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Grotowski's Empty Room
ISBN: HB: 9781906497231, Seagull Books, November 2009
224 pp., 23.1x16.3 cm, 16 halftones
Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999) was a Polish stage director, theatrical theorist, and founder and director of the small but influential Polish Laboratory Theatre. Most of Grotowski's theater-making took place in this and similar small theaters and studio...
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£22,00
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Whispers of a Savage Sort And Other Plays about the Deaf American Experience
ISBN: PB: 9781563684203, Gallaudet University Press, September 2009
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Oh, why can't the deaf community be more like a family?" is the plaint of a character in Raymond Luczak's title play Whispers of a Savage Sort. It also goes far in characterizing the main thread that runs through his remarkable collection of work of...
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£37,50
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Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9781563684098, Gallaudet University Press, June 2009
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 photos
After spending three years in The National Theatre of the Deaf performing plays by hearing authors featuring hearing characters, Willy Conley realized that he wanted to write plays with deaf, hard-of- hearing, and hearing characters created from the...
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£45,00
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Ballet's Magic Kingdom Selected Writings on Dance in Russia (1911-1925)
ISBN: PB: 9780300164497, ISBN: HB: 9780300124620, Yale University Press, May 2009
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and...
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£20,00
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£27,50
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Armed Response Plays from South Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781906497071, ISBN: HB: 9781906497088, Seagull Books, March 2009
314 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm
As a phenomenon of history with social, political, cultural implications, the entire "negotiated" experience makes the South African situation unique in both the African and global context. As this phenomenon unfolds, many fascinating new artistic in...
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£19,00
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£75,00
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Silence of God And Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9781906497095, ISBN: HB: 9781906497101, Seagull Books, March 2009
314 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm
Filloux's plays explore social justice from a global perspective, with a focus on Western liberalism. Themes of "honour killing", the Khmer Rouge genocide, human responsibility in the face of lawlessness, and women's rights are treated with a lyricis...
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£19,00
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£75,00
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Crucible Bodies Postwar Japanese Performance from Brecht to the New Millennium
ISBN: PB: 9781905422746, ISBN: HB: 9781905422722, Seagull Books, March 2009
224 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 25 colour illus.
"Crucible Bodies: Postwar Japanese Performance from Brecht to the New Millennium" is a collection of essays covering a wide range of historical and theoretical topics, from Brecht in Japan to "children's" bodies in postmodern Japanese performances, f...
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£22,50
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£71,00
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Wanderers And Other Israeli Plays
ISBN: PB: 9781906497057, ISBN: HB: 9781906497064, Seagull Books, March 2009
314 pp., 23.6x15.7 cm, 20 halftones
An anthology of seven contemporary Israeli plays, written by established and emerging Israeli playwrights and theatre creators. The collection offers a look into the variety of Israeli drama, theatre, and performance, reflecting central questions of...
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£19,00
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£75,00
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