Theatre category: 6638 books
Julie
A version of Miss Julie
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
In the oppressive heat of Midsummer's Eve, Julie, daughter of the lord, is drawn into a dangerous tryst with her father's butler. As the night wears on, the couple, from opposite ends of the social spectrum, dance, flirt and fight towards an explosive conclusion that will shake the existing order...
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton? And how...
Kitchen Sink Realisms
Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
From 1918’s Tickless Time through Waiting for Lefty, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue to 2005’s The Clean House, domestic labor has figured largely on American stages. No dramatic genre has done more than the one often dismissively...
by Jonathan Pitches
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Providing new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition with reference to parallel developments in science. Rooted in practice, it presents an alternative perspective based on philosophy,...
Fireworks
Al' ab Nariya
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
There's no-one in the streets but us. You run that way and I'll run this way. Whoever gets back to the front door first without getting shot, wins.
In a Palestinian town eleven-year-old Lubna and twelve-year-old Khalil are playing on the empty stairwell in their apartment block. As the siege...
Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance
Meetings with Remarkable Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
As the first examination of women's foremost contributions to Jerzy Grotowski's cross-cultural investigation of performance, this book complements and broadens existing literature by offering a more diverse and inclusive re-assessment of Grotowski's legacy, thereby probing its significance for contemporary...
by John Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
A practical guide to conducting improvisation sessions, for teachers, directors and workshop leaders.
The Improvisation Book takes you step-by-step, session-by-session through a graded series of improvisation exercises. Starting with the very first class, it adds a new element at each stage...
Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance
Inside/Outside Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Discussing crises through diverse examples, including the UK's National Theatre, public art installations, Occupy LSX, repatriation ceremonies and performances of the everyday, this book asks how performance captures and resists what is considered (politically, ideologically, culturally or socially) 'inside' or 'outside' Europe.
by David Greig
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors, the commanding officer attempts to negotiate the unspoken rules of this alien country. He seeks to restore...
Acting For Dancers
Dancing with Intention, How to be a Dance Storyteller!
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Dancing is more fun when your imagination is engaged, when you feel connected to some story, purpose or circumstance. When you've rehearsed and learned the movement well enough to let it all go and just be free to go out there and dance! Your insecurities about the moves, your body, what viewers are...
The Actor's Survival Kit
Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
The Actor's Survival Kit is required reading in Canadian theatre schools and is a constant resource for its many readers across the country. This fifth edition gives actors fresh research from today's experience, new lists of Canada-wide contacts, and input from success stories. It speaks to a new...
Media Servers for Lighting Programmers
A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Digital Lighting
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Media Servers for Lighting Programmers is the reference guide for lighting programmers working with media servers – the show control devices that control and manipulate video, audio, lighting, and projection content that have exploded onto the scene, becoming the industry standard for live event...
by William J. Byrnes
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The fifth edition of Management and the Arts provides you with theory and practical applications from all arts management perspectives including planning, marketing, finance, economics, organization, staffing, and group dynamics. Regardless of whether you are a manager in a theatre, museum, dance...
Acting the Song
Performance Skills for the Musical Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Acting the Song offers a contemporary, integrated approach to singing in musicals that results in better-trained, smarter performers everyone wants to work with. In this new, thoroughly updated edition of the paperback, directors and teachers of musical theater will find guidance in developing and...