Philip Auslander
Routledge
From Acting to Performance collects for the first time major essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander Spanning over a decade, the essays survey the changes in acting and performance that o...
$47.99
John Gielgud
Used Copy
$18.99
June Walker Rogers
Dramatic Publishing
Here is a practical, professional, no-nonsense "how to" book that tells you the truth about making it in the incredibly difficult field of show business. This is a book not only for the actor but for anyone ...
$15.99
Thomas F. Heck - HARDBACK
Boydell & Brewer
There has long been a need to introduce performing-arts enthusiasts and students to the fascinating field of iconography, both as manifested in art history and in its more pragmatic or applied forms Yet re...
$75
Bertolt Brecht - trans John Willett
Methuen
Written between 1939 and 1942 these are the longest but in some ways the most light hearted of all Brecht's discussions of theatre Here Actor, Actress, Dramaturg (or literary adviser) and Electrician argu...
$15.99
Augusto Boal
Routledge
A further stage in the Boal project, this is an attempt to use theatre within a political system to create a truer form of democracy This text includes a full description of the principles of "legislati...
$39.99
H Noel Williams
Used Copy
Features Sophie Arnould & Madame Guimard & Madame Raucourt & Madame Dugazon & Madame Contat & Mme Saint-Huberty - pub 1910
$70
Judith Cook
Used Copy
$21.99
Sarah Bernhardt
Used Copy
$35
David Mamet
Faber & Faber
"If theatre were a religion, many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical' As always, Mamet delivers on his promise, calling for nothing less than the death of the director and t...
$27.99
David Mamet
Faber & Faber
A pleasurable read that demolishes all the ethereal myths surrounding the clap-trap theory of acting and directing. It tells you how to judge the role and approach the part, how to work with the playwright a...
$24.99
Yoshi Oida & Lorna Marshall - Foreword Peter Brook
Methuen
"Yoshi Oida shows how the mysteries and secrets of performance are inseparable from a precise, concrete and detailed science learned in the heat of experience. The vital lessons he passes on to us are told w...
$21.99
Graeme K Talboys
Dramatic Lines
** 10% DISCOUNT ** This resource material has been created by a drama teacher for use in formal drama lessons and in informal situations such as clubs and parties The games are flexible, from warm-up to c...
$27.99
Phillip B Zarrilli - ed
Routledge
Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance This second edition includes five new es...
$49.99
Declan Donnellan
Nick Hern Books
Declan Donnellan's fresh and radical approach to acting takes a scalpel to the heart of persistent fears from 'I don't know what I'm doing!' through 'I don't know who I am!' to 'I don't know what I'm play...
$21.99
John Wright
Nick Hern Books
A practical investigation of how comedy works, by a well-respected practitioner and teacher Comedy is recognised as one of the most problematic areas of performances. For that reason, it is rarely written a...
$24.99
Lawrence Turman
A & C Black
Packed with information and advice from top Hollywood producers, writers and directors, this is a must-read for anyone interested in what it really takes to get a film made Chapters include - Finding yo...
$22.99
John Barton
Methuen
In the first half of the book, Barton attempts an objective analysis of how Shakespeare's text actually works, examining the use of verse and prose, set speeches and soliloquies, language and character In t...
$28.99
Lee Strasberg
Little Brown
This is the definitive work of theatre practitioner Lee Strasberg, who through research and experimentation developed The MethodBeginning with his early experiences and his discovery of the actor's central p...
$24.99
Jean Benedetti - HARDBACK
Methuen
The essential history of acting, from classical times to the present day A single-volume survey of the history of acting, this is an essential and practical guide for all students of the theatre Profess...
$31.99
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