Theatre: technical Books
University of California Press Deviant Opera
Book SynopsisThe first book to use subversive sexuality as a lensthrough which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handel's Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber dress, beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane, suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her dungeon. Mozart's peasant girl Zerlina, meanwhile, is tying up and blindfolding her fiancé to seduce him out of his jealousy of Don Giovanni. And how about Wagner's wizard, Klingsor, ensnaring his choir of flower maidens in elaborate Japanese rope bondage? Opera, it would appear, has developed a taste for sadomasochism. For decades now, radical stage directors have repeatedly dressed canonical operasfrom Handel and Mozart to Wagner and Puccini, and beyondin whips, chains, leather, and other regalia of SM and fetishism. Deviant Opera seeks to understand this phenomenon, approaching the contemporary visual code of perversion as a lens through which opera focuses and scrutinizes its own configurations of sex, gender, power, and violence. The emerging image is that of an art form that habitually plays with an eroticization of cruelty and humiliation, inviting its devotees to take sensual pleasure in the suffering of others. Ultimately, Deviant Opera argues that this species of opera fantasizes about breaking the boundaries of its own role-playing, and pushing its erotic power exchanges from the enacted to the actual.Trade Review"An erudite analysis of sadomasochism (SM) in opera." * Opera Now *“Englund’s academically disciplined discussions of opera direction and sex become meaningful far beyond the portrayed sadomasochistic situation. They also concern the conditions of opera’s fundamental aesthetic laws and expressions.” * OPERA (Sweden) *"[Axel] Englund’s study of deviant opera is penetrating and extremely thoroughly researched, persuasively argued, abundantly documented, and well written." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction. Staging Deviance 1. Opera and Sadomasochism 2. Sex in Excess: Rinaldo, Alcina, and the Contemporary Baroque 3. Schools of Libertinage: Don Giovanni with Sade 4. In-House Allegories: Enactment and Actuality in Parsifal and Tosca 5. More or Less Human: Wozzeck, Lulu, and the Soprano Conductor Epilogue. The Actuality Effect and Opera’s Quest for Authenticity Notes Works Cited Index
£25.20
Nick Hern Books Writing Music for the Stage: A Practical Guide
Book SynopsisThe definitive guide to writing music for the stage, by the Composer-in-Residence at the Donmar Warehouse. Music has played a vital part in drama since the earliest days of theatre. For composers, writing music for the stage is an opportunity to exercise their utmost creativity and versatility: a good musical score will both support and enhance the play it serves, and can lift a prosaic moment into something quite extraordinary. In this book, Michael Bruce takes you through the entire process – from initial preparation, through composition, rehearsals and recording, and finally to performance. He covers everything a composer needs to know, including: • Getting started – spotting when and how music might be used in a play, doing research, considering form and content • Building a 'sound world' – finding and using source music, creating incidental music, choosing the best instrumentation, scoring, utilising technology, writing music to accompany song lyrics • Working on the production – understanding the composer's role in rehearsals, collaborating with key creatives, employing actor-musicians, getting the show on • Recording – knowing when to record, booking and working with musicians – and the studio engineer, running a recording session Throughout the book, the author draws on his own experience of creating music for a wide variety of plays at the Donmar Warehouse, the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway, including detailed case studies of his work on The Recruiting Officer, Coriolanus, Privacy, The Winslow Boy, Noises Off and Strange Interlude. The book is accompanied by online excerpts from his scores. An essential companion for all composers – amateur, student or professional – Writing Music for the Stage is also invaluable reading for other theatre professionals, including directors, playwrights, producers, actors, designers and sound designers – in fact, for anyone seeking to understand how music helps to create worlds and tell stories on stage. 'This fascinating book – like its author (with whom I've had the good fortune to work on three productions) – is bursting with practical advice, good sense and invention. A must-read for all those with an interest in how music works on stage.' Mark Gatiss 'A good score makes a world of difference to an actor. Read Michael Bruce's book and you'll understand why. He is a genius.' Judi Dench 'Michael's music is wonderful: inclusive, original, respectful and – in its rightness – sheer joy.' Josie Rourke, from her ForewordTrade Review'plenty of detailed practical advice here for you wherever you are in your learning journey. It’s also a good read for anyone who simply wants to understand how theatrical music works without necessarily wanting to create it.' -- Susan Elkin * susanelkin.co.uk *'A joy to read… an incredibly interesting viewpoint of this vital aspect of the creation of a performance… Michael Bruce successfully conveys his passion and work ethic, constantly inspiring the reader and encouraging us to continue to learn from his words' * Drama Magazine *
£12.34
Taylor & Francis Ltd 18th Century Male Tailoring
Book Synopsis18th Century Male Tailoring: Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c1680â1790 introduces the reader to English eighteenth century tailoring and covers the drafting of patterns, cutting out in cloth and construction techniques in sequence for the tailoring of waistcoats, breeches and coats.From choosing the right cloth to preparing for the fitting process, this how-to guide will help readers create beautiful, historically accurate eighteenth century male garments for events and performances. The book contains the following: step-by-step instructions complete with illustrations for students and costumiers who are new to the making of male tailored garments from the eighteenth century; drafting blocks and construction techniques for the different styles through the eighteenth century and patterns, photographs, detailed measurements and articles taken from a variety of male coats, waistcoats and trousers from c1680 âc1790 from museums and collections. 18th Century Male Tailoring is written for costume design and construction students, fashion students and practitioners who have a reasonable working knowledge of sewing and general costume making, but not necessarily of tailoring, drafting patterns, cutting skills and the making of male garments.Table of Contents1. Getting Started 2. Pattern Drafting and Diagrams 3. Seam Allowances, Pattern Layouts, Cutting Out and Marking Up 4. Preparing for the Fitting and the Fitting Process 5. Making up Waistcoats 6. Making up Breeches 7. Making up Coats 8. Original Garments: Patterns, Photographs and Measurements
£50.34
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Shakespeare Library 3 Volume Hardback Set
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£377.15
Tomahawk Press Greasepaint and Gor The Hammer Monsters of Roy
Book SynopsisRoy Ashton was one of the cinema's greatest make-up designers. He designed most of Hammer's most famous monsters. Inside Greasepaint and Gore you will enter Ashton's own private world, featuring: never-before-seen original drawings and test photographs; Ashton speaking in his own words plus interviews with key actors and crew -- many speaking for the first time about a man the press dubbed The King of Horror! Greasepaint and Gore is a behind-the-scenes insight into the creative processes of the golden years of Hammer Films through the eyes of the people who made the Horrors possible!
£7.46
Cambridge University Press Staging Conventions in Medieval English Theatre
Book SynopsisHow was medieval English theatre performed? This book analyses dormant evidence of theatrical processes such as casting, doubling of parts, rehearsing, memorising, cueing, entering, exiting, playing, prompting, timing, hearing, seeing and responding. All these concerns point to a very different kind of theatre to the naturalistic theatre produced today.Trade Review'Butterworth's book will be of use to those seeking a scholarly discussion of problems and strategies in the performance of medieval drama, both as it was once written and played, and for contemporary revivals. His knowledge is extensive and his practical experience of the staging of many of these works clearly and helpfully informs his comments on their characteristic ways of working in space, time, and action.' Tom Bishop, SpeculumTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Outdoors and indoors; 2. Casting and doubling; 3. Rehearsing, memorising and cueing; 4. Coming and going; 5. Playing, feigning and counterfeiting; 6. Dressing and disguising; 7. Expounding and monitoring; 8. Effecting effects; 9. Timing and waiting; 10. Hearing, seeing and responding.
£81.00
Christian Publishers LLC Stage Lighting in the Boondocks: A Stage Lighting
Book SynopsisThis leading authority in small theatre stagecraft shows and tells how professional-quality lighting can be achieved within the limitations of school auditoriums, community theatres and churches.
£15.29
Christian Publishers LLC Costuming Made Easy: How to make Theatrical
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£18.89
Christian Publishers LLC Instant Period Costumes: How To Make Classic
Book SynopsisWhy spend a small fortune to rent expensive period costumes when you can create them yourself for less than a day''s rental price? Make them the easy way from cast-offs without sewing! Included in this book are over 100 ingenious costume designs with photographs and diagrams for many period characters from Egyptian, Greek and Roman all the way to Punk. These conversion costuming ideas will save you time, money and deadline disasters and give you precisely the costume you want.
£18.89
Christian Publishers LLC Costumes, Accessories, Props & Stage Illusions
Book SynopsisTransform common people into superheroes, movie stars, witches -- whatever illusion you want to create. Creative costuming is all in the details. One garment can take on many totally different looks depending on how you accessorise it. Over the years, the author has learned all the tricks about how anyone can turn leftover clothing into fabulous costumes. This book''s numerous drawings explain in detail the costuming process of ''turning straw into gold''. It shows you how to design illusions that you never thought possible. Yes, you can easily do all this -- and at a minimum expense! This is another Barb Rogers must have book for your library of costume ideas.
£21.59
Christian Publishers LLC Face to Face: An Amateur's Video Guide to
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£103.72
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Scene Design: Rendering and Media
Book Synopsis Scene Design: Rendering and Media is intended to help students or practitioners improve their skills at making finished renderings of scene designs for theater. The book demonstrates the process of creating the renderings through real world methods and techniques. Chapters are dedicated to a detailed discussion of various tools including drawing, light and shadow, color mixing, painting, figures, and other media, and the book is rife with colorful and inspirational examples.
£43.34
Museum Tusculanum Press Performance Design
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£36.54
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited The Scenes We Made: An Oral History of
Book SynopsisThis book, the first to document the significant work carried out in these places, transports us back to a time of fearless experimentation in theatre.
£17.50
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sound A Reader in Theatre Practice Readings in Theatre Practice
Book SynopsisROSS BROWN is Dean of Studies andReader in Soundat the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. He is Convenor of the International Theatre Sound Colloquium His professional career as a theatre composer, musician and sound designer includes productions for BBC Radio Drama, Shared Experience, RSC, The Almeida, BAC, The Gate, The Royal Court, The Shadow Syndicate, Glasgow Citizens', Lancaster Duke's, Derby Playhouse, Red Shift and many other prestigious companies in the commercial and subsidised sectors.
£37.36
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Stella Adler on Ibsen Strindberg Vintage
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£15.19
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Costumes for the Stage A Complete Handbook for Every Kind of Play Backstage
Book SynopsisFor anyone producing costumes on a small budget, whether for schools, colleges or amateur, semi-professional or professional groups, this basic introduction offers practical advice for every kind of play, together with drawings, diagrams and patterns from which to work.
£27.47
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Essentials of Stage Management Backstage
Book SynopsisIn this guide, Peter Maccoy examines the qualities and skills necessary for effective stage management, stressing the importance of understanding both the creative and the technical processes involved in theatre. The advice featured covers such topics as contracts, rehearsals and performance.
£32.41
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) performancelightingdesign
Book SynopsisNick Moran is Lecturer for Lighting Design at Central School of Speech and Drama.Trade Review'His years in teaching have given him a framework to hang the logic and protocol of lighting on, while keeping the essential love of the art and the respect for the craft...There are acres of wisdom on production interaction and safety, mostly with respect to drama, although the other art forms are covered too.' The Stage (Jan 2008)
£34.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Practical Guide to Working in Theatre Backstage
Book SynopsisGill Foreman is Acting Head of the Young People's Programme at the Royal Shakespeare Co. and former Director of Education at the Bristol Old Vic.Trade Review'With contributions from across the industry, this new and up-to-date guide will be essential for all those planning their careers.' AS Magazine (Amateur Stage) (September 2009) 'Gill Foreman's book shows clearly what goes on backstage and how the industry works. Put this book on the shelves of your school and/or drama libraries and do your best to persuade your colleagues in the careers department to invest a copy.' Teaching Drama (Spring Term 2 2009/2010) 'It hugely conveys the work and effort that make possible your theatre night out' Noda Theatre Business
£27.47
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Ultimate Scene Monologue Sourcebook The Updated Expanded Edition An Actors Reference to Over 1000 Monologues and Scenes from More Than 300 Contemporary Plays
Book SynopsisAll actors and acting teachers need The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook, the invaluable guide to finding just the right piece for every audition. This remarkable book describes the characters, action, and mood for more than 1,000 scenes in over 300 plays. This unique format is ideal for acting teachers who want their students to understand each monologue in context. Using these guidelines, the actor can quickly pinpoint the perfect monologue, then find the text in the Samuel French or Dramatist Play Service edition of the play. Newly revised and expanded, the book also includes the author’s own assessment of each monologue.
£16.80
LEGARE STREET PR Towards a new Theatre Forty Designs for Stage Scenes
£23.70
LEGARE STREET PR Drama Its Costume Décor
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£25.60
Legare Street Press La Scenografia
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£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Collaborating Backstage
Book SynopsisCollaboration is the most important facet of any theatrical company. From the performers on stage to the choreographers, designers and technicians working behind the scenes, this book considers all departments working on a production and instructs them on how to unify their individual skills towards a shared goal. From Vaudeville to classical opera, this book establishes the skills that each specialist brings to the production process before demonstrating how each individual contribution can be utilized in tandem with all other creative teams. With particular focus on enhancing interdepartmental communication, Collaborating Backstage examines all the challenges that may befall artistic companies and projects made up of many different parts. This book explains how to understand technical jargon within teams that speak a variety of languages and come from different cultural backgrounds; how to recognise and follow the unwritten rules' of theatre; and how best to achieve the ultimaTrade ReviewI am completely blown away by the quality of this book. As an educator, this book is fantastic, I would even go so far as to say that it could become an essential part of classroom foundation work. The writing is very clear and enjoyable to read. I could definitely see using this as a class textbook … Niermann emphasizes the value of the individual within the team. It feels like every member of the theatre is a strand that comes together to make a strong rope of teamwork. Niermann also gives real, helpful and attainable advice and guidelines to help the actor and crew members. I highly recommend Collaborating Backstage: Breaking Barriers for the Creative Network. It is an excellent textbook for educators as well as a handbook for personal and professional growth. * OnStage Blog *With Collaborating Backstage, Timo Niermann has managed to create a fine handbook for artists from all branches of the performing arts willing to improve their working processes. The book is full of helpful ideas, concepts, and methods. * GIFT Magazine (Bloomsbury translation) *Collaborating Backstage is a remarkable handbook for practitioners to understand that part of real-life theater activity that is usually invisible to the audience. For researchers, it is an all-encompassing reference work about rules, backgrounds and all those tricks that help ensure a smooth cooperation among the various tribes in the theater, on- and off-stage. Simply indispensable for those who want to know more about what is going on behind the curtain! * Dr Gabriele Pfeiffer, Institute of Theatre, Filmand Media Studies, University of Vienna, Austria *An extremely satisfying sit-down with a master raconteur and teacher. Never didactic or abstract, it’s a fascinating book that provides a buffet of ideas on how to improve our collaboration across all facets of the events we create … An excellent addition to any bookshelf on leadership, collaboration, and people skills. * Theatre Design and Technology *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Creativity backstage What this chapter is about Creative productions Skills and creativity The personal bag of experiences Improving personal creativity The production’s bag of experiences Improving team creativity Creativity and communication 2 The scenery of cooperation What this chapter is about Uniqueness Multiplying the impact Hierarchical and egalitarian structures Department line-ups Job profiles Team leaders The Responsibility Pyramid The Backstage Network Model Avenues of communication Shortcut communication? 3 Intercultural alignment What this chapter is about Recipes for cultures The family The melting Pot of the performing arts Regional and social cultures Cultural themes Working with culture shocks The roots of action Differences and similarities Perception of time Language Stage right” Establish a language, create a culture 4 Improving conditions What this chapter is about What we can learn from chickens The optimal team Positivity Keystones for commitment Physical shape Preparatory research Mind our own business Knowing ourselves Personal requirements Presenting ourselves Enabling access A punchline introduction The condition of our materials Names Body language Handshake quality Trust and fear Avoiding “No!” Reading routines Breaking routines Sense of humor Post-processing 5 The Creative exchange What this chapter is about Freedom through directions The T-I-M-O technique Task Intention Match Organize Why and when? Collaborating with the audience 6 Tools and tricks What this chapter is about Ideology Rehearsals and setup On the road 7 Summary Notes Bibliography Index
£80.00
Left of Brain Books Major Barbara
£23.92
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Staging the Screen The Use of Film and Video in Theatre Theatre and Performance Practices
Book SynopsisGREG GIESEKAM sits on the Board with Ankur Productions and was a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK until 2006. His publications on contemporary British theatre and contemporary performance art include A Descriptive Catalogue of the Archive of the National Review of Live Art (a reference website cataloguing over 200 performances, talks and installations from 1986-1996) and Luvvies and Rude Mechanicals? Amateur and Community Theatre in Scotland (Scottish Arts Council, 2000).
£35.38
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Pattern Cutting for Mens Costume
Book SynopsisElizabeth Friendship wrote the system of cutting for Royal WelshCollege of Music and Drama and taught there for over 25 years. Forseveral years she did all the cutting for the Welsh National Opera, andprior to that she cut all costumes at the Citizen's Theatre. Shetrained in Fashion at St Martin's School of Art, London and her firstjob was drafting patterns at J.P Coats.Trade Review'visually handsome' Costume - 2010
£37.99
Watchmaker Publishing Acting: The First Six Lessons
£9.66
Echo Point Books & Media, LLC A Method of Lighting the Stage 4th Edition
£15.57
Spring Knoll Press The Rigging Math Made Simple Workbook
£13.08
Spring Knoll Press The Arena Riggers' Handbook, Second Edition
£25.14
Zircon Designs Introduction to Show Networking
£18.00
Independently Published Vera Violetta: Cuentos del día después...
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£9.24
Cambridge Media Group Theatre Engineering and Stage Machinery
£30.00
Word Bothy Self-Confidence for Actors
£19.56
Word Bothy Resilience for Actors
£19.56
Actar Publishers Mobile Theater: Architectural Counterculture on Stage
£27.55
International Costumers Myrtle R Douglas
£18.92
International Costumers Myrtle R Douglas
£26.26
De Gruyter Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion
Book SynopsisDespite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and cinema traditions. Nonetheless, as a form of physical humor slapstick has a long history across various areas of cultural production. This volume approaches slapstick both as a genre of situational physical comedy and as a mode of communicating an affective situation captured in various cultural products. Contributors to the volume examine cinematic, literary, dramatic, musical, and photographic texts and performances. From medieval chivalric romance and nineteenth-century theater to contemporary photography, the contributors study treatments of slapstick across media, periods and geographic locations. The aim of a study of such wide scope is to demonstrate how slapstick emerged from a variety of complex interactions among different traditions and by extension, to illustrate that slapstick can be highly productive for interdisciplinary research.
£21.85
Stockholm University Press Performing the Eighteenth Century: Theatrical Discourses, Practices, and Artefacts
£22.00
Independently Published Beyond the Console
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Independently Published The Ultimate Eyeshadow Application Guide
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Independently Published Viral Halloween Aesthetics From Folk Masks to Meme Era DIY Scares
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Independently Published Mastering Comedy Magic
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The FourFifteen Express
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Queen Without Rules
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