J. M. Synge 
Riders to the Sea [PDF ebook] 

Contemporary theatrical productions as diverse in form as experimental performance, new writing, West End drama, musicals and live art demonstrate a recurring fascination with adapting existing works …

Meyerhold on Theatre brings together in one volume Vsevolod Meyerhold”s most significant writings and utterances, and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939. It contains a comprehe …

Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked …

In this book, Susan Mandala offers a series of in-depth investigations into how the dialogue of four modern plays ”works” with respect to the pragmatic and discoursal norms postulated for ordinary …

Frustrating, nerve-wracking, job-winning or job-losing, flawed yet necessary – auditioning is a maddening business for everyone involved. The people behind the audition desk are looking for a killer …

What is tango? Dance, music, and lyrics of course, but also a philosophy, a strategy, a commodity, even a disease. This book explores the politics of tango, tracing tango”s travels from the brothels …

A classic work of theatre history and criticism when first published, Arnold Aronson”s formative study surveyed the phenomenon known as environmental theatre. Now updated in this richly illustrated …

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain’s lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, wh …

This title was first published in 2000. This book offers a wide-ranging account of tragic drama from the Greeks to Arthur Miller. It puts forward a bold and vigorously developed argument about the re …

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. …