Joy Ride : Lives of the Theatricals by John Lahr
$20.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
'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
The Art of Movement: NYC Dance Project by Ken Browar
$70.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
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
A Director Prepares by BOGART
$61.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
"A Director Prepares" aims to offer a thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly of the courage required to create "art with great presence". Each chapter tackles one of the seven major areas Bogart has identified as both potential partner and p ...Show more
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
$23.00 AUD
Category: Theatre | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'e ...Show more
King Arthur; or, the British Worthy: A Dramatick Opera by John Dryden
$30.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
Originally published in 1928, this book contains an edition of John Dryden's play King Arthur, which was first performed in 1691. The subsequent alterations made by Henry Purcell are noted where they alter or expand the text. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English opera or Rest ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Michael Dobson
$101.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents li ...Show more
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells
$34.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first-the answer is No-and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times ...Show more
Joy Ride - Lives of the Theatricals by John Lahr
$60.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
'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
The Ballet Lover's Companion by Zoe Anderson
$63.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and critic Zoe Anderson focuses on 140 ballets, a core international repertory that encompasses works from the ethereal world of romantic ballet to the edgy, muscular works of modern chor ...Show more
Mapping Shakespeare's World by Peter Whitfield
$69.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
The locations of Shakespeare's plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London, which he and his audience inhabited, but always in places remote in space or time. How much did he - and ...Show more
Arguments with England by Michael Blakemore
$29.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
'This beautifully written book by the director Michael Blakemore puts most such volumes to shame. It is full of both sharp insights and sudden shafts of wisdom. Often wonderfully funny, it is also touching and painfully honest. By the time you have finished Arguments with England, the author feels like ...Show more
Passion to Create by Cheryl Cecchetto
$50.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
This is an incredible, inspirational and fascinating autobiography of Cheryl Cecchetto. In 1990, in a 1-bedroom apartment in Santa Monica, California, an aspiring actress from Northern Canada, in need of her proverbial "day job," started a part-time, one-woman party planning company with a Smith-Corona ...Show more