Theatre category: 6638 books
Ça magouille aux assurances
Pièce de théâtre avec six femmes ou version six hommes
Language: French
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Ça magouille aux assurances, le théâtre de Stéphane Ternoise.
Deux versions : Ça magouille aux assurances avec six femmes ou avec six hommes.
Mais ce n’est pas un simple copier coller : dans une situation similaire, les femmes et les hommes ne se comportent pas forcément de la...
Physical Dramaturgy
Perspectives from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
What is physical dramaturgy? While the traditional dramaturg shares research intellectually, the physical dramaturg does so viscerally and somatically. By combining elements of text, history, dramatic structure, and the author’s intent with movement analysis and physical theatre pedagogies, the...
Tom Stoppard Plays 1
The Real Inspector Hound, Dirty Linen, Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth & After Magritte
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. The author rounds off his brief introduction, giving the genesis of each piece, with...
by Olaf Jubin
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
‘The Woods are just Trees. The Trees are just Wood.’ – All together
In 1987, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine combined several classic fairy tales including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Jack and the Beanstalk to create Into the Woods. Funny and heartfelt, this musical...
Henry V
A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2006
Under cover of being a rousing adventure story, Shakespeare's Henry V manages to become something much more open and complex - a play whose possible meanings point in many directions, often all at once.
In this Handbook, chapters on critical assessment and performance history take the reader...
by D. C. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
In the small Ayrshire town of Stewarton, the school holidays are like a microwave. So much happens and it all happens so fast.
Norma Gordon has got a problem. She's going to be in big trouble if her dad finds out. Norma needs to find Rab McGuire fast. Her big brother Barry's no use. He's in...
by D. C. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
For the teenagers of the small Ayrshire town of Stewarton, there's change in the air.
Rab's back from Cambridge. He feels alienated there; he feels alienated in his home town, too. Michelle's returned to spend some time with her great-gran while she can. She reckons university isn't all it's cracked...
by Kevin Inouye
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The Theatrical Firearms Handbook is the essential guide to navigating the many decisions that are involved in the safe and effective use of firearm props for both the stage and screen. It is an invaluable resource for fight choreographers, props designers, backstage crew, directors, actors, stage...
by Kyle Gillette
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
"Ladies and gentlemen, I’m not going to play this particular scene tonight." - Sabina
Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)telescopes an audacious stretch of western history and mythology into a family drama, showing how the course of human events operates like theatre...
by Jennifer S Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
The four plays in this collection are unique in many ways. All founded on true experiences, the plays show the complexities of human behaviour and the choices people make. They remind us that our decision and actions can rarely, if ever, be classified in simple terms of black and white. These creative...
by Tim Price
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Danny sleeps rough on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral. Has done for years. Then one morning he wakes to see a canvas city being erected in front of him. And Danny finds himself swept up in the last occupation of London. Protest Song is a fictional play inspired by real events.
Tim Price's...
Play Readings
A Complete Guide for Theatre Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Play Readings: A Complete Guide for Theatre Practitioners demystifies the standards and protocols of a play reading, demonstrating how to create effective and evocative readings for those new to or inexperienced with the genre. It examines all of the essential considerations involved in readings,...
Affect, Animals, and Autists
Feeling Around the Edges of the Human in Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
When theater and related forms of live performance explore the borderlands labeled animal and autism, they both reflect and affect their audiences’ understanding of what it means to be human. Affect, Animals, and Autists maps connections across performances that question the borders of the human...
New Media Dramaturgy
Performance, Media and New-Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book illuminates the shift in approaches to the uses of theatre and performance technology in the past twenty-five years and develops an account of new media dramaturgy (NMD), an approach to theatre informed by what the technology itself seems to want to say. Born of the synthesis of new media...