Theatre: Technical & Background Skills

King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare renders six powerful scenes from this enduring tragedy. Starting with Lears banishment of Cordelia, the plot a...

A truly fun, emotional, and sometimes magical first experience . . . guided by a sagacious, knowledgeable, and intuitive educator.Library Journal ...

A master at engaging students in the process of performing a Shakespeare scene.—Janet Field-Pickering, head of education, Folger Shakespeare Librar...

As You Like It: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents seven captivating scenes from this merry play. Rosalind, disguised as a man (“Ganymede), “teache...

Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents eight spellbinding scenes from this timeless masterpiece. The action begins as the soothsayer war...

The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five raucous scenes from this extravaganza of mistaken identity. The abridgement begins wit...

The Tempest: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers eight scenes from this rich comedy. Beginning with the magical storm and shipwreck, this adaptation i...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

The first book to use subversive sexuality as a lens through which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handels Saracen...

A sumptuously illustrated survey of the remarkable flowering of radical, visionary and experimental design for performance in Russia in the twenty ...

This book provides an insight into the life of a professional lighting designer, through interviews with lighting designers at different stages of ...

What properties of light can be manipulated for aesthetic effect? What role does the perception of the audience play in how stage information is re...

Theatrical scene design is one of the most beautiful, varied, and lively art forms. Yet there are relatively few books on the subject, and almost ...

Motion Capture in Performance explores the historical origins, properties and implications of Motion Capture. It introduces a new mode of performan...

A sparkling return to the Golden Age of Crime Fiction, where even the most fiendish of mysteries can be unlocked by a keen eye and a sharp mind... ...

This book explores the development of Robert Lepages distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages...

This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage the...

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and...

Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until n...

The meanings originally communicated by Elizabethan and Jacobean dress have long been confined to history. Why, then, have doublets, hose, ruffs an...

Acting is widely acknowledged to be the central art of the theatre and has a long and vibrant history. With over one thousand entries, this is the ...

This urgent and provocative study explores contemporary Shakespeare performance to bring a sense of theatre as technology into view. Rather than me...

Discipline and Desire examines how surveillance technologies, whenplaced within the frames of theater and performance, can be used tocritique and c...