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  • Heather Gardnerby Robin French

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 12.99

    All the rooms reek of lavender and rose petals. There’s something dead about it. Like flowers the day after a ball. Returning to her home town in the house of her dreams, her husband with a new job on the horizon, and a feeling of change in the air. Yet, for Heather, there is only the feeling of boredom, a feeling as futile as it is fatal. A powerful... more...

  • Renaissance Drama in Actionby Martin White

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95

    Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. This... more...

  • The Stage Manager's Toolkitby Laurie Kincman

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 24.95

    As a Stage Manager, you are responsible for organizing rehearsals, running performances, and keeping everyone and everything on track and in sync. To do the job well, you need to be a communication wizard?able to collect a wide range of details and share them as effectively as possible. The Stage Manger?s Toolkit is more than another overview book... more...

  • A Practical Guide to Stage Lightingby Steven Louis Shelley

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 51.95

    The new edition of the bestselling favorite that you have been waiting for! This is the same nuts-and-bolds look at the construction and implementation of theatrical lighting design that you need, but with a unique focus on design with a combination of theory and application that can't be found anywhere else. A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting has... more...

  • Tragic Museby Rachel Brownstein

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 30.00

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  • Asylumby Joe Pantoliano

    Weinstein Publishing 2013; US$ 15.99

    In this deeply moving and resourceful memoir, the beloved actor and New York Times bestselling author takes aim at the stigma attached to mental illness by writing candidly and humorously about his own struggle with clinical depression.   more...

  • Medieval English Dramaby Katie Normington

    Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95

    Medieval English Drama provides a fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. The book places particular emphasis on the importance of the performance contexts of these events, bringing to life a period before permanent theatre buildings when performances took place in a wide variety of locations and... more...

  • Ludics in Surrealist Theatre and Beyondby Vassiliki Rapti

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95

    This study reconsiders Surrealist theatre specifically from the perspective of ludics-a poetics of play and games-an ideal approach to the Surrealists, whose games blur the boundaries between the 'playful' and the 'serious.' Beginning with the Surrealists' 'one-into-another' game and its illustration of Breton's ludic... more...

  • La Mise en Scene Contemporaineby Patrice Pavis

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 45.95

      ?We have good reason to be wary of mise en scène, but that is all the more reason to question this wariness ... it seems that images from a performance come back to haunt us, as if to prolong and transform our experience as spectators, as if to force us to rethink the event, to return to our pleasure or our terror.? ? Patrice Pavis, from the... more...

  • The Expressive Actorby Michael Lugering

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 29.95

    "The study of acting should not begin with an exploration of feeling, perception, imagination, memories, intention, personalization, self-identification... or even performance?but physical action." Michael Lugering's The Expressive Actor presents a foundational, preparatory training method, using movement to unlock the entire acting process.... more...