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British Theatre Design: The Modern Age
This cookbook is for anyone interested in getting fit - intermittently at the gym, running for fun, as a training sportsman or woman, or as a serious marathon runner. These...
Arion and the Dolphin: Libretto
This is the first publication of Vikram Seth's libretto to coincide with the Bayliss programme, ENO's first performance of it in June 1994.
Come to Dazzle: Sarah Bernhardt's Australian Tour
The Divine Sarah, recognised as the world's greatest actress, is at the centre of this book, but the story it tells is much wider. Corille Fraser's lively writing and her...
Light Fantastic
Included is a special collection on "Funny Men" which captures Joe Orton's laughter in the face of Halliwell's notorious scowl, pinpoints why the "outlaw stance" of Bill Hick's delights in...
Twentieth Century
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Musical comedy Book and Lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden Music by Cy Coleman Based on a play by Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur and also a play by...
Autobahn: A Short-Play Cycle
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"Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works...Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the...
Secondhand Plays Bargain Book Box DSH1118
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Secondhand Theatre History and Drama Studies Bargain Book Box This extensive collection of 21 secondhand volumes provides a comprehensive look into the world of drama, spanning from classical Bernard Shaw...
Playing Australia: Australian theatre and the international stage
Playing Australia explores the insights and challenges that Australian theatre can offer the international theatre community. Collectively, the essays in this book ask what Australian drama is, has been, and...
The Role of the Critic
Nicholas Dromgoole has been a prominent and respected drama and dance critic for most of his adult life. Who better therefore to take the reader through the role of this...
Theatre and the Mind
In this collection of seven provocative essays, acclaimed theatre director and playwright Mick Gordon argues that the theatre represents a physical corollary of the invisible workings of our minds. In...
Ours As We Play It: Australia Plays Shakespeare
Shakespeare's plays are permeable to the contexts in which they are performed: they take on and speak to local concerns. Ours As We Play It takes a close look at...
Stanislavski And The Actor: The Final Acting Lessons, 1935-38
Stanislavski and the Actor offers a clear, modern presentation of Konstantin Stanislavski's methods of actor training and rehearsal. It is based on the course Stanislavski designed and taught with a...
Stanislavski: An Introduction
'A small jewel of a book, a knowleageable introduction to both Stanislavski's personal development and to the content and range of his writings' Theatre Journal '...shows the System to be...
Lords and Larrikins: The actor's role in the making of Australia: The
This radical new account reveals the central importance of the male performer in Australian public life, showing how the aspiring middle classes turned to actors to teach them public behaviour...
Acting, Imaging and the Unconscious
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This is Eric Morris's fifth book on his unique and popular acting system. The emphasis in this volume is on imaging as an acting tool. Morris teaches the actor how...
A leader of his craft: theatre reviews by HG Kippax
Harry Kippax, AO, was a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) from 1938. As foreign editor and leader writer he covered wars and politics over four decades. But his...
Laban for Actors and Dancers: Putting Laban's Movement Theory Into
This handbook, complete with graded exercises, is for teachers and students of both drama and dance, who want to use the Laban system of movement. Although almost every professional actor...
A Raffish Experiment: Collected Writings of Rex Cramphorn
The late Nick Enright described Rex Cramphorn as "that rare and important figure, a philosopher and visionary of the arts." When Cramphorn died in 1991, at the age of 50,...
Power Plays: Australian theatre and the public agenda: Australian
Limited stock available, purchase direct from Currency Press. The prominence and vehemence of public debate about Hannie Rayson's Two Brothers has renewed the public interest in the power of contemporary...
Belonging: Australian playwriting in the 20th century: Australian
This new history explores the relationship between twentieth century Australian drama and a developing concept of nation. The book focuses on the creative tension sparked by the duelling impulses of...
O Brave New World: Two Centuries of Shakespeare on the Australian
Illustrated with over 60 archival photographs, many not previously published.<
The History of North American Theater: The United States, Canada and
Completing a three-volume set on "The History of World Theater", this text examines theatre in Canada and Mexico, as well as the USA. Some 300 illustrations aid the depiction of...
John Hargreaves, a Celebration: An Actors Life as He Saw it
True and False
David Mamet, the prize-winning playwright, director and teacher, has written a blunt, irreverent and unsparingly honest guide to acting. True and False leaves no acting tenet untouched, overturns conventional opinion,...
The Chekhov Theatre: A Century of the Plays in Performance
This is the first cross-cultural study of Chekhov's plays in production. Many now consider Chekhov a playwright equal to Shakespeare, and this book studies how the reputation evolved, and how...
Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
This is the first detailed study of one of the most important plays in contemporary theatre, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. In this fascinating look at the...
The Cambridge Companion to the Actress
This Companion brings together sixteen new essays which examine, from various perspectives, the social and cultural role of the actress throughout history and across continents. Each essay focuses on a...
The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing
This Introduction is an exciting journey through the different styles of theatre that twentieth-century and contemporary directors have created. It discusses artistic and political values, rehearsal methods and the diverging...
The English Stage: A History of Drama and Performance
The English Stage tells the story of English drama through its many changes in style and convention from medieval times to the present day. John Styan analyzes the key features...
The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee
Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is...
Sport in Australian Drama
Nowadays sport is often seen as spontaneous, expressive and vital; theatre as artificial and predictable. It is only relatively recently however that they have bifurcated into two opposing forms of...
Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism, Surrealism
The theories of Wagner and Nietzsche provide the basic principles for this volume, disseminated by the work of Appia and Craig, and affecting the later plays of Ibsen, Maeterlinck, and...
The Censorship of English Drama 1824-1901
English stage censorship goes back to Tudor times, but only in the eighteenth century were the powers of the censor seriously organised. Further legislation in 1843 required theatre managers throughout...
Naturalism and Symbolism in European Theatre 1850-1918
This, the fourth volume to be published in the series Theatre in Europe: A Documentary History, charts the development of theatrical presentation at a time of great cultural and political...
The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage
This 1996 book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital, turbulent era whose preoccupations and paranoias echo those of our own day. Responding to...
A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990
Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked...
Space in Performance: Making Meaning in the Theatre
Theater, as distinct from other dramatic media, is essentially a relationship between performer, spectator, and the space in which both come together. Space in Performance examines the way theater buildings...
Actor Training
Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge's highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training . This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any...
And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World
From well-known auteur of the American theatre scene, Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act is a fascinating and accessible book about directing theatre, acting and the collaborative creative process. Writing...
Twentieth-Century Actor Training
THE SECOND EDITION OF THIS TITLE, ENTITLED ACTOR TRAINING , IS NOW AVAILABLE. Actor training is arguably the central phenomenon of twentieth century theatre making. Here for the first time,...
1956 and All That: The Making of Modern British Drama
It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May...
David Garrick and the Birth of Modern Theatre
Actor, director, impresario, author, David Garrick is the most legendary man of the theatre of modern times. He reformed English theatre practice, established a 'natural' style of acting, and made...
The Actor in Costume
How do audiences look at actors in costume onstage? How does costume shape theatrical identity and form bodies? What do audiences wear to the theatre? This lively and cutting-edge book...
On the Technique of Acting
The most authoritative, authentic text of a classic guide to acting In the four decades since its first publication, Michael Chekhov's To the Actor has become a standard text for...
The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre
Authoritative and wide-ranging, this absorbing account of the history of theatre draws on the latest scholarly research to describe and celebrate theatre's greatest achievemenst over 4,500 years, from festival performances...
Secondhand Modern and Classic Plays Bargain Book Box DSH1121
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Secondhand Modern and Classic Plays Bargain Book Box This compelling collection of 23 secondhand books offers a dramatic journey through the world of theatre, spanning 17th-century Restoration comedy to 20th-century...
Secondhand Theatre History and Drama Studies Bargain Book Box DSH1123
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Secondhand Theatre History and Drama Studies Bargain Book Box This extensive collection of 21 secondhand volumes provides a comprehensive look into the world of drama, spanning from classical Bernard Shaw...