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Performance, Identity and the Neo-Political Subject

by Fintan Walsh & Matthew Causey

This book stages a timely discussion about the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. It acknowledges the important close relationship between the discourses and practices historically...


The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of an Actor; Second Revised Edition

by Sonia Moore & John Gielgud

This clearly written guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among students and teachers of acting. Now, in light of books and articles recently published in the Soviet Union, Sonia Moore has...


Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance

by Janet Lynn Roseman

Dance Masters is a lively ensemble of conversations with seven celebrated dancers and choreographers. In these intimate interviews, dance critic Janet Lynn Roseman probes the heart of dance:

* The creative...


Michael Mann: Crime Auteur

by Steven Rybin

In Michael Mann: Crime Auteur, Steven Rybin looks at the television programs and films that Michael Mann has stamped with his personal signature. This book closely examines the themes and techniques used in...


To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting

by Michael Chekhov & Mala Powers

Michael Chekhov's classic work To the Actor has been revised and expanded by Mala Powers to explain, clearly and concisely, the essential techniques for every actor from developing a character to strengthen...


Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism

by Kimberley W. Benston

Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston offers an exciting...


Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema

by Pam Cook

From Mildred Pierce and Brief Encounter to Raging Bull and In the Mood for Love, this lively and accessible collection explores film culture's obsession with the past, offering searching and provocative analyses...


Lovesick: Modernist Plays of Same-Sex Love, 1894-1925

by Laurence Senelick

This volume makes available an international collection of plays, from Britain, the US, Germany, France and Russia, providing an essential and fascinating resource for anyone interested in the theatre culture...


Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation

by Nick Kaye

Site-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way. Nick Kaye traces the fascinating historical antecedents of today's installation and performance art, while also assembling...


King Solomon's Ring

by Konrad Lorenz

Solomon, the legend goes, had a magic ring which enabled him to speak to the animals in their own language. Konrad Lorenz was gifted with a similar power of understanding the animal world. He was that rare beast,...


The Philosophy of Ang Lee

by Robert Arp, Adam Barkman & James McRae

Ang Lee (b. 1954) has emerged as one of cinema's most versatile, critically acclaimed, and popular directors. Known for his ability to transcend cultural and stylistic boundaries, Lee has built a diverse oeuvre...


The Misanthrope

by Moliere

Affection I can endure,

affectation I abhor. Empty phrases,

meaningless gestures of faked good-will.

These affable dispensers of embraces make me ill.

Disgusted with French society where powdered fops gossip in...


Ailis Ni Riain

by Ailis Ni Riain

"She's goin' back there. I can tell.

She's breakin' her promise.

She's breakin' my heart.

She said she never would."

Sive and Orlaith are twelve and thirteen. Yet despite their age, they are each responsible for...


I Know How I Feel about Eve

by Colette Kane

'We make it clear in our literature that we are looking for extraordinary couples - progressive people who are open to radical ways of doing things.'

Jo and Alex are the perfect professional couple - the ideal...


Anders Lustgarten

by Anders Lustgarten

"I believe that open markets and free enterprise are the best imaginable force for improving human wealth and happiness. And I would go further: where they work properly, they can actually promote morality."...


Bertolt Brecht; Mark Ravenhill

by Bertolt Brecht

Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun.

The figure of Galileo, whose...


Amelia Bullmore

by Amelia Bullmore

’How do you want to live here? I mean we could come and go and lead separate lives. Or we could really live together. What do you think?’

Aged 18, three women join forces. Life is fun. Living is intense. Together...


James Graham

by James Graham

This country doesn’t need a constitution, never has, never will. We have History as our guide. In tough times, the British do what we have always done. We muddle through.

This House is a timely and relevant...


The A to Z of the Broadway Musical

by William A. Everett & Paul R. Laird

Since the latter part of the 19th century, the Broadway musical has remained one of the most popular genres in entertainment and its history is related in detail in The A to Z of the Broadway Musical. Through...


The A to Z of African American Theater

by Anthony D. Hill & Douglas Q. Barnett

The A to Z of African American Theater celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States, identifying representative African American theater-producing organizations and chronicling their contributions...