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On the Royal Road The Burgher King
ISBN: HB: 9780857427786, Seagull Books, August 2020
178 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is known as a writer who works in response to contemporary crises and cultural phenomena. Perhaps none of her works display that quality as clearly as "On the Royal Road". Three weeks after Donald Trump's election,...
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£16,99
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Operatic Geographies The Place of Opera and the Opera House
ISBN: PB: 9780226596013, ISBN: HB: 9780226595962, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones
Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power. Once theaters specifically for opera were established, that connection was expressed in the design and situation of the buildings themselves, as much as throug...
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£27,00
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£90,00
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Objects as Actors Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy
ISBN: HB: 9780226312958, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
"Objects as Actors" charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items in the form of theatrical props. In this b...
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£44,00
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O'Neill Transformation of Modern American Theater
ISBN: HB: 9780300195576, Yale University Press, July 2014
320 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 250 black&white illus.
As the old ways of the commercial theatre were dying and American playwriting was in crisis, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center arose as a midwife to new plays and musicals, introducing some of the most exciting talents of our time (including August W...
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£45,00
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Overweight Sensation The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman
ISBN: HB: 9781611682564, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Allan Sherman was the Larry David, the Adam Sandler, the Sacha Baron Cohen of 1963. He led Jewish humor and sensibilities out of ethnic enclaves and into the American mainstream with explosively funny parodies of classic songs that won Sherman extrao...
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£24,00
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On the Edge of Utopia Performance and Ritual at Burning Man
ISBN: HB: 9781906497255, Seagull Books, July 2010
364 pp., 23.9x16 cm, 70 halftones
During the week before Labor Day every year, 35,000 people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the center of Black Rock City is a 40-foot wooden effigy of a man, an icon around which art, performance, and community revo...
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£26,50
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Our Musicals, Ourselves A Social History of the American Musical Theatre
ISBN: PB: 9780874519044, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2004
426 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Our Musicals, Ourselves" is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late nineteenth century to such recent musicals as The Producers and Urinetown. While many afi...
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£28,00
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