Present Past, Past Present: A Personal Memoir by Eugene Ionesco
15.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Eugene Ionesco (1910-1994), a Romanian-born Frenchman, was central to the Theater of the Absurd, a dramatic movement that abandons logical plot development, meaningful dialogue, and intelligible characters, and instead embraces anarchic comedy to convey the meaninglessness of modern man's existence in a ...Show more
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry; Rob Melrose (Translator)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Extrait : MÈRE UBU :Ah ! voilà le capitaine Bordure et ses partisans qui arrivent. Que manges-tu donc, Père Ubu ?PÈRE UBU :Rien, un peu de veau.MÈRE UBU :Ah ! le veau ! le veau ! veau ! Il a mangé le veau ! Au secours !PÈRE UBU :De par ma chandelle verte, je te vais arracher les yeux.La porte s'ouvre. ...Show more
Falstaff: Give Me Life by Harold Bloom
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes "a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom's imagination" (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of ...Show more
The Shifting Point - Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, 1946-87 by Peter Brook
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Hailed as 'the theatrical event of this century' (Sunday Times), Peter Brook's unique dramatization of India's great epic poem, The Mahabharata played to ecstatic audiences worldwide. In The Shifting Point, one of theatre's great visionaries assesses the lessons of his pioneering work from his brilliant ...Show more
Short Plays of Harold Pinter by Harold PINTER
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
This volume contains the complete short plays of Harold Pinter from The Room, first performed in 1960, to Celebration, which premiered in 2000. The book commemorates the tenth anniversary of the playwright's death and coincides with Pinter at the Pinter, a celebratory season staging twenty of his one-a ...Show more
Dancing Under the Southern Skies by Valerie Lawson
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
With its vivid narrative, Valerie Lawson's Dancing Under the Southern Skies goes far beyond what audiences see on stage to reveal what has been behind the red velvet curtain. The lives of the dancers who toured to Australia, among them Anna Pavlova and Margot Fonteyn, and of those who stayed and of thos ...Show more
This Is a Voice - 99 Exercises to Train, Project and Harness the Power of Your Voice by Jeremy Fisher; Gillyanne Kayes; Cerys Matthews (Introduction by)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Your voice is a powerful instrument. But how can you get the best out of it? This is a Voice is a practical toolkit of step-by-step vocal exercises to help speakers and singers of all abilities transform the quality of their voice. Using advice from expert vocal coaches, you'll learn: - Breathing exerci ...Show more
Renoir's Dancer - The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Suzanne Valadon
In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating façade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager in Montmartre, Suzanne began posing for - and having affairs with - some of the age's most renowned p ...Show more
The Bérenger Plays by Eugène Ionesco; Donald Watson (Translator); Derek Prouse (Translator)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco's everyman protagonist Jean Bérenger. In 'The Killer', he comes across a "radiant city", an ideal civilization which is unfortunately being terrorized by a killer, whom he decides to track down and dissuade from committing any further c ...Show more
The Actor's Survival Guide - How to Make Your Way in Hollywood by Jon S. Robbins
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
The Actor's Survival Guide: How to Make Your Way in Hollywood is a handbook and essential guide to the business of living and working as an actor in the Los Angeles area.Exploring the experience of relocating to L.A.; the casting process; and how to identify - and find work with - the key players in the ...Show more
Contemporary Women Stage Directors - Conversations on Craft by Paulette Marty
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Theatre Makers Ser.
Contemporary Women Stage Directors presents the wisdom and knowledge of 27 key female professional theatre directors in the United Kingdom and United States. In seven topical chapters, the directors describe their diverse approaches to choosing projects, engaging with scripts, conceptualizing visual and ...Show more
New Cambridge Shakespeare - Othello by William Shakespeare; Norman Sanders (Editor); Christina Luckyj (Introduction by)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: The\New Cambridge Shakespeare Ser.
This third edition of Othello offers a completely new introduction by Christina Luckyj, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of early modern theatre and culture, and demonstrating how careful attention to Shakespeare's language, staging and dramaturgy can open up fresh interpretations of the p ...Show more