Biography and Autobiography – serie
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Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011
Häftad, 2022
176 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZECHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATORTHE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Explosively enjoyable, bursting with life and art ... A …
Theatre Of Erwin Piscator
Half a Century of Politics in the Theatre
Av John Willett
Häftad, 1986
284 kr
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My Life In Art
Häftad, 1980
368 kr
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"This book is a necessity of every actor's life...one of the most remarkable books about the theatre that I have ever read" (Observer) No one has had a greater influence on acting as we know it than Stanislavski. His "method" - or interpretations of it - has become the central force determining …
Coward The Playwright
Av John Lahr
Häftad, 1982
433 kr
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A reissue in hardback of critic John Lahr's famous 1982 study of Noel Coward's plays "Noel Coward," said Terence Rattigan, "is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history." A phenomenon he certainly was, and it is part of John Lahr's purpose in this book to …
Theatre Of Visions
Robert Wilson
Häftad, 1982
368 kr
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Robert Wilson's theatre is the stuff of legend. He has taught theatre-goers to see the world with different eyes. Stefan Brecht's book provides detailed documentation and analysis of a number of Wilson's earliest groundbreaking works including The Life of Sigmund Freud, Deafman Glance and Einstein …
Stanislavski: His Life and Art
A Biography
Häftad, 1990
324 kr
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"This is the most complete description yet available in English of Stanislavski's real life in art" (New York Times) Jean Benedetti's critical biography of Konstantin Stanislavski, one of the towering figures of twentieth-century theatre, has been fully revised and expanded offering new facts and …
Engineers Of The Imagination
Welfare State Handbook
Häftad, 1983
387 kr
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"Welfare State International are brilliant at making an audience of strangers into a community" (Guardian) Since its foundation by John Fox in 1968, Welfare State International has developed a unique form of celebratory theatre that reaches popular audiences through remarkable combinations of …
Bread & Puppet Theatre Vol 2
Häftad, 1988
885 kr
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A book on the cultural and revolutionary florescence of the American Theatre, circa 1963-1973 A comprehensive study of the 'revolutionary' theatre of New York director/writer Peter Schumann including production details, photographs and extracts of the plays themselves.
Shifting Point
Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946-87
Av Peter Brook
Häftad, 1989
313 kr
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Hailed as "the theatrical event of this century" (Sunday Times), Peter Brook's unique dramatisation of India's great epic poem, The Mahabharata played to ecstatic audiences worldwide. In The Shifting Point, his first book since The Empty Space, Brook assesses the lessons of his pioneering work from …
Is Comrade Bulgakov Dead?
Mikhail Bulgakov and the Moscow Art Theatre
Av Anatoly Smelyansky, Mikhail Bulgakov
Inbunden, 1993
701 kr
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A portrait of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov, fighting for his work and his life in a society riven with fear of Stalin's tyranny Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev in 1891. He started as a career writing articles and satiric short stories about the revolution and the economic reconstruction in the …
There Are No Secrets
Thoughts on Acting and Theatre
Av Peter Brook
Häftad, 1995
400 kr
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Peter Brook is the most consistently innovative director in Western theatre. In these three essays he returns to the concept of his first book The Empty Space and examines what that means for the life of a production. How can a company establish its own "empty space" - a rehearsal and performance …
Woza Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus in South Africa
Av Greg Doran
Inbunden, 1997
596 kr
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"A fascinating account of the trials and tribulations behind what turned into a triumphant South African production of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy, Titus Andronicus" (Independent) "Shakespeare in Tarantino mode" is how actor Antony Sher and director Gregory Doran describe Titus Andronicus, one …
Living Theatre
Art, Exile and Outrage
Av John Tytell
Häftad, 1997
399 kr
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"The narrative of the founding and embattled maintenance of The Living Theatre is a ripping American epic...an important book that will serve as a reference for years to come" (American Theatre Magazine) Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the Living Theatre was the most radical group in American …
Meyerhold
A Revolution in Theatre
Av Edward Braun
Häftad, 1998
368 kr
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Edward Braun's acclaimed work on Meyerhold available for the first time in paperback Vsevolod Meyerhold began his career in theatre as an actor with the Moscow Art Theatre, and after a spell in the remote provinces, he returned to Moscow at Stanislavski's invitation and founded a new, experimental …
Double Act
A Life of Tom Stoppard
Av Ira Nadel
Häftad, 2004
368 kr
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"The story of Stoppard's life is a compelling one and it is laid out with extraordinary detail in this first major biography" - Evening Standard Double Act is the first major biography of one of the world's celebrated most writers, From his early theatrical success as the youngest playwright ever …
Peter Brook: Threads of Time
Av Peter Brook
Häftad, 1999
399 kr
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The theatre's greatest contemporary director tells the story of his life Peter Brook is the modern stage's greatest inventor. For over fifty years he has held audiences spellbound with his critically acclaimed productions. Now he has finally written an account of his life. Born in 1925 in London, …
Dario Fo
People's Court Jester
Häftad, 2007
414 kr
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The first and only full-length critical study of Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner This book, now extensively rewritten and updated, remains the only full-length critical study to cover various phases of Dario Fo's theatrical career. It looks at Fo's political influences and also …
Between Two Silences
Talking with Peter Brook
Inbunden, 2000
475 kr
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This unusually candid volume of Brook in dialogue provides an uninhibited encounter with contemporary theatre's most influential director The result of twelve hours of spontaneous question and answer sessions, Between Two Silences shows Brook responding to points raised by students and lecturers …
Shakespeare:The Poet & His Plays
Häftad, 2001
324 kr
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The definitive single-volume work on Shakespeare's life and plays by the editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Why do Shakespeare's works continue to exert so strong an influence and have such lasting appeal? What do they have to offer modern readers and play-goers? Stanley Wells answers these questions …
Grinning At The Edge
A Biography of Alan Ayckbourn
Av Paul Allen
Häftad, 2002
279 kr
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Now in paperback, the hugely acclaimed, authorised biography of Britain's most popular playwright Alan Ayckbourn is Britain's most popular playwright and its most private. He has won numerous awards for his plays and has worked with some of theatre's most celebrated names, yet he spends most of his …
Future Indefinite
Av Noël Coward
Häftad, 2004
309 kr
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The definitive account, in his own words, of one of the most popular figures in British theatre. The second and concluding volume of Noel Coward's legendary autobiography includes Future Indefinite and the unfinished Past Unconditional. With his trademark wit, Coward delivers anecdotes about his …
Present Indicative
The First Autobiography of Noël Coward
Av Noël Coward
Häftad, 2004
309 kr
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"I was photographed naked on a cushion very early in life, an insane, toothless smile slitting my face and pleats of fat overlapping me like an ill-fitting overcoat. Later, at the age of two, I was photographed again. This time in a lace dress, leaning against a garden roller and laughing …
Remembering Arthur Miller
Inbunden, 2005
701 kr
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Reflections on the late Arthur Miller from over seventy writers, actors, directors and friends, with 'Arthur Miller Remembers', an interview with the writer from 1995. Following his death in February 2005, newspapers were filled with tributes to the man regarded by many as the greatest playwright …
Worst It Can Be Is A Disaster
The Life Story of Braham Murray and the Royal Exchange Theatre
Häftad, 2007
501 kr
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The Worst It Can Be is a Disaster is the autobiography of Braham Murray, founding director of the Royal Exchange Manchester which in 2006 celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. With a foreword by Sir Tom Courtenay. Born into a Jewish family, Braham Murray struggled against his parents' expectations …
Between Two Silences
Talking with Peter Brook
Av Peter Brook
E-bok, 2017
530 kr
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"Brook is someone prepared to dream, take risks, fail and then try again, succeed and still try again: a genius, and a creative one." Benedict Nightingale, Times Literary Supplement This unusually candid volume of Brook in dialogue provides an uninhibited encounter with contemporary theatre''s most …
Peter Brook: Threads Of Time
A Memoir
Av Peter Brook
E-bok, 2017
430 kr
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"First there was the master conjurer adept at musicals, farces, opera and Shakespeare. Then there was the philosopher-king ... who has devoted his energies to a quest for a theatre that was simple in form and rich in meaning." - Michael Billington The theatre''s greatest contemporary director tells …
Shifting Point
Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946-87
Av Peter Brook
E-bok, 2017
348 kr
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Hailed as "the theatrical event of this century" (Sunday Times), Peter Brook''s unique dramatisation of India''s great epic poem, The Mahabharata played to ecstatic audiences worldwide. In The Shifting Point, his first book since The Empty Space, Brook assesses the lessons of his pioneering work …
There Are No Secrets
Thoughts on Acting and Theatre
Av Peter Brook
E-bok, 2017
389 kr
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Peter Brook was the most consistently innovative director in Western theatre. In these three essays he returns to the concept of his first book The Empty Space and examines what that means for the life of a production. How can a company establish its own "empty space" - a rehearsal and performance …
Craft of Theatre: Seminars and Discussions in Brechtian Theatre
Inbunden, 2008
1290 kr
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Ekkehard Schall's life was devoted to the theatre. In this autobiographical memoir, he offers a lifetime of experience, expertise and memories of working with some of the great German writers, actors and directors of the twentieth century. A member of the Berliner Ensemble established by Bertolt …
