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  • Theatre and Law

    by Alan Read ...
    Series series Theatre And
    Theatre & Law offers the first comprehensive account of the complex relations between legal process and performances. Through ten major principles of performance within law, it establishes how law itself is a performative mode of practice and reflects upon the co-dependence of law, performance and politics in celebrated works of theatre. ... Read more

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  • The Dancing Man

    by Alan Read ...
    The Dancing Man is set in the late 1960's, early 70's.It had begun as a normal summer's day in suburban Wahroonga on Sydney's affluent North Shore. In the back yard of the Swain house, workmen set about making good the garden that they had disturbed when connecting the house to the new sewer mains, and removing the now redundant septic tank.Inside, Cynthia and Peter Swain drifted through life and ... Read more

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  • Theatre and Everyday Life

    An Ethics of Performance

    by Alan Read ...
    Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde ... Read more

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  • Life On The Road

    by Alan Read ...
    Life on the Road is a collection of short love stories with a distinctive Australian theme. These are as much about a love of the country, as they are about the characters that live there. Some of them are based around the cities, while others are set in this vast, largely uninhabited, countryside. All of them are about the power of love to bring people together in spite of what life can throw at ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dark Theatre

    A Book About Loss

    by Alan Read ...
    The Dark Theatre is an indispensable text for activist communities wondering what theatre might have to do with their futures, students and scholars across Theatre and Performance Studies, Urban Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Economy and Social Ecology.The Dark Theatre returns to the bankrupted warehouse in Hope (Sufferance) Wharf in London’s Docklands where Alan Read worked through the ... Read more

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  • Rogue Element

    by Alan Read ...
    In the early hours of the 13th of February 1978 outside the Sydney Hilton Hotel, a bomb detonated in the rear of a garbage truck killing to City Council garbage men and wounding several police officers, one of whom later died from his injuries. This much is fact.The Hilton Hotel was the venue of the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting.Who had planted the bomb and why?This ... Read more

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  • Promi$eS

    by Alan Read ...
    What would you do if you believed that your church was more interested in profit than prophet?This was the dilemma facing Frank McIvor. He had become disillusioned with the doctrine of the church that he had attended, and paid his tithe to, for the past 10 years, so he decided to do something about it.He hired Lawyer Michael Henderson, and together they sued the church for not honouring its ... Read more

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  • Theatre in the Expanded Field

    Seven Approaches to Performance

    by Alan Read ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Theatre in the Expanded Field is a fiercely original, bold and daring exploration of the fields of theatre and performance studies and the received narratives and histories that underpin them. Rich with interdisciplinary reference, international, eclectic and broad-ranging in its examples, it offers readers a compelling and provocative reassessment of the disciplines, one that spans pre-history to ... Read more

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  • Fashionably Late - For My Own Funeral.

    by Alan Read ...
    What would it take to transform me from a writer geek toThe Avenger'?Could it be that my wife is having an affair with my financial advisor?Could it be that the local crime boss was after me for several million dollars that he believed was his?Could it be that several government agencies were afraid that I would reveal their involvement in a drug importation scheme?Could it be that when my wife ... Read more

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  • Isobel and Emile

    by Alan Reed ...
    This is the story of Isobel and Emile. They wake up beside each other one morning, and they slowly get out of bed. It is the last time that they will sleep together. They know it. They do not want it to be the last time but they know that it is. They get out of bed and they go to a train station. Emile gets onto a train. Isobel does not. She stands on the platform and she watches him go. He is ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • General Defences in Criminal Law

    Domestic and Comparative Perspectives

    Series series Substantive Issues in Criminal Law
    The law relating to general defences is one of the most important areas in the criminal law, yet the current state of the law in the United Kingdom reveals significant problems in the adoption of a consistent approach to their doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings, as exemplified by a number of recent developments in legislation and case law. A coherent and joined-up approach is still missing. ... Read more

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  • Participation in Crime

    Domestic and Comparative Perspectives

    Series series Substantive Issues in Criminal Law
    Following on from the earlier edited collection, Loss of Control and Diminished Responbility, this book is the first volume in the Substantive Issues in Criminal Law series. It serves as a leading point of reference in the area relating to participation in crime and identifies the need for a consistent approach to the doctrinal and theoretical underpinnings of complicity liability. With a section ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD