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  • Scenes from Bourgeois Life

    by Nicholas Ridout ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. In Nicholas Ridout’s formulation, this distance is produced and maintained at two different scales. First is the distance of the colonial relation, not just in miles between Jamaica and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A History of Modern Oman

    by Jeremy Jones, Nicholas Ridout ...
    The ideal introduction to the history of modern Oman from the eighteenth century to the present, this book combines the most recent scholarship on Omani history with insights drawn from a close analysis of the politics and international relations of contemporary Oman. Jeremy Jones and Nicholas Ridout offer a distinctive new approach to Omani history, building on postcolonial thought and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Contemporary Theatres in Europe

    A Critical Companion

    Edited by Joe Kelleher, Nicholas Ridout ...
    Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe.From Théatre du Soleil to Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, the authors reconsider the possibilities of theatre practice, its relation to history and location and its place in ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Theatre of Societas Raffaello Sanzio

    by Joe Kelleher, Nicholas Ridout, Claudia Castellucci, Chiara Guidi, Romeo Castellucci ...
    The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio chronicles four years in the life of an extraordinary Italian theatre company whose work is widely recognized as some of the most exciting theatre currently being made in Europe.In the first English-language book to document their work, company founders, Claudia Castellucci, Romeo Castellucci and Chiara Guidi, discuss their approach to theatre making with ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    Series series Hachette Military Collection
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  • The Transformative Power of Performance

    A New Aesthetics

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    Translated by Saskya Jain ...
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  • Theatre of Movement and Gesture

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    Translated by Joel Anderson, D Bradby, Luke Kernaghan, DICK MCCAW ...
    Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews ... Read more

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