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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “d snyder young”
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  • Theatre of Good Intentions

    Challenges and Hopes for Theatre and Social Change

    by D. Snyder-Young ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Theatre of Good Intentions examines limitations of theatre in the creation of social and political change. This book looks at some of the reasons why achieving such goals is hard; examining what theatre can and can't do. It examines a range of applied and political theatre case studies, focusing on theatre's impact on participants and spectators. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Training of the American Actor

    Edited by Arthur Bartow ...
    Successful acting must reflect a society’s current beliefs. The men and women who developed each new technique were convinced that previous methods were not equal to the full challenges of their time and place, and the techniques in this book have been adapted to current needs in order to continue to be successful methods for training actors. The actor’s journey is an individual one, and the actor ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Elia Kazan: A Life

    by Elia Kazan ...
    ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • In this amazing autobiography, Kazan at seventy-eight brings us the undiluted telling of his story—and revelation of himself—all the passion, vitality, and truth, the almost outrageous honesty, that have made him so formidable a stage director (A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Spirit of Noh

    A New Translation of the Classic Noh Treatise the Fushikaden

    by Zeami ...
    Translated by William Scott Wilson ...
    The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has a rich six-hundred-year history and has had a huge influence on Japanese culture and such Western artists as Ezra Pound and The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has long held a fascination for people both in the East and the West. For six hundred years it has had a huge influence on Japanese culture—and has inspired such Western artists as Ezra Pound and William ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Presence of the Actor

    by Joseph Chaikin ...
    Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today. This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the creation of some of the most exciting theatre of our time. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of German Theater

    by William Grange ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The German-language theater is one of the most vibrant and generously endowed of any in the world. It boasts long and honored traditions that include world-renowned plays, playwrights, actors, directors, and designers, and several German theater artists have had an enormous impact on theater practice around the globe. Students continue to study German plays in dozens of languages, and every year ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Daring to Play

    A Brecht Companion

    by Manfred Wekwerth ...
    Translated by Rebecca Braun ...
    Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brecht’s theatre by Manfred Wekwerth, Brecht’s co-director and former director of the Berliner Ensemble.Wekwerth aims to challenge prevailing myths and misconceptions of Brecht’s theatre, instead providing a refreshing and accessible approach to his plays and theatrical craft. The book is rich in ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • Treading the bawds

    Actresses and playwrights on the Late Stuart stage

    by Gilli Bush-Bailey ...
    Series series Women, Theatre and Performance
    Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies, ‘Treading the bawds’ analyses the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle and women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and Mary Pix, and traces a line of influence from the time of the first theatres royal to the rebellion that resulted in the creation of a player’s co-operative.Bush-Bailey offers a ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • How to Write About Theatre

    A Manual for Critics, Students and Bloggers

    by Mark Fisher ...
    What do you do if you find yourself weeping in the stalls? How should you react to Jude Law's trousers or David Tennant's hair? Are you prepared to receive toilet paper in the post? What if the show you just damned turns out to be a classic? If you gave it a five-star rave will anyone believe you?Drawing on his long years of experience as a national newspaper critic, Mark Fisher answers such ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Breaking Bad and Dignity

    Unity and Fragmentation in the Serial Television Drama

    by Elliott Logan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    An ambitious interpretation of the critically celebrated and widely popular crime drama Breaking Bad , this book argues that not only should the series be understood as a show that revolves around the dramatic stakes of dignity, but that to do so reveals - in new ways - central aspects of serial television drama as an art form. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Disability Culture and Community Performance

    Find a Strange and Twisted Shape

    by P. Kuppers ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Applied Theatre: Research

    Radical Departures

    by Dr Peter O'Connor, Professor Michael Anderson ...
    Series series Applied Theatre
    Applied Theatre: Research is the first book to consolidate thinking about applied theatre as research through a thorough investigation of ATAR as a research methodology. It will be an indispensable resource for teachers and researchers in the area.The first section of the book details the history of the relationship between applied theatre and research, especially in the area of evaluation and ... Read more

    $30.79 USD