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Ralph Koltai: Designer for the Stage
From his first designs for Covent Garden and the Ballet Rambert in the 1950s, through regular commissions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in the 1960s and 1970s, and on to the West End in the 1980s and the world's …
Jean Rhys was obsessed with "Jane Eyre"-and more particularly with Bertha Mason, the first Mrs. Rochester and the "madwoman in the attic." Placing Bertha on stage throughout as Jean's alter ego, Polly Teale's remarkable dramatization of Rhys' …
This highly successful series has been revised and reprinted in new, exciting covers. The five titles work together to create all you need to know about how to present a production. Each expertly written book contains many creative ideas as well …
Finding Your Voice: A Step-By-Step Guide for Actors
simple, step-by-step manual, written by a Royal Shakespeare Company voice coach, offers everything that actors need to work on their voices. Suitable for actors at all levels, from students and young professionals to established and experienced …
Philip Pullman's award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials had everything Nicholas Hytner, the new director of the National Theatre, could want for a modern audience, but for one thing: it was almost impossible to stage. Robert Butler's intimate …
Set in present-day Dublin, "Duck "follows the doings of Cat, in her late teens and temping as a nightclub hostess. She tries to jolt-start her life by blowing up her boyfriend's car and hopping into bed with a 50-year-old married man. But for all …
The wife of an insurance magnate, suspicious that her husband is having an affair, sends him a lascvicious invitation from an "anonymous" admirer, just to see if he'll show. The action of "A Flea in Her Ear," one of the best-known French farces, …
So You Want to Be a Theatre Director?
As artistic director of English Touring Theatre ("the company of the moment"-"Daily Mail"), Stephen Unwin has worked with hundreds of different actors in a multiplicity of venues. In this book, he takes readers step-by-step through choosing the …
"Two tales for the price of one, as the brilliant Christmas show specialist Stuart Paterson weaves the story of the princess and the frog into the dream-world of Sleeping Beauty."-"Sunday Times"
"Dirty Butterfly" is a mesmerizing and startling pressure cooker of a play about voyeurism, power and guilt. "The writing is startlingly assured . . . the understated humor is devastating."-"The London Sunday Independent"
Remembering: Oral History Performance
Drawing on the work of scholars and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Gloria Anzaldua, and Trinh Minh-ha, these essays advocate oral history and oral history-based performance as means to challenge and expand upon traditional ways of …
Debbie Tucker Green is an urgent and distinctive new Black British writing talent. "The overall effect is of having swallowed a scalding cup of triple espresso coffee in one gulp. The burn stays with you after you have left the theatre."-"The …
This series has been designed to meet the needs of those working in the non-professional theater, that is students and undergraduates, school teachers, and members of amateur dramatic and operatic societies.
"A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." —"The Daily Telegraph" An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of …
Restoration era London: Puritan laws and censorship laws are repealed; theatres re-open; and the cosmopolitan wives are living it up with extravagance, infidelity and impertinence towards their cuckold husbands. But when Margery the country wife …
Building the Successful Theater Company
Here are scores of expert tips for surviving and thriving in the theater industry! Readers will find inside information on finding a performance space, creating a first season, promoting your company, and more.
This series has been designed to meet the needs of those working in the non-professional theater, that is students and undergraduates, school teachers, and members of amateur dramatic and operatic societies.
In this masterly survey, Glynne Wickham outlines the development of drama throughout the world over the last 3,000 years, from its origins in primitive dance rituals to the 1990s—an ideal introduction to the subject for all lovers of the theatre.
Three plays focusing on the lives of incredible women. Characterized by vivid stagecraft and life-affirming humor, they offer unflinching views of social and sexual relations. Includes: "Piaf," "Camille" and "Queen Christina,"
Stage Makeup: The Actor's Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials
This up-to-date, full-color makeup manual is designed to lie open on the makeup table as a guide for student, amateur, or professional performers.
Kodansha's Daily English-Japanese Dictionary
This volume explores Kabuki, the Japanese theatre form that combines elaborate scenery, costumes, and musical accompaniment, making use of both crude and subtle theatrical devices. Topics cover the art and tradition of Kabuki, types of plays, …
Petruchio marries for a second time and is tamed in turn by his wife Maria in a reveral of roles in this irreverent sequel to the Taming of the Shrew, written in 1611 and now published alongside its first-ever production at the RSC - the first …
A Case for Shylock: Around the World with Shakespeare's Jew
Gareth Armstrong has performed his solo play "Shylock" over 600 times in more than 30 countries. Traveling the world from San Francisco to Sri Lanka, his myriad encounters have enriched both him and the show, adding ever more threads to his one-…
Having met in the late 1920s in Germany, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht--both independently minded Marxists with a deep understanding of and passionate commitment to the emancipatory potential of cultural practices--discussed, argued, and …
The book is both an in-depth analysis of the play, in which Davies looks at the many possible interpretations of both play and character, and a rehearsal diary in which we see the author's personal journey through the role, from when he played …
Intersecting Boundaries: The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy
Adrienne Kennedy's plays have been highly regarded in the world of American theater for many years. Intersecting Boundaries, a collage of fascinating essays and interviews that represents the first major critical study of her work, explores the …
Theatre and Consciousness: Explanatory Scope and Future Potential
For the last ten to fifteen years, many disciplines of scholarship have been involved in the study of consciousness, often on an interdisciplinary basis. They include philosophy, neurosciences, psychology, physics and biology, and approaches …