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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

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

    $58.99 USD

  • 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

    $44.99 USD

  • The Green Thread

    Dialogues with the Vegetal World

    by Tom Bristow, Pansy Duncan, Laurent Mignonneau, Guinevere Narraway, Stefan Rieger, Jennifer Schell, Christa Sommerer, Graig Uhlin, Florian Weil, Gioia Woods, Alan Read, Andrew Howe, Hannah Stark, Dr. Michael Marder ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • 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

    $58.99 USD

  • Architecturally Speaking

    Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday

    Edited by Alan Read ...
    Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. Together these essays build to reflect not only what it might mean to 'speak architecturally' but also the innate relations between the artist's and architect's work, how they are distinct, and in inspiring ways, how they might relate through questions of built form ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • Actor Training

    by Alison Hodge ...
    Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge’s highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. The bibliography is brought right up to date and many chapters are revised. In addition, eight more practitioners are included - and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Series Book 1 - Oscar Wilde classics
    The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archispeak

    An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Terms

    by Tom Porter ...
    Widely used in architectural circles in the heat of discussion, the recurrent use of particular words and terms has evolved into a language of design jargon. Commonly found in architectural literature and journalism, in critical design debate and especially in student project reviews, Archispeak can seem insular and perplexing to others and -- particularly to the new architectural student -- often ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Committing Theatre

    Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada

    by Alan Filewod ...
    Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada. Building on twenty years of research and engagement in the field, this book’s historical narrative frames close-up examples of how theatre artists have intervened in and engaged with political struggle from the mid-19th century to the present. Lumber ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • An Actor Prepares

    by Constantin Stanislavski ...
    Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The Evolution of Designs

    Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

    by Philip Steadman ...
    This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design.Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th ... Read more

    $91.99 USD