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  • 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

    $23.99 USD

  • Working Backstage

    A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor

    Working Backstage illuminates the work of New York City’s theater technicians, shining a light on the essential contributions of unionized stagehands, carpenters, electricians, sound engineers, properties artisans, wardrobe crews, makeup artists, and child guardians. Too-often dismissed or misunderstood as mere functionaries, these technicians are deeply engaged in creative problem-solving and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen

    by Jane Barnette ...
    • Takes the unique approach of analyzing performances and design choices of theatrical witches.• Following theatre critic Helen Shaw’s provocation that, for theatre to reach beyond its typical audience, critics must engage with popular culture so that audiences can draw connections between (for example) television and drama, Witch Fulfillment considers performances of witches on both stages and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Will She Do?

    Act One of a Life on Stage

    by Eileen Atkins ...
    Series series Eileen Atkins
    'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finestactor appearing in the world right now' A. A. GillWill She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to an electric-meter reader and a seamstress, who was determined to be an actress.Candid and witty, this memoir takes her from her awkward ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Wigs, Hair and Make-Up

    A Backstage Guide

    by Helen Casey ...
    Series series National Theatre Backstage Guides
    Written by the former Deputy Head of Make-Up and Wigs at the National Theatre, this book opens up a process that very few people will otherwise be privy to, giving perspectives on the preparation before a production and responsibilities during, as well as looking more widely at training, career opportunities and success. It does so through drawing upon some of the most adventurous and challenging ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Whenever You’re Ready

    Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager

    Backstage with one of Canada’s greatest stage managersWhenever You’re Ready is an intimate account of the career of Nora Polley, who — in her 52 years at the Stratford Festival — has learned from, worked with, and cared for some of the greatest directors, actors, stage managers, and productions in Canadian theatrical history. In so doing, Nora became one of the greatest stage managers this country ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • What is Scenography?

    by Pamela Howard ...
    The third edition of Pamela Howard’s What is Scenography? expands on the author’s holistic analysis of scenography as comprising space, text, research, art, performers, directors and spectators, to examine the changing nature of scenography in the twenty-first century.The book includes new investigations of recent production projects from Howard’s celebrated career, including Carmen and Charlotte: ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • What Is Lighting Design?

    A Genealogy of People and Ideas

    What Is Lighting Design?: A Genealogy of People and Ideas explains what lighting design is by looking at the history of ideas that are a part of this craft and how those ideas developed.Lighting design began in the West with the Renaissance, and each historical period since then has modified how and why light is used in performance, the methods for producing light, and the consensus around what ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Warlikowski: Extra Ecclesiam

    Translated by Soren Gauger

    Series Book 9 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    Krzysztof Warlikowski’s work stands among the most remarkable phenomena in post-1989 European theater. This book joins Warlikowski’s theater with the dynamic changes in Polish society following 1989, using strategies borrowed from psychoanalysis, theater anthropology, performance studies, and cultural poetics. This book is not only about an artist of the theater, but above all about the theater ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Viktor Simov

    Stanislavsky’s Designer

    Edited by PAUL FRYER, Anastasia Toros ...
    Viktor Simov is the first English-language biography of Konstantin Stanislavsky’s principal scenic designer at the Moscow Art Theatre from the company’s formation in 1898. His ground-breaking work included the designs for the premieres of Anton Chekhov’s major stage plays, and his approach to theatre design still influences contemporary scenography.Translated from the original Russian text written ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • VIE FESTIVAL 13-25 ottobre 2015 - English version

    Modena/Bologna/Carpi/Vignola Theatre/Dance/Music

    VIE Festival was founded in 2005 with the goal of crossing the contemporary world, of intercepting new identities and subjectivities which stand out in the field of live performance. It takes place yearly every October in Emilia-Romagna Region, and it is organized by Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, National Theatre based in Modena. The project spring from the ten-year lucky experience of Le vie ... Read more

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  • Ventriloquism for Fun and Profit

    by Paul Winchell ...
    This early work is a fascinating read for entertainment enthusiasts. Thoroughly recommended for the bookshelf of the amateur or professional ventriloquist it contains a wealth of information that is still useful and practical today. Contents Include: So You Want To Be a Ventriloquist, From Witchcraft to Music Halls, The Voice-The Beginning of Ventriloquism, How To Build a Dummy-Part 1, How To ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vectorworks for Entertainment Design

    Using Vectorworks to Design and Document Scenery, Lighting, Rigging and Audio Visual Systems

    Vectorworks for Entertainment Design covers the complete design process for using Vectorworks in entertainment industry from developing ideas, visualizing ideas, and evolving them for execution. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated, covering the most current details of the Vectorworks software for scenery, lighting, sound, and rigging; real and virtually.With a focused look ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Urban Playmaking

    Constructivist Teaching with a Radical Agenda

    This book explores the concept of playmaking and activism through three research projects in which culturally and linguistically diverse high school students and young adults created original theatre around the issues that inform their lives and constrain their futures.Each study discussed by the author is considered through the lens of one or more best practices. The outcomes of the playmaking ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Unbuttoned

    The Art and Artists of Theatrical Costume Design

    *Unbuttoned: The Art and Artists of Theatrical Costume Design *documents the creative journey of costume creation from concept to performance. Each chapter provides an overview of the process, including designing and shopping; draping, cutting, dyeing, and painting; and beading, sewing, and creating embellishments and accessories. This book features interviews with practitioners from Broadway and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Unarmed Stage Combat

    Series Book 12 - Crowood Theatre Companions
    Stage combat is a constantly evolving craft, responsive to the growing demands of an ever changing industry and an ever more perceptive audience. Experienced fight director, teacher and examiner Philip d'Orleans shows how to respond to this challenge through innovative techniques and original choreography. Unarmed Stage Combat explores the fundamental performance principles of violence on stage, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Twelfth Night: The 30-Minute 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

    $4.99 USD

  • Transmissions in Dance

    Contemporary Staging Practices

    Edited by Lesley Main ...
    This book is a collection of essays that capture the artistic voices at play during a staging process. Situating familiar practices such as reimagining, reenactment and recreation alongside the related and often intersecting processes of transmission, translation and transformation, it features deep insights into selected dances from directors, performers, and close associates of choreographers. ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Transforming Space Over Time

    Set Design and Visual Storytelling with Broadway’s Legendary Directors

    Transforming Space over Time tells the stories of six diverse productions: five on Broadway and one Off Broadway. Tony Award–winning set designer Beowulf Boritt begins with the moment he was offered each job and takes readers through the conceptual development of a set, the challenges of its physical creation, and the intense process of readying it for the stage. Theater is at heart a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre

    This book refutes the claim that tragedy is no longer a vital and relevant part of contemporary American theatre. Tragedy in the Contemporary American Theatre examines plays by multiple contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of America’s major twentieth-century tragedians: Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. The book argues that tragedy is not only ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • To the Actor

    On the Technique of Acting

    Michael Chekhov's classic work To the Actor has been revised and expanded by Mala Powers to explain, clearly and concisely, the essential techniques for every actor from developing a character to strengthen awareness.Chekhov's simple and practical method – successfully used by professional actors all over the world – trains the actor's imagination and body to fulfill its potential.To the Actor ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • To Act Is to Do

    Six Classes for Teachers and Actors Based on the Uta Hagen Technique

    To Act Is to Do by RICHARD ALAN NICHOLS, who studied as a scholarship student for five years with Uta Hagen at the HB Studio in New York, is the ultimate guide for both actors and teachers.In six informative and interactive class sessions, Nichols details twenty exercises designed to solve most acting problems that arise while working on plays. Also included are eighteen evaluations of work ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Through the Body

    A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre

    In Through the Body, Dymphna Callery introduces the reader to the principles behind the work of key practitioners of 20th-century theater including Artaud, Grotowski, Brook and Lecoq. She offers exercises that turn their theories into practice and explore their principles in action. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Thinking Through Theatre and Performance

    Series series Thinking Through Theatre
    Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance. Instead of topics, genres, histories or theories, the book starts with the questions that theatre and performance are uniquely capable of asking: How does theatre function as a place for seeing and hearing? How do not only bodies and voices but also objects and media perform? ... Read more

    $32.99 USD