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  • Milestones in Actor Training

    Edited by Paul Allain, Frank Camilleri ...
    Series series Milestones
    Milestones in Actor Training focuses on key developments across time in how actors prepare for performance.Designed for weekly use on actor training and acting courses, the ten chosen milestones cover a wide range, culturally, historically, and geographically; from psychological realist acting in conventional plot-driven drama, through Commedia dell’Arte to the broader church of physical acting ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Movement, Text, Performance

    by Paul Allain ...
    Series series Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts
    This Element argues that movement, overseen by a movement director, is vital for theatre-making. It can support actors with characterisation and playing others responsibly and ethically, for scripted and non-scripted tasks: from dances to fights, from parades to murders, or other human behaviour. Movement directing is an increasingly common role as it helps forge an ensemble and build 'worlds' on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

    by Paul Allain, Jen Harvie ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? How have they been shaped by events, people, companies, practices and ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? And where are they heading next? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance offers some answers to these big questions. This third edition has been updated to now include over 160 ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Art of Stillness

    The Theater Practice of Tadashi Suzuki

    by Paul Allain ...
    For over forty years, Tadashi Suzuki has been a unique and vital force in both Japanese and Western theater, creating and directing many internationally acclaimed productions including his famous production of The Trojan Women, which subsequently toured around the world. An intergral part of his work has been the development and teaching of his rigorous and controversial training system, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gardzienice: Polish Theatre in Transition

    by Paul Allain ...
    In 1977, the Gardzienice Theatre Association, an experimental theatre company was founded in a tiny Polish village. By 1992 The Observer was hailing "Brilliant Gardzienice...and orgy of joy, anguish, prayer and lamentation performed in candlelight with hurtling energy and at breakneck speed...Physically reckless, thrillingly well sung...On no account to be missed. " Today the Gardzienice Theatre ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov

    Edited by Vera Gottlieb, Paul Allain ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume of specially commissioned essays explores the world of Anton Chekhov - one of the most important dramatists in the repertoire - and the creation, performance and interpretation of his works. The Companion, first published in 2000, begins with an examination of Chekhov's life, his Russia, and the original productions of his plays at the Moscow Art Theatre. Later film versions and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Theatre Practice of Tadashi Suzuki

    A critical study with video examples

    by Paul Allain ...
    Series series Performance Books
    A lively, critical study of one of the most important innovators, thinkers and directors in contemporary world theatre: Tadashi Suzuki. This book explores Suzuki's theatre practice and contains accompanying video content with practical Suzuki Method actor-training examples.For over forty years Tadashi Suzuki has been a unique and vital force in both Japanese and Western theatre, creating and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Modern Art

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Cottington ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Art History: The Key Concepts

    by Jonathan Harris ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Art History: The Key Concepts is a systematic, reliable and accessible reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture. Containing entries on over 200 terms integral to the historical and theoretical study of art, design and culture in general, it is an indispensable source of knowledge for all students, scholars and teachers.Covering the development, present status and future ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Modern Art: A Critical Introduction

    by Pam Meecham, Julie Sheldon ...
    Revised and restructured, this second edition of Modern Art traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and the theories that influenced and attempted to explain them. Its radical approach foregoes the chronological approach to art movements in favour of looking at the ways in which art has been understood.The editors investigate the main developments in ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History

    Edited by David Wiles, Christine Dymkowski ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Scholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history in different ways at different times and in different places. This Companion offers students and general readers a series of accessible and engaging essays on the key aspects of studying and writing theatre history. The diverse international team of contributors investigates how theatre history has been constructed, showing how ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum

    by Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Piotr Piotrowski ...
    Since the late nineteenth century, museums have been cited as tools of imperialism and colonialism, as strongholds of patriarchalism, masculinism, homophobia and xenophobia, and accused both of elitism and commercialism. But, could the museum absorb and benefit from its critique, turning into a critical museum, into the site of resistance rather than ritual? This book looks at the ways in which ... Read more

    $58.99 USD