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Winner of the ASLE-UKI 2022 Book Prize From The Pastoral Players» 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary site-specific productions activist interventions, there is a rich history of open …

Through an examination of a range of performance works ranging from Jean Cocteau»s ballet The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party (1921) to Julie Taymor»s monumental production of Spider-Man: Turn off the D …

Brazilian Research on Creativity Development in Musical Interaction focuses on creativity that involves interactive musical activities, with different groups, such as professional musicians, students …

Gaining a view behind the scenes into the jobs and personalities of people who work in the theatre is a privilege afforded to few. This book grants that privilege to all its readers. Twenty-one highl …

Bill Bryden»s Cottesloe Company, which flourished at Peter Hall»s National Theatre, was the English theatre»s only true ensemble of the last thirty or so years. Impossible Plays tells the story of …

A boy wakes up in a field somewhere in London. He»s a door-to-door salesman: a pedlar boy. An encounter with an old acquaintance sends him into a frenzied questioning of everything: his life, his wo …

Focusing on the years between 1750 and 1860, this study follows the creation and perpetuation of an imperial culture, from the London metropole to the Great Plains. …

Programme Notes: Case Studies For Locating Experimental Theatre is a collection of commissioned essays, case studies and interviews reflecting the exciting and complex relationships between ‘mainstre …

Drawing on the generic and mythic strength of comedy and the theories of Bakhtin, Bergson, and Hobbes, this book identifies the radical nature of early modern English comedy. The satirical comedic ac …

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 …