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CHRYSALIS BOOKS
500 Great Comicbook Action Heroes Description: Offers a concise history of comics and action heroes and heroines, tracing their development from the first US comics up to modern developments. Forty characters are profiled, special features are interspersed throughout and topics of particular interest are covered in depth.... Read More about the "500 Great Comicbook Action Heroes" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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A Year With The Producers Description: What`s it like to work in the biggest hit Broadway has seen in years? In this delightful book based on his almost daily notes, Jeffry Denman tells the story of a year in one performer`s life, from his job in the final days of Cats (now and forever, but finally closed) to a small but promising part in the Mel Brooks smash. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, Susan Stroman, Gary Beach, and Roger Bart are all here in Jeffry Denman`s story. We follow The Producers from its first casting call to the Chicago tryouts; we watch numbers cut and roles reassigned; we are there at the record-breaking New York opening, and then at the Tony awards (where the show won more categories than any show in Tony history). What makes this book special is that we watch through Jeffry Denman`s eyes not the star`s perspective but the view from the chorus. Denman takes on several small roles in the show the Blind Musician; the Little Wooden Boy; FDR; a little old lady dancing with a walker; and Scott, resident choreographer to famed bad director Roger DeBris. We get to see director Susan Stroman coaching and Mel Brooks laughing (or not) at Denman`s comic turns. What works? What doesn`t? How does all that energy and talent translate into the show you still can`t get tickets for?A Year with The Producers takes us up to Jeffry Denman`s big break, when he goes on for Matthew Broderick in the role of Leo Bloom, the nerdy accountant who dreams of being a producer. It`s a moment every young actor will read with terror and delight. A behind-the-scenes story with more than a touch of theatrical magic about it, A Year with The Producers is a book for actors and theater fans everywhere.... Read More about the "A Year With The Producers" on the The Nile Book Store Website

TAYLOR&FRANCIS LTD
Acting (re)considered Description: Fully revised and updated, Acting (Re)Considered is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of theories on acting, ideas about body and training, and statements about the actor in performance. Included are discussions on acting by or about major figures that have shaped theories and practices of acting and performance from the late nineteenth century to the present. The essaysby directors, historians, actor trainers and actorsbridge the gap between theories and practices of acting, and between East and West.... Read More about the "Acting (re)considered" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Anna Halprin Description: This guidebook traces the life`s work of radical dance-maker Anna Halprin, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form. Tracing the evolution of the San Francisco Dancers` Workshop, it explores Halprin`s connections with the avant-garde theatre, music, visual art and architecture of the 1950s and 60s, and analyses her work from this period. Anna Halprin not only offers a useful introduction to the life and work of this major figure, but also provides an important historical guide to a time when dance was first explored beyond the confines of the theatre and considered as a healing art for individuals and communities.... Read More about the "Anna Halprin" on the The Nile Book Store Website

OLDCASTLE BOOKS
Audrey Hepburn - Pocket Essentials Description: Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are brief, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. In addition to an introduction to the subject, each topic is individually analyzed and reviewed, examining its impact on popular culture or history. There`s also a reference section that lists related web sites and weightier (and more expensive) books on the subject. For media buffs, students, and inquiring minds, these are great entry-level books that build into an essential library.... Read More about the "Audrey Hepburn - Pocket Essentials" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Taylor&Francis Inc
August Wilson Description: The only African-American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice, Wilson has yet to receive the critical attention that he merits. With 12 original essays, this volume aims to provide a thorough introduction to his body of work. It investigates such thematic, artistic, and ideological concerns as his use of the South and the black human body as metaphors; his collaboration with Lloyd Richards; the influence of the blues, Baraka, Bearden, Borges, and Fugard on his work; his creative method; and his treatment of African-American family life. Highlights of the collection are the contributions from noted scholars and an interview with the playwright himself.... Read More about the "August Wilson" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Taylor&Francis Books Ltd
Avant Garde Theatre Description: Examining the development of avant garde theatre from its inception in the 1890s right up to the present day, Christopher Innes exposes a central paradox of modern theatre; that the motivating force of theatrical experimentation is primitivism. What links the work of Strindberg, Artaud, Brook and Mnouchkine is an idealization of the elemental and a desire to find ritual in archaic traditions. This widespread primitivism is the key to understanding both the political and aesthetic aspects of modern theatre and provides fresh insights into contemporary social trends. The original text, first published in 1981 as Holy Theatre, has been fully revised and up-dated to take account of the most recent theoretical developments in anthropology, critical theory and psychotherapy. New sections on Heiner Muller, Robert Wilson, Eugenio Barba, Ariane Mnouchkine and Sam Shepard have been added. As a result, the book now deals with all the major avant garde theatre practitioners, in Europe and North America. Avant Garde Theatre should be essential reading for anyone attempting to understand contemporary drama.... Read More about the "Avant Garde Theatre" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Being An Actor Description: A gloomy assessment of the state of British theatre today: the decline of ensemble playing; lack of training for young actors; novelty replacing substance. It ends with a warning that without attention to stagecraft, British theatre will surely die.... Read More about the "Being An Actor" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Taylor&Francis Books Ltd
Certain Fragments Description: This text is an exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, the book investigates the processes of devising performance, the role of writing in an interdisciplinary theatre, and the influence of the city on contemporary art practice. Tim Etchells` voice shifts from intimate anecdote to critical analysis and back again. And as in his theatre-making so in his book: he disrupts traditional notions of creative, academic and intellectual work. The book is a fusion of story-telling and criticism; it also makes avaliable four Forced Entertainment texts by Etchells.... Read More about the "Certain Fragments" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Taylor&Francis Books Ltd
Commedia Dell`arte: An Actor`s Handbook Description: This account of Commedia`s origins as a popular theatrical form includes a practical, step-by-step guide to using Commedia techniques in performance. The work explores Commedia`s recent revival through companies like Tag and Theatre de Complicite and the influential methods of Jacques Lecoq. The second part of the book provides a guide for would-be practitioners, demonstrating how to approach the roles of Zanni, Arlecchion, Brighella, Pantalone, Dottore, and the Lovers. It explains each stock character`s type in turn: name, status, origin; costume, mask, props; stance, walks, movements; gestures, speech, characteristics; and relationships, plot functions and improvizations. The text also covers a range of lazzi or comic business, improvization exercises, sample monologues and dialogues. The author charts the experiments of 20th-century directors and artistes in reconstructing and revitalizing a form which dominated European culture for three centuries.... Read More about the "Commedia Dell`arte: An Actor`s Handbook" on the The Nile Book Store Website

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Crafty Screenwriting Description: The most innovative and creative screenwriting book yet, from an author who knows first-hand what it takes to get a movie made.Based on an award-winning website hailed as smart enough for professional screenwriters and accessible enough for aspiring screenwriters, Crafty Screenwriting is the first book not only to offer a successful screenwriter`s tricks of the trade, but to explain what development executives really mean when they complain that the dialogue is flat, or the hero isn`t likeable. Fresh, provocative, and funny, Alex Epstein diagnoses problem that other screenwriting books barely address, and answers questions they rarely ask, like Why is it sometimes dangerous to know your characters too well before you start writing, or Why does your script have to be so much better than the awful pictures that get made every day? As a development executive who has accepted and rejected countless screenplays, and a produced screenwriter himself, Epstein can take you into the heart of the most important question of all: Is this a movie? A crucial book for anyone who has ever wondered what it takes to get their movie made.... Read More about the "Crafty Screenwriting" on the The Nile Book Store Website

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Dad`s Army Description: When we laugh at Dad`s Army we laugh at ourselves, and more than 30 years after it was first broadcast, millions of us are still laughing - whenever and wherever it is repeated. This is the story of a classic British sit-com and its enduring appeal.... Read More about the "Dad`s Army" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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