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Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater prac­titioners in Indonesia contributed...

This book examines plays by contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee...

The Boar's Head Theatre, first published in 1972, provides an account of one of the Elizabethan inn-yard theatres. It is...

Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brecht's plays in Britain over forty years. Margaret Eddershaw surveys...

David Barnett invites readers, students and theatre-makers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in this...

Programme Notes is a collection of commissioned essays, case studies and interviews reflecting the exciting and complex relationships between 'mainstream'...

Cold War Theatre, first published in 1992, provides an account of the theatrical history within the context of East/West politics....

Finally, a clear, accurate, and thoroughly researched examination of slam poetry, a movement begun in 1984 by a mixed bag...

Descartes's notion of subjectivity changed the way characters would be written, performed by actors, and received by audiences. His coordinate...

Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors...

Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of...

Jewish theater has followed a tortuous path from extreme rabbinical intolerance to eventual secular liberalism, with its openness to the...

Compulsive Acts explores the films, plays and personality of prolific playwright, novelist, filmmaker and poet Sky Gilbert through the eyes...

Many of the world's greatest dramas have sprung not only from the creative impulses of the authors but also from...

Stanislavski's 'system' has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and...

 ãÂÂWh o can turn skies back and begin again?' -Peter ã This book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as one...

Who were the giants of the twentieth-century stage, and exactly how did they influence modern theatre? The key theatre-makers who...

The Theatre of David Greig provides a definitive account of the career to date of this important dramatist. It combines...

Diasporas of Australian Cinema is the first volume to focus exclusively on diasporic hybridity and cultural diversity in Australian filmmaking...

Tragic Seneca undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role in...