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Contemporary Theatre in Educationby Roger Wooster
Intellect 2007; US$ 10.00Theatre in Education emerged in the mid-sixties as a unique hybrid of performance and child-centred learning. Contemporary Theatre in Education charts the creation and adaptation of this 'hybrid' through the changing political, economic and educational environment. It also takes a 'snapshot' of the TIE being created today, considering all the projects being performed in Wales during a single month. The projects are analysed and every TIE director interviewed about the work and the policies of their companies. It becomes very clear that that the distinction between TIE and Childrens Theatre is being blurred. Is it possible for the hybrid to survive? Or have the economics of schools, the post-National Curriculum educational... more...
Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosedby Michelle Morgan
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 14.57Following a number of sensationalist biographies of Marilyn Monroe in recent years, this comprehensive, meticulously researched volume brings an important fresh perspective on the many controversies in her life. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Marilyn Monroe and the Golden Age of Hollywood. This new edition of Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include an additional 60,000 words. It reveals a very different Marilyn from the celluloid invention. For the first volume, Michelle Morgan interviewed approximately 100 people who knew or were related to Marilyn in some way, including key figures in her life - family and friends, as well as work colleagues, and more casual acquaintances.... more...
Certain Fragmentsby Tim Etchells; Peggy Phelan
Routledge 1999; US$ 45.95An exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the process of devising performance, theatre's interdisciplinary role, and the city's influence. more...
Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Irelandby Lionel Pilkington
Routledge 2001; US$ 44.95This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland's key national theatre projects from the 1890s to the 1990s. more...
Politics of Performanceby Baz Kershaw
Routledge 1992; US$ 38.95Addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation of post-war alternative and community theatre. A detailed analysis of oppositional theatre as radical cultural practice. more...
Learning Through Theatreby Tony Jackson
Routledge 1993; US$ 46.95Charts the development of theatre in education, identifying its strengths and providing vivid and illuminating accounts of its practice around the world. more...
Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performanceby Carol Martin
Routledge 1996; US$ 46.95This outstanding collection includes key texts by theorists such as Elin Diamond, Peggy Phelan and Lynda Hart and interviews with practitioners including Anna Deveare Smith and Robbie McCauley. more...
Flash and Crash Daysby David George
Routledge 2000; US$ 30.95This book deals with the theatre produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, especially its postmodernist directors, women playwrights and theatre companies, and examines the effects of a return to civilian government from military rule. more...
Jacobean Public Theatreby Alexander Leggatt
Routledge 1992; US$ 135.00Recovers the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. Leggatt relates this drama to the popular culture of the day, concluding with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear . more...
Moscow Art Theatreby Nick Worrall
Routledge 1996; US$ 135.00Unprecedented in its comprehensiveness, The Moscow Art Theatre fills a large gap in our knowledge of Stanislavsky and his theatre. Worrall focuses in particular detail on four of The Moscow Art Theatre's best-known productions. more...









