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LEGARE STREET PR The Principles of Playmaking and Other Discussions of the Drama
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LEGARE STREET PR Henry Viii
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LEGARE STREET PR Mixed Marriage
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Legare Street Press Choosing a Play Revised and Enlarged
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Legare Street Press Chinchunchan
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Legare Street Press A A Chinese Honeymoon
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Legare Street Press How to Produce Amateur Plays
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Legare Street Press Dombey and Son. Dramatized From Dickens Novel
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Legare Street Press How To Succeed As A Playwright
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Legare Street Press Un marido sobre ascuas
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Legare Street Press The The Play Produced an Introduction to the Technique of Producing Plays. Foreword by Flora Robson
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Legare Street Press Pollyanna The Glad Girl A Four Act Comedy
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Legare Street Press Siegfried Et Le Limousin
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Legare Street Press Dramatische Handwerkslehre
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LEGARE STREET PR The Yellow Dwarf And The King Of The Gold Mines
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Title
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Dramatic Technique
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Dramatic Technique
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Creative Media Partners, LLC How to See a Play
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The TorchBearers
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The TorchBearers
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Acting and Play Production
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Lulu.com 17 Short Plays from 2025
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Live To Your Local Cinema The Remarkable Rise of Livecasting Palgrave Pivot
Book SynopsisThe digital broadcasting of performances to cinemas, or 'livecasting', burst onto the world scene in 2006. This book explores the reasons for its rise, examines the aesthetics of filming theatre and opera performances, and explores who the audiences are and what they want.Trade Review'A welcome addition to what the author correctly argues is a small body of existing work. This one has the distinct advantage of offering the reader both an excellent empirical perspective and a keen sense of the critical issues underpinning development.' - Stuart Hanson, De Montfort University, UK 'Barker's analysis deftly explores the difference between a staged presentation and the manner in which this is translated into a live video feed, as well as the cultural influences that such "livecasting" has on audiences. The book is short but insightful, part of the new Palgrave Pivot series of brief books that tackle key topics with brevity and style, published in hardcover at a reasonable price and also available as a digital download. Live to Your Local Cinema demonstrates how live video broadcasting has democratized culture for the masses, making hitherto elite, often unaffordable spectacles available to all.' - W. W. Dixon, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Choice (August 2013) 'Live to Your Local Cinema provides an excellent overview of the history of live broadcast and is also a valuable resource for cinema exhibitors wishing to develop their relationship and engagement with this quite different audience for the growing number and range of Alternative Content on offer. Since reading Live to Your Local Cinema we've put in place a number of changes that I know that those who chose, for whatever reason, to experience their 'high culture' on screen in the cinema will appreciate. It seems that the livecast is here to stay and as the first book to make Alternative Content its main focus, we look forward to Martin's questions in the final chapter being answered and the debate around 'liveness' continuing.' - Jaki McDougall, CEO, Glasgow Film: GFT and Glasgow Film FestivalTable of ContentsThe Success-Story With No Name The Aesthetics of Livecasting A Portrait of Livecasts' Audiences The Many Meanings of 'Liveness' Livecasts' Audiences Talk about 'Liveness' The Cultural Status of Livecasts The Next Research Tasks? Bibliography
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Theatrical Improvisation Consciousness and Cognition
Book Synopsis1. Viola Spolin: Games as a Means towards Flow, Empathy, and Finding One's Truer Self 2. Del Close: Improvisational Time and the Multiple Draft Modeled Mind 3. Keith Johnstone: Spontaneity, Storytelling, Status and Masks, Trance, Altered States 4. The Improvising Mind: On Stage and in the LabTrade Review"I found this work to be fascinating and, as an improviser, intuitive and affirming (which is, ultimately, one of the conclusions of the book). While there are many books on improv and many books on the 'mind/thinking/consciousness/how-humans-learn' there aren't many that link these two areas of scholarship. This book fills that gap." - Jeanne Leep, Professor of Theatre Arts, Edgewood College, USA and author of Theatrical Improvisation: Short Form, Long Form, and Sketch-Based ImprovTable of Contents1. Viola Spolin: Games as a Means towards Flow, Empathy, and Finding One's Truer Self 2. Del Close: Improvisational Time and the Multiple Draft Modeled Mind 3. Keith Johnstone: Spontaneity, Storytelling, Status and Masks, Trance, Altered States 4. The Improvising Mind: On Stage and in the Lab
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Lulu.com Glitter Glass Grit
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Lulu Press Isle of Dogges II
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Lulu Press Stages
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Lulu.com HUMPHREY AND THE CAT WHISPERER
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Lulu.com West Malvern Ring
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Lulu.com Scenes
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Love Modern Plays
Trade ReviewIt’s an elegy to an invisible class ... This is character-driven theatre at its purest ... It’s a play about what unremitting poverty does to the soul, where poverty is not starvation, but life without dignity. * Spectator on "Beyond Caring" *Beyond Caring seethes. It brings your blood to boiling point. * Time Out *Totally compelling ... This understated 90 minutes is quietly devastating ... As time moves, slowly, the whole thing gradually becomes more and more heightened, emotionally and theatrically. The beauty of the piece ... is that it eschews sob stories in favour of genuine tragedy. Just as these people keep themselves pretty much to themselves until the final, desperate moments, so the play always slyly shows and never tells. There are no big speeches. There is much awkward silence. People reveal themselves in small gestures ... There are gusts of sadness; moments of pure desolation. But mostly there is work, with people struggling to survive: to the end of the shift, the end of the day, to the end of life itself. * Guardian on "Beyond Caring" *This desolate, quietly intense devised drama gets under your skin and into your bones ... it's a ringing condemnation of an economic practice that puts profit before people and turns the basic business of earning a living into a barely sustainable, soul-destroying hell. Unforgettable. * The Times on "Beyond Caring" *Alexander Zeldin's devised drama gives an unforgettable taste of life at the bottom of the employment pile ... it has a rare quality of gripping authenticity. * Daily Telegraph on "Beyond Caring" *Zeldin boldly sticks to unostentatious naturalism and draws the audience into this world ... this raw, unsentimental piece has immense cumulative power and quietly conveys just what it means to live with such a crippling lack of security. * Financial Times on "Beyond Caring" *Beyond Caring is beyond praise * International New York Times *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Road
Book SynopsisWhy's the world so tough? It's like walking through meat in high heels.A road, a wild night; a drunken guide, Scullery, conducts a tour of the derelict Lancashire road on which he lives. In this seminal play that gives expression to the road''s poverty-stricken inhabitants, we are taken on a journey from the gutter to the stars and back.This is published to coincide with the revival of Jim Cartwright's 1986 game-changing play to the Royal Court, London in June 2017.Trade ReviewUncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze * Sunday Times *Road is indeed an original, affecting, rumbustious and truly remarkable piece of work * Financial Times *The writing [is] so immediate and entertaining too. As a first piece of work [it] is absolutely seminal. * Guardian *...Jim Cartwright's 1986 account of a community scarred by unemployment that couldn't be more relevant or rousing...**** -- The GuardianRoad is a hard, occasionally transcendent evening and also a gauntlet to modern playwrights...**** -- The Telegraph...Cartwright's vivid language, with its ugly-beautiful poetry, its rage and compassion, still grabs you by the heart and throat and squeezes, hard. **** -- The Times...its message comes at us with a vengeance. -- The Radio Times
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Knives in Hens Modern Plays
Book Synopsis'I have no name for the thing which is in my head. It is not envy. It is more than envy. It does not scare me. I must look close enough to look at what it is.'A ploughman and his wife live a simple existence in a pre-industrial time until they, along with the hated local miller, are drawn into a struggle of knowledge, power and attraction.David Harrower's haunting play established him as one of the UK's leading contemporary playwrights. This new edition is published to coincide with the new production of this tense modern classic at the Donmar Warehouse in August 2017, directed by Yaël Farber.Trade ReviewAn outstanding . . . play, David Harrower's Knives in Hens is set in a God-fearing, pre-industrial world and deals, passionately and intelligently with a woman's discovery of a language that corresponds with her feelings . . . A remarkable debut. * Guardian *David Harrower's remarkable debut as a professional dramatist creates a haunting, poetic and entirely individual world of its own. I have never seen a play quite like it. . . You leave the theatre in no doubt that you have watched one of the year's most heartening and accomplished debuts. Harrower already seems like a writer built to last. * Daily Telegraph *If one definition of a classic is that it constantly yields new meanings, then David Harrower's play deserves the title...**** -- The GuardianIt is an atmospheric, powerful piece. -- Sarah Crompton, What's On StageI was awed by its linguistic verve...So watertight is the writing, though, that its profundity and mystery remain intact. -- The Telegraph...the language is taut and visceral and the dramatic impetus slow but inexorable. -- Neil Norman, Express.com...stark, strange modern classic...Harrower's language is curt and harsh: the cast hack the story out with it, carving the air with terse, hard, poetic interactions. -- Time Out
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Social Housing in Performance The English Council Estate on and off Stage Methuen Drama Engage
Book SynopsisKatie Beswick is a lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research focuses on the intersections between theatre and structural inequality, with an emphasis on race and class. She has worked as a performer, writer, facilitator of applied theatre and as a social housing officer.Trade ReviewKatie Beswick’s book addresses the crisis in UK council housing boldly, but also with great care and sensitivity. Social Housing in Performance critiques the ways in which council estates are presented to us in the establishment media, and puts forward instead a compelling new typology for understanding housing issues through performance practice. -- Jane Rendell, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College LondonAfter decades in which social housing in England has been neglected, Beswick’s deeply considered analysis of estate performance is very welcome. She examines not only how individual performances have figured working class life but also how these performances are caught up with broader perceptions of social housing and with British theatre’s own highly fraught class politics. This is a timely and important book. -- Michael McKinnie, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Three places: a preface Introduction: The council estate, definitions and parameters Chapter one: Quotidian performance of the council estate Chapter two: Class and the council estate in mainstream theatre Chapter three: Located on the estate Chapter four: Resident artists Conclusion: Three thoughts Notes Bibliography Index
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Outskirts Press A Survival Guide for Stage Managers A Practical StepByStep Handbook to Stage Management
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Directing with the Michael Chekhov Technique A Workbook with Video for Directors Teachers and Actors Theatre Arts Workbooks
Book SynopsisMark Monday was a Certified Master Teacher of the Michael Chekhov Technique and served as President of the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. Mark was a teacher, professional actor/director and a former Head of the MFA Acting Program at Kent State University. He taught, directed, and performed throughout the U.S., U.K., and Europe. Mark Monday frequently presented workshops and papers on the Chekhov technique at many conferences, universities, and professional theatres, including the Hilberry Repertory Company and Cleveland Playhouse.Trade ReviewProvides performers and directors with a practical set of exercises and also with a lexicon with which they can articulate their practice. This, in turn, supports a focused, structured and navigable pathway through a potentially difficult and precarious career ... if the Chekhov Technique appeals to you, [this] will quickly become dog-eared and tatty. * Youth Theatre Ireland *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One-Analysis and Composition of the Play Chapter Two-Archetypes and Casting Chapter Three-Creating the Ensemble-Establishing Atmosphere Chapter Four-Revealing the Language of the Rehearsal Process Chapter Five-Beginning Work on Scenes-Composition Chapter Six-Work on Individual Speeches-Composition Chapter Seven-Psychological Gesture as Action Chapter Eight-Character Relationships Chapter Nine-Chekhov and Musical Theatre/Opera Chapter Ten-Tempo Chapter Eleven-Characterization Chapter Twelve-Middle to Final Rehearsals Chapter Thirteen-Further Exercises for Teachers and Directors Conclusion
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Poems for the Stage: A Story of Love
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Poems for the Stage: The Man at the Computer
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