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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Theatre, time and temporality : melting clocks and snapped elastics / David Ian Rabey. by Rabey, David Ian, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Chronos and KairosBachelard and The Dialectic of Duration; Prigogine and Theatre As Dissipative Structure; Theatre As Diffusive Resonance: Green's Random; Theatre As Dissipative Structure: Wesker's The Kitchen; Theatre As Chaotic Map: Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape; Barbara Adam and Quantum Theatrics; Chronos V. …”
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An approach to the semiotics of theatre /... by Veltřuský, Jiří

Table of Contents: “…The Prague School; 2. Theatre and literature; 2.1 Rejection of the literary conception of theatre; 2.2 Relations between theatre and literature; 2.3 Drama among the literary genres; 2.4 Dialogic language and dramatic dialogue; 2.5 Thematic construction in drama; 2.6 The dramatic text and its performance; 2.7 Excursus: Sound features in the dramatic text and in the actorâ#x80;#x99;s performance; 3. …”
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The Theatre and the State in Singapore : Orthodoxy and Resistance. by Chong, Terence

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; The Theatre and the State in Singapore; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. …”
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Theatre and performance design : a reader in scenography / edited by Jane Collins and Andrew Nisbet.

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Working in American theatre : a brief history, career guide and resource book for over 1,000 theatres / Jim Voltz. by Voltz, Jim

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part 1 Everything you need to know about working in American theatre ... from the professionals!; Life lessons from America's artists and executives; Part 2 A brief history of theatre in America; Carrying the artistic torch; Part 3 Career planning; Career-planning needs; Networking survival skills for theatre pros young and old; Strategic time and life management for savvy regional theatre artists; 10 timely tips for savvy American theatre artists; 19 terrible distractions that erode productivity.…”
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Shakespeare in the Spanish theatre : 1772 to the present / Keith Gregor. by Gregor, Keith (Graham Keith), 1960-

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Mapping Irish theatre : theories of space and place / Chris Morash & Shaun Richards. by Morash, Chris, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Illustrations; Maps; Figures; Table; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Making space; Chapter 2 Staging place; Chapter 3 Spaces of modernity and modernism; Chapter 4 The calamity of yesterday; Chapter 5 The fluorescence of place; Chapter 6 Theatre of the world; Chapter 7 Theatre of the street; Conclusion: Spectral spaces; Notes; Introduction; 1 Making space; 2 Staging place; 3 Spaces of modernity and modernism; 4 The calamity of yesterday; 5 The fluorescence of place; 6 Theatre of the world; 7 Theatre of the street; Conclusion: Spectral spaces; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Theatres of learning disability : good, bad, or plain ugly? / Matt Hargrave. by Hargrave, Matt, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The end of disability arts: theatre, disability and the social model -- 2. Pure products go crazy: the aesthetic value of learning disability -- 3. …”
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Theatre in education in Britain : origins, development and influence / Roger Wooster. by Wooster, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Part One : Roots -- 1 : Society, theatre, education and the first TIE experiments 1965-6 -- 2 : The development of the theatre in education movement 1966-76 -- 3 : Pedagogical maturity 1976-90 -- 4 : The education debate and the era of ERA -- Afterword : by Warwick Dobson -- Part Two : Fruits. -- 5 : Case study : careless talk -- 6 : Case study: when sleeping dogs awake -- 7 : The aesthetics of TIE -- 8 : Making it and making it work -- 9 : International perspectives and influence -- Afterword : by Chris Vine -- Part Three : Shoots? …”
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Strindberg on drama and theatre : a source book / selected, translated, and edited by Egil Törnqvist and Birgitta Steene. by Strindberg, August, 1849-1912

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Theatre for lifelong learning an instructor's handbook / edited by Rae Mansfield, Linda Lau.

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover -- Half Title -- Theatre for Lifelong Learning: A Handbook for Instructors, Older Adults, Communities, and Artists -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Preface: Why Older Adult Theatre? …”
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Theatre and postcolonial desires / Awam Amkpa. by Amkpa, Awam, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword by Ngg wa Thiong'o; Acknowledgments; Introduction: from colonial modernity to postcolonial desires: oppositional theatre in Nigeria and England; Nigeria; Wole Soyinka: theatre, mythology, and political activism; Femi Osofisan: theatre, nation, and the revolutionary ideal; Tess Onwueme: theatre, gender, and power; The Yoruba Traveling Theatres: popular theatre and desires for postcolonial subjectivity; Theatre, democracy, and community development: Ahmadu Bello University and the Nigerian Popular Theatre Alliance; England.…”
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Indonesian postcolonial theatre : spectral genealogies and absent faces / Evan Darwin Winet. by Winet, Evan Darwin, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction: colonial foundations and precessions of postcoloniality -- Unimaginable Communities: theatres of Eurasian and Chinese Batavia -- Sites of Disappearance: expatriate ghosts on ephemeral stages -- Despite Their Failings: spectres of foreign professionalism -- Hamlet and Caligula: echoes of a voice, unclear in origin -- Umat as Rakyat: performing Islam through veils of nationalism -- Teater Reformasi: the lingering smile of the absent father -- Conclusion: forgetting the monotonous nation -- Appendix. a timeline of 'Indonesian' and 'Batavian' histories -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.…”
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Theatre history studies. edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy.

Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations; Keynote Speech from the Twenty-eighth Mid-America Theatre Conference, Changing Theatrical Landscapes: Mapping New Directions in History, Pedagogy, and Practice in the Twenty-first Century; Between the Lines: Editing the Notebooks of Tennessee Williams; Research and Performance: A Roundtable on the Future of the Archive; Performance in the Archives; Performing Arts Archives: Dynamic Entities Complementing and Supporting Scholarship and Creativity; eBay, Wikipedia, and the Future of the Footnote…”
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Systems In A Theatre

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Playback Theatre in Action.

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A Life in the Theatre.

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Dance Theatre of Harlem.

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Theatre, society, and the nation : staging American identities / S.E. Wilmer. by Wilmer, S. E.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 From British colony to independent nation: refashioning identity; 2 Federalist and Democratic Republican theatre: partisan drama in nationalist trappings; 3 Independence for whom? …”
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