National Gallery of Canada, 1975. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 60 pages. 9 by 12 inches. Catalog for a circulating exhibition. Text in English and French, printed in black and orange. Illustrated. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Ghost of a sticker scar on the cover.....
Pacific Puppetry Center Press / Tears of Joy Theatre, 1990. Trade Paperback. 117 pages. Published on the occasion of the 1990 conference by the Union Internationale de la Marionnette - International Puppetry Association in Vancouver, WA. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Light bump to one corner.....
Andover Road Press, 1989. Trade Paperback. 166 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Barstow was a master teacher of the Alexander Technique. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A bit musty.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998. Hardcover. 207 pages. 'This book traces the history of commedia from its beginnings through many transformations to its rediscovery in the experimental theater of today' -- from the front flap. With 181 illustrations including 75 in full color. A fine copy in a fine dust.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 218 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, dated 2002. To those whose only exposure to acting are the films of Hollywood, Zoe Caldwell remains a......
Bantam, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 132 pages. Published simultaneously in the US. First Canadian edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Light spotting to page block.
California Theatre Council, 1981. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Includes 'Intrigue at Ah-pah' by The Dell'Arte Players. Illustrations in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). A few shallow creases to the covers but a nice, square copy.
University of Georgia Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 198 pages. The author takes “dramatic criticism beyond its traditional emphasis on the play’s text toward a theory of theater that more fully incorporates performance [with] a reinterpretation of six comedies taken from classical Greek, Renaissance, and modern repertoires, Gruber shows how.....
Princeton University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 291 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bali's shadow puppet theater, like others in Southeast Asia, is a complex tradition with many conventions that puzzle Western observers. Mary Zurbuchen demonstrates how the linguistic codes of this.....
Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998. Trade Paperback. 78 pages. 6-3/4 by 9-3/4 inches. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). In the first volume of his "Mask: A Release of Acting Resources" David Griffiths examines the present state of actor-training, and surveys past experiments and styles developed by Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Grotowski.....
Tilbury House, 1995. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 254 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by both authors.
The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2000. Hardcover. 7-1/2 by 10-1/4 inches. 352 pages. 'A Chronicle of the Many Visages of Mime in the Theater.' Illustrated in black-and-white. A near fine copy; no dust jacket. One of the few studies covering the historical flow of mime from its beginnings to postmodern movement.....
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 1993. Trade Paperback. 144 pages. 10 by 13-1/2 inches. On the Czech artist, designer and director. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Light edge wear. Josef Svobada was one of the most influential stage designers of the 20th century. This memoir of.....
Bobbs-Merril, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 240 pages. A “perceptive and wide-ranging investigation of the magic and mystery of the mask and in particular of the universal significance of the concept of the mask as it is and has been expressed in the arts” – from the front flap. With 121.....
University of Washington Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. 236 pages. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup'ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of.....
Columbia University Press, 1969. Hardcover. 306 pages. A very good copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with light fading to the spine.
University of Illinois Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. 260 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
University of California Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 237 pages. Illustrations in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Former owner's sticker on the front free endpaper.
Oxford University Press, 2020. Hardcover. Later printing. A fine in a near fine dust jacket. This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to.....
Personabooks, 1992. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 68 pages. By the dancer, mime, educator, and close associate of Marcel Marceau. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Theatre Arts Books, 1979. Trade Paperback. 96 pages. First Published in 1995. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Fading to spine and edges.
Theatre Communications Group, January 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Landmark summary of 13 meetings that brought together more than 120 artistic directors from the nation's leading nonprofit professional theatres.
Wesleyan University Press, 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Minor edge wear. With the unopened CD. Short gift inscription on title page. A polyphonic study of Balinese aesthetics that broadens an intercultural understanding of performance.A scholar and trained performer of Balinese vocal music and dance, ethnomusicologist Edward Herbst.....
Northwestern University Press, 1984. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Edge wear. The sixteen essays collected in The Theater of Essence define the point of view of one of the most influential theater critics of our time. Jan Kott's subjects extend from Tadeusz Borowski, Ibsen, Ionesco, and Gogol to.....
Univ of Miami Pr, 1982. Trade Paperback. 153 pages. Reprint edition; first published in 1969. In the Rare Books of the Theatre series. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Spine lightly faded.