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  • Working in the Wings

    New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor

    by Chrystyna Dail, Sara Freeman, Rosemarie K. Bank, Jonathan L Chambers, Dorothy Chansky, Tracey Elaine Chessum, Jerry Dickey, Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, Melissa Rynn Porterfield, Tom Robson, AnnMarie T. Saunders, Max Shulman ...
    Series series Theater in the Americas
    Theatre has long been an art form of subterfuge and concealment. Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor, edited by Elizabeth A. Osborne and Christine Woodworth, brings attention to what goes on behind the scenes, challenging, and revising our understanding of work, theatre, and history.Essays consider a range of historic moments and geographic locations—from African ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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  • Broadway North

    The Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre

    by Mel Atkey ...
    Did you know that the idea behind the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes was first tried out in Toronto? That Canada produced the world’s longest-running annual revue? Few people realize the Canadian influences that are at the heart of American and British culture.Author Mel Atkey’s research for Broadway North included interviews with Norman and Elaine Campbell and Don Harron, creators of Anne of ... 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $17.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $49.49 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

  • Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World

    Edited by Diego Santos Sánchez ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World explores the discourses that have linked theatrical performance and prevailing dictatorial regimes across Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. These are divided into three different approaches to theatre itself - as cultural practice, as performance, and as textual artifact - addressing topics including obedience, resistance, authoritarian ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance

    by Catherine Silverstone ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to account for – but not to rationalize – the ongoing and pernicious effects of various forms of violence as they have emerged in selected contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts, especially as that ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Watching War on the Twenty-First Century Stage

    Spectacles of Conflict

    by Dr Clare Finburgh Delijani, Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    What do we watch when we watch war? Who manages public perceptions of war and how? Watching War on the Twenty-First-Century Stage: Spectacles of Conflict is the first publication to examine how theatre in the UK has staged, debated and challenged the ways in which spectacle is habitually weaponized in times of war. The 'battle for hearts and minds' and the 'war of images' are fields of combat that ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism

    Thinking the Political Anew

    by M. Wickstrom ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book ranges from refugee camps in Palestine to halting sites of the Irish Travellers and elsewhere in search of a new politics practiced through performance. Written through the intersection of performance and philosophy, the book refutes neoliberalism's depoliticizing and strategic uses of humanitarianism, human rights, and development. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD