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Medical Clowning The Healing Performance
ISBN: PB: 9780857423870, Seagull Books, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
Clowns are not just the stuff of backyard children's parties anymore. These days, clown doctors see patients – especially children – to introduce humor and imagination into an anxiety-filled and painful experience. The origins of medical clowning can...
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£26,50
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Trisha Brown Choreography as Visual Art (1962-1987)
ISBN: PB: 9780819576620, ISBN: HB: 9780819576613, Casemate, Wesleyan University Press, December 2016
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 129 illus.
Trisha Brown re-shaped the landscape of modern dance with her game-changing and boundary-defying choreography and visual art. Art historian Susan Rosenberg draws on Brown's archives, as well as interviews with Brown and her colleagues, to track Brown...
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£33,00
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£104,00
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Alexandra Sequence
ISBN: PB: 9781784102043, Carcanet, September 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
In "The Alexandra Sequence" John Redmond views contemporary urban life through the suggestive prism of the "mummers play", a seasonal British folk-theatre staged in the streets and door-to-door. The book's title takes its name from an area of Liverpo...
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£9,99
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Like a Bomb Going Off Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia
ISBN: HB: 9780300207637, Yale University Press, December 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 61 black&white illus.
Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside the USSR know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his a...
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£63,00
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There and Then Personal Terms 6
ISBN: PB: 9781847771407, Carcanet, July 2013
216 pp., 21.3x13.5 cm
We had been instructed to start promptly at six, since the hall was needed again at eight. We pushed through the curtained doorway, like instrumentalists without instruments, and onto the stepped stage. The audience was still coming in. Uncertain of...
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£18,95
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American Play, 1787-2000
ISBN: PB: 9780300170047, Yale University Press, September 2011
416 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm
In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theatre. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how...
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£33,00
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War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9781906497705, Seagull Books, August 2011
240 pp., 19x15 cm, 15 halftones
Yasmine Beverly Rana's "The War Zone Is My Bed and Other Plays" follows journeys of spiritual destruction and redemption from the banks of the Mississippi River and the fallen levees of New Orleans to the conflict-ravaged streets of Sarajevo and Kabu...
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£19,00
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Deaf Side Story Deaf Sharks, Hearing Jets, and a Classic American Musical
ISBN: PB: 9781563681455, Gallaudet University Press, October 2003
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The 1957 classic American musical "West Side Story" has been staged by countless community and school theater groups, but none more ambitious than the 2000 production by MacMurray College, a small school in Jacksonville, Illinois. Diane Brewer, the n...
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£19,00
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Vanishing Acts Theater Since the Sixties
ISBN: PB: 9780300087772, ISBN: HB: 9780300082487, Yale University Press, October 2000
312 pp., 21x14 cm
In this outstanding collection of critical writings, some published here for the first time, Gordon Rogoff tells the story of live theater in America over the past forty years. His view of modern drama and its performance is rich with the insights of...
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£22,00
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