Stephen Unwin with Carole Woddis
Faber & Faber
Are you searching for an overview of the most significant modern plays? If so, this pocket Guide is for you since it offers a short intro to the dramatic century, historical and theatrical context for each...
$12.99
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, ...
$36.99
Edited by Albert J Devlin & Nancy M Tischler
Oberon
Tennessee Williams wrote to family, friends and fellow artists with varying measures of piety, wit and astute self-knowledge No other modern playwright has achieved such worldwide popularity Few other playwr...
$21.99
John Minihan & Robert Hale - HARDBACK
Robert Hale Ltd
This Collection of rare and previously unpublished photographs of Samuel Beckett is a remarkable and timely tribute to the writer one hundred years after his birth Samuel Beckett, one of the foremost playw...
$35
John Russell Brown
Applause Books
A former Associate Director for London's National Theatre invites readers to behold the fuller meaning of Shakespearean text as played, inviting them to seek their insights in Shakespeare's natural habita...
$16.99
J.L. Styan
Cambridge University Press
The theories of Wagner and Nietzsche provide the basic principles for this volume, disseminated by the work of Appia and Craig, and affecting the later plays of Ibsen, Maeterlinck, and Lugne-Poe's Theatre de...
$37.5
Janet Free & Nicky Ramsay
Crowood Press
Performers employ a range of holistic practices to help prepare their bodies and minds for the creative process This book gives hands-on practical guidance for some of the most important bodywork practices ...
$29.99
Peter Brook & Robert Lepage & Robert Wilson & Andy Lavender
Nick Hern Books
An examination of the very different ways that Peter Brook, Robert Lepage and Robert Wilson have re-worked the world's most famous play, including 16 pages of production photographs and a detailed discussio...
$24.99
Ruby Cohn
Used Copy
$14.99
Gerald M. Pinciss - HARDBACK
Continuum
Writing for a small troupe of men and boys who performed on an almost bare stage, William Shakespeare dramatized an unparalleled range of stories and emotions through his wizardry with words, his uncanny u...
$24.99
Christina Hunt Mahony
Carysfort Press
Barry is recognized as one of Ireland's greatest living writers and his works now appear regularly on syllabuses in US colleges in Irish Studies and in Drama departments This book, edited by Christina Hunt M...
$26.99
Martin Esslin
John Calder Publications
Martin Esslin is one of the most respected and knowledgeable writers on serious drama and literature of the 20th century. His "Theatre of the Absurd" is a modern classic among his many other influential book...
$12.99
Aleks Sierz
Faber & Faber
Examines the importance of the renaissance in British theatre that began in the 1990s with a rash of rude, provocative pieces by a group of twenty-something playwrights, whose debuts startled critics and au...
$12.99
Albert Bermel
Methuen
Seminal guide to the life and work of Antonin Artaud - Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty is one of the most vital forces in world theatre, yet the concept is one of the most frequently misunderstood In t...
$27.99
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...
$31.99 , $23.99 (25% off)
Bella Merlin
Nick Hern Books
A practical, hands-on guide to Stanislavsky's famous 'system' and to his later rehearsal processes - for actors, directors, teachers and students The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit collects together for the f...
$20.99
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...
$99.99
J.L. Styan
Cambridge University Press
This volume begins with the naturalistic revolt in France against traditional styles of theatre As realism becomes a European movement the account moves from Paris to the Meiningen company and Ibsen's work ...
$35
edited Gerald Rabkin - ed
John Hopkins University
"The spectator's question should not be, 'What does this play mean?' The question should be, 'In response to which of the world's possibilities and tensions is this play created?' That is its meaning." -- Ri...
$25
Gwynne Edwards
University of Wales
Dramatists in Perspective examines the theatre of five major Spanish writers of the twentieth century and seeks to place their work against the broad perspective of European theatre. The Introduction provid...
$59.99
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