Jean Benedetti - ed
Methuen
The legendary Moscow Art theatre was born of a dream to reform and forge a new dramatic and production style which would revitalize the Russian stage Its impact has enduringly changed acting and theatre aro...
Arthur Miller
Methuen
A repressive era in American history brought vividly to life by America's most celebrated dramatist In this book of three essays, Arthur Miller looks back some fifty years to expose the post-war politic...
Robert Skloot - ed - & Shimon Wincel photographer
University of Wisconsin
This Second Volume of The Theatre of the Holocaust, when combined with Volume 1, represents the most significant and comprehensive international collection of plays on the Holocaust Since the appearance of ...
Memoirs of the Theatre
Payne recalls the English theatre at the turn of the 19C with wit and affection, vividly brought to life by accounts of popular actor-managers,the fit-up companies, the Playboy riots, Yeats, Mrs Horniman, ...
John Rudlin
Routledge
An account of Commedia's origins as a popular theatrical form, plus a practical, step-by-step guide to using Commedia techniques in performance The text provides sample monologues and explains each stock...
Judith Cook
Used Copy
Kim Spinks & Sharon Baird
Currency Press
The first ten years in one of the most successful conversions of a heritage building - from derelict finger wharf to the unique home of the Sydney Theatre Company. It has assessments of this landmark theatre...
Wendell C Stone
Used Copy
Errol Hill - ed
Applause Books
From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, this book offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exp...
Gillian Tindall
Pimlico
Gillian Tindall's books take little-known characters and - through imaginative reconstruction - make their life stories stand for 'big' events in history ... Hollar stands for the English Civil War, the exi...
Jim Davis & Victor Emeljanow
Hertfordshire Press
This innovative work begins to fill a large gap in theatre studies - the lack of any comprehensive study of nineteenth-century theatre audiences Jim Davis and Victor Emeljanow focus on London from 1840, im...
David J. George & Christopher J. Gossip - eds
University of Wales
The original commedia dell'arte was performed by travelling players in late sixteenth-century Italy, who improvised their plays around a basic plot or scenario. The best known commedia characters were the co...
Murray Melvin
Oberon
In 1953 a small company of actors led by Joan Littlewood arrived in London's East End for a six week season at the vacant Theatre Royal The company's commitment to theatre for all still thrives at Theatre R...
Brad Schreiber
Thunder's Mouth Press
The first book to assemble humorous, frightening and bizarre anecdotes about the history of all that went wrong during live theatrical productions in the USA and the UK This book includes stories from top d...
Graham Holderness
Hertfordshire Press
This unique collection of seminal works includes essays in literature, theatre, film/media and cultural studies, and is an indispensable resource for studies in the 'Shakespeare industry' This volume bring...
Michael Balfour
Berghahn Books
Of interest to students of cultural studies, theatre studies and European history, as well as to the general reader fascinated by this little-known aspect of the European scene during the 1930s and 1940s T...
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
Continuum
Over time, approaches to acting have changed considerably. In the West, until the end of the 19C, such changes occured in the realm of acting itself, focussing on whether it should be 'natural' or 'formal' ...
John Rudlin
Routledge
This companion to John Rudlin's best-selling Commedia dell'Arte - A Handbook for Actors, covers both the history and professional practice of commedia dell'arte companies from 1568 to the present day It a...
Mary C Henderson - HARDBACK
Backstage Books
A 250 Year Journey from Bowling Green to Times Square This documents the rich cultural legacy of New York City and its playhouses Complete with illustrations and biographies of more than 75 Broadway theatr...
Sara Hudston
Methuen
A captivating study of the plays, literature and writings about private and public theatrical spectacle during the Victorian Age By the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spe...
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