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 Augusto
Boal
Frances Babbage
This entry into the Routledge Performance Practitioners series offers
a biographical and historical overview of Boal's career as a playwright
and a director, an in-depth analysis of Theatre of the Oppressed, his
classic text on radical theatre, an exploration of training and production
techniques, and practical guidance to the Theatre of the Oppressed workshop
materials. Softcover, 155 pp. $25.95.
 Cirque
du Soleil: 20 Years Under the Sun
Tony Babinski & Kristian Manchester
Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Cirque du Soleil,
this beguiling retrospective is told by the artists and performers themselves.
Illustrated cover-to-cover, with over 300 photographs, this beautiful
volume captures all of the magic that has made Cirque du Soleil an international
phenomenon. Hardcover, Colour and B&W photographs, 352 pp. $75.00.
 Front
Row: Evenings at the Theatre
Beryl Bainbridge
Front Row is a collection of Beryl Bainbridge's best writing about the theatre.
It contains fascinating insights into the work of such contemporaries
as Alan Bennett, Alan Rickman and Ronald Harwood, alongside amusing sketches
of the actors Bainbridge worked with in her early years, including Judith
Chalmers and Billy Whitelaw. And in the her autobiographical introduction,
Beryl Bainbridge evokes all the magic that the footlights possess for
her. Hardcover, 214 pp. $36.95.
 Burlesque
and the New Bump-n-Grind
Michelle Baldwin
Though burlesque has survived in the back of our cultural consciousness
after being pushed aside by modern stripping in the 50s, the revival
that began in the early 90s has finally brought burlesque back into the
forefront of popular culture. This beautifully illustrated profile of
everything burlesque introduces the reader to the historical, aesthetic,
and social aspects of the "new bump-n-grind". Softcover, $34.95.
 Backwards & Forwards:
A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
David Ball
This guide to play reading for
students and practitioners of both theater and literature compliments,
rather than contradicts traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.
Useful for people who put on plays and for playwrights because the structures
it describes are the primary tools of the playwright. $20.95.
 The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies
Christopher B. Balme
Providing thorough coverage of the methods and tools required in studying historical and contemporary theatre, this introduction examines the complexities of a rapidly changing and dynamic discipline. Softcover, 230 pp. $23.95.
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Volume1: Conversations
Bruce Barber
Since the early 1960s, the field of performance studies has been fed by the thoery-building and historical writings of artist participants. As the first recognizable performmance scholar in Canada, Bruce Barber's published writings of the last three decades hace consistently displayed a convincing expertise and digestible fluency. This, the first of two volumes, contains a selection of Barber's interviews with some of the world's most influential performance artists. Softcover, 141 pp. $29.95.
 Death,
The One, and The Art of Theatre
Howard Barker
This is Howard Barker's latest collection of distinctive and revelatory
philosophical musings on theatre. It is a stunning array of speculations,
deductions, prose poems and poetic reflections that cast a unique and
unflinching light on the nature of tragedy, erotocism, love and theatre.
Softcover, 105 pp. $32.95.
 About
Pinter: The Playwright & the Work
Mark Batty
In About Pinter, Mark Batty provides a critical study of the
work of one of our most significant living dramatists. A wide variety of interviews
with Harold Pinter and those who have brought his plays to the stage -- including
Lindsay Duncan, Peter Hall, David Leveaux and Joseph Losey -- offers fresh
insights into his writing and the experience of confronting his work in the
rehearsal room and auditorium. This stimulating collection of archive and original
material is an invaluable guide to Pinter and his work for stage and screen.
Softcover, 251 pp. $20.00.
 A Sourcebook of African-American
Performance: Plays, People, Movements
Annemarie Bean
Included are articles,
essays, manifestos and interviews on theater on the professional,
revolutionary and college stages; concert dance; community
activism; step shows; performance art previously published
in TDR. Also includes the plays Sally's Rape and The
America Play. $37.99.
 The
Origin of German Tragic Drama
Walter Benjamin
The Orgin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and
original work. Translated by John Osborne, this text offers us Benjamin's remarkable
ideas about art of the 16th and 17th century, particularly baroque tragedy.
Serious students of theatre will not want to be without this seminal book of
theory. Softcover, 256 pp. $29.00.
 All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater
Benjamin Bennett
All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater is the first book to consider
why, in the Western tradition (and only in the Western tradition),
theatrical drama is regarded as its own literary or poetic type,
when the criteria needed to differentiate drama from other forms
of writing do not resemble the criteria by which types of prose
or verse are ordinarily distinguised. Bennett's historical investigations
into theoretical works ranging from Aristotle to Artaud, Brecht,
and Diderot suggest that the attempt to include drama in the system
of Western literature causes certain specific incongruities that,
in his view, have the salutary effect of preserving the otherwise
endangered possibility of a truly liberal, progressive or revolutionary
literature. Hardcover, 241 pp. $51.95.
 Bentley
on Brecht
Eric Bentley
Never in the history of theatre has one writer had such influence over the
destinty and historical and critical perception of another. Eric Bentley has
been Bertolt Brecht's other, offstage voice almost since the two met at UCLA
in 1942. Just as Brecht in his great works reshaped the modern theatre, Bentley
in his writings on Brecht dictated the playwright and poet's literary fate
for the U.S. and beyond. Eric Bentley collects a lifetime of critical and personal
thoughts of his friend and great subject in Bentley on Brecht.
Softcover, 512 pp. $29.00.
Theatre, Performance, and the Historical Avant-Garde
Gunter Berghaus
This volume examines the performance aesthetics of four major art movements: Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Constructivism. After outlining the orgins and general characteristics of the historical avant-garde, this study offers detailed coverage of key performances undertaken by artists, usually outside the conventional theatre environment. Gunter Berghaus identifies paths and trajectories through a complex artistic terrain, often referred to as "Art Performances," and surveys trends and events that had a fundamental influence on the development of a modern theatre practice. Softcover, 374 pp. $40.00.
 On
the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
Marshall Berman
Interleafing his own recollections with astute social commentary, esteemed
scholar Marshall Berman reveals how movies, graphic arts, literature,
popular music, television, and, of course, the Broadway theatre have
reflected Times Square's voluminous light to illuminate a vast spectrum
of
themes
and vignettes. Part love letter, part revelatory semiotic exposition
of a place known to all, On the Town is a nonstop excursion to the
heart of
American civilization, written by one of America's keenest, most
entertaining cultural observers. Hardcover, 264 pp. $35.95.
 The Performance Studies Reader
Henry Bial
The emergent field of performance studies has for some time required
a major collection of key writings. The Performance Studies Reader successfully
fulfils this need and provides a magnificent selection of the most engaging,
illuminating work ever written on performance. Included are essays by
Richard Schechner, Eugenio Barba, Marvin Carlson, Judith Butler, Jon
McKenzie, Homi K. Bhabha, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Jerry Grotowski.
Softcover, 329 pp. $38.95.
 Arthur
Miller : A Critical Study
Christopher Bigsby
In this comprehensive and stimulating study, Christopher Bigsby explores the
entirety of Arthur Miller's work, including plays, poetry, fiction and films.
Drawing on interviews conducted over the last twenty years, on unique rehearsal
material and research archives, he paints a compelling picture of how Miller's
works were influenced by and created in the light of events of the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries. Softcover, 514 pp. $55.95.
 Performance, Technology, & Science
Johannes Birringer
This fascinating volume explores interactive performance, installations, and Internet art in theatre, dance, and visual arts, as well as in the worlds of fashion, games, architecture, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The work of numerous internationally renowned artists, theatres, and dance companies demonstrates how techno-cultural shifts have transformed the digital into a mainstream phenomenon on a global scale, articulating startling views of the contemporary body. Softcover, 338 pp. $27.50.
 Living Justice: Love, Freedom, and the Making of The Exonerated
Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen
In 2000, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen embarked on a tour across America.
They were a pair of young actors from New York who wanted to learn
more about the country's exonerated -- men and women who had been sentenced
to die for crimes they didn't commit, and who were freed amidst overwhelming
evidence of their innocence. The result of their journey was The Exonerated. Living Justice is Jessica and Erik's fascinating account
of the creation of their play. Softcover, 310 pp. $19.00.
 The Routledge Guide to Broadway
Ken Bloom
This is an A-to-Z reference guide aimed at students of performance, theatre history, direction and production, as well as anyone with an interest in Broadway. Includes a comprehensive history of Broadway theatre, focusing on key performers, writers, directors, plays, musicals, and the folklore of Broadway. Softcover, 288 pp. $23.95.
 The
Aesthetics of the Oppressed
Augusto Boal
In this latest despatch, Augusto Boal communicates his inspirational vision
-- articulating and expanding upon the practical and theoretical
foundations of the work which over the last thirty years has become
a vibrant international
theatre movement. The Aesthetics of the Oppressed describes the basis
of a practical theatre project which enables individuals to reclaim
themselves as subjects. Its central message is that we can discover
Art by discovering
our own creativity, and by discovering our creativity we discover ourselves.
Softcover, 133 pp. $39.95.
 Electoral Guerilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements
L.M. Bogad
Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic research, L.M. Bogad explores the recent phenomenon of satirical election campaigns. Electoral Guerrilla Theatre offers an entertaining and enlightening read for students working across a variety of disciplines, including performance studies, social science, cultural studies and politics. Softcover, 235 pp. $47.95.
 A
Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre
Anne Bogart
"I am interested in the artistic process. In order to approach the theatre
as artists, we should have a good look at our tools and how we make decisions.
How do we approach one another in the arena of a rehearsal or on a stage? How
do we begin, how do we proceed, and what are our allies?" This brief quote
from the introduction gives a glimpse of the extraordinary insight that Anne
Bogart offers into the creative process. A handbook, bible and manifesto all
in one from one of the most dynamic artistic minds working in the theatre today.
Softcover, 155pp, $23.95.
 The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Third Edition
Gerald Bordman & Thomas Hischak
This distinguished volume provides an up-to-date guide to the American stage
from its beginnings to the present. The Oxford Companion includes playwrights,
plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, famous playhouses, dramatic
movements, and much more, Accessible and authoritative, this valuable A-Z reference
is ideal not only for students and scholars of theatre, but anyone with a passion
for the stage. Hardcover, 681 pp. $120.00.
 The
Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee
Stephen Bottoms
Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights.
Now in his seventies, he is still writing challenging and award-winning dramas,
This collection of new essays on Albee, which include contributions from the
leading commentators on Albee's work, brings fresh critical insights to bear
by exploring the full scope of the playwright's career, from his 1959 breakthrough
with The Zoo Story to his most recent Broadway success, The
Goat, or Who is Sylvia?. Softcover, 263 pp. $34.95.
 The
Cambridge Companion to Moliere
David Bradby & Andrew Calder
A broad and detailed introduction to Moliere and his plays, this Companion
evokes his own theatrical career, his theatres and patrons, the performers
and theatre staff with whom he worked, and the various publics he
and his troups entertained with such success. It looks at his particular
brand of comedy and satire. L'Ecole des femmes, Le
Tartuffe, Dom
Juan, Le Misanthrope, L'Avare and Les
Femmes savantes are examined
from various different viewpoints. The comedies-ballet are reinstated
to the central position which they held in his oeuvre in Moliere's
own lifetime. The Companion looks at looks at modern directors' theatre,
exploring the central role played by productions of his work in successive
'revolutions' in the dramatic arts in France. Softcover, 242 pp.
$34.95.
 New Readings in Theatre History
Jacky Bratton
Over the last 200 years some important ways of understanding theatre
history have been undervalued or ignored by scholars. Leading theatre
historian Jacky Bratton employs new approaches to examine and challenge
this development, and to discover how theatre history has been chronicled
and how it is interpreted. Softcover, 238 pp. $36.00.
 Meyerhold: A Revolution
in the Theatre
Edward Braun
The most innovative Russian theatre
director of the 20th century. The definitive study of Meyerhold's theatrical
genius which will inspire a new generation of students. Essential reading
for those who wish to gain a greater understanding of the growth of culture
in 20th century Europe. $36.95.
 The
Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama
A.R. Braunmuller and MIchael Hattaway
This second edition of the Companion offers students up-to-date
factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres,
playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama,
from about 1580 to 1642. Several of the essays have been thoroughly
revised and all the references updated; the substantial biographical
and bibliographical section has been revised. Softcover, 463 pp.
$34.95.
 The
Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre
Peter Brook
From his King Lear to The Tragedy of Carmen,
from Marat/Sade to the epic Mahabharata, Peter Brook has reinvented modern
theatre, not once but again and again. In The Open Door the
visionary director and theorist offers a lucid and comprehensive exposition
of the philosophy that underlies his work. Fresh in its insights and elegant
in its prose, this personal reflection is an unparalleled look at what happens
both onstage and behind the scenes. Softcover, 145 pp. $17.00.
 Between Two Silences: Talking With Peter Brook
"This book of Brook in dialogue is an opening to amazement
for all of us who work in the theatre, or teach it or think about
it." Ranging widely over many topics, this book is the result
of twelve hours of spontaneous answers and questions with theatre
students in a university setting. $17.95.
 The Empty Space
Peter Brook
One of the world's most famous
directors gives us the distillation of his knowledge and experience
of the theatre. A brilliant book, should be read by many besides those
passionate few to whom it will be required reading. $16.99.
 Millenial Stages: Essays and Reviews: 2001-2005
Robert Brunstein
In this wise, witty, and wide-ranging collection of recent writings, Robert
Brustein examines critical issues relating to theatre in the post-9/11
years, analyzing specific plays, emerging and established performers,
and theatrical production throughout the world. Brustein relates
our theatre to our society in a manner that reminds us why the
performing arts matter. Hardcover, 282 pp. $49.00.
 Maiden
Voyages: Ship's Company Theatre Premieres 2000-2002
Scott Burke
Three plays from Nova Scotia's Ship's Company Theatre: Chairmaker the Musical, Miles
from Home, and Sole Survivors. Softcover, 191 pp. $22.95.
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Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays
The American Theatre Reader: Essays and Conversations from American Theatre Magazine
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Cabaret
The
Broadview Anthology of Restoration & Early 18th Century Drama
Black Theatre
Speaking in Tongues: Language at Play in the Theatre
Performance: A Critical Introduction
Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution
An Introduction to: The Art of Theatre
The Theatre of Societas Raffaello Sanzio
The
Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company
Juilliard
Women
in American Theatre
The Fervent Years
The Stuff
of Dreams
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Boal Companion
The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama
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