Platform Papers 46 - the Designer: Decorator or Dramaturg? by Stephen Curtis
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Platform Papers
In 1979 the situation for Australian designers was grim... A decade later little seems to have changed as regards the status of stage design in this country [...] Designers, of course, rate even lower than artists... doormat status... Disempowered [...] quasi-artists [...] mere functionaries... impotent ...Show more
Peer Gynt and Brand by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill. These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical adventures of the irrepressible Peer Gynt - poet, idler, procras ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: The\Pelican Shakespeare Ser.
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st-century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more
Blue Man World by Blue Man Group
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Blue Man Group has evolved from its experimental roots in New York City to a global brand. A combination of music, comedy, and state-of-the-art technology, the show is now seen by 2 million people every year and its broad fans include kids and adults, ages 8 to 80. A veritable cultural icon, Blue Man Gr ...Show more
The Art of Movement: NYC Dance Project by Ken Browar
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
The Art of Movement is an exquisitely designed, beautifully produced book that captures the movement, flow, energy, and grace of many of the most accomplished dancers in the world. These are the artists, from all walks of life, who are defining dance today. Here they are frozen in time in the most exqui ...Show more
Bolshoi Confidential - Secrets of the Russian Ballet - from the Rule of the Tsars to the Age of Putin by Simon Morrison
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Reading Level: very good
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin. The crime, organized by a lead soloist, dragged one of Russia's most illustrious institutions into scandal. Under Vladimir Putin, the Bolshoi Theatre has been called on ...Show more
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays by Peter Lake
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakespeare's England was fraught with unparalleled anxiety ...Show more
Darcey Bussell: A Life in Pictures by CBE Darcey Bussell
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Darcey provides a fascinating insight into the ballet world, with personal anecdotes and memories of some of the most important moments in her career. It features her now famous performances in ballets such as Swan Lake, Cinderella, Giselle, Manon, The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty. A must for love ...Show more
Let Them Dance: A Preparation for Dance and Life by Laurel Martyn
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Movement is life. Things that grow in the soil or in the sea are stimulated by the elements. They are swayed by the wind or the tide and expand in the warmth of the sun. Animals rejoice in exerting themselves by running, jumping, swimming and flying. Very young children, in common with other young anima ...Show more
Julius Caesar: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; A. R. Braunmuller (Series edited by); Stephen Orgel (Series edited by); William Montgomery (Editor); Douglas Trevor (Introduction by)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: The\Pelican Shakespeare Ser.
Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareJulius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator of the same name, his assassination and its aftermath. It is one of several Roman plays that he wrote, based on true events f ...Show more
Twelfth Night - New Longman Shakespeare Series : Age 11 - 18 by William Shakespeare
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: New Longman Shakespeare | Reading Level: From 15 to 16
Suitable for all secondary level study up to GCSE/Standard Grade, this edition contains two sets of differentiated activities at the end of each act. The activities are designed to develop student understanding of the play and its themes, characters, plot and imagery.
Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: No Fear Shakespeare Ser.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness-from overwh ...Show more