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My Father Was Carmen Miranda - Memoirs of an English Show Girl (Hardback) (Hardcover): Nena Jover Kelty My Father Was Carmen Miranda - Memoirs of an English Show Girl (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Nena Jover Kelty
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dynamics Allegiance Development - The Steppingstones of Reason (Hardcover): Michael Watson Dynamics Allegiance Development - The Steppingstones of Reason (Hardcover)
Michael Watson
R1,111 Discovery Miles 11 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Finding H20M3 - Son of Man: Around the Moon and Back Again (Hardcover): Jameson B Grant Finding H20M3 - Son of Man: Around the Moon and Back Again (Hardcover)
Jameson B Grant
R1,240 R1,053 Discovery Miles 10 530 Save R187 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Susie...Ain't She a Doozie? My 'Hazel' Days and Beyond (Hardback) (Hardcover): Julia Benjamin Susie...Ain't She a Doozie? My 'Hazel' Days and Beyond (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Julia Benjamin
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Performing King Lear - Gielgud to Russell Beale (Hardcover): Jonathan Croall Performing King Lear - Gielgud to Russell Beale (Hardcover)
Jonathan Croall
R3,383 Discovery Miles 33 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world. Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play, being centred firmly on the reality of creation and performance. The book is based on Jonathan Croall's unique interviews with twenty of the most distinguished actors to have undertaken this daunting role during the last forty years, including Donald Sinden, Tim Pigott-Smith, Timothy West, Julian Glover, Oliver Ford Davies, Derek Jacobi, Christopher Plummer, Michael Pennington, Brian Cox and Simon Russell Beale. He has also talked to two dozen leading directors who have staged the play in London, Stratford and elsewhere. Among them are Nicholas Hytner, David Hare, Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Noble, Deborah Warner, Jonathan Miller and Dominic Dromgoole. Each reveals in precise and absorbing detail how they have dealt with the formidable challenge of interpreting and staging Shakespeare's great tragedy.

The Merv Griffin Show - The Inside Story (Hardback) (Hardcover): Steve Randisi The Merv Griffin Show - The Inside Story (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Steve Randisi; Foreword by Albert Fisher
R1,045 Discovery Miles 10 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
That Kind of Woman - The Life and Career of Barbara Nichols (Hardback) (Hardcover): Richard Koper That Kind of Woman - The Life and Career of Barbara Nichols (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Richard Koper
R1,021 R926 Discovery Miles 9 260 Save R95 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines - Woman's Work (Hardcover): Jessica Silsby Brater Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines - Woman's Work (Hardcover)
Jessica Silsby Brater; Series edited by Enoch Brater, Mark Taylor-Batty
R2,480 R2,004 Discovery Miles 20 040 Save R476 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech's work, Jessica Brater's companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist. Tracing Maleczech's background, training, and influences, the volume contextualizes her work and the founding of Mabou Mines within the wider landscape of American avant-garde theatre. It considers her performances and productions, revealing both her interest in making ordinary women important onstage, and her predilection for resurrecting extraordinary women from history and finding their resonances within a contemporary theatrical context. Brater considers Maleczech's investment in redrawing the boundaries of what women are allowed to say, both on stage and off, and shows how her commitment to radical artistic and production risks has reshaped the contours of a contemporary theatrical experience. Highlights of the volume include discussion of productions such as Mabou Mines' Lear, Dead End Kids, Hajj, Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day, Red Beads, and La Divina Caricatura, as well as a close look at Maleczech's final work-in-progress, Imagining the Imaginary Invalid.

Red Robinson - The Last Broadcast (Hardcover): Robin Brunet Red Robinson - The Last Broadcast (Hardcover)
Robin Brunet
R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Robert Urich Story - An Extraordinary Life (hardback) (Hardcover): Joe Martelle The Robert Urich Story - An Extraordinary Life (hardback) (Hardcover)
Joe Martelle
R1,152 Discovery Miles 11 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Acting with Adler (Paperback, 1st Limelight ed): Joanna Rotte Acting with Adler (Paperback, 1st Limelight ed)
Joanna Rotte
R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The figure of Stella Adler towers high among the memorable acting teachers in American theatre. Her methods of training, her principles of acting and character interpretation, her analyses of the seminal plays of the modern theatre comprise a legacy for everyone who followed her. In this book, that legacy gains the special immediacy and authenticity of her own spoken words. Over three years in the 1970s, Joanna Rotte worked with Adler as a student and as an actress under her direction, all the white taking the copious notes that have become the heart of this book. Throughout, Adler speaks about her principles in a tough minded and demanding way, inspired by her overriding conviction that as a person an actor 'becomes bigger through working'. This book provides an opportunity to sit in on the classes of this remarkable woman of whom her student Marlon Brando said, "My debt and gratitude to her are enormous. As a teacher of acting, she has few peers. As a human being, few equals."

Claude Rains - Madness, Magic, & Mayhem (hardback) (Hardcover): John T. Soister, Jessica Rains, Joanna Jones Claude Rains - Madness, Magic, & Mayhem (hardback) (Hardcover)
John T. Soister, Jessica Rains, Joanna Jones
R1,226 Discovery Miles 12 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Diving Into the Deep - A Gripping True Story of Adventure, Risk and Spiritual Quest (Hardcover): Lowell Lytle Diving Into the Deep - A Gripping True Story of Adventure, Risk and Spiritual Quest (Hardcover)
Lowell Lytle
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jokes 103 (Hardcover): Alex Gall Jokes 103 (Hardcover)
Alex Gall
R834 Discovery Miles 8 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Old Rage - 'One of our best-loved actor's powerful riposte to a world driving her mad' - DAILY MAIL (Paperback):... Old Rage - 'One of our best-loved actor's powerful riposte to a world driving her mad' - DAILY MAIL (Paperback)
Sheila Hancock
R312 R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

**THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER** _______________ 'I want to be Sheila Hancock when I grow up' Lorraine Kelly 'Wise, witty, kind and true' - Sunday Times 'A sparkling memoir as funny and insightful as it's moving' - Daily Mail 'A captivating memoir' - Mail on Sunday _______________ A gloriously irreverent memoir from the frontline of old age - by the Sunday Times-bestselling author and legendary actor In Old Rage, one of Britain's best loved actors opens up about her ninth decade. Funny, feisty, honest, Sheila Hancock makes for brilliant company as she talks about her life as a daughter, a sister, a mother, a widow, an actor, a friend and looks at a world so different from the wartime world of her childhood. And yet - despite age, despite rage - she finds there are always reasons for joy. _______________ 'The much-loved actor candidly shares the fear, joy and frustration she has found in her ninth decade' - Guardian, Books of the Year 2022 'Sheila Hancock reflects upon her life and career with all the winning candour and warm-heartedness we have come to expect from the legendary actress' - Waterstones

Henry Darrow - Lightning in the Bottle (Hardback) (Hardcover): Jan Pippins, Henry Darrow Delgado Henry Darrow - Lightning in the Bottle (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Jan Pippins, Henry Darrow Delgado
R824 Discovery Miles 8 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
That's Still Not All Folks!! (Hardback) (Hardcover): Joe Alaskey That's Still Not All Folks!! (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Joe Alaskey
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Adamant - The Life and Pursuits of Dorothy McGuire (hardback) (Hardcover): Giancarlo Stampalia Adamant - The Life and Pursuits of Dorothy McGuire (hardback) (Hardcover)
Giancarlo Stampalia
R1,431 Discovery Miles 14 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Life of a Guardian - Protect and Serve (Hardcover): William Benson Life of a Guardian - Protect and Serve (Hardcover)
William Benson
R811 Discovery Miles 8 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Honky in the House - Writing & Producing The Jeffersons (Hardcover): Jay Moriarty Honky in the House - Writing & Producing The Jeffersons (Hardcover)
Jay Moriarty
R698 Discovery Miles 6 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Onward and Upward (Hardcover): Jim Neglia Onward and Upward (Hardcover)
Jim Neglia
R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For years, I have wanted to write a book about the relentless determination it takes to succeed in the arts. Whether as a young artist in New York City, as a music coordinator of a Broadway musical, or as a musician traveling through Europe, I will share with you excitement, acclaim, and culture. Onward and Upward is the true account of my pursuit of a dream; a career in music. In this around-the-world journey, I share my stories of culture, family, laughter, friendship, wisdom, and heartache, with a generous splash of the likes of Strauss, motorcycle chases, and Hollywood. Any aspiring artist, would-be world traveler, or entrepreneur, will benefit from reading this book. Learn from another's experience about dedication, passion, and culture. Partly by means of behind-the-scene memoirs, partly by means of journal entries, we will walk hand in hand on this most extraordinary journey through a life in the arts.

Theatre Across Borders (Hardcover, HPOD): Abhishek Majumdar Theatre Across Borders (Hardcover, HPOD)
Abhishek Majumdar
R2,504 Discovery Miles 25 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Is there a fundamental connection between New York's Elevator Repair Service's 9-hour production of The Great Gatsby and a Kathakali performance? How can we come to appreciate the slowness of Kabuki theatre as much as the pace of the Whatsapp theatre of post-Arab Spring Turkey? Can we go beyond our own culture's contemporary definition of a 'good play' and think about the theatre in a deep and pluralistic manner? Drawing on his extensive experience working with theatre artists, students and thinkers across the globe - up to and including an hour-long audience with the Dalai Lama - playwright Abhishek Majumdar considers why we make theatre and how we see it in different parts of the world. His own work has taken him from theatre in Japan to dance companies in the Phillippines, writers in Lebanon and Palestine, theatre groups in Burkina Faso, war-torn areas like Kashmir and North Eastern India, and to China and Tibet, Argentina and Mexico. Via a far-reaching and provocative collection of essays that is informed by this wealth of experience, Majumdar explores: - how different cultures conceive theatre and how the norm of one place is the experiment of another; - the ways in which theatre across the world mirrors its socio political and philosophical climate; - how, for thousands of years, theatre has been a tool to both disrupt and to heal; - and how, even within the many differences, there are universals from which we can all learn and how theatre does cross borders Of interest to theatre makers everywhere - be they writers, actors, directors or designers - this book offers an oversight, as well as interrogation, into the place of theatre in the world today.

Dancing Out of the Closet - Totally True Stories (hardback) (Hardcover): Matthew Shaffer Dancing Out of the Closet - Totally True Stories (hardback) (Hardcover)
Matthew Shaffer
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rock and Roll Comics - The Beatles Experience (Hardcover): Stuart Immonen Rock and Roll Comics - The Beatles Experience (Hardcover)
Stuart Immonen; Todd Loren, Mikal Vollmer
R1,036 Discovery Miles 10 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Journey Thru the Unknown... (by the Unknown Comic) (Hardback) (Hardcover): Murray Langston Journey Thru the Unknown... (by the Unknown Comic) (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Murray Langston
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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