Thompson James Thompson 
Applied Theatre [PDF ebook] 
Bewilderment and Beyond

The term liminal refers to a marginalized space of fertile chaos and creative potential where nothing is fixed or certain. Liminal performance is an emerging genre which has surfaced only in recent t …

Grzegorz Niziolek”s The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role …

This is a handbook for working in the creative arts, with an emphasis on imagination and receptivity: to our bodies, surroundings, materials, and to what we create. It puts particular emphasis upon t …

This practical book with illustrations links Alexander technique to acting, dancing and singing by the trainer of performers on The Lion King The Alexander Technique is a method of physical relaxatio …

This innovative study of nineteenth-century cellists and cello playing shows how simple concepts of posture, technique and expression changed over time, while acknowledging that many different practi …

First published in 1970, this book explores drama as literature and provides critical overviews of different aspects of drama and the dramatic. It first asks what a play is, before going on to examin …

On the 19th of August 1978, in the southern city of Abadan, Iran, during the screening of a controversial film called Gavaznaha (The Deer), the Cinema Rex was set alight from within. Four hundred peo …

Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the performance of Mozart”s works has greatly influenced students and scholars of keyboard lite …

Robert Icke”s thrilling and radical adaptations of some of the great texts of Western theatre have enthralled theatregoers in London, in New York and around the world. This is the first collection o …

‘I cannot think of a better book for aspiring and working actors, craftspeople, artists, and managers’ Kent Thompson, Artistic Director, Denver Center Theatre Company, Past President TCG Board of Dir …