Edmond Rostand 
Cyrano de Bergerac [PDF ebook] 

The performing arts are uniquely capable of translating a vision of an ideal or sacred reality into lived practice, allowing an audience to confront deeply held values and beliefs as they observe a p …

Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the constructi …

The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s – and which was quickly exported abroad – expressed the moral struggle between good and evil thr …

Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary African world as today. Joke-Performance in Africa describes and ana …

This title was first published in 2003. In this new socio-cultural study of the history of the theatre in early modern England, author Paola Pugliatti investigates the question of why, in the Tudor a …

Tang Xianzu (1550–1616) is acclaimed as the  »Shakespeare of the East » and widely regarded as China »s greatest playwright, yet his work has not reached Western readers in its entirety. The Complete …

An international arts organisation and network engaging with music, dance, theatre and visual art, Phakama creates adventurous, site-responsive performances with large groups of people from diverse b …

Women’s Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women’s Theater (1650–1750) argues that women playwrights question traditional views on women through their heroines. Denied the powers of cle …

 »Essential reading for any young actor » Dame Maggie Smith Competition for acting work is fierce and talent is not necessarily enough. Actors need all the help they can get with all aspects of the p …

This book offers a wealth of resources, critical overviews and detailed analysis of Ivo van Hove »s internationally acclaimed work as the foremost director of theatre, opera and musicals in our time. …