Theatre: technical and background skills

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

This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema's first years.

This diverse book brings together theoretical and practical viewpoints on objects in performance, how they can be part of theatre scenery, equal partners in performance, or autonomous things.

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

How do theatre lighting designers decide what is 'the right light' for each moment of a production?

Brown explores relationships between sound and theatre, focusing on sound's interdependence and interaction with human performance and drama.

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

An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship.

An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship.

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

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

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

From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London's Grand Guignol - also published by UEP this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language.

From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London's Grand Guignol - also published by UEP this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language.

Leading Golden Age theatre experts examine the ways that comedias have been adapted and reinvented, offering a broad performance history of the genre for scholars and practicioners alike.

Survey of Historic Costume, 6th Edition, is the best-selling introduction to Western dress from the ancient world through the twenty-first century.

Get to know a national icon in Eddie Izzard's hilarious and dazzling autobiography'Comic genius .

This richly illustrated short, extracted from the official book The Chronicles of Downton Abbey peels back the curtain on the making of Series 3.

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.

The one and only book on successfully staging amateur productions.

Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself.

In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction.

In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction.