Now in a fully updated second edition, How to Read a Play offers methods for analyzing play scripts from a diverse range of perspectives, giving directors practical tools as they prepare for production.
Dancing Shakespeare is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeare's works from the birth of the dramatic story ballet in the eighteenth century to the present.
Antonfrancesco Grazzini's plays, La Spiritata (The Possessed Girl) and La Strega (The Witch), are available in English for the first time, with notes and an "e;Introduction"e;.
Roger Besfield, the author of this book, did not make the chapters of his book essential and complementary, but rather he made everything in his book things and elements of equal importance.
Providing a thorough introduction to both choral and instrumental conducting, this textbook offers a complete package of teaching, study, and assessment materials to support a single-semester foundational conducting course.
In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970.
This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains.
This accessible book outlines the key ideas that define the global phenomenon of applied theatre, not only its theoretical underpinning, its origins and practice, but also providing eight real-life examples drawn from a diversity of forms and settings.
This collection comprises a comprehensive overview of key themes, arguments, and practices central to the study and understanding of site-specific performance.
A resource for actors, directors, and writers (both professional and in training), this is a step-by-step, practical guidebook to the pre-rehearsal analysis of a script.
Post-millennial Marathi cinema is a dynamic and expanding practice that is celebrated as a "e;new-wave"e; but has not received much critical engagement.
Post-millennial Marathi cinema is a dynamic and expanding practice that is celebrated as a "e;new-wave"e; but has not received much critical engagement.
The Wardrobe Supervisor's Toolkit: A Comprehensive Guide to Wardrobe is a complete resource for organizing and streamlining the wardrobe process for any live production, with tips and tricks to quickly and seamlessly dress performers for their next scene.
Coincés sur l’île déserte de « Robinson Crusoé », Daniel Defoe et Jonathan Swift se souviennent des années 1710-1714, où ils faisaient de la propagande pour le premier ministre tory, Robert Harley, ainsi que d’une période plus ancienne où ils se remémorent les rapports que Swift entretenait avec les femmes, notamment Delarivière Manley, une des premières féministes.
The butterfly Manar says: "Then I lost my way, and came to a human hut surrounded by lamps, and when I saw the reflection of my wings, I remembered the words of the praying mantis, and I became certain that our colorful wings are the cause of the danger facing us.
Bringing together international perspectives on the figure of the "e;monster"e; in performance, this edited collection builds on discussions in the fields of posthumanism, bioethics, and performance studies.
The Dance and Opera Stage Manager's Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers beginning to navigate the fields of dance and opera stage management in live performance.
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance provides a broad range of perspectives on the multiple models and examples of theatre, artists, enthusiasts, enablers, and audiences that emerged over this formative 100-year period.
Bringing together international perspectives on the figure of the "e;monster"e; in performance, this edited collection builds on discussions in the fields of posthumanism, bioethics, and performance studies.
