Making theatre : from text to performance / Peter Mudford. by Mudford, Peter

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Theatre of the Borderlands : Conflict, Violence, and Healing. by Del Rosario Moreno, Iani

Table of Contents: “…The Indigenous World: A Theatre of Resistance; Chapter 03. The Desert Voice that Clamors for Popular Saints and Miraculous Souls; Chapter 04. …”
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Applied theatre : international case studies and challenges for practice / edited by Monca Prendergast and Juliana Saxton.

Table of Contents: “…; Part One: Theories, History and Practices of Applied Theatre ; Chapter One: Theories and History of Applied Theatre ; 1.1 Where Do We Find Applied Theatre?…”
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Applied theatre : performing health and wellbeing / [edited by] Veronica Baxter and Katharine E. Low.

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Applied theatre : international case studies and challenges for practice / edited by Monica Prendergast and Juliana Saxton.

Table of Contents: “…Theories and history of applied theatre -- Practices of applied theatre -- Theatre in education (TIE) -- Popular theatre -- Theatre of the oppressed (TO) -- Theatre in health education (THE) -- Theatre for development (TfD) -- Prison theatre -- Community-based theatre -- Museum theatre -- Reminiscence theatre -- Participation, ethics, aesthetics and assessment.…”
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Anthropocosmic Theatre : Rite in the Dynamics of Theatre. by Nunez, Nichos

Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Tibetan Theatre; 2 Nahuatlan Theatre; 3 Western Theatre; 4 Anthropocosmic Theatre; Appendix I; Appendix II; Index.…”
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The contemporary theatre ; the significant playwrights of our time / With a foreword by John Gassner. by Lewis, Allan

The Renaissance theatre King's College London. Centre for Computing in the Humanities.

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Unmasking theatre design : a designer's guide to finding inspiration and cultivating creativity / by Lynne Porter. by Porter, Lynne, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Theatre and design -- pt. 2. Deconstructing the creative process -- pt. 3. …”
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THEATRE ET SCIENCE by FLORENCE FIX

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Twentieth Century Theatre : a Sourcebook. by Drain, Richard

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Theatre history studies. edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy.

Table of Contents: “…McMahon; "There Was No Resisting John Canoe":Circum-Atlantic Transracial Performance; "Talking B(l)ack": Construction of Gender and Race in the Plays of Eulalie Spence; Employing Diaspora: Ambivalence and Utopia in Contemporary Cape Verdean Theatre; BOOK REVIEWS; Books Received…”
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A formalist theatre / Michael Kirby. by Kirby, Michael, 1931-1997

Table of Contents: “…Referential and non-referential theatre --…”
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Death in modern theatre : stages of mortality / Adrian Curtin. by Curtin, Adrian, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction: Stages of mortality; Beyond the veil: sensing death in symbolist theatre; Fantastical representations of death in First World War drama; The absurd drama of modern death denial; Theatres of catastrophe after Auschwitz and Hiroshima; The drama of dying in the early twenty-first century; Conclusion: Unending; References; Index…”
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Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre : Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama. by Weimann, Robert

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Theatre for Children in Hospital. by Sextou, Persephone

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Prologue; Introduction; Motivation and beliefs; Arts and health; The structure of the book; Chapter One: A TCH definition and more & Applied theatre in hospitals; Theatre as an 'antidote' to clinical stress; A playful 'marriage' of two cultures, the artistic with the clinical in audience participation; The artist-child synergistic relationship; Ethical concerns; TCH and therapy; Chapter Two: The distinctive features of TCH practice and research; Background information of the study; Understanding the clinical context; The study: Methodology.…”
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The semiotics of theatre and drama / Keir Elam. by Elam, Keir

Table of Contents: “…Concluding comments : theatre, drama, semiotics.…”
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Irony and the Modern Theatre. by Storm, William

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Irony personified: Ibsen and The Master Builder; 2 The character of irony in Chekhov; 3 Irony and dialectic: Shaw's Candida; 4 Pirandello's "Father" -- and Brecht's "Mother"; 5 Absurdist irony: Ionesco's "anti-play"; 6 "Ironist First Class": Stoppard's Arcadia; 7 American ironies: Wasserstein and Kushner; 8 Irony's theatre; Notes; Works cited; Index.…”
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Theatre, body and pleasure / Simon Shepherd. by Shepherd, Simon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : theatrically imagined bodies -- Script as a discipline of the body -- Theatre and bodily value -- The wrong dog (an account of significant inaction) -- Just at that very moment : the organisation of body rhythm -- "Look out behind you" -- Strutting, bellowing, muscles and noise -- Lolo's breasts and a wooden Christ -- Dissipation.…”
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Rethinking the theatre of the absurd : ecology, the environment and the greening of the modern stage / edited by Carl Lavery and Clare Finburgh.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: greening the absurd / Carl Lavery and Clare Finburgh -- Caryl Churchill's 'Dark Ecology' / Elaine Aston -- The garden in the machine: Edward Albee, Sam Shepard and the American absurd / Stephen Bottoms-- Mutant bodies: the absurd in eastern European experience / Ralph Yarrow -- Recycling Beckett / Joe Kelleher -- Rare butterflies, persecution and pinball machines: enviornment, subjectivity and society in the theatre of Arthur Adamov / Franc Chamberlain -- Ionesco's green lesson: toxic environments, ecologies of air / Carl Lavery -- Nettles in the rose garden: ecocentrism in Jean Genet's theatre / Clare Finburgh -- The secluded voice: the impossible call home in early pinter / Mark Taylor-Batty and Carl Lavery -- Epilogue: 'The ruins of time (I've forgotten this before)' / David Williams -- Index.…”
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