WOOLAH! by Bobbi Henry & Peter Docker – Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company
39.95 AUD
Category: Indigenous
• A celebration of the last ten years (2014–2023) of productions at Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, based in Perth WA • features interviews, testimonials, and photographs of each prodution staged during this period • a joyful insight into the inner workings of the theatre company and the people who are ...Show more
Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus by Marina Caldarone
30.99 AUD
Category: Theatre
A vital companion for actors in rehearsal - a thesaurus of action-words to revitalise performance Actors need actions. They cannot 'act' adjectives, they need verbs: they need an aim to achieve, an action to perform. 'Actions' are active verbs. 'I tempt you.''You taunt me.' In order to perform an action ...Show more
Redefining Theatre Communities - International Perspectives on Community-Conscious Theatre-Making by Szabolcs Musca (Editor); Marco Galea (Editor)
65.95 AUD
Category: Theatre | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
An examination of the relationship between contemporary theater and its communities.Redefining Theatre Communities explores the interplay between contemporary theatre and communities. It considers the aesthetic, social, and cultural aspects of community-conscious theatre-making. While doing so, the volu ...Show more
Shakespeare on the Noongar Stage: Language Revival and Hecate by Clint Bracknell, Kylie Bracknell
29.99 AUD
Category: Theatre
The play Hecate is a landmark work in both theatre and language restoration. The Noongar language of the southwest of Western Australia is a critically endangered language impacted by settler-colonialism and suppressed until the 1970s. This book contains the complete play, a glossary, and chapters outli ...Show more
On Stage: Spotlight on Our Performing Arts by National Library of Australia
19.99 AUD
Category: Art
Imagine a crowded theatre. The lights have just gone down. An expectant silence blankets the audience as the chatter abruptly stops. The show is about to begin.Live performance is storytelling, expression, activism and hope. It is by nature ephemeral, yet its impact can be long-lasting, on audiences and ...Show more
Andrew Bovell: The Alchemy of Collaboration by Christos Tsiolkas
19.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
In Andrew Bovell: The alchemy of collaboration, Australian artists and filmmakers pay tribute to one of Australia's greatest writers for stage and screen. Andrew Bovell's credits include the landmark film Lantana and the award-winning play When the Rain Stops Falling. He adapted Kate Grenville's book Th ...Show more
Australia in 50 Plays by Julian Meyrick
33.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Australia in 50 Plays is Julian Meyrick's lively and accessible account of the remarkable relationship between our national drama and our national life, examining fifty outstanding plays of diverse content and style that have appeared in the 120 years since Federation. Energetic, entertaining and origin ...Show more
Ash Keating by Markus Stegmann (Editor); Museum Langmatt (Editor); Daniela Minneboo (Text by)
54.99 AUD
Category: Theatre
Ash Keating has made an international name for himself with spectacular paintings of entire buildings and huge walls. Like few others, he has perfected the use of fire extinguishers as a tool for his abstract works in public spaces, leaving room for chance and improvisation. Inspired by the light and co ...Show more
The New Theatre - The People, Places and Politics Behind Australia's Radical Theatre by Lisa Milner (Editor, Contribution by); Max Kaiser; Angela O'Brien; Susan Bradley Smith; Gabriela Zabala; Cathy Bridgen; Lyn Collingwood; Phillip Deery; Peter Douglas; Charlie Fox; Laura Ginters; Connie Healy
40.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
For the first time, this unique collection of essays brings the stories of New Theatre branches together from around the country, filling a vital space in Australian cultural history. Radical left-wing theatre history tales, told by theatre practitioners, historians, academics and political ratbags, rev ...Show more
What is an Australian Play? Have we failed our ethnic writers? by MEAD CHRIS
16.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Has our theatre failed our newest writers? Those first- and second-generation immigrants who speak another language at home? Their diversity makes Australia a rich land with a wealth of stories, but how much reaches our stages? Chris Mead traces the growth through the 1980s that saw the overthrow of inh ...Show more
Reviewing The Performance The Design Of The Sydney Opera House by Ken Woolley
60.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
Offering an analysis of the many aspects of Sydney Opera House, this title gives consideration to the hidden problems of the competition brief, notes the difficulties of matching the radical winning design with the restricted site, and records the immense problems encountered during its construction. ...Show more
Making Make-Believe Real - Politics As Theater in Shakespeare's Time by Garry Wills
12.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
A penetrating study of the images, symbols, pageants, and creative performances ambitious Elizabethans used to secure political power Shakespeare's plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, ...Show more