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Walpurgis Night

Erofeev Venedikt, Schwartz Marian

ISBN: PB: 9780300159868, Yale University Press, July 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm

"Walpurgis Night", by acclaimed Russian writer Venedikt Erofeev, is considered a classic in the playwright's homeland. Erofeev's dark and funny five-act satire of Soviet repression has been called the comic high-water maker of the Brezhnev era. "Walp...

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Biography & Memoires

Performing Arts

Lillian Hellman An Audacious Life

Gallagher Dorothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300164978, Yale University Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Glamorous, talented, audacious – Lillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of twenty-nine she had written "The Children's Hour", the first of four hit Broadway plays, and soon she was considered a member of Americ...

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Rituals of Rented Island Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama - Manhattan, 1970-1980

Sanders Jay, Hoberman J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300195866, Yale University Press, December 2013
176 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 140 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

This important volume explores three unique performance art practices of the 1970s and early 1980s: "object theater" (in which artists engage directly with the objects in the world around them); "loft performance" (where artists performed in lofts, s...

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Beautiful Province

Coo Clarence, Guare John

ISBN: PB: 9780300195460, Yale University Press, December 2013
144 pp., 21x14 cm

A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished. Clarence Coo's mesmerizing...

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Performing Arts

Dance Claimed Me A Biography of Pearl Primus

Schwartz Peggy, Schwartz Murray M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187939, ISBN: HB: 9780300155341, Yale University Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In "The Dance Claimed Me", Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an...

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New Light Shine

Murdoch Shannon, Guare John

ISBN: PB: 9780300184853, Yale University Press, September 2012
88 pp., 22.9x14 cm

When he was twelve, Joe snuck into the field on the edge of town and saw the Town Mayor with his sister Peregrine. This one moment has overwhelmed and transformed his life, becoming the only thing that holds any importance to him. Years later, in jai...

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Performing Arts

American Circus

Weber Soros Susan, Ames Kenneth, Wittmann Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300185393, Yale University Press, August 2012
432 pp., 27.3x20.4 cm, 327 colour illus.

The circus is a source of nostalgia for Americans of all ages, either from memories of attending P. T. Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth", or through the colourful evocations in many movies, television programmes, and books. Interest in the circus phe...

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Fashion

Performing Arts

Staging Fashion, 1880-1920 Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke

Majer Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780300181135, Yale University Press, February 2012
176 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 220 colour illus.

Although Jane Hading (1859-1940), Lily Elsie (1886-1962), and Billie Burke (1884-1970) gained fame as stage actresses, their popular appeal also rested on their ability to cultivate a glamorous appearance. Their careers illustrate the early transform...

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American Play, 1787-2000

Robinson Marc

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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Performing Arts

Stravinsky's Ballets

Joseph Charles M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300118728, Yale University Press, May 2011
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 11 black&white illus.

Igor Stravinsky was a towering composer of the twentieth century and closely linked to dance. His early commissions for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes – "The Firebird", "Petrouchka", and "The Rite of Spring" – put him on the international map and propell...

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