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Product Description: Explores the Science and Practice Of Acoustics for Arts Centers Employing the experiences of a world-renowned acoustician celebrated for the successful design of multi-use performing arts centers, Acoustics of Multi-Use Performing Arts Centers examines the complexities of this venue and discusses the challenges and solutions that arise in the concept, design, construction and commissioning phases...read more

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9780415517195 | CRC Pr I Llc, November 23, 2015, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: Explores the Science and Practice Of Acoustics for Arts Centers Employing the experiences of a world-renowned acoustician celebrated for the successful design of multi-use performing arts centers, Acoustics of Multi-Use Performing Arts Centers examines the complexities of this venue and discusses the challenges and solutions that arise in the concept, design, construction and commissioning phases.

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A guide to researching, planning and performing more realistic characters, it describes 16 steps designed to simplify Stanislavski's teachings followed by practical exercises. It considers key elements of communication and the characteristics of human behaviour, and shows how you can harness these behaviour types to sharpen your skills.

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9780713675863 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, March 1, 2011, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A guide to researching, planning and performing more realistic characters, it describes 16 steps designed to simplify Stanislavski's teachings followed by practical exercises.

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Product Description: Speaking passionately about the art of acting, David Krasner illuminates the multifaceted job of an actor. Combining technique with personal examples, he demonstrates how to achieve excellence in performance, how to recognize quality acting, and how to use the technique of acting in an advanced way...read more

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9780230275522 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Speaking passionately about the art of acting, David Krasner illuminates the multifaceted job of an actor.

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9780230275539 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2011, cover price $34.00

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Product Description: This book aims at exploring what plays were deemed 'suitable' to be reworked for foreign or local stages; what transformations - linguistic, semiotic, theatrical - were undertaken so as to accommodate international audiences; how national literary traditions are forged, altered, and diluted by means of transnational adapting techniques; and, finally, to what extent the categorical boundaries between original plays and adaptations may be blurred on the account of such adjusting textual strategies...read more
By Ignacio Ramos Gay (editor)

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9781443847001 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, May 1, 2013, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: This book aims at exploring what plays were deemed 'suitable' to be reworked for foreign or local stages; what transformations - linguistic, semiotic, theatrical - were undertaken so as to accommodate international audiences; how national literary traditions are forged, altered, and diluted by means of transnational adapting techniques; and, finally, to what extent the categorical boundaries between original plays and adaptations may be blurred on the account of such adjusting textual strategies.

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Product Description: Book by Shackle, Cloud Coal

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9781479705757 | Xlibris Corp, September 7, 2012, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Book by Shackle, Cloud Coal

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Product Description: "This is a beautiful overview of the mind and spirit of Eugene Lee. It's messy, unpretentious, spontaneous and full of joy—an utterly original designer who has worked successfully in more venues, mediums and esthetics than any scenic designer in American history...read more
By Oskar Eustis (foreword by)

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9781559364201 | Theatre Communications Group, May 13, 2014, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: "This is a beautiful overview of the mind and spirit of Eugene Lee.

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Product Description: Aesthetics of Absence presents a significant challenge to the many embedded assumptions and hierarchical structures that have become ‘naturalised’ in western theatre production. This is the first English translation of a new collection of writings and lectures by Heiner Goebbels, the renowned German theatre director, composer and teacher...read more
By Jane Collins (editor), Heiner Goebbels, Christina M. Lagao (trans), David Roesner (trans) and Nicholas Till (editor)

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9780415831031 | Routledge, April 7, 2015, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Aesthetics of Absence presents a significant challenge to the many embedded assumptions and hierarchical structures that have become ‘naturalised’ in western theatre production.

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9780415831048 | Routledge, April 8, 2015, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Aesthetics of Absence presents a significant challenge to the many embedded assumptions and hierarchical structures that have become ‘naturalised’ in western theatre production.

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Portrays the styles of the everyday clothes, jewelry, hair, hats, shoes, and accessories suitable for use in theatrical productions

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9780253305893 | Indiana Univ Pr, November 1, 1982, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Portrays the styles of the everyday clothes, jewelry, hair, hats, shoes, and accessories suitable for use in theatrical productions

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9780253205438 | Indiana Univ Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Portrays the styles of the everyday clothes, jewelry, hair, hats, shoes, and accessories suitable for use in theatrical productions

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By Melissa Merz (editor)

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9781138828407 | Focal Pr, September 19, 2016, cover price $180.00

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9781138828414 | Focal Pr, September 19, 2016, cover price $59.95

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Product Description: The Art of Couture Sewing, 2nd Edition is a practical guide to custom techniques in the construction of couture garments. Beginning with a brief history of haute couture, the book moves on to cover tools and supplies, matching fabrics with the appropriate needles and threads, pressing, and construction techniques...read more

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9781609018313 | 2 edition (Fairchild Books, March 10, 2016), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The Art of Couture Sewing, 2nd Edition is a practical guide to custom techniques in the construction of couture garments.
9781563675393 | Fairchild Books, July 30, 2009, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: The Art of Couture Sewing will be a practical guide to the fine construction practices used in couture workrooms.

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9781138913653 | Routledge, September 14, 2015, cover price $135.00

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9781138913684 | Routledge, September 14, 2015, cover price $49.95

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By Deborah Vlaeymans (editor)

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9781474292009 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, April 27, 2017, cover price $120.00

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9781474292016 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, April 27, 2017, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: How did acting begin? What is its history, and what have the great thinkers on acting said about the art and craft of performance? In this single-volume survey of the history of acting, Jean Benedetti traces the evolution of the theories of the actor's craft drawing extensively on extracts from key texts, many of which are unavailable for the student today...read more
By Jean Benedetti (editor)

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9780878302031 | Routledge, January 30, 2007, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: How did acting begin?

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9780878302048, titled "The Art of the Actor: The Essential History of Acting, from Classical Times to the Present Day" | Routledge, January 18, 2007, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: How did acting begin?

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Product Description: An excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter: IT is a curious and interesting fact that the two great periods of English histrionic art, are marked by the reigns of two great queens. The age of Elizabeth produced the greatest dramatist the world has ever known; and the age of Victoria has given the greatest value to his works by stage illustration...read more

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9780554760407 | Bibliobazaar, August 30, 2008, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780554760315 | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, August 30, 2008), cover price $30.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9781505282535 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 29, 2014, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: An excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter: IT is a curious and interesting fact that the two great periods of English histrionic art, are marked by the reigns of two great queens.
9780554760384 | Bibliobazaar, August 30, 2008, cover price $23.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780554760346 | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, August 30, 2008), cover price $24.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780548899335 | Kessinger Pub Co, February 28, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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Product Description: The Art of Theatrical Design: Elements of Visual Composition, Methods, and Practice addresses the core principles that develop the student designer into a true artist, providing a foundation that ensures success with each production design...read more

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9781138021495 | Focal Pr, October 14, 2014, cover price $125.00

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9781138021501 | Focal Pr, October 14, 2014, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: The Art of Theatrical Design: Elements of Visual Composition, Methods, and Practice addresses the core principles that develop the student designer into a true artist, providing a foundation that ensures success with each production design.

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Product Description: This book offers readers an understanding of the theoretical framework for the concept of Arts Talk, provides historical background and a review of current thinking about the interpretive process, and, most importantly, provides ideas and insights into building audience-centered and audience-powered conversations about the arts...read more

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9781137023919 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 11, 2013, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This book offers readers an understanding of the theoretical framework for the concept of Arts Talk, provides historical background and a review of current thinking about the interpretive process, and, most importantly, provides ideas and insights into building audience-centered and audience-powered conversations about the arts.

Includes speeches from plays written and produced in the 1990s, with extracts from West End productions ('Art' and 'Cressida'), and films ('PulpFiction'). This title includes comments from directors, casting directors, actors and teachers.

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9780713652857 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, March 15, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Includes speeches from plays written and produced in the 1990s, with extracts from West End productions ('Art' and 'Cressida'), and films ('PulpFiction').
9780878301454 | Routledge, September 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of audition speeches for men, from both plays and motion pictures, along with acting advice from directors, teachers, and actors.

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9780713674132 | 2 edition (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, March 1, 2011), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: IN
9780878301461 | Routledge, September 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of audition speeches for women, from both plays and motion pictures, along with acting advice from directors, teachers, and actors.

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Product Description: Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde...read more
By Mike Sell (editor)

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9780230241343 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2011, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde.

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9781577667551 | 2 lslf edition (Waveland Pr Inc, August 15, 2011), cover price $31.95
9781577664086 | Lslf edition (Waveland Pr Inc, May 12, 2005), cover price $24.95

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By Phoebe Adler (editor)

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9781907317743 | Black Dog Pub Ltd, September 26, 2016, cover price $39.95

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By Benedetta Tagliabue (other contributor)

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9788475069159 | Turner, November 30, 2010, cover price $30.00

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9781138785052 | Routledge, August 26, 2017, cover price $125.00

Paperback:

9781138785069 | Routledge, August 26, 2017, cover price $44.95

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