Theatre studies

The Independent Actor presents a 21st-century training route achievable by self-curated learning for actors of all skill levels.

Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics.

Creating a Roleis the culmination of Stanislavski's masterful trilogy on the art of acting.

During its three and half decades, the Alvin Ailey Company has left lasting markers on the playing field of American Modern Dance.

Theatre, Time and Temporality is the first book-length exploration of the subject of temporality within theatre and performance.

This book examines the history and influence of the Group Theatre, the most significant acting company in America.

Indian Folk Theatres is theatre anthropology as a lived experience, containing detailed accounts of recent folk theatre shows as well as historical and cultural context.

A guide to the contemporary London stage as well as an argument about its future, the book walks readers through the city's performance spaces following the Brexit vote.

Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as a test subject and cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual blending as a tool, Cook unravels the 'mirror held up to nature' at the center of Shakespeare's play and provides a methodology for applying cognitive science to the study of drama.

The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, are among the oldest surviving works of literature derived from oral performance.

In this uplifting memoir, Lee Wilson shares stories from her four decades of dancing on Broadway, with anecdotes about theatre legends including Agnes de Mille, Richard Rodgers, Michael Bennett, Donna McKechnie, and Bernadette Peters.

Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) was the foremost representative of the Danish-Norwegian Enlightenment and also a European figure of note.

This classic study is both an introduction to, and an overview of, the relationship between feminism and theatre.

Producer's Playbook: Real People on Camera is a no-nonsense guide for producers looking to get the best performances from "e;real people"e; to tell powerful stories on video.

The Sunday Times BestsellerThis is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain s greatest theatre.

The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom.

Playing the Martyr is a book about the interplay between theater and religion in early modern France.

Given the rapid development of new technologies such as smart devices, robots, and artificial intelligence and their impact on the lives of people and on society, it is important and urgent to construct conceptual frameworks that help us to understand and evaluate them.

Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving and Color-Changing Lights, Third Edition (formerly Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light) continues to be the most trusted text for working and aspiring lighting professionals.

Applied Theatre: Ethics explores what it means for applied theatre practice to be conducted in an ethical way and examines how this affects the work done with communities and participants.

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Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections explores the relationship between the plays of William Shakespeare and the writings of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673).

Dance Legacies of Scotland compiles a collage of references portraying percussive Scottish dancing and explains what influenced a wide disappearance of hard-shoe steps from contemporary Scottish practices.

The accessibility of cultural resources via digital platforms is empowering Vietnamese cultural professionals to promote their culture to local and international audiences.

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe.

Shakespeare's plays provide a rich source of genre variation as well as moral or ethical issues that invite deep study.

The Stage Lighting Handbook is well established as the classic practical lighting guide.

Was macht ein Zuschauer, der zuhört, in Aufführungen inszenierten Klangs?

The Letters of Kenneth Tynan- drama critic, talent snob, intellectual dandy, inveterate campaigner - provide a record of a soul: written between the ages of 11 and 53, they not only chart the extraordinary parabola of his career but show the constancy of his quest for grace, style and effortless wit.

Exploring everything from company incorporation and marketing, to legal, finance and festivals, Starting a Theatre Company is the complete guide to running a low-to-no budget or student theatre company.

This multidisciplinary study of Japan''s storytelling tradition of Kamigata rakugo comes with five stories translated.

Folklore About Not Stealing And Seeing The True Beauty Within Yourself.

Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600.

Decades before the Salem Witch trials, 11 people were hanged as witches in the Connecticut River Valley.

Over 50 years after his first appearance on the theatre scene, Edward Bond remains a hugely significant figure in the history of modern British playwriting.

No one has had a greater influence on acting as we know it than Stanislavski.

Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era.

The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice.

From the bestselling author of The Right to Speak and The Need for Words comes this Bloomsbury Revelations edition of the essential guide to voice work: The Actor Speaks.

Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart period.

A History of Equestrian Drama in the United States documents the history of equestrian drama in the United States and clarifies the multi-faceted significance of the form and of the related stage machinery developed to produce hippodramas.

The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ'd.

Originally published in 1958, this book deals with the details of dress - formal and informal - from the time of Charles II to the end of the eighteenth century.