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Understanding Theatre
ISBN: PB: 9780857426130, Seagull Books, June 2021
440 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Over the past three decades, theater studies has undergone a radical worldwide development and renewal. This happened through two different yet complementary paths: the first (North American in origin) led to the birth of the discipline of performanc...
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Utility
ISBN: PB: 9780300224429, Yale University Press, November 2017
112 pp., 22.9x14 cm
Marking the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series for emerging playwrights, Emily Schwend's powerful work centers on Amber, a young woman struggling to raise a family in East Texas. Amber is juggling two nearly full-time jobs and three kids. Her...
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£14,99
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Unsettling Opera Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky
ISBN: PB: 9780226475233, ISBN: HB: 9780226475226, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 musical examples, 26 halftones
What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work...
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£37,00
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Uncloseting Drama American Modernism and Queer Performance
ISBN: PB: 9780300155396, Yale University Press, November 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Illuminates modernism through little-known but striking works by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and others who revived the "closet drama" – plays written largely for private reading – as a means of exploring forbidden sexualities.
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