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“helen sheehy”

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  • Eleonora Duse

    A Biography

    by Helen Sheehy ...
    A new biography, the first in two decades, of the legendary actress who inspired Anton Chekhov, popularized Henrik Ibsen, and spurred Stanislavski to create a new theory of acting based on her art and to invoke her name at every rehearsal.Writers loved her and wrote plays for her. She be-friended Rainer Maria Rilke and inspired the young James Joyce, who kept a portrait of her on his desk. Her ... Read more

    Was $19.99 USD Now $14.99 USD

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    Moving Forwards Working Backwards: A strengths based approach to neurodivergence

    by Helen Sheehy ...
    Narrated by Helen Sheehy ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 16 min

    This book is about understanding how much neurodivergence and masking has unconsciously shaped so many people without them realising. For generations we have not recognised that many people who are highly adapted to a neurotypical world haven't been acknowledged or supported, especially women and girls. It explores the experience of attention divergent and highly sensitive people (often referred ... Read more

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    Successful acting must reflect a society’s current beliefs. The men and women who developed each new technique were convinced that previous methods were not equal to the full challenges of their time and place, and the techniques in this book have been adapted to current needs in order to continue to be successful methods for training actors. The actor’s journey is an individual one, and the actor ... Read more

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  • This Was Burlesque

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  • Performance

    by Diana Taylor ...
    "Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book ... Read more

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  • Tartuffe and Other Plays

    by Jean-Baptiste Moliere ...
    Translated by Donald M. Frame ...
    Seven plays by the genius of French theater.Including The Ridiculous Precieuses, The School for Husbands, The School for Wives, Don Juan, The Versailles Impromptu, and The Critique of the School for Wives, this collection showcases the talent of perhaps the greatest and best-loved French playwright.Translated and with an Introduction by Donald M. FrameWith a Foreword by Virginia Scott</str... ... Read more

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  • Timon of Athens

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
    The real Timon of Athens lived there in the fifth century BCE, making him a contemporary of Socrates and Pericles. Shakespeare presents Timon as a figure who suffers such profound disillusionment that he becomes a misanthrope, or man-hater. This makes him a more interesting character than the caricature he had become to Shakespeare’s contemporaries, for whom “Timonist” was a slang term for an ... Read more

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  • Performance and Cognition

    Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn

    Edited by Bruce McConachie, F. Elizabeth Hart ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach.Following a comprehensive introduction, the contributors ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry

    Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America

    by Susan Somers-Willett ...
    Series series Anthropology series
    "For a lucid and thorough 'real-world' analysis of the movement from the ground-up--including its history, aesthetics, and culture, there is surely no better place to start than Somers-Willett's trailblazing book."--- Jerome Sala, Pleiades"Finally, a clear, accurate, and thoroughly researched examination of slam poetry, a movement begun in 1984 by a mixed bag of nobody poets in Chicago. At ... Read more

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  • Stages of Reality

    Theatricality in Cinema

    by Jeremy Maron, André Loiselle ...
    A groundbreaking collection of original essays, Stages of Reality establishes a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between stage and screen media. This comprehensive volume explores the significance of theatricality within critical discourse about cinema and television.Stages of Reality connects the theory and practice of cinematic theatricality through conceptual analyses and close ... Read more

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  • Daring to Play

    A Brecht Companion

    by Manfred Wekwerth ...
    Translated by Rebecca Braun ...
    Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brecht’s theatre by Manfred Wekwerth, Brecht’s co-director and former director of the Berliner Ensemble.Wekwerth aims to challenge prevailing myths and misconceptions of Brecht’s theatre, instead providing a refreshing and accessible approach to his plays and theatrical craft. The book is rich in ... Read more

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  • Sharon Pollock

    First Woman of Canadian Theatre

    by Donna Coates, Kathy K. Y. Chung, Carmen Derksen, Sherrill Grace, Martin Morrow, Jeton Neziraj ...
    Series Book 8 - The West
    As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the past fifty years. Pollock is nationally and internationally respected for her work and support of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD