works—not just plays but also poetry ... Read more

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  • Performance: A Critical Introduction

    by Marvin Carlson ...
    Since its original publication in 1996, Marvin Carlson's Performance: A Critical Introduction has remained the definitive guide to understanding performance as a theatrical activity. It is an unparalleled exploration of the myriad ways in which performance has been interpreted, its importance to disciplines from anthropology to linguistics, and how it underpins essential concepts of human society ... Read more

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  • Theatre and Residual Culture

    J.M. Synge and Pre-Christian Ireland

    by Christopher Collins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding of what it meant to be “modern” at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book draws extensively ... Read more

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