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  • Stanislavski: An Introduction

    by Jean Benedetti ...
    Series series Performance Books
    'A small jewel of a book, a knowleageable introduction to bothStanislavski's personal development and to the content and range of hiswritings' Theatre Journal'...shows the System to be a practical process - drama school students and actors will be grateful for it' Times Eductational Supplement'A carefully documented study of peak interest and value to every serious student of acting theory' ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • My Life in Art

    by Konstantin Stanislavski ...
    Translated by Jean Benedetti ...
    Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian director who transformed theatre in the West with his contributions to the birth of Realist theatre and his unprecedented approach to teaching acting. He lived through extraordinary times and his unique contribution to the arts still endures in the twenty-first century. He established the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 with, among other plays, the premiere of ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • The Moscow Art Theatre Letters

    Edited by Jean Benedetti ...
    Moscow Art Theatre Letters tells the real story of the Moscow Art Theatre, from its origin at the turn of the century through its first forty years. Jean Benedetti presents the historical record first-hand in this collection of the letters of the main protagonists. Many are available in English for the first time--all will come as a revelation to Western readers. ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Brecht Collected Plays: 1

    Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by John Willett, Jean Benedetti, Ernest Borneman, Richard Grunberger, Michael Hamburger, Gerhard Nellhaus, Peter Tegel, Eva Geiser0 ...
    Series Book 1 - World Classics
    Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.Volume One of Brecht's Collected Plays contains Brecht's first performed stage works. Baal is inspired by Brecht's student life in Augsburg and follows the life of a young poet on the rocky road to inspiration; Drums ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • An Actor's Work on a Role

    by Konstantin Stanislavski ...
    Translated by Jean Benedetti ...
    An Actor’s Work on a Role is Konstantin Stanislavski’s exploration of the rehearsal process, applying the techniques of his seminal actor training system to the task of bringing truth to one’s chosen role.Originally published over half a century ago as Creating a Role, this book was the third in a planned trilogy – after An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, now combined in An Actor’s Work – ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

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  • Brecht Collected Plays: 2

    Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett, Ralph Manheim, Gerhard Nellhaus, Chester Kallman, W. H. Auden ...
    Series Book 2 - World Classics
    Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of his most glittering Berlin successes including The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Seven Deadly Sins, Man ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Brecht Collected Plays: 3

    Lindbergh's Flight; The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent; He Said Yes/He Said No; The Decision; The Mother; The Exception & the Rule; The Horatians & the Curiatians; St Joan of the Stockyards

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by John Willett, Geoffrey Skelton, H. R. Hays, Arthur Waley, Tom Osborn, Ralph Manheim ...
    Series Book 3 - World Classics
    The most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English languageVolume Three of Brecht's Collected Plays includes St Joan of the Stockyards - a play which recasts St Joan as Joan Dark springing hope into the hearts of factory workers at the mercy of meatpacker king Pierpont Mauler threatening cuts in the Depression; and the Lehrstücke or short 'didactic' pieces written ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Brecht Collected Plays: 4

    Round Heads & Pointed Heads; Fear & Misery of the Third Reich; Senora Carrar's Rifles; Trial of Lucullus; Dansen; How Much Is Your Iron?

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by Tom Kuhn, John Willett, H. R. Hays, Martin Kastner, Rose Kastner, Wolfgang Sauerlander ...
    Series Book 4 - World Classics
    Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930sVolume 4 of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as in Brecht's own life. Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Suitcase

    A Novel

    by Sergei Dovlatov ...
    Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn–out suitcase, take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Chagall

    by Victoria Charles ...
    Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did not stop Chagall from later joining that famous school founded by the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and directed by Nicholas Roerich. Chagall moved to Paris in 1910. The city was ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ilya Repin

    The Russian Soul on Canvas

    by Grigori Sternin, Jelena Kirillina ...
    Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as “The Itinerants”. When only twelve years old, he joined Ivan Bounakov’s studio to learn the icon-painter’s craft. Religious representations always remained of great importance for him. From 1864 to 1873 Repin studied at the Academy of the Arts in Saint Petersburg under Kramskoï. Repin also studied in Paris for two years, where he was ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • My Life in Art

    by Constantin Stanislavski ...
    Written with the same warmth, liveliness and ability to re-create reality that made Stanislavski a great actor, his autobiography tells of his childhood in the world of Moscow's wealthy merchants, his successes and failures as an amateur actor, how he studied human beings, and developed what has come to be known as the Stanislavski Method, how his group of dedicated amateurs became perhaps the ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD