Builds on the skills developed during the AS year to provide informative guidance to Units 3 and 4 of the specification. This title provides information on rehearsing, performing, directing and textual analysis, together with fresh material on deconstructing a script, devising theatre and preparing for the final examination.

A collection of true and tawdry tales about celebrities who share one common trait: they've all acted like A-list idiots - from the rude and obnoxious to the distastefully extravagant. From diva-like room service demands to embarrassing run-ins with the law, it proves some people have more money than sense and aren't afraid to show it.

Explores the issues facing theatrical performances. This work describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the rise of Method Acting. It also shows how theatre defies rules, builds and shatters illusions and creates lasting memories for its audiences.

Identifies and explores the sacred as both an element in theatre and in consciousness in general. This book examines not only the structural understandings and functions of the sacred in theatre, but also experimental and personal experiences.

Using political theatre, this book traces the protests in West Bengal against the Left government's acquisition of agricultural land for industrialisation to decades of public protest by the rural Bengali against an accumulated dispossession of meanings.

Presents a comprehensive annual record of theatrical season on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway including touring companies and regional companies. This book features the year's obituaries, a listing of various nominees and winners of the major theatrical awards, the longest-running shows on and Off-Broadway, and a complete index.

Builds on the skills developed during the AS year to provide informative guidance to Units 3 and 4 of the specification. This title provides information on rehearsing, performing, directing and textual analysis, together with fresh material on deconstructing a script, devising theatre and preparing for the final examination.

A study into the history of the seventeenth-century stage from the perspective of the actresses.

Celebrates the performance and reception of Greek drama in Oxford. This book traces enduring connections between antiquity and dramatic performance in modern Oxford, and discusses the landmark events from the 16th century to the 1970s.

Explores the origins of Nazi theatre and the role of theatre in German national life.

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A study of the most influential theatre group of the twentieth century, the Provincetown Players.

This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS and post-9/11 America, it displays the various and important ways theatre and performance studies have examined and conversed with American culture and history.

The prevalent worldview of early modern England, clearly shaped by Protestantism, dismissed magical belief as an ideological delusion inherent to Catholicism. This book examines this issue and asks: why, then, did magical self-empowerment retain such a hold on the artistic and cultural imagination of early modern English society?

Through thirteen essays, Teaching Theatre Today addresses the changing nature of educational theory, curricula, and teaching methods in theatre programs of colleges and universities of the United States and Great Britain.

Edexcel's own resources for the GCE 2008 specifications.

Reading a range of work from the US and UK over the last two decades, this is an innovative study of theatre's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming. How does theatre reflect, and intervene in, naming practices across domains such as philosophy, computing, journalism, anthropology, advertising, military training, and genetics?

Covering a range of key genres, movements, theories and production terms, this third edition includes a bibliography, and topical entries such as: female masquerade, silent cinema, exploitation cinema, art direction, national cinema, and political cinema.

An autobiographical trilogy by a cultural icon of Downtown New York.