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Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits
ISBN: 9780230120402 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hijikata Tatsumi's explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an art form of contrasts, by turns shocking and serene. Since then, though interest has grown exponentially, and people all over the world are drawn to butoh's ability to enact paradox and contradiction, audiences are less knowledgeable about the contributions and innovations of the founder of butoh. Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh traces the rollicking history of the creation and initial maturation of butoh, and locates Hijikata's performances within the intellectual, cultural, and...
Hijikata Tatsumi's explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an art form of contrasts, by turns shock...
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Andha Yug: The Age of Darkness
ISBN: 9780824835170 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andha Yug is one of the great Indian plays of the millennium, and in Alok Bhalla it has found an ideal translator. . . . A model in the fraught field of translation. --Girish Karnad, playwright, Padma Bhushan and Jnanpith Laureate Bhalla's fine translation is austere and rigorous, negotiating both the epic scale of the play and the Spartan simplicity of its poetry. --Keki N. Daruwalla, poet, Sahitya Akademi Laureate One of the most significant plays of post-Independence India, Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. The... Andha Yug is one of the great Indian plays of the millennium, and in Alok Bhalla it has found an ideal translator. . . . A model in the fraught fie... |
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Tolstoy: Plays: v. 3: 1894-1910
ISBN: 9780810115989 / Angielski / Twarda / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although Tolstoy's fame rests on his novels, he was also a prolific dramatist. Because his plays are satirical, didactic, and colored by complex peasant dialect, earlier translations have been seriously flawed. These imperfect translations, coupled with Tolstoy's famous polemics against Shakespeare and Chekhov, have reinforced the general misapprehension that Tolstoy was not a dramatist.
Now noted Slavic philologist Marvin Kantor and Tatiana Tulchinsky have prepared the first complete English translation of the great writer's plays. This volume contains plays written during the years 1894... Although Tolstoy's fame rests on his novels, he was also a prolific dramatist. Because his plays are satirical, didactic, and colored by complex peasa...
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A Silent Thunder
ISBN: 9780881451160 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China
ISBN: 9781137306104 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre.
In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese t...
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CROSSINGS on a BRIDGE of LIGHT: The Songs and Deeds of GESAR, KING OF LING as He Travels to Shambhala Through the Realms of Life and Death
ISBN: 9780974597430 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CROSSINGS ON A BRIDGE OF LIGHT is a tale of boundless compassion as it inspires the journey through the joys and sorrows of life and death. Tibet's great warrior hero, Gesar of Ling discovers that his mother has lost her way and fallen into the torments of hell. Riding his magic horse, the primordial power of mind itself, he then travels though all the hallucinations of existence to liberate her. His journey reaches its apex in four visions of the enlightened rulers of the Kingdom of Shambhala. Thus he establishes a path of awakening for all beings. Gesar's inner journey, his encounters with...
CROSSINGS ON A BRIDGE OF LIGHT is a tale of boundless compassion as it inspires the journey through the joys and sorrows of life and death. Tibet's gr...
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Itinerarios, Viajes Y Contactos Japón-Europa
ISBN: 9783034311953 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 1028 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japon sigue siendo un misterio para los europeos que han sentido el hipnotismo y la magia de este pais por su apego a la tradicion y su imparable avance tecnologico que lo situa a la cabeza de las vanguardias especializadas. Este enigma cautiva a especialistas de todos los campos de investigacion que no han sido capaces de dar respuesta independientemente a la incognita del pais del sol naciente. Por eso este volumen pretende unir las investigaciones, estudios y analisis de diferentes disciplinas que ayuden a resolver el enigma japones. El hilo conductor de todas las aportaciones es el del...
Japon sigue siendo un misterio para los europeos que han sentido el hipnotismo y la magia de este pais por su apego a la tradicion y su imparable avan...
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685,34 |
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Kinbaku: The Art of Rope Bondage
ISBN: 9780957627505 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kinbaku is the Japanese word for rope bondage: In the west it is often referred to as Shibari. Although it originated in Japan as a means of restraint and torture, during the last hundred years it has also been used as an activity which gives emotional, physical, and visual pleasure for the participants. Nawashi Murakawa, the Artistic Director of the annual London festival of the Art of Japanese Rope Bondage provides the historical context for the practice which goes back 12000 years. He also explains how Kinbaku has developed as a dramatic art form which is performed in front of audiences in...
Kinbaku is the Japanese word for rope bondage: In the west it is often referred to as Shibari. Although it originated in Japan as a means of restraint...
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British Asian Theatre: Dramaturgy, Process and Performance
ISBN: 9780230211391 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An introduction to British Asian theatre over the past 30 years. Hingorani explores and examines productions from major British Asian theatre companies (including Tara Arts, Tamasha, Kali Theatre), providing students with the theoretical tools and practical examples with which to study the performance practices of British Asian theatre.
An introduction to British Asian theatre over the past 30 years. Hingorani explores and examines productions from major British Asian theatre companie...
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Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era
ISBN: 9780230366480 / Angielski / Twarda / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore.
Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the As...
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201,72 |
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Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater
ISBN: 9780231146586 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyo and ko-joruri puppet theaters, many translated into English for the first time. Both poignant and disturbing, they range from stories of cruelty and brutality to tales of love, charity, and outstanding filial devotion, representing the best of early Edo-period literary and performance traditions and acting as important precursors to the Bunraku and Kabuki styles of theater. As works of Buddhist fiction, these texts relate the histories and miracles of particular buddhas, bodhisattvas,...
Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyo and ko-joruri puppet theaters, many translat...
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Gladiator Games: Sheffield Theatres with Theatre Royal Stratford East Present
ISBN: 9781840026245 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offenders Institution, Zahid Mubarek, a young British-Asian man, was attacked by his racist cellmate. One week later he died of his injuries. How was this allowed to happen? Based on evidence and interviews given to the Zahid Mubarek Inquiry, this new play traces the Mubarek family's pursuit of the truth. On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offenders Institution, Zahid Mubarek, a young British-Asian man, was attacked by his racist cellmate.... |
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Sugar Mummies
ISBN: 9781840026559 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welcome to the twenty-first century, where women travel across the world in search of sex, love, and liberation but the reality is that hard cash equals hard men. Sugar Mummies is a funny, provocative, and revealing study of the pleasures and pitfalls of female sex tourism by the author of Gladiator Games. Welcome to the twenty-first century, where women travel across the world in search of sex, love, and liberation but the reality is that hard cash e... |
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What Fatima Did
ISBN: 9781840029765 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - A] lively provocative play. . . . This is the work of a writer with a future.--Guardian
- A] lively provocative play. . . . This is the work of a writer with a future.--Guardian
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On Thrones of Gold
ISBN: 9780674734036 / Angielski / Twarda / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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281,57 |
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Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre
ISBN: 9781433105357 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre provides both rigorous readings of dramatic works as well as a historical overview of Chinese theatre from the 1980s to the present. Expressionism becomes a discursive locus to be incorporated and even transformed during a critical phase in the modernization of Chinese drama during the post-Maoist era.
Six leading Chinese dramatists (Gao Xingjian, Lin Zhaohua, Huang Zuolin, Xu Xiaozhong, Meng Jinghui, and Stan Lai) are clear representatives of opening up a new world of modern Chinese drama. They embody each of the... Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre provides both rigorous readings of dramatic works as well as a historical ove...
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Khandan (Family)
ISBN: 9781783190935 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when the legacy of a father collides with the dreams of his son?
Widow Jeeto Gill has spent her life working hard and making sacrifices for her children. Now she looks forward to going back to her land in the Punjab, eating saag and roti on a verandah and letting her tired eyes rest on green fields. Her son Pal seems to have it all but he's restless. He's got big plans for his Daddy's business and a taste for Johnny Walker Black Label. However his kind-hearted wife Liz has her own ideas about what's best. Meanwhile Pal's sharp-tongued sister Cookie runs the tackiest beauty... What happens when the legacy of a father collides with the dreams of his son?
Widow Jeeto Gill has spent her life working hard and making sacrific... |
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The Husbands
ISBN: 9781783191130 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -There's a hint of Margaret Atwood in Chauhan's fictional world, and a great deal of the intractable issues that gnaw away at feminists.- - Guardian
-Chauhan playfully inverts the assumed power struggles in a polyandrous society ...a satisfyingly intriguing premise and Chauhan's writing builds up this odd situation so that our perspectives are constantly shifting.- - Time Out London It's Aya's wedding day. Her third. Her current two husbands aren't too fussed. In a society in which there are few women, that's just what happens. But as the household prepares for the... -There's a hint of Margaret Atwood in Chauhan's fictional world, and a great deal of the intractable issues that gnaw away at feminists.- - Guardia...
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Lightness of Being in China: Adaptation and Discursive Figuration in Cinema and Theater
ISBN: 9780820445434 / Angielski / Twarda / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study investigates how ideological discourses in China, especially the national-culture and social-class discourses, dictate cinematic and theatrical figuration. It focuses on a few groups of figures, on screen or stage, to explore their changes (refigurations) as they are adapted from literary texts. It illustrates how social and cultural concerns, at various moments in recent Chinese history, wrestle with each other for an ideologically figurative genesis. Providing insightful contextual overviews supported by the richness of textual details, the study promotes an educated...
This study investigates how ideological discourses in China, especially the national-culture and social-class discourses, dictate cinematic and theatr...
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264,13 |
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Bhatti: Plays One: Besharam; Behzti; Behud; Fourteen; Khandan
ISBN: 9781783191307 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti has written extensively for stage, screen and radio. Her first play Behsharam (Shameless) broke box office records when it was produced in 2001. Her second play Behzti (Dishonour) won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2005. Behzti rocked the world of theatre when it was cancelled after protestsin Birmingham, forcing the playwright into hiding. The play's closure sparked an international debate about offence and freedom of expression. In 2014, Khandan (Family) was co-produced by the Birmingham Rep and the Royal Court Theatre. This is her first...
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti has written extensively for stage, screen and radio. Her first play Behsharam (Shameless) broke box office records when it...
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