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ROUGH
MAGIC
Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare Company
Steven Adler
Sep 2001 300pp, 34 b&w photographs 0-8093-2376-1 Hardback 0-8093-2377-X Paperback
This book provides an analysis of the workings of the
Royal Shakespeare Company from its beginnings in 1879 as a
week-long festival to its current incarnation. The company's
five theatres are looked at, as is the process of crafting a
reportoire and the RSC's four successive artistic
directors.
Southern Illinois University Press
THEATER
GAMES FOR THE LONE ACTOR
A Handbook
Viola Spolin
Sep 2001 144pp 0-8101-4010-1 Paperback
This handbook presents theatre games and side coaching
for the solo player. It contains over forty exercises which
allow actors to side coach themselves, at home, in
rehearsal, or in performance.
Northwestern University Press
SHOWTIME
IN CLEVELAND
The Rise of a Regional Theater Center
John Vacha
Aug 2001 264pp, 68 halftones 0-8733-8697-3 Paperback
This work takes the reader from Cleveland's first
professional theatrical presentation in 1820, through the
heyday of Vaudeville, to the grand reopening of the newly
renovated Allen Theatre in 1999 and the return of touring
Broadway shows to Cleveland.
Kent State University Press
SOUTHERN WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS
New Essays in Literary History and Criticism
Edited by Robert I. McDonald & Linda Roher Paige
Jul 2001 304pp 0-8173-1079-7 Hardback 0-8173-1080-0 Paperback
This collection addresses the neglected state of
scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing
together criticism on some important playwrights of the
twentieth century, including Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and
Lillian Hellman, as well as less studied writers such as
Naomi Wallace.
University of Alabama Press
WHAT THE WINE-SELLERS BUY PLUS THREE
Four Plays by Ron Milner
Ron Milner
Jul 2001 232pp 0-8143-2977-2 Hardback 0-8143-2929-2 Paperback
African American Life Series
The four plays in this collection - Checkmates, What
the Wine-sellers Buy, Jazz-Set and Urban
Transition - are characterized by their attention to
African American social and psychological culture.
Wayne State University Press
THEATRE
AND POLITICS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
A Publication of the Southeastern Theatre Conference
Edited by John C. Countryman & Noreen Barnes-McLain
Jun 2001 144pp 0-8173-1111-4 Paperback
Theatre Symposium, Volume 9
Political commentary is possible through "variety"
theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000
Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of
Tennessee-Knoxville, this collection of essays presents a
mix of theoretical and practical viewpoints from various
scholars.
University of Alabama Press
THE
LOST COLONY
A Symphonic Drama of American History
Paul Green
Edited by Laurence G. Avery
Jun 2001 160pp,15 illustrations - 0-8078-4970-7 Paperback
A rendering of the text of The Lost Colony. Paul Green's dramatic retelling of the founding and mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony (1867).
A model for outdoor theatre, the work combines song,
dance, drama, special effects and music to breathe life into
shadowy legend.
The University of North Carolina Press
THE FIRST BLACK ACTORS ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY
Susan Curtis
Mar 2001 304pp,16 illustrations 0-8262-1330-8 Paperback
This text relates the stories of the actors, stage
artists, critics and many others involved in the
groundbreaking production of Three Plays for a Negro
Theater. Curtis explores both the progress in race relations
that led to this production and the multi-faceted reasons
for its quick demise.
University of Missouri Press
SCHILLER'S
WOUND
The Theater of Trauma from Crisis to Commodity
Stephanie Hammer
Mar 2001 192pp 0-8143-2862-8 Hardback
Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
One of the founders of German national literature, Friedrich A. Schiller (1759-1805) was that country's most important neoclassical playwright.
In this text Stephanie Hammer shows that Schiller was
also one of the first self-conscious explorers of
psychological trauma in the theatre.
Wayne State University Press
IRELAND'S NATIONAL THEATERS
Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic
Movement
Mary Trotter
Mar 2001 232pp 0-8156-2888-9 Hardback 0-8156-2889-7 Paperback
Irish Studies
This title seeks to shed new light on to the history of
the Abbey Theatre and also examines the diverse groups,
political, religious, gender, and class oriented, that
consciously used performance to promote ideas about
nationalism and culture in Ireland of the 1900s.
Syracuse University Press
THE ACTOR'S ART
Conversations with Contemporary American Stage
Performers
Edited by Jackson R. Bryer & Richard A. Davison
Feb 2001 288pp, 15 b&w photographs 0-8135-2872-0 Hardback 0-8135-2873-9 Paperback
This collection offers insight into seventy-five years of
acting in the American theatre through interviews with
seventeen of its most accomplished performers, from Jessica
Tandy, who made her stage debut in 1927, to Nathan Lane, who
first appeared on Broadway in 1982.
Rutgers University Press
VISION, THE GAZE, AND THE FUNCTION OF THE SENSES IN CELESTINA
Jaimes F. Burke
Jan 2001 160pp 0-2710-2038-5 Hardback
Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures A rereading of
the late-medieval Spanish play, Celestina. It offers
an interpretation of the characters' actions by analysing
medieval theories of perception that would have influenced
the composition of the play, and draws on a range of texts
and thinkers, from Aquinas to Lacan.
Penn State University Press