Theatre studies

The Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy offers both a broad understanding and an in-depth view of how and where dance therapy can be used to produce change.

The rules of physical contact can be tricky to grasp and children with special needs are at a heightened risk of abuse.

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek.

A major new edition of this much studied play offering the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions.

This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War.

In this collection of essays, performance studies scholar and artist Richard Schechner brings his unique perspective to bear upon some of the key themes of society in the 21st century.

Stanislavsky and Pedagogy explores current thinking around the pedagogical implications of Stanislavsky's work.

A comprehensive survey of the work of one of America''s greatest living playwrights, Edward Albee.

Wechselseitige Beziehungen, Befragungen und Beeinflussungen von Philosophie und Theater bzw.

Investigations into the "e;realities"e; of staging dramatic performances, of a variety of kinds, in the middle ages.

2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical SocietyThe 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College.

With members of four generations deeply involved in music and dancing, the Christensen Brothers are indisputably the United States' closest equivalent to the European tradition of dance dynasties.

In 1904, political operator and gambling boss Robert T.

This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong.

In recent years the contribution of drama to second language learning has grown internationally as a field of interest to both teachers and researchers.

From its original publication, thousands of actors have used this classic text to develop and refine their voice and speech.

This is a comprehensive workbook for actors, covering the key characteristics and profiles of a wide range of African accents of English.

"e;The best theatrical read of the year.

Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for this significant part of the theatre studies curriculum.

'How do you want to live here?

Is the mind like a theatrical performance?

Bertolt Brechts Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny und Ariadne auf Naxos von Hugo von Hofmannsthal: zwei Opern, deren Kultur- und Kapitalismuskritik oft nur vordergründig wahrgenommen wird.

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world.

An examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration, this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is registered in prose, poetry and drama in early modern England.

A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Fit explores the concept of fit in theatrical costumes - what it is, how to assess it, and how to achieve it.

Dieser Reader ist die Selbstanalyse einer Institution und ihres Programms, und er ist gleichzeitig der Versuch, ästhetische und politische Ereignisse, wie Botho Strauß es nannte, zusammenzudenken.

Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance.

Outlining a classical ''rhetorical'' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.

This innovative and timely collection offers a wide-reaching critical evaluation of performance in television, mapping out key conventions, practices and concerns while introducing performance theory and criticism to the established field of television studies.

This innovative work introduces the interdisciplinary field of research of kinesemiotics, offering a new adaptable model and means of analysis for understanding forms of movement-based communication, such as dance, that use a codified language shared by a community of users.

A "e;superb account"e; of the disastrous loss of a Russian submarine off the nation's northern coast and its repercussions (Publishers Weekly).

Die revolutionären Kunstbewegungen im ausgehenden 19.

If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, "e;many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical.

Singing on stage can be a daunting prospect for actors, particularly for those who have not sung before.

Cross-gender performance was an integral part of Shakespearean theatre: from boys portraying his female characters, to those characters disguising themselves as men within the story.

People Live Here is a collection of three exciting new plays by George F.

Within the study of drama, the question of how to relate text and performance-and what interpretive tools are best suited to analyzing them-is a longstanding and contentious one.

This work presents an account of what it means to perform theatre and live by theatre, grounded in ethnographic research.

American Musicals in Context: From the American Revolution to the 21st Century gives students a fresh look at history-based musicals, helping readers to understand the American story through one of the country's most celebrated art forms: the musical.

The extraordinary character of Ben Jonson has only recently been brought into the light.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

The voices that are represented in this collection come from various parts of the world and express the views of practitioners and scholars who have all had first-hand experience working in Zimbabwean theatre from the last days of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.

"e;Beautiful Chaos is an extraordinary journey of Carey Perloff and her theatre, ACT.

This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends.

On a global platform we are witnessing the increased visibility of the people we call children and teenagers as political activists.

In the first major academic work to examine British variety theatre, Double provides a detailed history of this art form and analyses its performance dynamics and techniques.

Das NS-Repräsentationstheater, das Theater des Kulturbundes deutscher Juden sowie theatrale Aktivitäten in Ghettos und Konzentrationslagern stehen im Fokus dieses Bandes.