Theatre category: 6638 books
Shakespeare Dancing
A Theatrical Study of the Plays
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
The Dancing of the title was in Shakespeare's mind as he wrote: a physical and active imagination. This book studies its operation in his most frequently performed texts and encourages readers to seek out the performance possibilities of all the texts for themselves.
The need to study Shakespeare's...
by Peter Gill
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Early 1960s, Yorkshire. Farm labourer George is cast in an amateur staging of the York Mystery Plays. His world is shaken when he falls for metropolitan assistant director John and the two men embark on a clandestine affair.
Peter Gill's influential play is not only a finely drawn love story;...
Instant Shakespeare
A Proven Technique for Actors, Directors, and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
What do the Dead Sea Scrolls and frog overlays have to do with performing Shakespeare? They're both part of Louis Fantasia's approach in Instant Shakespeare. Mr. Fantasia, the first American to direct at the Shakespeare Globe Centre and a distinguished member of the international theatre community,...
by J. Clifford Turner, Malcolm Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This is a classic book on voice and speech, designed for actors at all levels. One of the great voice teachers of his day, J. Clifford Turner here uses simple and direct language to impart the necessary technical 'basics' of speech and voice.
Moscow Performances
The New Russian Theater 1991-1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
The reviews and features collected in John Freedman's Moscow Performances bring to life the diversity, energy, and imagination of Russian theater as few books have done before. While focusing on the work of Moscow's leading directors - Pyotr Fomenko, Kama Ginkas, Valery Fokin, Anatoly Vasilyev, Konstantin...
by Lucy Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
We are where we come from?' That's not true. That's not true because if that's true there's no hope for any of us.
Lori is coming home from her first term at university. It's only been a few weeks and already things have gone badly wrong. But none of the rest of the family knows, or understands,...
by Arnold Wesker
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
It's 1958. Beatie Bryant has been to London and fallen in love with Ronnie, a young socialist. As she anxiously awaits his arrival to meet her family at their Norfolk farm, her head is swimming with new ideas. Ideas of a bolder, freer world which promise to clash with their rural way of life.
Roots...
Rage And Reason
Women Playwrights on Playwriting
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Women playwrights speak about their art and the theatre in this collection of interviews about a key decade of British drama.
Twenty leading contemporary dramatists discuss their work from the perspective of being both writers and women. Each talks about the state of the theatre now, the craft...
Postcolonial Plays
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre.
This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with...
One Minute Plays
A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Can you really write a play that lasts a minute?
The one minute play offers a unique challenge to actors, directors and writers: how do you create a whole world, where actors have room to perform and where audiences have a true experience all in 60 seconds?
One Minute Plays: A Practical...
J'avais 25 ans
Texte pour vous remuer, faire réfléchir, Monologue Homme Théâtre
Language: French
Release Date: November 12, 2011
Ce monologue est également un petit manuel de combat social... (également disponible en papier ; voir http://www.livrepapier.com )
à 25 ans, le personnage de ce monologue a quitté une confortable situation de cadre en informatique, chez Groupama Assurances, pour vivre de peu, de manière...
Onze femmes et la star
Pièce de théâtre destinée aux troupes de onze comédiennes
Language: French
Release Date: November 23, 2011
La pièce
Comédie contemporaine en trois actes
Distribution : onze femmes
Sujet : sept ravissantes femmes lauréates d’un concours leur offrant 24 heures avec leur idole, le chanteur Antonin K.
Secrétaire de l’association organisatrice, Odette, un peu gaffeuse même à jeun,...
by Stéphane Ternoise
Language: French
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Livre disponible en papier et numérique.
Deux pièces féminines : Quatre femmes attendent la star et Cinq femmes attendent la star.
Dans la version avec cinq femmes, on découvre une fan, qui tente de s'incrustrer.
Une pièce de théâtre qui éclaire le monde du show-biz......
Aventures d'écrivains régionaux
pièce de théâtre pour six hommes et une femme plus autres distributions
Language: French
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Les salons du livre en province, vous connaissez ?
Mais connaissez-vous les conditions de vie des écrivains régionaux dans ces manifestations ?
Aventures d’écrivains régionaux vous présente le OFF, sous la forme théâtrale, où Paul, un écrivain ayant publiés six livres chez des éditeurs...