Theatre & Performance Studies

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Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century)
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century) 4.45 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Towards a Poor Theatre
Towards a Poor Theatre 4.23 avg rating — 1,457 ratings
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The Empty Space
The Empty Space 4.19 avg rating — 4,774 ratings
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From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play
From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play 3.86 avg rating — 200 ratings
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An Actor Prepares
An Actor Prepares 4.09 avg rating — 5,026 ratings
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The Theatre and Its Double
The Theatre and Its Double 4.14 avg rating — 4,695 ratings
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The Art of Coarse Acting, Or, How To Wreck An Amateur Dramatic Society
The Art of Coarse Acting, Or, How To Wreck An Amateur Dramatic Society 4.26 avg rating — 144 ratings
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CRAIG ON THEATRE (Performance Books)
CRAIG ON THEATRE (Performance Books) 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Anne Bogart: Viewpoints
Anne Bogart: Viewpoints 4.12 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre
The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre 4.09 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Brecht on Theatre
Brecht on Theatre 4.18 avg rating — 1,332 ratings
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Just Before Jazz
Just Before Jazz 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Theatre of the Oppressed
Theatre of the Oppressed 4.24 avg rating — 1,530 ratings
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Contemporary Theatre in Egypt
Contemporary Theatre in Egypt 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning 4.22 avg rating — 3,665 ratings
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A Director Prepares
A Director Prepares 4.33 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
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Performance Theory
Performance Theory 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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History Of The Theatre
History Of The Theatre 3.97 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Performance Studies, An Introduction, Second Edition
Performance Studies, An Introduction, Second Edition 3.64 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Guerilla Guide to Performance Art: How to Make a Living as an Artist
Guerilla Guide to Performance Art: How to Make a Living as an Artist 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Performing Proximity: Curious Intimacies
Performing Proximity: Curious Intimacies 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Two Women in Their Time: The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance (Diverse Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Photobook Series)
Two Women in Their Time: The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance (Diverse Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Photobook Series) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Sex, Suffrage and the Stage: First Wave Feminism in British Theatre
Sex, Suffrage and the Stage: First Wave Feminism in British Theatre 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Shakespeare's London Theatreland: Archaeology, History and Drama
Shakespeare's London Theatreland: Archaeology, History and Drama 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Devising Theatre & Performance: Curious Methods
Devising Theatre & Performance: Curious Methods really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Hallie Flanagan: A Life in the Theatre
Hallie Flanagan: A Life in the Theatre 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Performance and Place
Performance and Place 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Paper Canoe
The Paper Canoe 4.30 avg rating — 103 ratings
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European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe
European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe 4.21 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition
The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Theatre Of The World
Theatre Of The World 4.25 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India
Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Theatre in the Round: The Staging of Cornish Medieval Drama
Theatre in the Round: The Staging of Cornish Medieval Drama 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Theatre of the Absurd
The Theatre of the Absurd 4.17 avg rating — 992 ratings
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Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook
Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Sanford Meisner on Acting
Sanford Meisner on Acting 4.20 avg rating — 3,110 ratings
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The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today
The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today 4.32 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
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The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actor's Workbook (A Career Development Book)
The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actor's Workbook (A Career Development Book) 3.81 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Technical Theater for Nontechnical People
Technical Theater for Nontechnical People 4.10 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91
Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Treating the Public: Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Treating the Public: Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Unmarked: The Politics of Performance
Unmarked: The Politics of Performance 4.11 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater
Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater 4.33 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories
Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories 4.13 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Rehearsing with Gods: Photographs and Essays on the Bread & Puppet Theater
Rehearsing with Gods: Photographs and Essays on the Bread & Puppet Theater 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Ends of Performance (Cultural Front
The Ends of Performance (Cultural Front 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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MARYAT LEE'S: A THEATER FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
MARYAT LEE'S: A THEATER FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Of Borders and Thresholds: Theatre History, Practice, and Theory
Of Borders and Thresholds: Theatre History, Practice, and Theory 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Wonderful Guy: Conversations with the Great Men of Musical Theater
A Wonderful Guy: Conversations with the Great Men of Musical Theater 4.48 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Thespis: Ritual Myth & Drama in the Ancient Near East
Thespis: Ritual Myth & Drama in the Ancient Near East 3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure 3.97 avg rating — 783 ratings
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Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama 3.84 avg rating — 1,946 ratings
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Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance
Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Performance: A critical introduction
Performance: A critical introduction 3.69 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives 4.18 avg rating — 3,224 ratings
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Engaging Performance
Engaging Performance 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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American Vaudeville as Ritual
American Vaudeville as Ritual 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Applied Drama: The Gift of Theatre
Applied Drama: The Gift of Theatre 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion
Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Theatre and Human Rights after 1945: Things Unspeakable
Theatre and Human Rights after 1945: Things Unspeakable 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now
Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now 4.06 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice
Applied Theatre: International Case Studies and Challenges for Practice really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280
The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond
Applied Theatre: Bewilderment and Beyond 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Art of Acting
The Art of Acting 4.22 avg rating — 1,462 ratings
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The Director's Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre
The Director's Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre 4.31 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals (Borzoi Books)
Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals (Borzoi Books) 4.08 avg rating — 184 ratings
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The Globe Guide to Shakespeare
The Globe Guide to Shakespeare 4.31 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Conversations With Peter Brook
Conversations With Peter Brook 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare
The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare 4.15 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act 4.27 avg rating — 916 ratings
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Being an Actor
Being an Actor 4.05 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Actor for Life: How to Have an Amazing Career Without All the Drama
Actor for Life: How to Have an Amazing Career Without All the Drama 4.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Warner Loughlin Technique: An Acting Revolution
The Warner Loughlin Technique: An Acting Revolution 4.51 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Acting: The Basics
Acting: The Basics 3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Why Acting Matters (Why X Matters Series)
Why Acting Matters (Why X Matters Series) 3.46 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Stella! Mother of Modern Acting
Stella! Mother of Modern Acting 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Acting Shakespeare (Applause Books)
Acting Shakespeare (Applause Books) 3.85 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Playwriting: The Merciless Craft
Playwriting: The Merciless Craft 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays 4.10 avg rating — 1,828 ratings
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Solving Your Script: Tools and Techniques for the Playwright
Solving Your Script: Tools and Techniques for the Playwright 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings