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Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall.

JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE award-winning playwright Caridad Svich.

Vous êtes passionné de billard et vous rêvez de réaliser les prouesses des champions ?

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre.

This volume gives an overview of cutting-edge research on mindfulness and its practical applications for maximizing performance and personal well-being.

Paul Whitehouse and fishing expert John Bailey celebrate the timeless joy of fishing.

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre.

A new biography of one of the key composers of 20th-century American popular song and jazz, Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race illuminates Blake's little-known impact on over 100 years of American culture.

Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages.

This vintage book contains an extensive catalogue of original magic tricks, various interesting and entertaining anecdotes, and a number of articles of general interest to magic enthusiasts.

Everything you ever wanted to know about making a movie but were afraid to ask Lights, camera, action!

It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practised have been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, and historical circumstances - archaeology is always carried out in the present.

Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades.

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.

Traditional Carnival has been well documented with a vast array of books published on the subject.

Take the trip of a lifetime into the past and present of Bollywood Fascinated by the high energy, high emotion, high color, endless dance routines, and sheer scale of Bollywood but afraid you'll never really know your Ghazals from your Qawwalis, or your Khans from your Kapoors?

This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries.

The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.

This study analyzes the folkloric genres that comprise the repertoire of the marionette theater in Sicily.

"e;The entire town is disguised,"e; declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice.

Anarchy in High Heels is not a state of dress; it's a state of mind.

Originally part of the UK alternative comedy scene, Andy de la Tour spent many years on the circuit, performing with the likes of Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, Alexei Sayle and French and Saunders.

Adoption allows families to modify, either overtly or covertly, what is considered to be the natural order.

A RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'Sometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman .

This book examines the multi-media explosion of contemporary political satire.

This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances.

This anthology negotiates the influential, yet silent educational presence of spiritualities within the field of somatic movement dance education internationally.

This engaging account explains the meaning and origins of performance theory and why it has become so important.

Nations in Southeast Asia have gone through a period of rapid change within the last century as they have grappled with independence, modernization, and changing political landscapes.

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2021 SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR The hilarious trials and tribulations of stand-up comedian Paul Tonkinson as he attempts to beat the much lauded 3-hour mark at the London Marathon.

"e;People's Pornography"e; offers an unprecedented investigation of pornography and activist media cultures on the Chinese internet.

Firmly established in the world of entertainment, The Cat's route to fame has been through corporate and sporting dinners.

Peek behind the curtain into the making of Happy Days, the ultimate American sitcom, in this detailed season-by-season history written by two of the show's longest-serving writer-producers.

This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "e;humorous"e; constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular culture.

From massive raves sprouting around the London orbital at the turn of the 1990s to events operated under the control of corporate empires, EDM (Electronic Dance Music) festivals have developed into cross-genre, multi-city, transnational mega-events.

Das eBook "Meine Star Karriere" enthält zahlreiche Tipps und Tricks zum Thema "So werde ich ein Star".

'From humble beginnings to the top of the entertainment tree and everything in between!

A book packed with one hundred monologues, aimed at young performers from pre teens to young adults.

Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes' most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry.

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the global market.

From the back rooms of New York City’s age-old magic societies to cutting-edge psychology labs, three-card monte games on Canal Street to glossy Las Vegas casinos, Fooling Houdini recounts Alex Stone’s quest to join the ranks of master magicians.

This in-depth compilation of the lives, works, and contributions of 12 icons of African-American comedy explores their impact on American entertainment and the way America thinks about race.

Now available in paperback, this volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and introduces a method to analyze its performances as multimodal discourse.

For the first time ever, a DVD featuring exclusive video and audio material accompanies the latest New Naturalist volume, a multimedia first for the series.

Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance is the first book to propose dance and choreography as frames through which to examine immersive theatre, more broadly known as immersive performance.

Card manipulation is an element of magical illusion concerning the creation of effects through sleight of hand techniques that involve playing cards.