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  • Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

    by Mark Taylor-Batty, Dr Juliette Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Modern Theatre Guides
    "An impressively complete survey of the play in its cultural, theatrical, historical and political contexts." - David Bradby, co-editor of Contemporary Theatre ReviewSamuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is not only an indisputably important and influential dramatic text -it is also one of the most significant western cultural landmarks of the twentieth century. Originally written in French, the play ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Theatre of Harold Pinter

    by Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    The plays of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter have formed part of the canon of world theatre since the 1960s. Frequently revived on the professional stage, and studied on almost every Theatre Studies course, his importance and influence is hard to overestimate. This Critical Companion offers an assessment of Pinter's entire body of work for the stage, appraising his skill as a dramatist and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain

    Staging Crisis

    by Mark Taylor-Batty, Prof. Enoch Brater, Vasiliki Angelaki ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the individual, the theatre has provided a unifying forum, treating spectators as citizens. This book critically deals with representative plays and playwrights who have stood out in the UK and internationally in the post-recession era, delivering theatre that in the process of being truthful to the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories

    Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 2

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous historical past and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Theatre and its Double

    by Antonin Artaud ...
    Translated by Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Theatre Makers
    In The Theatre and Its Double, first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of experimentation.Containing the famous manifestos of the 'Theatre of Cruelty', this collection of essays analyses the underlying impulses of performance, provides suggestions on a physical-training method for ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Beat Drama

    Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and many others. Yet all of these authors, as well as other less well-known Beat figures, also wrote plays-and these, together with their countercultural ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Theatres of Contagion

    Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultures? Theatres of Contagion responds to some of the anxieties of our current political and cultural climate by exploring theatre's status as a contagious cultural force, questioning its role in the spread or control of medical, psychological and emotional conditions and phenomena. Observing a diverse ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Brecht in Practice

    Theatre, Theory and Performance

    by Reader in Drama, Theatre and Performance David Barnett, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    David Barnett invites readers, students and theatre-makers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in this clear and accessible study of Brecht's theories and practices. The book analyses how Brecht's ideas can come alive in rehearsal and performance, and reveals just how carefully Brecht realized his vision of a politicized, interventionist theatre.What emerges is a nuanced ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe

    by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challenging in the ideas they explore. Yet Barker's writing career spans six decades, he is the only living writer to have been accorded an entire season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and The Wrestling School produces theatre of such a striking quality ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Social Housing in Performance

    The English Council Estate on and off Stage

    by Dr Katie Beswick, Mark Taylor-Batty, Prof. Enoch Brater ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    This book explores the ways that council estates have been represented in England across a range of performance forms. Drawing on examples from mainstream, site-specific and resident-led performance works, it considers the political potential of contemporary performance practices concerned with the council estate. Depictions of the council estate are brought into dialogue with global ... Read more

    $38.99 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

  • The Contemporary American Monologue

    Performance and Politics

    by Eddie Paterson, Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method ... Read more

    $30.99 USD