An epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-Earth, in which the tiny Hobbits play a key role. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Presenting concrete suggestions for starting and developing theatre experiences of all types for senior adults, this handbook is designed to help three groups: professional theatre people who may become involved in projects for older persons; professional workers with the elderly who may want to recruit or work with theatre people; and senior adults who may want to encourage and enjoy a theatre project...read more

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

Product Description: Discusses the facts and feelings about menstruation citing the experiences of individual girls of different ages. Also includes descriptive illustrations.

Product Description: This invaluable guide to theatrical production includes up-to-date definitions of all technical aspects of stagecraft, including the many advances in the past decade, particularly in the areas of trusses, rigging, and automated lights and their control...read more

Product Description: This text is the acknowledged leader in the Operations Research field. Known for its stimulating, challenging coverage, it is also famous for its clarity, comprehensiveness and abundance of real life examples and exercises. A software tutorial for the IBM/PC and the Macintosh has been added to the new edition and includes demonstration examples, routines for interactive execution of algorithms, and the routines for interactive post-optimality analysis...read more

Product Description: Lighting is a blend of the aesthetic and the technical that can create an infinite number of dramatic effects. Good lighting design completes the emotional and literal portrayals of any performance piece, accenting words, music, and movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses four types of theatrical landscapes; the deadly theatre, the holy theatre, the rough theatre, and the immediate theatre. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A classic in its field since its original publication, The Technique of the Professional Make-Up Artist is now revised, updated and paperback for a new generation of professionals. This encyclopedic resource covers all of the current studio make-up methods and lab techniques, with text and art contributions from some of the leading experts in the industry...read more

Product Description: Esta comedia en dos partes sobre la vida de Santa Beatriz de Silva (1424?-1492?), se halla en un manuscrito en parte ológrafo, fechado en 1664 y firmado por su autor, Blas Fernándes de Mesa. Nativo de Toledo y contador del consejo de esa ciudad, el autor fue mucho mejor conocido en su época que hoy en día...read more

In this short work, Sir Peter Hall distils his thinking about the theatre. Writing in a direct polemical style he pursues two linked arguments: the case for subsidy and the case for a company. In the first part he points out that theatre through the ages has always required patronage, whether through the play competitions of Ancient Greece or the munificence of kings and dukes in Shakespeare's time. Our own age, he says, is in danger of losing sight of the fact that if theatre has to support itself it will stagnate, falling back on the tried and true. Subsidy is vital if theatre is to take the risks necessary in order to find new directions. In the second part, he draws directly on his own experiences running the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and his own repertory company at the Old Vic. He argues that the very best theatre can only be made with a permanent company of actors and technicians situated in their own building, an ideal he briefly enjoyed at the Old Vic, where the company had up to five plays in their repertoire and were able to draw sustenance and inspiration from this multiplicity and from the enhanced working conditions of such a company.

Explains how to use one's own hair or wigs and false hair to create a character, and shows examples from various historical periods, from Elizabethan times to the 1970s (view table of contents)

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Collects plays, songs, and poems designed to educate about cultural, ethnic, religious, and gender prejudices. (view table of contents)

Guides the reader through the potential pitfalls of putting on a production, from preliminary planning and choosing a play, through stage management, to first night. This book contains sections on staging a show, group organisation and special performances, legal issues, health and safety, budgeting, and copyright law.

Product Description: Written by a leading design consultant and carefully updated with the latest information on the industry, this is the essential guide to earning a living, marketing skills, furthering a design career, and operating a business. With more than thirty years of backstage and behind-the-scenes experience in theater, film, television, concerts, and special events, James Moody shares his success secrets for the benefit of design students and working designers...read more

Product Description: Praise for the hit one-man show Merely Players: “A winner… Master raconteur… Player Morse is merely masterly.” —The Toronto Sun “Engrossing and richly rewarding… A labor of love, put together by a consummate actor… in every way, a remarkable performance...read more

Product Description: The revised edition includes Brook's additional essay on "Forgetting Shakespeare." The first edition was based on a talk given in Berlin which is an illuminating and provocative take on our greatest playwright by one of his most influential modern intepreters...read more

Product Description: Now published on a biannual basis, this reference book is packed with more than 5,000 company entries from across the country. The Entertainment Sourcebook is an insider's guide to finding any item imaginable, be it a Civil War sabre, an animal to rent, a Greek fisherman's hat, authentic Amish clothing, 19th-century chandeliers, or human skulls...read more