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Performing Shakespeare Unrehearsed: A Practical Guide to Acting and Producing Spontaneous Shakespeare outlines how Shakespeare's plays can be performed effectively without rehearsal, if all the actors understand a set of performance guidelines and put them into practice.

New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s.

Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice.

The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.

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This study is an exploration of US Cuban theatrical performances written and staged primarily between 1980 and 2000.

A Sculptor's Manual focuses on the methods involved in sculpture.

This book examines three years of Beyonce's career as a pop mega star using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies.

In Lessons from The Maestro: Crafting a Successful Fight/Stunt Career in Theatre and Film, famed Hollywood and theatre stuntman, trainer, and fight director David L.

Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media.

This is volume IV of Jean Hugard's fantastic handbook "e;Card Manipulations"e;, which includes simple instructions for a variety of fantastic tricks.

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This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender, and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art.

This book explores how three contemporary American artists through the mediums of film, literature and popular music have contributed to the tradition of American progressivism, and provides an invaluable companion to the understanding of complex issues such as inequality and social and economic decline that are apparent in America today.

This book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank, the pivotal 1950s play that was a turning point in Holocaust consciousness.

Mit der Kettensäge geschnitzte Figuren, Reliefs und Texturen sind im Alltag öfter vorzufinden.

This facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie’s extensive catalog of buttons and scarabs describes and illustrates over 1500 examples, along with an appendix on additions to the ‘Scarabs and Cylinders’ volume published earlier.

Playing Boal examines the techniques in application of Augusto Boal, creator of Theatre of the Oppressed, Brazilian theatre maker and political activist.

Playing Bit Parts in Shakespeare is a unique survey of the small supporting roles - such as foils, feeds, attendants and messengers - that feature in Shakespeare's plays.

Three plays by multi-award-winning Australian writer Lachlan Philpott, including M.

Plautus was Ancient Rome's greatest comic playwright, Shakespeare drew heavily on his plots, and his legacy is prevalent throughout modern drama.

Discusses new evidence of interactions between Scandinavia and Iberia during the Bronze Age and cross references warrior iconography in both societies.

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936-1983) to dance.

A stunning visual history of sculpture from prehistory through modernityThis book presents an aesthetic of sculptural art, which has too often submitted to the rule of architecture and painting.

Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging.

This book centers on a philosophical analysis of creative acts at the Burning Man Festival and their roles in wider social change.

This book tells the story of teaching Kathakali, a seventeenth century Indian dance-drama, to contemporary performers in Australia.

How do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays?

Winner of the 2019 ASCA Book Award Participation is the utopian sweet dream that has turned into a nightmare in contemporary neoliberal societies.

This collection of essays and interviews is the first book about the drama of American playwright Terrence McNally; it examines his career to date (30-plus years), focusing particularly on the two plays for which McNally won Tony Awards for Best Play of 1995, Love!

Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering offers film buffs, students, and scholars a fresh take on casting, method acting, audience reception, and the tensions at play in our fascination with an actor's dual role as private individual and cultural icon.

In her authoritative new book, Maite Conde introduces readers to the crucial early years of Brazilian cinema.

Attitudes are evaluations of people, places, things, and ideas.

Winner of the Holyer an Gof Award 2022 (Leisure and Lifestyle)An illustrated guide to one hundred of the finest early Cornish stone crosses, dating from around AD 900 to 1300.

The Elements of Theatrical Expression puts forward 14 essential elements that make up the basic building blocks of theatre.

The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence.

Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous.

This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage.

Six years after its initial publication, Applied Theatre returns with a second edition.

Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil.

Mega Square Sculpture spans over 23,000 years and over 120 examples of the most beautiful sculptures in the world: from prehistoric art and Egyptian statues to the works of Michelangelo, Henry Moore and Niki de Saint-Phalle.

In four chronologically organized chapters, this study traces the conceptual dependence and deep connectivity among Claes Oldenburg's poetry, sculpture, films, and performance art between 1956 and 1965.

Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations.

In Loving Big Brother the author tackles head on the overstated claims of the crime-prevention and anti-terrorism lobbies.

Winner of the AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) Book Prize 2024The Art Gallery on Stage is the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage and to discuss how playwrights have begun to regard it as inspiration, location, focus or theme in an ever-more intense game of cross-fertilization.

The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field.

In this challening book, Firdous Azim, provides a feminist critique of orthodox accounts of the `rise of the novel' and exposes the underlying orientalist assumptions of the early English novel.