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  • The Group Theatre

    Passion, Politics, and Performance in the Depression Era

    Edited by H. Chinoy, D. Wilmeth, M. Barranger ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Theatre of the Absurd

    by Martin Esslin ...
    In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

    by Stella Adler ...
    In her long-awaited book, the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler gives us her extraordinary insights into the work of Henrik Ibsen ("The creation of the modern theater took a genius like Ibsen. . .Miller and Odets, Inge and O'Neill, Williams and Shaw, swallowed the whole of him"), August Strindberg ("He understood and predicted the forces that would break in our lives"), and Anton Chekhov ( ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • The History of Theatre

    by David Timson ...
    This bold undertaking covers Western theatre from ancient Greece to the present day. It traces the development of dramatic art through the miracle plays, the great Shakespearean period, Molière and Racine in France, Goethe in Germany, through the nineteenth century and the main movements in the twentieth century. It is written by David Timson, the British actor and director who features ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Broadway Babylon

    Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way

    by Boze Hadleigh ...
    The first book of theater celebrity gossip, can you believe it? Here's the book that airs Broadway's dirty laundry! Inspired by the classic Hollywood Babylon (in print for more than forty years, more than 100,000 copies sold), Broadway Babylon presents a hyper-entertaining look at the Great White Way's biggest scandals, best-kept secrets, and most over-the-top feuds. Author Boze Hadleigh, the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Most Ingenious Paradox

    The Art of Gilbert and Sullivan

    by Gayden Wren ...
    Written more than a century ago and initially regarded even by their creators as nothing more than light entertainment, the fourteen operas of Gilbert & Sullivan emerged over the course of the twentieth century as the world's most popular body of musical-theater works, ranking second only to Shakespeare in the history of English-language theater. Despite this resounding popularity and proven ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Shattering Hamlet's Mirror

    Theatre and Reality

    by Marvin Carlson ...
    Theatrical playing, Hamlet famously averred, holds a mirror up to nature. But unlike the reflections in the mirror, the theater’s images are composed of real objects, most notably bodies, that have an independent existence outside the world of reflection. Throughout Western theater history there have been occasions when the reality behind the illusion was placed on display. In recent years ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Timon of Athens

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
    The real Timon of Athens lived there in the fifth century BCE, making him a contemporary of Socrates and Pericles. Shakespeare presents Timon as a figure who suffers such profound disillusionment that he becomes a misanthrope, or man-hater. This makes him a more interesting character than the caricature he had become to Shakespeare’s contemporaries, for whom “Timonist” was a slang term for an ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • British Theatre Companies: 1995-2014

    Mind the Gap, Kneehigh Theatre, Suspect Culture, Stan's Cafe, Blast Theory, Punchdrunk

    by Liz Tomlin, Graham Saunders, Prof. John Bull ...
    Series series British Theatre Companies: From Fringe to Mainstream
    This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies from 1965 to 2014. Each volume provides a survey of the political and cultural context, an extensive survey of the variety of theatre companies from the period, and detailed case studies of six of the most important companies. Volume Three, 1995-2014, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • There Is Nothing Like a Dane!

    The Lighter Side of Hamlet

    Edited by Clive Francis ...
    There is Nothing Like a Dane is an affectionate compilation of mostly funny (but sometimes serious) bits and pieces about Hamlet - interwoven with Clive Francis's delectable caricatures of various members of the theatrical profession strutting their stuff.The great hall of fame is duly visited, though its inhabitants are not always as dignified as they would like to seem. Here are glimpses in word ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Spectacles of Reform

    Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Amy Hughes, Amy E. Hughes ...
    In the nineteenth century, long before film and television arrived to electrify audiences with explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that offered audiences such thrills, with "sensation scenes" of speeding trains, burning buildings, and endangered bodies, often in melodramas extolling the virtues of temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage. In Spectacles of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Making an Exhibition of Myself: the autobiography of Peter Hall

    The Autobiography of Peter Hall

    by Peter Hall ...
    The story of a railway worker's son who became one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre. Sir Peter Hall has been director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, artistic director of Glyndebourne, and director of Britain's National Theatre from 1973 to 1988. He has directed over 150 productions of plays, operas and films, and now runs his own acclaimed theatre ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD