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Hardcover. Why is folly essential to the functioning of a healthy society? Why is theatre a natural home for madness? The answers take the reader on a journey embracing Shakespeare and Jonson, Brecht and Beckett, Buchner and Boal. From Falstaff to Fo via Figaro, this study examines the art of telling truth to power and surviving long enough to have a laugh. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230291591
ISBN
9780230291591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.23

Paperback. Theatre & Sexuality explains the critical validity of using sexuality as a lens for examining theatre's creation and reception. The book offers clear introductions to sexual identity politics, ways of 'reading' sexuality on stage and a select history of LGBTQ theatre, including a reading of Split Britches/Bloolips' production Belle Reprieve. Series: Theatre and. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 180 x 113 x 10. Weight in Grams: 96.
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230220645
ISBN
9780230220645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.06

Paperback. Guides the would-be playwright over the many hurdles that must be cleared. This work raises - and provides answers to - over fifty topics ranging from 'Should you know which theatre you are writing for?' to 'What if you get stuck?' and on to 'Where do you send your script?' It also includes a directory of theatres and contacts. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854597168
ISBN
9781854597168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. A brilliant new handbook, full of insider information on the realities of attending drama school and pursuing an acting career. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: ANC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848421561
ISBN
9781848421561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 93 black & white halftones, 19 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; 3JF; 3JH; AN; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493016594
ISBN
9781493016594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.91

Paperback. Wearing a mask - putting on another face - embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. This book explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the other". Num Pages: 246 pages, 121 colour and 100 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: ANH; APF; HP; JFC; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 179 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
246
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292752474
ISBN
9780292752474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.84

Hardcover. In this volume, Thomas Hischak looks at more than 375 Off-Broadway productions, from the early decades of the 20th century through 2010. These musicals are described, discussed, and analyzed with particular attention given to their books, scores, performers, and creators. Num Pages: 522 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 38. Weight in Grams: 960.
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
522
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810877719
ISBN
9780810877719
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.74

Paperback. This is the first Western language book on Edo period noh and its use by the shogun, an essential addition to the scholarship in Japanese theater and the cultural history of early modern Japan. Series: Cornell East Asia. Num Pages: 315 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell East Asia Program
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947389
ISBN
9781933947389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardcover. This is the first Western language book on Edo period noh and its use by the shogun, an essential addition to the scholarship in Japanese theater and the cultural history of early modern Japan. Num Pages: 315 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell East Asia Program
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947082
ISBN
9781933947082
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.77

Hardback. Focusing on institutional history, this book explores the Pekin Theater's philosophy of hiring only African American staff, its embrace of multi-racial upper class audiences, and its ready assumption of roles as diverse as community center, social club, and fundraising instrument. Series: New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 black and white photographs, 15 musical examples, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; AN; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252038365
ISBN
9780252038365
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.23

Paperback. Whether they work in the amateur, educational, or professional theatre, this title provides stage managers with the nuts and bolts of the craft, including the various technologies and a section on opera stage management. It contains sample documents, diagrams and charts to demonstrate rehearsal schedules, scene breakdowns, prop lists and more. Num Pages: 304 pages, b/w throughout, includes diagrams, includes photographs, includes charts. BIC Classification: ANH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Watson-Guptill Publications United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823098026
ISBN
9780823098026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.76

Hardback. Editor(s): McLean, Thomas. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AN; BGL; DSB; DSR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611474800
ISBN
9781611474800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.49

Paperback. Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, this book addresses topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes between Liverpool and Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance. Editor(s): DeFrantz, Thomas; Gonzalez, Anita. Num Pages: 306 pages, 22 photographs. BIC Classification: AN; AS; AV; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822356165
ISBN
9780822356165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.75

Paperback. This book provides a brief yet informative evaluation of the variety and complexity of theatrical endeavours in the United States, embracing all epochs of theatre history and situating American theatre as a lively, dynamic and diverse arena. Series: British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Paperbacks. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; HBJK; HBT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625925
ISBN
9780748625925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 30.94

Hardcover. This book provides a brief yet informative evaluation of the variety and complexity of theatrical endeavours in the United States, embracing all epochs of theatre history and situating American theatre as a lively, dynamic and diverse arena. Series: British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Paperbacks. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; HBJK; HBT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748645206
ISBN
9780748645206
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.01
€ 108.80

Hardback. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 411.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312221492
ISBN
9780312221492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 37.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349230808
ISBN
9781349230808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.20

Paperback. Contains a selection of contributions that originated at the 2013 International Brecht Society Symposium in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a focused set of articles on Brecht and Buchner, and new research on Brecht and Tragedy, Brecht and Puccini, and George Tabori. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AN; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780985195625
ISBN
9780985195625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.80

paperback. Examining the phenomenon of the West End musical, the fringe and mainstream theatre, this book is concerned with the complex and dynamic theatre of the 1980s and early 1990s, reflecting the experience of artists living in a country that is multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-national. Editor(s): Shank, Theodore. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
Edition
1996th Edition
SKU
V9780333684061
ISBN
9780333684061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.78

Hardback. The Old Vic, one of the world's great theatres, opened in 1818 with rowdy melodrama and continued with Edmund Kean in Richard III howled down by the audience. One impresario, among the first of thirteen to go bankrupt there, fled to Milan and ran La Scala. In 1848 a chorus girl tried to murder the leading lady. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; AN; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571311255
ISBN
9780571311255
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.27

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