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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
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Hardcover. In New Labour's empathetic regime, how did diverse voices scrutinize its etiquettes of articulation and audibility? Using the voice as cultural evidence, Voice and New Writing explores what it means to 'have' a voice in mainstream theatre and for newly included voices to negotiate with the institutions that 'find' and 'represent' their identities. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJPR; 3JM; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137432322
- ISBN
- 9781137432322
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Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress's body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430663
- ISBN
- 9781137430663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. This book brings together experts across disciplines to examine the connection between digital technologies and human movement, and to consider the creative and artistic possibilities of technologized human motion. Editor(s): Salazar Sutil, Nicolas; Popat, Sita. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 338 pages, 40 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; AS; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 261 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137430403
- ISBN
- 9781137430403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.54
€ 161.54
Hardcover. Adorno and Performance offers the first comprehensive examination of the vital role of performance within the philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno. Capacious in its ramifications for contemporary life, the term 'performance' here unlocks Adorno's dialectical thought process, which aimed at overcoming the stultifying uniformity of instrumental reason. Editor(s): Daddario, Will; Gritzner, Karoline. Series: Performance Philosophy. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429872
- ISBN
- 9781137429872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. Many people today first encounter staged Shakespeare in an open-air setting. This book traces the history of open-air Shakespeares in Australia to investigate why the anomaly of adapting 400-year old plays under Australian skies exerts such a strong appeal. Series: Global Shakespeares. Num Pages: 131 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426857
- ISBN
- 9781137426857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Paperback. Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture, now available in paperback, is a seminal collection of essays, written by an international cohort of scholars, that addresses the complex and exciting intersections of Irish and performance studies. Num Pages: 269 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137425713
- ISBN
- 9781137425713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.25
€ 66.25
Hardcover. How has contemporary American theatre presented so-called undocumented immigrants? Placing theatre artists and their work within a context of on-going debate, Guterman shows how theatre fills an essential role in a critical conversation by exploring the powerful ways in which legal labels affect and change us. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412485
- ISBN
- 9781137412485
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.85
€ 52.90
€ 46.85
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
€ 52.90€ 46.16
€ 52.90
€ 46.16
Performance and Temporalisation: Time Happens (Performance Philosophy)
McNeilly, Jodie, Veerapen, Maeva
Hardcover. Performance and Temporalisation features a collection of scholars and artists writing about the coming forth of time as human experience. Whether drawing, designing, watching performance, being baptised, playing cricket, dancing, eating, walking or looking at caves, each explores the making of time through their art, scholarship and everyday lives. Editor(s): Grant, Stuart; McNeilly, Jodie; Veerapen, Maeva. Series: Performance Philosophy. Num Pages: 272 pages, 22 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137410269
- ISBN
- 9781137410269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.89
€ 160.89
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402448
- ISBN
- 9781137402448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.30
€ 139.30
Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project: The Ecocide...
Chaudhuri, Una, Enelow, Shonni
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
€ 86.57€ 72.42
€ 86.57
€ 72.42
Hardcover. The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions concerning the creation of the institution and its legacy. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 292 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNH; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394347
- ISBN
- 9781137394347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.85
€ 52.90
€ 46.85
Hardcover. History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts. At its core are contributions from theatre scholars and public historians discussing how historical meaning is shaped through performance. Editor(s): Dean, David; Meerzon, Yana; Prince, Kathryn. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137393883
- ISBN
- 9781137393883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Paperback. From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ANB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137385475
- ISBN
- 9781137385475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.35
€ 32.99
€ 27.35
Hardcover. This collection focuses on performance work that engages with Cape Town, at the foot of the African continent, as a real or imagined node in a complex system of migration and mobility. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379337
- ISBN
- 9781137379337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.11
€ 68.11
Hardcover. Long form scenic improv began with the Harold. The comic philosophy of this form started an era of comedy marked by support, trust, and collaboration. This book tells of the Harold, beginning with the development of improv theatre, through the tensions and evolutions that led to its creation at iO, and to its use in contemporary filmmaking. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137376572
- ISBN
- 9781137376572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.69
€ 52.90
€ 46.69
Hardcover. A cinema without cameras, without actors, without screen frames and without narratives almost seems like an antithetical impossibility of what is usually expected from a cinematic spectacle. This book defines an emergent field of post-cinematic theatre and performance, challenging our assumptions and expectations about theatre and film. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137375483
- ISBN
- 9781137375483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. This book explores the connection between politics and theatre by looking at the works and lives of Shaw, Brecht, Sartre, and Ionesco, providing a cultural history detailing the changing role of political theatre in twentieth-century Europe. Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; AN; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137374691
- ISBN
- 9781137374691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.44
€ 160.44
Hardcover. This book traces the history of 'girls' aesthetics,' where adult Japanese women create art works about 'girls' that resist motherhood, from the modern to the contemporary period and their manifestation in Japanese women's theatrical and dance performance and visual arts including manga, film, and installation arts. Series: Contemporary Performance Interactions. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACX; AN; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137372970
- ISBN
- 9781137372970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.99
€ 149.99
Hardcover. If the city is the theatre of urban life, how does architecture act in its many performances? This book reconstructs the spatial experiments of Art et Action, a theatre troupe active in 1920s Paris, and how their designs for theater buildings show how the performance spaces interacted with actors and spectators according to their type. Num Pages: 149 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AM; ANH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137368676
- ISBN
- 9781137368676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.40
€ 52.90
€ 46.40
Hardcover. This book explores the performance of Irish collective memories and forgotten histories. It proposes an alternative and more comprehensive criterion of Irish theatre practices. These practices can be defined as the 'rejected', contested and undervalued plays and performativities that are integral to Ireland's political and cultural landscapes. Editor(s): Collins, Christopher. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362179
- ISBN
- 9781137362179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Theatre's Heterotopias analyses performance space, using the concept of heterotopia: a location that, when apparent in performance, refers to the actual world, thus activating performance in its culture. Case studies cover site-specific and multimedia performance, and selected productions from the National Theatre of Scotland and the Globe Theatre. Series: Contemporary Performance Interactions. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362117
- ISBN
- 9781137362117
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Scenic spectacles collapse the borders of graphic and visual arts, multimedia technology, spectatorship and architecture. Drawing upon various systems of commercial, institutional and public spectacle that intersect with scenic stages of the national landscape, Tenneriello examines how spectacle is entrenched in the formation of national identity. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; AN; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360618
- ISBN
- 9781137360618
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.75
€ 52.90
€ 47.75