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Revolutionary Theatre
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 157.00Revolutionary Theatre is the first full-length study of the dynamic theatre created in Russia in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. Fired by social and political as well as artistic zeal, a group of directors, playwrights, actors and organisers collected around the charismatic Vsevolod Meyerhold. Their aim was to achieve in the theatre what... more...
Stanislavski: The Basics
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 21.95Stanislavski: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the life, thought and impact of Konstantin Stanislavski. Regarded by many as a great innovator of twentieth century theatre, this book examines Stanislavski?s: life and the context of his writings major works in English translation ideas in practical contexts impact... more...
Shakespeare in Kabul
Haus Publishing 2012; US$ 15.95The uplifting story of bringing Shakespeare to Afghanistan, with men and women appearing together for the first time since liberation. more...
Scene Design: Rendering and Media
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co. 2012; US$ 29.95Scene Design: Rendering and Media is intended to help students or practitioners improve their skills at making finished renderings of scene designs for theater. Hundreds of color illustrations explain the process, methods and tools used to successfuly transform ideas into useful drawings. more...
Theater und Fest in Europa
Narr Francke Attempto 2012; US$ 84.12Hauptbeschreibung Theater und Fest in Europa stellt in Fallstudien zu Antike, Mittelalter, Früher Neuzeit, Moderne und Gegenwart neueste Forschungsergebnisse zum gemeinschaftsbildenden Zusammenwirken von Theater und Fest vor: Ein breites und vielschichtiges Spektrum festlich-theatraler Inszenierungen werden auf ihre ästhetischen und politischen Potenziale... more...
The Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Modern international studies of world theatre and drama have begun to acknowledge the Arab world only after the contributions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Within the Arab world, the contributions of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco to modern drama and to post-colonial expression remain especially neglected, a problem that this book addresses. more...
Theatre in Passing
Intellect 2011; US$ 20.00Theatre in Passing explores spaces of performance in contemporary Moscow. Inspired by French philosopher Michel de Certeaus model of a 'second, poetic geography' in which the walker - the everyday practitioner - invents the space observed by the voyeur, this book takes the reader on a tour of spaces of performance in contemporary Moscow.... more...
Performing Violence
Intellect 2009; US$ 20.00New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing Violence is the first English-language study of the... more...
Theatre and Identity in Imperial Russia
University of Iowa Press 2009; US$ 29.95What role did the theatre-both institutionally and literally-play in Russia?s modernization? How did the comparatively harmonious relationship that developed among the state, the nobility, and the theatre in the eighteenth century transform into ideological warfare between the state and the intelligentsia in the nineteenth? How were the identities... more...
Stanislavsky and female actors
University Press of America 2008; US$ 30.99Stanislavsky and Female Actors is the exploration of Stanislavsky's artistic and personal relationship with the leading actresses of the Moscow Art Theatre. It seeks to portray their life-long artistic dialogue and offers a new biographical study of the previously unknown spheres of Stanislavsky's life, as well as the lives of the Moscow Art Theatre's... more...









