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The Future of Ahriman and the Awakening of Souls - The Spirit-Presence of the Mystery Dramas (Paperback): Peter Selg The Future of Ahriman and the Awakening of Souls - The Spirit-Presence of the Mystery Dramas (Paperback)
Peter Selg; Translated by Paul King
R328 R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Save R32 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In 1919 Rudolf Steiner spoke about the future physical incarnation of the being of Ahriman. This would take place before 'a part' of the third millennium had passed, and was inevitable - but it was also necessary that people were aware of this event and recognized it, for earthly culture would be destroyed if the world were to fall completely to Ahriman. The situation we find ourselves in today shows Ahriman's unmistakable signature: the rapid destruction of nature, zoonotic diseases and pandemics, huge social inequalities, and the overall dominance of high finance. In this short book Peter Selg presents a timely overview of the challenges we face, beginning with a pithy and concise survey of Steiner's commentary on Ahriman's incarnation and the conditions that would characterize it. This is followed by a study of Ahriman's depiction in the mystery drama The Souls' Awakening. Steiner's remarkable personification of Ahriman on stage - portraying his strategies and activities - provides vital instruction for humanity. Selg concludes with an evaluation of 'the Battle for Human Intelligence' taking place in contemporary culture through materialistic ideas such as transhumanism. In their recent book Covid-19: The Great Reset, for example, Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret propose wholesale economic, geopolitical, environmental and technological revisions to society - ideas that need to be understood and confronted in human thought and consciousness. The Future of Ahriman is a crucial aid to comprehending our times.

The Monster in Theatre History - This Thing of Darkness (Hardcover): Michael Chemers The Monster in Theatre History - This Thing of Darkness (Hardcover)
Michael Chemers
R4,045 Discovery Miles 40 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Monsters are fragmentary, uncertain, frightening creatures. What happens when they enter the realm of the theatre? The Monster in Theatre History explores the cultural genealogies of monsters as they appear in the recorded history of Western theatre. From the Ancient Greeks to the most cutting-edge new media, Michael Chemers focuses on a series of 'key' monsters, including Frankenstein's creature, werewolves, ghosts, and vampires, to reconsider what monsters in performance might mean to those who witness them. This volume builds a clear methodology for engaging with theatrical monsters of all kinds, providing a much-needed guidebook to this fascinating hinterland.

Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama (Paperback): Katrine Wong Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama (Paperback)
Katrine Wong
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical activities, both inside and outside the contemporary societal decorum. Wong's analysis broadens our understanding of the general theatrical representation of music, or musical dramaturgy, and complicates the current discussion of musical portrayal and construction of gender during this period. Wong discusses dramaturgical meanings of music and its association with gender, love, and erotomania in Renaissance plays. The negotiation between the dichotomous qualities of the heavenly and the demonic finds extensive application in recent studies of music in early modern English plays. However, while ideological dualities identified in music in traditional Renaissance thinking may seem unequivocal, various musical representations of characters and situations in early modern drama would prove otherwise. Wong, building upon the conventional model of binarism, explores how playwrights created their musical characters and scenarios according to the received cultural use and perception of music, and, at the same time, experimented with the multivalent meanings and significance embodied in theatrical music.

A Doll's House (Paperback): Tanika Gupta A Doll's House (Paperback)
Tanika Gupta
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat - Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her. Tanika Gupta re-imagines Ibsen's classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race. This edition is published for the first time in Methuen Drama's Plays For Young People series, aimed specifically at students aged 16-18 to perform and study.

Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry (Paperback): Richard Norton-Taylor Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry (Paperback)
Richard Norton-Taylor; Edited by Nicholas Kent
R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry is a verbatim reconstruction of the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry. Using only the words spoken at the Inquiry, the play deals predominantly with Part 2 which ran between January 2020 - July 2021 in which evidence was heard from those responsible for the disastrous refurbishment of Grenfell Tower before the tragic fire. Edited by Richard Norton-Taylor and directed by Nicholas Kent, the team behind previous testimonial plays The Colour of Justice: The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry, this edited verbatim account of the Grenfell Inquiry is aimed at giving the public an overview and access to some of the most important evidence. The play shows how companies involved in the refurbishment of the Tower conspired to cover up what they knew about the dangerous and life-threatening materials used to refurbish the Tower. It also reveals the incompetence and neglect of local authorities. Staged in Notting Hill Tabernacle in October 2021, this features the full text of the play alongside additional information on the context of Grenfell and the ongoing inquiry.

Antigone (Paperback): Roy Williams Antigone (Paperback)
Roy Williams
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

When Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone's unruly brother, Antigone's anger quickly turns to defiance. Creon condemns her to a torturous death: she's to be buried alive. Acclaimed playwright Roy Williams takes Sophocles' play and, by placing it into a contemporary setting, brings this classic tale vividly to life. A timeless story about loyalty and truth, about how we make meaning out of life and death, and what in the end really does matter. Roy Williams's adaptation of Antigone received its world premiere at Derby Theatre, in a co-production between Pilot Theatre, Derby Theatre and Theatre Royal, Stratford East, before going on a national tour. This new, edited edition is published for the first time in Methuen Drama's Plays for Young People series, aimed at 16-18 year olds.

Wilde Style - The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde (Hardcover): Neil Sammells Wilde Style - The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde (Hardcover)
Neil Sammells
R3,906 Discovery Miles 39 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so graphically as our contemporary. Beginning with a survey of current Wilde criticism, the book demonstrates the way his own critical essays anticipate much contemporary cultural theory and inform his own practice as a writer.

A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre (Paperback, New): Christopher Innes A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre (Paperback, New)
Christopher Innes
R1,161 Discovery Miles 11 610 Ships in 9 - 15 working days


A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides essential primary sources which document one of the key movements in modern theatre. Christopher Innes has selected three writers to exemplify the movement, and six plays in particular:
* Henrik Ibsen - A Dolls House and Hedda Gabler
* Anton Chekhov - The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard
* George Bernard Shaw - Mrs Warren's Profession and Heartbreak House.
Innes' illuminating introduction provides a fascinating overview of naturalist theatre. Key themes include:
* the representation of women
* significant contemporary issues
* the links between theory, play writing and stage practice.
The primary sources explore many aspects of naturalism, giving information on:
* the playwrights' intentions when writing plays
* contemporary reviews
* literary criticism
* political and social background
* production notes from early performances of the plays.

A Preface to Marlowe (Hardcover): Stevie Simkin A Preface to Marlowe (Hardcover)
Stevie Simkin
R3,925 Discovery Miles 39 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This study provides an authoritative overview of all Marlowe's work. It includes thorough investigations of his major plays, Tamburlaine, Edward II, The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus as well as a full discussion of The Massacre at Paris, Dido Queen of Carthage and all his extant poetry. Analysis of Faustus takes full account of both A and B text versions. Thoroughly researched and yet presented in an accessible, engaging style, A Preface to Marlowe reads Marlowe's life and times, as well as his work, in the light of current critical theory. Consequently, it is a vital guide for all students of early modern drama. As well as providing sharp analysis of stage history, Dr Simkin reflects on the wider significance of a stage-oriented approach. The result is a reading of Marlowe that re-opens debates about his status as a radical figure and as a subversive playwright and invites the reader to experience the plays as immediate, exciting, 'live' documents.

Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s - Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (Paperback): Aleks Sierz Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s - Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (Paperback)
Aleks Sierz; Contributions by Graham Saunders, Catherine Rees, Trish Reid, Philip Ridley, …
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

British theatre of the 1990s witnessed an explosion of new talent and presented a new sensibility that sent shockwaves through audiences and critics. What produced this change, the context from which the work emerged, the main playwrights and plays, and the influence they had on later work are freshly evaluated in this important new study in Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series. The 1990s volume provides a detailed study by four scholars of the work of four of the major playwrights who emerged and had a significant impact on British theatre: Sarah Kane (by Catherine Rees), Anthony Neilson (Patricia Reid), Mark Ravenhill (Graham Saunders) and Philip Ridley (Aleks Sierz). Essential for students of Theatre Studies, the series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study of the theatre produced from the 1950s to 2009. Each volume features a critical analysis of the work of four key playwrights besides other theatre work, together with an extensive commentary on the period. Readers will understand the works in their contexts and be presented with fresh research material and a reassessment from the perspective of the twenty-first century. This is an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of British playwriting in the 1990s.

In Search of Stanislavsky's Creative State on the Stage - With a Practice as Research Case Study (Paperback): Gabriela... In Search of Stanislavsky's Creative State on the Stage - With a Practice as Research Case Study (Paperback)
Gabriela Curpan
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanislavski as the creative state. Filtered through the lens of his unaddressed Christian Orthodox background, as well as his yogic or Hindu interest, the practical work followed the odyssey of the artist, from being oneself towards becoming the character, being structured in three major horizontal stages and developed on another three vertical, interconnected levels. Throughout the book, Gabriela Curpan aims to question both the cartesian approach to acting and the realist-psychological line, generally viewed as the only features of Stanislavski's work. This book will be of great interest to theatre and performance academics as well as practitioners in the fields of acting and directing.

American Drama of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover): Gerald M. Berkowitz American Drama of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
Gerald M. Berkowitz
R3,930 Discovery Miles 39 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres and themes, with full supporting appendix material. It also examines major dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Sam Shephard, Tennessee Williams and August Wilson and covers not only the Broadway scene but also off Broadway movements and fringe theatres and such subjects as women's and African-American drama.

A Very Expensive Poison (Paperback): Lucy Prebble A Very Expensive Poison (Paperback)
Lucy Prebble; Luke Harding
R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering through the shadowy world of international espionage from Moscow to Mayfair. Lucy Prebble (Enron, The Effect) brings a shocking story to the stage, adapted from the book by Luke Harding, with an astute mix of real events, vaudeville and thriller. This edition was published to coincide with the World Premiere at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in 2019.

English Drama Before Shakespeare (Hardcover): Peter Happe English Drama Before Shakespeare (Hardcover)
Peter Happe
R3,928 Discovery Miles 39 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing that there was much continuity throughout this period, in spite of many innovations. The range of dramatic activity includes well-known features such as mystery cycles and the interludes, as well as comedy and tragedy. Para-dramatic activity such as the liturgical drama, royal entries and localised or parish drama is also covered. Many of the plays considered are anonymous, but a coherent, biographical view can be taken of the work of known dramatists such as John Heywood, John Bale, and Christopher Marlowe. Peter Happe's study is based upon close reading of selected plays, especially from the mystery cycles and such Elizabethan works as Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. It takes account of contemporary research into dramatic form, performance (including some important recent revivals), dramatic sites and early theatre buildings, and the nature of early dramatic texts. Recent changes in outlook generated by the publication of the written records of early drama form part of the book's focus. There is an extensive bibliography covering social and political background, the lives and works of individual authors, and the development of theatrical ideas through the period. The book is aimed at undergraduates, as well as offering an overview for more advanced students and researchers in drama and in related fields of literature and cultural studies.

In Search of Stanislavsky's Creative State on the Stage - With a Practice as Research Case Study (Hardcover): Gabriela... In Search of Stanislavsky's Creative State on the Stage - With a Practice as Research Case Study (Hardcover)
Gabriela Curpan
R3,925 Discovery Miles 39 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanislavski as the creative state. Filtered through the lens of his unaddressed Christian Orthodox background, as well as his yogic or Hindu interest, the practical work followed the odyssey of the artist, from being oneself towards becoming the character, being structured in three major horizontal stages and developed on another three vertical, interconnected levels. Throughout the book, Gabriela Curpan aims to question both the cartesian approach to acting and the realist-psychological line, generally viewed as the only features of Stanislavski's work. This book will be of great interest to theatre and performance academics as well as practitioners in the fields of acting and directing.

An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance (Paperback): Robert Leach An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance (Paperback)
Robert Leach
R2,714 Discovery Miles 27 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. As the most public of arts, theatre constantly interacted with changing social, political, and intellectual movements and ideas, and Robert Leach's masterful work restores to the foreground of this evolution the contributions of women, gay people, and ethnic minorities, as well as the regional theatres of Wales and Scotland. Highly-illustrated chapters trace the development of theatre through major plays from each period; evaluations of playwrights; contemporary dramatic theory; acting and acting companies; dance and music; the theatre buildings themselves; and the audience, while also highlighting enduring features of British theatre, from comic gags to the use of props.

The Jew of Malta (Paperback, Critical edition): Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta (Paperback, Critical edition)
Christopher Marlowe; Edited by Lloyd Kermode
R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1633 quarto (Q) text-the only authoritative version-with modernised spelling and silent alteration of obvious errors, of confusing punctuation and of word-form changes. A Textual Notes section follows the play. Editorial matter by Lloyd Kermode. Six illustrations and one map. An unusually rich selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century contexts, thematically organised to promote classroom discussion. Topics include "Theater and Marlowe", "Machiavelli and Mediterranean Identities" and "Ideas of the Jew". Twenty-seven critical interpretations spanning three centuries and including seven considerations of The Jew of Malta in performance. A chronology and a selected bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts and criticism-helps students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

The City and the Parish: Drama in York and Beyond - Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies (Hardcover): Alexandra F... The City and the Parish: Drama in York and Beyond - Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies (Hardcover)
Alexandra F Johnston; Edited by edited by David N. Klausner
R3,937 Discovery Miles 39 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Collected Studies CS1062 This volume brings together a selection of the major articles of Alexandra F. Johnston, which along with similar volumes by the late David Mills, Peter Meredith and Meg Twycross makes up a set of "Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies". Alexandra Johnston, the founding director of the research project, Records of Early English Drama, is one of these four key scholars whose work has had a profound influence on the study of medieval and early modern English drama. This collection of essays focuses especially on the York plays: on the Mercers' documents that initiated the project itself; on the theology and christology of the plays; on the relationship between the plays and contemporary administrative bodies, both civic and national; and on the performance of the York plays in modern times. A further group of articles considers documentary evidence for the wide range of drama and mimetic ceremony in the Midlands and the West Country, reinforcing our understanding that these events took place predominately on a local parish level. The collection is rounded out with a survey of the immense changes that our reading of early English drama have undergone over the past half century.

Nigerian Female Dramatists - Expression, Resistance, Agency (Hardcover): Bosede Funke Afolayan Nigerian Female Dramatists - Expression, Resistance, Agency (Hardcover)
Bosede Funke Afolayan
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book showcases the important, but often understudied, work of Nigerian women playwrights. As in many spheres of life in Nigeria, in literature and other creative arts the voices of men dominate, and the work of women has often been sidelined. However, Nigerian women playwrights have made important contributions to the development of drama in Nigeria, not just by presenting female identities and inequalities but by vigorously intervening in wider social and political issues. This book draws on perspectives from culture, language, politics, theory, orality and literature, to shine a light on the engaged creativity of women playwrights. From the trail blazing but more traditional contributions of Zulu Sofola, through to contemporary postcolonial work by Tess Osonye Onwueme, Julie Okoh, and Sefi Atta, to name just a few, the book shows the rich variety of work being produced by female Nigerian dramatists. This, the first major collection devoted to Nigerian women playwrights, will be an important resource for scholars of African theatre and performance, literature and women's studies.

I and You (Paperback): Lauren Gunderson I and You (Paperback)
Lauren Gunderson
R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Sharp and funny. Gunderson taps into a buoyant spirit ... the touching 'barbaric yawp' (Whitman's phrase) of these two deeply engaging kids." The Washington Post Housebound by illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she has only social media for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in - uninvited and armed with waffle fries, a scruffy copy of Walt Whitman's poetry and a school project due the next day... Caroline is unimpressed, but an unlikely friendship develops and a seemingly mundane piece of homework starts to reveal the pair's hopes and dreams - as well as a deep and mysterious bond that connects them even further. Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2014. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Julie Felise Dubiner.

Education and Dramatic Art (Paperback, 2nd edition): David Hornbrook Education and Dramatic Art (Paperback, 2nd edition)
David Hornbrook; Foreword by Stephen Daldry
R1,848 Discovery Miles 18 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

To this day, Education and Dramatic Art remains the only fully worked critique of drama education in schools. Provocative and iconoclastic, this new edition brings the argument up-to-date and locates the author's proposals for a curriculum based on the making, performing and appraisal of dramas securely in the evolving culture of schools. The first section of the book traces the origins and fortunes of drama in schools in the context of changing political times and argues that by neglecting the customs and practices of the theatre, drama-in-education has often kept from the students it professes to empower, the very knowledge and understanding necessary for them to take command of their subject. Part two examines the developmental and pedagogic claims of drama-in-education. Theories of knowledge and meaning and assumptions about schools drama's power to establish a moral and social agenda, are all called to account. Finally, Education and Dramatic Art proposes a multiculturally-based, theoretical structure for the teaching of drama which pulls the theatre and the classroom together and offers teachers the foundation for a broad and balanced drama curriculum with its own distinctive body of knowledge and skills.

Terrence McNally - A Casebook (Paperback): Toby Silverman Zinman Terrence McNally - A Casebook (Paperback)
Toby Silverman Zinman
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Rustaveli's 'The Man in the Panther Skin' and European Literature (Hardcover): Elguja Khintibidze Rustaveli's 'The Man in the Panther Skin' and European Literature (Hardcover)
Elguja Khintibidze
R1,496 Discovery Miles 14 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Rustaveli's 'The Man in the Panther Skin' and European Literature (Paperback): Elguja Khintibidze Rustaveli's 'The Man in the Panther Skin' and European Literature (Paperback)
Elguja Khintibidze
R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Marsha Norman - A Casebook (Paperback): Linda Ginter Brown Marsha Norman - A Casebook (Paperback)
Linda Ginter Brown
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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