Theatre: technical and background skills

Early in his career, Len Jenkin identified two qualities that theatre should have: wonder and heart.

How do performers and artists use media technologies to create live events?

For anyone producing costumes on a small budget, whether for schools, colleges or amateur, semi-professional or professional groups, this basic introduction offers practical advice for every kind of play, together with drawings, diagrams and patterns from which to work.

The Ballets Russes was perhaps the most iconic, yet at the same time mysterious, ballet company of the twentieth century.

The art of armed and unarmed stage combat thrills actors and audiences alike the world over.

What does it take to control your performance nerves, to feel confident when facing audiences, and to acquire mastery of your talent?

The reality of a play is in its performance.

Clown: The Physical Comedian is a detailed and comprehensive workbook for those interested in the art of clowning and physical theatre, including actors, directors, improvisers, stand-up comedians, circus artists, mask performers and devisers of new work.

When, almost twenty years ago, we founded the World of Art, we had a burning desire to liberate Russian artistic activity from the tutelage of literature, to instil in the society around us a love of the very essence of art, and that was the aim we had when we took the field.

Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies.

Revised and updated edition: Coming November 2014How to Produce A West End Show demystifies the working world of live theatre.

This book explores the development of Robert Lepage's distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a defining effect on shaping his aesthetic and his professional trajectory.

Directors and Designers explores the practice of scenography - the creation of perspective in the design and painting of stage scenery - and offers new insight into the working relationships of the people responsible for these theatrical transformations.

The Amateur Theatre Handbook is the essential handbook for anyone involved in amateur dramatics.

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This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater''s critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

A unique account of the way architects, dramatists, and philosophers transformed theatre space in the eighteenth century.

Focuses on the operatic soprano as the diva and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the digital age.

The one and only book on successfully staging amateur productions.

Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019

This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance.

Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art.

Traditional speech work has long favored an upper-class white accent as the model of intelligibility.

Death in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and theatre-makers have explored historically informed ideas about death and dying in their work.

Why are so many women still not properly listened to?

A smart, witty and accessible guide to the rewarding and joyful practice of improvisation.

The use of film and video is widespread in contemporary theatre.

With hundreds of step-by-step illustrated instructions and a user-friendly, stay-flat format, Patternmaking with Stretch Knit Fabrics provides emerging fashion designers with comprehensive information on how to draft patterns for popular cut-and-sew stretch knit fabrics such as jersey and knits with spandex.

Digital Theatre is a rich and varied art form evolving between performing bodies gathered together in shared space and the ever-expanding flexible reach of the digital technology that shapes our world.

This book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of the fifth-century comic poet Aristophanes.

Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts, Third Edition is designed for the college student who may be unacquainted with many plays and has seen a limited number of theatre productions.

Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and best selling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal.

For anyone producing costumes on a small budget, whether for schools, colleges or amateur, semi-professional or professional groups, this basic introduction offers practical advice for every kind of play, together with drawings, diagrams and patterns from which to work.

The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight, features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the material culture of sixteenth and early seventeenth English theatrical culture influenced the creation and presentation of drama and how understanding this culture can enrich scholars' current interactions with these plays as well as offer insights to actors and directors.

Examines staging conventions in the medieval English theatre and ways in which they conditioned the reactions of the audience.

The first in-depth study of theatre''s relationship to the public sphere in a wide range of cultural and historical contexts.

Inspired by new approaches in performance studies, theatre history, research in material culture and dress history, a rich discussion of the many aspects of costume in Shakespearean performance has begun.

Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019

This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance.

This study provides an in-depth exploration of the dramaturgical practices of radio drama and their underlying philosophical assumptions.

Shakespeare's Theatre consolidates the author's forty years of experience in studying and staging Shakespeare's plays.

Edward Braun's acclaimed work on Meyerhold available for the first time in paperback

Vsevolod Meyerhold began his career in theatre as an actor with the Moscow Art Theatre, and after a spell in the remote provinces, he returned to Moscow at Stanislavski's invitation and founded a new, experimental studio for the Art Theatre.

Theatre in America has had a rich history-from the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway.

Transforming Space over Time tells the stories of six diverse productions: five on Broadway and one Off Broadway.

This story the story of making the first show is our record of how uncertain, optimistic, idealistic and na ve we felt back then.

Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art.

An invaluable introduction for students to the purpose and scope of scenography, its theories and concepts, pioneers and future potential.

'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques LecoqJacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age.

This book explores collaboration, theatre practice, and Shakespeare''s canon by analysing the evidence of manuscripts used in early modern playhouses.

Enhance the visual quality of your motion pictures and digital videos with a solid understanding of lighting fundamentals.