The World of Charles Ricketts by Joseph Darracott

$15.00 NZD

Category: Art | Reading Level: very good

Kenneth Tynan Letters by Kathleen Tynan (Editor); Kenneth Tynan

$25.00 NZD

Category: Biography

Top of the Bill - Entertainers Through the Years by Peter Downes

$15.00 NZD

Category: Theatre | Series: Famous New Zealanders | Reading Level: very good

The Lost Theatres of London by Raymond Mander; Joe Mitchenson

$20.00 NZD

Category: Theatre | Reading Level: good-very good

Berlin Cabaret by Peter Jelavich

$16.00 NZD

Category: Theatre | Series: Studies in Cultural History Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotl ights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, sexual mores and political ideologies--all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent decades of modern German history: the prosperous and optimistic Imperial age, the unstable yet culturally inventive Weimar era, and the repressive years of National Socialism. By situating cabaret within Berlin's rich landscape of popular culture and distinguishing it from vaudeville and variety theaters, spectacular revues, prurient nude dancing, and Communist agitprop, Jelavich revises the prevailing image of this form of entertainment. Neither highly politicized, like postwar German Kabarett, nor sleazy in the way that some American and European films suggest, Berlin cabaret occupied a middle ground that let it cast an ironic eye on the goings-on of Berliners and other Germans. However, it was just this satirical attitude toward serious themes, such as politics and racism, that blinded cabaret to the strength of the radical right-wing forces that ultimately destroyed it. Jelavich concludes with the Berlin cabaret artists' final performances--as prisoners in the concentration camps at Westerbork and Theresienstadt. This book gives us a sense of what the world looked like within the cabarets of Berlin and at the same time lets us see, from a historical distance, these lost performers enacting the political, sexual, and artistic issues that made their city one of the most dynamic in Europe. ...Show more

The Creation & Re-Creation of Cardenio: Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes by Terri Bouros & Gary Taylor (eds)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: near fine

Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? In 2009, the world's first academic symposium dedicated to the "lost play" was convened in New Zealand. Since then, a flurry of activity has confirmed the play's place in the literary canon. Drawing on cutting -edge scholarship and organized around the first full-scale production of Gary Taylor's recreation of the Jacobean play, these sixteen essays suggest the play was not "lost" but was instead deliberately "disappeared" because of its controversial treatment of race and sexuality. Breaking new ground, this collection gives equal attention to Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Fletcher. With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experiment and performance, a copy of Taylor's script, a photographic record of Bourus's production, and historical research by respected scholars in the fields of early modern England and Spain, this book makes a bold and definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio. ...Show more

Twentieth Century Theatre: a Sourcebook by Richard Drain (ed.)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Theatre | Reading Level: very good

Gielgud: A Theatrical Life 1904-2000 by Jonthan Croall

$18.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Free Association: An Autobiography by Steven Berkoff

$14.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: good

The autobiography of actor, director and playwright Steven Berkoff, which recounts his early life in the East End of London, and his formative days in the theatre, with discussion of how Berkoff siphoned off and transformed his life experiences for his plays.

The Italian Comedy with 259 Illustrations by Pierre Louis Duchartre

$25.00 NZD

Category: Theatre | Reading Level: very good

The Theatre of P.G. Wodehouse by David A. Jason

$14.00 NZD

Category: Theatre | Reading Level: very good

Theaters by Craig Morrison

$45.00 NZD

Category: Theatre | Series: Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks Ser. | Reading Level: very good

This visual sourcebook traces the development of its colorful and varied forms as they developed in early America, on the western frontier, and in cities from coast to coast. The first comprehensive study of American theaters, it illustrates their wide range from raucous music halls to vaudeville, from circus to grand opera, from World's Fair to Coney island, from nickelodeon to glorious picture palace. Also featured are theaters for burlesque, theaters afloat, military theaters, Shakespearean theaters, summer theaters, theaters and African-Americans, and arenas (when a stage just won't do), enlivened by a cast of entrepreneurs and showmen who were the movers and shakers of our theatrical heritage. ...Show more