Batty: 44 books
by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challenging in the ideas they explore. Yet Barker's writing career spans six decades, he is the only living writer to have been accorded an entire season with...
Writing for the Screen
Creative and Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
This fresh approach to scriptwriting, innovative in style and approach, incorporates both creativity and critical appraisal as essential methods in writing for the screen. Contemporary case studies, in-depth analyses and interactive exercises create a wealth of ideas for those wishing to work in the industry or deepen their study of the practice.
Beat Drama
Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and many others. Yet all of these authors, as well as...
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...
Authenticity in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Make it Real
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Authenticity is one of the major values of our time. It is visible everywhere, from clothing to food to self-help books. While it is such a prevalent phenomenon, it is also very evasive. This study analyses the 'culture of authenticity' as it relates to theatre and establishes a theoretical framework...
Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre
Politics, Affect, Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Presenting a rigorous critical investigation of the reinvigoration of the political in contemporary British theatre, Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre provides a fresh understanding of how theatre has engaged with precarity, affect, risk, intimacy, care and relationality in recent...
Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance
The Initiation of History
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History takes up the urgent need to think about temporality and its relationship to history in new ways, focusing on theatre and performance as mediums through which politically innovative temporalities, divorced from historical processionism...
Social Housing in Performance
The English Council Estate on and off Stage
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This book explores the ways that council estates have been represented in England across a range of performance forms. Drawing on examples from mainstream, site-specific and resident-led performance works, it considers the political potential of contemporary performance practices concerned with the...
Robert Lepage / Ex Machina
Revolutions in Theatrical Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Robert Lepage/Ex Machina: Revolutions in Theatrical Space provides an ideal introduction to one of our most innovative companies – and a much-needed and timely reappraisal of Lepage's oeuvre. International, interdisciplinary and intercultural to the core, Ex Machina have negotiated some of the most...
by Prof. Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Postdramatic theatre is an essential category of performance that challenges classical elements of drama, including the centrality of plot and character. Tracking key developments in contemporary European and North American performance, this collection redirects ongoing debates about postdramatic...
by Mark Taylor-Batty
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
The plays of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter have formed part of the canon of world theatre since the 1960s. Frequently revived on the professional stage, and studied on almost every Theatre Studies course, his importance and influence is hard to overestimate. This Critical Companion offers...
by Catherine Batty
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
London: September 2008
Leo Harrison is investigating the murder of a woman washed up on the banks of the Thames. She has been raped, mutilated and a symbol carved onto her chest.
Unable to trace the symbol, the police call on the expert knowledge of Helena Carey, historian and occult...
Freitag, der 13te
Lustige, erotische, traurige, nachdenkliche, skurrile, gruselige, wahre und erfundene Geschichten
Language: German
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Was ist dran an diesem Aberglauben, dass Freitag, der 13te, ein Unglückstag ist? So mancher Aberglaube lässt sich als „selbst-erfüllende Prophezeiung“ verstehen. Dieser soziologische Begriff bedeutet: Wenn man fürchtet, dass am Freitag, den 13., mehr schief geht als sonst, wird das auch passieren....
Narrowboat Life
Discover Life Afloat on the Inland Waterways
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
'A colourful and comprehensive guide to life on the waterways. Practical, pretty and accessible, it's charmingly designed while providing excellent advice.'
BBC Countryfile Magazine
Full-time life on a narrowboat is a novelty for so many of us, and is endlessly fascinating. How do people downsize...