Product Description: In the world of theatre, the technical director is responsible for overseeing the safe and efficient realization and implementation of scenery for the stage. The Technical Director’s Toolkit is the first book to address every nut and bolt of this multifaceted job...read more

Improvisation is a tool for many things: performance training, rehearsal practice, playwriting, therapeutic interaction and somatic discovery. This book opens up the significance of improvisation across cultures, histories and ways of performing our life, offering key insights into the what, the how and the why of performance. It traces the origins of improvisation and its influences, both as a social and political phenomenon and its position in performance training. Including history, theory and practice, this new edition encompasses Theatre and Performance Studies as well as Drama, acknowledging the rapid reconfiguration of these fields in recent years. Its coverage also now extends to improvisation in the USA, cinema, LARPing, street events and the improvising audience, while also looking at improv's relationship to stand-up comedy, jazz, poetry and free movement practices. With an index of exercises and an extensive bibliography, this book is indispensable to students of improvisation.

Product Description: This practical guide covers all aspects of stage lighting equipment, special effects, lighting a performance space and lighting design. It is well illustrated with examples of equipment, diagrams, plans and technical data. It also features the work of current lighting designers...read more

Product Description: No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film...read more

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Product Description: The Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publication is to share creative solutions to technical problems so that fellow theatre technicians can avoid having to reinvent the wheel with each new challenge...read more

Product Description: The creative radicalism in Russia's avant-garde movement transformed the cultural landscape as visionaries from several disciplines generated a vortex of innovative performance and design. The astounding body of work produced by Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Sergei Eisenstein and Liubov Popova, among others, overturned traditions in art, music, literature and theatre...read more

Product Description: In many theatrical productions, it falls to the performers to apply their own makeup, with minimal or no instruction. Theatrical Makeup clearly and concisely explains the basics of theatrical makeup techniques to allow stage actors to put their best face forward! You will gain understanding of the physiology of the human face and, using cream based makeup, as well as commercial cosmetics, learn how to contour it to suit your character with the use of highlight and shadow...read more

Product Description: Staging Secrets: Putting the punch into audience responses. A study in Staging and Movement. •Identify the nine basic stage areas •Identify the eight body positions •Demonstrate stage business •Understand set design principals •Know how to show a play with a series of pictures •Learn the origin of the Stage Diagram and Standard Dialect •Explore ways the audience is affected psychologically in theatrical staging Worksheets answer keys, quiz, evaluation forms, lesson plans, student directed practice times included...read more

Product Description: This is a book for the thinking actor, and the finest actors I've knownare just that. The best actors bring it all together body, heart, spirit,and mind. This book is for the actor who thinks about craft and influence,who thinks about the relationship of performance to living, who thinksabout doing and what that doing means...read more

Product Description: Exploration and examination of the work of The BlueRaincoat Theatre Company

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Product Description: This new edition of The Complete Make-up Artist offers a personal, in-depth insight into the exciting work of media make-up. Written for all media make-up students, in particular those studying a VRQ at Levels 2 and 3, this new edition has been updated in accordance with the new NOS...read more