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Hardcover. This title unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, animals and objects to reflections on the innovative theatre work of Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Forced Entertainment and Goat Island combine to offer a radical critique of performance studies. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 339 pages, 25 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230572614
- ISBN
- 9780230572614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.63
€ 128.63
Hardcover. Each chapter of this book presents a different marginalized community and explores how it appropriates theatre for its own needs, which are often at odds with those of the powerful sponsoring organisations. This fresh approach to the topic provides the reader with an innovative, critical way of studying community theatre. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230555198
- ISBN
- 9780230555198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This title offers insight into a range of art and performance practices that have emerged as a result a more technological world. These practices are integral to alternative and mainstream performance culture and the author explores their aesthetic theorisation and analyses other approaches, including those offered by research into neuroesthetics. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANS; HPN; JFD; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230553132
- ISBN
- 9780230553132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. The cult of the child performer was a significant emergence of the Victorian age. Fierce public debate and lasting legislation grew out of the conflict between a desire for juvenile display and a determination to stop exploitation. This study explores the social and artistic context of their lives and their developing professionalism as actors. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ANB; DSBF; JFSP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230551558
- ISBN
- 9780230551558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.63
€ 67.63
Hardcover. Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre explores modern theatrical practices in Indonesia from a performance of Hamlet in the warehouses of Dutch Batavia to Ratna Sarumpaet's feminist Muslim Antigones. The book reveals patterns linking the colonial to the postcolonial eras that often conflict with the historical narratives of Indonesian nationalism. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMN; AN; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230546882
- ISBN
- 9780230546882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded. Coleman offers radical new ways of reading canonical Renaissance plays. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSBD; DSG; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535831
- ISBN
- 9780230535831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardcover. This is the first book to explore the involvement of John Ruskin with the popular theatre of his time. Based on original archival research, this book offers a fresh look at the aesthetic and social theories of Ruskin and his direct and indirect influence on the commercial theatre of the late nineteenth century. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; AN; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524996
- ISBN
- 9780230524996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre, presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every period of the playwright's career, from Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew to King Lear and The Tempest, mapping a new approach to ideas of the theatre as an institution. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524804
- ISBN
- 9780230524804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Reading a range of work from the US and UK over the last two decades, this is an innovative study of theatre's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming. How does theatre reflect, and intervene in, naming practices across domains such as philosophy, computing, journalism, anthropology, advertising, military training, and genetics? Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517707
- ISBN
- 9780230517707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Paperback. This comprehensive biography uses extensive theater and film archives to reveal Mamet's ideas on writing, acting, and directing, covering his beginnings in Chicago, his relationship to Judaism and reputation for machismo, as well as discussions of and excerpts from early plays and stories that have never before been referenced in print. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANB; ANF; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230378711
- ISBN
- 9780230378711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.91
€ 35.99
€ 30.91
Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in t...
Varney, Denise, Eckersall, Peter, Hudson, Chr...
Hardcover. Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1MB; AN; ASDT; ASZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230366480
- ISBN
- 9780230366480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. Acoustic Interculturalism is a study of the soundscapes of intercultural performance through the examination of sound's performativity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines an akoumenological reception of sound to postulate the need for an acoustic knowing - an awareness of how sound shapes the intercultural experience. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230354166
- ISBN
- 9780230354166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow's legacy is a living library of over 200 productions created by Jasper Deeter's idealistic and determined pursuit of 'truth and beauty.' Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JJ; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341456
- ISBN
- 9780230341456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.70€ 46.72
€ 52.70
€ 46.72
Hardcover. Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AN; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340459
- ISBN
- 9780230340459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.70€ 47.17
€ 52.70
€ 47.17
Hardcover. In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains that entice one to consider the tension between material remains and memory and reflect on how substitution and surrogation work alongside mourning and melancholia as responses to loss. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 244 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QMP; AN; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340329
- ISBN
- 9780230340329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.70€ 47.00
€ 52.70
€ 47.00
Hardcover. Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance is the first monograph to provide an in-depth study of the implications of Deleuze's philosophy for theatre and performance. Drawing from Goat Island, Butoh, Artaud and Kaprow, as well from Deleuze, Bergson and Laruelle, the book conceives performance as a way of thinking immanence. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 220 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319523
- ISBN
- 9780230319523
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.29
€ 67.29
Hardcover. This book examines queer performance in Britain since the early 1990s, arguing for the significance of emerging collaborative modes of practice. Using queer theory and the history of early lesbian and gay theatre to examine claims to representation among other things, it interrogates the relationships through which recent works have been presented. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AN; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230304420
- ISBN
- 9780230304420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.85
€ 160.85
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300958
- ISBN
- 9780230300958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Paperback. Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? This book, now in paperback, queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma. Editor(s): Hopkins, D. J.; Orr, Shelley; Solga, Kim. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZ; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300491
- ISBN
- 9780230300491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Paperback. This book, now in paperback with a new preface, examines art and performance practices emerging from a more technological world. They are integral to alternative and mainstream performance culture and the author explores their aesthetic theorisation and analyses other approaches, including those offered by research into neuroesthetics. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; ANS; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230293649
- ISBN
- 9780230293649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Hardcover. Performing Contagious Bodies explores live/body art and installation practices through theories of ritual and magic. Featuring discussion of a wide range of contemporary international practice, this book explores the intersections of performance studies, art history, anthropology and contemporary visual art practices. Num Pages: 248 pages, 24 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AFKN; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230292703
- ISBN
- 9780230292703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.61
€ 127.61
Hardcover. Over 20 years after the war in Yugoslavia, this book looks back at its two most iconic cities and the phenomenon of exile emerging as a consequence of living in them in the 1990s. It uses examples ranging from street interventions to theatre performances to explore the making of urban counter-sites through theatricality and utopian performatives. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230292666
- ISBN
- 9780230292666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. This book explores an under-researched body of work from the early decades of the twentieth century, connecting plays, performances and practitioners together in dynamic dialogues. Moving across national, generational and social borders, the book reads experiments in Britain during this period alongside theatrical innovations overseas. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230285781
- ISBN
- 9780230285781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73