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Schechner Plays

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 A collection of performance texts ranging from orthodox plays to group-devised texts. The book traces from most recent to earliest Schechner's work as a "writer" and a "wrighter" -- the author of plays and the conceptualizer and leader of teams of artists. 20 b&w illus.
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Flesh And Text - Devising Performance By Bodies In Flight

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 A critical analysis of UK performance company Bodies in Flightâ€™s work and collaborative methodology, including archival images, text extracts, reflections by collaborators, arts professionals, performance scholars, providing a context for small-scale performance making and insights into devising methods and key questions.120 b&w, 14 col. illus.
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Flesh And Text - Devising Performance By Bodies In Flight

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 A critical analysis of UK performance company Bodies in Flightâ€™s work and collaborative methodology, including archival images, text extracts, reflections by collaborators, arts professionals, performance scholars, providing a context for small-scale performance making and insights into devising methods and key questions.120 b&w, 14 col. illus.
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The Rehearsal - Pigeon Theatreâ€™S Trilogy Of Performance Works On Playing Dead

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 Raises questions about the interplay in contemporary theatre between the processes of rehearsal and the theatrical metaphors that shape our everyday dealings with trauma, including death. This title features essays in the areas of Performance Studies, Sociology, Death Studies/Health and Social Care, and more.
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Italian Women'S Theatre, 1930-1960 - An Anthology Of Plays

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 Between 1930 and 1960 women dramatists Paola Riccora, Anna Bonacci, Clotilde Masci, and Gici Ganzini Granata achieved a high degree of popularity and success, and set the stage for the next generation of feminist theatre in the 1970s. This title presents translations of their major dramatic works.
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Octave Mirbeau: Two Plays - "Business Is Business" And "Charity"

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 Octave Mirbeau was one of the most prolific literary figures of France's storied BelleÂ Ã‰poque. This volume contains his two most celebrated plays for the first time in English-language translation:Â Business is Business andÂ Charity. The book also includes an introduction contextualizing the works and the translation and adaptation process.
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Disaster Capitalism - Or Money Can'T Buy You Love - Three Plays

by Rick Mitchell

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 This book includes three full-length plays by award-winning dramatist Rick Mitchell: Shadow Anthropology, a dark comedy about the US occupation of Afghanistan; Through the Roof, a Faustian trip through the social history of natural disaster in New Orleans; and Celestial Flesh, a sacrilegious romp through the 1980s sanctuary movement.
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Red Sun And Merlin Unchained

by David Rudkin

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 A collection of two plays.
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Carnival Texts - Three Plays For Ensemble Performance

by James Macdonald

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 Includes three related performance texts for undergraduate performance which take Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of Carnival as a starting point for an exploration of physical, moral and cultural upheaval in a post-modern age. In this title, the texts make use of contemporary post-Brechtian performance theory in an attempt to present a new dystopia.
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Invisible Country - Four Polish Plays

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 Contains English-language translations of four plays by Polish writers in the modernist tradition: "Snow" by Stanislaw Przybyszewski; "In a Small House" by Tadeusz Rittner; "Ashanti" by Wlodzimierz Perzynski; and "All the Same" by Leopold Staff.
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Plays In Time - The Beekeeper'S Daughter, Prophecy, Another Life, Extreme Whether

by Karen Malpede

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 Karen Malpede's four plays are set during influential events from the late twentieth century to the present: the Bosnian war and rape camps; the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon; 9/11 and the US torture programme; and the heroism of climate scientists facing attack from well-funded climate change deniers.
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Andras Viskyâ€™S Barrack Dramaturgy: Memories Of The Body - Memories Of The Body

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 This volume is a collection of plays created byÂ AndrÃ¡s Visky, one of the most innovative voices in Hungarian theatre. Translated for English-language audiences, the book provides critical analyses, scripts, director's notes and interviews with creative teams behind the productions to reveal a holistic, insider's view of Visky's artistic vision.
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Utopia - Three Plays For A Postdramatic Theatre

by Claire Macdonald

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 In a room in the middle of nowhere, a man and a woman dream up spectacular worlds: a decaying city, a lush and crumbling garden, a train journey across a drowned landscape. Darkly humorous, absurd and surreal, these are plays for a theatre in which time and space, character and setting are as uncertain as the maps this man and this woman draw.
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Lightwork - Texts On And From Collaborative Multimedia Theatre

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 Collection of performance texts from the experimental theatre company Lightwork, along with short essays by key participants. Geared around collaborative creation, it covers an array of approaches including devised, multimedia and site-specific work, providing a rich resource for those making or studying contemporary performance. 20 illus.
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The Hour Of All Things And Other Plays

by Caridad Svich

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 This book presents four plays by Caridad Svich that explore the rough waters of citizenship under the pressure of globalization and the threads of human connection across multiple geographic landscapes. Featuring essays by practitioners such as Zac Kline, this book refuses to pretend that the complex questions of existence are easily settled.
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Acts Of Dramaturgy - The Shakespeare Trilogy

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 The three playtexts from the touring project The Trilogy, inspired by Shakespeare, together with essays reflecting on the politics of dramaturgy, authorship, adaptation, text and performance in contemporary theatre. An important and highly original contribution to the growing interest in interdisciplinary practice research. 12 col. illus.
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Freaks Of History - Two Performance Texts

by James Macdonald

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 Freaks of HistoryÂ presents two dramatic explorations of disability within the wider themes of sexuality, gender, foreignness and the Other. MacDonald recognizes that disability narratives are rarely written by and for disabled people. Therefore his plays, accompanied by critical essays and director's notes, are a welcome addition to Crip theory.
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Ivar Kreuger And Jeanne De La Motte - Two Plays By Jerzy W. Tepa

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 The 1930s were a period of triumph and turmoil in Poland, yet the decade saw the production of a number of exceptional dramatic works. This book provides a glimpse into period of Polish literary culture unfamiliar to most English readers and scholars. It demonstrates why author was one of the leading voices of the Polish interwar era.
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The Trustus Plays - The Hammerstone, Drift, And Holy Ghost

by Jon Tuttle

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 Presents a collection of three plays "The Hammerstone" (1994); "Drift" (1994); and, "Holy Ghost". "The Hammerstone" (2005) is about two professors ageing gracelessly, "Drift" is about marriage and divorce, and "Holy Ghost" portrays the plight of German POW's kept in camps in the American South.
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Zapolska'S Women - Three Plays: Malka Szwarcenkopf, The Man, And Miss Maliczewska

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 This book features three of Gabriela Zapolskaâ€™s plays that focus on the economic and social pressures women faced in Poland at the end of the eighteenth century. In addition, the book includes a biography, an analysis of her significance within Polish and European literary and theatrical traditions and background on the conditions within Poland.
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Lovefuries - The Contracting Sea; The Hanging Judge; Bite Or Suck

by David Ian Rabey

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 Challenges the subjects of grief and sexual abuse and defies national and personal pressures to keep silent about such issues.
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The Morality Of Mrs. Dulska - A Play By Gabriela Zapolska

by Teresa (University Of Reading, United Kingdom) Murjas

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 Gabriela Zapolska was an actor, journalist and playwright. Her best-known play, The Morality of Mrs. Dulska, is an uncompromising look at gender, class and relationships in fin-de-siÃ¨cle Poland. The play is now available for the first time in an English-language edition that firmly situates the play in the context of its performance history.
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Point Blank - 'Nothing To Declare', 'Operation Wonderland', And 'Roses And Morphine'

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 Contains an introduction, which contextualises Point Blank's work in the wider tradition and history of British political theatre. This publication of Point Blank's early work is a useful reading for students, audiences, actors and directors interested in radical writing for performance.
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Tormented Minds

by Christine Roberts

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 This anthology contains three plays (Ceremonial Kisses, Shading the Crime, and The Maternal Cloister), analyses of their processes and themes, and photographs of the performances. The plays are different in style and include the use of physical theatre, naturalistic explorations of human rights abuses, and symbolic structures, puppets and poetry.
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