In Spite of Myself (Paperback edition)
by Christopher Plummer
Released on Vintage on 5/1/12
A vibrant, exuberant self-portrait of one of today’s greatest living actors.
Christopher Plummer’s magnificent book recounts the wild adventure that is his life, stretching from a privileged childhood in Canada to the glorious, star-studded New York of the fifties to a sensational career in film appearing in some of our most beloved classics. Here are his late nights out with Carson McCullers,... (more...)
Starting Your Career as a Theatrical Designer
by Michael Riha
Released on Allworth Press on 5/1/12
In the first book of its kind to be published in twenty years, ten award-winning and current Broadway designers—five set designers, four lighting designers, and one projection designer—discuss the business aspects of the theatre world, sharing relevant insider information and strategies that will prove invaluable to aspiring and seasoned theatrical designers alike. Culled from years of experience... (more...)
Plays and Performance Texts by Women 1880-1930
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Released on Manchester University Press on 5/8/12
This groundbreaking anthology, part of theWomen, Theatre and Performanceseries, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and solo performance texts written by women. Included in the volume are texts by Beatrice Herford, Ruth Draper, Zora Neale Hurston, and G.B. Stern, originally performed across commercial and amateur theaters in Britain and America. Some of the plays... (more...)
Readings in Performance and Ecology
by Wendy Arons and Theresa J. J. May
Released on Palgrave Macmillan on 5/8/12
Identifies, illuminates, and complicates ecocritical concerns as they relate to theatre and performance.... (more...)
Staging Holocaust Resistance
by Gene A. Plunka
Released on Palgrave Macmillan on 5/8/12
"Focusing on Jews and Gentiles who defied the Nazis by resisting decrees and orders, protesting Nazi genocidal policies, or rescuing Jews, Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. Drama of and about the Holocaust can be staged worldwide, thereby introducing the Shoah to diverse audiences. Moreover, theater affects us emotionally, s... (more...)
The Théâtre des Variétés in 1852
by David Hillery
Released on Manchester University Press on 5/8/12
This book gives a picture of a year's activities at the Theatre des Varietes. It includes an account of the financial side of the Theatre and impressions of the principal actors and actresses, as well as a month-by-month overview of what was actually performed.... (more...)
The Beauty of the Real
by Mick LaSalle
Released on Stanford General Books on 5/9/12
Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent—a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Scores of French actresses are doing the best work of their lives in movies tailored to their star images and unique personal... (more...)
The Craft of Theatre: Seminars and Discussions in Brechtian Theatre
by Ekkehard Schall
Released on Methuen Drama on 5/12/12
The autobiographical account by one of German theater's great actors of his life in the theater.
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African American Women Playwrights Confront Violence
by Patricia A. Young
Released on Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub on 5/15/12
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Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage
by Joel Berkowitz and Barbara Henry
Released on Wayne State Univ Pr on 5/15/12
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Movement Training for Actors
by Jackie Snow
Released on Methuen Drama on 5/15/12
"This book has strong appeal to movement teachers and students in a variety of theater departments" James Bundy, Dean, Yale School of Drama, US The RADA Guide to Movement for Actors illustrates a broad spectrum of approaches and encourages the development of multiple skills. This must-have resource for actors consists of a practical masterclass on movement from the Head of Movement at The Royal A... (more...)
The Piscator Notebook
by Judith Malina
Released on Routledge on 5/15/12
"Piscator is the greatest theatre man of our time." Bertolt Brecht
Judith Malina and The Living Theatre have been icons of political theatre for over six decades. What few realise is that she originally studied under one of the giants of twentieth century culture, Erwin Piscator, in his Dramatic Workshop at The New School in New York. Piscator founded the Workshop after emigrating to New York,... (more...)
Shakespeare and I
by William McKenzie, Theodora Papadopoulou
Released on Continuum on 5/17/12
Following the ethos and ambition of the Shakespeare NOW! series, and harnessing the energy, challenge and vigour of the 'minigraph' form, Shakespeare and I is a provocative appeal and manifesto for a more personal form of criticism. A number of the most exciting and authoritative writers on Shakespeare examine and scrutinise their deepest, most personal and intimate responses to Shakespeare's pla... (more...)
Experimental Irish Theatre
by Ian R. Walsh
Released on Palgrave Macmillan on 5/22/12
This book examines experimental Irish theatre that ran counter to the naturalistic 'peasant' drama that became synonymous with Irish playwriting. Focusing on four marginalised playwrights who premiered works after the death of W.B. Yeats, it charts an alternative tradition linking the experimentations of the early Irish theatre movement with the innovations of contemporary Irish and international... (more...)
Stage Turns
by Kirsty Johnston
Released on Mcgill Queens Univ Pr on 5/28/12
Stage Turns documents the development and innovations of disability theatre in Canada, the aesthetic choices and challenges of the movement, and the multiple spatial scales at which disability theatre operates, from the local to the increasingly global. Kirsty Johnston provides histories of Canada's leading disability theatre companies, emphasizing the early importance of local efforts in the abs... (more...)
Middleton and Rowley
by David Nicol
Released on University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division on 5/30/12
Can the inadvertent clashes between collaborators produce more powerful effects than their concordances? For Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, the playwriting team best known for their tragedy The Changeling, disagreements and friction proved quite beneficial for their work.
This first full-length study of Middleton and Rowley uses their plays to propose a new model for the study of collabo... (more...)
Archaeologies of Presence
by Gabriella Giannachi,Nick Kaye and Michael Shanks
Released on Routledge on 5/31/12
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