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AFRICAN THEATRE
AFRICAN DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE. Edited by John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan
African Drama and Performance is a collection of innovative and wide-ranging essays that bring conceptually fresh perspectives, from both renowned and emerging voices, to the study of drama, theatre, and performance in Africa. ISBN 0 253 21701 6
AFRICAN THEATRE WOMEN. Editors, Jane Plastow with Martin Banham, James Gibbs and Femi Osofisan
This book provides a focus for research, critical discussion, information and creativity in the vigorous field of African theatre and performance. Each annual issue concentrates on a major topic and through its resolutely pan-African coverage and accessible style, broadens the debates to all interested in drama and the many roles it plays in contemporary African life. ISBN 0 85255 596 2.
AFRICAN THEATRE: SOUTHERN AFRICA —. Guest Editor David Kerr.
Editors Martin Banham, James Gibbs, and Femi Osofisan
African Theatre provides a focus for research, critical discussion, information and creativity in the vigorous field of African theatre and performance. Discussions range from evaluations of single plays to accounts of play-making process, theatre for development, and the relationship between modern drama and indigenous performance. The interviews, with Nomhle Nkonyeni and Athol Fugard, give the contrasting perspectives of performer and playwright. Cont Mhlanga’s play Workshop Negative provides insights into the ambiguities of the process of decolonisation in Southern Africa. ISBN 0 85255 597 0
BLACK THEATRE — Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora. Edited by Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker II , and Gus Edwards
" Black Theatre is an indispensable volume — insightful, wide-ranging, global in scope — to be enjoyed, studied, mulled over and argued with." — Douglas Turner Ward, Founder of The Negro Ensemble Company
THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN THEATRE. Martin Banham; Errol Hill; George Woodyard
The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean draws together the wealth of the performing arts in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. It traces the ancient and complex roots of African theatre — still in evident in community festivals and religious rituals — through the centuries of colonial domination, to the African diaspora and its manifestation in Caribbean theatre. ISBN 0 521 61207 1
THE DRAMA OF SOUTH AFRICA —PLAYS, PAGEANTS AND PUBLICS SINCE 1910. Loren Kruger
This is the first comprehensive account of drama and performances in twentieth-century south Africa. It examines pageants and ceremonies, such as the Inauguration of Nelson Mandela in 1994, as well as conventional dramatic literature by neo-colonial and anti-apartheid writers. It discusses in detail both well-known figures such as Athol Fugard and the many lesser-known actors, directors and impresarios who have given the theatre of South Africa its uniquely syncratic character.
THE GENERATION OF PLAYS — YORÙBÁ POPULAR LIFE IN THEATRE. Karin Barber
From the 1940s to the 1980s, Yorùbá popular theatre was one of the most spectacularly successful theatres in Africa. Today, these travelling theatre companies have virtually disappeared, largely as a result of economic hardship and the rise of video entertainment. In The Generation of Plays, Karin Barber recounts the history of Oyin Adéjobí Theatre Company. Drawing on archival sources as well as extensive interviews and transcriptions of plays, Barber uncovers the pulse points of generation, production, and improvisation that merge when a Yorùbá popular drama is brought to the stage. ISBN 0 253 21617 6
A HISTORY OF THEATRE IN AFRICA — Edited by Martin Banham
This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa, covering the entire continent. ISBN 0 521 80813 8 (HB)
JOURNEY OF THE TALL HORSE. A story of African Theatre. Mervyn Millar
In 1826 a giraffe was captured on the African savannah and transported from Egypt to France to be presented to King Charles X as a prize addition to his menagerie. In 2004 a unique collection of performers from around the world joined together to tell its story with the help of a grand variety of puppet designs, actors,dancers,stilt walkers,music, costumes, graphics and a life-size puppet giraffe. Filled with beautiful photographs, original design sketches and comments from all those involved, Mervyn Millar’s eye witness account takes the reader to the heart of the theatre making process, capturing all the enthusiasm and exhaustion, frustrations and rewards of being involved in a groundbreaking production. Also includes the performance script of Tall Horse by Kephra Burns. ISBN 1 84002 599 9
MONARCHS, MISSIONARIES AND AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS — African Theatre And The Unmaking Of Colonial Marginality. Bhekizizwe Peterson
Two case studies constitute the core around which is woven this intriguing story of the development of black theatre in South Africa in the early years of the century. The book moves well beyond these frameworks to probe the complex entanglements of different intellectual traditions in the South African context. ISBN 0 86543 814 5
THE PLAYS OF MIRACLE AND WONDER — Ipi Zombi?, Imumbo Jumbo, The Prophet. Brett Bailey
These three plays "of miracle and wonder" by Brett Bailey are testament to a truly groundbreaking voice in African theatre. Drawing on a wealth of photographs, working notes, autobiography and reflection, this richly designed book re-creates something of the funky energy, haunting magic and colourful imagery of the plays themselves — plays that have disturbed and transported audiences in South Africa and abroad. ISBN 1 919930 20 5
PRE-COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL DRAMA AND THEATRE IN AFRICA — Edited by Lokangaka Losambe and Devi Sarinjeive.
This book, which also emphasises the existence of a link or a sense of organic continuity within African literary tradition, between the pre-colonial and post-colonial forms of drama and theatre, is interesting general reading and a valuable guide to students and scholars of African literature. ISBN 0 86543 968 0
SOUTH AFRICAN THEATRE IN THE MELTING POT — Interviews by Rolf Solberg.
Trends and developments at the turn of the Millennium. ISBN 0 86810 402 7
AMERICAN/ CHICANO THEATRE
THE ACTORS STUDIO — A History. Shelly Frome
The Actors Studio, a secluded workshop in New York City that for decades has had a marked influence on the worlds of stage and screen, functions much like a secret society behind closed doors. Confusions about its essence and its activities abounds. Discussed are Lee Strasberg as its head, Stella Adler and the group, studio founders Eliza Kazan and Robert Lewis. The lives and careers of early icons like Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, the studio’s 1960s efforts to form a production company, and the way the Studio has changed for the 21st century are all covered. ISBN 0 7864 1073 6
AGITATED STATES — Performance in the American Theatre of Cruelty. — Anthony Kubiak
"Agitated States traces a history of a pathology of violence from foundations in anti-theatrical Puritan thought and early ecstatic religious movements to its contemporary manifestations in the postmodern works Angels in America and The American play … a subtle, intelligent, complex, and insightful analysis." — Alice Rayner, Stanford University. ISBN 0 472 06811 3
AMERICAN DRAMA 1900-1990. Don Shiach
This series is designed for students at advanced level, offering critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Each volume has been carefully planned to help students evaluate the influence of literary, cultural and historical contexts on both writers and readers. Each title also contains an anthology of texts and extracts exemplifying key issues raised in the introduction to the areas of study.
THE BEST PLAYS THEATER YEARBOOK 2003 — 2004 Edited by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
The New York season reviewed by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins and Mel Gussow.
Broadway, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway programs and statistics.
Casts, credits of new productions from around the country.
Photographs of the year’s highlights. HB ISBN 0-87910-315-9
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN THEATRE. Volume II 1870 — 1945. Edited by Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby.
The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to playwriting, directors, performers and designers. Volume II begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It discusses the role of vaudeville, European influences, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, major actors and the rise of the star system, and the achievements of notable playwrights. ISBN 0 521 67984 2
CENSORSHIP OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. John Houchin.
The author explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre. He argues that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural systems. Arranged in chronological order, this study provides a summery of theatre censorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and then analyzes key episodes from 1900 to 2000. ISBN 0 521 81819 2. (HB)
CHICANAS / LATINAS IN AMERICAN PERFORMANCE. A History of Performance. Elizabeth C Ramírez
Elizabeth C Ramirez shows how Latina/Latino theatre has evolved from its pre-Colombian, Spanish and Mexican origins to its current prominence within American theatre. Women re-entered the political arena in the 1960s when theatrical activity resumed after the Depression; their presence has left its mark on the evolution of the American stage. ISBN 0 253 21371 1
COMPOSING OURSELVES. The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience.
Dorothy Chansky. ISBN 0-8093-2649-3
CREATING THE SELF IN THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATRE. Robert J. Andreach
Exploring the theatre from the 1960s to the present, the author shows the various ways in which the contemporary American theatre creates a personal, theatrical, and national self.
EXPRESSIONISM AND MODERNISM IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE. Bodies, Voices, Words. Julia A. Walker ISBN 0-521-84747-8 (HB)
FACTS ON FILE COMPANION TO AMERICAN DRAMA — Jason R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartig
This is a comprehensive encyclopaedic guide to American dramatic literature throughout its history. Showcasing both classics and groundbreaking works, celebrated and upcoming playwrights, this volume covers American drama in its many forms. Approximately 600 A-to-Z entries. ISBN 0 8160 4665 4 (HB)
THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT: A Case Study — Barry B. Witham
This book provides a detailed examination of the operations of the United States Federal Theatre Project in the 1930s. Special attention is given to the Seattle Negro unit and the mass spectacles which attempted to create a truly national project rooted in local culture.
ISBN 0 521 82259 9
GRASSROOTS THEATRE — A Search for Regional Arts in America. Robert Gard
Robert Gard’s timeless book is a moving account of one man’s struggle to bring his dream of community-building through creative theatre to citizens around the country. He travelled across America — from New York’s Finger Lake to the prairies of Alberta, Canada, to the backwoods of northern Wisconsin— discovering and nurturing the folklore, legends, history and drama of the region. He talked to ballad singers, painters, tellers of tall tales, and farm women, whose poetry and painting reflected the elemental violence of nature and quiet joys of neighbourliness.
LATINA PERFORMANCE — Traversing the Stage. Alicia Arrizón
The author’s examination of Latino performance spans the twentieth century, beginning with oral traditions of corrido and revistas. She examines the soldera and later theatrical personalities such as La Chata Nolesca and contemporary performance artist Carmelita Tropicana
MAKING IT ON BROADWAY — Actors’ Tales of Climbing to the Top — David Wienir and Jodie Langel. Foreword by Jason Alexander
This book goes beyond the glitz and glamour to show what really happens both on Broadway stage and in the personal lives of Broadway actors. ISBN 1 58115 346 5
NOBBY CLARK’S THEATRE. 25 Years of Photographs.
ISBN 0-9523732-0-3
PLAYING UNDERGROUND — A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement. Stephen J Bottoms
This book addresses the legendary age of 1960s off-off Broadway theatre. The first comprehensive history of the roots of off-off Broadway. ISBN 0 472 11400 X (HB)
ON BROADWAY — Art and Commerce on the Great White Way. Steven Adler
At a critical, transitional moment in the history of Broadway — and, by extension, of American theatre itself — former Broadway stage manager Steven Adler enlists insider perspectives from sixty-six practitioners and artists to chronicle the recent past and glimpse the near future of the Great White Way. ISBN 0 8093 2593 4
THE OTHER AMERICAN DRAMA. Marc Robinson
The author begins his book with a study of Gertrude Stein. Subsequent essays rethink familiar figures such as Tennessee Williams and Sam Shephard, and make the case for such undervalued writers as Maria Irene Fornes, Adrienne Kennedy, and Richard Foreman.
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN THEATRE — Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. Foreword by Harold Prince
An up-to-date guide the American stage from its beginnings to the present. The volume includes playwrights, plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, famous playhouses, dramatic movements, and much more. ISBN 0 19 516986 7
PERFORMING AMERICA — Cultural Nationalism in America Theater. Editors — Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor
This book provides fresh perspectives on the development of visions of both America and "America" — that is, the actual community and the constructed concept — on a variety of theatrical stages. It explores the role of theatre in the construction of American identity, highlighting the tension between the desire to categorize American identity and the realization that such categorical uniformity may be neither desirable nor possible. ISBN 0 472 08792 4
PRESENT AT THE CREATION, LEAPING IN THE DARK, AND GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN. 1776, Pippin, M. Butterfly, La Bete and Other Broadway Adventures. Stuart Ostrow.
Producer Stuart Ostrow’s manifesto of how intelligent life might be restored to the theatre is also a unique personal memoir of the producer-creator relationship and an evaluation of the essentials that can make a show fly or remain earthbound. HB ISBN 1 55783 646 9
RITUAL IMPORTS — Performing Medieval Drama in America. Claire Sponsler
This is a groundbreaking cultural history of European performance traditions in the New World, from the sixteenth century to the present. Claire Sponsler examines of the role of survivals and adaptations of medieval drama in shaping America culture from colonization though nation building and on to today’s multicultural society. ISBN 0 8014 4295 8 (HB)
SISTERS IN SIN. Brothel Drama in America, 1900 — 1920. Katie N Johnson
The brothel drama’s stunning success reveals much about early twentieth century American anxieties about sexuality, eugenics, contagion, women’s rights, and urbanisation. Introducing previously unexamined archival documents and unpublished play scripts, this original study argues that the body of the prostitute was a corporeal site upon which modernist desires and cultural imperatives were mapped. HB ISBN 0 521 85505 5
STAGING AMERICA. Cornerstone and Community – Based Theatre. Sonja Kuftinec
" Kuftinec provides a highly readable and responsible overview of the academic and practical concerns informing community theatre practice today…. It stands as a good example of self-reflexive scholarship and a stimulating record of previously under –represented practice". Modern Drama ISBN 0-8093-2497-0
STAGING THE JEW — The Performance of an American Ethnicity, 1860-1920. Harley Erdman
"A ground breaking work of cultural history, a book that brilliantly elucidates the changing nature of Jewish representations on the American stage and what they reveal about the society that produced them." - Susan A. Glenn
STARS ON STAGE. Photographs 1940-1964. Eileen Darby & Broadway’s Golden Age. Mary C. Henderson – Introduction by John Lahr.
Darby photographed more than six hundred shows during her career, and her portfolio
Has become the definitive photographic record of theatrical history. ISBN 0-8212-2897-8 HB
THEATER. Volume 35, Number 3 New York Then/New York Now Editor Tom Sellar
ISBN 0 8223 6646 0
THEATERS. Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design and Engineering. Craig Morrison
This first comprehensive study of American theaters plumbs the great holdings of the Library of Congress, showcasing the wide range of theater forms — from raucous music hall to popular vaudeville, from circus to grand opera and drama. HB ISBN 0-393-73108-1
THE THEATRE OF BOSTON — Donald C. King
A Stage and Screen History. ISBN 0 7864 1910 5
THEATRE, SOCIETY AND THE NATION — Staging American Identities. S.E.Wilmer
In this book Wilmer selects key historical moments in American history and examines how the theatre, in formal and informal setting responded to these events. ISBN 0 521 80264 4 HB
THEATRE SYMPOSIUM — A PUBLICATION OF THE SOUTH EASTERN THEATRE CONFERENCE
Representation of Gender on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage. Volume 10. ISBN 0 8173 1165 3
THEATRE WORLD. Volume 59 2002-2003.John Willis with Ben Hodges.
The Authoritative statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway seasons, touring companies and professional regional companies throughout the United States; a classic in its field. ISBN 1 55783 635 3
THEATRE WORLD. The Most Complete Record of the American Theatre.Volume 60 2003-2004. John Willis with Ben Hodges ISBN 1 55783 651 5
VOICES FROM SEPTEMBER 11th. Lavonne Mueller
These dramatic voices offer guidance, solace and inspiration, and above all, solidarity at a time when no American must feel alone. In the words of the American poet, Theodore Roethke, "In a dark time, the eye begins to see." Mueller’s work helps us to focus on that vision. ISBN 1-55783-590-X
ASIAN THEATRE
THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO ASIAN THEATRE. James R. Brandon
Explores some of the most vibrant and exciting theatrical traditions in Asia-Oceania today. Students, teachers, drama professionals and theatre-enthusiasts everywhere will welcome this authoritative new work.
AUSTRALIAN THEATRE
THE CONVICTS THEATRES OF EARLY AUSTRALIA 1788-1840. Robert Jordan
The author combed through British and colonial newspapers, official and private records to uncover the lives of these enterprising men and women. He reveals previously unknown theatre ventures and greatly extends our knowledge of others, reconstructing them by reference to the provincial British theatre culture out of which they came. ISBN 1 902806 25 5. HB
DREAMERS AND VISIONARIES —Adelaide’s Little Theatres From the 1920s to the Early 1940s. Thelma Afford
Between the 1920s and the 1940s, there was a diverse flowering of amateur theatres in Adelaide that were experimental, inventive and ahead of their time. Dreamers and Visionaries explores the rise and fall of these Little Theatre, reviewing their personalities, and celebrating their outstanding legacy of experimentation. Thelma afford shows how such groups greatly enhanced the South Australian theatre scene, forming the basis of Adelaide’s reputation as "the city of culture" and helping to contribute to the development of the Adelaide Festival of Arts. ISBN 0 86819 750 5
NOT WRONG — JUST DIFFERENT. Observations on the rise of contemporary Australian theatre. Katherine Brisbane.
Not Wrong — Just Different gives a remarkable insight into the growth of theatre in Australia from 1967 when Katherine Brisbane joined the fledgling Australian as its national theatre critic. It tells the story largely through her writings for the paper and for later publications through the mid 1980’s. The book concludes with her contributions to the public debate in the years since, which articulate the power of the arts in our everyday lives. ISBN 0-86819-777-7
BRITISH THEATRE
THE ACTOR AS PLAYWRIGHT IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA— Nora Johnson
Nora Johnson’s study uncovers important links between performance and authorship in early modern England. The book traces the careers of Robert Armin, Nathan Field, Anthony Munday, and Thomas Heywood, actors who were powerfully interested in marketing themselves as authors and celebrities; but Johnson argues that authorship as they constructed it had little to do with modern ideas if control and ownership. She considers Shakespeare’s famous silence about his own work as one strategy among many available to writers for the stage. The Actor as Playwright provides an alternative to the debate between traditional and materialist readers of dramatic authorship. ISBN 0 521 82416 8 (HB)
AFTER BRECHT — British Epic Theatre. Janelle Reinelt
The first book to fully explore contemporary British drama in light of the tremendous influence of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. The author focuses on the most prominent British
socialist playwrights.
ALL THEATER IS REVOLUTIONARY THEATER. Benjamin Bennett.
Bonnet’s historical investigations into theoretical works ranging from Aristotle to Artaud, Brecht, and Diderot suggest that the attempt to include drama in the system of Western literature causes certain specific incongruities that, in his view, have the salutary effect of preserving the otherwise endangered possibility of a truly liberal, progressive, or revolutionary literature. HB ISBN 0-8014-4309-1
BRITISH PERFORMING ARTS YEAR BOOK 2006/2007. Editor Rosemary Woodforth. Assisted by Helen Rosser & Victoria Wiltshire. ISBN 1904226914
BRITISH THEATRE IN THE GREAT WAR. A Re-evaluation. Gordon Williams.
In his reassessment of this period, Gordon Williams extensively examines scripts and press coverage, providing a comprehensive overview from popular pantomime to the
specialist work of private stage, as well as discussion of such issues as working conditions and censorship. ISBN 0-8264-7882-4
BRITISH THEATRE SINCE THE WAR. Dominic Shellard.
The author moves chronologically through the half-century, discussing important plays, performers, directors, playwrights, critics, censors and agents, as well as the social, political and financial developments that influenced the theatre world. Drawing on previously unseen material, first hand testimony and detailed research, Shellard tackles several long-held assumptions about drama in the period
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA — Edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway
This second edition of the Companion offers students up-to-date factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, form about 1580 to 1642. Several of the essays have been thoroughly revised and all the references updated; the substantial biographical and bibliographical section has been expanded. ISBN 0 521 52799 6
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN THEATRE. — Edited by Kerry Powell
This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. ISBN 0 521 79536 2
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF BRITISH THEATRE Volume 1. Origins to 1660. Edited by Jane Milling and Peter Thomson (HB) ISBN 0 521 65040 2
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF BRITISH THEATRE. Volume 2 1660 to 1895. Edited by Joseph Donohue ISBN 0 521 65068 2
CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY — BRITISH THEATRE. Simon Trussler
Written with style, imagination and insight, and packed with interesting illustrations, this authoritative book traces the development through the ages of plays and playwriting, forms of staging, the acting profession and the role of the actor — in fact all aspects of live entertainment. From satire and burlesque to melodrama and pantomime, this is a major history of British theatre from the earliest times to the present day.
THE CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTION TO EARLY ENGLISH THEATRE. Janette Dillon
Covering early English theatre from the earliest recorded vernacular texts in the late medieval period to the closing of theatres in 1642, this introduction gives an accessible overview of the historical development of theatre. ISBN 0 521 54251 0
THE CENSORSHIP OF BRITISH DRAMA 1900-1968 (Volume One 1900-1932) Steve Nicholson
This book is based on a systematic exploration of the Lord Chamberlain’s Correspondence archives, which contain files for every play submitted for a public performance licence in Great Britain. This volume covers the period before 1932, when theatre was widely seen to possess an almost unique power to shape the future of society, determining what people believed and how they behaved. It is not just about the relatively small number of plays which were banned outright (though these are important): it is more about how and why themes, characters, speeches and lines had to be removed or rewritten, and how action, gesture, costume and even advertising were restricted. ISBN 0 85989 638 2. HB
THE CENSORSHIP OF BRITISH DRAMA.1900 — 1968 Volume Two 1933 —1952 Steve Nicholson HB ISBN 0-85989-697-8
COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN — Theatre, Performance, Rock Music and some other Welsh assemblies. Ruth Shade
Communication Breakdown follows the changing cultural and political position of Wales during the last decade through a social history of performance traditions in one small Welsh, English-speaking, working-class town in the Valleys. ISBN 0 7083 1761 8
ENGLISH DRAMA OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD. Jean Chothia
Covers a rich phase in the development of modern British theatre. It was the age when Wilde, Shaw, Synge and O’Casey and many less well-known dramatists worked for a theatre and public that cnsumed plays voraciously. The text will be welcome reading for students of English literature, drama and theatre studies. It will also be suitable for interdisciplinary courses in history, culture, politics and courses covering suffrage movements of the twentieth century.
ENGLISH DRAMA SINCE 1940 — David Ian Rabey
This book examines the most vital, varied and innovative period of English dramatic writing since Shakespeare and the Rennaissance. It examines the major dramatists of this period, including Beckett, Pinter, Osborne, Wesker, Bond, Churchill, Barker, Cartwright and Kane. ISBN 0 582 42372 4
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA. Peter Womack
This guide provides students with the historical, literary and theatrical contexts they need to make sense of English Renaissance drama. The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642, emphasizing plays that can be read in modern editions and seen in modern productions. Shakespeare’s plays appear as a vital but not dominating component of this repertoire. ISBN 0 631 22630 3
FRINGE. Seeing It, Doing It, Surviving It – A Complete Guide to the Edinburgh Fringe. James Aylett and James Lark.
Every year, millions of pounds are spent at the world’s largest arts festival. Careers are started, destroyed and prolonged. A lot of alcohol is drunk. And yet no one has ever written a definitive book explaining how it all works and how precisely to deal with it. Written by actual Fringe performers, Fringe is the ideal book for everyone interested in the annual boil on the face of Scotland’s capital. ISBN 0 954 83189 6
GENDER AND LITERACY ON STAGE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND. Eve Rachele Sanders. HB
This book explores how gender differences, installed through specific methods of instruction in literacy, were scrutinized in the English public theatre. At the crossroads between literary studies, and social and cultural history, the author’ research offers new insights into poems, plays, and into the social conflicts that shaped individuals as the writers and readers of such texts.
HARLEQUIN BRITAIN — Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690 —1760. John O’Brien
"John O’Brien’s Harlequin Britain is an original and provocative study of the ways in which pantomime, entertainment, and modernity are entwined in English culture. It adds significantly to our understanding of the role of the theatre in the early eighteenth century and makes a compelling case for the significance of theatrical performance to the emergence of the Habermasian bourgeois public sphere." Robert Markley, University of Illinois
LET ME SET THE SCENE — Twenty Years at the Heart of British Theatre 1956 to 1976. Michael Hallifax. Foreword by Sir Peter Hall
Prepare to meet Sir John Gielgud, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Michael MacLiammoir. Sir Ralph Richardson. Sir Peter Hall. George Devine. Sir Laurence Olivier, and many others live and in person onstage and backstage at the Royal Court Theatre, the Old Vic, the Aldwych, Stratford-upon-Avon, and the National Theatre. Michael Hallifax ran the shop, as Manager and licensee, for all these theatres and experienced the Golden Age of English contemporary theatre from the wings. A fascinating and invaluable historical account of theatre at it’s glorious best. ISBN 1 57525 330 5
LONDON CIVIC THEATRE — City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558. Anne Lancashire
Anne Lancashire explodes the widely held notion that significant London theatre arose only in the age of Shakespeare, when the first commercial playhouses were built there. She outlines the extent and types of early civic theatrical performance, specifically in London, from Roman times to Elizabeth I’s accession to the throne in 1558, focusing on Roman amphitheatre shows, medieval and early Tudor plays, mummings, royal entries, and other kinds of street pageantry. ISBN 0 521 63278 1 (HB)
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN REGRETS — A History of British Censorship. Dominic Shellard and Steve Nicholson with Miriam Handley
Between 1824 and 1968, British theatre was controlled by censorship. Revealed here for the first time are a selection of extensive extracts from key reports, correspondence and memoranda about some of the most significant plays of the period. Many documents are reproduced in their entirety, allowing the reader direct access to original, unpublished and unedited archive material. ISBN 0 7123 4865 4 (HB)
MODERN BRITISH DRAMA — The Twentieth Century. Christopher Innes
A revised and updated version of Modern British Drama, 1890-1990, now covering the whole twentieth century, this is the first one-volume analysis of English play writing to cover the most exciting and productive period in British theatre from its inception to today. ISBN 0 521 01675 4
MR PHIPPS’ THEATRE. The Sensational Story of Eastbourne’s Royal Hippodrome. Mark Jones John Pick.
ISBN 1 904031 38 2
NOTORIOUS MUSE — The Actress in British Art and Culture. 1776-1812. Edited by Robyn Asleson.
ISBN 0 300 10005 1. HB
THE POLITICS OF ALTERNATIVE THEATRE IN BRITAIN, 1968-1990 — The Case of 7:84 (Scotland). Maria DiCenzo. HB
Under the directorship of John McGrath, 7:84 (Scotland) has been a vital contributor to the place and importance of alternative theatre on the modern British stage. DiCenzo explores the development of this company and the growth of popular theatre in general within the last twenty years.
POST-WAR BRITISH DRAMA — Looking Back in Gender. Michelene Wandor
In this edition, the author pinpoints symbiotic relationship between gender and theatre in a provocative look at key representative British plays from the last fifty years. ISBN 0 415 13856 6
A READER’S GUIDE TO MODERN BRITISH DRAMA — Sanford Sternlicht A Reader’s Guide to Modern British Drama continues the discussion of the maturation of modern British drama, whose antecedents reside in the melodrama and farces of the Victorian era and whose present direction takes the reader in the potent social statements represented by the recent feminist, gay, and political drama currently energizing London theatre. ISBN 0 8156 3076 X
QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE THEATRE OF HER AGE — Richard W. Schoch.
" This delightful, charmingly illustrated account of Queen Victoria’s long-lasting and eventful love affair with the theatre offers no less entertainment than sociological illumination. No one is better fitted to tell this story than Richard Schoch, and he does so with deep scholarship, verve and flair." — Professor Stanley Wells, The Shakespeare Centre (HB) 1 4039 3297 2
SNOWDON ON STAGE. HB
With a personal view of British Theatre 1954-1996 by Simon Callow. "The most impressive record there is of a golden era in the English theatre." — Sunday Telegraph
THEATRE AND CONSCIOUSNESS — Explanatory scope and Future Potential. Daniel Meyer—Dinkgräfe. ISBN 1 84150 130 1
THEATRES OF ACHIEVEMENT. John Higgins Adrian Eggleston.
ISBN 1 904031 37 4
THEATERS OF INTENTION — Drama and the Law in Early Modern England. Luke Wilson. HB
THEORIZING PRACTICE — Redefining British Theatre History. Edited by W.B Worthen with Peter Holland
This presents contributions from some of the most significant figures in the field, in a wide-ranging interrogation of the practice of theatre studies at the present time. It raises questions of history and historiography; the bearing of national, sexual, and racial identity on the canons of theatre history; the limits of print and the history of non-textual forms of performance; the intersections between theatre and other forms of commodification; and even the work of performance at the boarders of the human. ISBN 1 4039 0794 3
TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH DRAMA. John Smart
This book is designed for students at advanced level. It has been carefully planned to help students evaluate the influence of literary, cultural and historical contexts on both writers and readers. It also contains an anthology of texts and extracts exemplifying key issues raised in the introduction to the areas of study. ISBN 0 521 79563 X
UNLEASHING BRITAIN: THEATRE GETS REAL 1955—64. Jim Fowler
The ten years of British theatre that opened with the 1955 premiere of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot followed by John Osborne’s seminal Look Back in Anger made Britain rival Paris and New York in all that was new and exciting. Theatre, recharged with adrenaline, excitement and aggression, became the crucible in which entertainment, satire, social critique, and experiment vied for their share of the stage. ISBN 1-85177-473-4
WHO KEEPS THE SCORE ON THE LONDON STAGES? Kalina Stefanavo. HB
How does one become a theatre critic in London? What do the theatre critics think of their profession? How are they judged by the critiqued? What do both critics and theatre-makers think of their mutual object of desire -— the British Theatre? This book sets out to find the answer to all these questions and many more in comprehensive interviews with more than fifty major London theatre critics and theatre-makers, including Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Stephen Berkoff, Micheal Billington, Micheal Coveney, Nicholas de Jongh, Sir Richard Eyre, Sir Peter Hall, Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Adrian Noble, Trevor Nunn and Irving Wardle. The author has gathered together a lively discussion about the contemporary state of British theatre, drawing a picture of its strengths, weaknesses, and the problems it faces today
CHINESE THEATRE
CHINESE THEORIES OF THEATER AND PERFORMANCE — From Confucius to the Present. Edited and Translated by Faye Chungfang Fei. Foreword by Richard Schechner
This anthology provides a fascinating guided tour of China’s evolving conceptions of theatre and performance through writings of noted philosophers, scholars, artists, critics. ISBN 0 472 08923 4
THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF CHINA. A C Scott
The ancient custom of employing dance, song, and poetry in public, private, and religious ceremonies and festivities formed the basis for the centuries-old art of Chinese classical theatre. In this reliable and practical handbook – the first of its kind in English – a noted authority on Far Eastern drama offers expert analysis of the intricacies of this venerable stage tradition, including music, speech, movement, costumes and make-up. ISBN 0 486 41579 1
SCENES FOR MANDARINS — The Elite Theatre of the Ming. Cyril Birch
One of the most acclaimed translators of Chinese literature presents here an introduction to classic Ming drama with highlights from six of the best plays of the period (1368-1644) and lively commentary on each. As a performing art, Ming theatre — with its polished singing, enchanted music, fantastic plotting, and intricate choreography — has never been surpassed. ISBN 0 231 10263 1
FRENCH THEATRE
ARTISTS AND AVANT-GARDE THEATER IN PARIS 1887-1900. Boyer
THE CONTESTED PARTERRE — Public Theatre and French Political Culture 1680-1791. Jeffrey S. Ravel
" Jeffrey Ravel’s book brilliantly demonstrates the importance of theatrical practices for the definition of political issues and the construction of public opinion in eighteenth-century Paris. It associates for the first time a very precise analysis of theatre audiences with a reflection on the constitution of a public sphere within Old Regime politics. Beyond the study of the Parterre, this book proposes a profound reappraisal of the process through representations of social order and political authority were transformed during the eighteenth century." Sarah Maza, Northwestern University
FROM DESIRE TO GODOT — The pocket Theatre of Post War Paris. Ruby Cohn
In this fascinating history of the little theatres of Paris where the theatrical forms that soon became known as "the theatre of the absurd" developed, Ruby Cohn relates the circumstances under which Picasso’s Desire Caught By the Tail was privately performed by a cast of well known writers including Sartre, de Beauvoir and Queneau, and goes on to chart the rise of Sartre, Vian, Ionesco, Beckett and many others in the pocket theatre that flourished after the war.
THE GRAND—GUIGNOL — The French Theatre of Horror. Richard J Hand and Michael Wilson
The first part of this book reconsiders the importance and influence of the Grand-Guignol within its social, cultural and historical contexts in the first attempt to at a major evalution of the genre as performance. The second part provides outstanding new translations of Grand-Guignol plays. ISBN 0 85989 696 X
THE PARIS JIGSAW — Iternationalism and the City’s Stages. Edited by David Bradby and Maria M. Belgado
This book examines the creation and development of communities of actors, directors, designers and playwrights in Paris over the past thirty years. It shows how the willingness of the city to welcome international influences, even appointing foreigners to the most influential theatre positions, has enriched its creative life. This examination reveals that many of the most important trends and new developments in the art of theatre have been the direct result of that creative combination of influences all over the world. ISBN 0 7190 6184 9
DAUGHTERS OF EVE —. A Cultural History of French Theatre Women from the Old Regime to the Fin-de-Siécle. Lenard R. Berlanstein HB
This pathbreaking study delineates the distinctive place of actresses, dancers, and singers within the French erotic and political imaginations. From the moment they became an unofficial caste of mistresses to France’s elite during the reign of Louis XIV, their image fluctuated wildly between dangerous women who emasculated man and enchantresses who delighted them. ISBN 0 674 00596
A THEATRICAL FEAST IN PARIS. From Moliere to Deneuve. Elizabeth Sharland.
Read where British, American and French writers, actors and authors wined and dined in Paris. From Moliere to Deneuve, from Hemingway to Sedaris. Find out the theatre there, today and yesterday. Follow their footsteps in the City of Light and discover fabulous places including the setting of the Da Vinci Code in the Louvre. ISBN 0 595 37451 4
IRISH THEATRE
THE ABBEY THEATRE 1899-1999. Form and Pressure. Robert Welch. ISBN 0 19 926135 0
ACTING BETWEEN THE LINES — The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980 — 1984. Marilynn J. Richtarik
The Field Day Theatre Company has been a vital presence on the cultural and intellectual scene in Ireland since its inception in 1980. This venture represented an attempted by a group of distinguished Irish artist to contribute to a resolution of Nothern Ireland’s political crisis. In her pioneering study of Field Day, originally published in 1994, Marilynn Richtarick offers a narrative account of the early years of the company, during which its self-image and public reputation were formed. ISBN 0 8132 1075 5
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRISH DRAMA. Edited by Shaun Richards
The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama form the late-nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. Further to studies of individual playwrights the collection also includes an examination of the relationship between the theatre and its political context as this is inflected through its ideology, staging and programming. With a full chronology and bibliography, this collection is an indispensable introduction to one of the world’s most vibrant theatre cultures. ISBN 0 521 00873 5
A HISTORY OF IRISH THEATRE 1601 —2000. Christopher Morash
Chris Morash’s widely praised account of Irish theatre traces an often forgotten history leading up to the Irish Literary Revival. He then follows that history to the present by creating a remarkably clear picture of the cultural contexts which produced the playwrights who have been responsible for making Irish theatre’s world-wide historical and contemporary reputation. ISBN 0 521 64682 0
IRELAND’S NATIONAL THEATERS — Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic Movement. Mary Trotter.
In the annals of Irish studies and theatre history much has been written about the Abbey Theatre. Now, the author not only sheds new light on that company’s history but also examines other groups with a range of political, religious, gender, and class perspectives that consciously used performance to promote ideas about nationalism and culture in Ireland at the turn of the last century. ISBN 0 8156 2889 7
RIOT AND GREAT ANGER — Stage Censorship in Twentieth-Century Ireland. Jean Fitzpatrick Dean. ISBN 0 299 19660 7 (HB)
RIOTOUS PERFORMANCES — The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theater, 1712 —1784. Helen M. Burke
" Riotous Performances is a thorough and daring analysis of the theater as a cultural space. Through this work Burke recovers the voices of the dispossessed Irish and non-elite members of the Dublin audience. I think it will be essential reading for those interested in Irish Studies and eighteenth-century English literature." — Christopher Wheatley, Catholic University of America. ISBN 0 268 04016 8
THEATRE AND THE STATE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRELAND. Cultivating the People. Lionel Pilkington
This major new study presents a political and cultural history of some of Ireland’s key national theatre projects from the 1890s to 1990s. ISBN 0415 06939 4
THE THEATRE OF NATION. Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism 1890-1916. Ben Levitas
What role did the theatre of the Irish literary revival play in the politics of identity so avidly debated in pre-revolutionary Ireland? Conversely, how far did the dialogue influence the development of the theatre? Ben Levitas here pursues such vexed questions through a panoramic study of Irish drama and the nationalist debate 1890-1916 ISBN 0 19925 3439
INDIAN THEATRE
KATHAKALI — DANCE DRAMA, WHERE GODS AND DEMONS COME TO PLAY. Phillip B. Zarrilli
Kathakali, the distinctive dance-drama of Kerala in south-west India, is comprehensively illuminated in this unique book. Based on India’s great epics, the heroes, heroines, gods and demons enact their stories in traditions Kathakali performances.
JAPANESE THEATRE
THE NOH THEATRE OF JAPAN. With Complete Texts of 15 Classic Plays. Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound
This outstanding scholarly work by Fenollosa, an authority on Chinese and Japanese art and literature, was edited and translated by Pound, one of the most ambitious, influential, and innovative poets of the first half of the twentieth century. Highly respected by the Japanese, Ernest Fenollosa left America in the early twentieth century to teach economics in Japan, where he was appointed Imperial Commissioner of Arts.This text provides Western readers with a valuable interpretation of Japanese culture, not only discussing the historical background and development of the Noh theatre and the training of its actors, but also includes Pound’s brilliant complete translations of fifteen classic Noh plays. ISBN 0 486 43699 3
DEVELOPING ZEAMI. The Noh Actor’s Attunement in Practice. Shelley Fenno Quinn.
ISBN 0-8248-1827-X
THE ETHOS OF NOH ACTORS AND THEIR ART. Eric C Rath
This book traces how definitions of noh, both as an art and as a profession have changed over time.The author seeks to show that the definition of noh as an art is inseparable from its definition as a profession. Accordingly he analyses the mechanisms and the agents who have determined what noh meant both as an art and as a profession ISBN 067402120 7
A GUIDE TO JAPANESE STAGE — From Traditional to Cutting Edge. Ronald Cavaye, Paul Griffith, Akihiko Senda.
This covers all the main genres as performed today, from traditional to cutting edge. A brief history and introduction to the features of each genre is accompanied by recommendations of entertaining plays that are accessible to non-Japanese audiences. Brief synopses are provided for many often-performed plays, and the best-known companies, actors, playwrights and directors are highlighted. The text is illustrated with 32 color pages and over 150 black-and-white photographs, and includes information on theatre listings, how to purchase tickets, and which plays are available on DVD in English. ISBN 4 7700 2987 X
JAPANESE NOH MASKS. With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples. Friedrich Perzynski. Edited and Translated by Stanley Appelbaum.
Anew, informative introduction and extensive captions derived from the original text and newly translated, accompany the heart of the book – more than 120 full page plates depicting museum-quality masks worn by actors playing gods, warriors, demons, and monsters, beautiful women, feudal lords, mad characters, and supernatural beings. All 303 illustrations from the original two-volume work are included. ISBN 0 486 44014 1
THE JAPANESE THEATRE — From Shamanistic Ritual to Contemporary Pluralism. Benito Ortolani
"The reader will find no fuller and more informed account of the complexities of Japanese theatre history and of the cultural matrices from which Japan’s various theatre forms grew, than in this admirable scholarly work." James R. Brandon, Monumenta Nipponica. ISBN 0 691 04333 7
KABUKI — Yasuji Toita and Chiaki Yoshida. ISBN 4 586 54011 7
KABUKI THEATRE. Ernst
THE KYOGEN BOOK — An Anthology of Japanese Classical Comedies. Compiled by Don Kenny. ISBN 4 7890 0459 7
ON THE ART OF NOH DRAMA. Rima/Yamazaki
NOH — Daiji Maruoka and Tatsuo Yoshikoshi. ISBN 4 586 54015 X
NOH MASKS — Toru Nakanishi and Kiyonori Komma. ISBN 4 586 54040 0
THE NOH THEATER Principles and Perspectives. Kunio Komparu
This is the first work in either English or Japanese to offer a comprehensive explanation and analysis of the principles of the Noh theater of Japan. The author was an active practitioner of the art, of the 22nd generation in a direct line of Noh performers, and painstakingly outlines both physical and intellectual aspects of Noh, its technical principles and its philosophical perspectives. An invaluable tool for the student of drama, it offers as well deeper insights into Japanese history and culture. ISBN 1-81640-17-8
THE TRADITIONAL THEATRE OF JAPAN Yoshinobu Inoura and Toshio Kawatake
ISBN 1891640 40 2
RUSSIAN THEATRE
DODIN AND THE MALY DRAMA THEATRE — Process to Performance. Maria Shevtsova
This is the first ever full-length study of internationally-acclaimed theatre company, The Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg, and its director, Lev Dodin. The author provides an illuminating insight into Dodin’s directorial processes and the company’s actor training, devising and rehearsal methods, which she interweaves with detailed analysis of the Maly’s main productions. ISBN 0 415 33462 4
IMITATIONS OF LIFE — Two centuries of Melodrama in Russia. Edited by Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger.
This book views Russian melodrama from the eighteenth century to today as an unexpectedly hospitable forum for considering social issues. The contributors follow the evolution of the genre through a variety of cultural practices and changing political scenarios. ISBN 0 8223 2790 2
RUSSIAN AND SOVIET THEATRE — Traditional and the Avant-Garde. Konstantin Rudnitsky
With 457 illustrations, 64 in colour, this book documents the extraordinary developments of the fruitful years, from the first decade of the century to 1932. It presents an astonishing wealth of material, including illustrations showing performances directed by Meyerhold, Eisenstein and Mikhail Chekhov, and designs by some of the greatest modernist artists of the age, including Malevich, Larionov, Exter, Popova and Rodchenko. Visually exhilarating and critically perceptive, the book is the only comprehensive record of this vital and formative period in modern theatre.
THE RUSSIAN THEATRE AFTER STALIN. Anatoly Smeliansky
This is the first book to explore the world of the theatre in Russia after Stalin. Through his work at Moscow Art Theatre, the author is in a key position to analyse contemporary events on the Russian stage and he combines this first-hand knowledge with valuable archival material, some published here for the first time, to tell a fascinating and important story.
A TRIPTYCH FROM THE RUSSIAN THEATRE The Komissarzhevskys Victor Borovsky. HB
This is a collective biography of three generations of the Komissarzhevky family, whose artistic activities had an enormous impact on Russian and world theatre. Fyodor Komissarzhevsky was a leading tenor of the mid-nineteenth century; Stanislavsky often said that he owed everything to Komissarzhevsky’s lessons and conversations. Fyodor’s daughter Vera Komissarzevskaya was the foremost actress in the theatre of the time, with Chekhov as a close friend and associate. And the younger Fyodor, Vera’s half-brother, set up the small theatre in Barnes, London, where the first truly successful English productions of Chekhov’s plays were mounted. ISBN 1850654123
WORLD THEATRE
THE BURIED ASTROLABE — Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition. Craig Stewart Walker. In this book Craig Walker stakes the claim of Canadian Playwrights to be considered among the most important in the contemporary world. This critical introduction shows how Canadian drama has developed from Western European philosophical, literary, and dramatic traditions. ISBN 0 7735 2075 9
THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN THEATRE. Martin Banham; Errol Hill; George Woodyard
The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean draws together the wealth of the performing arts in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. It traces the ancient and complex roots of African theatre — still in evident in community festivals and religious rituals — through the centuries of colonial domination, to the African diaspora and its manifestation in Caribbean theatre. ISBN 0 521 61207 1
COLLABORATIVE THEATRE — The Théâtre du Soleil Sourcebook. Compiled and edited by David Williams. Translations by Eric Prenowitz and David Williams
This book presents critical and historical essays by theatre scholars from around the world as well as the writings of and interviews with members of the Théâtre du Soleil, past and present.
THE COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE — An Introduction. Adam Darius
A concise and living history, this book introduces one of the theatre’s most enduring influences. Emerging in about 1550, the Italian commedia dell’arte was an improvisational form of entertainment, variations on pre-arranged themes.
THE DEAD MEMORY MACHINE Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Death Krzysztof Plesniarowicz.Translated by William Brand
Krysztof Plesniarowicz’s The Dead Memory Machine, translated into English by William Brand, is a revised and expanded version of the first book-length study of Kantor’s Theatre of Death, originally published in Polish in 1990.ISBN 1 902867 05 X
EASTERN EUROPEAN THEATRE AFTER THE IRON CURTAIN. Edited by Kalina Stefanova HB
This book surveys Eastern European theatre after the collapse of Soviet Union, presenting factual information about the many different spheres of theatre there today — from playwriting, directing and acting, to repertoire creation and theatre management.
FLASH AND CRASH DAYS — Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period. David George
This book examines how the absence of censorship and the exigencies of protest and ideological purity have given rise to a variety of theatrical modes. These new modes, which Brazil has never experienced in the past, allow all voices the opportunity to be heard in the marketplace of artistic ideas: women’s perspectives, sexual identity, psychological issues, the individual in society, and religion . This book is an extraordinary new volume that reflects upon the theatre produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s. ISBN 0 8153 3839 2
GARDZIENICE — Polish Theatre in Transition. Paul Allain
In 1997 an experimental company called the Gardzienice Theatre Association was founded in a tiny Polish village. The author describes and analyses this group's performances, physical and vocal training and anthropological fieldwork among rural minorities at the margins of Europe. His book is the first detailed attempt to assess critically the development of Polish theatre since 1989. It questions whether those artists born into renaissance culture under Communism can maintain their vision in the face both of Poland’s economic difficulties and of increased commercialization of the arts.
A GUIDE TO GREEK THEATRE AND DRAMA — Kenneth McLeish. Completed by Trevor R. Griffiths
Kenneth McLeish’s authoritative and enthusiastic Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is full of his enjoyment and understanding of the plays. It provides an extensive introduction to Anthenian theatre, the form of the plays and, as far as can be established, how the plays were performed. Then follows a background section on each playwright, a synopsis and commentary for each of the surviving plays and an outline of Aristotle’s theories on drama. The result is an indispensable companion for anyone interested in Greek theatre. The volume was completed by Professor Trevor R. Griffiths. ISBN 0 413 72030 6
HIDDEN TERRITORIES —The Theatre of Gardzienice. Wiodzimerz Staniewski, with Alison Hodge. With CD-R```````OM produced by Arts Archives.
This book is the first full-length articulation by Wiodzimerz Staniewski of his philosophy and practice. This remarkable theatre director, with collaborator Alison Hodge, gives a fascinating insight into his company’s principles and techniques. The text is accompanied by unique collection of photographs drawn from the company’s archives. ISBN 0 415 26298 4
THE JUDAIC NATURE OF ISRAELI THEATRE — A Search for Identity. Dan Urian. Translated by Naomi Paz
The author first surveys the secular-religious rift (which began to occur in the last century and has intensified towards the end of the present century) and then describes the enhanced concern of the secular community in Israel for its own Jewishness and its expression in the theatre — especially following the 1967 war.
THE ORIGIN OF GERMAN TRAGIC DRAMA — Walter Benjamin. Introduced by George Steiner. Translated by John Osborne.
The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin’s most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Dürer and the theatre of Calderón and Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg Lukács, an opponent of Benjamin’s aesthetics, singled out The Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century. ISBN 1 85984 413 8
"OTHER" SPANISH THEATRE — Erasure and inscription on the twentieth-century Spanish stage. Maria M. Delgado
This book challenges established opinions on Modern Iberian theatre by considering the roles of contrasting figures and companies who have impacted upon both the practice and perception of Spanish and European stages. ISBN 0 7190 5976 3
THE POETRY OF GREEK TRAGEDY — Richmond Lattimore
In this acclaimed work, eminent classicist Richmond Lattimore examines the complex and varied ways in which Greek poetry contributes to Greek drama. While acknowledging the difficulty of separating poetry — especially in translation — from other aspects of language, Lattimore offers keen insights into plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripedes. ISBN 0 8018 7260 X
PERFORMANCE AND LITERATURE IN THE COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE. Robert Henke
This book explores the commedia dell’arte: the Italian professional theatre in Shakespeare’s time. While previous studies have concentrated on either the or the literary aspects of commedia dell’arte, this is the first book to consider how these two elements might have worked together to create this rich and fascinating theatre. ISBN 0 521 64324 4 HB
PERFORMING NATIONAL IDENTITIES: International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre. Edited by Sherrill Grace & Albert-Reiner Glaap
This is a collection of 18 original essays on contemporary Canadian theatre by scholars and drama specialists in Canada, Great Britain, Europe, and Australia, Japan. The international scope of the volume, reflected in its co-editors (Sherrill Grace from Canada, Albert-Reiner Glaap from Germany), confirms the new importance of Canadian plays on the world stage. This is the first volume of its kind and it celebrates the variety and vitality of Canadian theatre. ISBN 0 88922 475 7
RADICAL THEATRE: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World. Rush Rehm
Why should Greek tragedy matter now? This book opens a dialogue between the tragic theatre in ancient Athens and the multiple performances of the modern world. In five interconnected essays, Rush Rehm engages tragedy on its own terms, using our oldest theatre as inspiration for how we might shape the theatre of the future. ISBN 0 7156 2916 6
THE SOUL OF TRAGEDY. Essays on Athenian Drama. Edited by Victoria Pedrick and Steven M Oberhelman.
The Soul of Tragedy brings together top scholars to offer a wide range of perspectives on Greek tragedy. The collection pays homage to this ancient, enduring theatrical and literary genre by offering a deep exploration into the oldest form of dramatic expression. It is a reminder that, for all their years, these dramas still have much to teach us. ISBN 0 226 65306
THEATER AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY SINGAPORE. William Peterson
Using Singapore’s vibrant, English-language theatre as a lens, William Peterson examines the cultural implications of the much-celebrated Singapore model of political, economic and social development. ISBN 0 8195 6472 9
WHAT A LIFE! The Autobiography of Pesach’ke Burstein, Yiddish Matinee Idol. Pesach’ke Burstein with Lillian Lux Burstein
While Burstein is a legend in Yiddish theatre, he was little known outside that world until he was celebrated in Arnon Goldfinger’s acclaimed documentary Der Komediant. This book provides the first window for English readers into the other side of Yiddish culture — the Yiddish vaudeville, the travelling Yiddish theatre, and the music hall. It will not only delight readers but also reveal to them a social and cultural history never before described in such detail. Burstein’s life is the story of popular Yiddish theatre in the first half of the twentieth century. ISBN 0 8156 0784 9 HB
YIDDISH THEATRE: NEW APPROACHES — Edited by Joel Berkowitz
This is the first collection of scholarly studies on the Yiddish theatre to appear in English. The time-span is broad — from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century — as is the geographical range: Cracow, London, Moscow, New York, St.Petersburg, Vienna, Warsaw … With the most comprehensive bibliography to date of sources relating to the Yiddish theatre. ISBN 1 874774 81 1 Hardback
GENERAL CRITICISM AND ANALYSIS
ACTING. Working in the Theatre. Edited by Robert Emmet Long, with a foreword by Kate Burton.
For the first time in the thirty-year history of the Working in the Theatre seminars, this volume gathers the insights of more than 100 performers. Here is a book for students, actors and others in the profession, as well as anyone with a passion for the theatre. The humour, art, grace and dedication conveyed by these artists transform lives every night. Now, they speak directly to us about what it is really like to be working in the theatre.
ISBN 0 8264 1805 8
ACTRESSES AND WHORES — On Stage and in Society. Kirsten Pullen
The image of the actress as prostitute has haunted the theatrical profession since women first went on the stage. Kirsten Pullen explores the history of this connection both in the cultural imagination and in real life. ISBN 0 521 54102 6
ACTS OF PASSION — Sexuality, Gender, and Performance. Nina Rapi and Maya Chowdhry
APPLIED THEATRE: Bewilderment and Beyond. James Thompson
This book explores the practice of theatre in communities, social institutions and with marginalized groups. It shifts between context and country to examine different ways that theatre has been applied to a wide range of social issues.
ISBN 0820 46290 X
APPLIED THEATRE — Creating Transformation Encounters in the Community. Philip Taylor. Foreword by Tom Barone
"Applied theatre" is both a term and a movement that’s gathering momentum. The movement springs from the desire to change or transform human behaviour through the medium of theatre. In this book, Philip Taylor offers strategies for using theatre to raise awareness, propose alternatives, provide healing, and implement community charge. As he demonstrates, applied theatre teaches us to teach others, helps communities deal with issues, and gives voice to the views of the silent and the marginal. In numerous examples, Taylor shows exactly how the theatrical art form is being harnessed to help communities question aspects of who they are and what they aspire to be. ISBN 0 325 00535 4
APPROXIMATE BODIES — Gender and Power in early modern drama and anatomy. Maurizio Calbi ISBN 0 415 34561 8
THE ARCHIVE AND THE REPERTOIRE — Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Diana Taylor
In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of performance in the Americas. Examining performances including demonstrations by the children of the disappeared in Argentina, the work of the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani, televised astrological readings by Univision personality Walter Mercado, and responses to the events of September 11, Taylor elaborates the vital role performance in making political claims, transmitting traumatic memory, and forging cultural identity. ISBN 0 8223 3123 3
ART, 31 INTERVIEWS PERFORMANCE, MEDIA. Nicholas Zurbrugg, Editor.
"An invaluable resource. These rare firsthand accounts reveal the thinking behind the radical, ephemeral forms of art making that emerged from the 1960s onward, by some of the period’s most influential artists. Nicholas Zurbrugg’s dedication has produced a precious legacy: art history told through the voice of the artist." Chrissie Iles, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art. ISBN 0 8166 3833 0
ART INTO THEATRE — Performance Interviews and Documents. Nick Kaye
This book investigates the processes of hybrid forms of performance developed between 1952 and 1994 through a series of interviews with key practitioners and over eighty pieces of documentation, many previously unpublished, of the works under discussion. Ranging from the austerity of Cage’s 4’33" through the inner-species communication of Shneeman’s Cat Scan and the experimental theatre work of Schechner, Foreman, and Kirby, to the recent performances of Abramovac, Forced Entertainment and the Wooster group, this book offers a fascinating collection of perspectives on the destabilising of conventional ideas of the art "object" and the theatrical "text".
AVANT-GARDE PERFORMANCE — Live Events and Electronic Technologies. Günter Bergaus
Placing key figures and performances in their historical, social and aesthetic context, Günter Bergaus offers an accessible introduction to postwar avant-garde performances. Written in a clear engaging style, and supported by text boxes and illustrations throughout, this volume explains the complex ideas behind avant-garde art and evocatively brings to life the work of some of its most influential performance artists. ISBN 1 4039 4645 0
BECOMING CLEOPATRA — The Shifting Image of an Icon. Francesca T. Royster
Moving fluidly from Shakespeare’s England to contemporary Los Angeles, the author looks at the performance of race and sexuality in a wide range of portrayals of Cleopatra. ISBN 1 4039 6109 3
BEFORE ORIENTALISM — London’s Theatre of the East 1576 — 1626. Richmond Barbour
This book examines early Anglo-Indian cultural relations through trade (with the establishment of the East Indian Company), tourism and diplomacy and illuminates important differences between the reports of travellers and the representations of the London press and stage. The author examines exotic visions of "the East" as staged in the playhouses, at court, and on the streets of Shakespeare’s London. ISBN 0 521 65047 X HB
THE BIBLE AS THEATRE — Shimon Levy
"The Bible as Theatre’s consideration of a wide variety of Biblical materials from a dramaturgical point of view adds a rich new dimension to many familiar stories and brings fresh prominence and fresh perspectives to an even greater number of less familiar ones. Character relationships and motivations are explored in striking and memorable detail and the attention to the physical settings and symbolic properties that frame these actions provides illuminating contextualization. This book will be an important contribution both to Biblical and theatre studies." Marvin Carlson, Sidney E. Cohn Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Centre, New York University. ISBN 1 898723 51 6
BODIES IN COMMOTION. Disability & Performance. Carrie Sandahl & Philip Auslander, Editors.
"This provocative, interdisciplinary collection of essays not only exposes the cultural politics of reading disability, but uncovers the contested terminology in the field of disability studies, discerns the ideological communities invested in these politics, and exposes readers to a range of approaches through which disability is being represented." Mady Schutzman, California Institute of the Arts. ISBN 0-472-06891-1
THE BODIES THAT WERE NOT OURS AND OTHER WRITINGS — Coco Fusco
This book is a provocative collection of writings by an internationally recognized artist. Fusco’s volume is a vibrant and original sketchbook of essays, performance chronicles, scripts, interviews and photographs. They focus on what the political history of colonialism means for Fusco herself and other artists who reflect upon this legacy in their work. The writings gathered here explore the very specific relationship between mind and body in art by the descendants of colonized and enslaved peoples. ISBN 0 415 25174 5
THE CABERET — Lisa Appignanesi
This fully-illustrated captivating book presents a uniquely comprehensive cultural history of cabaret, where the most radical of artists, poets, writers, musicians, and theatre directors have gathered since 1881. ISBN 0 300 105080 0 (HB)
A CENTURY OF THEATRE. Ruth Leon and Sheridan Morley
In a lavish chronicle of 20th century drama, Ruth Leon and Sheridan Morley trace the history of their selection of the plays, musicals and people who helped to establish London and New York as the theatre capitals of the world. ISBN 1 84002 058 X.
CERTAIN FRAGMENTS — Contemporary Performance and Forced Entertainment. Tim Etchells. Foreword by Peggy Phelan
The book is an extraordinary exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. It investigates the process of devising performance, the role of writing in an interdisciplinary theatre, and the influence of the city on contemporary art practice. Certain Fragments is an exciting and radical fusion of storytelling and criticism.
THE CHANGING ROOM. Sex, Drag and Theatre. Laurence Senelick
In this book, the author takes the reader on a colourful, lavishly illustrated tour of the stages and dressing-rooms of history, from tribal rituals and sacred prostitution, to contemporary musical comedy and performance art. This wide-ranging survey not only covers the globe from New Guinea to New York, but takes in such fascinating topics as soldier shows, operatic castrati, and the rise to lip synching.
CHANGING STAGES. Richard Eyre and Nicholas Wright
Written as the basis for a six-part BBC TV series, Changing Stages is, in the words of its authors, Richard Eyre and Nicholas Wright, "a partial, personal and unscholarly view of the (20th) century’s theatre." Lavishly illustrated with over 150 black and white photographs, and full of revealing insights and fascinating anecdotes, this is an ideal present for any theatre-lover.
THE COLOR OF THEATRE — Race, Culture and Contemporary Performance. Ed by Roberta Uno with Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns.
The Color of Theatre presents a range of essays, interviews, and performance texts that illustrate and examine the process, evolution, and dynamics of making theatre in the dawning moments of twenty-first century. It brings together writings by artists, intellectuals, and art activists that explore contemporary practices within multicultural, intercultural, and ethnically specific theatres. ISBN 0 8264 5639 1
COMMUNITY THEATRE — Gobal Perspectives. Eugene van Erven
Eugene van Erven, one of the world’s foremost experts on Asian political theatre, has put together the first comparative study of the work and methodological traditions which have developed in community theatres around the world. It is a wide-ranging study based on van Erven’s experiences working with community theatre groups in six very different countries. ISBN 0 415 19031 2
CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST THEATRE: To Each Her Own. Elizabeth Goodman
CONVERSATIONS ON ART AND PERFORMANCE. Edited by Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta
CROSSING THE STAGE: Controversies on Cross Dressing. Edited by Lesley Ferris. Hardback/Paperback
DAYS AND NIGHTS AT THE SECOND CITY — A Memoir, With Notes on Staging Review Theatre. Bernard Sahlins
As a legendary home of comedy, The Second City has served as the training ground for hundreds of important writers, actors, and directors: Bill Murray, John Belushi, Alan Arkin, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, John Candy, Martin Short, Harold Ramis, George Wendt, Mike Myers, Gilda Radner — the list goes on and on. Now a founder and the longtime director and producer of The Second City offers a fascinating history of this remarkable institution, plus a detailed text on every aspect of staging a comic review. Not only actors and directors but anyone interested in theatre and comedy will find engaging and useful insights on every page. With 15 black-and-white photographs. ISBN 1 56663 431 8
THE DEATH OF COMEDY — Erich Segal
In a Grand Tour of Comic Theatre over centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century B.C. Susarion, through to countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett. With fitting wit, profound erudition lightly worn, and instructive examples from the mildly amusing to the uproarious, his book fully illustrates comedy’s glorious life cycle from its first breath to its death in the Theatre of the Absurd. ISBN 0 674 01247 X
DEATH, THE ONE AND THE ART OF THEATRE. Howard Barker
This is the latest collection of Barker’s distinctive and revelatory philosophical musings on theatre. It is a stunning array of speculations, deductions, prose poems and poetic aperçus that casts a unique and unflinching light on the nature of tragedy, eroticism, love and theatre. ISBN 0 415 34987 7
DISABILITY AND CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE — Bodies on Edge. Petra Kuppers
Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak shows fantasies and "medical theatre’ as well as art, webwork, theatre, dance, photography and installations, to cast entirely new light on contemporary identity politics and aesthetics. ISBN 0 415 30239 0
DRAMATIC NOTES — Foregrounding Music in the Dramatic Experience. Neil Brand
A layman’s guide to the way composers create music to support drama, whether in the form of film, theatre, opera, radio or TV. Central to the book is a series of interviews with distinguished composers and directors. A history of narrative music, musical analysis of classic film sequences and an overview of music’s place in many media and art forms set the interviews in their wider context
ELECTORAL GUERRILLA THEATRE Radical ridicule and social movements. L.M. Bogad.
Electoral Guerrilla Theatre offers an entertaining and enlightening read for students working across a variety of disciplines, including performance studies, social science, cultural studies and politics. ISBN 0-415- 33225-7
ENVIRONMENTAL THEATRE. Richard Schechner
THE ESSENTIAL THEATRE – Eighth Edition — Oscar G. Brockett and Robert J. Ball
This is an introduction to the creative and intriguing world of the theatre, with examples of classic and contemporary plays, including new African-American and Asian plays, and with insightful perspectives on each of the theatre arts that contributes to the final production. With colour photographs and illustrations.
ISBN 0 534 57785 7
ETHNO-TECHNO Writings on performance, activism, and pedagogy. Guillermo Gómez-Peña
The performance of "extreme identity" is familiar to us all through the medium of television (just switch on Jerry Springer). So where does this leave the critical practice of artists who aim to make tactical, performative interventions into our notions of race, culture, and sexuality?
EUROPE ON STAGE — Translation and Theatre. Gunilla Anderman
This comprehensive study of the history of European plays on the English stage explores the importance of cultural assumptions and linguistic stumbling blocks. Gunilla Anderman looks at varying approaches to the foreign text as well as the need for new versions of the same play, and discusses the influence of European drama in translation and its contribution to and enrichment of English playwriting. ISBN 1 84002 220 5
EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE — From Stanislavsky to Peter Brook. James Roose-Evans
"One of the most succinct and readable works on avant-garde movements in the theatre I have ever seen." Library Journal
EXPOSED BY THE MASK — Form and Language in Drama. Peter Hall
Peter Hall delivered these remarkable explorations of form and language in drama as the Clark Lectures for Trinity College, Cambridge in January 2000. In four main parts they reveal a lifetime’s discoveries about classical theatre, Shakespeare, opera and modern drama.
THE FABER POCKET GUIDE — To Greek and Roman Drama. John Burgess.
An essential accessible guide to Greek and Roman drama containing entries for forty plays by all the major dramatists in the classical world — Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence and Seneca. ISBN 0 571 21906 3
FARCE — Jessica Milner Davis.
This book sheds light on the genre, its history, and usage in terms of dramatic critics. Davies examines the recurring themes in farcical comedies including rebellion, revenge, and coincidence. ISBN 0 7658 0887 0
FEMALE SPECTACLE — The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism. Susan A. Glenn.
" When our mothers warned us not to make spectacles of ourselves, they could not fathom the density of meaning that Susan A. Glenn could extract from the maternal injunction. In a imaginatively researched and elegantly written volume, Glenn has opened a new vista into popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century, exploring the world of theatrical performance by women to limn its influence on the shape of emerging new womanhood." — Leslie Fishbein, Journal of American History ISBN 0 674 00990 8
FEMINIST THEATRE PRACTICE: A HANDBOOK. Elaine Aston
This book is designed to take the reader through the various stages of making feminist theatre — from warming up, through work-shopped exploration, to performance. The volume is organised into three clear and instructive parts: Woman in the workshop, Dramatic texts, feminist contexts, and, Gender and devising projects.
THE FIELD OF DRAMA — How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen. Martin Esslin
This book turns to the controversial and often derided subject of the seminology of drama. His approach is fresh and genuinely inquisitive, examining the various prepared positions, testing the jargon, reassessing the usefulness of an endeavour which reduces the complexity of the dramatic experience to a codifiable system of signs, symbols and icons.
THE FRENCH ACTRESS AND HER ENGLISH AUDIENCE — John Stokes
The author explores the reception of the French actress by English audiences, form the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth — a period when the relationship between England and France was transformed and redefined. ISBN 0 521 84300 6
FROM ACTING TO PERFORMANCE: Essays in Modernism and Post-Modernism. Philip Auslender
FROM RITUAL TO THEATRE. Victor Turner
FROM SCRIPT TO STAGE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND — Redefining British Theatre History. Edited by Peter Holland
This book brings together a group of distinguished and original theatre historians engaged in rethinking the nature of early modern theatre history as a discipline. ISBN 1 4039 3343 X
THE FUTURE OF RITUAL — Writings on culture and performance. Richard Schechner
Schechner explores the nature of ritualized behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action.
GENTILITY AND THE COMIC THEATRE OF LATE STUART LONDON. Mark S. Dawson.
Thebook examines how claims of gentility were staged in London’s theatres (c.1660-1725).
Employing a rich assembly of sources, comedies with fops, periodicals, correspondence of theatre patrons and polemic from it’s detractors, Mark S. Dawson revises several of social history’s conclusions about the gentry and offers new interpretations to students of late Stuart drama. ISBN 0-521-84809-1 (HB)
A GOOD NIGHT OUT — Popular Theatre: Audience, Class and Form. John McGrath
This manifesto on popular theatre is as relevant today as it was when it was first published in the early eighties. Looking at the different ways different classes take their entertainment — he puts the case for what theatre could be doing for the populace instead of walling itself up in subsidised fortresses for the well-to-do.
THE HAUNTED STAGE — The Theatre as Memory Machine. Marvin Carlson
The Haunted Stage explores the process by which theatre recycles materials, and examines how that reuse stimulates the spectator’s memory — memory not of broad cultural or historical phenomena but of specific theatre experience. Relating the dynamics of reception to the interaction between theatre and memory, The Haunted Stage uncovers the ways in which the memory of the spectator informs the process of theatrical reception. ISBN 0 472 08937 4
HISTORY OF EUROPEAN DRAMA AND THEATRE — Erika Fischer-Lichte
This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from the Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered and individual concepts of identity. ISBN 0 415 18060 0
IMAGINING MEDEA — Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women. Rena Fraden. Foreword by Angela Y. Davis
Rhodessa Jones is the founder of the Medea Project, the theatre program for incarcerated women. Jones believes that by engaging the women in the process of developing and staging dramatic works based on their own stories, she can push them toward tapping into their own creativity, confronting the problems that landed them in prison, and taking control of their lives. She chronicles the collaborative process of transforming incarcerated women’s stories into productions that incorporate Greek mythology, hip-hop music, dance and autobiography.
THE IMPRESARIOS. James Inverne
In this unique collection of interviews, author and critic James Inverne explores the perilous working lives of some of today’s key producers of theatre, opera and dance — dictators, eccentrics and visionaries who literally get the show on the road. Illustrated. ISBN 1 8400213570
THE INTERCULTURAL PERFORMANCE HANDBOOK. John Martin
The Intercultural Performance Handbook opens up a new world of techniques for performers. The first ever full-length, fully illustrated manual for practitioners, it provides: a guide to physical, vocal and improvisational dynamics drawn from world performance styles; a new vocabulary with which to interpret plays from around the globe; games to use for exploring rhythm, movement, balance, tension and gesture, breath-work, stylisation, and the use of the voice; a practical, hands-on approach to creating vibrant theatrical work. ISBN 0 415 28188 1
THE INTERCULTURAL PERFORMANCE READER. Edited by Patrice Pavis.
The author has brought together key artists and scholars from around the world to provide, for the first time, a truly international overview. The result is an unparalleled exchange of ideas which demonstrates the new possibilities and politics of intercultural performance.
KEY CONCEPTS IN DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE — Kenneth Pickering
An invaluable companion and resource for anyone studying drama, theatre or performance, Key Concepts in Drama and Performance is a quick, easy reference tool ideal for revision as well as offering in-depth considerations of key topics. It is an essential book for everyone wishing to understand both the practical and theoretical aspects of drama and performance. ISBN 1 4039 3436 3
LAND/SCAPE/THEATER — Editors Elinor Fuchs and Una Chaudhuri
This collection of essays by leading theatre scholars and theorists proposes landscape as a new paradigm for understanding modern theatre’s increasingly spatialized aesthetic and its engagement with the cultural meanings of space and place. ISBN 0 472 06720 6
LETTERS FORM LINDA M. MONTANO — Linda M. Montano. Edited by Jennie Klein
Letters from Linda M. Montano is an exceptional anthology of writings by one of the seminal performance artists of the past century. It provides a candid autobiographical and historical record of Mantano’s life and artistic practice over the past thirty years, collecting together stories, fairy tales, letters, interviews, manifestos, and other writings, many previously unpublished. ISBN 0 415 33943 X
LIPA IN PICTURES. The First Ten Years. The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts: 1995—2005. HB ISBN 095394232-5
LIFE OF THE DRAMA. Eric Bentley
LIVENESS —Performance in a Mediatized Culture. Philip Auslander
This book addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today, What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media? By looking at specific instances of live performances such as theatre, rock, music, sport, and courtroom testimony, Liveness offers penetrating insights into media culture. It shows that media technology has encroached on live events to the point where many are hardly live at all. The Author asks, what is live performance and what can it mean to us now?
LIVING THEATRE — A HISTORY. Edwin Wilson. Alvin Goldfarb
LIVING THEATRE provides a significant, scholarly coverage in a highly readable and accessible style. Students are provided a wealth of information in a manageable and accessible format. ISBN 0 07 121639 1 HB
THE LONGMAN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY DRAMA. A Global Perspective. Michael Greenwald; Roberto Dario Pomo; Roger Schultz; Anne Marie Welsh.
This collection of 31 international and American plays offers a truly global perspective on the drama and theatre that has been produced during the past 150 years. Features offers a truly global approach to modern and contemporary drama, featuring 18 sections by international playwrights. Exposes students to a variety of approaches for thinking and writing about drama in mini-lessons called "Showcases" throughout the book. Includes illustrations to help students visualize the possibilities for theatrical production, especially those involving nonrealistic styles. ISBN 0 321 10791 8
MODERNISM — A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930. Editors: Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane
MODEL NATIONAL STANDARD CONDITIONS FOR PLACES OF ENTERTAINMENT AND ASSOCIATED GUIDANCE. Various authors
This publication covers all entertainment premises, including theatres. It also forms part of the Code of Practice for the Theatre Industry. ISBN 1-904031-11-0
MODERN THEORIES OF PERFORMANCE. Jane Milling and Graham Ley
This book interrogates the theoretical writing of eight of the leading practitioners of the twentieth century, from Stanislavski to Boal. The book takes a fresh look at the development of those ideas which shaped the Western theatre in the complex narratives of Stanislavski and Meyerhold, the polemics of Appia, Craig and Copeau, Artaud’s and Grotowski’s manifestos, and the contentious theatrical history of Boal. ISBN 0 333 77542 2
MODERN THEORIES OF DRAMA — A Selection of Writings on Drama and Theatre, 1840-1990. Edited by George W. Brandt
A MUST SEE! Brilliant Broadway Art. By Steven Suskin
A visual feast of Broadway ballyhoo! Legendary musicals. Classic plays. Ignominious failures. A Must See! Proudly presents a parade of rare, original theatrical artwork reproduced in glorious colour. It’s bonanza of a browse-book — overstuffed with well-loved classics and surprising oddities from the annals of Broadway. ISBN 0 8118 4217 7 A
NAKED THOUGHTS THAT ROAM ABOUT Reflections on Theatre 1958-2001. John McGrath. Edited by Nadine Holdsworth
John McGrath spent his whole life campaigning for a popular theatre that was politically engaged, entertaining and relevant. Most famously he founded 7:84 theatre company. This book is a selection of his writings on theatre including essays, lectures and interviews which was finished shortly before his death in 2002. ISBN 1 85459 239 4
THE NECESSARY THEATRE. Peter Hall
This short polemic represents Peter Hall’s distillation of his current thinking about the state of the theatre. In it he pursues two linked arguments. In the first part, he argues that theatre throughout the ages has always required financial assistance, and that without subsidy theatre will stagnate. In the second part, he draws directly on his own experiences running the RSC, The National Theatre and his repertory theatre at the Old Vic. He argues that the best theatre can only be made with a permanent Company of actors and technicians situated in their own building.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THEATRE. Edited by Julian Hilton
NEW READINGS IN THEATRE HISTORY — Jacky Bratton
Over the last two hundred years some important ways of understanding theatre history have been undervalued or ignored by scholars. Leading theatre historian Jacky Bratton employs new approaches to examine and challenge this development, and to discover how theatre history has been chronicled and how it is interpreted. This book suggests new histories: of theatrical story-telling, of performing families and of disregarded dramatic energy of Victorian entertainment. ISBN 0 521 79463 3
OBERAMMERGAU — The Troubling Story of the World’s Most Famous Passion Play. James Shapiro HB
In this wide ranging cultural history, James Shapiro sheds light on the traditions and troubles of Oberammergau, from the legendary origins of its Passion Play in the seventeenth century to the villagers’ current — and ambivalent — efforts to rid the play of anti-Semitism, a charge that has stuck ever since Adolf Hitler praised its portrayal of ‘the whole muck and mire of Jewry’.
ON ACTORS AND ACTING — Peter Thomson.
This is a book for theatre-lovers — scholarly but always accessible. Written for anyone who shares the author’s curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present, the essays in the book are divided into three sections. The first centres on Elizabethan theatre practice, the second highlights themes episodes and contemporary tastes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in England, and the third focuses on twentieth-century performances of Shakespeare at Stratford in the 1970s and in the New Globe as the new century begins. ISBN 0 85989 742 7
ONE NIGHT STANDS — A Critic’s View of Modern British Theatre. Michael Billington
"If a cultural historian of the next century were looking for a sympathetic and engaged description of the British theatre of the last twenty years, they should look no further than Billington … He is practical, passionate, opinionated and moralistic." ISBN 1 85459 660 8
OPTIMISTIC, EVEN THEN — The Creation of Two Performing Arts Institutes. Mark Featherstone-Witty. HB
This book is the story of what happened to the person who watched the eighties’ film, Fame, and who later stood on the stage of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, leading its inauguration. He was flanked by two household names, without whom he would not have been there: Sir Paul McCartney and Sir George Martin. Everyone else was less known, if known at all, but, without them, the dream would remained a dream. It is the story of how two internationally unique institutions have come to exist — the British Record Industry Trust and LIPA. ISBN 0 9539423 0 9
THE ORIENT ON THE VICTORIAN STAGE — Edward Ziter
This examines the representation of the Middle East in a variety of nineteenth-century entertainment forms such as panoramas, melodrama, pantomime, ballet and opera. Ziter explores the plays and productions at a number of venues including Drury Lane, Covent Garden, the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace and the British Museum.
ISBN 0 521 81829 X. Hardback
PAGES FROM STAGES — Anthony Field
Anthony Field is a regular columnist on theatre for the industry’s newspaper, The Stage. After receiving many requests from students around the world for copies of his articles on many a theatrical topic such as theatre administration, theatre catering, the arts council, and theatre roles etc, his most popular ones are published for the first time under one cover. ISBN 1 904031 26 9
PEERING BEHIND THE CURTAIN — Disability, Illness, and the extraordinary body in contemporary theatre. Ed by Thomas Fahy and Kimball King.
Thomas Fahy and Kimaball King examine the powerful effects generated by the presence of extraordinary bodies on stage and screen. The volume comprises thirteen original essays from a variety of disciplines that reflect the broad impact of disability in theatre and film. ISBN 0 415 92997 0
PERFORMANCE — A critical introduction. Marvin Carlson
"An essential purchase for introductory courses in Performance Studies and Theatre History". Ian Watson, Rutgers University (hardback and paperback)
PERFORMANCE LIVE ART SINCE THE 60s — RoseLee Goldberg. Foreword by Laurie Anderson
Juxtaposing startling images and texts, this acclaimed book presents the broadest panorama ever of this multi-faceted artform. From Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni to Joseph Beuys, Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Pina Bausch, Matthew Barney, Bill T. Jones, Gilbert & George, Mona Hatoum and many others, with scores of works from Europe, the Americas, Japan and Australia, this is a landmark publication indispensable to all those interested in visual culture. ISBN 0 500 28219 6
PERFORMANCE ON THE EDGE — Transformations of Culture. Edited by Johannes Birringer.
This book takes the reader on a journey across geographical borders and conceptual boundaries in order to map out the new territory of contemporary theatre, dance, media arts and activism. Working across social, cultural and political fault lines, the book explores performance as both process and contact, as the commitment to political activism and the reconstruction of community, as site-specific intervention into the social and technological structures of abandonment, and as the highly charged embodiment of erotic fantasies. ISBN 0 8264 5779 7
PERFORMANCE STUDIES — Edited by Erin Striff
This collection of lively and stimulating articles on performance studies provides an understandable introduction to the field, and to the way in which performance touches all our lives — from rituals and ceremonies in which we partake, to the way we present ourselves depending on the company we keep. ISBN 0 333 78674 2
THE PERFORMANCE STUDIES READER — Edited by Henry Bial
The emergent field of performance studies has for some time required a major collection of key writings. The Performance Studies Reader successfully fulfils this need and provides a magnificent selection of the most engaging, illuminating work ever written on performance. ISBN 0 415 30241 2
PERFORMANCE THEORY — Richard Schechner
Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual, and performance. Within these pages he examines the connections between Western and non-Western cultures, the performing arts, anthropology, rituals, performance in everyday life, playing, psychotherapy, and shamanism. For this edition, Schechner has written a new preface, revised and updated Chapter 1 and added a final chapter, Unparalleled within his field, Schechner redefined what performance means, and in doing so, has contested the boundaries that separate audience and actor ever since. ISBN 0 415 31455 0
PERFORMING BLACKNESS ON ENGLISH STAGES, 1500—1800. Virginia Mason Vaughan
"Surveying a wide range of plays and other entertainments, "Performing Blackness on English Stages" offers a provocative analysis of how actors in blackface might have been"read" by white audiences. It plays particularly close attention to ways in which shifting social and historical contents altered the significance of "performing blackness" from the early sixteenth century to the eighteenth century." James Bulman. ISBN 0 521 84584 X
PERFORMING DEMOCRACY — International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance. Editor — Susan C. Haedicke and Tobin Nellhaus.
This book explores performance that works to change social conditions for marginalized groups or to preserve the traditions and cohesion of the community. This book combines critical analysis with field reports to explore the issues that confront community-based performance. ISBN 0 472 06760 5
PERFORMING MENKEN — Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity. Rennée M. Sentilles
Performing Menken uses the life experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to examine the culture of the Civil War period. Menken succeeded by playing with her identity off-stage and on, portraying herself as both respectable and daring and claiming various racial and ethnic identities. Playing male roles on stage, she becomes the reigning femme fatale. ISBN 0 521 82070 7 (HB)
PERFORMING THE BODY — PERFORMING THE TEXT Edited by Amilia Jones and Andrew Stephenson
This book addresses the issues of performances in relation to the visual arts. Since the 1960s, visual art practices have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery, embracing theatricality and performance, and challenging the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. Such practices have led to a reassessment of our ways of constructing meaning from art, and an awareness of the importance of performance, both in the processes of art production, and in the act of interpretation itself.
POPULAR THEATRE : A Sourcebook. Edited by Joel Schechter
Popular theatre forms introduced on this sourcebook include cabaret, circus, puppetry, vaudeville, Indian jatra, political satire, and physical comedy. These entertainments are highly visual, itinerant, and readily understood by audiences. Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook follows around them around the world, from the bunraku puppetry of Japan to the masked topeng theatre of Bali to South Africa political satire, the San Francisco Mime troupe’s comic melodramas, and a "Fun Palace" proposed for London.
ISBN 0 415 25830 8
(POST ) COLONIAL STAGES— Critical & Creative views on drama, theatre & performance. Helen Gilbert
This book draws materials from different regions of the world — South Africa, Nigeria, Australia, the Caribbean, New Zealand, etc. Exciting essays on colonial theatre are complemented by studies of contemporary performance practices including pageantry and dance theatre.
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE. Edited by Patrick Campbell and Adrian Kear
The field of literary studies has long recognised the centrality of psychoanalysis as a method for looking at texts in a new way. But rarely has the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance been mapped out, either in terms of analysing the nature of performance itself, or in terms of making sense of specific performance-related activities. In this volume some of the most distinguished thinkers in the field make this exciting new connection and offer original perspectives on a wide variety of topics. ISBN 0 415 21205 7
THE QUEEREST ART — Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theatre. Edited by Alisa Solomon and Framji Minwalla
The Queerest Art is a pioneering collection of articles by and conversations among a diverse range of leading theatre academics and artists. ISBN 0 8147 9811 X
RACE, SEX, AND GENDER IN CONTEMPORARY WOMAN’S THEATRE— The Construction of "Woman". Mary F. Brewer
Focusing on dramatic works by contemporary British and American playwrights, in conjunction with feminist political and theoretical texts, this book discusses feminist construction of the category " woman". It traces the ways in which mainstream feminist representations of gender are complicit with dominant racial and heterosexual ideologies. The plays addressed generate valuable insights as to how interpretations of "Woman" structure the political field and determine the standards used for interpreting Woman-as-Wife/Mother, Woman at Work, and Woman as Object and Subject.
THE RADICAL IN PERFORMANCE — Between Brecht and Baudrillard. Baz Kershaw
This book interrogates the crisis in contemporary theatre and celebrates the subversive in performance. It is the first full-length study to explore the link between a Western theatre culture which, says Kershaw, is largely "past its sell-by date" and the blossoming of performance in the postmodern, much of which has a genuinely radical and democratic edge.
RADICAL INTIATIVES IN INTERVENTIONIST & COMMUNITY DRAMA
Edited by Peter Billingham
A new collection of cutting edge critical essays. ISBN 1-84150-068-2
Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theatre. David Barnett.
The first study of Fassbinder’s work in the theatre, as a playwright and director, this book gives a full contextualization of his work within the upheavals of its times. Readers are introduced to the cultural history of the West German theatre in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Radicalism in society meets experiment on stage as Fassbinder emerges from the cellar theatre scene of Munich, co-founds the antieater, and is then integrated into the most subsidized theatre in Europe, before being offered his own theatre to run for one fateful season. HB ISBN 0-521-85514-4
READING THE MATERIAL THEATRE. Ric Knowles
This develops and demonstrates a method of theatrical performance analysis that takes into account the entire theatre experience, from production to reception. Semiotics; cultural materialist theory; politicized analysis — all are used to analyse how the audience’s understanding of experience in the theatre is shaped.
ISBN 0 521 64416 X
READING THEATRE. Anne Ubersfeld
"Ubersfeld’s book was one of the attempts to study the dramatic text semantically as a basis for performance. It is thus indispensable for any courses dealing with performance theory" IP Clabber, director, University College Drama Program, University of Toronto
RECLAIMING KLYTEMNESTRA — Revenge or Reconciliation. Katherine. L. Komar
"An impressive work by a gifted comparatist. Konar presents the ‘ Infinite variety’ of a powerful classical archetypes as she reappears in a host of cultures and forms — literature and literary theory, film, popular lyrics, dance, performance, and even the virtual world. Komar injects fresh vitality into a great figure from the past, while introducing new complexities of role and force in the feminine self today." — Robert Fagles, translator of Homer, Aeschylus and Sophocles. ISBN 0 252 02811 2 (HB)
RE-DRESSING THE CANON — Essays on the Theatre and Gender. Alisa Solomon.
What can theatre teach us about the performance-like qualities of gender, and what can gender teach us about the workings of theatre? The author returns to the dramatic canon to investigate such questions, finding feminist and queer fissures within the performance conventions of patriarchal drama.
RETHINKING RITUAL AND OTHER THEORIES OF ORIGIN THE ROOTS OF THEATRE. — Eli Rozik
The topic of the origins of theatre is one of the most controversial in theatre studies. The Roots of Theatre, a substantial contribution to this field of inquiry, is sure to generate immediate and long-term debate among theatre historians and enthusiasts alike. ISBN 0 87745 817 0. HB
ROLE-PLAY AND THE WORLD AS STAGE IN THE COMEDIA .Jonathan Thacker
This text examines how and why playwrights of the period time and again created characters who re-invent themselves by performing new roles and inventing new plots within the larger frame of the play. ISBN 0 85323 558 9
ROMANTIC AND REVOLUTIONARY THEATRE, 1789 — 1860. Theatre in Europe — a Documentary History. Roy
Taking as notional parameters the upheaval of the French Revolution and the events leading up to the unification of Italy, this volume charts a period of political and social turbulence in Europe and its reflection of theatrical life. ISBN 0 521 25080 3
THE ROUTLEDGE READER IN POLITICS AND PERFORMANCE. Edited by Lizabeth Goodman with Jane de Gay
This book brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance. Extracts include seminal writings by: Antonin Artaud, Salley Banes, Eugenio Barba, Cecily Berry, Augusto Boal, Bertolt Brecht, Peter Brook, Judith Butler, Marvin Carlson, Sue-Ellen Case, Elin Diamond, Coco Fusco, Jerzy Grotowski, Stuart Hall, Tony Kushner, Patrice Pavis, Richard Schechner, Rebecca Schneider, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Konstantin Stantislavski, Raymond Williams.
SCRIPT INTO PERFORMANCE. Richard Hornby
THE SECOND TIME AS FARCE — Reflections of the Drama of Mean Times. David Edgar
A stimulating personal survey of cultural and social change over the last two decades. Edgar explores changes in the theatre, the distasteful thoughts and deeds of the far Right, and dilemmas facing the Left as it fought for breath in the flood tide of Thatcherism.
THE SEMIOTICS OF THEATRE AND DRAMA. — Keir Elam
The first English-language introduction to semiotic approaches to theatrical performance, now in a second edition. ISBN 0 415 28018 4
THE SEVEN BASIC PLOTS. Why we tell stories. Christopher Booker.
Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories, and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind’s psychological development over the past 5000 years.
This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come. ISBN 0-8264-5209-4
SHERIDAN MORLEY - Spectator at the Theatre
In this collection of Spectator reviews written in London and New York, Sheridan Morley looks back at the hits and misses, highlights and fiascos of the 1990s in the theatre. The book also contains a brief chronicle of his directorial debut with Corin and Vanessa Redgrave. ISBN 1 84002 247 7
A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN PERFORMANCE SPACE —David Wiles
This innovative book provides a historical account of performance space within the theatrical traditions of Western Europe. David Wiles takes a broad-based view of theatrical activity as something that occurs in churches, streets, pubs and galleries as much as in buildings explicitly designed to be "theatres". He traces a diverse set of continuities from Greece and Rome to the present, including many areas that don not figure in standard accounts of theatre history. ISBN 0 521 01274 0
THE SHOW AND THE GAZE OF THEATRE — A European Perspective. Erika Fischer-Lichte
Drawing on a wealth of fascinating examples, both historical and contemporary, the author reveals new perspectives in theatre research from quite a number of different approaches. Energetically and excitingly, she theorizes history, theorizes and historicizes performance analysis, and historicizes theory.
SIGNS OF PERFORMANCE. Colin Counsell.
A lucid and accessible introduction to the study of theatre as a signifying practice, focusing upon a range of key practitioners and movements of the twentieth century from Stanislavski to postmodernism.
SPACE IN PERFORMANCE — MAKING MEANING IN THE THEATRE. Gay McAuley
"An excellent study that imaginatively summarizes, synthesizes, and intelligently critiques a wide range of previous theory and practice while making an important new contribution to the field of theater studies," — Marvin Carlson, City University of New York. ISBN O 472 08769 X
STAGE BY STAGE — THE BIRTH OF THEATRE. Philip Freund
The author has spent over thirty years writing a monumental story of the theatre. Stage by Stage is a chronicle of world theatre for primitive rites and enactments of myths to contemporary drama to be published in a series of volumes. This first in the volume traces the evolution of classical drama from its beginnings in Egyptian and Middle Eastern religious ritual, and particularly the Greek mystical cult of Dionysus, through the golden age of the Periclean period in Athens and ending with the major Roman playwrights of the later Republican and early Imperial age. ISBN 072061167 9
STAGE BY STAGE. Dramatis Personae Philip Freund
In Stage by Stage Philip Freund distils many years of research into a magnificent chronicle of world theatre. The author studies the impact of the Renaissance in Europe and especially England, where the theatre reached an extraordinary climax in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and projects a vivid picture of the developing theatrical world and the contributions of dramatists such as Kyd and Marlowe before arriving at Shakespeare. Stage by Stage is a valuable resource for teachers, students, stagecraft professionals and all those who love the theatre. HB ISBN0-7206-1245-4
STAGE BY STAGE — ORIENTAL THEATRE. Philip Freund
This comprehensive account of the development of Eastern stagecraft will help Western readers to gain a better understanding of Oriental drama and will greatly enrich the resources available to those who work in the theatre.
"Stage by Stage may well turn out to be the most important study of all facets of theatre to be published in this century." The Stage. HB ISBN 0-7206-1208-X
STAGE FRIGHT — Modernism Anti-Theatricality and Drama. Martin Puchner
Grounded equally in discussion of theatre history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner’s book explores the conflict between avant-garde theatre and modernism. ISBN 0 8018 6855 6 (HB)
STAGING CONSCIOUSNESS — Theater and the Materialization of Mind. — William W. Demastes
The author makes use of such varied theatre practitioners as Artaud, Growtowski, Beckett, Kushner, Shepard, Spalding, Gray, Peter Shaffer, and others, illuminating theatre as proof that mind is an extension of body. ISBN 0 472 11202 3. HB
STAGING FEMININITIES — Performance and Performativity . Geraldine Harris
This book focuses on the borders between theory and practice, exploring the interconnections and the differences between feminism, postmodernism, theatrical performance and performativity, in order to analyse some of the most influential contemporary thought on the politics of identity.
STAGING THE WAR — American Drama and World War II. Albert Wertheim
Albert Wertheim’s Staging the War brings to light the important role played by the drama during what might arguably be called the most important decade in American history. In research ranging over more than 150 plays, Wertheim discusses some of the well-known works of the period. But he also uncovers little-known and largely unpublished plays for the stage and radio, by such future luminaries as Arthur Miller and Frank Loesser, including those written at the behest of the U.S. government or as USO musicals. ISBN 0 253 34310 0 (HB)
STRIP SHOW — Performances of Gender and Desire. Katherine Liepe-Levinson
This book offers an account of an unprecedented North American study of contemporary female and male strip show. It particularly focuses on the contradictory sex roles, cultural positions, and performance practices of "straight" strip shows during their second heyday in the early 1990s. ISBN 0 415 17381 7
STUDYING MODERN DRAMA — Kenneth Pickering
There has probably never been a period to compare with the modern age in which there has been such diversity in the forms of drama and the ways in which it was made. What are you to make of the intense psychological drama of Arthur Miller or the Theatre of the Absurd, of feminist and political plays, or the apparent anarchy of the "Postmodern" world? How can you apply modern, critical methods to drama — or write an examination answer? Studying Modern Drama provides solutions in an accessible an imaginative way. ISBN 1 4309 0441 3
A SUMMER IN THE PARK — A Journal of Speakers’ Corner. Tony Allen with a foreword by Ken Cambell
Nothing can prepare you for the Hyde Park speaking experience. The performance dynamics are unique. The close proximity of other meetings and the robust heckling tradition make Speakers’ Corner unlike any other forum of public performance. This is a journal form diary notes June 4th 2000 to October 16th 2000. ISBN 1 904491 04 9
TALK TALK TALK The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation. Edited by S.I.
Salamensky
Talk Talk Talk is a delightful, incisive collection of essays by some of the best thinkers — and talkers — of our time. They look at talk — in performance, literature, film, media, history, technology, psychoanalysis, law, and of course everyday life — from an exhilarating range of perspectives. ISBN 0 415 92171 6
TAKING IT TO THE STREETS — The Social Protest Theatre of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka. Harry J. Elam, Jr.
The performance of Luis Valdez’s El Tetra Compassion, the farmworkers’ theatre, and Amiri Baraka’s Black Revolutionary Theatre (BRT) during the ‘60s and ‘70s offer preeminent examples of social protest theatre during a momentous and tumultuous historical juncture. In this book, the author compares the performance methodologies, theories, and practices of the two groups, highlighting their cross-cultural commonalities, and providing insights into the complex genre of social protest performance and its interchange with the audience. ISBN 0 472 08768 1
THEATER — Volume 31, Number 3. Theater and Social Change. A Special Issues. Edited by Alisa Solomon
Lani Guinier and Anne Deavere Smith in dialogue.
Reverend Billy: A text introduction by Jonathon Kalb.
Essays, conversations, and statements by Arlene Goldbard, Holly Hughes, Tony Kushner, Robbie McCauley, Judith Malina, Bill Rauch, Alisa Solomon and many others. ISBN 0 8223 6503 0
THEATRE — A Brief Version. Sixth Edition. Robert Cohen
Cohen’s overview of theatrical history, his vivid accounts of the current theatre scene, and his lively description of the collaborative theatrical crafts truly put readers in the front row. Expanded coverage of contemporary playwrights and directors, highlights of work by choreography and performance artists (etc.) ISBN 0 07 256491 1
THEATRE — An Introduction. Marsh Cassady
A view of the living art of theatre, from its origins in ancient times to today’s performances. Features insights from professionals, examples of classical and contemporary dramas, the business of theatre, the nature of theatre and more.
THEATRE AND EMPOWERMENT — Community Drama on the World Stage. Edited by Richard Boon and Jane Plastow
This book examines the ability of drama, theatre, dance and performance to empower communities of very different kinds, and it does so from a multicultural perspective. The communities involved include disadvantaged children in Ethiopia and the Indian sub-continent, disenfranchised Native Americans in the USA and young black men in Britain, people caught in cycles of violence in South Africa and Northern Ireland, and a threatened agricultural town in Italy. ISBN 0 521 81729 3 (HB)
THEATRE AND EVERYDAY LIFE — An Ethics of Performance. Alan Read
Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, only a divide between the written and the unwritten.
THEATRE AS SIGN SYSTEM: Semiotics of Text and Performance. Elaine Aston/George Savona
THEATRE AUDIENCES — A Theory of Production and Reception. (2nd Edition) Susan Bennett.
A unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences. Published here in a brand new updated edition.
THEATRE DIRECTIONS. Jonothan Neelands and Warwick Dobson
This book provides a selection of writings by key practitioners who have influenced the development of dramatic performance from the time of early Greek theatre to the present day.
THEATRE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. 50 Years of professional theatre in the UK. Edited by Stuart Bennett.
An exploration of the way Theatre for Children and Young People has responded to cultural diversity in a continually changing social and political context over the last 50 years. ISBN 05469128-8
THE THEATRE GUIDE — A Comprehensive A-Z of the World’s Best Plays and Playwrights — Trevor R. Griffiths
From Aristophanes to Mark Ravenhill, The Alchemist to The Talking Cure… Both biographically detailed and critically current, The Theatre Guide is an essential companion and reference tool for anyone with an active interest in drama.
ISBN 0 7136 6171 2
THEATRE HISTORY EXPLAINED — Neil Fraser. Foreword by Kenneth Branagh
This is a clear, comprehensive and fascinating account of one of humanity’s greatest achievements. It explores the art of Western dramatic performance in chronological order, ranging from the amazing world of Ancient Greece up to the exciting developments of the modern era. All the major playwrights and practitioners are discussed. ISBN 1 86126 659 6
THEATRE IN A COOL CLIMATE. Edited by Vera Gottlieb and Collin Chambers
The contributors to this book present their own snapshots of what it is like to be in the theatre today, and express their hopes as well as their fears for the future. This wide-ranging collection of new and established voices mixes innovative approaches to producing, managing and funding with stimulating views on playwriting, acting, directing and design. Contributors Include — Alison Chitty. Paule Constable. Venue Dhupa. Richard Eyre. Peter Hall
THEATRE IN CRISIS? Performance Manifestos for a new century. Edited by Maria M. Delgado and Caridad Svich
This is a wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues relating to identity, politics and technology. The volume offers a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theatre artists and scholars from the UK, US and elsewhere. ISBN 0 7190 6291 8
THE THEATRE IS IN THE STREET — Bradford D. Martin
"Interdisciplinary scholars and teachers of courses on the 1960s will find Martin’s research to be thorough and his insights thoughtful. The writing is clear and accessible to specialists and the intelligent general reader alike." — Barbara Tischler, editor of Sights on the Sixties
THEATRE OF CHAOS — Beyond Absurdism, Into Orderly Disorder. William W. Demastes. ISBN 0 521 61986 6
THEATRE, SACRIFICE, RITUAL — Exploring Forms of Political Theatre. Erika Fischer-Lichte
Acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in Western cultures as mirrored in particular fusions of theatre and ritual. ISBN 0 415 27676 4
THEATRE WORLD — Volume 52 1995-1996. John Willis
THEATRE WORLD — Volume 54 1997-1998. John Willis
THEATRE WORLD with 1,000 photographs. John Willis with Associate Editors Ben Hodges and Tom Lynch. Volume 55 1998- 1999 ISBN 1 55783 433 4
THEATRE WORLD — With over 1,000 photographs volume 56:1999-2000. John Willis with Ben Hodges and Tom Lynch. ISBN 1 55783 477 6
THEATRE WORLD — With over 1,000 photographs volume 57: 2000-2001. John Willis with Ben Hodges and Tom Lynch. ISBN 1 55783 521 7
THEATRE WORLD. Volume 58: 2001-2002. . John Willis with Ben Hodges. ISBN 1 55783 626 4
The authoritative statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and Off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States. Complete cast listings, replacements, producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles and much, much more. Special sections with biographical data, obituary information, listings of annual major drama awards including pictures of the 12 Theatre World Award winners.
THEATRES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE — William N. West
In early modern Europe, before a "theatre" was a playhouse, it was an encyclopaedia. In this book William N. West explores what "theatre" meant to medieval and Renaissance writers and critics, and places Renaissance drama, for the first time, within the powerfully influential context of the encyclopaedic writings which were being produced at the time. ISBN 0 521 80914 2 (HB)
THE THEATRICAL EVENT — Dynamics of Performance and Perception. Willmar Sauter. HB
Willmar Sauter presents various models for the analysis of theatrical events, examining the relationship between performance and perception and the interaction between the performative event and its context. Constructs such as playing culture (as opposed to written culture), theatrical communication, theatricality, and theatre as a model of cultural event are brought into focus and their methodological advantages explored. ISBN 0 87745 731 X
THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE DURING THE HOLOCAUST. Edited by Rebecca Rovit and Alvin Goldfarb
"This excellent and meticulously assembled volume is the only work I know to restore the crucial role art, theatre, poetry, and literature actually played in the lives of those interned in the ghettos and concentration camps. As paradoxical as it seems, art and culture too were part and parcel of the events we now call the Holocaust. For as the best essays here show so well, art and culture were not merely escapes from confinement but deeply imagined and often brilliantly articulated responses to these events from within the whirlwind — an understanding of events largely lost in retrospective accounts alone."
THEATRICALITY — Theatre and Performance Theory. Edited by Tracy C. Davis and Thomas Postlewait
This collection of essays explores the changing connotations of "theatricality" for theatrical performance and everyday life. Six case studies, each written by a specialist in the field, use historically specific circumstances to illustrate how explanations of theatricality relate to political and cultural issues ranging from contemporary gender theory to Confucian philosophy, anti-theatrical prejudices, aesthetics of realism, and politicized spectacle. The first of its kind, this book establishes the terms of debates for theatricality’s place within performance theory. ISBN 0 521 01207 4
THEORIES OF THE THEATRE — A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present. Marvin Carlson
Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of western dramatic theory.
THEORY OF THE MODERN STAGE. Edited by Eric Bentley
THEORY/THEATRE — An Introduction. Mark Fortier.
A unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. The author lucidly examines current theoretical approaches, from semiotics, poststructuralism, through cultural materialism, postcolonial studies and feminist theory.
39 MICROLECTURES IN PROXIMITY OF PERFORMANCE. Matthew Goulish
39 Micro-lectures in Proximity of Performance is a collection of miniature stories, parables, musings and think-pieces on the nature of reading, writing, art, collaboration, performance, life, death, the universe and everything. It is a unique and moving document for our times, full of curiosity and wonder, thoughtfulness and pain.
ISBN 0 415 21393 2
TRANS-GLOBAL READINGS — Crossing Theatrical Boundaries. Edited by Caridad Svich
This book provides a forum for a wide range of theatre, music and performance artists to talk about where they stand in relation to new technologies, intercultural collaborations, and the making of interdisciplinary work. Looking at how time, space and memory play an active role in shaping different artistic visions, editor Caridad Svich has gathered the voices of unique and dynamic artists including Tim Etchells, Rinde Eckert, Richard Foreman, Peter Gabriel, David Greig, and Peter Sellers as a way to examine the impact of globalisation. ISBN 0 7190 6325 6
THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PERFORMANCE READER. Edited by Michael Huxley and Noel Witts. 2nd Edition.
This book is the key introductory text to all types of performance. Extracts from fifty practitioners, critics and theorists from the fields of dance, drama, music, theatre and live art make up an essential sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners. ISBN 0 415 25287 3
UNMAKING MIMESIS. Elin Diamond.
Through a series of provocative readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance, Elin Diamond demonstrates the continuing force of feminism and mimesis in critical thinking today.
UNMARKED: The Politics of Performance. Peggy Phelen
VANISHING ACTS — Theatre in the Sixties. Gordon Rogoff
The author looks at live theatre in America, from the perspective of a man who is both discerning and eminent critic and a lifelong participant in theatre productions. In this outstanding collection of his critical writings, some published here for the first time, Rogoff ranges widely across topics from acting to Shakespeare productions to theatre criticism, considering along the way the work of playwrights and performers from the 1960s to the present. ISBN 0 300 08777 2
VIRTUAL THEATRES — an Introduction Gabriella Giannachi.
This presents the theatre of the twenty-first century in which everything — even the viewer — can be simulated. In this fascinating volume, Gabriella Giannachi analyses the aesthetic concerns of current computer — arts practices through a discussion of a variety of artists and performers. This is the first full-length investigation of the interface between theatre, performance and digital arts. ISBN 0 415 28379 5
WHAT THE BODY COST — Jane Blocker.
In this book, Jane Blocker revisits key works in performance art by Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci, Hannah Wilke, Yves Klein, Ana Mendieta, and others to challenge earlier critiques that characterise performance, or body art, as a purely revolutionary art form and fail to recognize its reactionary — and sometimes damaging — effects.
ISBN 0 8166 4319 9
WHEN PEOPLE PLAY PEOPLE . Development Communication Through Theatre. Zakes Mda
There is a growing sense that existing media have failed to serve the purposes of development, and in particular have not reflected either the concerns or the needs of the rural majority in Third World countries. Theatre, however, is now being used as a way of increasing popular participation in the development process. This book examines theses experiences of training extension workers in the use of theatre-for-development, and explores the author’s own attempts— notably with the Marotholi Travelling Theatre in Lesotho — to develop a new model of theatrical communication. ISBN 1 85649 200 1 (HB)
WHEN WILL I BE FAMOUS? Travels Through the Dark Side of Show Business. Martin Kelner.
This is a journey through a world of entertainment; a twilight world far away from the bright lights of the West End. In this nether world we find not the well known, celebrated and renowned but the eternally hopeful. Some of them may be on the verge of a big break; others remain as far away from greatness and glory as ever, but they can dream. But why do they do it? To answer this question, Martin Kelner spends grim Saturday nights in working men’s clubs, cruises the Mediterranean and visits the fish ‘n’ chip resort of Benidorm to see Europe’s most notorious cabaret act. ISBN 0 563 48777 1
WHO’S WHO IN CONTEMPORARY WORLD THEATRE. Edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe.
This book is a lively and accessible biographical guide to the key figures in contemporary drama. Its distinctive blend of information, analysis and anecdote makes for an entertaining read. Hugely influential innovators, household names, and a whole host of less familiar, international figures — all have their lives and careers illuminated by clear and succinct entries.
WIDOWS AND SUITORS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH COMEDY. Jennifer Panek
The courtship and remarriage of a rich widow was a popular motif in early modern comic theatre. Jennifer Panek brings together a wide variety of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and court records, to examine early modern attitudes to remarriage. ISBN 0 521 83271 3 (HB)
WOMAN’S INTERCULTURAL PERFORMANCE. Julie Holledge and Joanne Tompkins
This book explores contemporary feminist performance in the contexts of current intercultural practices, theories, and debates. It is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world. ISBN 0 415 17379 5
WRITING AND REWRITING NATIONAL THEATRE HISTORIES — Edited by S. E. Wilmer.
"At the beginning of the new millennium, with an ever-changing world, no topic in theatre studies is as vital or as controversial and complex as is the writing of national theatre histories. In thirteen stimulating chapters, experts from disparate and often fragmented countries contemplate possible strategies for this task and, equally important, provide us with historiographical insights and superb overviews of many nations’ theatre histories, thus creating a fascinating history of national theatre histories." — Don B. Wilmeth, co-editor, The Cambridge History of American Theatre ISBN 0 87745 906 1 (HB)
THEATRE INTEREST
THE ABC OF THEATRE JARGON. Francis Reid
Theatre, like every profession, has adapted the English language to suit its own special needs. So, anyone wishing to work in theatre, do business with it or just understand its mysteries, needs some knowledge of theatre speak. This glossary explains the common words and phrases that are used in normal conversation between actors, directors, designers, technicians and managers. ISBN 1 904031 09 9
ARE YOU THERE, CROCODILE? Inventing Anton Chekhov. Michael Pennington
Michael Pennington’s highly acclaimed one-man stage show Anton Chekhov first appeared at the National Theatre, London. In Are You There, Crocodile?, Pennington retraces his search for identification with the great but elusive playwright and finds vivid and intimate insights. ISBN 1 84002 458 5
THE ART OF DARKNESS — Staging the Philip Pullman Trilogy. Robert Butler
Philip Pullman’s award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials had everything the new Director of the National Theatre could want for a modern audience, but for one thing. It was almost impossible to stage. This intimate backstage account takes us into the meetings, workshops and rehearsals, where over six months, Pullman’s 1330-page novel — was transformed into six hours of drama. It follows the ups and downs of the actors in rehearsal as they bring the characters to life. ISBN 1 84002 414 3
THE ART OF DARKNESS — The Story Continues. Robert Butler
As Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials returns to the National Theatre, Robert Butler, author of The Art of Darkness, takes another look behind the scenes at the making of one of the most exciting and innovative pieces of theatre of the new millennium. ISBN 1 84002 534 4
AT THIS THEATRE. (PLAYBILL) — 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Stars. By Louis Botto. Preface by Brian Stokes Mitchell. Edited by Robert Viagas
Louis Botto’s long-awaited update to his beloved theatre-by-theatre history of Broadway. All the great names, faces, backstage stories, triumphs and fiascos from 1900 to 2000. Hundreds of photos — rare and classic Playbill covers — complete histories of all 40 Broadway theatres includes theatre of the 42nd Street renaissance. ISBN 1 55783 566 7. HB
THE BACK STAGE GUIDE TO BROADWAY — Robert Viagas
Here’s an easy to use, nut-and-bolts guide to enjoying theatre in New York City. Lively and far more in-depth than a general tour book, it includes: how to pick a show; where to find discount tickets; what are the best times o f he week and the year to see a show; how to get tickets for shows that are sold out; how to pick a show for children; how to get refunds if your trip is cancelled; how to get refunds if your trip is cancelled; where to eat and where to stay. ISBN 0 8230 8809 X
BANNED PLAYS — Censorship Histories of 125 stage drama. Dawn B. Sova
Banned Plays outlines the censorship history of 125 classic plays form the ancient times to the present. Each entry presents the name(s) under which the play appeared, the date and place of original production, a summary of the play, its censorship history, and suggestions for further reading. ISBN 0 8160 5070 8
BROADWAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA — Ken Bloom
This A to Z resource covers Broadway’s producers, writers, composers, lyricists, set designers, theatres, performers, and landmarks, providing a comprehensive history of the Great White Way. With both current and vintage black-and-white photographs of people and places, it is an ideal resource for students of theatre history and Broadway buffs alike. ISBN 0 415 93704 3 (HB)
BROADWAY YEARBOOK 2000-2001. Steven Suskin
This comprehensive and superbly written theatre annual returns for the 2000-2001 season on Broadway, providing readers with all the information on the year’s successes and failures – from cast lists and candid accounts of every show to their financial performances and awards won. ISBN 0 19 515637 4
BROADWAY YEARBOOK 2001-2002 — A Relevant and irreverent record. Steven Suskin
A witty and engaging record of the theatrical year, Broadway Yearbook gives readers front-row seats for the smash hits of the 2001-2002 theatre season, and the behind-the-scenes scoops on the misses. In this latest instalment of the critically acclaimed Broadway Yearbook series, theatre critic Steven Suskin delivers incisive, thoughtful, and candid accounts of every show to hit the boards. ISBN 0 19 515877 6
CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THEATRE. Martin Banham
The most wide-ranging, readable and reliable one-volume reference work on the theatre available today. Embracing theatre worldwide, over 3, 500 entries offer compendious information on the performing arts from their inception to the present day. The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre, edited by Sarah Stanton and Martin Banham, a compact version of the above, is also available. " ... this encyclopaedic volume ... both commands respect and dispenses pleasure." Reference Reviews
"A CHORUS OF SKETCHES" By Pam Williams
Drawings of the company of A Chorus of Disapproval in rehearsal at The Stephen Joseph Theatre 2004.
THE CONTINUUM COMPANION TO TWENTIETH CENTURY THEATRE —Edited by Colin Chambers
International in scope, this companion contains over 2500 entries written by some 280 contributors from 20 countries. ISBN 0 8264 76155
DICTIONARY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS — Frank Ledlie Moore and Mary Varchaver
This dictionary defines the words used on stage by those who perform and work on and around it. The special features of this unique dictionary include: More than 6,700 terms drawn from eight disciplines and more than twenty subdisciplines of the performing arts; cross-disciplinary, user-friendly definitions, foreign phrases complete with pronunciation guides, slang, jargons and anachronisms to illustrate the vitality of performing arts’ language; cross-references, direct citation of related terms and explanatory notes to put each term in its proper context. ISBN 0 8092 3010 0
DICTIONARY OF THE THEATRE — Terms, Concepts, and Analysis. Patrick Pavis
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE — Glennis Byron
The dramatic monologue is traditionally associated with Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and is generally considered to have disappeared with the onset of modernism in the twentieth century. Glennis Byron unravels the history
and argues that, contrary to belief, the monologue remains popular to this day. ISBN 0 415 22937 5
EXTRAORDINARY ACTORS, Edited by Jane Milling and Martin Banham
Dangerous, outrageous, comic and committed, the extraordinary performers collected here have altered the history of popular entertainment in America and Europe. Richard Burbage, Peter Lorre, Russian commedia dell’arte troupes and Morcambe and Wise are among the subjects of this wide-ranging collection of essays. ISBN 0 85989 735 4
EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITIONS. The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, The Whimsiphusicon and Death to the Savage Unitarians. Ricky Jay
An Informal History of Sensational, Scientific, Silly and Startling attractions based
On 17th and 19th Century Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay
ISBN 1-59372-012-2.
THE GREAT THEATRES OF LONDON — Ronald Bergan
From the exciting reconstruction of the Elizabethan globe to the classical grandeur of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket to the modernist National Theatre on the Thames, this book takes you on the Thames, this book takes you on a fascinating tour of the buildings, plays and players who have graced their stages. ISBN 0 233 00066 6 HB
HIRSCHFELD ON LINE. Al Hirshfeld. HB
Over 400 Hirshfeld Drawings and photographs, many never before collected. Essays by Whoopie Goldberg, Arthur Miller, Mel Gussow, Kirt Vonnegut, Grace Mirabella, Louise Kerz Hirschfeld and Nina! Commentary by Hirschfeld throughout
INSIDE "VARIETY" — The Story of the Bible of Show Business (1905-1987). Unauthorized. By Peter Besas.
This story is told by an ex-staffer who worked on the paper for 30 years as bureau chief in Madrid and Director of Latin American Operations. The book covers the period from 1905 to 1987, when the sheet evolved from a small family business, still imbued with the spirit of its founder, to a modern corporate structure.
INVERNE’S STAGE AND SCREEN TRIVIA
The Greatest Entertainment Trivia Book Ever … James Inverne
ISBN 1 86074 592 X
JULIE TAYMOR PLAYING WITH FIRE. Updated and Expanded Edition. Eileen Blumenthal, Julie Taymor
In this unique volume, award winning writer Eileen Blumenthal traces Taymor’s theatrical apprenticeship: in France, where she studied mime: at Oberlin College,
Where she worked with the experimental director Herbert Blau; in Indonesia where
She honed her directorial skills by immersing herself in traditional dance-drama, puppetry, and mask making and formed her own theater company, Teatr Loh; and in New York where she has further developed her skills.
The numerous pictures illustrating Blumenthals text include production photos, Taymor’s sketches for characters and costumes and shots of her in rehearsal and constructing puppets and masks. ISBN 0-8109-3517-1 HB
LOOSE THEATRE. Memoirs of a Guerrilla Theatre Activist. Margaretta D’Arcy
ISBN 141203376-4
LOST EMPIRES. The Phenomenon of Theatres Past, Present and Future. Nigel Fountain.
Lost Empires encompasses high art, low life, burlesque, blackface, ragtime, revolution and Hamlet, from Hackney in London to Broadway in New York; from Caracas to New Brunswick and points south, east and west. Lost Empires is an age in images and words – and the people in the here and now. HB 1-84403-345-7
MOST PEOPLE ARE OTHER PEOPLE.Portraits of Actors fromBritain and Ireland by Stuart Pearson Wright. ISBN 0955242703.
A NOMADIC LIFE. Adventures of a Theatre Artist — By Adam Darius
In his latest book, A Nomadic Life, Adam Darius takes us on a fascinating tour around the world to meet a wide range of people, from royalty such as Princess Grace of Monaca and Prince Charles, to pop stars John Lennon and David Bowie, to movie stars Hady Lamarr and Tippi Hedren. ISBN 951 98232 2 0
OFFSTAGE 100 PORTRAITS CELEBRATING THE RADA CENTENARY.Photos Cambridge Jones, words Miranda Sawyer, foreword Lord Attenborough. HB ISBN 0- 9548643-2-X
ON BROADWAY MEN STILL WEAR HATS. Unusual Lives Led on the Edges of Broadway. Robert Simonson. Introduction by Marian Seldes
This book brings to light the lives of some of theatre’s lesser known contributors: an accountant who gave up number crunching to write Internet theatre reviews full-time; an amateur photographer who went from groupie to Tony Award nominator; a Texas ballet dancer turned kosher play seller; a Glasgow high school dropout who became Broadway’s favourite restaurateur. Author, Journalist, and playwright Robert Simonson follows in the footsteps of Damon Runyon, Joseph Mitchell, and A. J. Leibling as he captures these and other passionate lives lived out along the edges of the New York theatre world’s whole-hot spotlight. ISBN 1 57525 343 7
THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE — Edited by Dennis Kennedy.
From theatre of the absurd to Stefan Zweig, and from the origins of theatre to environmental theatre, this edition provides comprehensive and authoritative information about theatre and performance around the globe, and through history. 4,300 entries. Well over a million words. More than hundred illustrations. Over 300 distinguished contributors from around the world. In-depth chronology. Extensive index of dramatic works. Thematic table of contents. General bibliography. ISBN 0 19 860174 3
PRIMO TIME — Antony Sher
This book is Sher’s own vivid account of the struggles — and the triumph —involved in bringing Primo to the stage. ISBN 1 85459 852 X
RAW TALENT — Fity Years of the National Student Drama Festival. Edited by Andrew Haydon. Foreword by Timothy West
The National Student Drama Festival has been British theatre’s best-kept secret for the last fifty years. Published as part of the Festival’s golden anniversary, Raw Talent celebrates the many hundreds of student productions that would otherwise be unjustly forgotten. ISBN 1 84002 553 0
THE READER’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD DRAMA — Ed. by John Gassner and Edward Quinn
This classic single-volume encyclopedia traces drama around the world, from its earliest ritual forms to modern times. It focuses on plays around as literature (rather than theatrical events) and places them in historical context, with contributions from nearly 100 distinguished scholars and critics. More than 350 photographs and line drawings complement the text of this indispensable reference for students, teachers, dramatists, and theatre buffs. ISBN 0 486 42064 7
RICHARD EYRE — NATIONAL SERVICES. DIARY OF DECADE.
During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary — a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but National Service is also a moving personal journey, charted faithfully by a fiercely self-aware and frequently self-doubting individual. ISBN 0 7475 6590 2
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE. Paul Allain and Jen Harvie
"An illuminating encounter with all the facets of contemporary theatre and performance. A real guide: it will tell you what you thought you knew, it will surprise you with things you did not know you have to know." Patrice Pavis, University of Paris.
the The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance is a perfect reference guide for keen student and the passionate theatre-goer alike. ISBN 0-415-25721-2
LOOKING BACK. Playwrights At The Royal Court 1956 — 2006. Interviews by Harriet Devine.
A captivating collection of new interviews by Harriet Devine, daughter of the Royal Court’s first Artistic Director, George Devine, to celebrate the theatre’s fiftieth anniversary. The book contains conversations with over thirty celebrated playwrights whose work has been produced at the Royal Court. ISBN 0 571 23013 X
SHOW AND TELL — New Yorker Profiles. John Lahr.
Lahr’s utterly winning and incisive profiles probe some of the most compelling, elusive, and irresistible public personas of our time, among them: Woody Allen, David Mamet, Ingmar Bergman, Frank Sinatra, Roseanne, Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Mike Nichols, Wallace Shawn, Arthur Miller, and Neil Labute. ISBN 0 7475 5830 2
THUNDER IN THE AIR — Great Actors In Great Roles. Brian Masters. HB
Brian Masters brings to life the great actors of the past and recreates their impact in performance to the present day. His central idea is novel and challenging: the work of great actors does not die with them but survives in the acting of today’s stars. This is a celebration of their achievements, and is the fruit of nearly fifty years of theatre-going, boundless research and countless conversations with the greats on the nature of acting. ISBN 1 84002 169 1
SCENE/UNSEEN — London’s West End Theatres
Susie Barson, Derek Kendall, Peter Longman and Joanna Smith. Preface by Fiona Shaw
This book celebrates the working building at the heart of the British theatrical industry. It explores what constitutes a West End theatre, both culturally and physically, and outlines a brief history of the architecture, while also touching on the role of English Heritage and The Theatres Trust in theatre conservation. The striking photographs lead the reader on a wide-ranging tour starting at the entrance and exiting by the stage door, and taking in the front-of-house areas, the auditoria and the backstage spaces of some of London’s most famous theatre. ISBN 1 873592 74 4
SEATS — New York.
150 Seating Plans to New York Metro Area Theatres, Concert Halls and Sports Stadiums. Jodé Susan Millman. ISBN 1 55783 583 7
TALES FORM THE PIT — Peter Neville.
A series of short stories about playing in orchestra pits, dedicated to everyone who has ever played in one. ISBN 1 903607 31 0
THE THEATRE QUOTATION BOOK — A Treasury of Insights and Insults. Collected and Edited by Rusell Vandenbroucke. Foreword by Tony Krushner,
With about 900 distinctive anecdotes, aphorisms, adages and assaults, this unique treasury will appeal equally to anyone who has sat in the auditorium enjoying a live performance and to those who have worked to create one on the stage. ISBN 0 87910 959 9 HB.
THEATRE’S STRANGEST ACTS. Extraordinary but True Tales from Theatre’s Colourful History. Sheridan Morley.
With a glittering cast that no management could ever dream of or afford, Theatre’s Strangest Acts is a must for all those who have ever wondered whether what happens in the wings is in fact often more dramatic and enjoyable than anything that takes place on stage. ISBN 1 86105 674 5
A THEATRICAL FEAST — Sugar and Spice in London’s Theatreland. By Elizabeth Sharland
"Elizabeth’s Theatrical Feast lives up to its title. This book is practical enough to tempt the appetite of the hungry diner, and crammed with titbits of historical interest with which to tantalise the imagination of the fascinated reader." Claire Bloom
A THEATRICAL FEAST IN NEW YORK — Elizabeth Sharland. Foreword by Rosemary Harris
The author has delved into the glittering world of the Broadway theatre to regale us with a collection of delightful anecdotes about legendary theatre people and their favourite places to eat. From Dorothy Parker to Lillian Gish, Ellen Terry to John Gielgud, Cole Porter to Marlon Brando, and Judi Dench to Jennifer Ehle, the great, the good, and the infamous of British and American actors are included in this book. A vibrant mix of anecdote and entertainment. ISBN 0 7509 3719 X (HB)
THE TONY AWARD — A complete listing of the winners and nominees with a history of the American Theatre Wing.
Presented each year by the American Theatre Wing, the Tony Award is one of the theatre’s most coveted awards, bestowed on professionals for "distinguished achievement" in the theatre. The Tony Award represents the pinnacle of a career in the theatre. The Tony Award is the comprehensive listing of all the nominees and the winners who reached that pinnacle, from the first presentation in 1947, to the most recent in 1994. Additional essays written by 1994 winners provide personal impressions of the Tony.
THE TURNING WORLD. Stories from the London International Festival of Theatre. Rose De Wend Fenton and Lucy Neal.
The Turning World reflects on international theatre and the ways in which British theatre has been influenced by exposure to radical productions presented by companies from around the world during twenty –five years of the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT). The story of this interaction unfolds through a vigorous narrative written by LIFT’S founding directors, Rose Fenton and Lucy Neal, and its impact is discussed by four leading international theatre practitioners — Rustom Bharucha, Lyn Gardner, Naseem Khan and Dragan Klaic. ISBN 1-903080-03-7
THE WADSWORTH ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA — W. B. Worthen
Known through three editions as the boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama, W.B. Worthen’s pace setting text — now titled The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama — continues in this new, fourth edition to provide an exciting selection of relevant plays, usefully situated within their historical and cultural context. ISBN 0838 40750 1
WHERE THERE’S A WILL — John Mortimer
Drawing on his life as a barrister and writer — two occupations seemingly quite different yet both concerned with questions of truth and fiction, value and significance — John Mortimer offers an instructive, often comic, account of what a decent life might be, grounded on a number of principles: from the importance of questioning the views of the majority to the desirability of wearing the clothes of one’s youth, even in old age. Where There’s a Will is worldly-wise, never world-weary, wonderfully entertaining, occasionally outrageous and always thought-provoking. ISBN 0 670 91365 0 HB
THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONTEMPORARY THEATRE — ASIA/PACIFIC. Edited by Don Rubin, Chu Soo Pong, Ravi Chaturvedi, Ramendu Majumdar, Minoru Tanokura and Katharine Brisbane
This edition provides a country-by-country survey of theatrical developments in Asia and the Pacific since 1945. The entries provide first-hand accounts of major theatrical companies, dramatists and plays in each of the thirty-one countries covered, the interaction of performance with the culture, politics and religious rituals, and much more. ISBN 0415 26087 6
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