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  • Sharon Pollock

    First Woman of Canadian Theatre

    by Donna Coates, Kathy K. Y. Chung, Carmen Derksen, Sherrill Grace, Martin Morrow, Jeton Neziraj ...
    Series Book 8 - The West
    As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the past fifty years. Pollock is nationally and internationally respected for her work and support of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Theatre of the Absurd

    by Martin Esslin ...
    In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

    by Stella Adler ...
    In her long-awaited book, the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler gives us her extraordinary insights into the work of Henrik Ibsen ("The creation of the modern theater took a genius like Ibsen. . .Miller and Odets, Inge and O'Neill, Williams and Shaw, swallowed the whole of him"), August Strindberg ("He understood and predicted the forces that would break in our lives"), and Anton Chekhov ( ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Three Uses of the Knife

    On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

    by David Mamet ...
    The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion . . . is to inspire cleansing awe. What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet, one of our greatest living playwrights, tackles these questions with bracing directness and aphoristic authority. He believes that the tendency to dramatize is essential to human nature, that we ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Light Princess

    by Samuel Adamson, Tori Amos ...
    I'm done, Father,Keep your crown,I swear you'll never bring me down!I am not queen material!Once, in opposing kingdoms lived a princess and a prince who had lost their mothers. Althea, unable to cry, became light with grief and floated, and so was locked away. Digby, so heavy-hearted that he could never smile, one day declares war. Althea, forced out of hiding, escapes, only to encounter the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Performing Violence

    Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama

    by Birgit Beumers, Mark Lipovetsky ...
    New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing Violence is the first English-language study of the consequent boom in drama and why this new breed of ... Read more

    $23.79 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

  • The Drama of Ideas

    Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy

    by Martin Puchner ...
    Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in actions, not ideas. Challenging both views, The Drama of Ideas shows that theater and philosophy have been crucially intertwined from the start. Plato is the presiding genius of this alternative history. The Drama of Ideas ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • On Beckett

    Essays and Criticism

    Edited by S. E. Gontarski ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance
    “On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett. More has been written about Samuel Beckett than about any other writer of this century – countless books and articles dealing with him are in print, and the progression continues ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Theatre of David Henry Hwang

    by Esther Kim Lee ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant impact in the U. S. and beyond. The Theatre of David Henry Hwang provides an in-depth study of his plays and other works in theatre.Beginning with his "Trilogy of Chinese America", Esther Kim Lee traces all major phases of his playwriting career. Utilizing historical and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Guide

    by Jacqueline Bolton ...
    Series series GCSE Student Guides
    Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Guides conveniently gather indispensable resources and tips for successful understanding and writing all in one place, preparing students to approach their exams with confidence.Key features include a critical commentary of the play with extensive, clearly labelled analyses on themes, characters and context. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Live Art Almanac

    Volume 4

    Edited by Lois Keidan ...
    Drawing together all kinds of writing about and around Live Art, The Live Art Almanac is both a useful resource and a great read for artists, writers, students and others interested in the field of interdisciplinary, performance-based art.The Live Art Almanac Volume 4 is? a collection of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art that were originally published, shared, sent, spread and read ... Read more

    $22.19 USD