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Performing Pain (An Actor's Guide to Creating Dynamic Depictions of Injury, Illness and Other Impediments)

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:21:04 +0000

Performing Pain teaches actors to authentically portray injury, illness, intoxication, and death through practical exercises and techniques. This essential guide helps drama students and professionals master breath, movement, and vocal skills to create compelling, truthful performances o..

Price: $233.99

Henry Black (On Stage in Meiji Japan)

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:24:05 +0000

Unique among foreigners in nineteenthcentury Japan, Australianborn professional storyteller (rakugoka) Henry Black (1858–1923) enthralled audiences with his adaptations of novels by Charles Dickens, Mary Braddon and Fortuné de Boisgobey. These tales, later produced as books, brought notions of Eur..

Price: $34.95

The Routledge Companion to Immersive Arts and Media

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:44:31 +0000

The Routledge Companion to Immersive Arts and Media is an essential guide to one of the most dynamic and rapidly evolving sectors within the contemporary creative cultural industries. This collection provides a foundation for understanding how immersive media and arts have become a funda..

Price: $350.00

Milestones in Black American Theatre and Performance

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:33:11 +0000

Milestones in Black American Theatre and Performance is a groundbreaking collection of essays highlighting the historical achievements and contemporary relevance of Black theatre artists and Black theatre institutions in the United States.

Price: $233.99

The Bright Way (Five Steps to Freeing the Creative Within)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:34:01 +0000

The Bright Way is an interactive handbook for mastering Diana Rowan’s proven system for freeing your innate creativity.

The Bright Way System has helped thousands of creatives regain their inspiration and motivation, and move past fears so that they..

Price: $17.95

Designing Presence (Entering Towards Vivencia)

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:49:48 +0000

Designing Presence offers a unique insight into the training that has helped people around the world to cultivate more presence in both professional and personal settings. It explains the research behind the method of Towards Vivencia, shares stories of how it has been implemented and of..

Price: $39.95

Theatres of Compost (Performance and Ecology for the Anthropocene)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:15:36 +0000

Theatres of Compost places ecology at the center of performance scholarship and criticism, and it positions performance as a key cultural process for bringing about a more just and sustainable future.

Price: $64.99

Performance and Performativity of Dalit Students Politics in India (The Justice for Rohith Movement)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:05:53 +0000

This monograph examines the significance of body, space, sound/voice/music and objects of resistance in everyday performance of Dalit student protests, focusing on the protests which erupted after Rohith Vemula, a doctoral student died, by suicide in Hyderabad Central University on 17 January 2..

Price: $64.99

Jack Gelber (Consider This)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:54:48 +0000

This book explores the works of Humanist/Absurdist American playwright Jack Gelber (1932-2003), whose groundbreaking, immersive play The Connection (produced by The Living Theatre in 1959) served as the link between the Art Theatre/Beat Generation and the Off-Off Broadway movement.

Price: $64.99

From Object to Performance (The Beginnings of Israeli Performance Art)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:48:45 +0000

From Object to Performance identifies, analyses, and critically contemplates the advent of a “performance mentality” and the gradual maturation of a “performative turn” in Israeli art.

Price: $64.99