Radical Acts: Theatre and Feminist Pedagogies of Change
Aunt Lute Books, June 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
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Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
NYU Press, October 1996. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks.....
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The Great White Hope (Playbill) [Cover title]
Arena Stage, 1967. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Program for the Pulitzer Prize-winning stage production starring James Earl Jones as Jack Jefferson, a role he would reprise for the movie adaptation. First edition (first printing). Very good in stapled wrappers (paperback). Light fading to the spine end.
Towards a New Theatre / Vers un theatre nouveau: Edward Gordon Craig and Hamlet
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.....
Marjorie Barstow: Her Teaching and Training (Second edition)
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.
West Coast Plays 8
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.
The Language of Balinese Shadow Theater
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.....
Mime Spoken Here : The Performer's Portable Workshop
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.
From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond: Mimes, Actors, Pierrots and Clowns
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.....
The Secret of Theatrical Space: The Memoirs of Josef Svoboda
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.....
Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer: Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu/Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell
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.....
The Actors' Analects (Study in Oriental Culture)
Columbia University Press, 1969. Hardcover. 306 pages. A very good copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with light fading to the spine.
Women in Beckett: Performance and Critical Perspectives
University of Illinois Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. 260 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Masks in Modern Drama
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.
The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes
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.....
Actions Speak Louder: A Workbook for Actors
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).
The Actor's Ways and Means (An H.E.B. paperback)
Theatre Arts Books, 1979. Trade Paperback. 96 pages. First Published in 1995. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Fading to spine and edges.
The Artistic Home: Discussions with Artistic Directors of America's Institutional Theatres
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.
Voices in Bali: Energies and Perceptions in Vocal Music and Dance Theater (Music / Culture)
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.....
Theater of Essence
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.....
Notes of a Director
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.
Julie Taymor, Playing With Fire: Theater Opera Film
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 208 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Light bumps to corners, remainder mark on bottom edge. A large, heavy book.
Acting in the Cinema
University of California Press, 1988. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 307 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). In this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. Ranging from the earliest short subjects of Charles.....
The Actor Alone: Exercises for Work in Progress
McFarland Publishing, July 1993. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). From little theater to Broadway, all productions have one thing in common: they need actors. Acting is the essence of theater at every level. The Actor Alone presents tried-and-true exercises for creative growth with or without coaches.....
The End of Acting: A Radical View (Applause Books)
Applause Theater Books, 1992. Trade Paperback. 305 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From Richard Hornby's preface: This book is written for those who act, those who teach acting, and those who are interested in seeing it. It is both a theoretical work and a call for action. This book.....