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  • The Art and Practice of Costume Design

    Edited by Melissa Merz ...
    In The Art and Practice of Costume Design, a panel of seven designers offer a new multi-sided look at the current state and practice of theatrical costume design. Beginning with an exploration of the role of a Costume Designer, the subsequent chapters analyse and explore the psychology of dress, the principles and elements of design, how to create costume renderings, and collaboration within the ... Read more

    70,82 €

  • Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance

    A Handbook

    by Phil Smith ...
    This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site. Phil Smith draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary and international performance examples, and uses an innovative variety of exercises, to show students and aspiring performance-makers how to find ... Read more

    28,29 €

  • A Practical Handbook for the Actor

    by Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, Scott Zigler ...
    For anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class, "this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years" (David Mamet, from the Introduction).This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the ... Read more

    8,26 €

  • The Viewpoints Book

    A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

    by Anne Bogart, Tina Landau ...
    The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with—space and time—into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau have expanded her notions and adapted them for actors to function together spontaneously and ... Read more

    13,13 €

  • Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

    by Stella Adler ...
    In her long-awaited book, the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler gives us her extraordinary insights into the work of Henrik Ibsen ("The creation of the modern theater took a genius like Ibsen. . .Miller and Odets, Inge and O'Neill, Williams and Shaw, swallowed the whole of him"), August Strindberg ("He understood and predicted the forces that would break in our lives"), and Anton Chekhov ( ... Read more

    4,34 €

  • AutoCAD for Theatrical Drafting

    A Resource for Designers and Technical Directors

    by John Keisling ...
    AutoCAD for Theatrical Drafting provides an introduction to the software AutoCAD, specifically focusing on how to navigate the commands most commonly used when creating design, construction and installation drafting plates for theatrical use.Beginning with a step-by-step tutorial of how to download the program and a review of theatrical drafting standards, the text details commands used in 2D ... Read more

    37,85 €

  • The Production Manager's Toolkit

    Successful Production Management in Theatre and Performing Arts

    by Cary Gillett, Jay Sheehan ...
    Series series The Focal Press Toolkit Series
    The Production Manager’s Toolkit Second Edition offers an up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to a theatrical and special event production career for new and aspiring professionals, given by expert voices in the field.The book discusses management techniques, communication skills, and relationship building tactics to become effective and successful production managers. With a focus on ... Read more

    46,40 €

  • Goethes Faust: Oekonom – Landesplaner – Unternehmer

    by Klaus Weißinger ...
    Series Book 21 - Heidelberger Beitraege zur deutschen Literatur
    In dieser Studie stellt der Autor Fausts Werdegang vom Gelehrten zum Ökonomen, Landesplaner und Unternehmer dar und zeigt durch die innovative «geographische Deutung» des fünften Akts, inwiefern durch Fausts Neulandgewinnung eine blühende Kulturlandschaft hat entstehen können. Bislang bestand in der Faust-Forschung weitgehend Konsens darüber, dass Faust am Ende des Dramas ein Egomane und ein ... Read more

    28,08 €

  • Arte E Ciência Do Ator

    Estratégias Secretas Do Corpo-Mente

    by Gianluca Testa ...
    Translated by Aderito Francisco Huo ...
    A Expressividade generativa ® de Gianluca Testa é um método de transformação pessoal capaz de potenciar a capacidade de gerar estados e melhorar as performances através do impacto da comunicação verbal, para verbal e não-verbal, sobre nós mesmos e sobre os outros, alterando a perceção sensorial e emotiva do mundo circunstante e criando novas realidades, possibilidades e recursos.A Expressividade ... Read more

    4,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg

    Giselle | Paquita | Le Corsaire | La Bayadère | Raymonda

    by Doug Fullington, Marian Smith ...
    Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg offers fascinating new looks at five classic story ballets: Giselle (1841), Paquita (1846), Le Corsaire (1856), La Bayadère (1877), and Raymonda (1898), drawing on a treasure trove of manuscripts that offer explicit written information about how many nineteenth-century ballets were performed in their earliest incarnations. Bursting with details forgotten ... Read more

    45,04 €

  • Antonfrancesco Grazzini («Il Lasca»), Two Plays

    «The Friar» and «The Bawd» – Translated with an Introduction by Marino D’Orazio

    by Marino D’Orazio ...
    Series Book 23 - Studies in Italian Culture
    Antonfrancesco Grazzini, known as Il Lasca (The Roach), was born and lived in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. He wrote prolifically in most genres, including novelle, burlesque poetry, and comedies. As a playwright he was, in his time, more popular than even Machiavelli. The Friar is a farce in three acts which satirizes, in the manner of Boccaccio, lustful men of the cloth and their ... Read more

    70,16 €

  • Script Analysis for Theatre

    Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production

    by Professor Robert Knopf ...
    Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production provides theatre students and emerging theatre artists with the tools, skills and a shared language to analyze play scripts, communicate about them, and collaborate with others on stage productions. Based largely on concepts derived from Stanislavski's system of acting and method acting, the book focuses on action ... Read more

    33,49 €

  • Performance Studies

    An Introduction

    by Richard Schechner ...
    Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global performance.The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. This fourth edition has been revised with two new chapters, up-to-date coverage of global and ... Read more

    61,05 €

  • Fitting and Pattern Alteration

    A Multi-Method Approach to the Art of Style Selection, Fitting, and Alteration - with STUDIO

    by Elizabeth Liechty, Judith Rasband, Della Pottberg-Steineckert ...
    Fitting and Pattern Alteration: A Multi-Method Approach to the Art of Style Selection, Fitting, and Alteration, Third Edition, shows readers how to recognize, evaluate, and correct fit for 88 figure variations. This comprehensive guide presents proven methods of style selection, fitting, and alteration. The authors use a multi-level approach that is both logical and easy to follow, and each ... Read more

    81,40 €

  • Staging Scenes from the Operas of Mozart

    A Guide for Teachers and Singers

    by William Ferrara ...
    In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Mozart: A Guide for Teachers and Singers, opera director William Ferrara offers the perfect resource for the dramatic preparation of opera scenes for directors and student performers. Topics include study and research, rehearsal planning, blocking, characterization, and costuming for four of Mozart’s most popular operas. He surveys basic concepts of opera ... Read more

    56,38 €

  • VIE Festival 14 - 22 ottobre 2017

    Modena Bologna Carpi Vignola

    by Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione ...
    VIE Festival nasce nel 2005 con l’obiettivo di attraversare la contemporaneità, di intercettare il delinearsi di nuove identità e soggettività nell’ambito dello spettacolo dal vivo.Si svolge annualmente in ottobre in diverse città dell’Emilia, è organizzato da Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Teatro Nazionale con sede a Modena, ed ha come principali finanziatori lo stesso ERT e la Fondazione ... Read more

    0,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Angels Can Fly a Modern Clown User Guide

    by Alan Clay ...
    This book is a modern clown user guide. It includes a mix of fiction which follows the adventures of ten clown characters some personal clown anecdotes from clowns from around the world and some theory on the nature of modern clown as well as 50 practical clown exercises appropriate for workshops or performance. ... Read more

    7,52 €

  • The Merry Wives of Windsor: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The 30-Minute Shakespeare
    Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited."The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the story” of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of ... Read more

    7,41 €

  • Technical Drawing for Stage Design

    by Gary Thorne ...
    Technical Drawing for Stage Design explains the importance of drawing in the design process, revealing how the initial two-dimensional drawing is a crucial building block in creating the scale model that in turn will develop into the stage set - that will transport the audience into another world. ... Read more

    15,25 €

  • A lezione di regia teatrale - Quaderno n. 1

    by Nadia Palazzo ...
    Il panorama della regia nell'ambito dello spettacolo dal vivo del terzo millennio è quanto mai articolato per numero di proposte, soluzioni espressive, modalità di produzione. È molto difficile, dunque, classificare i fenomeni spettacolari entro i limiti del teatro di regia tradizionale. Ecco, allora, l'idea di proporre una serie di esercizi di lettura di spettacoli che, in modo diverso, hanno ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The 30-Minute Shakespeare
    An abridgement for performance by young people and amateur adults, road tested” at the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Student Shakespeare Festival. Six key scenes are presented with narrative bridges and interpretive stage directions, bringing Shakespeare from page to stage. Also included are an essay on performing Shakespeare, performance notes for AS YOU LIKE IT, and a directory of additional ... Read more

    7,41 €

  • Writing and the Modern Stage

    Theater beyond Drama

    by Julia Jarcho ...
    It is time to change the way we talk about writing in theater. This book offers a new argument that reimagines modern theater's critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage. While performance studies, German Theaterwissenschaft, and even text-based drama studies have commonly envisioned theatrical performance as something that must operate beyond the limits ... Read more

    34,55 €

  • Beyond the Fourth Wall

    Crafting Unforgettable Immersive Experiences from Concept to Curtain Call

    by Kimberly Snow ...
    The Stage is a World. The Audience is a Participant. The Rules Have Changed.For centuries, a wall has separated the spectator from the spectacle. But what happens when that wall crumbles? What happens when the audience steps through the proscenium arch and into the story itself?Beyond the Fourth Wall by Kimberly Snow is your essential guide to navigating the thrilling, chaotic, and revolutionary ... Read more

    4,30 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fotografia de palco II

    by Lenise Pinheiro ...
    Series Book 2 - Fotografia de Palco
    Registrando a história viva e recente do teatro brasileiro, Lenise Pinheiro traz ao público, neste segundo volume de Fotografia de palco, parte do acervo de imagens captadas ao longo dos últimos anos em bastidores, camarins e palcos. Acompanham textos de Beatriz Sayad, Bob Wolfenson, Denise Fraga, Francisco Carlos, Guilherme Bonfanti, Leopoldo Pacheco, Luiz Fernando Ramos, Marcelo Coelho, Marisa ... Read more

    7,99 €