Memoirs of the Theatre
Payne recalls the English theatre at the turn of the 19C with wit and affection, vividly brought to life by accounts of popular actor-managers,the fit-up companies, the Playboy riots, Yeats, Mrs Horniman, ...
$36.99
John Rudlin
Routledge
An account of Commedia's origins as a popular theatrical form, plus a practical, step-by-step guide to using Commedia techniques in performance The text provides sample monologues and explains each stock...
$39.99
Gillian Tindall
Pimlico
Gillian Tindall's books take little-known characters and - through imaginative reconstruction - make their life stories stand for 'big' events in history ... Hollar stands for the English Civil War, the exi...
$20
Jim Davis & Victor Emeljanow
Hertfordshire Press
This innovative work begins to fill a large gap in theatre studies - the lack of any comprehensive study of nineteenth-century theatre audiences Jim Davis and Victor Emeljanow focus on London from 1840, im...
$29.99
David J. George & Christopher J. Gossip - eds
University of Wales
The original commedia dell'arte was performed by travelling players in late sixteenth-century Italy, who improvised their plays around a basic plot or scenario. The best known commedia characters were the co...
$99.99
Murray Melvin
Oberon
In 1953 a small company of actors led by Joan Littlewood arrived in London's East End for a six week season at the vacant Theatre Royal The company's commitment to theatre for all still thrives at Theatre R...
$35
Brad Schreiber
Thunder's Mouth Press
The first book to assemble humorous, frightening and bizarre anecdotes about the history of all that went wrong during live theatrical productions in the USA and the UK This book includes stories from top d...
$16.99
Graham Holderness
Hertfordshire Press
This unique collection of seminal works includes essays in literature, theatre, film/media and cultural studies, and is an indispensable resource for studies in the 'Shakespeare industry' This volume bring...
$29.99
Michael Balfour
Berghahn Books
Of interest to students of cultural studies, theatre studies and European history, as well as to the general reader fascinated by this little-known aspect of the European scene during the 1930s and 1940s T...
$25.99
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
Continuum
Over time, approaches to acting have changed considerably. In the West, until the end of the 19C, such changes occured in the realm of acting itself, focussing on whether it should be 'natural' or 'formal' ...
$69.99
John Lahr - editor
Methuen
HARDBACK EDITIONUnexpurgated insight into the life of one British theatre's most controversial figure of the 60s From December 1966 until his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries that pr...
$25.99
Miriam Chirico & Kelly Younger
Methuen
"Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall in somebody else's classroom?" Featuring more than 80 teaching exercises for the 75 most popularly-taught plays, How to Teach a Play will teach you how to animate ...
$34.95
Paulette Marty
Methuen
Contemporary Women Stage Directors opens the door into the minds of 27 prolific female theatre directors, allowing you to explore their experience, wisdom and knowledge Directors give insight into their div...
$27.99
Christopher Haydon
Methuen
Christopher Haydon - former artistic director of the Gate Theatre ("London's most relentlessly ambitious theatre' ~ Time Out) compiles a fascinating set of interviews that get to the heart of what it is to ...
$31.99
Maaike Bleeker et al - Editor
Methuen
Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance Instead of topics, genres, histories or theories, the book starts with the questions ...
$34.95
Bertolt Brecht
Methuen
Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain "works in progress" ...
$35.95
Daniel Schulze
Methuen
Authenticity is one of the major values of our time This study analyses the 'culture of authenticity' as it relates to theatre and establishes a theoretical framework for analysis Daniel Schulz argues that...
$39.99
Sonia Massai & Susan Bennett
Methuen
Ivo van Hove is a Belgian theatre director known as the artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam in the Netherlands and for his Off-Broadway avant-garde experimental theatre productions This book offers a...
$35.95
Sophie Treadwell
Nick Hern Books
The city. A woman is restless. A woman is suffocating. A woman is silenced. The woman revolts A visceral expressionist masterpiece, Sophie Treadwell's play Machinal was first seen on Broadway in 1928, Londo...
$14.99
David Zoob
Nick Hern Books
An essential new book on putting into practice the theories of one of theatre's most influential directors and playwrights Informative and accessible, it clearly explains Brecht's theories and shows how the...
$19.99
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