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Mama Dada
Gertrude Stein's Avant-Garde Theatre
Mama Dada is the first book to examine Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatric and cinematic avant-gardes. It explores her development of… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97723-4 (Routledge)
Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting
Providing new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32907-1 (Routledge)
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To Be a Playwright
Chair of the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Dramatic Writing Program and mentor to such theatre figures as Neil LaBute, Kenneth Lonergan,… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-87830-188-1 (Theatre Arts Book)
The High School Theatre Teacher's Survival Guide
High school theatre programs are vigorous and growing, but many theatre teachers - drawn from English, speech, or other departments - lack degrees in theatre.… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-87830-202-4 (Theatre Arts Book)
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Baakisimba
Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda
Originally a royal court dance, baakisimba asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. After the abolition of kingship in 1967,… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96776-1 (Routledge)
Spiritual Shakespeares
Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31967-6 (Routledge)
Circus Bodies
Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance
This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies.
Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32938-5 (Routledge)
The Path Of The Actor
This is the first English translation of Michael Chekhov’s two-volume autobiography, combining The Path of the Actor (1927) and extensive extracts from his later volume…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34366-4 (Routledge)
The Mayor of Queensborough, or Hengist King of Kent
Saxon England provides the setting for this powerful political drama in which a disturbing story of sexual obsession is paralleled by a vibrantly comic sub-plot.… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-87830-195-9 (Theatre Arts Book)
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The Poor Man's Comfort
Gisbert leaves the pastoral world to pursue justice in an urban society riddled with political and sexual corruption. Only the return of the rightful king,… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-87830-196-6 (Theatre Arts Book)
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