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“maki isaka”

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  • Onnagata

    A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater

    by Maki Isaka ...
    Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important aspect of kabuki since its beginnings in the 17th century. In a “labyrinth” of gendering, the practice of men playing women’s roles has affected the manifestations of femininity in Japanese society. In ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Look Back in Anger

    by John Osborne ...
    Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956.'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it up.' Alan Sillitoe'A story of youthful insecurity inflamed by lack of opportunity and the terrifying, destabilizing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Illusive Utopia

    Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea

    by Suk-Young Kim ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    "North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way."---Charles K. Armstrong, Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University"One of this book's strengths is how ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre

    Edited by Franc Chamberlain, Ralph Yarrow ...
    Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre brings together the first collection of essays in English to focus on Lecoq's school of mime and physical theatre. For four decades, at his school in Paris, Jacques Lecoq trained performers from all over the world and effected a quiet evolution in the theatre.The work of such highly successful Lecoq graduates as Theatre de Complicite (The Winter's Tale with ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Chaos Imagined

    Literature, Art, Science

    by Martin Meisel ...
    The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world—our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art—are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Susan Glaspell's Poetics and Politics of Rebellion

    by Emeline Jouve ...
    Series series Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
    A pioneer of American modern drama and founding member of the Provincetown Players, Susan Glaspell (1876–1948) wrote plays of a kind that Robert Brustein defines as a “drama of revolt,” an expression of the dramatists’ discontent with the prevailing social, political, and artistic order. Her works display her determination to put an end to the alienating norms that, in her eyes and those of her ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Circus Bodies

    Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance

    by Peta Tait ...
    This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies.Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the socially changing ideas of muscular action in relation to our understanding of gender and sexuality. She questions how spectators see and enjoy aerial ... Read more

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  • Musical Theatre

    A History

    by John Kenrick ...
    Musical Theatre: A History is a new revised edition of a proven core text for college and secondary school students – and an insightful and accessible celebration of twenty-five centuries of great theatrical entertainment.As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production, author John Kenrick approaches the subject with a unique appreciation of musicals as both an art form ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820

    A Calendar of Performances, Volume 4

    by John C. Greene ...
    Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.The daily performance ... Read more

    $198.99 CAD

  • London in a Box

    Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America

    by Odai Johnson ...
    Series series Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
    2017 Theatre Library Association Freedley Award FinalistIf one went looking for the tipping point in the prelude to the American Revolution, it would not be the destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor, or the blockade of Boston by British warships, or even the gathering of the first Continental Congress; rather, it was the Congress’s decision in late October of 1774 to close the theatres. In this ... Read more

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  • Theatre and Everyday Life

    An Ethics of Performance

    by Alan Read ...
    Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • America’s First Regional Theatre

    The Cleveland Play House and Its Search for a Home

    by J. Ullom ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions concerning the creation of the institution and its legacy. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD