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Paperback. For those who wish to appear on stage as well as those who prefer to work behind the scenes, this book profiles more than 70 jobs in various branches of theater and the performing arts. The career profiles include: Actor/Actress, Booking agent, Casting director, Celebrity personal assistant, Costume designer, Drama coach, Playwright, and more. Series: Career Opportunities in.. Num Pages: 320 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: AN; VSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 187 x 20. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Checkmark Books
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816062898
ISBN
9780816062898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.33

Hardback. This study takes a look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were historically staged? Drawing on performance studies, it provides detailed readings of play texts to explore the politics, pathologies and parodies of mourning. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DDS; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230001534
ISBN
9780230001534
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.57

hardcover. This ground-breaking study of cross-cultural theatre in the Australasian region focuses on theatrical events and practices in avant-garde and mainstream contexts. It explores the cultural and political dimensions of Australia's engagement with Asia and sheds light on international arts marketing and trends in cross-cultural performance training. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MB; AN; ASZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2007th Edition
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230003408
ISBN
9780230003408
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Hardback. This exciting book uniquely combines interviews with scholars and practitioners in theatre studies to look at what most people feel is a pivotal moment of British theatre - the 1990s. With a particular focus on 'in-yer-face theatre', this volume will be essential reading for all students and scholars of contemporary British theatre. Editor(s): Aragay, Mireia; Klein, Hildegard; Monforte, Enric; Zozaya, Pilar. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JJPR; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230005099
ISBN
9780230005099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Hardback. Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies. Editor(s): McKenzie, Jon; Roms, Heike; Wee, C. J. Wan-ling. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008458
ISBN
9780230008458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Hardback. This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 239 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; 3JB; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230103863
ISBN
9780230103863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.81
€ 88.00

Hardback. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSC; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230104099
ISBN
9780230104099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.85

Hardback. This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England. In broad terms, the project answers the question, 'How do we define the relationships between performance and audience?'. Editor(s): Low, Jennifer A.; Myhill, Nova. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110649
ISBN
9780230110649
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.19
€ 80.48

Paperback. This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics. Also includes an updated introduction assessing Wilson's legacy since his death in 2005. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ANB; DD; DSG; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113015
ISBN
9780230113015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 47.15

Hardcover. Hecht examines the relationship between Jewish assimilation and the changing face of the American musical though the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; AVGM; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113275
ISBN
9780230113275
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 47.09

Paperback. This book provides an introduction to spectator response from the perspective of cognitive science, using insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy, and memory in theatregoing. Num Pages: 262 pages, 0. BIC Classification: AN; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116733
ISBN
9780230116733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.71
€ 50.13

Hardback. This book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; AN; DSG; HBLH; JFSP1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230202610
ISBN
9780230202610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.85

Hardback. A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221277
ISBN
9780230221277
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

Hardback. EPUB Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; GTJ; JFFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221604
ISBN
9780230221604
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.76

Hardback. This exploration of the wide variety of censorship that has shaped theatrical performance in twentieth and twenty-first century Britain examines the unpredictable outcomes of censorship, deep-seated anxieties about the performative influence of the stage, and the complex questions raised by acts of theatrical censorship. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; JFCA; JFMD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230223783
ISBN
9780230223783
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This book argues that US theatre in the 20th century embraced the theories and practices of internationalism as a way to realize a better world and as part of the strategic reform of the theatre into a national expression. Live performance, theatre internationalists argued, could represent and reflect the nation like no other endeavour. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2015th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230233386
ISBN
9780230233386
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.57

paperback. Globalization is transforming theatre everywhere. As writers seek new opportunities to produce their work internationally, audiences are seeing the world -- and the stage -- differently. This groundbreaking study, now available in paperback, explores these developments in the context of the transformation of Ireland since the early 1990s. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2008th Edition
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230241916
ISBN
9780230241916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

hardcover. Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that define Performance Studies. The Rise of Performance Studies is the first collection of essays to critically examine the profound contributions that Schechner has made to Performance Studies as a discipline. Editor(s): Harding, James M.; Rosenthal, Cindy. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2011th Edition
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230242913
ISBN
9780230242913
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.39

Hardback. The first ever full-length study of the Royal Court Theatre's International Department, covering the theatre's unique programming of international plays and seasons, its London-based residences for writers from overseas, and the legacies of workshops conducted in more than 30 countries. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230319486
ISBN
9780230319486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

Hardback. This ground-breaking collection focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform our ecological values. Top scholars explore how familiar and new works of performance can help us recognize our reciprocal relationship with the natural world and how it helps us understand the way we are connected to the land. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230337282
ISBN
9780230337282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

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