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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “odai johnson”
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  • Ruins

    Classical Theater and Broken Memory

    by Odai Johnson ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Much of the theater of antiquity is marked by erasures: missing origins, broken genres, fragments of plays, ruins of architecture, absented gods, remains of older practices imperfectly buried and ghosting through the civic productions that replaced them. Ruins: Classical Theater and Broken Memory traces the remains, the remembering, and the forgetting of performance traditions of classical theater ... Read more

    $78.99 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

    $73.99 CAD

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  • 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write

    On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater

    by Sarah Ruhl ...
    "Ruhl writes pithy ruminations on language, art, and theater with a roving intelligence and compassion that are refreshingly accessible." —Tomi Obaro, Chicago MagazineThis is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child care are equally at home. A vibrant, provocative examination of the possibilities of the theater, it is also a map to a very particular artistic sensibility, and an unexpected ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Aesthetics of the Oppressed

    by Augusto Boal ...
    Translated by Adrian Jackson ...
    Series series Augusto Boal
    Augusto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. At last this major director, practitioner, and author of many books on community theatre speaks out about the subjects most important to him – the practical work he does with diverse communities, the effects of globalization, and the creative possibilities for all of us. ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Nightwood Theatre

    A Woman’s Work Is Always Done

    by Shelley Scott ...
    Series series Canadian Plays
    Nightwood Theatre is the longest-running and most influential feminist theatre company in Canada. Since 1979, the company has produced works by Canadian women, providing new opportunities for women theatre artists. It has also been the “home company” for some of the biggest names in Canadian theatre, such as Ann-Marie MacDonald.In Nightwood Theatre, Scott describes the company’s journey toward ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Production Notebooks

    Theatre in Process, Volume One

    Edited by Mark Bly ...
    First in a series of casebooks exploring theatrical pieces from writing and design through production. Includes: Ntozake Shange's The Love Space Demands, Crossroads Theatre Co., New Brunswick, NJ; Danton's Death by Buchner, Alley Theatre, Houston; The Clytemnestra Project, based on the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis; and Children of Paradise, Theatre de ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • British Theatre Companies: 1980-1994

    Joint Stock, Gay Sweatshop, Complicite, Forced Entertainment, Women's Theatre Group, Talawa

    by Graham Saunders, Graham Saunders, Prof. John Bull ...
    Series series British Theatre Companies: From Fringe to Mainstream
    This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to the present. Each volume provides a survey of the political and cultural context, an extensive survey of the variety of theatre companies from the period, and detailed case studies of six of the major companies.Volume Two, 1980–1994, covers ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Plays, 1996-2000 (Maxwell)

    by Richard Maxwell ...
    * New play Joe opens 8/02 at NYC's P.S. 122 * Directing Henry IV at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Spring 2003 18 plays in the collection Performed work all over the world as well as many numerous performance spaces throughout the U.S ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Journey's End

    The Classic War Play Explored

    by Robert Gore-Langton ...
    R C Sherriff’s Journey’s End is a syllabus text and the most famous play about World War One. First staged in 1928, this book tells the story of what went into the making of this extraordinary and powerful trench drama. It outlines Sherriff’s career from humble insurance clerk to infantry officer and his unforgettable 10 months on the western front before he was invalided home, lucky to be alive ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Much Ado

    A Summer with a Repertory Theater Company

    by Michael Lenehan ...
    “Engaging and insightful.” —BooklistMuch Ado, written by award-winning journalist Michael Lenehan, gives readers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the lauded American Players Theatre’s 2014 production of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout has called the APT-based in the unassuming town of Spring Green, Wisconsin-"the best classical ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Religion in the Theatre of Grotowski

    by Catharine Christof ...
    This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritual, nature of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski’s work. It corrects the lacunae in both theatre studies and religious studies by examining the interaction between the two fields in his artistic output.The central argument of the text is that ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law

    Vindictive Justice

    by Derek Dunne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD