Category Archives: Theater

The One-Act Play Companion: A Guide to plays, playwrights and performance

The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers … Continue reading

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Actor Training

Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge’s highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. The bibliography … Continue reading

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Sound and Music for the Theatre, Third Edition: The Art & Technique of Design

For every phase of theatrical production, Sound and Music for the Theatre traces the entire process of sound design from initial concept through closing night. The book discusses the early evolution of a sound design that supports the play, from … Continue reading

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Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician

The application of electricity for the theatre or a concert stage is not the same as for a residence or commercial building. Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician provides you with the fundamentals of theory of electricity as well … Continue reading

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Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays (Chicana Matters)

The 1970s and 1980s saw the awakening of social awareness and political activism in Mexican-American communities. In San Diego, a group of Chicana women participated in a political theatre group whose plays addressed social, gender, and political issues of the … Continue reading

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Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen: Making and Applying Prosthetics

In the world of film and theatre, character transformation takes a lot of work, skill, and creativity. Dedicated solely to SFX, this book will show you tips and techniques from a seasoned SFX makeup artist with years of film, TV, … Continue reading

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The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched

What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need “theater” in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary–and as powerful–as … Continue reading

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The Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents)

A collection of essays, by leading international scholars, on the history of the Greek theatre, and on the wider context of festival culture in which theatrical activity took place in the Greek world. The emphasis is on the documentary material … Continue reading

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American Drama in the Age of Film

Is theater really dead? Does the theater, as its champions insist, really provide a more intimate experience than film? If so, how have changes in cinematic techniques and technologies altered the relationship between stage and film? What are the inherent … Continue reading

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of ‘dramatic’ presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the … Continue reading

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