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Working Together in Theatre

Collaboration and Leadership

by Professor Robert Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010

Robert Cohen draws on fifty years of acting, directing and teaching experience in order to illustrate how the world's great theatre artists combine collaboration with leadership at all levels, from a production's conception to its final performance. This book challenges the notion that creating brilliant...
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So Near, Yet So Far

Badal Sircar’s Third Theatre

by Manujendra Kundu
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016

This is the first-ever, full-length study of Badal Sircar's Third Theatre. Sircar was a very prominent playwright of modern Bengali Theatre. It challenges some of the well-established notions of the Third Theatre. It brings to the fore the lost voices of some members of the Third Theatre. It has some rare photographs of Shatabdi, Sircar's Theatre group.
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by Bree Hadley
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017

This book offers the first broad-based survey of the way artists, audiences and society at large are making use of social media, and how the emergence of social media platforms that allow two-way interaction between these groups has been held up as a ‘game changer’ by many in the theatre industry....
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iBroadway

Musical Theatre in the Digital Age

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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017

This book argues that the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way musicals are produced, followed, admired, marketed, reviewed, researched, taught, and even cast. In the first hundred years of its existence, commercial musical theatre functioned on one basic model. However, with the advent...
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by Jarka M. Burian
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

In this invaluable and detailed presentation of the leading creative figures in a richly innovative and dynamic period of Czech theatre, Professor Jarka M. Burian provides us with insightful portraits of the directors K. H. Hilar, E. F. Burian, Alfred Radok, and Otomar Krejca: of the famous Voskovec...
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Anthony Neilson Plays: 3

Relocated; Get Santa!; Narrative; Unreachable; The Prudes

by Mr Anthony Neilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2018

Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation in both writing and directing having worked with companies such as The Royal Court, The RSC and...
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Words into Action

Finding the Life of the Play

by William Gaskill
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018

Packed with insights from a lifetime of directing theatre, Words into Action is a fascinating read and a vital masterclass for actors and directors. Renowned theatre director William Gaskill was one of the founders of the Royal Court, whose ethos, as Christopher Hampton says in his Foreword,...
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by Howard Barker
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016

For more than three decades Howard Barker has argued passionately against the deformation of English theatre by social realism. Insisting on the primacy of tragedy over all art forms in Western culture, his elaboration of a tragic form for our time – identified by him as The Theatre of Catastrophe...
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by Bryan Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018

The term ‘theatre laboratory’ has entered the regular lexicon of theatre artists, producers, scholars and critics alike, yet use of the term is far from unified, often operating as an catch-all for a web of intertwining practices, territories, pedagogies and ideologies. Russian theatre, however,...
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Railway Travel in Modern Theatre

Transforming the Space and Time of the Stage

by Kyle Gillette
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014

Railway travel has had a significant influence on modern theatre’s sense of space and time. Early in the 20th century, breakthroughs—ranging from F.T. Marinetti’s futurist manifestos to epic theatre’s use of the treadmill—explored the mechanical rhythms and perceptual effects of railway...
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Political Acts

Women in Northern Irish Theatre, 1921-2012

by Fiona Coleman Coffey
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016

Since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921, theatre has often captured and reflected the political, social, and cultural changes that the North has experienced. From the mid–twentieth century, theatre has played a particularly important role in documenting women’s experiences...
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Theatre in Practice

A Student's Handbook

by Nick O'Brien, Annie Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018

Theatre in Practice is an accessible and wide-ranging exploration of the central practices and key practitioners covered on the various syllabi at A level, IB, BTEC and beyond. Exploring Stanislavski, Brecht, Artaud, Lecoq, Berkoff and Craig, as well as work from innovative theatre companies such...
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Introduction to Production

Creating Theatre Onstage, Backstage, & Offstage

by Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Introduction to Production: Creating Theatre Onstage, Backstage, & Offstage defines the collaborative art of making theatre and the various job positions that go into realizing a production. Beginning with an overview of the art and industry of theatre, the book shows how theatre has evolved through...
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Directing Professionally

A Practical Guide to Developing a Successful Career in Today’s Theatre

by Kent Thompson, Jim Volz
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019

How do you develop both the craft of directing as well as a professional career in freelance directing in today's theatre industry? Drawing on his own extensive experience and that of other theatre professionals from the US and UK, Kent Thompson illuminates a pathway from training, apprenticeship...
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