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Independently Published Sono Wolf risolvo problemi. Sono L. Alzheimer ho lavoro per lei.
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Independently Published Hamlet Comes to Chichester
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp A Crash Course in Writing Musicals
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Detailed Insight About the Movie Locked
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Independently Published Detailed Insight About the Movie Constantine 2
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Bondsman Movie Review
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Independently Published Molière
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Independently Published Blake Lively
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Independently Published He Never Did Anything Twice: Deconstructing
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Independently Published Idiots, Heathers, and Squips: The New Golden Age
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HarperCollins Tippi
Book SynopsisIn this absorbing and surprising memoir, one of the biggest names of classic Hollywood—the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and Marnie—tells her story, including never-before-revealed experiences on the set of some of the biggest cult films of all time .
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Ebury Publishing Inside Little Britain
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Pearson Education (US) Managing Business Professional Communication
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Preface UNIT I Foundations of Business and Professional Communication CHAPTER 1 Introducing Business and Professional Communication 1 Communication Gaps in the Workplace What General Communication Competencies Are Needed in Organizations? Communication Competencies Expected in Organizations Definition and Model of Business and Professional Communication Assumptions About Communication: A Word on Axioms Business and Professional Communication in Four Contexts In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 2 Managing Leadership Communication in Organizational Cultures Organizational Culture as a Context for Communication Features of Organizational Culture Leadership in Organizational Cultures: Structures and Styles In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References UNIT II Interpersonal Communication in Business and Professional Communication CHAPTER 3 Managing Interpersonal Communication in the Workplace Interpersonal Communication Principles in the Workplace Social Equity Theory Managing Interpersonal Communication Skills Managing Social Networking as Interpersonal Communication In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 4 Managing Listening Communication in the Workplace The Significant of Listening in Organizations Concepts That Explain Listening Deficits Avoid Communication Omission How to Improve Listening Skills Active Listening In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 5 Managing Nonverbal Communication in the Workplace Defining Nonverbal Communication Importance of Nonverbal Communication in the Workplace Functions and Rules of Nonverbal Communication Elements of Nonverbal Communication Using Nonverbal Communication in the Workplace In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 6 Managing Communication Conflict in the Workplace Conflict in the Workplace Communication Skills in Managing Conflict Communication Skills in Managing Negotiation In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 7 Managing Intercultural Communication in the Workplace Definition and Model of Intercultural Communication Understanding Cultural Diversity Importance of Managing Cultural Diversity Intercultural Communication Strategies for Promoting Unity In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References Unit III Small Groups and Teams in Business and Professional Communication CHAPTER 8 Managing Group Communication and Workplace Teams Defining Small-Group Communication Group Outcomes Communication Networks in Small Groups Leadership in Teams and Small Groups Conducting Results-Oriented Group Communication Strategies for Conducting Large Group Meetings Strategies for Team Building in the Workplace Definition and Model of Teams How to Facilitate High Functioning Workplace Teams What Makes a Successful Team? Outcomes of Successful Teams In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 9 Managing Interviews in the Workplace Importance of Interviewing Types of Interviews Structuring Effective Interviews Interview Questions In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References UNIT IV Public Presentations in Business and Professional Communication CHAPTER 10 Managing Public Presentations in the Workplace Importance of Making Public Presentations Building Credibility Building Confidence Consulting for Audience Analysis In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 11 Managing Presentational Skills in the Workplace Elements of Language Style Elements of Delivery Methods of Delivery Presentation Technology and Communication Ethics and Presentations In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 12 Managing Informative Presentations in the Workplace Developing Informative Presentations Principles for Topic Selection In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 13 Managing Persuasive Presentations in the Workplace Persuasion Changes or Reinforces Attitudes, Values, Beliefs, and Behaviors Beginning Theories Underlying Persuasion Developing Persuasive Presentations In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References CHAPTER 14 Managing Customers and Client Communication and Sales Definition and Model of Customer Service Communicating to Enhance Customer Service Changing the Organizational Culture to Enhance Customer Service Managing Sales Presentations in the Workplace Principles of Sales Communication Strategies for Effective Sales Communication In Perspective Discussion Questions Exercises References What Can You Do with a Communication Major ? Appendix A: Communication Style in the Workplace Appendix B: Changes in Organizational Cultures Appendix C: Communication Networks in the Workplace Appendix D: Written Communication in the Workplace: Reports, Proposals, Resumes, Letters, and Email Etiquette Appendix E: Speech Evaluation Forms Glossary Index Photo Credits
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Palgrave Macmillan Theatre and The Body 24
Book SynopsisCOLETTE CONROY is Lecturer in Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is editor of Research in Drama Education's themed issue 'Disability: Creative Tensions in Applied Theatre' (14.1, 2009).
£13.94
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Actor in Costume
Book SynopsisAOIFE MONKS isLecturer inTheatre Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. She has published on the work of the Wooster Group and Deborah Warner and global performances of Irishness.
£33.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) An Actors Craft The Art and Technique of Acting
Book SynopsisDAVID KRASNER is Dean of the School of the Arts at Dean College, USA. His publications include American Drama, 1945-2000: An Introduction, Theatre in Theory, 1900-2000: An Anthology and the Errol Hill Award-winning Resistance, Parody, and Double-Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre and Mind
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Feminist and Queer Performance Critical
Book SynopsisSUE-ELLEN CASE is Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in Theater and Director of the Center for Performance Studies at UCLA, USA.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Show Case Developing Maintaining and Presenting a
Book SynopsisA design tech portfolio showcases a theatre designer/technician's most prized accomplishments in stage design, lighting, costuming, or makeup. The ability to make a winning portfolio is essential to getting into choice colleges, obtaining scholarships, and getting new jobs in the field. Unfortunately the process can become time consuming and challenging if you don't know where to start. Show Case offers students, teachers, and aspiring professionals the information they need to know to create, maintain, and show off their portfolio.This fully revised second edition features new and expanded chapters that explore current and innovative approaches to creating a design-tech portfolio, including branding, social networking, and traditional and interactive e-portfolios. This comprehensive guide also covers planning and developing details such as page layout, content variety, aesthetic sequencing, marketing, personal presentation, and next steps. Each chapter features introductionsTrade Review"Jaen helps readers assess the success of their portfolios and interview abilities, in order to further refine their materials, a great reminder that our portfolios are never done. I will return to this book with frequency as I update my own portfolio, encourage my students to own a copy, and use it in my classes. Show Case is an outstanding resource."--Theatre Design & Technology Table of ContentsIntroduction Preface Contents Part I: What Is a Design-Tech Portfolio? Chapter 1: What is Portfolio? The Winning Design-Tech Portfolio Show Case Chapter 2: Traditional Portfolio Development Techniques Planning and Creation Models, Styles, Dimensions and Handling Specifications Presentation Cases and Folios New Trends Inside the Case Supplies and Materials Specialty Layout Materials and Supplies Where to Find Specialty Materials and Supplies Basic Strategy to Get the Right Materials Showcase: Notes About Printers Workbook: What carrying and display materials would I like to use to put together a portfolio? Chapter 3: The Effective Showcase General Considerations Organizing the Body of Work: Beginning, Middle and End Presenting Visual Content: Page Layout Options Inserts: Adding Conversation Pieces Best Artwork, News/Media Reviews and Photographs to Feature Back Pocket: Research and Organizational Paper Work The Designer and Technician's Archives Marketing and Networking: Identifying Portfolio Requirements by Venue Organizations that Offer Portfolio Reviews Workbook: List projects that you would like to feature in the beginning, middle and end of my portfolio. Chapter 4: Types of Portfolios Basics and Specifics by Concentration Avoiding A Portfolio Imbroglio The Basics Show Case Specialized Technicians, Crafts and Allied Fields Show Case By the Book, CD, or Website: The 21st Century Multi-Media Portfolio Show Case Portfolio Photos Workbook: What is my portfolio concentration? What work do I need to include in my portfolio? What works do I need to collect in order to plan my layouts? Chapter 5: Portfolio Development Techniques Do's and Don'ts Good Practices Check List Five Observations on What Isn't Good Practice When Presenting a Portfolio Part II: What is an Electronic Portfolio? Chapter 6: The Effective Digital Portfolio Theatre Designers and Computers What Is a Digital Portfolio, What Is It For? Workbook: What are some of the considerations that I need to look at prior to developing a digital portfolio; how would I use it? Chapter 7: Digital Portfolio Developing Techniques Graphic Design Principles and Branding Show Case Software Applications and CD Showcases Show Case PowerPoint and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Show Case Photo Editing Software Show Case Websites and Web Archives Show Case Other Considerations: Choosing a Server Multimedia Sharing and Social Media Show Case More about Websites: The Allied Field Show Case About Interactive Portfolios Final Words: Things to Know When Designing Websites Recommended Resources for Those Starting Out Workbook: Digital Portfolio Planning. What are my goals; do I want a web page, a CD and/or a slide presentation? What works will I feature and how many pages each? Chapter 8: Digital Portfolio Do's and Don'ts CDs, Slide Presentations and Websites Do's Show Case CDs, Slide Presentations and Websites Don'ts Show Case Part III: Presenting and Marketing the Portfolio Chapter 9: Portfolio Presentation Techniques First Impressions The Professional and Appropriate Appearance for Portfolio Presentation Foundations of Presenting Show Case Post-Interview Maintenance Self-Evaluation Networking: What's Next? Chapter 10: Portfolio Presentation Techniques Do's and Don'ts Chapter 11: Design/Tech Resumes, CV, Business Cards, and Stationery A Winning Resume: Introductory Words of Wisdom The Design-Tech Resume: Specific Expectations A Blue Print for an Effective Resume Presentation Show Case The Bio and The Curriculum Vitae Other Marketing Tools: Business Cards and Brochures Show Case Workbook: Resume Planning. What information would I like to include in my Resume and how will I format it? Chapter 12: Design/Tech Resumes, CV, Business Cards, and Stationery Do's and Don'ts Part IV: Portfolio Maintenance and Next Steps Chapter 13: Establishing Goals, Reviewing, Choosing and Updating Work How I set Up My Portfolio and Why Teaching Points Words of Wisdom Teaching Points Putting Models in Your Portfolio Workbook: What teaching points can I apply in developing and maintaining my portfolio? Chapter 14: Self Assessment The Basics of a Self Evaluation The Comprehensive Self-Evaluation Workbook: The Self-Assessment Questionnaire Chapter 15: Planning the Next Job Why Planning? What Planning? Putting it Together The Big Picture: Your Design-Tech Career Concept The Small Steps: Your Blue Print for Short Term Goals Workbook: What are some of my obtainable goals, ideas and brainstorms? Chapter 16: Words of Wisdom: Do's and Don'ts Highlight Summary Part V: Contributors Chapter 17, Contributors Bios
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Elizabethan Costume Design and Construction
Book SynopsisLearn how to create historically accurate costumes for Elizabethan period productions with Elizabethan Costume Design and Construction! Extensive coverage of a variety of costumes for both men and women of all social classes will allow you to be prepared for any costuming need, and step-by-step instructions will ensure you have the know-how to design and construct your garments. Get inspired by stunning, hand-drawn renderings of costumes used in real life productions like Mary Stuart as youâre led through the design process. Detailed instructions will allow you to bring your designs to life and create a meticulously constructed costume. Table of ContentsTable of ContentsPart I: The Design ProcessIntroductionChapter 1: Collaboration and Initial ConversationsChapter 2: Collecting & Working with ResearchChapter 3: The Costume SketchChapter 4: Fabric SelectionChapter 5: Developing the Design Through FittingsPart II: ConstructionIntroductionChapter 6: Construction BasicsChapter 7: The Female BodiceChapter 8: The Female SleeveChapter 9: The Skirt Basque & SkirtChapter 10: Female Undergarments & AccessoriesChapter 11: The Male DoubletChapter 12: The Male SleevesChapter 13: The Male Breeches
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Palgrave USA Twelfth Night
Book SynopsisThis edition of Shakespeare''s Twelfth Night reprints the Bevington edition of the play along with seven sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare''s play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts include facsimilies of period documents, maps, woodcuts, descriptions of popular customs associated with Twelfth Night, anti-theatrical tracts, and excerpts from Ovid and Montaigne. Besides contextualizing the audience for Shakespeare''s play and shedding light on some of his sources, the documents explore the range of sexual desires articulated in the play, competing ideas about music in early modern culture, religious controversy and the controversial place of laughter in early modern culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, or What You Will.- Romance.- Music.- Sexuality.- Clothing and Disguise.- Household Economics.- Puritan Probity.- Clowning and Laughter.- Bibliography.- Index.
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Macmillan Learning The Tempest
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Othello The Critics Debate
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) New Directions in Theatre
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Theatre Praxis Teaching Drama Through Practice New Directions in Theatre
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Your Body Knows
Book SynopsisYour Body Knows provides the foundation actors need to move with ease and power. It is a practical guide to movement starting at the very beginning: knowing your body and experiencing how it works.Through the work of F.M. Alexander, Rudolf Laban, and Michael Chekhov, this book offers basic training in movement fundamentals. Its step-by-step process supports the actor's work in any acting or movement training program and as a working professional. The book focuses on three main areas of exploration: Body facts â Know your body and its design for movement. Let go of misinformed ideas about your body. Move more freely, avoid injury, and develop a strong body-mind connection. Movement facts â What is movement? Discover the movement fundamentals that can serve your art. Explore new ways of moving. Creative inspiration â Connect your body, mind, and imagination to liberate authentic and expressiveTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART I Know Your Instrument (So You Can Really Play) Section I The Starting Place Chapter 1 Your Motion Detector Chapter 2 Your 3-Dimensional Body Chapter 3 Your Moving Breath A Restful Break: Constructive Rest #1 Section II You Are Designed for Movement Chapter 4 Get to Know Your Joints Chapter 5 Joint Connections in Your Head–Spine–Pelvis Chapter 6 Joint Connections in Your Arm Structure Chapter 7 Joint Connections in your Feet, Legs, and Pelvis Chapter 8 Strong Bones, Dynamic Muscles Chapter 9 Connecting Your Joints and Your Whole Body A Restful Break: Constructive Rest #2 Section III What You Think Is What You Get Chapter 10 Your Body-Mind Connection Chapter 11 Body Myths vs. Anatomical Facts Chapter 12 Your Primary Coordination Section IV Claiming Your Inner and Outer Space Chapter 13 Your Inner Space Chapter 14 Exploring “Outer Space” Chapter 15 Inner and Outer Space: A Movement Partnership Section V Pathway to Presence: Putting It All Together Chapter 16 Connecting Body, Mind, Breath, and Space Chapter 17 Practicing Presence PART II Elements of Expression Section VI Authenticity and Commitment Chapter 18 Authentic Impulse: Listening Within Chapter 19 Your Body Leads The Way Chapter 20 The Four Brothers Section VII Foundations Chapter 21 Space Chapter 22 Time Chapter 23 Weight Chapter 24 Flow Chapter 26 Qualities of Movement Chapter 27 Shape Chapter 28 Spatial Tools Chapter 29 Text and Your Responsive Body-Mind PART III Creative Practice Chapter 30 Whole-body Warm-up: Staccato-Legato Chapter 31 Movement, Character, and Relationships: Putting Principles and Skills Into Practice! Chapter 32 Performing for an Audience: My Space, Your Space, Their Space Chapter 33 Movement and Space: Creating the World of the Play Conclusion List of Key Words and Key Practices Appendix I – Practices for Further Exploration Appendix II – The Movement Pioneers Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Death and the Kings Horseman A Play
Book SynopsisBased on the real events that took place in the ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria in 1946, this play tells how Simon Pilkings, a district officer, intervenes to prevent the ritual suicide demanded by the death of the King. There follow drastic repercussions in both indigenous and colonial communities.Trade Review'This rich turbulent piece, which starts as folk comedy and ends as Greek tragedy, takes on board an abundance of ideas: identity, tradition, the passage from life to death... Soyinka's play is as much philosophical as political.' Michael Billington, Guardian, 9.4.09 'Based on events in 1940s Nigeria, the story attains a more classically tragic power in showing two forces unable to understand each other. On one side there is the Yoruba culture, in which the death of a king is followed by the suicide of his favoured liegeman...on the other, the powers that be with their contrary code that suicide is illegal and to be prevented, even if it costs more lives.' Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times, 13.4.09 'Wole Soyinka's play is one of the great creations of twentieth-century theatre: it has the fire, grandeur, cruelty and humanity of Greek tragedy, the moral cutting edge of modern political thinking, and the African writer's take on his own people's values: loving mocking, ironical and ruthlessly observant... Soyinka writes with the moral ambivalence and relentless questioning of Shakespeare' John Peter, Sunday Times, 19.4.09
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rage and Reason Women Playwrights on Playwriting Plays and Playwrights
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Artauds Theatre of Cruelty by Bermel Albert
Book SynopsisAntonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty is a frequently misunderstood concept. This study looks closely Artaud's work as a playwright, director, actor, designer, producer and critic. Tracing the theatre of cruelty's earliest orgins, it examines Artaud's six plays for form and meaning.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd American AvantGarde Theatre A History Theatre
Book SynopsisThis stunning contribution to the field of theatre history is the first in-depth look at avant-garde theatre in the United States from the early 1950s to the 1990s. American Avant-Garde Theatre offers a definition of the avant-garde, and looks at its origins and theoretical foundations by examining: *Gertrude Stein *John Cage *The Beat writers *Avant-garde cinema *Abstract Expressionism *Minimalism There are fascinating discussions and illustrations of the productions of the Living Theatre, the Wooster Group, Open Theatre, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre and Performance Group. among many others. Aronson also examines why avant-garde theatre declined and virtually disappeared at the end of the twentieth century.Table of ContentsList of Plates. Preface. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1. Origins of the Avant-Garde Chapter 2. Theories and Foundations Chapter 3. Off Broadway, Happenings, and the Living Thatre Chapter 4. The 1960's: Collectives and Rituals Chapter 5. Smith, Wilson and Foreman Chapter 6. Performance Art (and the origins of the Wooster Group) Chapter 7. The Wooster Group, Reza Abdoh, and the End of the Avant-Garde. Conclusion. Bibliography.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theatre and Boxing The Actor who Flies Routledge
Book SynopsisTheatre and Boxing focuses on a problem which is of paramount importance for any theatre practitioner and researcher: the actor's believable body. This problem has been taken up by Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Artaud, Brecht, Decroux, Copeau, Grotowski, and many others. It is an essential hurdle for all who practice the theatrical craft or want to study it theoretically. This hurdle can be considered one of the foundations of theatre science and of the relationship between technique, politics and ethics.This book tells the story of a revolution in the work of the actor in the early- and mid-20th century, a period in which the focus of theatrical interest shifted from the emotions to the body. The actor's body became a tool for purveying a dynamic set of actions which often transformed the very actor himself. This new centrality of the body also drew attention to those places in which the body is central: the gym, the boxing ring and the circus with its trapezes and tigTrade Review"A must for anyone who really wants to understand the factors which influence change in theatre practice." - The StageTable of ContentsForeword, Boxing, Gymnasiums and bals musette, Boxers and acrobats, The actor who flies, Envoi, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Three Plays by Mae West
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Penguin Putnam Inc Othello
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Penguin Putnam Inc Hamlet
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Penguin Putnam Inc Four Major Plays Vol.1
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Faber & Faber Stage Directions Writing on Theatre 19702008
Book SynopsisStage Directions covers half a lifetime and the whole range of Frayn's theatrical writing, right up to a new piece about his latest play, Afterlife. It is also a reflection on his path into theatre: the 'doubtful beginnings' of his childhood, his subsequent scorn as a young man and, surprisingly late in life, his reluctant conversion. Whatever subjects he tackles, from the exploration of the atomic nucleus to the mechanics of farce, Michael Frayn is never less than fascinating, delightfully funny and charming. This book encapsulates a lifetime's work and is guaranteed to be a firm favourite with his legions of fans around the world.
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Concord Theatricals Rose and Walsh
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Prentice Hall Press Sugar Butter Flour
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Penguin Putnam Inc A Thousand Splendid Suns Play Script
Book SynopsisThe script for the stage production of the bestselling Khaled Hosseini novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, as adapted by playwright Ursula Rani Sarma.Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate. As they endure the ever-escalating dangers around them--in their home, as well as in the streets of Kabul--they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, playwright Ursula Rani Sarma reimagines Hosseini's novel to show how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.A stunning accomplishment, this reimagination of A Thousand Splendid
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Edinburgh University Press Contemporary American Drama
Book SynopsisThis book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts from the 1940s to the present that experiment with both form and content.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter 1: Experimental Innovations After World War II; Chapter 2: Revisiting the American Dream; Chapter 3: African-American Theater: Voices from the Margins; Chapter 4: Avant-Garde Theater Groups: Revolutions in Performance; Chapter 5: Postmodern Presentations: Questioning Boundaries of Representation; Chapter 6: The Politics of Identity and Exclusion; Chapter 7: Fragmented Representations of American Identity in the Theater of the Vietnam War; Chapter 8: The 'NEA Four' and Performance Art: Making the Invisible Visible; Conclusion; Guide to Further Reading; Glossary.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press American Theatre
Book SynopsisThis book provides a brief yet informative evaluation of the variety and complexity of theatrical endeavours in the United States, embracing all epochs of theatre history and situating American theatre as a lively, dynamic and diverse arena.Trade Review"In this compact and highly readable volume, Theresa Saxon introduces readers to a wide breadth of over four hundred years of American theatre and performance history. Given that mandate, Saxon's choice to draw upon a wide range of sources not generally available in theatre history texts and to highlight the early performance histories of Native Americans and African Americans is particularly noteworthy and commendable." -- Lisa Merrill, Ph.D., Professor of Performance Studies, Hofstra University, USA "In this compact and highly readable volume, Theresa Saxon introduces readers to a wide breadth of over four hundred years of American theatre and performance history. Given that mandate, Saxon's choice to draw upon a wide range of sources not generally available in theatre history texts and to highlight the early performance histories of Native Americans and African Americans is particularly noteworthy and commendable."Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Critical Heritage; 1. Defining American 'Drama'; 2. European Forms; 3. Performance and Strife in Eighteenth-Century Theatre; 4. Politics and Plays in the Nineteenth Century; 5. 'Modern' American Theatre and the Twentieth Century; Notes; Works Cited/Consulted; Index.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press American Theatre
Book SynopsisThis book provides a brief yet informative evaluation of the variety and complexity of theatrical endeavours in the United States, embracing all epochs of theatre history and situating American theatre as a lively, dynamic and diverse arena.Trade Review"In this compact and highly readable volume, Theresa Saxon introduces readers to a wide breadth of over four hundred years of American theatre and performance history. Given that mandate, Saxon's choice to draw upon a wide range of sources not generally available in theatre history texts and to highlight the early performance histories of Native Americans and African Americans is particularly noteworthy and commendable." -- Lisa Merrill, Ph.D., Professor of Performance Studies, Hofstra University, USA "In this compact and highly readable volume, Theresa Saxon introduces readers to a wide breadth of over four hundred years of American theatre and performance history. Given that mandate, Saxon's choice to draw upon a wide range of sources not generally available in theatre history texts and to highlight the early performance histories of Native Americans and African Americans is particularly noteworthy and commendable."Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Critical Heritage; 1. Defining American 'Drama'; 2. European Forms; 3. Performance and Strife in Eighteenth-Century Theatre; 4. Politics and Plays in the Nineteenth Century; 5. 'Modern' American Theatre and the Twentieth Century; Notes; Works Cited/Consulted; Index.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Modernist and AvantGarde Performance
Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to modernist avant garde performance. This titles explains traditions and conventions of the modernist avant garde, reassesses theatrical techniques, and provides examples of plays and performances from across Europe and America. It also includes case studies, practical exercises at the end of each chapter.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Manifesto for modernist performance; Introduction: Modern/modernism/modernist, (the) avant garde and performance; 1: The conventions of modernist performance; 2: Performing modernisms: expressionism, dada, surrealism and futurism; 3: Politics and performance; 4: The modernist body; 5: Total theatre and interdisciplinarity; Conclusion; Glossaries; Suggestions for further reading; Bibliography; Index.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The SpeechGesture Complex
Book SynopsisA study that examines the representation of gesture in modernist writing, performance and cinema. It provides close readings of major and neglected work by Kafka, Joyce, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, Nabokov and Beckett, revealing their complex relations with both theatre and cinema.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Theatre Through the Camera Eye
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Medieval Music The Library of Essays on Music
Book SynopsisAlmost a thousand years of music are treated in this volume on the performance practice of the Middle Ages, covering monophony and polyphony, sacred and secular, genre and theory. The essays selected deal with the most crucial of performers' decisions: pitch, rhythm, and performing forces, as well as related matters such as proportions, tunings, and the need for ornamentation. The introduction provides an overview of the major issues and resources, situating medieval music within the context of the early music revival and the debate on authenticity and providing an extended bibliography of relevant scholarship.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Plainchant: The performance of plainchant: some preliminary observations of the new era, Lance W. Brunner; Giving voice to Gregorian chant or: coping with modern orthodoxies, Katarina Livljanic. Part II Secular Monophony: Rhythm, meter, and melodic organization in medieval songs, Hans Tischler; The 'not-so-precisely measured' music of the Middle Ages, Hendrik van der Werf; Voices and instruments in medieval French secular music: on the use of literary texts as evidence for performance practice, Sylvia Huot; Johannes de Grocheio on secular music: a corrected text and a new translation, Christopher Page. Part III Polyphony to 1300: The performance of Parisian organum, Edward Roesner; Franco of Cologne on the rhythm of organum purum, Charles M. Atkinson; The Copula according to Johannes de Garlandia, Jeremy Yudkin; Conductus and modal rhythm, Ernest H. Sanders; The performance of ars antiqua motets, Christopher Page. Part IV Mass and Motet after 1300: Representations of the Mass in medieval and Renaissance art, James W. McKinnon; The performing ensemble for English church polyphony, c.1320-c.1390, Roger Bowers; Text underlay in early 15th-century musical manuscripts, Gilbert Reaney. Part V The Polyphonic Chanson: Machaut's 'pupil' Deschamps on the performance of music: voices or instruments in the 14th-century chanson, Christopher Page; The performance of songs in late medieval France: a new source, Christopher Page; Texting in 15th-century French chansons: a look ahead from the 14th century, Lawrence Earp; Embellishment and urtext in the 15th-century song repertories, David Fallows. Part VI Other Matters: Musica recta and musica ficta, Margaret Bent; The origin and early history of proportion signs, Anna Maria Busse Berger; Jerome of Moravia on the Rubeba and Viella, Christopher Page; The 'Arabian influence' thesis revisited, Shai Burstyn; Series bibliography; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Thomas Lodge The University Wits
Book SynopsisThomas Lodge was the most versatile of the pioneering professional writers of the English Renaissance, experimenting in an astonishing variety of forms. His long, eventful, and well-documented life makes him one of the most individualized figures of his age, and yet also one of the most representative. This is the first-ever collection of Lodge scholarship. It comprises a selection of the best and most important biographical and critical work, ranging from 1932 to 2008 and including first-time English translations. Charles Whitney's discerning introduction discusses each article or book chapter in the context of Lodge scholarship and beyond, and is supplemented by a bibliography of additional material. This unique collection offers a distinctive vantage on both Lodge and many current topics in Renaissance and early modern studies such as humanism, republicanism, romance, intertextuality, plagiarism, gender, colonization, Shakespearean sources, the histories of print and of reading, authorship, and English Catholicism and religious conflict.Trade Review'One of the great boons of the collection of scholarship gathered in this volume is the breadth of topics it covers in its attempt to represent scholarship on Lodge. Whitney has done a great service for scholarship on Lodge, and for the criticism of nondramatic literature of the Renaissance.' Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Catalogue of Authors; Additional Bibliography; Part I Biography: Thomas Lodge the man, Charles J. Sisson; Conclusion, Éliane Cuvelier [trans by Phillip John Usher]; Thomas Lodge (1558-September 1625), Charles Whitworth. Part II General Characterizations of Lodge's Achievement: Lodge, Richard Helgerson; The discontent of Elizabethan society, Éliane Cuvelier [trans by Phillip John Usher]; 'O vita! Misero longa, foelici brevi': Thomas Lodge's struggle for felicity, Arthur Kinney. Part III Romances: General Characterizations: Pastoral romance: Sidney and Lodge, and Nashe and the Elizabethan ’Realists’ Walter Davis; From Arden to America: Lodge's tragedies of infatuation, Katharine Wilson; 'Rosalynde' and Its Intertexts: Lyly's golden legacy: 'Rosalynde' and 'Pandosto', Nancy R. Lindheim; Wooing and winning in Arden: 'Rosalynde' and 'As You Like It', Charles Whitworth; Feigning female faining: Spenser, Lodge, Shakespeare and Rosalind, Clare R. Kinney; 'A note beyond your reach': prose romance’s rivalry with Elizabethan drama, Steve Mentz; 'Robin the Devil' and Shakespeare's 'King Lear:' Some romance sources for 'King Lear': Robert of Sicily and Robert the Devil, Donna B. Hamilton; A Margarite of America: Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in Lodge's A Margarite of America (1596), Joan Pong Linton; 'Horror fiction of the 1590s' and 'Romance and revenge tragedy' from the 'Introduction' to 'A Margarite in America', Donald Beecher. Part IV Poetry: Lyrics: 'Poetic interludes' from 'Introduction' to 'Rosalind: Euphues' Golden Legacy Found After His Death in His Cell at Silexedra', Donald Beecher; 'Scillaes Metamorphosis' or 'Glaucus and Scilla': 'Glaucus and Scilla', William Keach; Imagining heterosexuality in the Epyllia, Jim Ellis; Lodge's Glaucus and Scilla and the conditions of Catholic authorship in Elizabethan England, R.W. Maslen. Part V Drama: The Wounds of Civil War: The choice of sources: evidence and ju
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Taylor & Francis Ltd European Theatre Performance Practice 14001580
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together important records of medieval theatre practice between 1400 and 1580. The records are drawn from a wide range of spheres including civic, ecclesiastical, trade and guild records and consist of payments for materials, techniques and services; also included are some eye witness accounts. Alongside these records is a selection of the best contemporary research conducted into medieval performance practice, which features ground-breaking analysis and challenges current understanding, knowledge and authority in this field. These contributions of rigorous scholarship complement and support the work of the well-known Records of Early English Drama project and help to further illuminate contemporary fifteenth and early sixteenth-century theatre performance practice.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Records: St John’s College register of inventories (1548-9), Trinity College Inventory (1550), Alan H. Nelson; Cordwainers’ and shoemakers’ accounts (1549-50), Smiths’, cutlers’, and plumbers’ accounts (1560-61), Bowyers’, fletchers’, coopers’, and stringers’ accounts (1571), Painters’, glaziers’, embroiderers’, and stationers’ accounts (1571), Elizabeth Baldwin, Lawrence M. Clopper and David Mills; Cappers’ records (1540), Drapers’ accounts (1563), Smiths’ accounts (1584), R.W. Ingram; Corporation chamberlains’ accounts (1573-4) (Elizabeth’s visit), Willis’ description of a play at Gloucester (1570s), Audrey Douglas and Peter Greenfield; Chamberlains’ accounts (New Romney, 1483-6 and 1560-61), James M. Gibson; Grocers’ Guild records (1564-5), David Galloway; Mercers’ pageant documents (1433) (indenture), Mercers’ pageant documents (1461) (expenses), Alexandra F. Johnston and Margaret Rogerson; Of perspective, Sebastiano Serlio; Third dialogue, Leoni di Somi. Part II Pageant Vehicle Staging: The York Mercers and their pageant of Doomsday, 1433-1526, Alexandra F. Johnston and Margaret (Dorrell) Rogerson; The development of the York Mercers’ pageant waggon, Peter Meredith; The manner of these playes, John Marshall; The Coventry pageant waggon, Reg Ingram. Part III Other Forms of Staging: Criteria for a popular repertory, David Bevington; La festa d’Elx: the Festival of the Assumption of the Virgin, Elche (Alicante), Pamela M. King and Asunción Salvador-Rabaza; Drama and the city: city parades, Katie Normington; Moving encounters: choreographing stage and spectators in urban theatre and pageantry, Tom Pettitt. Part IV Costume, Mask and Stage Effects: Apparell comlye, Meg Twycross; Gunnepowdyr, fyre and thondyr, Philip Butterworth; Mystery plays, Meg Twycross and Sarah Carpenter; Magic through sound: illusion, deception and agreed pretence, Philip Butterworth. Part V Playing: ’Look at
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