Dance and Fashion by Valerie Steele
$57.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
Dress and adornment have long played an important role in the visual allure of dance, and fashion designers have often been inspired by the way dancers look. The tutus and pointe shoes of the Romantic ballerina, for example, have influenced designers from Christian Dior to Christian Louboutin. Cristobal ...Show more
Eugene O'Neill A Life in Four Acts by Robert M. Dowling
$53.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
This extraordinary new biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O’Neill’s tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama. Robert M. Dowling innovatively recounts O’Neill’s life in four acts, thus highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interweave with his actua ...Show more
Stage Blood: Five Tempestuous Years in the Early Life of the National Theatre by Michael Blakemore
$25.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
In 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. The National, still based at the Old Vic, was at a moment of transition awaiting the move to its vast new home on the South Bank. Relying on generous subsidy, it would need an extensive network of suppor ...Show more
The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner by Lawrence Senelick
$60.00 AUD
Category: Theatre | Series: Library of America
Here is the story, told firsthand through electric, deeply engaged writing, of America's living theater, high and low, mainstream and experimental. Drawing on history, criticism, memoir, fiction, poetry, and parody, editor Laurence Senelick presents writers with the special knack "to distill both the im ...Show more
Staging Ideas: Set and costume design for theatre by Stephen Curtis
$49.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
This practical and informative book outlines everything you need to know about set, costume and lighting design from initial concept, script analysis, research ideas and putting it all together.
Shakespeare and Me: 38 Great Writers, Actors and Directors on What the Bard Means to Them - and Us by Susannah Carson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Shakespeare and Me, Susannah Carson invites 38 actors, directors, scholars and writers to share stories of their own personal relationship with Shakespeare. We hear from Ralph Fiennes on interpreting Coriolanus for a m ...Show more
Stage Blood by Michael Blakemore
$40.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
In 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. The National, still based at the Old Vic, was at a moment of transition awaiting the move to its vast new home on the South Bank. Relying on generous subsidy, it would need an extensive network of suppor ...Show more
Encyclopedia of Russian Stage Design: 1880-1930 by John E. Bowlt
$225.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Furthermore, through their daring inventions, Russian artists of the first thirty years of the 20th century transformed, profoundly and permanently, our perception of stage design - and hence of the theatre. They belonged to an extraordinarily creative generation of impresarios, dancers, actors, patrons ...Show more
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Play) by Ray Lawler
$23.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Every summer Roo and Barney have come down from their work in the Queensland canefields to the Carlton house they share with Olive and Nancy for an annual celebration of love and laughter. But this year Nancy has deserted the house to get married, and Pearl has taken her place... Ray Lawler's brawny can ...Show more
Stage Design Concerts, Events, Ceremonies and Theater by Song Jia
$95.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Stage designers must create an immersive and engaging environment that lasts only hours or days but is remembered for a lifetime. Whether its Jay-Z at Carnegie Hall, Radiohead on a world tour, Celine Dion in Las Vegas, Nelson Mandelas 90th birthday, a dramatic production of Hairspray, or the launch of M ...Show more
Magic 1400s-1950s by Mike Caveney
$110.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Illusion, enchantment, and wonder. This book deals with the world's greatest magicians from the Middle Ages through the 1950s. Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to a ...Show more
Dancers Among Us: A Celebration of Joy in the Everyday by Jordan Matter
$36.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
The mystery of the body in motion. The surprise of seeing what seems impossible. And the pure, joyful optimism of it all. "Dancers Among Us" presents one thrilling photograph after another of dancers leaping, spinning, lifting, kicking - but in the midst of daily life: on the beach, at a construction si ...Show more