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  • An idea for a theatre ecology

    Methods, theories, histories and practices

    by Carl Lavery ...
    An Idea for a Theatre Ecology is the first book in the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies to provide a rigorous and coherent theory of the ecology that is immanent to the theatrical medium. Over six clearly written chapters, the book provides a genealogy, outlines a method, provides a lexicon and demonstrates an alternative practice of ecoperformance analysis grounded in the figure of ... Read more

    $143.99 CAD

  • Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do?

    Edited by Carl Lavery ...
    In comparison with Literary Studies and Media and Film Studies, the disciplines of Theatre and Performance, with their strong anthropocentric heritage, have been relatively slow in responding to such things as climate change, species extinction, or pollution and toxicity etc. However, in the wake of recent work on animals, cyborgs, and objects, as well as publications with a specific focus on ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd

    Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage

    Edited by Carl Lavery, Dr Clare Finburgh Delijani ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment. As well as offering strikingly new interpretations of the work of canonical playwrights such as Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD

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    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year that Sir Ian McKellen called a shocking tale of heroes and villains-illuminating and upsetting in equal measure.”The first production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé in 1918, with American exotic dancer Maud Allan dancing lead, ignited a firestorm in London spearheaded by Noel Pemberton Billing, a member of Parliament and self-appointed guardian of family values. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Harold Pinter Plays 1

    The Birthday Party; The Room; The Dumb Waiter; A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; A Night Out; The Black and White; The Examination

    by Harold Pinter ...
    This volume contains Harold Pinter's first six plays, including The Birthday Party.The Birthday PartyStanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.'Mr Pinter's terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.' Sunday TimesThe Room and The Dumb WaiterIn ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Brian Friel

    Theatre and Politics

    by A. Roche ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Friel is recognised as Ireland's leading playwright and due to the ability of plays like Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa to translate into other cultures he has made a major impact on world theatre. This study draws on the Friel Archive to deepen our understanding of how his plays were developed. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Theatre and Adaptation

    Return, Rewrite, Repeat

    Edited by Dr Margherita Laera ...
    Contemporary theatrical productions as diverse in form as experimental performance, new writing, West End drama, musicals and live art demonstrate a recurring fascination with adapting existing works by other artists, writers, filmmakers and stage practitioners. Featuring seventeen interviews with internationally-renowned theatre and performance artists, Theatre and Adaptation provides an ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Japanese Theatre

    by Faubion Bowers ...
    Japanese Theatre presents a full historical account for Westerners of the theater arts that have flourished for centuries in Japan.Kabuki, arising in the late seventeenth century, is the theater of the commoner. The successive syllables of Kabuki mean "song dance skill." The precursors of Kabuki were the puppet theater and the comic interludes in the stately, aristocratic Noh drama all fully ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Murder by Accident

    Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions

    by Jody Enders ...
    Over fifty years ago, it became unfashionable—even forbidden—for students of literature to talk about an author’s intentions for a given work. In Murder by Accident, Jody Enders boldly resurrects the long-disgraced concept of intentionality, especially as it relates to the theater.Drawing on four fascinating medieval events in which a theatrical performance precipitated deadly consequences, Enders ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Applied Theatre: Aesthetics

    by Gareth White, Dr Sheila Preston, Prof Michael Balfour ...
    Series series Applied Theatre
    Applied Theatre: Aesthetics re-examines how the idea of 'the aesthetic' is relevant to performance in social settings. The disinterestedness that traditional aesthetics claims as a key characteristic of art makes little sense when making performances with ordinary people, rooted in their lives and communities, and with personal and social change as its aim. Yet practitioners of applied arts know ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Simming

    Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning

    by Scott Magelssen ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
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    $27.99 CAD

  • Woody Allen

    A Casebook

    by Kimball King ...
    First Published in 2001. Woody Allen, who first became famous as a stand- up comedian and writer of comedy routines, also has had a distinguished career as a playwright, actor, screenwriter and director. While his celebrity status is attributed to some of his better-known early films such as 'Annie Hall', 'Manhattan', 'Hannah and her Sisters' he has produced more than ten new films in the past ... Read more

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