Popular Theatre

The classic manifesto on popular theatre reissued.Publisher: Nick Hern BooksAuthor(s): John McGrathNumber of pages: 142Publication date: 1996Dimens...

An entertaining and highly illuminating account of Commedia's origins as a popular theatrical form, plus a practical and timely step-by-step guide ...

Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment...

Chinese Shadow Theatre documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Fan Pen Li Chen examines the relationship between hi...

Offers scholars of Greek literature new evidence of Aristophanes' polemical use of philosophy in poetic competition; ancient philosophers new evide...

Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calenda...

DescriptionCelebrating its eightieth birthday since being rebuilt in 1938, Liverpool's Royal Court Theatre is a vital part of the city's cultural i...

Reducere. This guide is for all those wishing to train in and produce Gorilla Theatre(TM). It is a fantastic format to experience Impro Keith Johnstone style...

In this ground-breaking work, Bridget Orr shows that popular eighteenth-century theatre was about much more than fashion, manners and party politic...

A new angle on the increasingly popular Burma Theatre

A new addition to the }Maisy First Experiences{ series, in which the popular mouse character takes in the grandeur and spectacle of the theatre.

Reducere. The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in a matching format the plays of one of America's most influential and innovative dramatists. Ar...

The first study of popular eighteenth-century English theatre to engage with voices of radical dissent that argued for religious toleration, attack...

Reducere. Stage version of the popular novel, first performed at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow before two West End productions and one on Broadway, winning a...

Reducere. The second book in The Graded Piano Player series offers popular repertoire for pianists at Grades 2-3 and is filled with classic tunes and songs f...

This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. David Charlton considers ...

The 7th and concluding title in the popular series about Olivia and her friends, and the trials and tribulations of attending theatre school. Ages:...

By exploring Fitzgerald's fascination with the intertwined spheres of dance, music, theatre and film, this book demonstrates how Fitzgerald innovat...

A new novel from the popular TV presenter, this will appeal to fans of Katie Fforde and Trisha Ashley. When the residents of a Cornish seaside town...

Reducere. -Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature, ' it is 'first nature.'---Declan Donnellan This immen...

Reducere. (Applause Libretto Library). The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. When a ...

21 characters (4 males, 6 females (w/ doubling) This popular children's book has been magically adapted into a play that toured extensively before ...

Reducere. Enid Blyton's name is synonymous with children's stories, none being more famous than NODDY. David Wood, the acclaimed children's dramatist, draws ...

This volume is the first authoritative historical textbook to look at the origins, development and evolution of seaside Pierrot troupes and concert...

Description'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive . . . will be acted again and again' New Statesman In Chekhov's tra...

'He was a boy, she was a girl. Can I make it any more binary?' When friends die and pronouns change, what's left of the memories that don't fit any...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Reducere. DescriptionMathilde Kschessinska, Prima ballerina of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre, tells her life story in these moving and dramatic memoirs...

Reducere. Miami Beach has been "America's Playground" for a century. Still one of the world's most popular resorts, its 1930s Art Deco architecture placed th...

Reducere. Charles Major (July 25, 1856 - February 13, 1913) was an American lawyer and novelist.Born to an upper-middle class Indianapolis family, Major deve...

Reducere. The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James'...

Reducere. Historic Menomonie lies alongside the beautiful Red Cedar River in western Wisconsin. A town with a rich, diverse history, it grew to become home t...

A Student Edition of Wedekind's classic 1891 expressionist play about adolescent sexuality.Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening influenced a ...

Reducere. The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James'...

Reducere. The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James'...

Description"I think you had better telephone for the police, " he said. "This woman has been poisoned."Norma de Grey, the Principal in the Christma...

Reducere. DescriptionSherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective in history, with a popularity that has never waned since catching the imagination...

Reducere. Oklahoma is where East and West collide on Route 66, where the rolling hills that reach across its borders from Missouri and Arkansas give way to r...

Reducere. Martin McDonagh's plays have been produced in Galway, Dublin, London and New York. They have created excitement and have won numerous awards. In in...

Reducere. Three editors, each associated with theatre, collaborated on this book of monologues for actresses. What they discovered, besides bravura pieces fo...

Lights Camera Outrageous Superstar female impersonator Craig Russell and the birth of drag on the international stage.Craig Russell was an internat...

Written in a fortnight and often regarded as Strindberg's masterpiece, Miss Julie is shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, and wa...

Contributor(s): Author: Frances BurneyIntroduction by: Vivien JonesEditor: Edward A. BloomFrances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel ...

Reducere. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James'...

Reducere. This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentary magazine who die...

This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Thomas Middleton's plays - Women Beware Women; The Changeli...

DescriptionGhost Stories is truly extraordinary. Written by The League of Gentlemen's master of the macabre, Jeremy Dyson, and Andy Nyman, co-creat...

Reducere. The Forsyte Saga, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize-winning John Galsworthy. Chronicles...

Description'Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, Bloom and grow forever' Often dismissed as kitsch sentimentalism, Rodgers and Hammerstein's The...

Most students encounter drama as they do poetry and fiction - as literature to be read - but never experience the performative nature of theater. H...

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The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James'...

Reducere. "This is an absolutely delightful book.... Hubbard is considered to be a regional humorist, but like all really good humorists, he speaks to everyo...

Reducere. The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James'...

Cracking Up archives and analyzes Black feminist stand-up comedy in the United States over the past sixty years. Looking closely at the work of Jac...

Part of the Legend Classics seriesThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Brita...

(FAQ). Twin Peaks, the infamously strange, seductive, and confounding murder mystery that made network television safe for surrealism, is returning...

Reducere. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have remained, from 1927 to the present day, the screen's most famous and popular comedy double act, celebrated by leg...

(Vocal Collection). A must-own comprehensive collection of 76 songs from musical theatre, movies, folksongs and standards for any budding vocalist ...

Reducere. Spotlighting the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental writings since 2000, Duo : The Best Scenes for Two for the 21st Century...

The International Centre for Women Playwrights has collected an eclectic group of scenes excerpted from the work of contemporary playwrights around...

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Reducere. Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English - History of Literature, Eras, grade: 1, 3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Ang...