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Hardcover. This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research. Editor(s): Bennett, Susan; Polito, Mary. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; AMG; ANF; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137320162
ISBN
9781137320162
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

Hardcover. Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction. Series: Avant-Gardes in Performance. Num Pages: 274 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ANF; ANH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137324788
ISBN
9781137324788
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.61
€ 44.98

Hardcover. Theatre is a uniquely powerful site for the kind of thinking called for by the crises of climate change. Encompassing academic research, theatre work-shopping, playwriting, dramaturgy, and theoretical writing, this book offers a practical, theoretical, and critical engagement with the urgent issue of making art in the age of climate change. Num Pages: 140 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ANF; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137396617
ISBN
9781137396617
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.82
€ 69.23

Hardcover. Many theatres host post-show discussions, or talkbacks, as part of their season. This book is a critical examination of what has/has not worked with post-show discussions utilized in new play development, providing a framework for understanding discussions, steps for building the foundation of them, and various strategies for structuring them. Num Pages: 116 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137410955
ISBN
9781137410955
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.61
€ 44.18

Hardcover. Over the last decade a number of prison theatre programs have developed to rehabilitate inmates by having them perform Shakespearean adaptations. This book focuses on how prison theatre today reveals certain elements of the early modern theatre that were themselves responses to cataclysmic changes in theological doctrine and religious practice. Num Pages: 154 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137433954
ISBN
9781137433954
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.34

Hardcover. Most scholars agree that reading a play is absolutely unlike live performance, but everything else about their relationship beyond this premise has proven contestable. Focusing on the editorial and textual history of Shakespeare, this book navigates these debates by exploring how textual distortions enrich a play's performance potentialities. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137438430
ISBN
9781137438430
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.71

Hardcover. Spanish Golden Age drama has resurfaced in recent years, however scholarly analysis has not kept pace with its popularity. This book problematizes and analyzes the approaches to staging reconstruction taken over the past few decades, including historical, semiotic, anthropological, cultural, structural, cognitive and phenomenological methods. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137439758
ISBN
9781137439758
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.57

Hardcover. A study of the 30-year collaboration between playwright Samuel Beckett and director Alan Schneider, Bianchini reconstructs their shared American productions between 1956 and 1984. By examining how Beckett was introduced to American audiences, this book leads into a wider historical discussion of American theatre in the mid-to-late 20th century. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137439857
ISBN
9781137439857
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.51

Hardcover. Gao Xingjian has been lauded for his inventive use of Chinese culture in his paintings, plays, and cinema, however he denies that his current work participates in any notion of Chinese. This book traces the development of these forms and how the relate and interact in the French language plays of the Nobel Laureate. Num Pages: 143 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137442529
ISBN
9781137442529
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.23

Hardback. This book illustrates how local awareness of Western cultural hegemonic entities such as Broadway and Shakespeare have been implemented within South Korean theatre in the global era. With a focus on performances that targeted global audiences, Lee explores the ways in which Korea's nationalistic desires for global visibility are projected on stage. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137453570
ISBN
9781137453570
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.63

Hardcover. This is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy. Hargrave provocatively realigns the - hitherto unvoiced - assumptions that underpin such practice and proposes that learning disabled artists have earned the right to full critical review. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137504388
ISBN
9781137504388
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Hardcover. The last 15 years has seen an explosion of studies that use cognitive science to understand theatre, whilst at the same time theatre-makers are using their artistic practice to address research question. This book looks at the current discourse around these emerging fields. Num Pages: 84 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANF; GPS; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137522726
ISBN
9781137522726
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.86

Hardcover. Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality studies. Essays examine the histories and economies of the material operations of theatre, and the spectrality of performance and performer. Editor(s): Luckhurst, Mary; Morin, Emilie. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137345066
ISBN
9781137345066
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

hardcover. Bennewitz, Goethe, Faust makes a cogent argument for this director's place alongside the twentieth century's greatest theatre innovators. Series: German & European Studies. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16. BIC Classification: ANB; ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442643338
ISBN
9781442643338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.03

Hardcover. With a strong interest in the performance of ancient Greek tragedy, Graham Ley's short text explores the dynamics of physical interaction between performers and of the dramaturgical construction of scenes. Num Pages: 255 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; ANC; ANF; DSBB; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 211 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
University of Exeter Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859898928
ISBN
9780859898928
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.25

Paperback. Comprehensive examination of award-winning play's revolutionary effect on teenage sex education via participatory theatre. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 824.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Pap/DVD
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772120066
ISBN
9781772120066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.68
€ 40.41

Paperback. Series: Routledge Icarus. Num Pages: 126 pages. BIC Classification: AFKP; ANC; ANF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 135 x 214 x 17. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138954090
ISBN
9781138954090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.13

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 bw illus. BIC Classification: ANF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474239837
ISBN
9781474239837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.69

Hardback. The digital broadcasting of performances to cinemas, or 'livecasting', burst onto the world scene in 2006. This book explores the reasons for its rise, examines the aesthetics of filming theatre and opera performances, and explores who the audiences are and what they want. Num Pages: 112 pages, 4 black & white tables, 3 graphs. BIC Classification: ANF; APFN; AVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
114
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137288684
ISBN
9781137288684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.20

Paperback. Series Editor(s): Brater, Enoch; Taylor-Batty, Mark. Series: Methuen Drama Engage. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 bw illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ANB; ANF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472578822
ISBN
9781472578822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, 32 b/w & 6 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; ANF; ASDX; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837636697
ISBN
9783837636697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.04
€ 42.14

Paperback. From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London's Grand Guignol - also published by UEP - this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language. Series: Exeter Performance Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: ANF; ANH; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
University of Exeter Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859899963
ISBN
9780859899963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.15

Hardback. This exploration of the territory between theory and practice in contemporary theatre features essays by academics from theatre and translation studies, and delineates a new space for the discussion of translation in the theatre that is international, critical and scholarly, while rooted in experience and understanding of theatre practices. Editor(s): Baines, Roger; Marinetti, Cristina; Perteghella, Manuela. Series: Cultural Criminology. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230228191
ISBN
9780230228191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.75

Paperback. From the bestselling Drama Games series, this dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book - packed with over 200 individual games - is perfect for teachers, playgroup leaders and drama facilitators who want to inspire and entertain children, aged 3 and up, with vibrant and engaging drama experiences. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: ANF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848425613
ISBN
9781848425613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.86

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