Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books

by Joslin McKinney, Stephen A. Di Benedetto, Professor Arnold Aronson
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

by Pil Hansen, Professor John Lutterbie, Prof Nicola Shaughnessy
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

by Oliver Double
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

by Deborah Cartmell
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

by Anna Teresa Scheer
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

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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

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

by Irina Sirotkina, Roger Smith
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

by Thea Brejzek, Lawrence Wallen, Joslin McKinney
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

by Graham Saunders, Prof. John Bull
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

by Jacqueline M. Smith-Autard
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...
by Jessica Silsby Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty, Prof. Enoch Brater
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

by Mr Jonathan Harvey
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

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...
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