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 | Teaching Actors: Knowledge Transfer in Actor Training(Paperback)Addresses actor trainers' understanding of teaching within their practice by drawing upon history, literature, and in particular a study of leading drama schools in Australia and England. This title is suitable for acting teachers in drama schools, lecturers in universities and further education colleges.
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 | Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre(Paperback / softback)"Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre" marks a major contribution to the understanding of one of the most remarkable examples of diasporic artistic activity in recent history. The second volume on British South Asian theater compiled by Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell, this volume provides detailed critical analyses of theater practice and performance from the last thirty years.
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 | Trans(per)forming Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work(Paperback)Illustrated throughout with photographs of the author's transformation over the years and demonstrating her diversity of personae, this volume contributes to a deepening of our understanding of what it means to be a woman and what it means to be beautiful.
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 | Women Vaudeville Stars: Eighty Biographical Profiles(Paperback / softback)Mae West, Sarah Bernhardt, Ethel Barrymore and Helen Keller are perhaps among the best known women to appear on vaudeville stages. Each came to vaudeville by a different path and with a different offering: Mae West entered vaudeville with a song and dance routine when she was 13 years old. Ethel Barrymore dropped in on the Palace Theater to present....
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 | Shakespeare and I(Paperback)An exploration of how the self is revealed or exposed in the experience of reading, viewing and writing about Shakespeare. It intends to inspire readers to think and write about their personal relationship with Shakespeare: about how the poems and plays - and writing about them - can reveal or transform our sense of ourselves.
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 | The Art of Clowning: More Paths to Your Inner Clown(Paperback / softback)"The Art of Clowning" is the first book on clowning technique and offers a step-by-step process for actors and other theatrical enthusiasts to discover their "inner clown." This fun and accessible guide expands on theories and exercises to help students and beginners develop solo and group performances. Using twenty years of teaching experience, Simon reveals a complete system of clowning....
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 | Mr. Broadway: Backstage on the Great White Way: The Inside Stories of the Shuberts, the Shows, and the Stars(Hardback)Mr. Broadway was completed just one month before Gerald Schoenfeld's death in 2008 at the age of 84. Bringing the reader backstage, the long-term chairman of the Shubert Organization shares his triumphs and failures, sings praise, and settles scores. He recounts nightmarish tales of the Shuberts, themselves - the meanness of Lee, the madness of JJ, the turmoil surrounding John's....
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 | The Rest of the Story: A Continued Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood(Hardback)Best known for the hit musicals West Side Story and Gypsy, Arthur Laurents began his career writing socially minded plays such as Home of the Brave and Time of the Cuckoo. He also garnered impressive credits as a screenwriter (The Way We Were) and stage director (La Cage aux Folles). Such a varied professional life makes for absorbing reading, as....
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 | Theatre World Volume 67: 2010-2011(Hardback)Now in its 67th year, Theatre World is the most comprehensive record of the theatrical season-Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway, including listings for over 60 regional companies. Detailing more than 2,000 productions, each entry includes photos, a complete cast listing, producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles, and plot synopses. Theatre World also features the year's obituaries, a....
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 | Conducting Business: Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro(Hardback)Conducting an orchestra is something that is seen as well as heard, but it is quite misunderstood when it comes to knowing what this person actually does for a living. This most mysterious of jobs is brought to life for the music lover as well as for the aspiring maestro in a new book by Leonard Slatkin. Drawing on his....
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 | Thrombo and Other Plays(Paperback / softback)Albert Bermel writes comedies with a dark twist. The Times of London hailed Bermel's Workout as "one of the most expert pieces of comic writing to come out of America for some time." This volume includes nine witty, suspenseful plays - six of them full length, three short. Bermel's plays and translations have been performed throughout the world, including the....
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 | Henry VI: Parts 1, 2, & 3(Paperback / softback)Displaying the bold vision and growing skill of a young playwright, these are Shakespeare's first three history plays, covering some sixty tumultuous years of English history. Their pageantry, violence, and stirring speeches excite audiences with action as well as character, and midway through the final play in this trilogy, a shocking, clever, inimitably evil new voice is heard--that of Richard....
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 | A Decade at the Donmar: 2002-2012(Hardback)A collection of some of the most evocative and beautiful theatre photography personally compiled and narrated by the author, the Donmar's Artistic Director from 2002 to 2012.
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 | The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater: Representing the Auto Sacramental(Hardback).cs3FE93966{text-align: left;text-indent:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 36pt}.csA62DFD6A{color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-family: Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; }.cs5EFED22F{color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-family: Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; }.cs7CED571B{text-align: left;text-indent:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt}The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater argues that twentieth-century artists used the Golden Age Eucharist plays called autos sacramentales to reassess the way....
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 | A History of Theatre in Spain(Hardback)Leading practitioners and theatre historians present a new assessment of Spain's theatrical history from a performative perspective.
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 | Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company 1594-1625(Paperback)Andrew Gurr presents the first history to be written of the acting company known as the Admiral's Men.
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 | Chinese Theater(Paperback)In this illustrated introduction Fu Jin explores the origins and development of Chinese theater from ancient opera to modern drama.
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 | Othello and Interpretive Traditions(Paperback / softback)During the past twenty years or so, "Othello" has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns. Focusing on race and gender (and on class, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality), the play talks about what audiences want to talk about. Yet at the same time, as refracted through Iago, it forces us to hear what we....
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 | A Purple Summer: Notes of the Lyrics of Spring Awakening(Paperback / softback)In February 1999, Steven Sater conceived the radical notion of creating a rock musical from Frank Wedekind's notorious Symbolist drama, Fruhlings Erwachen, and he enlisted his friend and writing partner Duncan Sheik in the enterprise. That night, Sater came home and began writing the first lyric of Spring Awakening: "Mama Who Bore Me" - a lyric which still stands, verbatim,....
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 | Modern British Theatre in 100 Plays(Hardback)Published in collaboration with the V&A, The Story of Modern British Theatre in 100 Plays explores the best and most influential plays from 1945 to date. Fully illustrated with colour photos from the V&A's collections, the book includes essays, review excerpts, plot summaries, extracts and insight into stage and costume designs. Essays written by Kate Dorney, Curator of the....
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