When the Curtain Falls
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Theatres have a certain kind of magic. When the curtain rises, we are all enraptured by the glare of...
A Global Doll's House: Ibsen and Distant Visions: 2016
Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, Frode Helland and Joanne Tompkins
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This book addresses a deceptively simple question: what accounts for the global success of A Doll's...
Dance of the Earth
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From backstage to centre stage and theatres of war, Dance of the Earth is a sweeping family saga. ...
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Shakespeare: The Poet and His Plays
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The definitive single-volume work on Shakespeare's life and plays by the editor of the Oxford...
Performance: A Critical Introduction
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Since its original publication in 1996, Marvin Carlson's Performance: A critical introduction has...
Liszt and the Symphonic Poem
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Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music?...
Contemporary Scottish Plays: Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin'
Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Pearson and Kieran Hurley
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To paraphrase Alistair Beaton's Caledonia - the first play in this collection - 'The English have...
British Nautical Melodramas, 1820-1850
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During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the...
The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
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Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson...
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw and Nicholas Grene
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"There are two things necessary to salvation ...money and gunpowder" Major Barbara, Bernard Shaw's...