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  • Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences

    An Anthology of Adaptations and Interviews

    Edited by Melinda Powers ...
    Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences features the work of Native-American, African-American, Asian-American, Latinx, and LGBTQ theatre artists who engage with social justice issues in seven adaptations of Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Trojan Women, Hippolytus, Bacchae, Alcestis, and Aristophanes’ Frogs, as well as a work inspired by the myth of the Fates.Performed between 1989 and 2017 ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage

    by Melinda Powers ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    In its long history of performance and reception, Greek drama has been interpreted and adapted in ever-changing ways to share in the preoccupations and tensions of particular historical moments. Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage explores this tradition by investigating a cross section of theatrical productions that have reimagined Greek tragedy in order to address social and ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • Athenian Tragedy in Performance

    A Guide to Contemporary Studies and Historical Debates

    by Melinda Powers ...
    Series series Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
    Foregrounding critical questions about the tension between the study of drama as literature versus the study of performance, Melinda Powers investigates the methodological problems that arise in some of the latest research on ancient Greek theatre. She examines key issues and debates about the fifth-century theatrical space, audience, chorus, performance style, costuming, properties, gesture, and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Performance

    Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention

    by Baz Kershaw ...
    The Politics of Performance^ addresses fundamental questions about the social and political purposes of performance through an investigation into post-war alternative and community theatre. It proposes a theory of performace as ideological transaction, cultural intervention and community action, which is used to illuminate the potential social and political effects of radical performance practice. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Brecht in Practice

    Theatre, Theory and Performance

    by Reader in Drama, Theatre and Performance David Barnett, Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    David Barnett invites readers, students and theatre-makers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in this clear and accessible study of Brecht's theories and practices. The book analyses how Brecht's ideas can come alive in rehearsal and performance, and reveals just how carefully Brecht realized his vision of a politicized, interventionist theatre.What emerges is a nuanced ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Alistair McDowall's Pomona

    by David Ian Rabey ...
    Series series The Fourth Wall
    ‘It’s all real. All of it. Everything bad is real’ - MoeAlistair McDowall’s Pomona was first staged in 2014 and won properly startling, and startled, acclaim. Its edgeland setting permits a surrealistic disengagement of linear forms of time, which is both dreamlike and wildly funny; nightmarish and ominously enveloping. The play has as its imaginative springboard a landscape which is both real and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Abbey Rebels of 1916

    A Lost Revolution

    by Fearghal McGarry ...
    The story of the 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath from a new persepectiveThe Abbey Theatre played a leading role in the politicisation of the revolutionary generation that won Irish freedom, but comparatively little is known about the men and women who formed the lifeblood of the institution: those whose radical politics drove them to fight in the 1916 Rising.Drawing on a huge range of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Divine

    A Play for Sarah Bernhardt

    by Michel Marc Bouchard ...
    Translated by Linda Gaboriau ...
    Quebec City, 1908. Two priests-to-be are ordered to deliver a letter to a controversial visitor to their city: the legendary French actress, Sarah Bernhardt.As part of her long career, Bernhardt – known to her loyal fans as “The Divine” – visited Canada several times between 1880 and 1917, most often visiting Montreal, but once – just once – alighting in Quebec City. It is this singular historic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Lives in Play

    Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage

    by Ryan Claycomb ...
    Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women's drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was "The personal is the political." These autobiographical and biographical "true stories" have the political impact of the real and have also helped a range of feminists tease out the more complicated aspects of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Eleven Comedies

    by Aristophanes ...
    Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Playing God

    The Bible on the Broadway Stage

    by Henry Carl Bial ...
    Biblical texts have inspired more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals, ranging from early spectacles like Ben-Hur (1899) to more familiar works such as Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. What happens when a culture’s most sacred text enters its most commercial performance venue? Playing God focuses on eleven successful productions, as well as a few notable flops that highlight the difficulties ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Jacobean City Comedy

    by Brian Gibbons ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Renaissance Drama
    The first decade of the Jacobean age witnessed a sudden profusion of comedies satirizing city life; among these were comedies by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, as well as the bulk of the repertory of the newly-established children’s companies at Blackfriars and Paul’s. The playwrights self-consciously forged a new genre which attracted London audiences with its images of folly and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD