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  • The Pinter Ethic

    The Erotic Aesthetic

    by Penelope Prentice ...
    Series series Studies in Modern Drama
    The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists, The Pinter Ethic penetrates the mystery of Harold Pinter's work with compelling and authoritative insights that locate and disclose the primal power of his drama in his characters' powerplay for dominance. With remarkable clarity, Penelope Prentice's close reading of Pinter's work ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    The Autobiography

    by Ernest Borgnine ...
    We wept at his Oscar-winning role in Marty. . .we gasped when he took on Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity. . .we were riveted by his compelling performances in The Dirty Dozen, Bad Day at Black Rock, and Ice Station Zebra. . .and we laughed at his television sitcom McHale's Navy. We loved all of Ernest Borgnine's many portrayals, but what did we know about the man behind the famous roles? ... Read more

    $11.09 USD

  • No Applause—Just Throw Money

    The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous

    by S. D. Trav ...
    This chronicle of vaudeville is "an essential (and very funny) history of American popular entertainment" (Greg Kotis, creator of Urinetown ).When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, variety entertainment had been going on for decades in America, and like Harry Houdini, Milton Berle, Mae West, and countless others, these performers got their start on the vaudeville stage. From 1881 to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Grotowski Sourcebook

    Edited by RICHARD SCHECHNER, Lisa Wolford Wylam ...
    Series series Worlds of Performance
    This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski's long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Grotowski's life and work. Edited by the two leading experts on Grotowski, the sourcebook features: *essays from the key performance theorists who worked with Grotowski, including Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, Jan Kott, Eric ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $30.79 USD

  • Bad Boy Nietzsche! and Other Plays

    by Richard Foreman ...
    Richard Foreman has been at the leading edge of the theatrical avant-garde in the United States and throughout the world since 1968. His legendary productions, written and directed by him at his Ontological-Hysteric Theatre have influenced two generations of theater artists. This new anthology collects plays written and performed over six years, including Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Speaking in Tongues

    Languages at Play in the Theatre

    by Marvin Carlson ...
    Speaking in Tongues presents a unique account of how language has been employed in the theatre, not simply as a means of communication but also as a stylistic and formal device, and for a number of cultural and political operations. The use of multiple languages in the contemporary theatre is in part a reflection of a more globalized culture, but it also calls attention to how the mixing of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Plays, 1996-2000 (Maxwell)

    by Richard Maxwell ...
    * New play Joe opens 8/02 at NYC's P.S. 122 * Directing Henry IV at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Spring 2003 18 plays in the collection Performed work all over the world as well as many numerous performance spaces throughout the U.S ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Tina Packer Builds A Theater

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Tina Packer Builds A Theater by Helen Epstein (30,000 words)Anyone interested in theater should read this small, engaging biography about a woman who founded a regional theater. Tina Packer began as a young actress from Nottingham, England who emigrated to the United States in the early 1970s and, with Kristin Linklater and Dennis Krausnick, developed her own company in Edith Wharton’s abandoned ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Theatre/Ecology/Cognition

    Theorizing Performer-Object Interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold

    by T. Paavolainen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    How is performer-object interaction enacted and perceived in the theatre? How thereby are varieties of 'meaning' also enacted and perceived? Using cognitive theory and ecological ontology, Paavolainen investigates how the interplay of actors and objects affords a degree of enjoyment and understanding, whether or not the viewer speaks the language. ... Read more

    $89.09 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