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Crashing Through Constellations (Hardcover): Tony Craven Crashing Through Constellations (Hardcover)
Tony Craven
R875 Discovery Miles 8 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a true story. Whether watching his dinner guests dodge sniper fire in Johannesburg, being chased by poltergeists in Vienna, or held up by Fidel Castro in Cuba; whether being waylaid in Hong Kong, on suspicion of drug smuggling, or threatened with drowning by a drunken Sheikh in Dubai; requiring a police escort in Rotterdam, or simply running into Arnold Schwarzenegger - "like an upturned coffin in a suit" - in Los Angeles, Tony Craven has travelled a remarkable journey. CRASHING THROUGH CONSTELLATIONS tells the story of a career in Drama and Entertainment. As a Director of stage and television - throughout the UK, Europe and much of the world - as well as writer and musician, Tony Craven has indeed "just about covered it all." From his early years at the world-famous Birmingham Repertory Theatre, charting triumphs and disasters in the West End, through world travel and UK tours, to his audacious entrance to the business of Television, this is a true story. But it is also a moving personal journey, recorded faithfully and honestly. The unrelenting race for success - so often, elusive - is laid bare, along with gossip and insight into personalities and relationships. With not a few surprises along the way, CRASHING THROUGH CONSTELLATIONS is honest, intriguing and packed with private anecdote. It is a story filled with triumph and heartache, sadness and excitement, amusement and betrayal. It is MY story.

George Sanders Pb (Paperback): Vanderbeets George Sanders Pb (Paperback)
Vanderbeets
R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An intriguing portrait of a complex personality. --Michael Medved, Sneak Preview

Can't Stand Still - Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance (Hardcover): Michael K. Johnson Can't Stand Still - Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance (Hardcover)
Michael K. Johnson
R3,204 Discovery Miles 32 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Born in 1893 into the only African American family in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, Emmanuel Taylor Gordon (1893-1971) became an internationally famous singer in the 1920s at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. With his musical partner, J. Rosamond Johnson, Gordon was a crucially important figure in popularizing African American spirituals as an art form, giving many listeners their first experience of black spirituals. Despite his fame, Taylor Gordon has been all but forgotten, until now. Michael K. Johnson illuminates Gordon's personal history and his cultural importance to the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, arguing that during the height of his celebrity, Gordon was one of the most significant African American male vocalists of his era. Gordon's story-working in the White Sulphur Springs brothels as an errand boy, traveling the country in John Ringling's private railway car, performing on vaudeville stages from New York to Vancouver to Los Angeles, performing for royalty in England, becoming a celebrated author with a best-selling 1929 autobiography, and his long bout of mental illness-adds depth to the history of the Harlem Renaissance and makes him one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century. Through detailed documentation of Gordon's career-newspaper articles, reviews, letters, and other archival material-the author demonstrates the scope of Gordon's cultural impact. The result is a detailed account of Taylor's musical education, his career as a vaudeville performer, the remarkable performance history of Johnson and Gordon, his status as an in-demand celebrity singer and author, his time as a radio star, and, finally, his descent into madness. Can't Stand Still brings Taylor Gordon back to the center of the stage.

Memories of Mississippi - Growing Up in the South (Hardcover): Wanda F Jackson Memories of Mississippi - Growing Up in the South (Hardcover)
Wanda F Jackson
R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Memories of Mississippi, gives vivid recollections from the author's life cast in snapshots of her childhood while coming of age in the South. The book is filled with folklore, historical facts, and stories that can be enjoyed by readers of all ages.

Staging the Personal - A Guide to Safe and Ethical Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Clark Baim Staging the Personal - A Guide to Safe and Ethical Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Clark Baim
R2,861 Discovery Miles 28 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the history, ethics, and intentions of staging personal stories and offers theatre makers detailed guidance and a practical model to support safe, ethical practice. Contemporary theatre has crossed boldly into therapeutic terrain and is now the site of radical self-exposure. Performances that would once have seemed shockingly personal and exposing have become commonplace, as people reveal their personal stories to audiences with ever-increasing candor. This has prompted the need for a robust and pragmatic framework for safe, ethical practice in mainstream and applied theatre. In order to promote a wider range of ethical risk-taking where practitioners negotiate blurred boundaries in safe and artistically creative ways, this book draws on relevant theory and practice from theatre and performance studies, psychodrama and attachment narrative therapy and provides detailed guidance supporting best practice in the theatre of personal stories. The guidance is structured within a four-part framework focused on history, ethics, praxis, and intentions. This includes a newly developed model for safe practice, called the Drama Spiral. The book is for theatre makers in mainstream and applied theatre, educators, students, researchers, drama therapists, psychodramatists, autobiographical performers, and the people who support them.

Asghar Farhadi - Interviews (Hardcover): Ehsan Khoshbakht, Drew Todd Asghar Farhadi - Interviews (Hardcover)
Ehsan Khoshbakht, Drew Todd
R3,935 R2,651 Discovery Miles 26 510 Save R1,284 (33%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world, especially in the international festival circuit, Farhadi is considered one of the great dramatist filmmakers of his generation. His reputation and influence in his home country is even greater, though also prone to misunderstandings, controversies, and divided critical reception. This volume offers a unique perspective into Farhadi's career in several key respects. Beginning with his work in television, the interviews collected here chart his rise from theater student to Iranian dramatist to celebrated international filmmaker. The majority of the interviews were conducted in Persian and have been translated into English for the first time. In the course of his career, Farhadi has become the new hope for Iran. On both nights of his Oscar wins, Iranians flooded the streets with joy in a rare (and illegal) celebration. Yet, like other contemporary Iranian filmmakers who have struggled to reconcile their national identity with their global repute as international filmmakers, Farhadi is at once feted and under fire by his own government. In addition to making recent films outside Iran, he has taken advantage of his celebrity status to make controversial statements on topics ranging from Donald Trump to poverty and capital punishment in Iran. He even asked Iran's Judiciary to pardon Jafar Panahi, prompting the government to temporarily withdraw permission to shoot his renowned 2011 film A Separation. Asghar Farhadi: Interviews addresses the important dimensions that characterize contemporary Iranian filmmaking and shed light on what Farhadi sees as his role and responsibilities as an Iranian filmmaker in a global age.

The Clowning Workbook - A Practical Course (Hardcover): Jon Davison The Clowning Workbook - A Practical Course (Hardcover)
Jon Davison
R2,681 Discovery Miles 26 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using the techniques and insights of clowning, this book draws on original workshops and research to provide practical clowning exercises to develop wider acting practice in innovative ways. The book offers guidance and explanation to key concepts in clowning, including the dynamics of the clown-audience relationship; the relationship between script, text and improvisation; and movement and voice, offering fresh and inspiring angles from which to view actor training. The Clowning Workbook for Actors and Performers is part of the acclaimed Theatre Arts Workbooks series and features its characteristic blend of student-focused exercises with pedagogical tips for teachers.

Elizabeth Taylor - Icon of American Empire (Hardcover): Gloria Shin Elizabeth Taylor - Icon of American Empire (Hardcover)
Gloria Shin
R2,298 R2,063 Discovery Miles 20 630 Save R235 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire, Gloria Shin contends that the titular movie star is a model of postcolonial whiteness as her tenure as the most beautiful woman in the world coincides with the era of postcolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Taylor is examined through a series of overlapping readings: as the Mistress in a cycle of Hollywood plantation, via her extra-cinematic image as a jet-setting wanton seductress and oriental in whiteface in the early 1960, through her repatriation to the U.S. in the 1970s via her marriage to and the election of her pro-military husband John Warner to the U.S. Senate, and her evolution as a relentless AIDS activist in the 1980s. Across these interpretative frames, Taylor emerges as the figuration who performs the vast possibilities open to postcolonial whites for mobility, pleasure, and political agency while operating without the burdens of race that allows her stardom to be symbolic of American Empire at the apex of its power.

The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos (Paperback): Freddy Decreus The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos (Paperback)
Freddy Decreus
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Ritual Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos outlines the story of the Athenian-based Attis Theatre and the way its founder and director, Theodoros Terzopoulos, introduced bio-energetic presences of the body on the stage, in an attempt to redefine and reappraise what it means today not only to have a body, but to fully be a body. Terzopoulos created a very specific attitude towards life and death, and it is this broad perspective on energy and consciousness that makes his work so appealing both to a general public and to students of arts, theatre and drama. Freddy Decreus' study charts the career of Greece's most acclaimed theatre director and provides a spiritual and philosophic answer in times where former Western meta-narratives have failed.

Brittany Murphy - Her Life and Career (Paperback): Peter Shelley Brittany Murphy - Her Life and Career (Paperback)
Peter Shelley
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Brittany Murphy (1977-2009) was an American film, television, and stage actress, singer, voice artist, and film producer. Beginning her career, 1995's Clueless proved to be her breakthrough film; notable roles followed in Girl, Interrupted (1999), Don't Say a Word (2001), 8 Mile (2002), and Just Married (2003). Despite the lead in Uptown Girls (2003), the production of The Ramen Girl (2008), and a long-running voice role on the animated television series King of the Hill (1997-2010), subsequent leading roles were less successful. Her later acting years were plagued by scandal and bad press, and the once critically acclaimed actress died of pneumonia at the young age of 32, shrouded by mystery. The first to span her life and career, this biography surveys Murphy's films, television appearances, stage shows, music videos, and public appearances in the order in which they were made. Critical reactions to and awards earned for her works are featured as is a selection of portraits, film stills and posters.

Audrey Hepburn - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition): David Hofstede Audrey Hepburn - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
David Hofstede
R3,116 Discovery Miles 31 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Though starring in only some twenty films and two engagements on Broadway, Audrey Hepburn earned her reputation through the quality of her work rather than the quantity of her performances. She was never driven by her career, and took years off between movies to spend with her family. As a child growing up in Arnhem when the Nazis invaded Holland, Hepburn witnessed the tragedy of war first-hand, and the impact of her experiences led her to a strong devotion to humanitarian causes. This book chronicles the career of Audrey Hepburn and sheds light on her private and enigmatic life. The brief biography included in the volume overviews her experiences and provides a context for her work as a performer. The entries that follow are devoted to her individual performances and include cast and credit information, plot synopses, excerpts from reviews, and critical commentary on her work. Entries are grouped in chapters devoted to her stage, film, radio, and television appearances, while appendices list her awards. An annotated bibliography lists and describes sources of additional information about this enchanting performer.

Giants Leap - An Activist Folksinger's Memoir (Hardcover): Bob Campbell Giants Leap - An Activist Folksinger's Memoir (Hardcover)
Bob Campbell
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Janis - Her Life and Music (Paperback): Holly George-Warren Janis - Her Life and Music (Paperback)
Holly George-Warren
R490 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R26 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Leslie Howard - The Lost Actor (Revised Second Edition) (Paperback): E. Eforgan Leslie Howard - The Lost Actor (Revised Second Edition) (Paperback)
E. Eforgan
R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Leslie Howard's acting career as a Hollywood star was well known but behind the charm was a perceptive and determined man. This book follows his life by using original material in archives and libraries, personal narratives, newspaper and magazine accounts.

Dying for a Living - Sins & Confessions of a Hollywood Villain & Libertine Patriot (Hardcover): Patrick Kilpatrick Dying for a Living - Sins & Confessions of a Hollywood Villain & Libertine Patriot (Hardcover)
Patrick Kilpatrick
R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Funny Life - The Autobiography (Paperback): Michael McIntyre A Funny Life - The Autobiography (Paperback)
Michael McIntyre
R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his long-awaited new autobiography.

Michael’s first book ended with his big break at the 2006 Royal Variety Performance. Waking up the next morning in the tiny rented flat he shared with his wife Kitty and their one-year-old son, he was beyond excited about the new glamorous world of show business. Unfortunately, he was also clueless . . .

In A Funny Life, Michael honestly and hilariously shares the highs and the lows of his rise to the top and desperate attempts to stay there. It’s all here, from his disastrous panel show appearances to his hit TV shows, from mistakenly thinking he’d be a good chat show host and talent judge, to finding fame and fortune beyond his wildest dreams and becoming the biggest-selling comedian in the world. Along the way he opens his man drawer, narrowly avoids disaster when his trousers fall down in front of three policemen and learns the hard way why he should always listen to his wife.

Michael has had a silly life, a stressful life, sometimes a moving and touching life, but always A Funny Life.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance - Print and e-reference editions available (Multiple copy pack): Dennis... The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance - Print and e-reference editions available (Multiple copy pack)
Dennis Kennedy
R9,330 Discovery Miles 93 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance is an unparalleled resource, providing comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information about theatre and performance from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in London, Paris, New York, and around the globe. Written in accessible language, it will appeal broadly to readers interested in theatre and performance, from occasional playgoers to newspaper critics, students, and scholars.

Sing for Your Life - A Story of Race, Music, and Family (Paperback): Daniel Bergner Sing for Your Life - A Story of Race, Music, and Family (Paperback)
Daniel Bergner
R447 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Joan Fontaine - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Marsha L. Beeman Joan Fontaine - A Bio-Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Marsha L. Beeman
R2,483 Discovery Miles 24 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Always in competition with her older, more famous sister, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine had a varied and successful career of her own. She eventually attained stardom for her work in the film Rebecca, which won the 1940 Academy Award for best picture. The following year, she won the Academy Award for best actress in Suspicion, beating out her sister for the coveted prize. This book tells the story of her fascinating career and provides full information for her many performances. A short biography of Fontaine begins the book and overviews the rivalry between Fontaine and her sister, her disappointing marriages, her illnesses, and her productive and rewarding career as an entertainer. Chapters then provide detailed information for her films, radio and television shows, and stage appearances. Each chapter contains individual entries for her productions, with entries providing cast and credit information, a plot summary, a critical analysis, and excerpts from reviews. An annotated bibliography provides information about books and articles related to every aspect of Joan Fontaine's life and work.

W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen - Becoming a Character Comedian (Hardcover, 1st ed.... W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen - Becoming a Character Comedian (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Arthur Frank Wertheim
R3,884 Discovery Miles 38 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway's most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies. As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at the Motion Picture Academy, the book explores how Fields years as a Follies entertainer portraying a beleaguered husband and a captivating conman became a landmark turning point in his career, leading to his fame as a masterful film comedian. The book also untangles a web of mysteries about Fields's turbulent private life, from the heartrending stories about the tragic relationship with his calculating wife who refused to divorce him, to his estranged son controlled by his mother, to the seven-year extra-marital affair with a chorus girl that led to the birth of an unwanted child. This electrifying saga illuminates a complex dual personality, whirling from tenderness to brusqueness, who endured so much anguish in order to bring the gift of laughter to millions. Although vilified by Ziegfeld and assailed by demons, Fields survived the cutthroat rigors of Broadway show biz to become a legendary American iconoclast and cultural icon.

Una Merkel - The Actress with Sassy Wit and Southern Charm (Hardback) (Hardcover): Larry Sean Kinder Una Merkel - The Actress with Sassy Wit and Southern Charm (Hardback) (Hardcover)
Larry Sean Kinder
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Adventures of Ozzie Nelson - The Life and Career of America's Favorite Pop (Paperback): John R. Holmes The Adventures of Ozzie Nelson - The Life and Career of America's Favorite Pop (Paperback)
John R. Holmes
R1,110 Discovery Miles 11 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When Ozzie Nelson died in 1975, he was no longer a household name. For a guy who had created the longest-running TV sitcom in history, invented the rock video, and fronted one of the most successful big bands of the 1930s, it's baffling that Nelson has faded so far from American media memory. Larger than life offscreen-an attorney, college football star, cartoonist, songwriter, major band leader-Ozzie created a smaller-than-life TV persona, the bumbling average Dad who became known to the rock generation (which included his teen idol son Rick Nelson) as the essence of blandness. But America also saw Ozzie as their iconic Dad: not a "father knows best," since his pontifications usually proved flawed by the end of each episode, but the father who tried his best. This book is the only full-length biography of Ozzie Nelson since he published his memoirs in 1973. It treats the big band and early TV icon with affection and hints that American pop culture may owe more to Ozzie than is generally acknowledged.

Frank Sinatra on the Big Screen - The Singer as Actor and Filmmaker (Paperback): James L. Neibaur, Gary Schneeberger Frank Sinatra on the Big Screen - The Singer as Actor and Filmmaker (Paperback)
James L. Neibaur, Gary Schneeberger
R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Frank Sinatra is an iconic figure in music, but his film career is often overlooked. His innate talent as an actor is proven in many serious dramatic roles, including films like Man with the Golden Arm, The Manchurian Candidate, and From Here to Eternity, for which he received an Oscar. From romantic musical comedies to Rat Pack films, Frank Sinatra achieved a great deal of success in motion pictures. He even took a stab at directing. This book examines each of Frank Sinatra's movies, from his early years as a bobby soxer idol, to more serious roles that exhibited the depth of his talent. Provided are background stories, production information, critical assessments, and an explanation of how his career as a recording artist connected to the movie. Discover through 60 photographs, interviews, and more, this underappreciated aspect of Sinatra's career.

Conversations with Sam Shepard (Hardcover): Jackson R. Bryer, Robert M. Dowling, Mary C. Hartig Conversations with Sam Shepard (Hardcover)
Jackson R. Bryer, Robert M. Dowling, Mary C. Hartig
R3,207 Discovery Miles 32 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musician (a drummer in three rock bands); a horseman; and a plain-spoken intellectual. The famously private Shepard gave a significant number of interviews over the course of his public life, and the interviewers who respected his boundaries found him to be generous with his time and forthcoming on a wide range of topics. The selected interviews in Conversations with Sam Shepard begin in 1969 when Shepard, already a multiple Obie winner, was twenty-six and end in 2016, eighteen months before his death from complications of ALS at age seventy-three. In the interim, the voice, the writer, and the man evolved, but there are themes that echo throughout these conversations: the indelibility of family; his respect for stage acting versus what he saw as far easier film acting; and the importance of music to his work. He also speaks candidly of his youth in California, his early days as a playwright in New York City, his professionally formative time in London, his interests and influences, the mythology of the American Dream, his own plays, and more. In Conversations with Sam Shepard, the playwright reveals himself in his own words.

Elizabeth Taylor - The Grit and Glamour of an Icon (Hardcover): Kate Andersen Brower Elizabeth Taylor - The Grit and Glamour of an Icon (Hardcover)
Kate Andersen Brower
R895 Discovery Miles 8 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread private reflections, this authorised biography is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legend and her legacy. Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at the age of twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first actor to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, from her eight marriages and enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction and her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist. Using Elizabeth's unpublished letters, diary entries and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends and family, Kate Andersen Brower tells the full, unvarnished story of the classic Hollywood star who continues to captivate audiences the world over.

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