The play transpires over one long, boozy night, laying bare the lies, compromises, and scalding love that have sustained a middle-aged couple through decades of marriage.

A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's history and practice of theatre.

A revised and updated edition of Bella Merlin's essential guide to Stanislavsky.

Conditioning for Dance, Second Edition, offers over 100 new conditioning exercises, for all parts of the body. It features two new chapters and a new web resource with video clips showing correct execution of the exercises, two 20-minute workouts, and a personal conditioning program.

An accomplished dancer and gymnast himself, Tom Welsh wrote this book to empower conscientious dancer-athletes to take an active role in directing their own training and development. His clear, straightforward explanations of important concepts in conditioning hone in on the physical capabilities that are key to success.

Over the years, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain, and his own place in it, in a series of irregular newspaper columns. This book includes his columns: Will Scotland become the Promised Land of the Left? Is it possible to live a life without crisps? Who was Grant Shapps? And more.

Over the last five years, often when David Mitchell has been on holiday, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain, and his own place in it, in a series of irregular newspaper columns. This title collects these columns.

This comprehensive volume guides the reader to research and construct costumes.

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Exploring costume's role and function in a variety of theoretical, historical, conceptual and practical contexts, this exciting volume also reflects on the broader relationship between costume and visual culture throughout.

From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing (working with actors and technicians, when to listen to the experts, how to cope with rehearsals), this book provides a complete primer to the art of playwriting.

This engaging text introduces the burgeoning and interdisciplinary field of cultural performance, offering ethnographic approaches to performance as well as looking at the aesthetics of experience and performance theory.

Features over 200 full colour illustrations of 82 of the most effective dance, movement and performance exercises. This title depicts the relationship between muscle development and aesthetic movements. It helps you learn how to modify exercises to target specific areas enhancing flexibility and reducing muscle tension.

Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology, Second Edition, retains its scientific perspective while offering greater accessibility to a wider audience. The streamlined approach makes the content more accessible in a single undergraduate course, and the text comes with a suite of online ancillaries.

While the body appears in almost all cultural discourses, it is nowhere as visible as in dance. This book captures the resurgence of the dancing body in the second half of the twentieth century by introducing students to the key phenomenological, kinaesthetic and psychological concepts relevant to both theatre and dance studies.

Dance Appreciation helps students new to dance as well as experienced dancers connect with the art form in meaningful ways. Students explore dance elements and a range of genres and learn approaches for viewing and responding to performances. The text comes with instructor ancillaries and HKPropel Access.

"Designed for beginning college-level dance composition courses and dance courses at the middle and high school levels, this textbook and its ancillaries highlight selected portions of original dance compositions by two famous choreographers"--

Dance composition is an important part of dance education because it is the discipline that translates ideas into dances. Revised, redesigned and expanded, and now with a new DVD, this seminal book explores essential guidelines and thus contributes to a greater understanding of dance composition as a discipline.

This revised core text addresses the rationale, process, techniques and methodologies specific to the study of dance history. A team of dance historians covers the study of dance in its traditional and performance contexts, offering a range of starting points for study.