Joy Ride : Lives of the Theatricals by John Lahr
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
'John Lahr manages to write better about the theatre than anybody in the English language,' says Richard Eyre. Joy Ride, which includes the best of his New Yorker profiles and reviews, makes his expertise and his exhilaration palpable. From modern greats, like Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, ...Show more
Burlesque & The Art Of The Teese by Dita Von Teese
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A two-sided photographic tour of the world of modern American burlesque and fetish includes in the first part a cultural history of burlesque complemented by the author's provocative tips on erotic fashion and sensuality, and in the second part a photographic celebration of fetish style.
Julius Caesar: Black Penguin Classics by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Set at the birth of the Roman Empire, William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a taut historical drama exploring the violent consequences of betrayal and murder. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Norman Sanders with an introduction by Martin Wiggins. 'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ...Show more
An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
An Actor Prepares is the most famous acting training book ever to have been written and the work of Stanislavski has inspired generations of actors and trainers. This translation was the first to introduce Stanislavski's 'system' to the English speaking world and has stood the test of time in acting cla ...Show more
The Plays: The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Evergreens
The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed between the lines. Collected in this volume are Chekh ...Show more
Don't Think, Dear - On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
"Expertly choreographed and long overdue, this is the nuanced reckoning ballet needs, ballerinas deserve, and all feminists should note." -Oprah Daily An incisive exploration of ballet's role in the modern world, told through the experience of the author and her classmates at the most elite ballet schoo ...Show more
Richard III by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A history play whose villainous usurper is one of William Shakespeare's most memorably cunning and sinister characters, Richard III is edited by E.A.J. Honigmann with an introduction by Michael Taylor in Penguin Shakespeare. 'Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York' ...Show more
Berlin by Joanna Murray-Smith
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A spine-tingling romantic thriller Charlotte is a Berliner through and through. Tom is a foreigner, travelling around Europe. After meeting in a bar, sparks fly between them and she invites him to spend the night at her place. As they navigate the ritual of seduction, their desire gives way to secrets t ...Show more
Shakespeare: The World As A Stage (Illustrated) by Bill Bryson
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
This exquisitely illustrated edition of Bill Bryson's best-selling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling journey through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare pairs the most celebrated playwri ...Show more
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Classics
The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revival Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed teleplay, and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. A blistering character stud ...Show more
KING HENRY IV PT 1 by SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Act and scene divisions are not indicated in the Quarto; those of the First Folio have been incorporated, with one exception: scene ii of Act V has been divided into two scenes, with the concluding scenes numbered accordingly. The Third Edition includes expanded annotations. "Contexts and Sources" inclu ...Show more
Henry IV Part I (The First Part of King Henry the Fourth) (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (ed Claire McEachern)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: The Pelican Shakespeare
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the d ...Show more