Catálogo de libros: Estudios teatrales

3974 Catálogo de libros: Estudios teatrales

  • Acting
    Richard Boleslavsky
    Get the definitive edition that has taught generations of actors and actresses. Acting: The First Six Lessons, Richard Boleslavsky presents his acting theory and technique in a lively and accessible narrative form. In Acting: The First Six Lessons, Boleslavsky presents his acting theory and technique in a series of accessible and engaging dialogues. Widely considered a must-h...
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    27,15 €

  • Artists Activating Sustainability
    Barbara Sellers-Young
    Artists Activating Sustainability: The Oregon Story examines the way in which the artists within specific communities, against the background of landscape and history, reveal concepts of sustainability that help us broaden our knowledge of what is needed to create a sustainable world. ...
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    180,15 €

  • Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies
    Kristen Rudisill
    Contextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically, revealing how it expresses a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern. ...
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    121,42 €

  • Perils of the Victorian Stage
    Alan Stockwell / Brenda Stockwell
    In Victorian times the performing space, be it stage, music hall platform, or circus ring could be as dangerous as mine, mill or factory. Behind the spectacle and splendour lurked disaster, destitution and death. Falling scenery, open trapdoors, collapsing rostrums, explosions and fire were everyday hazards as was the excessive use of guns, swords and knives. Surprisingly, fema...
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    23,40 €

  • Classical Comedy 1508-1786
    Richard Andrews
    We may recognize similarities between comedies by Molière, Marivaux, Goldoni and Beaumarchais; but it is not fully appreciated that these playwrights belong to a single continuous genre of comedy inspired by Plautus and Terence. In fact comedies which we can call Classical were first composed by Humanists such as Ludovico Ariosto; and their format was quickly taken up by improv...
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    138,66 €

  • Uruguayan Theatre in Translation
    Sophie Stevens
    Uruguayan theatre is receiving increased attention in the UK and, having contributed new translations and scholarship to this field, Sophie Stevens here examines Uruguayan theatre in motion, through translation, as an innovative and creative way of engaging with national theatre. Focussing on six major plays and playwrights with international appeal and significance, although t...
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    139,10 €

  • Pillars of Society. Ibsen, Shaw, Brecht
    James R. Russo
    Pillars of Society: Ibsen, Shaw, Brecht is a collection of essays on the plays Pillars of Society (1877), Ghosts (1881), A Dolls House (1879), and Hedda Gabler (1890), by Henrik Ibsen; The Philanderer (1893), Candida (1894), The Doctor’s Dilemma (1906), Androcles and the Lion (1912), Major Barbara (1905), Misalliance (1910), Saint Joan (1923), and Pygmalion (1913), by George Be...
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    18,39 €

  • Grand-Guignolesque
    Grand-Guignolesque explores the continuing influence and legacy of the infamous Parisian theatre of horror. The volume consists of a critical introduction along with thirteen previously unpublished scripts of classic Grand-Guignol and modern horror plays, each with its own contextualizing preface. ...
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    45,56 €

  • Grand-Guignolesque
    Grand-Guignolesque explores the continuing influence and legacy of the infamous Parisian theatre of horror. The volume consists of a critical introduction along with thirteen previously unpublished scripts of classic Grand-Guignol and modern horror plays, each with its own contextualizing preface. ...
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    116,76 €

  • My Own Directions
    Sheldon Epps
    Life in the theatre is often a rollercoaster ride, with all the excitement and occasional anguish that come with the highs and lows. The author’s journey in the American theatre has been amplified by his experience as a Black man who has frequently been 'one of the few,' 'the first' or even 'the only.' His directing career has been full of rewards and opportunities as well a...
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    42,98 €

  • Três, Dois, Um E... Feito! Mágica
    Carlos Araujo Carujo
    Os Mágicos Estão Voltando!Este é um livro precioso, de Mágica, com a mais completa inclusão Arte Mágica em suas práticas.Fazendo mágicas, aqui ensinadas, você pode divertir família, amigos e até uma plateia pagante. São dezenas de números, fáceis de aprender, que podem ser distribuídos em três ou quatro shows. Foram elaborados para causar grande efeito sobre a plateia. Você va...
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    15,77 €

  • Love’s Victory
    Love’s Victory is the first romantic comedy written in English by a woman, and this Revels edition is the first fully-authorised, modern spelling edition of this play by Lady Mary Wroth. ...
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    35,55 €

  • Oriental, Black, and White
    Josephine Lee
    In this book, Josephine Lee looks at the intertwined racial representations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American theater. In minstrelsy, melodrama, vaudeville, and musicals, both white and African American performers enacted blackface characterizations alongside oriental stereotypes of opulence and deception, comic servitude, and exotic sexuality. Lee shows how b...
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    126,64 €

  • Hamlet’s Mirror
    Dianne Conjeaud / Elma Linz Kanefield
    'Performance Potential Unrealized...''This is how I describe my experience as a young performer. Yet, my heartbreak motivated me to find my performance potential as a specialist in the psychology of the performing artist.' - Elma Linz KanefieldHamlet’s Mirror looks at the stories and experiences of hundreds of performing artists to explain what prevents some from reaching thei...
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    17,61 €

  • The Story Behind... I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won’t Die
    Annette Hulme / Mark Wheeller
    A short study guide and oral history of I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won’t Die by Mark Wheeller. A GCSE Drama Set Text from September 2022, the book features the origins of the play and a useful scheme of work for teachers. ...
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    22,25 €

  • Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance
    Yip Siu Hung / Yip Siu Hing
    Kunqu is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu (music-drama or 'Chinese opera'). This book consists of translated performer narrations that illuminate how one of the major Chinese theatrical forms has been taught and transmitted over the past century. ...
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    281,53 €

  • Tres festivales escénicos en Lima
    Carina Moreno Baca
    Tres festivales escénicos en Lima. De 1998 a 2022 presenta una investigación de Carina Moreno Baca sobre los procesos integrales de gestión de tres propuestas de artes escénicas construidas desde el particular formato del Festival. Para reseñar cada una de dichas experiencias la autora nos remite a la voz de sus principales gestoras y gestores, permitiéndonos conocer los concep...
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    13,52 €

  • Attack of the Monster Musical
    Adam Abraham
    How many hit musicals are based on films that were shot in two days at a budget of $30,000? The answer is one: Little Shop of Horrors. Roger Corman’s monster movie opened in 1960, played the midnight circuit, and then disappeared from view. Two decades later, Little Shop of Horrors opened Off-Broadway and became a surprise success.Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural Histo...
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    95,48 €

  • Another Medley Of Murder Mystery Plays
    Lee Mueller
    A selection of 3 Comedy Murder Mystery Play scripts by Lee Mueller.This volume includes "Stay As Dead As You Are" - the Haldeman High School alumni committee is having a class reunion. During the festivities, two people are injured by lawn "Jarts". An accident? Or attempted murder? Luckily, Detective Joe Mamet is in attendance and plans to solve this murder... or actually injur...
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    20,06 €

  • Ida Rubinstein
    Judith Chazin-Bennahum
    The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day. ...
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    40,92 €

  • Talk About A Murder
    Lee Mueller
    The Nickie and Ricky Rivers Show is broadcasting their talk show on the road and it’s a bumpy ride. This show features D list guests including Vegas Lounge singing team of Shecky Scagnetti and Edie Buffet, new age guru: Celeste Ethereal, home economist; Phoebe St Self and gossip columnist: Polly Pettegolo.Everyone is on the talk show to plug their own talk shows.  What starts o...
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    17,50 €

  • Edmund Spenser and the romance of space
    Tamsin Badcoe
    Edmund Spenser and the romance of space seeks to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in early modern spatial and textual practices. ...
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    35,27 €

  • The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice
    Robert Sholl
    Bringing together scholars and researchers in one volume, this study investigates how the thinking of the Ukrainian-Israeli somatic educationalist Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-84) can benefit and reflect upon the creative practices of dance, music and theatre.Since its inception, the Feldenkrais Method has been associated with artistic practice, growing contiguously with performance...
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    51,03 €

  • Harold Pinter
    This important book offers a thematic collection of critical essays, ideal for undergraduate courses on modern British theatre, on Harold Pinter’s theatrical works, alongside new interviews with contemporary theatre practitioners.The life and works of Harold Pinter (1930-2008), a pivotal figure in twentieth- and twenty-first century British theatre, have been widely discussed, ...
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    51,10 €

  • The Theater and I
    Mark Lord
    ~ Must the show always go on?~How do you feel about blind casting?~What one piece of theatrical memorabilia would you most like to own?Have you ever thought about how YOU might answer each of these questions? Each week, for nearly two years, one theater aficionado and his diverse circle of friends have taken to social media to offer their thoughts on these and other (sometimes)...
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    13,73 €

  • All Fools
    Charles Edelman
    In this edition, an extensive introduction and commentary show how Chapman combines the literary and theatrical traditions of ancient Rome with everyday life in his own time to fashion a sparkling and innovative comedy that will delight audiences today as much as it did those of 1599. ...
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    35,82 €

  • Science & Theatre
    Carla Almeida / Emma Weitkamp
    Weitkamp and Almeida enter into the space where museums, universities and research centres operate, as well as the space of theatre practitioners, they explore the richness and plurality of this universe, combining theory and practice, as well as presenting context, knowledge gaps and new data. ...
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    142,80 €

  • The False One
    Domenico Lovascio
    This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One, with an introduction that offers new insights on the date and the theatre of the play’s first performance, freshly examines its sources and explores the theatrical potential of a play that has hitherto been lost to the dramatic repertory. ...
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    145,11 €

  • Male Monologues from Published Plays
    Deborah Fendrich
    'Variety' is the perfect word to describe this book of 102 fresh monologues rarely before used in competitions or auditions, loaded with a broad assortment of choices in every aspect of this book:Tone: encompassing comedic to seriocomic to intensely dramaticTime period: ranging from the late Middle Ages to the presentAge: spanning from young teens to characters in their 60s and...
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    18,13 €

  • Female Monologues from Published Plays
    Deborah Fendrich
    'Variety' is the perfect word to describe this book of 102 fresh monologues rarely before used in competitions or auditions, loaded with a broad assortment of choices in every aspect of this book:Tone: encompassing comedic to seriocomic to intensely dramaticTime period: ranging from the late Middle Ages to the presentAge: spanning from young teens to characters in their 60sLeng...
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    18,94 €