Christopher Bigsby 
Viewing America [PDF ebook] 
Twenty-First-Century Television Drama

The noted literary critic delves into the psychology and significance of American hardboiled crime fiction and film noir of the 1930s and ’40s. Early in the twentieth century, American crime novelist …

In this picaresque novel, Charlotte Clarke recalls her life as an actress, and in particular, the difficulties facing a woman trying to make her way in a man”s world. The issues of women”s writing, …

Monologues are an essential part of every actor”s toolkit. Actors need them for drama school entry, training, showcases and when auditioning for roles in the industry. Edited by Dee Cannon, author o …

This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritual, nature of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowsk …

Rhythm is often referred to as one of the key elements of performance and acting, being of central importance to both performance making and training. Yet what is meant by this term and how it is app …

The bestselling guide for children and their parents, revised and updated for 2018 with new legislation and laws for performing children. Performing children have a very special existence which somet …

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 …

First published in 2003. Wildly popular in their own day, Victorian burlesques are now little read, scarcely studied, and never performed. Giving long overdue emphasis to an unjustly neglected theatr …

From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare”s King Lear or Sarah Kane”s Cleansed, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman”s His Dark Materials trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging o …

Child characters feature more numerously and prominently in the Shakespearean canon than in that of any other early modern playwright. Focusing on stage and film productions from the past four decade …