Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
A classic work of theatre history and criticism when first published, Arnold Aronson's formative study surveyed the phenomenon known as environmental theatre. Now updated in this richly illustrated second edition to reflect developments and practice since the 1980s, it offers readers a comprehensive...
Performing the Remembered Present
The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This international collection brings together scientists, scholars and artist-researchers to explore the cognition of memory through the performing arts and examine artistic strategies that target cognitive processes of memory. The strongly embodied and highly trained memory systems of performing...
Getting the Joke
The Inner Workings of Stand-Up Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
'This is the kind of book that troubles grey-suited committees of academic peers. It's too enjoyable. But that, given its subject, is just what it ought to be, and it treats that subject seriously . . . There isn't a "dull†? page anywhere in the book.' – Professor Peter Thomson, Studies in...
Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
A close study of the relationship between text and film
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
The study of literature on screen is a growing area of study in schools and universities. Many students have to produce critical essays comparing the novel and film versions of a particular text. The Screen Adaptations series offers a wealth of study material: from the literary context of the original...
Christoph Schlingensief
Staging Chaos, Performing Politics and Theatrical Phantasmagoria
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief's theatre work, it subversively merges art, politics and everyday life to imbue his productions both inside and outside the theatre with a re-energized concept of the political in art.
Scheer traces Schlingensief's...
Theatre in the Dark
Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre responds to a rising tide of experimentation in theatre practice that eliminates or obscures light. It brings together leading and emerging practitioners and researchers in a volume dedicated to exploring the phenomenon and showcasing...
by Trish Reid
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Anthony Neilson is one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For more than two decades he has been in the vanguard of new writing and has acquired a formidable reputation for innovation and experimentation. His major stage plays include Penetrator, The Censor,...
The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde
Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The touch and movement senses have a large place in the modern arts. This is widely discussed and celebrated, often enough as if it represents a breakthrough in a primarily visual age. This book turns to history to show just how significant movement and the sense of movement were to pioneers of modernism...
The Model as Performance
Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
The Model as Performance investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present. Employing a scenographic perspective and a performative paradigm, it explores what the model can do and how it is used in theatre and architecture. The volume provides a comprehensive...
British Theatre Companies: 1965-1979
CAST, The People Show, Portable Theatre, Pip Simmons Theatre Group, Welfare State International, 7:84 Theatre Companies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to the present. Each volume provides a survey of the political and cultural context; an extensive survey of the variety of theatre companies from...
Dance Composition
A practical guide to creative success in dance making
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Dance composition - the discipline that translates ideas into dances - is an important part of dance education. This book, a bestseller for over twenty years, is a practical guide to creative success in dance making and is invaluable for all those who are interested in dance composition, from secondary...
Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines
Woman's Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech's work, Jessica Brater's companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist.
Tracing...
Beautiful Thing
Screenplay
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Premiered at the Bush theatre in 1993 Beautiful Thing was released as a feature film by Channel Four films in 1996 directed by Hettie Macdonald and featuring Meera Syal
Beautiful Thing explores pre-teenage homo-erotic sensuality and the frictions and intimacies of living cheek by jowl on a Thamesmead housing estate.
by Naomi Westerman, Sumerah Srivastav, Himanshu Ojha
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Charles Dickens' London is reimagined for the 21st century.
Twenty-four hours in the life of a city that has 371 people in every square kilometer, where every street and square shelters heroes and villains, emotional turmoil, violent allegiances, adventures, the remarkable and the everyday.
Olivier...