Redefining theatre communities : international perspectives on community-conscious theatre-making / edited by Marco Galea and Szabolcs Musca.

Table of Contents: “…Table of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Marco Galea and Szabolcs Musca PART I: Theatre Communities: Traces, Places and Belonging Communal Solidarity and Amateur Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Theoretical Approaches - Stefan Aquilina Theatre in Malta: Which Spaces Does the Community Occupy? …”
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Theatre and cartographies of power : repositioning the Latina/o Americas / edited by Jimmy A. Noriega and Analola Santana.

Table of Contents: “…Noriega and Analola Santana -- Crafting theoretical frameworks from beyond the U.S. borders photo performance: transient corporalities / Violeta Luna -- The liminal as constitutive of the theatrical event and the concepts of Teatro-Matriz and Liminal Theatre / Jorge Dubatti -- Communitas of pain: performativities in mourning / Ileana Diéguez -- Crisis, tension, and freedom: theatre and the baroque / Patricio Vallejo Aristizábal -- A personal map/live hieroglyphs / Gustavo Ott -- Rethinking histories of geography -- Remapping Bogotá: Fernando de Orbea's invented narrative of conquest / Gad Guterman -- To imagine a nuevomexicano theatre history / Brian Eugenio Herrera -- Radical exposure: Regina José Galindo's Earth / Diana Taylor -- Searching for home in all the wrong places: why my Nuyorican reality is stateless / Migdalia Cruz -- The ambiguity of a country that does not think: cartographic exercise of a gay theatre in Peru / Diego La Hoz -- Siempre norteada: a PTSD survivor's guide for navigating (dis)orientation / Virginia Grise -- Minstrels of empire: blackface and Black labor in Panama, 1850-1914 / Katherine Zien -- Conquering a territory, occupying the stage: notes on Black theatre and activism in Brazil / Carlos Cortez Minchillo -- From my universal village: the winged word / Concepción León -- Repositioning migration: trabajadores desde otro mundo / Debra A. …”
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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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Theatre of Howard Barker. by Lamb, Charles

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Barker and the British theatre; Postmodernism and the theatre; Seduction; Judith -- a seduction; The Castle; The shape of darkness; Appendix: interview with Howard Barker; Notes; Chronology of Barker productions; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Brecht and Political Theatre : the Mother on Stage. by Bradley, Laura

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Religion, Theatre, and Performance : Acts of Faith. by Gharavi, Lance

Table of Contents: “…Religion, Theatre, and Performance Acts of Faith; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; PART I Religious Actors; 2 Religion, Ritual, and Performance; 3 Spiritual Logic from Ritual Bodies; 4 Embodying the Disembodied: Hesychasm, Meditation, and Michael Chekhov's Higher Ego; 5 Becoming-Lucid: Theatre and Tantra; 6 Jew Media: Performance and Technology for the Fifty-Eighth Century; 7 Plain Speech Acts: Reading Quakerism with Theatre and Performance Studies; PART II Dramas and Theatres; 8 The Religious Drama of Egypt's Ali Ahmed Bakathir.…”
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Theatre and moral order / [editor, M. Scott Phillips].

Table of Contents: “…Don't let what really happened get in the way of the truth : reflections on theatre, ethics, and "the moral order" /…”
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Contemporary theatre in education / Roger Wooster. by Wooster, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Origin of the Species: The Genetic Legacy from Drama in Education; Chapter 3: The Origin of the Species: The Theatrical Legacy and the Theatre and Education Hybrid; Chapter 4: The Fight for Survival; Chapter 5: The Welsh Environment; Chapter 6: Current TIE Provision in Wales: The Survival of the Fittest?…”
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Elizabethan popular theatre : plays in performance / Michael Hattaway. by Hattaway, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One The idea of Elizabethan theatre; I · Playhouses and stages; Seven playhouses; A drawing of the Swan; Halls and fairgrounds; The stage, the tiring-house, and the canopy; The furnishing of the stage; The auditorium; 2 . …”
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Philologie et théâtre : Traduire, commenter, interpréter le théâtre antique en Europe (XVe - XVIIIe siècle). by Lochert, Veronique

Table of Contents: “…Traduire en images: les illustrations du théâtre antique /…”
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Theatre, opera and consciousness : history and current debates / Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe. by Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Daniel, 1958-

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Insights in applied theatre : the early days and onwards / edited by John O'Toole, Penny Bundy and Peter O'Connor.

Table of Contents: “…PART 2: WHAT IS APPLIED THEATRE? --…”
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A theatre of affect : the corporeal turn in Samuel Beckett's drama / Charlotta P. Einarsson by Einarsson, Charlotta P.

Table of Contents: “…Phenomenological presentations -- The body as technology -- The corporeal turn -- A theatre of affect -- Meaning…”
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Makers of modern theatre : an introduction / Robert Leach. by Leach, Robert, 1942-

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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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Strategies of political theatre : post-War British playwrights / Michael Patterson. by Patterson, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Strategies of political theatre : a theoretical overview -- 'Reflectionist' strategy : 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959) -- 'Interventionist' strategy : poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) -- Dialectics of comedgy : Trevor Griffith's Comedians (1975) -- Appropriating middle-class comedy : Howard Barker's Stripwell -- Staging the future : Howard Breton's The Churchill Play (1974) -- Agit-prop revisited : John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (1973) -- Brecht revisited : David Hare's Fanshen (1975) -- Rewriting Shakespeare : Edward Bond's Lear (1971) -- Stragegy of play : Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979).…”
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Modern Czech theatre : reflector and conscience of a nation / Jarka M. Burian. by Burian, Jarka, 1927-2005

Table of Contents: “…1780-1900: Some Exposition before the Main Action -- 1900-1938: From the Turn of the Century to Munich -- Theatre during the Occupation and War Years -- The Postwar Years and the 1950s -- The Dynamic 1960s, Part One: Significant New Plays -- The Dynamic 1960s, Part Two: Key Productions in New Studio Theatres and Elsewhere -- August 1968: The Trauma and Its Aftermath -- A Gradual Thawing in the 1980s -- 1989 Annus Mirabilis for the Czechs and Their Theatre -- Liberation and Its Pains: The First Year after the November Revolution -- Czech Theatre of the 1990s.…”
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The Victorian marionette theatre / John McCormick with Clodagh McCormick and John Phillips. by McCormick, John, 1938-

“…Studies in theatre history and culture.…”
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The Greek theatre and festivals : documentary studies / edited by Peter Wilson.

Table of Contents: “…Deconstructing festivals / William Slater -- Theatre rituals / Angelos Chaniotis -- The organisation of music contests in the Hellenistic period and artists' participation : an attempt at classification / Sophia Aneziri -- The men who built the theatres : theatropolai, theatronai, and arkhitektones / Eric Csapo ; with an archaeological appendix by Hans Rupprecht Goette -- Choregic monuments and the Athenian democracy / Hans Rupprecht Goette -- Performance in the Pythion : the Athenian Thargelia / Peter Wilson -- Dithyramb, tragedy, and Cyrene / Paola Ceccarelli and Silvia Milanezi -- A horse from Teos : epigraphical notes on the Ionian-Hellespontine Association of Dionysiac Artists / John Ma -- Kraton, son of Zotichos : artists' associations and monarchic power in the Hellenistic period / Brigitte Le Guen -- Theoria and theatre at Samothrace : the Dardanos by Dymas of Iasos / Ian Rutherford -- The Dionysia at Iasos : its artists, patrons, and audience / Charles Crowther -- An opisthographic lead tablet from Sicily with a financial document and a curse concerning choregoi / David Jordan -- Sicilian choruses / Peter Wilson.…”
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Theatre in Southeast Asia [by] James R. Brandon. by Brandon, James R.

Table of Contents: “…PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- Part I A Historical Background -- 2 THE CULTURAL SETTING -- 3 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEATRE GENRES -- 4 TRADITIONS OF THEATRE -- Part II Theatre as Art -- 5 DRAMA -- 6 MUSIC AND DANCE -- 7 PRODUCTION -- 8 TRANSMISSION OF THEATRE ART -- Part III Theatre as an Institution -- 9 EXTENT AND DISTRIBUTION -- 10 THEATRE AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT -- 11 THE TROUPE -- 12 ECONOMICS -- 13 THE AUDIENCE -- 14 SOCIAL STATUS OF TROUPES -- Part IV Theatre as Communication -- 15 PAST AND PRESENT -- 16 THEATRE AND OTHER MASS MEDIA…”
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