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  • Theatres of Value

    Buying and Selling Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century New York City

    Theatres of Value explores the idea that buying and selling are performative acts and offers a paradigm for deeper study of these acts—"the dramaturgy of value." Modeling this multifaceted approach, the book explores six case studies to show how and why Shakespeare had value for nineteenth-century New Yorkers. In considering William Brown's African Theater, P. T. Barnum's American Museum and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Canon in Contemporary Theatre

    Plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Brecht in Contemporary Directors’ Theatre

    This book explores the relationship between contemporary theatre, particularly contemporary theatre directors, and the dramatic canon of plays.Through focusing on productions of plays by three canonical playwrights (Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Brecht) by eight contemporary European directors (Michael Buffong, Joe Hill-Gibbins, and Emma Rice from the UK, Christopher Rüping from Germany, Thorleifur Örn ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • The Women of Troy

    Translated by Mr Don Taylor ...
    Series series Student Editions
    There's no decent way to say an indecent thingAn industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. First performed in 415BC, the play focuses on the human cost of war and the impact of loss.This new Student Edition of The Women of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Playbook

    A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War

    by James Shapiro ...
    A brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James ShapiroFrom 1935 to 1939, the Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions in 29 states that were seen by thirty million (or nearly one in four) Americans, two thirds of whom had never seen a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Redreaming the Renaissance

    Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero

    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of the Italian Renaissance as proving ground. In this volume, these disciplines blur, as they did for early moderns, who did not always ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • Incarceration Games

    A History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons, and Performance

    Do you want to play a game?Incarceration Games reexamines the complex history and troubled legacy of improvised, interactive role-playing experiments. With particular attention to the notorious Stanford prison study, the author draws on extensive archival research and original interviews with many of those involved, to refocus attention on the in-game choices of the role-players themselves.Role ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production

    Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production investigates both the history and current realities of life and work in professional theatrical production in the United States and explores labor practices that are equitable, accessible, and sustainable.In this book, Brídín Clements Cotton and Natalie Robin investigate the question of artmaking, specifically theatrical production, as ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • The Shakespeare North Playhouse

    Replica Theatres and Their Uses

    This collection celebrates the opening of the Shakespeare North Playhouse (SNP). After discussion of its genesis and development by four people pivotal to its progress at different stages of the project, this book explores different aspects of the SNP’s purpose and functions across three broad categories: buildings and spaces, practices and performance, and community arts and education. Various ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Messy Connections

    Creating Atmospheres of Addiction Recovery Through Performance Practice

    by Cathy Sloan ...
    This book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction, theorising such practices as recovery-engaged.Focusing on examples of practice from a growing movement of UK-based recovery arts practitioners and performers, it highlights a unique approach to performance that infuses an understanding of lived experiences of addiction and recovery with creative practice. It ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • LO: TECH: POP: CULT

    Screendance Remixed

    Edited by Priscilla Guy, Alanna Thain ...
    This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance theory and practice back into conversations with critical methods, at the intersections of popular culture, low-tech media practices, dance, and movement studies, and the minoritarian perspectives of feminism, queer theory, critical race studies and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

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  • Theatre Responds to Social Trauma

    Chasing the Demons

    Edited by Ellen W. Kaplan ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    This book is a collection of chapters by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves representing, theorizing, and performing social trauma.Chapters explore how psychic catastrophes and ruptures are often embedded in social systems of oppression and forged in zones of conflict within and across national borders. Through multiple lenses and diverse approaches, ... Read more

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  • The Art of Entertainment

    Popular Performance in Modern British Art, 1880 to 1940

    by Jason Price ...
    In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and low cultural forms in Britain from 1880 to 1940, focusing on the ways in which figures from popular entertainments, such as music hall serio-comics, clowns, and circus acrobats, came to feature in modern works of art.Readers with an interest in art, theatre, and the history of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Tony Awards

    A Celebration of Excellence in Theatre

    Commemorating over 75 years of Broadway greatness with never-before told stories, rare photos from the American Theatre Wings' archives, and interviews with major honorees like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, and Hugh Jackman, The Tony Awards is the official, authorized guide to Broadway's biggest night.The Tony Awards: A Celebration of Excellence in Theatre pays tribute to the magic that ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine

    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine addresses the proliferation of practices that bridge performance and medicine in the contemporary moment.The scope of this book's broad range of chapters includes medicine and illness as the subject of drama and plays; the performativity of illness and the medical encounter; the roles and choreographies of the clinic; the use of theatrical ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

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  • Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage

    or, Serious Laughter

    by David Gram ...
    Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage provides audiences and practitioners a detailed survey of how the genre of farce has evolved in the 21st century. Often dismissed as frivolous, farce speaks a universal language, with the power to incisively interrogate our world through laughter.Unlike farces of the past, where a successful resolution was a given and we could laugh uproariously at adulterous ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Developing Theatre in the Global South

    Institutions, networks, experts

    Drawing on new research from the ERC project ‘Developing Theatre’, this collection presents innovative institutional approaches to the theatre historiography of the Global South since 1945. Covering perspectives from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe, the chapters explore how US philanthropy, international organisations and pan-African festivals all contributed to the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • To Repair the World

    Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation of American Theater

    This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1950 shifted live professional theater away from Broadway and inspired the creation of non-profit theaters around the country. Dianne Wiest, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, and Jane Alexander, among many others, share their memories of this intrepid pioneering woman during Arena ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Improv Dictionary

    An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools

    by David Charles ...
    The Improv Dictionary: An A to Z of Improvisational Terms, Techniques, and Tools explores improvisational approaches and concepts drawn from a multitude of movements and schools of thought to enhance spontaneous and collaborative creativity.This accessible resource reveals and interrogates the inherited wisdoms contained in the very words we use to describe modern improv. Each detailed definition ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • The Art of Broadsword Fighting for Stage and Screen

    An Actor’s and Director’s Guide to Staged Violence

    The Art of Broadsword Fighting for Stage and Screen provides historical and contemporary techniques and styles for the safe training and use of the European broadsword in a theatrical setting.This book starts with a brief breakdown of the history of broadswords, the time periods associated with their use, and the influences of historical masters and their manuscripts. After the brief history ... Read more

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  • Britney Spears Books

    Biography, Achievement, Remarkable Lifestyle, Experience,The iconic Pop Star,35 Untold facts and stories about Britney Spears

    #FreeBritney. The world echoed with the cry, a testament to a pop princess trapped in a gilded cage. But Britney Spears is more than just a chart-topping icon. She's a survivor.This isn't just another biography. This is an unflinching look behind the curtain, a journey that delves beyond the "...Baby One More Time" and the glitter-dusted performances. We trace Britney's meteoric rise from small ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eastern Drama of the Absurd in the Twilight of the Soviet Bloc

    Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz draws differences between Western and Eastern European absurdism, points out similarities and adjacencies, and emphasises the function fulfilled by the theatre of the absurd in Eastern Europe: the representation of the drama of a man deprived of freedom. The author of this important book shows absurdity in the dramas of the 1980s at the end of the Soviet bloc as the only ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Art Gallery on Stage

    New Vistas on Contemporary British Playwriting

    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    The Art Gallery on Stage is the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage and to discuss how playwrights have begun to regard it as inspiration, location, focus or theme in an ever-more intense game of cross-fertilization.The study analyzes the impact on dramatic form and theatrical presentation of what has been a paradigmatic shift in the way ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Only Way Out

    The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape

    In The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer Ball argues that escape is a key site for exploring American conceptions of freedom and constraint. Stories of escape are never told just once but become mythic in their episodic iterations, revealing the fantasies and desires of society, the storyteller, and the listener. While white escape ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Krise und Reform als bürgerliches Projekt

    Institutioneller Wandel der Hoftheater (1780-1880)

    Series Book 10 - Szene & Horizont. Theaterwissenschaftliche Studien
    Die Krise und Reform des Theaters wird nicht erst seit den 2000er Jahren kontrovers diskutiert – bereits im 19. Jahrhundert beherrschten Narrative und Aushandlungen um dessen krisenhaften und reformbedürftigen Zustand Diskurse, Ordnungen und Praktiken des Theaters. Die Studie geht der Frage nach, inwiefern das bürgerliche Projekt der Theaterreform nicht zugleich den Krisenmodus des Theaters selbst ... Read more

    $89.99 USD