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Director's Vision : Play Direction From Analysis To Production (89 Edition)
Director's Vision : Play Direction From Analysis To Production (89 Edition)
by Louis E. Catron
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This dynamic, practical text focuses equally on the arts of interpretation and problem-solving. The author leads students through short, lucid chapters to develop an organized, step-by-step methodology from play analysis through casting, rehearsal, and... (read more)

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Audience and Playwright : How To Get the Most Out of Live Theatre (03 Edition)
Audience and Playwright : How To Get the Most Out of Live Theatre (03 Edition)
by Mayo Simon
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Have you ever noticed how clever you feel in the theatre? You get the joke when no one on the stage is laughing. You see the threat that no one on the stage seems to notice. You weep when leading characters do not shed a tear. Sometimes you feel an... (read more)

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Paper Canoe : Guide To Theatre Anthropology (95 Edition)
Paper Canoe : Guide To Theatre Anthropology (95 Edition)
by Eugenio Barba
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Eugenio Barba, director, theorist and founder of the Odin Teatret, is today one of the major points of reference for contemporary experimental theater. In "The Paper Canoe"--translated here into English for the first time--Eugenio Barba explores the"pre... (read more)

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Theatre : Art in Action (05 Edition)
Theatre : Art in Action (05 Edition)
by Robert Taylor
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Theatre: Art in Action teaches theater through hands-on performance-based exercises that have students assume the roles of actor, director, designer, technician, producer, stage crew, publicist, etc., to gain an appreciation for and understanding of... (read more)

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Colored Museum (88 Edition)
Colored Museum (88 Edition)
by Michael Wolfe
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The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be black in contemporary America. Its eleven "exhibits" undermine black stereotypes old and new, and return to the facts of... (read more)

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Theatre - With Enjoy the Play! (7TH 06 - Old Edition)
Theatre - With Enjoy the Play! (7TH 06 - Old Edition)
by Robert Cohen
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This lively introduction to theatre offers equal measures of appreciation of theatrical arts, history of performance, and descriptions of the collaborative theatrical crafts. The authors enthusiasm for and knowledge of the current theatre, highlighted by... (read more)

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Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (95 Edition)
Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (95 Edition)
by Eric Lott
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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the... (read more)

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Swashbuckling : a Step-by-step Guide To the Art of Stage Combat and Theatrical Swordplay (99 Edition)
Swashbuckling : a Step-by-step Guide To the Art of Stage Combat and Theatrical Swordplay (99 Edition)
by Richard Lane
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The ultimate guide to stage fighting technique and basic swordplay, this book covers everything an actor must do to give a dynamic and convincing performance as a stage combatant. "(This book) is more than a manual... A necessity! Richard Lane's concepts... (read more)

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Shakespeare's Stagecraft
Shakespeare's Stagecraft
by J L Styan
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For many years, critics and students of Shakespeare have tended to stress that his plays are poetic structures embodying 'themes', and these structures have been analysed in great detail. Professor Styan advocates another approach. The plays were written... (read more)

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Chickencoop Chinaman and the Year of the Dragon : Two Plays (81 Edition)
Chickencoop Chinaman and the Year of the Dragon : Two Plays (81 Edition)
by Frank Chin
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Book of Plays: The Year of the Dragon barges through the comfortable stereotypes of the Asian American-the quiet, hardworking contented character who keeps to himself, rarely bothering the white community. It is not an 'easy' play. The language is... (read more)

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The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties (Da Capo Paperback)
The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties (Da Capo Paperback)
by Harold Clurman
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The Group Theatre was perhaps the most significant experiment in the history of American theater. Producing plays that reflected topical issues of the decade and giving a creative chance to actors, directors, and playwrights who were either fed up with... (read more)

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Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
by Derek Walcott
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On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer... (read more)

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Theater Experience (11TH 09 - Old Edition)
Theater Experience (11TH 09 - Old Edition)
by Edwin Wilson
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The ideal theatre appreciation text for courses focusing on theater elements, The Theatre Experience encourages students to be active theatre-goers as they learn about the fundamentals of a production. By addressing the importance of the audience, Wilson... (read more)

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Open Door (93 Edition)
Open Door (93 Edition)
by Peter Brook
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From King Lear to the Tragedy of Carmen, from Marat/Sade to the epic Mahabharata, Peter Brook has reinvented modern theatre, not once but again and again. In The Open Door the visionary director and theorist offers a lucid, comprehensive exposition of... (read more)

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Theatre, Brief Version (9TH 11 Edition)
Theatre, Brief Version (9TH 11 Edition)
by Robert Cohen
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This lively introduction to theatre offers equal measures of appreciation of theatrical arts and descriptions of the collaborative theatrical crafts. The author's enthusiasm for and knowledge of the current theatre, highlighted by contemporary production... (read more)

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Theatre : a Way of Seeing (6TH 06 Edition)
Theatre : a Way of Seeing (6TH 06 Edition)
by Milly S. Barranger
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Consistently praised for being "streamlined" and "clear and student friendly," THEATRE: A WAY OF SEEING offers the beginning theatre student an exciting, full-color introduction to all aspects of theatre. It presents the experience of theatre, who sees... (read more)

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New Native American Drama : Three Plays (80 Edition)
New Native American Drama : Three Plays (80 Edition)
by Hanay Geiogamah
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This first collection of plays by an Indian playwright presents a spectrum of Indian life that ranges in time from the past to the present and on into the future. Body Indian, the earliest, most widely performed, and most highly acclaimed of Geiogamah's... (read more)

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Theatre: Its Art and Craft (6TH 10 Edition)
Theatre: Its Art and Craft (6TH 10 Edition)
by Stephen Archer
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Theatre: Its Art and Craft is an introductory theatre text focusing on theatre practitioners and their processes. Using an accessible tone and a focused exploration of how theatre artists work, the book covers playwrights; directors, actors; designers of... (read more)

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Theater Experience (12TH 11 Edition)
Theater Experience (12TH 11 Edition)
by Edwin Wilson
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The re-imagined twelfth edition of The Theater Experience is students' ticket to the best seat in the house. From Broadway to makeshift theater spaces around the world, the author demonstrates the active and lively role they play as audience members by... (read more)

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Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook
Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook
by Richard Drain
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"Twentieth Century Theatre" is an inspired handbook of ideas and arguments on theatre. Richard Drain gathers together a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original writings on theatre by its most creative practitioners-- directors, playwrights... (read more)

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