Theatre category: 6638 books
VIE FESTIVAL 13-23 october 2016
Modena/Bologna/Carpi/Vignola Theatre/Dance/Music/Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
VIE Festival inaugurated in 2005 as an attempt to experience contemporary times, discover new identities and individuals in the world of live performance. It is an annual event held in the month of October in some cities of Emilia Romagna Region. Organizer and founder is ERT Fondazione Teatro Nazionale...
by Stefanova
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
The political events of "annus mirabilis" 1989 marked a rare turning point in world history, but the significance of the year for German literary history is unique. As the 40-year-old German Democratic Republic ceased to exist, so too did the special circumstances which had fostered a literature...
Reframing Acting in the Digital Age
Nimbly Scaling Actor Training in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Reframing Acting in the Digital Age: Nimbly Scaling Actor Training in the Academy refocuses how actors work in TV, film, and stage. In this refreshing text, Preeshl integrates original interviews with 25 theatre, film, TV, and digital media experts from leading international programs to create an...
Scenic Design and Lighting Techniques
A Basic Guide for Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Basic. This is the key word in Scenic Design and Lighting Tecniques: A Basic Guide for Theatre, written by two seasoned professionals with over twenty years of experience. This book is designed to show you how to turn a bare stage into a basic set design, without using heavy language that would bog...
by Simon Startin
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Mayflower Street runs between Jamaica Road and the Thames in Bermondsey, South London. In 1939, 34 houses and 121 residents occupied the street. Between 1940 and 1941 bombs fell on 7 of these houses and at the end of war, the street – with its corner shop, was demolished.
Using personal testimony,...
Tennessee Williams in Sweden and France, 1945–1965
Cultural Translations, Sexual Anxieties and Racial Fantasies
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
The immediate post-war period marks a pivotal moment in the internationalization of American theatre when Tennessee Williams' plays became some of Broadway's most critically acclaimed and financially lucrative exports. Dirk Gindt offers a detailed study of the production and reception of Williams'...
by Breach Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018
“And there’s blood pouring out of this man’s throat. Because these two women are beheading him - did I not mention that?”
Fringe First and Total Theatre Award-winning Breach (Tank, The Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi.
Based...
Theater in Afrika - zwischen Kunst und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit / Theatre in Africa - between Art and Development Cooperation
Geschichten einer deutsch-malawischen Kooperation / Stories of a German-Malawian Collaboration
Language: German
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Im Zentrum dieses Buches steht ein Abenteuer: Die Theater Konstanz und Nanzikambe Arts in Malawi gehen eine Partnerschaft ein. Drei Jahre und über fünfzig Flüge später steht ein Ensemble aus malawischen und deutschen Schauspielern auf der Bühne und präsentiert die Uraufführung einer gemeinsamen...
Edward Gorey On Stage
A Multimedia Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Most fans of the artist Edward Gorey know him as the author of lavishly drawn, sparely plotted little books in which hapless characters come to unpleasant ends. But if you happened to be in the right place at the right time, you might know him as a dramatist. From Boston's Poets' Theatre to New York's...
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.
In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert...
Include Me Out
My Life from Goldwyn to Broadway
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
In classic Hollywood tradition, Farley Granger, a high school senior, was discovered by Sam Goldwyn's casting director in an off-Hollywood Boulevard play. Granger describes how he learned his craft as he went on to star in a number of films, giving an insider's view of working with Hitchcock on Strangers...
Maggie Smith: A Biography
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades. From her days as a West End star of comedy and...
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Marian Fell (translator),Julius West (translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Cherry Orchard (or Vishniovy sad in Russian) is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however,...