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A Director Prepares
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 41.95A Director Prepares is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly and with wisdom of the courage required to create 'art with great presence'. Each chapter tackles one of the seven major areas Bogart has identified as both potential partner and potential obstacle to art-making. They are... more...
Playing Boal
Routledge 1993; US$ 42.95The first book to examine the practical techniques of Augusto Boal, Playing Boal illuminates and invigorates discussion about Boal's work and the transformative potential of theatre. more...
Auditioning
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2001; US$ 15.00Theater veteran and acting teacher Joanna Merlin has written the definitive guide to auditioning for stage and screen, bringing to it a valuable dual perspective. She has spent her career on both sides of the auditioning process, both as an award-winning casting director who has worked with Harold Prince, Bernard Bertolucci, and James Ivory, and as... more...
Augusto Boal
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 33.95The work of Augusto Boal has had a tremendous impact on contemporary theatre. This volume looks at the scope of Boal's career - from his early work as a playwright and director in Sao Paulo in the 1950s, to the development of his groundbreaking manifesto in the 1970s for a 'Theatre of the Oppressed'. Augusto Boal will be fascinating reading for... more...
Makers of Modern Theatre
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 34.95Who were the giants of the twentieth-century stage, and exactly how did they influence modern theatre? Robert Leach's Makers of Modern Theatre is the first detailed introduction to the work of the key theatre-makers who shaped the drama of the last century: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud. Leach... more...
Politics and Theater
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95Moliere's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. Following the lead of the French men and women who turned to this play in the 1820s to make sense of their world, Kroen exposes the crisis of legitimacy defining the regime in these years and demonstrates... more...
Children of the Queen's Revels
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 46.00Combining theatre history and critical analysis, this is the first book-length study of the Children of the Queen's Revels, the most enduring and influential of the Jacobean children's companies. It provides extensive accounts of plays by Francis Beaumont, George Chapman, John Fletcher, John Marston and Thomas Middleton. more...
Theatre/Archaeology
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 45.95Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework. more...
Theory/Theatre
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 41.95This is a new and enlarged edition of Mark Fortier's very successful and widely used essential text for students. Theory/Theatre provides a unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. Fortier lucidly examines current theoretical approaches, from semiotics, poststructuralism, through cultural materialism,... more...
Broadway Yearbook 1999-2000
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 49.99We define our conscious experience by constructing narratives about ourselves and the people with whom we interact. Narrative pervades our lives--conscious experience is not merely linked to the number and variety of personal stories we construct with each other within a cultural frame, but is subsumed by them. The claim, however, that narrative constructions... more...









