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Auditioning for the Musical Theatre
ISBN: 9780140104998 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "Audition Doctor" of Backstage shares the secrets of successful auditioning for the musical theatre.
Fred Silver uses his twenty-five years of experience in the theatre, training thousands of actors, to give vital advice on: .Choosing the right voice teacher or vocal coach .Why auditioning for a musical is different from auditioning for a play .Choosing the right material .How to act a song .What to sing at a callback .How to handle the accompanist .What to wear to auditions .How to "sell" a comedy number .How to handle stage fright ... The "Audition Doctor" of Backstage shares the secrets of successful auditioning for the musical theatre.
Fred Silver uses his twenty-five ... |
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92,48 |
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African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 9780195127256 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African American Performance and Theater History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America. Assembled by two esteemed scholars in black theater, Harry J. Elam, Jr. and David Krasner, and composed of essays from acknowledged authorities in the field, this anthology is organized into four sections representative of the ways black theater, drama, and performance interact and enact continual social, cultural, and political dialogues. Ranging from a discussion of dramatic performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin...
African American Performance and Theater History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and p...
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231,29 |
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Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres
ISBN: 9780198711582 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By bringing together evidence from different sources--documentary, archaeological, and the play-texts themselves--Staging Shakespeare's Theatres reconstructs the ways in which the plays were originally staged in the theaters of Shakespeare's own time, and shows how the physical possibilities and limitations of these theaters affected both the writing and the performances. The book explains the conditions under which the early playwrights and players worked, their preparation of the plays for the stage, and their rehearsal practices. It looks at the quality of evidence supplied by the...
By bringing together evidence from different sources--documentary, archaeological, and the play-texts themselves--Staging Shakespeare's Theatres recon...
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138,50 |
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Mechanical Design for the Stage
ISBN: 9780240806310 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing the basic engineering formulas needed to predict the forces torques, speeds, and power required by a given move, this title describes the most common power transmission components used in stage.
Providing the basic engineering formulas needed to predict the forces torques, speeds, and power required by a given move, this title describes the mo...
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254,64 |
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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780252066962 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology
Promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture,...
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132,18 |
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Theatre Backstage from A to Z: Revised and Expanded
ISBN: 9780295977171 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This invaluable guide to theatrical production includes up-to-date definitions of all technical aspects of stagecraft, including the many advances in the past decade, particularly in the areas of trusses, rigging, and automated lights and their control. More than 200 terms, along with 25 new drawings, have been added, many existing definitions have been expanded and drawings revised to include new technological developments, and World Wide Web addresses have been added to the List of Manufacturers and Distributors and to the Bibliography. At the same time, older terminology and definitions... This invaluable guide to theatrical production includes up-to-date definitions of all technical aspects of stagecraft, including the many advances ... |
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179,38 |
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Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre
ISBN: 9780306801136 / Angielski / Miękka / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing equally from Viennese operetta, Parisian cabaret, vaudeville, and Tin Pan Alley, the American musical theatre has thrived in an unprecedented variety of forms and styles as our truest hybrid art. From Show Boat and Oklahoma to West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, and A Chorus Line, the musical has attracted our finest actors, composers, writers, directors, and choreographers. The greats and near-greats are finally brought together in this essential reference guide to over 2,000 personalities, productions, and songs of the musical theatre in both New...
Drawing equally from Viennese operetta, Parisian cabaret, vaudeville, and Tin Pan Alley, the American musical theatre has thrived in an unprecedented ...
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126,19 |
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A Practical Handbook for the Actor
ISBN: 9780394744124 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This simple and essential book about the craft of acting describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the Actor is written for any actor who has ever experienced the frustrations of acting classes that lacked clarity and objectivity, and that failed to provide a dependable set of tools. An actor's job, the authors state, is to -find a way to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the play.- The...
This simple and essential book about the craft of acting describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in thei...
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Sanford Meisner on Acting
ISBN: 9780394750590 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This book follows one of his acting classes for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, it is essential reading for beginning and professional actors alike.Throughout these pages Meisner is a delight always empathizing with his students and urging them onward, provoking emotion, laughter, and growing technical mastery from his charges.
With an... Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This book follows one of his acting classes for fifteen month...
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69,36 |
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American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History
ISBN: 9780415025805 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This stunning contribution to the field of theatre history is the first in-depth look at avant-garde theatre in the United States from the early 1950s to the 1990s. American Avant-Garde Theatre offers a definition of the avant-garde, and looks at its origins and theoretical foundations by examining:
*Gertrude Stein *John Cage *The Beat writers *Avant-garde cinema *Abstract Expressionism *Minimalism There are fascinating discussions and illustrations of the productions of the Living Theatre, the Wooster Group, Open Theatre, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre and... This stunning contribution to the field of theatre history is the first in-depth look at avant-garde theatre in the United States from the early 1950s...
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759,15 |
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Broadway Theatre
ISBN: 9780415105200 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Broadway has been the stuff of theatrical legends for generations. In this fascinating and affectionate account of a unique theatrical phenomenon, Andrew Harris takes a look at both the reality and the myth behind the heart and soul of American drama.
Broadway has been the stuff of theatrical legends for generations. In this fascinating and affectionate account of a unique theatrical phenomenon, And...
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254,64 |
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Radical Street Performance : An International Anthology
ISBN: 9780415152303 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume collates the writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street theatre around the world. The essays explore the forms these performances can take: agit-prop; invisible theatre; demonstrations and rallies; direct action; puppetry; parades and pageants; performance art; guerrilla theatre; and circuses. The essays look at performances in Europe, Africa, China, India and both the Americas. They describe engagement with issues as diverse as abortion, colonialism, the environment and homophobia.
This volume collates the writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street theatre around the...
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710,17 |
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Commedia Dell'Arte: A Handbook for Troupes
ISBN: 9780415204088 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A companion to John Rudlin's best-selling Commedia dell'Arte: A Handbook for Actors, this book covers both the history and professional practice of commedia dell'arte companies from 1568 to the present day. Indispensable for both the beginner and the professional, it contains historical and contemporary company case histories, details on company organisation, and tips on practical stagecraft.
Essential for students and practitioners, this book enables the reader to understand how successful commedia dell'arte companies function, and how we can learn from past and current practice... A companion to John Rudlin's best-selling Commedia dell'Arte: A Handbook for Actors, this book covers both the history and professional pract...
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759,15 |
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The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons
ISBN: 9780415270267 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cecil Davies' The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons represents a uniquely interesting contribution to our understanding of touring British theatre in the mid-twentieth-century, post-war period. This book will interest everyone - whether student, academic or general reader - who wants to know more about issues concerning the recent history of British theatre. In their values and aims, the Adelphi Players pre-empted many of the post-war developments that we associate with the non-commercial, fringe and community theatre movement. In Richard Heron Ward founder of the...
Cecil Davies' The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons represents a uniquely interesting contribution to our understanding of touring Brit...
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710,17 |
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Classical Hollywood Comedy
ISBN: 9780415906401 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Classical Hollywood Comedy applies the recent return to history in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywod comedy, as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in the field. This anthology combines detailed case studies of specific films and filmmakers, with overviews of general theoretical and questions. The book as a whole considers film comedy's roots in other forms of popular culture, its place within industry practice, the shifting relationship to the audience, and its gradual integration into the normative of the studio film narrative. Within this...
Classical Hollywood Comedy applies the recent return to history in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywod comedy, as well as broadening the d...
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205,65 |
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Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio: Theory, Text and Performance
ISBN: 9780415979153 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare's plays that are based on the texts of the first 'complete' volume of Shakespeare's works: the First Folio of 1623. Do extra syllables in a line suggest how it might be played? Can Folio commas reveal character? Don Weingust places this work on Folio performance possibility within current understandings about Shakespearean text, describing ways in which these challenging theories about acting often align quite nicely with the work of the theories' critics. ...Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare's plays that are based on the... |
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Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio: Theory, Text and Performance
ISBN: 9780415979160 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare's plays that are based on the texts of the first 'complete' volume of Shakespeare's works: the First Folio of 1623. Do extra syllables in a line suggest how it might be played? Can Folio commas reveal character? Don Weingust places this work on Folio performance possibility within current understandings about Shakespearean text, describing ways in which these challenging theories about acting often align quite nicely with the work of the theories' critics. ...Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare's plays that are based on the... |
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200,76 |
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A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method
ISBN: 9780452261983 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The definitive source book on acting. Los Angeles Times
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Hopper, Robert DeNiro, Marilyn Monroe, and Joanne Woodward these are only a few of the many actors training in Method acting by the great and legendary Lee Strasberg. This revolutionary theory of acting developed by Stanislavskiand continued by Strasberg has been a major influence on the art of acting in our time. During his last decade, Strasberg devoted himself to a work that would explain once and for all what The Method was and how it worked, as well as... The definitive source book on acting. Los Angeles Times
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Hopper, Rober... |
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69,36 |
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Staging the Holocaust: The Shoah in Drama and Performance
ISBN: 9780521035200 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers Holocaust plays 'in performance' and the legitimacy of presenting the Holocaust on the stage.
This book considers Holocaust plays 'in performance' and the legitimacy of presenting the Holocaust on the stage.
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302,65 |
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Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women
ISBN: 9780521039024 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study shows how theater was an important feature of convent life from the early fifteenth century, probably in all of Catholic Europe and its colonies. For this study, mainly devoted to Tuscany, the author has found an extensive corpus of theatrical works of convent provenance, which argues for the widespread practice of theater in the convents. She traces its chief characteristics--what the nuns' own writings tell us about their literacy and that of their audiences, and how their lives and work intersect with secular society and literary culture.
This study shows how theater was an important feature of convent life from the early fifteenth century, probably in all of Catholic Europe and its col...
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233,87 |
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