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37 produkter
Ivar Kreuger and Jeanne de la Motte
Two Plays by Jerzy W. Tepa
Häftad, 2015
1009 kr
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The 1930s were a period of triumph and turmoil in Poland, yet the decade saw the production of a number of exceptional dramatic works. Some dramatists of the period, among them Jerzy Tepa, are not well-known today because many of their plays were lost, or presumed to be lost, during the war years. …
Utopia
Three Plays for a Postdramatic Theatre
Häftad, 2015
784 kr
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In a room in the middle of nowhere, a man and a woman dream up spectacular worlds: a decaying city, a lush and crumbling garden, a train journey across a drowned landscape. Darkly humorous, absurd and surreal, these are plays for a theatre in which time and space, character and setting are as …
Justitia
Multidisciplinary Readings of the Work of the Jasmin Vardimon Company
Av Paul Johnson, Sylwia Dobkowska
Inbunden, 2016
955 kr
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This book offers a series of compelling responses to the Jasmin Vardimon Company’s production of Justitia, a multilayered, multimedia dance theatre piece. Through an innovative, visually annotated text, which includes the original script by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the book attempts to record the …
JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and other plays
Häftad, 2016
841 kr
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JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE award–winning playwright Caridad Svich. The playtexts include a lyrical meditation on the legacy of iconic queer artist Derek Jarman, a meditation on displacement and …
András Visky’s Barrack Dramaturgy: Memories of the Body
Memories of the Body
Häftad, 2017
541 kr
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Widely considered one of the most innovative voices in Hungarian theatre, András Visky has enjoyed growing audiences and increased critical acclaim over the last fifteen years. Nonetheless, his plays have yet to reach a wider English-language audience. This volume, edited by Jozefina Komporaly, …
Freaks of History
Häftad, 2017
841 kr
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Disability studies have long been the domain of medical and pedagogical academics. However, in recent years, the subject has outgrown its clinical origins. In Freaks of History, James MacDonald presents two dramatic explorations of disability within the wider themes of sexuality, gender, …
Plays in Time
The Beekeeper's Daughter, Prophecy, Another Life, Extreme Whether
Häftad, 2017
466 kr
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Plays in Time collects four plays by Karen Malpede set during influential events from the late twentieth century to the present: the Bosnian war and rape camps; the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Israel’s 2006 bombardment of Lebanon; 9/11 and the US torture programme; and the heroism of …
Hour of All Things and Other Plays
Inbunden, 2018
1384 kr
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This book presents four plays by Caridad Svich that explore the rough waters of citizenship under the pressure of globalization and the threads of human connection – often tested, but never wholly severed – across multiple geographic landscapes. Featuring an introduction by Welsh playwright and …
Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance
A Duet Without You and Practice as Research
Inbunden, 2023
966 kr
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The book provides an investigation grounded in creative writing and practice-as-research methodology and explores the issues of authorship and collaborative labour in contemporary performance. This investigation is set in the context of a world more and more characterized by fragmentation, …
Acts of Dramaturgy
The Shakespeare Trilogy
Inbunden, 2020
1571 kr
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A case study of one specific substantial three-part project inspired by the work of William Shakespeare. Three interconnected performances that interrogate roles in the theatre-making process, along with essays that contextualize the themes and approaches of the work, serve as provocations for the …
Lightwork
Texts on and from Collaborative Multimedia Theatre
Av Alex Mermikides, Andy Lavender
Inbunden, 2022
1320 kr
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This volume brings together performance texts from nine productions by the experimental theatre company Lightwork and one playtext from Lightwork’s precursor company Academy Productions, presented between 1997 and 2011.Lightwork specialized in collaboratively created and multimedia performance. The …
Following the Score
The Ravel Trilogy
Av Michael Pinchbeck, Ollie Smith
Inbunden, 2024
1693 kr
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Based on a recent touring project, The Ravel Trilogy, this title comprises playtexts and essays that contextualise the themes and approaches of the devised work: Bolero (2014), Concerto (2016) and Solo (2018). The book takes an interdisciplinary critical enquiry into the working dramaturgy of …
Flesh and Text
Devising Performance by Bodies in Flight
Inbunden, 2025
1824 kr
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Bodies in Flight make performance where flesh utters and words move, challenging and re-energizing the relationship between audiences and performers, and audiences and place. Emerging from rigorous interdisciplinary and collaborative methods, often with new technologies in cutting-edge venues, we …
Flesh and Text
Devising Performance by Bodies in Flight
Häftad, 2025
581 kr
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Bodies in Flight make performance where flesh utters and words move, challenging and re-energizing the relationship between audiences and performers, and audiences and place. Emerging from rigorous interdisciplinary and collaborative methods, often with new technologies in cutting-edge venues, we …
Schechner Plays
Inbunden, 2025
2253 kr
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A collection of performance texts ranging from orthodox plays to group-devised texts. The book traces from most recent to earliest Schechner's work as a 'writer' and a 'wrighter' – the author of plays and the conceptualizer and leader of teams of artists. The book includes several never before …
Tormented Minds
Häftad, 2003
466 kr
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This anthology contains three plays (Ceremonial Kisses, Shading the Crime, and The Maternal Cloister) that feature a protagonist who is compelled to confront his or her particular oppressors. The critique of this oppression through theatre falls on particular social institutions and differs for …
Brecht in L.A.
Häftad, 2002
466 kr
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Bertolt Brecht, perhaps the most important dramatist/director/theorist of the twentieth century, is still widely studied and his plays and theories remain staples in the curricula of university theatre departments, literature departments, and theatre-artist training programs throughout the world. …
The Morality of Mrs. Dulska
A Play by Gabriela Zapolska
Häftad, 2007
419 kr
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Gabriela Zapolska (1857-1921) was an actor, journalist and playwright. She was born during the 123 year partition of Poland by Austria, Prussia and Russia and wrote over thirty plays. The Morality of Mrs. Dulska (1906), a 'petty-bourgeois tragic-farce', is probably her best known. Mrs Dulska is a …
Point Blank
'Nothing to Declare', 'Operation Wonderland', and 'Roses and Morphine'
Av Liz Tomlin
Häftad, 2007
466 kr
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Point Blank, one of Britain’s most provocative new theater companies, has received a deluge of critical acclaim for its darkly comic political satire and bleak metaphorical landscapes. Point Blank: Nothing to Declare, Operation Wonderland, Roses and Morphine, here reproduces three prominent …
Lovefuries
The Contracting Sea; The Hanging Judge; Bite or Suck
Häftad, 2008
466 kr
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David Ian Rabey is one of the most explosive, pioneering, and erotic playwrights ever to emerge from Wales. Lovefuries features three of his performance texts that flaut national and personal pressure to keep silent, committing instead to explore the shocking resurgences of life that break through …
Trustus Plays
The Hammerstone, Drift, and Holy Ghost
Av Jon Tuttle
Häftad, 2009
466 kr
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The Trustus Plays collects three full-length, award-winning performance texts by American playwright Jon Tuttle. Each play was a winner of the national Trustus Playwrights Festival contest and was then produced by the Trustus Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina. The Hammerstone is a comedy about …
Zapolska's Women
Three Plays: Malka Szwarcenkopf, The Man, and Miss Maliczewska
Häftad, 2009
456 kr
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Gabriela Zapolska (1857–1921) was one of the foremost modernist Polish playwrights. Zapolska’s Women features three of her performance texts that focus on the economic and social pressures faced by women in partitioned Poland at the end of the nineteenth century. In addition to the plays, …
Inspiring Writing in Art and Design
Taking a Line for a Write
Av Pat Francis
Häftad, 2009
451 kr
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When art and design students are asked for statements to accompany their work, reflective journals, or critiques, reviews and essays, they often freeze up because they have to put their thoughts in writing. Although these students are comfortable expressing themselves visually, they lack confidence …
Invisible Country
Four Polish Plays
Häftad, 2013
452 kr
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The late nineteenth and early twentieth century marked a tumultuous period in Poland’s history, with artists and writers working under difficult sociopolitical conditions. This book contains the first English- language translations of four plays by Polish writers in the modernist tradition: Snow by …
Carnival Texts
Three Plays for Ensemble Performance
Häftad, 2013
542 kr
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Designed for undergraduate performance, Carnival Texts comprises three related dramatic works, all of which have as their point of departure Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of carnival, a literary style designed to subvert dominant assumptions through chaos and humor. Making creative use …
Red Sun and Merlin Unchained
Av David Rudkin
Häftad, 2011
542 kr
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Red Sun and Merlin Unchained are the most recent original stage works by one of the most acknowledged yet neglected dramatists of our time. Red Sun is a two-hander, tightly tethered within the classical unities of theme and space and the span of a single day. Merlin Unchained is an explosive, …
Disaster Capitalism
Or Money Can't Buy You Love - Three Plays
Häftad, 2011
343 kr
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Disaster capitalism is an increasingly popular critical paradigm for contextualizing and understanding life in the twenty-first century. This book includes three full-length plays by award-winning dramatist Rick Mitchell: Shadow Anthropology, a dark comedy about the US occupation of Afghanistan; …
New Zealand Film and Television
Institution, Industry and Cultural Change
Av Trisha Dunleavy, Hester Joyce
Häftad, 2011
638 kr
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Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen industries have been the site of significant expectation, achievement and cultural influence. Whilst there is …
Italian TV Drama and Beyond
Stories from the Soil, Stories from the Sea
Häftad, 2012
517 kr
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Since its inception in the mid-1950s, the television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society, with a steadily increasing supply of locally produced domestic dramas offering up competing versions of Italian identity. Informed by the nation's rich …
Octave Mirbeau: Two Plays
"Business is Business" and "Charity"
Häftad, 2012
466 kr
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Octave Mirbeau was one of the most prolific literary figures of France’s storied Belle Époque, and his innovative theatrical works are only recently being rediscovered and appreciated by modern audiences. Here for the first time in English-language translation are his two most celebrated and …
