Theatre category: 6638 books
When the Toys Say Bye
Musical comedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
In "When the Toys Say Bye" the toys of a spoiled boy take their fate into their own small paws, wings or hands and run away in the world.
This play was awarded the Grand Prize at the Drama Contest of the International Theatre Festival – "100, 1,000, 1,000,000 Stories",...
by Ms Sabrina Mahfouz
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Respect women, respect girls. Respect yourselves. Remember you are everyone who's gone before you and you are nobody that has ever been, so make it count, make it special, make a difference, make people listen, love the women who have loved you and watch us make the world move to a better place.
For...
Stage Design
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
In Stage Design - A Practical Guide Gary Thorne, a freelance theatre set and costume designer, introduces the concept of art and design for performance, drawing on his considerable experience in a wide variety of theatres. The book begins from first principles, and assumes no prior knowledge of the...
Off-Broadway/Off-West End
American Influence on the Alternative Theatre Movement in Britain 1956–1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
David Weinberg argues that American experimental theater practice was a key factor in the development of the alternative theater movement in Britain during the period 1956–1980. He covers the activities of the experimental theater groups associated with Jim Haynes, Charles Marowitz, Nancy Meckler,...
Drawing and Rendering for Theatre
A Practical Course for Scenic, Costume, and Lighting Designers
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Drawing and Rendering for Theatre, A Practical Course for Scenic, Costume, and Lighting Designers is designed for those of you who are theatrical designers and want to improve your drawing and rendering skills.
This gorgeous full-color book includes many examples of student drawings, analyzed...
by Luke Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
A handbook of theatre workshops for actors, teachers and directors, by a leader in the field of physical theatre and research
This is a book of theatrical beginnings for actors, teachers and directors. Divided into four parts, from Body through to Voice, Heart and Mind, the book covers all...
History as Theatrical Metaphor
History, Myth and National Identities in Modern Scottish Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2016
This revelatory study explores how Scottish history plays, especially since the 1930s, raise issues of ideology, national identity, historiography, mythology, gender and especially Scottish language. Covering topics up to the end of World War Two, the book addresses the work of many key figures from...
Cyborg Theatre
Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
This book articulates the first theoretical context for a 'cyborg theatre', metaphorically integrating on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to re-imagine subjectivity for a post-human age. It covers a variety of examples, to propose new theoretical tools for understanding performance in our changing world.
Theatre as Sign System
A Semiotics of Text and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This invaluable student handbook is the first detailed guide to explain in detail the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practice of drama in performance.
Beginning at the beginning, with accessible explanations of the meanings and methods of semiotics, Theatre as Sign System addresses...
Dundurn Performing Arts Library Bundle — Theatre
Broadway North / Let's Go to The Grand! / Once Upon a Time in Paradise / Passion to Dance / Sky Train / Romancing the Bard / Stardust and Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
This special bundle contains seven books that detail Canada’s long and storied history in the performing arts. We learn about Canada’s early Hollywood celebrity movie stars; Canadians’ vast contributions to successful international stage musicals; the story of The Grand, a famous theatre in...
Passionate Amateurs
Theatre, Communism, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Passionate Amateurstells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater—Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in Moscow—and then crosses...
by Susan Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Bennett explores the relationship between theatre and museums, looking particularly at the collaborative processes that intertwine these two cultural practices. She argues that discourses of performance studies can open up new avenues of inquiry about the production and reception of the museum experience and its place in contemporary culture.
Adapting Chekhov
The Text and its Mutations
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov’s work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov’s dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters...
by Henryk Jurkowski
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis.