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  • The Theatres of Moliere

    by Gerry McCarthy, Gerry McCarthy ...
    Series series Theatre Production Studies
    Moliere's plays are the cornerstone of the French Classical dramatic repertoire. Adapted and exploited in his day by dramatists of the English Restoration, they are now again growing in popularity. In this detailed and fascinating volume, Gerry McCarthy examines the practice and method of possibly the greatest actor-dramatist. From the rough farces of Moliere's days on the road to the creation of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Look Back in Anger

    by John Osborne ...
    Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956.'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it up.' Alan Sillitoe'A story of youthful insecurity inflamed by lack of opportunity and the terrifying, destabilizing ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Caretaker

    by Harold Pinter ...
    You remind me of my uncle's brother. He was always on the move, that man. Never without his passport. Had an eye for the girls. Very much your build. Bit of an athlete. Long-jump specialist. He had a habit of demonstrating different run-ups in the drawing-room round about Christmas time. Had a penchant for nuts.In a dilapidated house in West London, three men - kind but damaged Aston, the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Harold Pinter Plays 1

    The Birthday Party; The Room; The Dumb Waiter; A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; A Night Out; The Black and White; The Examination

    by Harold Pinter ...
    This volume contains Harold Pinter's first six plays, including The Birthday Party.The Birthday PartyStanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.'Mr Pinter's terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.' Sunday TimesThe Room and The Dumb WaiterIn ... Read more

    $19.99 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

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  • The Homecoming

    by Harold Pinter ...
    'An exultant night - a man in total command of his talent.' Observer'The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter's plays.' The TimesWhen Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in London, he finds his family still living in the house. In the conflict that follows, it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Stage Directions

    Writing on Theatre 1970-2008

    by Michael Frayn ...
    Stage Directions covers half a lifetime and the whole range of Frayn's theatrical writing, right up to a new piece about his latest play, Afterlife. It is also a reflection on his path into theatre: the 'doubtful beginnings' of his childhood, his subsequent scorn as a young man and, surprisingly late in life, his reluctant conversion. Whatever subjects he tackles, from the exploration of the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Theatre of David Greig

    by Clare Wallace ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    David Greig has been described as 'one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation' (Daily Telegraph) and 'one of the most intellectually stimulating dramatists around' (Guardian). Since he began writing for theatre in the early nineties, his work has been both copious and remarkably varied, defying neat generalisations or attempts to pigeon-hole his work. Besides ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Seneca: Oedipus

    by Professor Susanna Braund ...
    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient mythology. Through the centuries, his story has inspired works of epic poetry, lyric poetry, tragedy, opera, a gospel musical and more. The myth has been famously deployed in psychology by Sigmund Freud. It may not be too bold to claim that Oedipus is the name from Greco-Roman mythology best known beyond the academy at the present ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Sharon Pollock

    First Woman of Canadian Theatre

    by Donna Coates, Kathy K. Y. Chung, Carmen Derksen, Sherrill Grace, Martin Morrow, Jeton Neziraj ...
    Series Book 8 - The West
    As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the past fifty years. Pollock is nationally and internationally respected for her work and support of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Plays, 1996-2000 (Maxwell)

    by Richard Maxwell ...
    * New play Joe opens 8/02 at NYC's P.S. 122 * Directing Henry IV at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Spring 2003 18 plays in the collection Performed work all over the world as well as many numerous performance spaces throughout the U.S ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • The Live Art Almanac

    Volume 4

    Edited by Lois Keidan ...
    Drawing together all kinds of writing about and around Live Art, The Live Art Almanac is both a useful resource and a great read for artists, writers, students and others interested in the field of interdisciplinary, performance-based art.The Live Art Almanac Volume 4 is? a collection of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art that were originally published, shared, sent, spread and read ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD