Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century
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This guidebook traces the life's work of radical dance-maker Anna Halprin, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form.
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Performing Consumers: Theatrical Identifications in Corporate Cultures is a searching exploration of the way in which brands insinuate themselves into the lives of ordinary people who encounter them at branded super-stores.

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The story of The Royal Shakespeare Company is a gripping tale of art, rebellion, money, and above all, magnificent drama. What began as a radical, flourishing vision in the 1960s has today become a troubled conglomerate battling artistic decline.

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A. R. Gurney has written over thirty plays, including many standards in the repertoire of American theater. The Dining Room, Love Letters, The Cocktail Hour, and Sylvia, among others, delight audiences across the U.S. and
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For nearly three centuries, actors have set down in print their reflections on the experience of performing Shakespeare's plays, resulting in a vast, heterogeneous and - remarkably - almost entirely unexamined body of material. Merely Players?
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Since the advent of digital video technology, dance on camera has become an increasingly popular, and important genre of dance.

This is the first ever how-to manual for choreographers, dancers and students who want to make dance films.

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Harrop deals with the intellectual, practical and spiritual issues of what acting is about. Covering the range of actor training and practice from Stanislavski to the Post-Modern, he examines the spiritual and moral purposes of acting in society.

Corporealities vivifies the study of bodies through a consideration of bodily reality, not as natural or absolute given but as tangible and substantial category of cultural experience. The essays in this volume summon up bodies
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Olga Mukhina is one of the most talented, young playwrights in Russia. Born in Moscow in 1970, she has already garnered enviable praise from critics and audiences throughout Russia and Europe since her first play, Tanya-Tanya, was performed
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