ACTING		275 Acting Games – Connected: a comprehensive workbook of theatre games for developing acting skills Gavin Levy Meriwether, 2010 $40.00pb With almost three hundred performance-tested acting games this is the largest collection published to date. They were compiled from numerous workshops and study sessions. Includes a wide variety of proven activities for learning acting and theatre industry skills. The book is divided into thirty-three sections including: Audition, Concentration and Focus, Voice, Ensemble, Action and Reaction, Improvisation, Knowing Your Objective, Performance, Thinking outside the Box, Spatial Awareness, Nonverbal Communication, Making Choices, Releasing Inhibitions, The Physical Actor and many more. This is an adaptable workbook designed to connect the learning of acting skills with professional auditions and the theatre industry. 392 pages
ACTING		Acting Characters: 20 simple steps from rehearsal to performance Paul Elsam Methuen , 2006 $29.95pb Acting Characters is a simple, no-nonsense guide to researching, planning and performing more truthful and realistic characters. It describes 16 easily followed steps designed to simplify Stanislavski's teachings, with practical exercises to follow. 256 pages
ACTING		Acting in Musical Theatre: a comprehensive course Joe Deer & Rocco Dal Vera Routledge, 2008 $61.00pb This book contains fundamental skills for novice actors, practical insights for professionals, and even tips to help veteran musical performers refine their craft. Drawing on decades of experience in both acting and teaching, the authors provide crucial advice on all elements of the profession, including: · Fundamentals of Acting Applied to Musical Theatre · Script, Score and Character Analysis · Personalizing your Performance · Turning Rehearsal into Performance · Acting Styles in the Musical Theatre · Practical Steps to a Career Acting in Musical Theatre's chapters divide into easy-to-reference units, each containing related group and solo exercises, making it the definitive textbook for students and practitioners alike. 480 pages
ACTING		Acting on Impulse: Reclaiming the Stanislavski Approach John Gillett Methuen, 2008 $55.00pb An inspiring and technically thorough practical book for actors that sets down a systematic and coherent process for organic (from the 'inside-out'/experienced emotion) acting. The author offers a step-by-step, Stanislavski-based approach to text, role and performance to be used in everyday work and gathers together in one volume, the essential tools that serve to recreate human experience. A nuts-and-bolts practical guide with exercises for the actor to work through sequentially. 320 pages
ACTING		Acting: the Basics Bella Merlin Routledge, 2010 $29.95 pb This is a practical and theoretical guide to the world of the professional actor, skilfully combining ideas from a range of practitioners and linking the academy to the industry. It covers key areas such as: - The development of modern drama and acting processes over the years  - The approach and legacy of acting pioneers and practitioners from around the world  - Acting techniques and practicalities, including training, auditioning, rehearsing and performing, both for stage and camera  Complete with a glossary of terms and useful website suggestions, this is the ideal introduction for anyone wanting to learn more about the practice of acting and the people who have advanced its evolution. 256 pages
ACTING		An Actor Prepares Constantin Stanislavski Methuen, 2008 $22.95pb An Actor Prepares is the most famous acting training book ever to have been written and the work of Stanislavski has inspired generations of actors and trainers. This edition, now reprinted with a new cover and more accessible price has stood the test of time in acting classes all over the world and was the original English language translation. 320 pages
ACTING		Building a Character Constantin Stanislavski Methuen, 2008 $22.95pb In his most famous book, An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski dealt with the imaginative processes. In the second book, Building a Character, he deals with the physical realisation of character on the stage, expressions, movement and speech etc. It is a book in which every theory is inextricably bound up with practice - a perfect handbook to the physical art of acting. 304 pages
ACTING		Creating a Role Constantin Stanislavski Methuen, 2008 $22.95pb No-one has had greater influence on acting as we know it than Stanislavski. His 'system' or interpretations of it - has become the central force determining almost every performance we see on stage or screen. His teaching is principally set out in three famous books: An Actor Prepares, Building a Character and Creating a Role. It is still the only comprehensive theory of acting we possess. 288 pages
ACTING		An Actor’s Work Konstantin Stanislavski (trans. Jean Benedetti) Taylor & Francis, 2009 $49.95pb Stanislavski’s ‘system’ has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionized standards of acting in the theatre. Until now, readers and students have had to contend with inaccurate, misleading and difficult-to-read English-language versions. Some of the mistranslations have resulted in profound distortions in the way his system has been interpreted and taught. At last, Jean Benedetti has succeeded in translating Stanislavski’s huge manual into a lively, fascinating and accurate text in English. He has remained faithful to the author's original intentions, putting the two books previously known as An Actor Prepares and Building A Character back together into one volume, and in a colloquial and readable style for today's actors. 708 pages
ACTING		An Actor’s Work on a Role Konstantin Stanislavski (trans. Jean Benedetti) Taylor & Francis, 2009 $59.95hb An Actor’s Work on a Role is Stanislavsky’s classic exploration of the rehearsal process, applying the techniques of his seminal actor training system to the task of bringing life and truth to one’s role. Originally published over half a century ago as Creating a Role, this book became the third in a trilogy – after An Actor Prepares and Building a Character, which are now combined in a newly translated volume called An Actor’s Work. In these books, now foundational texts for actors, Stanislavsky sets out his psychological, physical and practical vision of actor training. This new translation from renowned writer and critic Jean Benedetti not only includes Stanislavski’s original teachings, but is also furnished with invaluable supplementary material in the shape of transcripts and notes from the rehearsals themselves, reconfirming The System as the cornerstone of actor training. 272 pages
ACTING		Actors Talk About Shakespeare Mary Z. Maher (ed) Hal Leonard, 2010 $37.95pb Even today, Shakespeare’s plays challenge celebrated actors to hone their skills and electrify audiences. Imagine the process actors undergo to recreate these spellbinding roles on stage. In an interview with the author, Kevin Kline declared that playing Shakespeare "uses a different muscle group in your head." Actors Talk About Shakespeare features personal interviews with a stellar collection of prominent American, Canadian, and British performers of Shakespeare onstage, including Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Stacy Keach, Zoe Caldwell, Martha Henry, William Hutt, Tony Church, Nicholas Pennell, and Geoff Hutchings. In conversations equivalent to a magician telling his secrets, Mary Z. Maher uncovers the actors' process. The book speaks to theatre patrons, to actors both novice and experienced, and to educators who teach Shakespeare. Each chapter profiles a career in context, using the actor's words along with supporting research material. The result is a treasury of talents, tactics, and tales from veteran performers who return often to Shakespeare from careers in film and television. 256 pages
ACTING		An Actor’s Tricks Yoshi Oida & Lorna Marshall Methuen, 2007 $32.95pb Drawing on an unrivalled wealth and range of expertise in the fields of acting, directing and training, Yoshi Oida and Lorna Marshall provide an authoritative and fascinating study of the art of the actor. In scrutinising the process of performance from the twin perspectives of the actor and director, An Actor's Tricks is filled with hints, insights and stories from productions with Peter Brook and from around the world. Beginning with the daily preparation to train the body, it moves to the process of rehearsal for a performance right up to the moment when the actor steps onstage. Throughout practical exercises are included for the actor to follow. The book combines principles and techniques from both Western and Eastern disciplines of acting to provide a masterful study essential for every actor and director. 192 pages
ACTING		The Alexander Technique for Actors Kelly McEvenue Methuen, 2006 $35.00pb This practical book with illustrations links Alexander technique to acting, dancing and singing by the trainer of performers on The Lion King. The Alexander Technique is a method of physical relaxation that reduces tension and strain throughout the body. It promotes a beneficial use of movement that is stress-free by learning to free-up the body. It teaches an individual to use their body efficiently in order to avoid damage or loss of control. Kelly McEvenue has been teaching the Alexander Technique to performers for nearly twenty years and is a world expert on the system. In this book she draws on her considerable experience and sets up a series of set-by-step warm-ups and exercises that anybody can follow. The exercises are linked to accurate anatomical drawings, showing where stress is most pronounced in the body. 168 pages
ACTING		The Art of the Actor Jean Benedetti Methuen, 2008 $39.95pb A single-volume survey of the history of acting, The Art of the Actor is an essential and practical guide for all students of the theatre. Professor Jean Benedetti traces the evolution of the theories of the actor's craft drawing extensively on extracts from key texts, many of which are unavailable for the student today. Beginning with the classical conceptions of acting as rhetoric and oratory, as exemplified in the writing of Aristotle, Cicero and others, it progresses to examine the art of the actor in Shakespeare's time right through to the modern day. Along the way, Benedetti considers the contribution and theories of key figures such as Diderot, Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Brecht, Artaud and Grotowski, providing a clear and concise explanation of their work illustrated by accessible summaries of their writings. 352 pages
ACTING		Audition Speeches for 6 to 16 year olds Jean Marlow Methuen Drama, 2007 $29.95pb Intended for students and children taking part in speech and drama competitions and exams, this book contains a range of audition speeches. It includes female, male and unisex speeches selected from both plays and children's books. Where relevant the author has indicated how a speech could be shortened for younger children. There is also an introductory section with contributions from Alan Ayckbourn, Carol Schroder (teacher and examiner for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), Richard Carpenter (TV writer) and Margo Selby (actress in Grange Hill). This edition has been freshly revised to include 10 new speeches from well known recent productions as well as children's books including Harry Potter. 144 pages
ACTING		Commedia Oz: Playing Commedia in Contemporary Australia Steven Gration Currency Press, 2008 $32.95pb Designed to assist the interpretation and playing of Commedia in an Australian context Commedia Oz is a training manual for teachers, students, actors and directors. Chapters cover the history and influence of Commedia; suggestions for modern interpretations; activities and exercises; the role of the director and the actor’s journal; training actors; an interview with Jacques Lecoq (the French Commedia actor/trainer); a professional script; and ideas for units of work and assessment. There is also a glossary and a reference section for further reading.
ACTING		Essential Acting: a practical handbook for actors, teachers and directors Brigid Panet Routledge, 2009 $49.95pb How do actors fuse thought, emotion and action within their creative process? Essential Acting is an inspired and reliable toolbox for actors and teachers in the classroom, the rehearsal room and the workshop. RADA's Brigid Panet has distilled 50 years of acting, directing and actor training into a unique recipe which brilliantly combines the teachings of Stanislavski and Laban into an invaluable practical resource. These exercises are built around the need for simple, achievable techniques that can be applied by actors, teachers and directors to answer the myriad requirements of actor training. The goal is to produce a continuous level of achievement, addressing: How to rehearse How to work with a text How to audition for drama school How to access the truth of feelings and actions Essential Acting will be a must-have purchase for anyone looking for a comprehensive study guide to the necessary work of the actor. 296 pages
ACTING		How to Stop Acting Harold Guskin Methuen, 2006 $35.00pb Harold Guskin is an Acting Doctor whose clients include David Suchet, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda and dozens more. In HOW TO STOP ACTING he reveals the insights and techniques that have worked wonders for beginners as well as stars. Instead of yet another ''method'', Guskin offers a strategy based on a radically simple and refreshing idea: that the actor's work is not to ''create a character'' but rather to be continually, personally responsive to the text, wherever his impulse takes him, from the first read-through to the final performance. From this credo derives an entirely new perspective on auditioning and the challenge of developing a role and keeping it fresh, even over hundreds of performances. 192 pages
ACTING		Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre Keith Johnstone Methuen, 2007 $29.95pb A leading figure in the theatre, Keith Johnstone lays bare his techniques and exercises to foster spontaneity and narrative skill for actors. These techniques and exercises were evolved in the actors' studio, when he was Associate Director of the Royal Court and then in demonstrations to schools and colleges and ultimately in the founding of a company of performers called The Theatre Machine. Divided into four sections, Status, Spontaneity, Narrative Skills and Masks and Trance, arranged more or less in the order a group might approach them, the book sets out the specific approaches which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity. 208 pages
ACTING		Improvisation: the guide Lyn Pierse Improcorp, 2007 $75.00hb Improvisation: the guide is the bible for all teachers, actors and improvisers. It is a practical, hands-on feast of ideas, exercises and scene-work. Drama teachers at primary, secondary and university levels have found this book invaluable. The techniques have been used for corporate workshops, drama in education and professional actor training. Improvisation processes ignite spontaneity, develop lateral thinking, encourage team work and release the potential artist in us all. The results are tangible. This book is the long-awaited new version of the previously titled Theatresports Down Under. 463 pages
ACTING		Masterclass: the actor’s audition manual (men) Dean Carey Currency Press, 2007 $32.95pb Long regarded as the classic audition text for actors. Dean Carey is a world-renowned acting teacher and director. He was Head of Acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) from 1990–3, Associate Head of Acting at NIDA and a tutor there for eleven years. Carey has taught acting around Australia and internationally. He is the Director of the Actors Centre in Sydney. 246 pages
ACTING		Masterclass: the actor’s audition manual (women) Dean Carey Currency Press, 2003 $26.95pb The companion volume for women also contains over 100 monologues—from classics such as Chekhov to moderns including Berkoff and Williamson. Provides an arsenal of audition pieces for young actors. Outlines the essential acting components, illuminates the creative process and presents a stimulating array of rehearsal room exercises. 242 pages
ACTING		Playing for Real: Actors on Playing Real People Tom Cantrell & Mary Luckhurst (eds) Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 $25.00pb This is the first book to explore how actors play real people. How do you capture Hitler, Mugabe, or a serial killer? How do you portray living monarchs or political leaders? Is it possible to embody a genius like Mozart, Woolf or Darwin? What are the pressures of performing an icon like Marlene Dietrich? Bringing together original conversations with award-winning actors, the line-up includes Jeremy Irons, Dame Eileen Atkins, David Morrissey, Henry Goodman, and Sir Ian McKellen. 176 pages
ACTING		Playing Shakespeare (+DVD) John Barton Methuen, 2009 $55.00pb John Barton has been with the Royal Shakespeare Company since 1960 directing 26 of Shakespeare's plays for them. In the first half of the book, Barton attempts an objective analysis of how Shakespeare's text actually works, examining the use of verse and prose, set speeches and soliloquies, language and character. In the second half he concentrates on the more subjective areas such as irony and ambiguity, passion and coolness. The book springs from a nine-part London Weekend Television series, in which these various topics were investigated in front of the cameras by Barton and a group of well-known Shakespearean actors including Peggy Ashcroft, Tony Church, Sinead Cusack, Judi Dench, Susan Fleetwood, Mike Gwilym, Sheila Hancock, Lisa Harrow, Alan Howard, Ben Kingsley, Jane Lapotaire, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Ian McKellen, Richard Pasco, Michael Pennington, Roger Rees, Norman Rodway, Donald Sinden, Patrick Stewart, David Suchet and Michael Williams. Useful for actors and scholars alike, this book will also aid teachers and students working on Shakespeare's plays in the classroom. This new edition contains a DVD with 80 minutes of footage featuring John Barton in conversation with Judi Dench, Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart and Jane Lapotaire discussing changing approaches to Shakespeare's texts since the book was first published. 224 pages (plus DVD)
ACTING		The Moving Body (Le Corps Poetique): Teaching Creative Theatre Jacques Lecoq Methuen, 2009 $39.99pb 'In life I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists.' Jacques Lecoq. Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. The International Theatre School he founded in Paris remains an unrivalled centre for the art of physical theatre. In The Moving Body, Lecoq shares his unique insights into performance, improvisation, masks, movement and gesture which together form one of the greatest influences on contemporary theatre. Neutral mask, character mask, and counter masks, bouffons, acrobatics and commedia, clowns and complicity: all the famous Lecoq techniques are covered here - techniques that have made their way into the work of former collaborators and students inluding Dario Fo, Julie Taymor, Ariane Mnouchkine, Yasmina Reza and Theatre de Complicit. This paperback edition contains a Foreword by Simon McBurney, Artistic Director of Complicit and an Afterword by Fay Lecoq, Director of the International Theatre School in Paris. 208 pages
ACTING		So You Want to Go to Drama School? Helen Freeman Nick Hern Books, 2009 $29.95pb Packed with sound advice and essential information, this is a terrific guide that will help students prepare for and improve their chances of getting a place in a drama school. Written by a teacher and actress with a lifetime’s experience in the audition process. In a clear and concise manner Helen Freeman sets out the steps that can be taken to ensure that potential acting students present the best possible audition they can when applying to drama school. 256 pages
ACTING		The Theatre Practice of Tadashi Suzuki: a critical study Paul Allain Methuen, 2009 $65.00hb This book explores Suzuki's theatre practice and contains a DVD with practical Suzuki Method actor-training examples. For over forty years Tadashi Suzuki has been a unique and vital force in both Japanese and Western theatre, creating and directing many internationally acclaimed productions including his most famous production,The Trojan Women, which toured throughout the world. An integral part of his work has been the development and teaching of his rigorous training system, the Suzuki Method, whose principles have also been highly influential in modern theatre. Dr Paul Allain, an experienced practitioner of the Suzuki Method, re-evaluates Suzuki's work, his development towards an international theatre aesthetic and his impact on performance all over the world. The DVD covers an actor training session (featuring both novices and an experienced practitioner with over ten years of Suzuki training) showing the physical moves. 224 pages (plus DVD)
BIOGRAPHY		Becoming Shakespeare Jack Lynch Bloomsbury, 2009 $29.99pb Becoming Shakespeare begins where most Shakespeare stories end - with his death in 1616 - and relates the fascinating story of his unlikely transformation from provincial playwright to universal Bard. Lynch vividly chronicles Shakespeare's afterlife - from the revival of his plays to the decades when his work was co-opted and 'improved' by politicians and other playwrights, and culminating with the 'Bardolatry' of the Stratford celebration of Shakespeare's 300^th birthday in 1864. Becoming Shakespeare is not only essential reading for anyone intrigued by Shakespeare, but it also offers a consideration of the vagaries of fame. 320 pages
BIOGRAPHY		The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan Kevin Dettmar (ed) Cambridge University Press, 2009 $39.95pb A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative output. The first Part approaches Dylan's output thematically, tracing the evolution of Dylan's writing and his engagement with American popular music, religion, politics, fame, and his work as a songwriter and performer. Essays in Part II analyse his landmark albums to examine the consummate artistry of Dylan's most accomplished studio releases. As a writer Dylan has courageously chronicled and interpreted many of the cultural upheavals in America since World War II. This book will be invaluable both as a guide for students of Dylan and twentieth-century culture, and for his fans, providing a set of new perspectives on a much-loved writer and composer. 204 pages
BIOGRAPHY		Diaghilev Sjeng Scheijen Profile, 2009 $65.00hb Diaghilev (1872-1929) is a character on the scale of myth. Growing up in a minor noble family in remote Perm, as a very young man he became an influential art historian and publisher in St Petersburg. Moving soon onto a bigger stage, he became a central figure in the artistic worlds of Paris, London, Rome, Berlin and Madrid during the golden age of modern art. He lived through bankruptcy, war, revolution and exile. Furthermore he lived openly as a homosexual and his liaisons, most famously with Nijinsky, and his turbulent friendships with among others Stravinsky, Coco Chanel, Misia Sert, Prokoviev and Jean Cocteau give his life an exceptionally dramatic quality. The last biography was thirty years ago. Scheijen's biography is based on extensive research in little known archives, especially in Russia, is revelatory and brings a complex and powerful personality with boundless creative energy fully to life. 400 pages
BIOGRAPHY		Different Drummer: the Life of Kenneth MacMillan Jann Parry Faber, 2009 $75.00hb Kenneth MacMillan's ballets are in constant demand by world-famous companies, particularly Romeo and Juliet, Manon and Mayerling. However, MacMillan was tormented by an acute sense of being an outsider, at odds with the institutions in which he worked and their conventional expectations of what ballet should be. A real-lifeBilly Elliot from a Scottish working class family, MacMillan demonstrated a prodigious talent for dancing from an early age. Following the premature death of his mother, the young MacMillan sought an escape route from home and, despite his father's disapproval, secured a place at Sadler's Wells. Paradoxically he found himself crippled by stage-fright during the height of his professional career, leaving him with only one option - choreography. He went on to produce ballets which defied convention and became renowned for challenging audiences. The criticism he received fanned his anxieties but, despite this, MacMillan achieved international acclaim, becoming artistic director of both the Berlin Ballet and the Royal Ballet. 688 pages
BIOGRAPHY		Everything is Connected: the power of music Daniel Barenboim Phoenix, 2010 $27.99pb ‘The power of music lies in is its ability to speak to all aspects of the human being-the animal, the emotional, the intellectual, and the spiritual. Music teaches us, in short, that everything is connected.' Daniel Barenboim's new book vividly describes his lifelong pursuit of knowledge and understanding, not only of music and of life, but of one through the other. 224 pages
BIOGRAPHY		George Balanchine: the ballet maker Robert Gottlieb Harper Perennial, 2010 $24.99pb Gottlieb presents the life and achievement of the great choreographer who both summed up everything that proceeded him in ballet, and extended the art form into radical yet inevitable new paths. Leaving Russia in 1924, he joined Serge Diaghilev's famous Ballets Russes, where he created his first enduring masterpiece, Apollo, cementing his lifelong collaboration with Stravinsky. In 1933 he arrived in America to found a school and a company, but the company as we know it - The New York City Ballet - didn't emerge until 1948. Meanwhile, he made ballets wherever opportunity allowed, while choreographing Broadway shows (four for Rodgers and Hart), movies ("The Goldwyn Follies"), even the circus - a ballet for elephants with a score by Stravinsky. By the time of his death, in 1983, he had been recognised as a member of the triad of the greatest modern masters, alongside Picasso and Stravinsky. 224 pages
BIOGRAPHY		George Gershwin: an intimate portrait Walter Rimler University of Illinois, 2009 $47.95hb George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself - no family of his own and no real home in music. In this book, Walter Rimler makes use of fresh sources, including newly discovered letters by Kay Swift as well as correspondence between and interviews with intimates of Ira and Leonore Gershwin. It is written with spirited prose and contains more than two dozen photographs. 240 pages
BIOGRAPHY		Hymns to the Silence: Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison Peter Mills Continuum, 2010 $39.95pb This is a groundbreaking study of every aspect of Van Morrison's artistic career - his influences, lyrical themes, vocal performances, his relationship with America, and more. In 1991 Van Morrison said, 'Music is spiritual, the music business isn't'. Peter Mills investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison, proceeding from this identified starting point. Hymns to the Silence is a detailed investigative study of Van Morrison's remarkable career.  448 pages
BIOGRAPHY		Journeying Boy: the Diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938 John Evans (ed) Faber, 2010 $32.99 pb Best remembered for his operas and his War Requiem, Benjamin Britten's radical politics and his sexuality have also ensured that he remains a controversial public figure. This is a revealing and intimate collection of diary entries from one of the greatest English composers of the twentieth century. 512 pages
BIOGRAPHY		Just Kids Patti Smith Bloomsbury, 2010 $39.99hb “It was the summer that Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames and China exploded the H-bomb. There were riots in Newark and marches against the war in Vietnam. The world was on the brink of change. It was the summer of love. And the summer of a chance encounter that would change the course of my life. It was the summer I met Robert.” Just Kids is Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. 304 pages
BIOGRAPHY		The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-1940 Beckett, Samuel / Fehsenfeld, M. & Overbeck, L. (eds) Cambridge University Press, 2009 $115.00hb The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 -1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. This edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Selected for their bearing on his work from over 15,000 extant letters, the letters published in this four-volume edition encompass sixty years of Beckett's writing life (1929-1989), and include letters to friends, painters and musicians, as well as to students, publishers, translators, and colleagues in the world of literature and theatre. For anyone interested in twentieth-century literature and theatre this edition is essential reading, offering not only a record of Beckett's achievements but a powerful literary experience in itself. 882 pages
BIOGRAPHY		Michael Clark Cotter & Violette Thames & Hudson, Dec. 2009 $135.00hb Notorious for his continually subversive takes on classical dance, Michael Clark is without doubt one of the most important dancers and choreographers of our time. He has created some of contemporary dance’s finest productions, often using leftfield rock music (most famously in his fantastic collaboration with The Fall, I Am Kurious, Oranj). Situated at the heart of the British post-punk art scene, Clark is much admired for his judicious choice of collaborators, such as designers Bodymap and Hussein Chalayan, artists Cerith Wyn Evans, Leigh Bowery, Charles Atlas and Sarah Lucas, film director Peter Greenaway (Clark played Caliban in Prospero’s Books) and bands The Fall, Laibach and Wire. This monograph, the first on this major artist, celebrates the whole of Michael Clark’s career to date, from the late 1970s to the present. Rich in visual and archival material, it contains new essays on Clark’s work, reprints of key texts and journalism, photography by Nick Knight, David LaChappelle and others, plus interviews with many of Clark’s collaborators from the worlds of dance, art, fashion and music. 272 pages
BIOGRAPHY		Nureyev Howard Brown Phaidon, 2008 $39.95pb Presents the greatest images of Nureyev's legendary career in chronological order, including his partnership with Margot Fonteyn as well as striking portraits and early family photographs. Includes photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Snowdon, Anthony Crickmay, David Bailey, Martine Franck and Cecil Beaton. Augmented by a complete list of Nureyev's roles, productions and film appearances. 208 pages
BIOGRAPHY		Peter Sculthorpe: the making of an Australian composer Graeme Skinner UNSW Press, 2007 $59.95hb Peter Sculthorpe is Australia’s best-known living composer and is widely held to be the most important composer the country has yet produced. This, the first biography of the composer, tells the fascinating story of his rise to prominence. Beautifully written and fastidiously researched, this authorised biography provides an insight into Sculthorpe’s formative years: his quest for a personal voice, and his arrival – through many creative friendships and collaborations – at a place in the collective heart of the nation. It is also a social history, charting the rise of modernism in Australian music through the eyes of its key player. 752 pages
BIOGRAPHY		A Raffish Experiment: the selected writings of Rex Cramphorn Ian Maxwell (ed.) Currency Press, 2009 $39.95pb The late Nick Enright described Rex Cramphorn as "that rare and important figure, a philosopher and visionary of the arts." When Cramphorn died in 1991, at the age of 50, he left a legacy of theatre productions, research and ideas, that have influenced his own and subsequent generations of Australian theatre artists. This book collects a range of Cramphorn’s writings about theatre, reviews and reflections, framed by short essays contextualising the material biographically, historically, and culturally. Each selection will be annotated to provide background information. 96 pages
BIOGRAPHY		Robert Helpmann: a servant of art Anna Bemrose UQP, 2008 $49.95hb During the 1930s, the 1940s and the 1950s Helpmann's name was prominent in the performing arts scene in London and New York. In ballet he danced with Alicia Markova then began a long partnership with Margot Fonteyn. He danced with Moira Shearer and choreographed the fifteen-minute ballet within The Red Shoes. He worked with such luminaries as Michael Benthall, Richard Burton, Noël Coward, Robert Donat, Tyrone Guthrie, Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. The operas he directed included Madam Butterfly (1950) with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf at Covent Garden and Alcina (1983) with Joan Sutherland at the Sydney Opera House. 416 pages
BIOGRAPHY		Talking Theatre: interviews with theatre people Richard Eyre Nick Hern Books, 2009 $64.00hb Richard Eyre, the celebrated director of stage and screen, wrote and directed Changing Stages for the BBC. The series included interviews with an astonishing range of artists who helped shape British and American theatre in the latter half of the last century. Now, forty-one of those interviews introduced by the author provide a unique insight into the working lives of some of the most successful and celebrated of today’s practitioners of theatre and the performing arts. 360 pages
BIOGRAPHY		Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2008 Harold Pinter Faber, 2009 $39.99pb Harold Pinter's plays are lauded the world over but, until now, little has been gathered together of his other writings. Various Voices presents a wealth of material and a multiplicity of form in which to enjoy the crystal clarity of language and style which marks out Pinter as a true original. Through Various Voices the reader can trace Pinter's development from a nascent writer exploring the boundaries of his craft to the assured maturity of his later work.
BIOGRAPHY		Wasted: the true story of Jim McNeil, violent criminal and brilliant playwright Ross Honeywell Viking, 2010 $32.95pb At thirteen, Jim McNeil quit school for good. At fourteen, he started an affair with a brothel madam and was introduced to Melbourne's underworld. Despite his love of reading and philosophy, McNeil relished his life among thugs, thieves and whores, becoming one of the city's most violent criminals. When he wrote his first play in prison, McNeil had never set foot in a theatre. Just four years later he was a celebrity, freed ten years early thanks to a powerful group of Sydney's elite, who declared him one of the country's most important writers. McNeil soon married actress Robyn Nevin, won the Australian Writers' Guild's script award and was commissioned to write the screenplay for My Brilliant Career. Charismatic and charming, he seemed at the height of his powers. But McNeil never wrote again. Pursued by Sydney society and lost in a world that lacked the strict regimen of prison life, he fell back into alcoholism and violence. He returned to the streets and was dead within a decade. His four plays stand as a testament to a talent sadly wasted.
BIOGRAPHY		The Worst it Can Be is a Disaster Braham Murray Methuen, 2008 $47.95pb The Worst It Can Be is a Disaster is the autobiography of Braham Murray, founding director of the Royal Exchange Manchester which in 2006 celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Born into a Jewish family, Braham Murray struggled against his parents' expectations that he should follow them into the world of commerce; instead he became at twenty-two the youngest artistic director in England when he took over Century Theatre, a theatre company based in Manchester. 304 pages
COSTUME & FASHION		The Art of Dress: Clothes Through History 1500-1914 Jane Ashelford Anova, 2009 $49.99pb The clothes worn by our ancestors afford an unparalleled insight into lifestyles that have disappeared forever. Choice of dress has always been governed by a series of influences - social and economic, artistic and technical - and, of course, the vagaries of individual taste. Jane Ashelford has used the UK National Trust’s stunning costume and textile collections as well as its historic house portraits, family correspondence, diaries and household papers to produce a fascinating account of the history of dress over the centuries. 320 pages
COSTUME & FASHION		The Ballets Russes and the Art of Design Alston Purvis Monacelli Press, 2009 $89.95hb The Ballets Russes was a phenomenon of the early twentieth century, permeating daily life wherever the company travelled and leaving a lasting impact on dance, theatre, and the visual arts. Sergei Diaghilev, impresario from 1909 until his death in 1929, fused the most avant-garde, groundbreaking movements in dance, choreography, art, design, and costume into unique and stunning productions. The work was exciting, and always new, and it stretched the limits of the possible in art. The colour, form, and material in costume and set design astonished audiences, transforming every corner of Western culture in the twentieth century. Fashion and decor designers and visual artists in particular—including Coco Chanel, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Léon Bakst, and Pablo Picasso—found inspiration in the Ballets Russes. Designers and artists moved past old boundaries and created costumes and set designs for these extravagant productions, bridging the gaps between tangible and abstract artistic genres.
COSTUME & FASHION		The Chronicle of Western Costume John Peacock Thames & Hudson, 2003 $39.95 hb Covering Western costume from Ancient Egypt to contemporary haute couture, this is a fully illustrated companion volume to John Peacock's "Fashion Sourcebooks". The last 4000 years has seen an astonishing variety of ways in which the human form can be dressed, from the relative simplicity of the ancient world, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the changing conventions of the 18th and 19th centuries and the birth of modern dress. The final section brings the story up to date, showing the vibrant diversity of 20th-century fashion. The range of meticulous colour drawings is based on extensive research. Organized in chronological order, they are accompanied by detailed descriptions of each figure, including the individual items shown and the many types of fabric, cut, pattern and colour that have been used over the centuries. The huge range of drawings reveals not only national characteristics but also social divisions: young and old, rich and poor, countryfolk and town dwellers, royalty and commoners, and provide a detailed reference for students and professionals alike. 224 pages
COSTUME & FASHION		Fabric for Fashion the Swatch Book Clive Hallet Laurence King, 2010 $99.00hb This easily navigable resource provides 100 swatches of most recognized and widely used varieties of fabric, including cottons, silks, wools and linens, to encourage consideration of not just the aesthetic appeal of various fabrics but also their structure, feel and weight. Secured in an attractive folder, with descriptions alongside them, the fabrics are in their raw state, before bleaching, dying or finishing, so that their properties can be observed without the distraction of colour or pattern. With information on fibres, basic construction of fabrics, weights, construction and weave comparison, the book will help designers to make informed textile choices based upon an understanding of raw materials together with the processes that make up a fabric. A useful glossary defines key terminology. The book will be useful for anyone who works with fabrics and is the ideal companion to the Fabric for Fashion book. 70 pages
COSTUME & FASHION		Fabric for Fashion: a comprehensive guide to natural fibres Clive Hallet Laurence King, 2010 $65.00hb Fashion is a three-dimensional design practice: clothes need to work with bodies that bend and stretch and move. A flat drawing on paper can replicate a body in two dimensions, but it doesn’t take into account the way the fabric will behave on the body. In the fashion industry it is often the fabrics that come first and the design is determined by how the fabrics work, move, feel and look. The most successful fashion designers are those who understand their materials, who match design skill with technical knowledge. This book aims to bridge that gap. Providing practical information this easily navigable reference book will help students gain a clear understanding of how to work with fabrics as an integral component of the fashion design process. 208 pages
COSTUME & FASHION		Fashion: Australian and New Zealand Designers Mitchell Oakley Smith Thames & Hudson, 2010 $79.95 pb The ultimate reference, Fashion is a visual feast, richly illustrated & stylishly designed. It is an indispensable who’s who of the Australian & New Zealand fashion industry, celebrating the distinctive and innovative antipodean design talent.
COSTUME & FASHION		Fashion Since 1900 Valerie Mendes Thames & Hudson, World of Art series, 2^nd ed., 2010 $29.95 pb From Belle Epoque tea gowns to Dior’s 1947 New Look and fashion blogs in the 2000s, this comprehensive, international survey explores all the significant developments in fashion from 1900 to the present day. Formerly published as the internationally successful 20th Century Fashion, the survey is now brought right up to date with a new chapter that discusses, among many topics, the impact of the Internet on the fashion industry, the importance of new fashion centres in India and China and how fashion is now pluralistic, multi-cultural and fast moving. 312 pages
COSTUME & FASHION		Historic Costumes and How to Make Them Mary Fernald & E. Shenton Dover Publications, 2006 $21.95 pb This practical and informative guidebook is a "must-have" for anyone planning to create accurate period costumes for theatrical productions and historical re-enactments. From short tunics worn by Saxon men in the fifth century to a lady's bustle dress of the late 1800’s, this profusely illustrated text contains a wealth of authentic patterns and information. 81 illustrations.  159 pages
COSTUME & FASHION		Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It Dorothy Hartley Dover Publications, 2003 $21.95 pb This unique reference classifies the clothes and accessories of the 12th through the 15th centuries along social lines. Garments of every type, from the wardrobes of peasants and nobility, appear in over 200 period illustrations and patterns. Helpful advice covers: choosing fabrics, placement of seams, draping and folding garments, more. 203 black-and-white illustrations. 142 pages
COSTUME & FASHION		The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers Georgina O’Hara Callan Thames & Hudson, World of Art Series, 2^nd ed., 2010 $29.95 pb This indispensable guide to the entire world of fashion has been completely revised to include detailed information on every important designer from 1840 up to the present day, including not only couturiers but also shoe, hat and knitwear specialists, costume designers, jewellers and hairdressers. It also covers the fashion media, photographers and illustrators, influential art movements, fashion terms, garment and accessory styles, technical processes, and every kind of fabric, as well as personalities who have influenced fashion or promoted a style. Extensively illustrated, international in scope and completely up to date, this is an essential sourcebook for designers, students, collectors and enthusiasts. 296 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Aerial Dance Jayne Bernasconi & Nancy Smith Human Kinetics, 2008 $61.95pb Aerial Dance is the first book to showcase this newest dance genre. The book traces the historical roots of this latest art form, which is rapidly gaining in popularity. It also defines its place in the lineage of modern dance and addresses aesthetics, philosophical approaches to teaching, and safety issues.  Aerial Dance will be of great interest to all those associated with or attracted to this emerging art form. Whether a novice or professional, a practitioner or educator, they will learn from those who helped shape aerial dance into what it is today. Through this book and DVD package, readers will · gain insight from essays written by leading choreographers in the field; · gain a greater understanding of and appreciation for aerial dance choreography through “Look Up!” features that provide cross-references to video performance clips on the DVD; and · view high-quality photographs that illustrate the origins of aerial dance. 144 pages (plus DVD)
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Anatomy of Exercise and Movement for the study of dance, pilates, sport and yoga Jo Ann Staugaard-Jones Lotus Publishing, 2010 $42.00 pb The Anatomy of Exercise & Movement serves as a bridge between biomechanics and the practice of sport, pilates, yoga, and dance, providing the reader with a complete understanding of how the body functions whilst being exercised. Jo Ann Staugaard-Jones' background in movement sciences has led to a deep interest in the ability of the body to heal itself, specifically through knowledge of muscles and what they can do. Awareness of this potential is key to the prevention of injuries, obviating the need for joint surgery, and the power to maintain health, weight, posture, strength, and performance. 192 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Anton’s Dance Class: How to Dance Anton Du Beke Kyle Cathie, 2008 $59.95pb Anton Du Beke shares his passion for ballroom dancing. Far more than just the basic steps, it is about the feeling of getting movements perfect, of building a relationship with your partner, of creating an emotional connection with the dances and of beautiful costumes too. For each of the 5 ballroom dances - from the waltz to the foxtrot - and of the 5 latin dances - from the jive to the cha cha - Anton Du Beke describes its origins and story, how to approach it and some tips and techniques, as well as showing the movements in intricate detail. A fantastic free DVD accompanies the book's step-by-step instructions. 224 pages (plus DVD)
DANCE & MOVEMENT		The Ballet Companion: a dancer’s guide to the technique, traditions & joys of ballet Eliza Gaynor Minden Simon & Schuster, 2005 $49.99hb The Ballet Companion is the first complete, illustrated reference book for the dancer. With more than 150 stunning photographs of ballet greats Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, the book brims with everything today's dance student needs including: * Practical advice for getting started, such as finding the right teacher, fitting a pointe shoe, tying a ballet bun * Training safely through a sensible diet, injury prevention, and cross training with yoga and Pilates * Inside information on backstage and studio etiquette and auditioning * Technique secrets from stars of American Ballet Theatre * Glossaries and lavishly illustrated sidebars on ballet history and 'Must See' ballets Whether a budding ballerina, serious student, or adult returning to ballet, dancers will find a graceful mix of ballet traditions and essential, new information. 352 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Ballroom Dancing Alex Moore A&C Black, 10^th ed., 2002 $49.95hb This classic and comprehensive handbook describes the standard technique of ballroom dancing - for beginners, for competition dancers and for students of ballroom dancing courses and examinations. The 10th edition has been revised throughout and includes up-to-date information on the International Viennese Waltz which is now the version approved for all championships. 320 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		The Body Speaks: Physical Expression for Performers – a practical guide Lorna Marshall Methuen, 2^nd ed., 2009 $39.95pb Seventy percent of everyday conversation is conveyed through body language, twenty percent through the voice and only ten percent is the meaning of the words. In The Body Speaks, expert RADA trainer Lorna Marshall, shows how to recognise and lose unwanted physical inhibitions that our background, education or family have taught us and presents a fundamental re-thinking of our relationship to the body and its role in performance. Good performers - be they trapeze artists, Shakespearean actors, Butoh dancers or film stars - are able to reach their audience and engage with them because they have learnt to use their bodies to best effect. Through a series of practical exercises, Lorna Marshall shows us how to unleash our potential, discover new possibilities for the body and express ourselves more clearly. This new edition has been fully revised to include the latest thinking on the subject as well as more exercises specifically for performers in TV and film. 240 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		The Cambridge Companion to Ballet Marion Kant (ed) Cambridge University Press, 2007 $49.95pb Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately visible. The daring and challenging quality of ballet as well as its perceived 'safe' nature is not only one of its fascinations but one of the intriguing questions to be explored in this Companion. The essays reveal the conception, intent and underlying meaning of ballets and recreate the historical reality in which they emerged. The reader will find new and unexpected aspects of ballet, its history and its aesthetics, the evolution of plot and narrative, new insights into the reality of training, the choice of costume and the transformation of an old art in a modern world. 394 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Choreographing From Within: developing the habit of inquiry as an artist Diana F Green Human Kinetics, 2010 $52.25pb Choreographing From Within: Developing a Habit of Inquiry as an Artist presents an inquiry-based approach to creating movement. Students explore the elements of energy, space, and time; discover how to synthesize those concepts using music, transitions, and formulas; and experiment with discoveries to find the unique artist within. 320 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Conditioning for Dance: training for peak performance in all dance forms Eric Franklin Human Kinetics, 2004 $36.95pb Even the best sense of rhythm, the most careful technical training, and the most astute dance intuition aren’t enough to make a dancer truly excel; you also need focused strength, balance, and flexibility to execute the movements with power and grace. Conditioning for Dance improves your technique and performance in all dance forms by strengthening the body’s core (abdominal and back muscles) while improving coordination, balance, and alignment and optimizing flexibility. The result is more lift without tension, deeper pliés, higher jumps with less effort, tighter turns, and improved extension and turnout. 248 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Dance Composition Jacqueline Smith-Autard A&C Black, 6^th ed., 2010 $45.00pb Dance composition, the discipline that translates ideas into dances, is an important part of dance education. This book, a bestseller for over twenty years, is a practical guide to creative success in dance making and is a popular textbook for all those who are interested in dance composition, from secondary school to university. This new edition has been revised, redesigned and expanded. It also includes a DVD with video taken from Choreographic Outcomes, a groundbreaking advanced technology resource pack aimed at comprehensively improving students' choreography. References to the DVD examples are made throughout the book and there are new assignments based on the video material. 256 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Dance Composition: an interrelated arts approach Janice Pomer Human Kinetics, 2009 $60.00pb Dance Composition helps students investigate dance movement from a multidisciplinary perspective—something that no other dance text or package does.  This interactive package contains a book, music CD, and companion Web site with these features: *28 improvisational exercises that provide perspective on the shared characteristics among the arts for inspiration and motivation for dance making * 6 in-depth interviews and 24 arts connections that highlight artists from disciplines and cultures around the world * 3 independent dance projects that encompass numerous elements: music, composition, story adaptation, costumes and props, artist’s statements, and reflections on the creative process. 208 pages (plus CD)
DANCE & MOVEMENT		A Dictionary of Ballet Terms Leo Kersley & Janet Sinclair A&C Black, 2001 $27.95pb With over 100 drawings, this text offers explanations for over 250 ballet terms. In order to soften the aridity of technical terms, references are made to ballet steps in actual performance. The authors run their own ballet school in the UK. 128 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Dance Techniques and Injury Prevention Justin Howse & Moira McCormack A&C Black, 4^th ed., 2009 $75.00pb Injury in dance is often not an accident but a fault in technique that has not been identified at an early stage, or a variation in physique where the implications have not yet been understood. Appropriate treatment is vital and not always easy to find. Now in its 4th edition, this is an essential guide to dance techniques, injury prevention and treatment. It focuses on five main areas: anatomy and physiology; general injuries; specific injuries, their cause and treatment; strengthening exercises; technical faults and anatomical variations. This latest edition has been completely re-designed throughout and contains numerous updated photographs and diagrams. There is also a new illustrated section covering the latest physiotherapy treatment. 256 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Dance Workout: 15 Minute workout + DVD Caron Bosler Dorling Kindersley, 2009 $35.00 Featuring four great dance styles; salsa, ballet, jazz and street dance. Clear at-a-glance fold-out pages show you exactly what to do and the live action 60 minute DVD demonstrates each of the four key exercises so you can master techniques. A total fitness package - exercising at home has never been easier or quicker! 128 pages (plus DVD)
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Exploring Dance Forms and Styles: a guide to concert, world, social and historical dance Helene Scheff Human Kinetics, 2010 $98.45pb Exploring Dance Forms and Styles: A Guide to Concert, World, Social, and Historical Dance introduces students to 60 dance forms across the four categories. It features worksheets and teacher information sheets in the book and as printable PDFs on the bound-in DVD, and it includes 39 dance performances and resources for 21 more dance forms.  344 pages plus DVD
DANCE & MOVEMENT		An Introduction to Community Dance Practice Diane Amans (ed) Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 $49.95pb This book is aimed at undergraduates studying community dance. Drawing on high profile contributors, the book is packed with case studies, interviews and examples that students can use to explore issues in community dance practice. A resources section includes session plans, evaluation tools and questionnaires. ‘A rich stock of case studies and personal experiences - often moving - bring theoretical concerns to life...this is an inspiring read that will give courage to all those dancers who work with community groups. There should be a well-thumbed copy in every dancer's kitbag.' - Francois Matarasso, Arts Professional 224 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Preventing Dance Injuries Ruth Solomon, John Solomon, Sandra Cerny Minton Human Kinetics, 2^nd ed., 2005 $68.00pb Recognized as a foundational publication in 1990, Preventing Dance Injuries has been updated in this second edition with significant new material to guide dance medicine specialists and educators in promoting the physical and psychological well-being of dancers. 256 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Rhythmic Activities and Dance John Price Bennett Human Kinetics, 2^nd ed., 2006 $52.50pb Rhythmic Activities and Dance, Second Edition, is a collection of some of the most popular recreational dance forms, geared for teachers of K-12 students and for recreation directors and leaders who want to teach easy rhythms and dances for fun and fitness.  272 pages plus CD
DANCE & MOVEMENT		The Routledge Dance Studies Reader Alexandra Carter & Janet O’Shea (eds) Routledge, 2010 $69.95pb Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the mid-to-late twentieth century, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement performance' jazz and ethnic dance. 424 pages
DANCE & MOVEMENT		Shall We Dance Brian Lanker Chronicle, 2008 $69.95hb Tango, waltz, square dance, hip-hop, ballet, swing, jazz, chorus line, afro-cuban-dance has come from every culture and corner of the world. Almost every known culture on the planet has a dance tradition. Photographer Brian Lanker travelled across America for one year documenting numerous manifestations of dance. This beautifully photographed book features interviews with dancers, some famous and some not, and examines the importance of the art form in their lives. 177 pages
DIRECTING		Contemporary European Theatre Directors Maria M Delgado & Dan Rebellato (eds) Routledge, 2010 $59.95pb Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past fifty years. It is a vivid account of the vast range of work undertaken in European theatre during this period, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural and political context. The resulting study is a detailed guide to the generation of directors whose careers were forged and tempered in the changing Europe of the 1980s and 1990s. The featured directors are: Calixto Bieito, Piotr Borowski, Romeo Castellucci, Frank Castorf, Patrice Chéreau, Lev Dodin, Declan Donnellan, Kristian Frédric, Rodrigo García, Jan Lauwers, Christoph Marthaler, Simon McBurney, Daniel Mesguich, Katie Mitchell, Ariane Mnouchkine, Thomas Ostermeier, Patrice Pavis, Silviu Purcărete and Peter Sellars. 464 pages
DIRECTING		The Director’s Craft Katie Mitchell Taylor & Francis, 2008 $48.00pb The Director's Craft is a unique and completely indispensable step-by-step guide to directing for the stage. Written by one of the most adventurous and respected directors working today, this book will be an essential item in every student and practitioner's kitbag. It provides detailed assistance with each aspect of the varied challenges facing all theatre directors, and does so with startling clarity. It will inspire everyone, from the beginner just starting out to the experienced practitioner looking to reinvigorate their practice. Katie Mitchell shares and explains the key practical tools she uses to approach her work with both actors, production teams, and the text itself. She addresses topics such as: the ideas that underpin a play's text; preparing improvisations; Twelve Golden Rules for working with actors; managing the transition from rehearsal room to theatre; and analysing your work after a run has ended. Each chapter concludes with a summary of its critical points, making this an ideal reference work for both directors and actors at any stage of their development. 256 pages
DIRECTING		Directors / Directing: conversations on theatre Maria Shevtsova & Christopher Innes Cambridge University Press, 2009 $45.00pb Insightful, in-depth and evocative, this is a collection of conversations with nine of the most innovative theatre directors of our time in Europe and North America: Eugenio Barba, Lev Dodin, Declan Donnellan, Elizabeth LeCompte, Robert LePage, Simon McBurney, Katie Mitchell ,Peter Sellars & Max Stafford-Clark. All these directors have developed their own highly individual theatre language and have been influential, nationally and internationally, across a wide range of theatre practices. The length, depth and scope of the discussions distinguish this collection from others, each director providing a fascinating insight into his/her particular working processes. The book reveals the complex world of directors and their creative relationships with actors, in rehearsal and performance, and playwrights. Each conversation is framed by an introduction to the work of the director, a detailed chronology of productions and an indicative bibliography to inspire further reading and research. 288 pages
DIRECTING		The Director & the Stage: from Naturalism to Grotowski Edward Braun A&C Black, 2006 $35.00pb Beginning with the triple impulses of Naturalism, symbolism and the grotesque, the bulk of the book concentrates on the most famous directors of this century - Stanislavski, Reinhardt, Graig, Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht, Artuaud and Grotowski. Braun''s guide is more practical than theoretical, delineating how each director changed the tradition that came before him. 230 pages
DIRECTING		The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre Scott Graham & Steven Hoggett Routledge, 2009 $49.95pb Acclaimed by audiences and critics for their highly innovative and adventurous theatre, Frantic Assembly has created playful, intelligent and dynamic productions for over fourteen years. Written by artistic directors Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett, The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre is the first book to reflect on the history and practice of this remarkable company, and includes: * practical exercises · essays on film, music and physical theatre * inspiration for devising, writing and choreographing performance * suggestions for scene development * an anthology of Frantic Assembly productions * an eight page colour section, and illustrations throughout. There is also a companion website featuring clips of rehearsals and performances. 248 pages
DIRECTING		Notes on Directing Frank Hauser / Russell Reich Methuen Drama, 2010 $22.99pb This book is based on the notes of director Frank Hauser who had a distinguished career working alongside a host of theatrical and cinematic figures, including Sir Alec Guiness, Richard Burton, Sir Ian McKellen and many others who looked to Hauser as a teacher and mentor. Based on a long relationship and many discussions with Hauser, former student, Russell Reich has expanded and polished these notes into a book. Acclaimed as a timeless classic, the notes offer a succinct insight into the craft of directing and acting: from understanding the script, to rules for rehearsal, how to talk to actors, how to get a laugh, how to manage personalities and difficult situations. The notes also reveal what got the young Ian McKellen and Judi Dench started on their careers and offer rare quotes from artists as diverse as Anton Chekhov, Elia Kazan and Bernard Shaw. 160 pages
DIRECTING		On Directing and Dramaturgy: burning the house Eugenio Barba Routledge, 2009 $58.00pb ‘A theatre which is able to speak to each spectator in a different and penetrating language is not a fantastic idea, nor a utopia. This is the theatre for which many of us, directors and leaders of groups, trained for a long time.....’ - from the Introduction. On Directing is Eugenio Barba's unprecedented account of his own life and work. This is a major retrospective of Barba's working methods, his practical techniques, and the life experiences which fed directly into his theatre-making. On Directing is an inspirational resource. It is a dramaturgy of dramaturgies, and a professional autobiography, from one of the most significant and influential directors and theorists working today. It provides unique insights into a philosophy and practice of directing for the beginning student, the experienced practitioner, and everyone in between. 303 pages
DIRECTING		Theatre Craft: A Director’s Practical Companion From A to Z John Caird Faber, 2010 $49.99pb Theatre Craft is an all-encompassing, practical guide for anyone working in the theatre, from the enthusiastic amateur to the committed professional. With entries arranged alphabetically, Theatre Craft offers advice on all areas of directing, from Acting, Adaptation, and Accent to Sound Effects, Superstition, Trap Doors and Wardrobe. Enlightening and entertaining by turns, the celebrated director John Caird, a man with a wealth of international experience and success, shares his profound knowledge to provide an invaluable companion to anyone creating any size of play, musical, or opera - from the backroom of a bar to a full-scale production on Broadway. This is required reading for the modern theatre practitioner. 608 pages
DRAMA In EDUCATION		Creating Drama With 4-7 Year Olds: lesson ideas to integrate drama into the primary classroom Miles Tandy & Jo Howell Taylor & Francis, 2009 $61.00pb This practical book gives you all the ideas you need to make drama a regular and integral part of your school’s curriculum, offering detailed suggestions of drama work for ages 4 to 7. The teaching units are arranged around four strands: drama for literacy; drama and the whole curriculum ; drama film, media, and ICT ; and drama for performance . The authors provide a wealth of practical activities throughout. Each unit includes: explicit links to the renewed framework for literacy and the wider curriculum; a list of resources needed; clear learning objectives and outcomes; steps for teaching and learning including how to modify activities to suit your school Links to writing; and assessment guidance based on the authors’ experience as teachers and in-service trainers. This book provides a wide range of ideas and activities for inspiring drama across the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, and is essential reading for all those interested in bringing drama into their school. 176 pages
DRAMA in EDUCATION		Jumpstart! Drama: Games & Activities for Ages 5-11 Teresa Cremin et al Taylor & Francis, 2009 $38.00pb Jumpstart! Drama contains more than forty engaging, practical, easy-to-do and highly motivating drama activities which will appeal to busy primary teachers who wish to enliven their practice and make more use of drama in line with the Framework for Literacy. All the activities connect to well-known texts, which are popular in primary classrooms, and the conventions described can be used in a variety of subjects, suiting a wide range of learning styles. The book is organised around four sections, which can be dipped into, each providing rich and accessible ideas to stimulate drama in the classroom 112 pages
DRAMA in EDUCATION		Drama For Ages 7-9 Molly Potter A&C Black, 2010 $45.00pb Aimed at children aged 7 to 9 years, this book provides innovative prompts that can be used to help children develop their imagination and creativity through drama. The activities are fun and engaging and will help pupils to develop confidence in performance as well as boost listening and speaking skills. 64 pages
DRAMA in EDUCTION		Drama for Ages 9-11 Molly Potter A&C Black, 2010 $45.00pb Aimed at children aged 9 to 11 years, this book provides innovative prompts that can be used to help children develop their imagination and creativity through drama. The activities are fun and engaging and will help pupils to develop confidence in performance as well as boost listening and speaking skills. Many of the activities are stand alone and can be used for 'one off' sessions or as part of a broader planned drama, speaking and listening program. They are also excellent 'ice-breakers' or 'getting to know you' sessions for adults and children both in school and during out of school drama clubs. The books are easy to use with clear guidance for teachers. 64 pages
DRAMA In EDUCATION		Drama Games for Classrooms and Workshops Jessica Swale Nick Hern Books, 2009 $28.95pb A lively collection of one hundred drama games for the teacher/youth leader to play with kids ranging from six upwards. Using a distinctive slimline format, the book offers a new game on each page with instructions on How to Play, notes on the Aim of the Game and advice on age range and number of players. A drama teachers dream! This book is the first in a projected series offering a wealth of drama games for people of all ages and abilities. Their aim is to ensure that the drama leader never runs out of fresh ideas. 128 pages
DRAMA In EDUCATION		The RSC Shakespeare Toolkit for Teachers (plus CD) Royal Shakespeare Company Methuen, 2010 $120.00pb This is a unique educational resource for high school English and Drama teachers, particularly of years 7 to 10. Developed by the world's most respected theatre company specialising in Shakespeare, this approach brings his plays alive as performance pieces with pupils undertaking drama-based explorations of the text that take them through much of the play. The plays are Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream. There are teachers' notes and photocopiable worksheets. All worksheets are offered as PDFs and customisable files on the accompanying CD. The flexible teaching schemes comprise a series of age appropriate lessons that can either be followed in their entirety or can be dipped into by teachers wanting to augment their existing resources. Each session is designed to fit a standard lesson time and is structured with a starter, main, development and plenary activities, with suggestions for homework tasks. 304 pages
DRAMA In EDUCATION		Theatre Games: a new approach to drama training Clive Barker Methuen Drama, May, 2010 $45.00pb Theatre games are a method of training actors that was developed in the 20th century by leading practitioners including Clive Barker, who trained actors at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in its heyday. He developed his "theatre games" system over 20 years and proved its effectiveness for teachers, students and actors alike. This re-issue of this classic and timeless text now includes a DVD with video material showing Clive Barker teaching his games in a studio and contains background information and first hand material from Clive himself. 156 pages (plus DVD)
DRAMA In EDUCATION		Theatre Games for the Classroom: a teacher’s handbook Viola Spolin Northwestern University Press, 1986 $65.00pb Theatre Games for the Classroom offers the most comprehensive theatre instruction for all types of students, from small children to young adults. It includes over 130 theatre games and exercises and instructional strategies. Viola Spolin is the originator of modern improvisational theatre techniques and these games have been tried and tested for over fifty years. 233 pages
MUSIC		A History of Western Music J. Peter Burkholder et al W. W. Norton, 8^th ed., 2009 $84.95pb The Eighth Edition of A History of Western Music is a vivid, accessible, and richly contextual view of music in Western culture. Building on his monumental revision of the Seventh Edition, Peter Burkholder has refined an inspired narrative for a new generation of students, placing people at the centre of the story. The narrative of A History of Western Music naturally focuses on the musical works, styles, genres, and ideas that have proven most influential, enduring, and significant—but it also encompasses a wide range of music, from religious to secular, from serious to humorous, from art music to popular music, and from Europe to the Americas. With a six-part structure emphasizing the music’s reception and continued influence, Burkholder’s narrative establishes a social and historical context for each repertoire to reveal its legacy and its significance today. 1115 pages
MUSIC		A New Dictionary of Music Arthur Jacobs Aldine Transaction, 2009 $72.00pb What is a fugue? What is the difference between a saxophone and a saxhorn? Who besides Puccini wrote an opera called La Boheme? In what year was the National Broadcasting Company Orchestra formed under Arturo Toscanini’s direction? These and thousands of similar questions are answered in this comprehensive dictionary that remains unrivaled as a single-volume summary. A New Dictionary of Music is a great reference work for anyone interested in music, whether performer or layman. It covers orchestral, solo, choral, and chamber music, opera, and (in its musical aspects) the ballet. There are entries for composers (with biographies and details of compositions); works well known by their titles, such as operas and symphonic poems; orchestras, performers and conductors of importance today; musical instruments (including those of the dance and brass bands); and technical terms. English names and terms are used whenever possible, but foreign terms in general use are cross-referenced. Particular importance has been attached to bringing the reader abreast of new musical developments. 416 pages
MUSIC		New Classical Music: Composing Australia Gordon Kerry UNSW Press, 2009 $34.95pb This book offers an approachable and evocative introduction to classical music composed in Australia in recent decades. With a balance of historical background and detailed description, composer and music journalist Gordon Kerry explores a number of themes – landscape and spirituality, the influence of Europe and Asia – that bring together the exciting variety of new works and voices working in Australian music now. Includes a companion CD. 224 pages
MUSIC		Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia Gail Priest UNSW Press, 2008 $34.95pb Experimental music has been mostly unrecognised in Australia, but it is in this ‘underground’ area that the major innovations and creative developments in music occur. Through testing perceived boundaries, breaking rules and creating new forms, the artists in this field force us to question what, in fact, music is. Written by artists who have been actively engaged in the areas they are covering, Experimental Music explores the development of forms, ideas and scenes from the 1970s to the present. Includes a companion CD. 192 pages
MUSIC		Jazz: the Australian Accent John Shand UNSW Press, 2008 $34.95pb Jazz: The Australian Accent explores the unique developments in Australian jazz over the last twenty years. Through interviews, anecdotes, analysis, and a companion CD, leading music journalist John Shand provides a fascinating insight into the innovative, cutting-edge scene that is Australian jazz. He argues that the jazz has become a defining force in our cultural landscape and that it is as lively and innovative as any overseas. 240 pages
MUSIC		From Sight to Sound: improvisational games for classical musicians Nicole M Brockman Indiana University Press, 2009 $36.95pb From Sight to Sound provides practical and creative techniques for classical improvisation for musicians of all levels and instruments, solo or in ensembles. These exercises build aural and communicative skills, instrumental technique, and musical understanding. 168 pages
MUSIC		Music at the Limits: Three Decades of Essays and Articles on Music Edward Said Bloomsbury, 2009 $26.99pb Addressing the work of a wide variety of composers and performers, Said analyses music's social and political contexts, and provides rich and often surprising assessments. He reflects on the censorship of Wagner in Israel; the relationship between music and feminism; and the works of Beethoven, Bruckner, Rossini, Schumann, Stravinsky and others. Always eloquent and often surprising, Music at the Limits reinforces Said's reputation as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. 352 pages
MUSIC		The Rest is Noise: listening to the twentieth century Alex Ross Harper Perennial, 2009 $35.00pb Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, gives us a riveting tour of the wild landscape of twentieth-century classical music: portraits of individuals, cultures, and nations reveal the predicament of the composer in a noisy, chaotic century. Taking as his starting point a production of Richard Strauss′s Salome, conducted by the composer on 16 May 1906 with Puccini, Schoenberg, Berg and Adolf Hitler seated in the stalls, Ross suggests how this evening can be considered the century′s musical watershed rather the riotous premiere of Stravinsky′s Rite of Spring seven years later. Ross goes on to explore the mythology of modernism, Sibelius and the music of small countries, Kurt Weill, the music of the Third Reich, Britten, Boulez and the post-war avant-garde, and interactions between minimalist composers and rock bands in the sixties and seventies. 624 pages
MUSIC		The Faber Pocket Guide to Handel Edward Blakeman Faber, 2009 $24.99pb A larger-than-life figure in his time, Handel's reputation has been less than steady since his death in 1759. Was he (in the words of Berlioz) just 'a barrel of pork and beer', or (as Handel himself claimed) truly 'the master of us all'? Now, in this 250th anniversary year, there is more interest in Handel than ever before, with his operas experiencing fantastic renewed popularity. This lively new Pocket Guide goes in search of the composer who wrote Messiah, The Water Music - and much more. Edward Blakeman assesses how Handel's works have stood the test of time and why they can still speak thrillingly to us today. With recommendations throughout for listening, further reading, and web surfing, this is the ideal guide for music lovers who want to discover the great composer. 352 pages
MUSIC		The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn Richard Wigmore Faber, 2009 $24.95pb Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest and most innovative of all composers, yet in some ways he is still curiously misunderstood. This engaging new Pocket Guide assesses what Haydn's music means to us today, and challenges some of the myths that have grown up around the composer. With suggestions for further reading and recommended CD recordings, Richard Wigmore's crisp and concise guide presents you with all you need to listen to and enjoy Haydn's music. It explores each of his key works, from his symphonies to his quartets, from his choral works to his sonatas, and invites a new generation of listeners to discover the depth and dazzling ingenuity of this most humane and life-affirming of composers. 288 pages
MUSIC		Faber Pocket Guide to Musicals James Inverne Faber, 2009 $24.99pb With hit TV shows picking the leads in productions of Oliver! and The Sound Of Music, and smash musicals like Hairspray and Wicked all the West End rage, musical theatre is as popular as it's ever been. James Inverne provides an indispensable guide to his top one hundred greatest shows of all time - and ten of the worst. Whether you know your Pal Joey from The Producers, your West Side Story from your Which Witch, the Faber Pocket Guide To Musicals is packed with entertaining behind-the-scenes stories, essential song lists and comprehensive recording guides. 352 pages
MUSIC		Perfecting Sound Forever: the story of recorded music Greg Milner Granta, 2009 $49.99hb Spanning the whole of the 20th century, this definitive cultural history of recorded music will change your understanding of what you are listening to. 464 pages
MUSIC		The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue & the Remaking of Modern Music Richard Williams Faber, 2009 $39.99hb 'It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.' Miles Davis's Kind of Blue This is the essential companion to one of the most influential albums of all time, published on the 50th Anniversary of its original release. 320 pages
MUSIC		Jazz Gary Giddins & Scott DeVeaux Norton, 2009 $59.95hb Jazz is not an encyclopaedia or conventional musical history. Written by US music critic Gary Giddins and jazz historian Scott DeVeaux, it’s different because it places the music and its protagonists against a broader cultural, political and social background. In order to help novices understand the technique behind jazz improvisation, the book also includes chapters on basic musical elements and provides listening guides to 78 recordings, from classics to more obscure pieces. Classic 1940s portraits by legendary jazz photographer Herman Leonard introduce each chapter and complete the story. 608 pages
MUSIC		Manchester: Looking for the Light through the Pouring Rain Kevin Cummins Faber, 2009 $75.00hb Manchester, its bands, its fashions, its attitude, has defined pop culture for the best part of four decades. Joy Division, The Fall, Buzzcocks, New Order, The Smiths, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Oasis. These were the bands that shaped two generations of teenagers and changed the course of pop music. This is a portrait of these individuals, the city, and their times. Whether it’s on a rain-soaked stage in Brazil, a rented room in Whalley Range, or on the dance floor of the legendary Hacienda, Kevin Cummins' exquisite photographs capture the anarchic energy of the Manchester pop moment- a definitive photographic history of Manchester pop featuring some of the most iconic music photographs of all time. 400 pages
MUSIC		Playlisted: Everything You Need to Know About Australian Music Right Now Craig Mathieson UNSW Press, 2009 $29.95pb Featuring Powderfinger, Kylie, The Presets, The Drones, Silverchair, Jet, INXS, Sarah Blasko, Eskimo Joe, The Veronicas, The Living End, Australian Crawl, You Am I, Delta Goodrem and many more, Playlisted takes the pulse of Australian rock’n’roll with a series of short, sharp chapters from leading music journalist Craig Mathieson. Smart, opinionated, funny and often controversial, each chapter launches from a single significant track on an illuminating musical journey – into an underrated album or an overrated career. It’s neither encyclopaedic nor heavy-handed, preferring to cut to the chase while mixing together rock stars and pop princesses, artists and frauds. It will have you digging through your music collection, and searching out the new acts discovered within. 192 pages
MUSIC		Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel W. W. Norton, 2010 $52.95hb The definitive history of the Broadway musical: the shows, the stars, the movers, and the shakers. Showtime brings the history of Broadway musicals to life in a narrative as engaging as the subject itself. Beginning with the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849, Larry Stempel traces the growth of musicals from minstrel shows and burlesques, through the golden age of Show Boat and Oklahoma!, to such groundbreaking works as Company and Rent. Showtime is the culmination of decades of painstaking research on a genre whose forms have changed over the course of two centuries. In covering the expansive subject before him, Stempel combines original research—including a kaleidoscope of primary sources and archival holdings—with deft and insightful analysis. The result is nothing short of the most comprehensive, authoritative history of the Broadway musical yet published. 826 pages
MUSIC		Songwriting: a complete guide to the craft Stephen Citron Hal Leonard, 2009 $35.95pb This book is both a comprehensive course for beginning and experienced songwriters and a rich source of new ideas, inspiration, and tricks of the trade for those who have already achieved professional standing. This fresh new edition not only contains all of the original volume's cogent advice on how to write the always-popular genres - the country song, the ballad, and the love song - but has been revised to include: * Examples of hard rock, acid, heavy metal, bubblegum, hip-hop, salsa, rap, gangsta, reggae, ska, soul, and many other of today's most recorded styles * Finding a song concept, distilling the hook, choosing a form, adding harmony, and selecting rhythm * An appendix telling how to copyright, computerize, notate, record, and sell your song * Full glossary of musical and songwriting terms, an explanation of rap-speak with a useful section on rhyme for rap songs, many musical examples of well-known songs, and a complete index. Unlike other books, Songwriting emphasizes the art - without being arty - and technique of creating a song. 356 pages
MUSIC		Turn the Beat Around: the Rise and Fall of Disco Peter Shapiro Faber, 2009 $29.99pb Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late 1960s. As a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid 'Disco Sucks' campaign at the end of the decade. 320 pages
MUSIC		Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation Roger Scruton Continuum, 2010 $53.00hb Following his celebrated book The Aesthetics of Music, Scruton explores the fundamental elements that constitute a great piece of music.Roger Scruton is one of the most notable British philosophers of the post-war years. Like many, Bernard Williams and Brian Magee among them, he is passionately interested in music, indeed he has written two operas. This new book applies the theory to the practice and examines a number of composers and musical forms - from Scruton's fascination with Wagner to Boulez and Hoagy Carmichael. The book ends with a devastating chapter on pop music that will be greatly relished by many, while enraging others. The consistent and passionate argument underlying the book is one for tonality and rhythm. 256 pages
MUSIC		Vanda and Young: Inside Australia’s Hit Factory John Tait University of NSW Press, 2010 $34.95pb Harry Vanda and George Young put Friday on our minds, triggered Easyfever with the Easybeats, and harnessed the raw energy and power of Aussie pub rock to make superstars of AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, and the Angels. The day Vanda and Young met at Sydney’s Villawood Migrant Hostel has been called the most significant moment in Australian music history. What followed, as members of the Easybeats, producers and mentors for George’s brothers’ band AC/DC, and songwriters of a diverse range of hits from ‘Friday on My Mind’, ‘She’s So Fine’, ‘Yesterday’s Hero’ and ‘Love is in the Air’ to ‘Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again’, has provided the soundtrack to the last 50 years. Featuring revelatory interviews with Vanda and Young and members AC/DC and the other chart-topping acts they worked with, this is the inspirational story of Australia’s top songwriters, producers and starmakers. 272 pages
MUSIC		The Violin an illustrated history Yehudi Menuhin Flammarion, 2009 $95.00hb A lavishly illustrated history of the world’s most popular stringed instrument, fittingly narrated by one of the finest virtuoso violinists the world has ever known. The Violin charts the journey of the violin from its origins in the bow and arrow through to the legendary Stradivarius. Yehudi Menuhin introduces us to the astounding richness of the voice of the violin, whose appearance in ethnic music from East and West, popular and folk music, classical and jazz, has established its repertoire upon an interdependence of many musical genres. Menuhin weaves the history of the violin with his own incredible career, sharing memories of composers such as Stravinski, Bartók, and Elgar, and of fellow performers Fritz Kreisler, Bruno Walter, Stéphane Grappelli, and Ravi Shankar. 304 pages plus CD
MUSIC		YouTube in Music Education Thomas Rudolph & James Frankel Hal Leonard, 2010 $32.95pb YouTube in Music Education teaches instructors how to tap into the excitement of YouTube with students by creating, posting, and promoting videos on the most popular media service in the world. Explaining how to record and edit videos, add effects, and upload content, Rudolph and Frankel describe everything from the basics of video production to advanced applications for use in the classroom. The authors explain how teachers can use YouTube privately with their students and integrate it with websites and blogs. Educators can use YouTube for applications that include creating instrument and software tutorials, evaluating group and individual performances, sharing content with students, and other uses. * More than 50 strategies for integrating YouTube into the music curriculum * Tutorials on video and audio production and preparing and uploading content. 200 pages
MUSIC JOURNALS		Extempore: writing, music, art, improvisation Miriam Zolin (ed) Issue #4, 2010 $30.00pb Extempore is an exciting new Australian literary/ music journal which always includes a bonus music CD
MUSIC JOURNALS		The Wire Issue # 319, Sept, 2010 $13.95 The Wire is the most respected British avant-garde monthly music magazine (founded in 1982).
MUSIC JOURNALS		Loops Issue # 2 Richard King & Lee Brackstone Faber, April 2010 $29.99pb A wonderfully exciting, landmark collaboration between Domino Records and Faber - a twice yearly journal dedicated to engaging, intelligent and diverse writing about music.
PLAYS		Contemporary Australian Plays Russell Vandenbrook (ed.) Methuen, 2006 $45.00pb Contains - The Hotel Sorrento (Hannie Rayson), Dead White Males (David Williamson), Two (Ron Elisha), The 7 Stages of Grieving (Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman) & The Popular Mechanicals (Keith Robinson). 320 pages
PLAYS		Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard in a version by Andrew Upton Andrew Upton Faber, 2010 $24.99pb Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kiev, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-wealthy Russian family, as they are forced to come to terms with revolution and a new regime. 112 pages
PLAYS		Modern Drama: Plays of the 80s and 90s Various Methuen Drama, 2006 $45.00pb With an introduction by Graham Whybrow, literary manager of the Royal Court Theatre, this anthology collects the defining plays of the 1980s and 1990s in one volume - Top Girls 'The best British play ever from a woman dramatist' (The Guardian) Hysteria 'One of the most brilliantly original and entertaining new plays I have seen in years' (The Sunday Times) Blasted 'Her dialogue is both sparse and stunning. They will call her mad, but then they said that about Strindberg' (Mail on Sunday) Shopping and F***ing 'A real coup de theatre' (Evening Standard) The Beauty Queen of Leenane 'The most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist . . . a born storyteller' (New York Times) The result is a collection of must reads that's excellent value for students and theatre fans alike. 436 pages
PLAYS		The One-Act Play Companion: a guide to plays, playwrights & performance Ken Walford & Colin Dolley A&C Black, 2006 $39.95pb The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers with plenty of material to offer, yet sourcing one-act plays to perform is notoriously hard. This companion is the first book to survey the work of over 250 playwrights in an illuminating A-Z guide. Multiple styles, nationalities and periods are covered, offering a treasure trove of compelling moments of theatre waiting to be discovered. Guidance on performing and staging one-act plays is also covered as well as essential contact information and where to apply for performance rights. 304 pages
PLAYS		The Oxford Guide to Plays Michael Patterson Oxford University Press, 2007 $34.95pb Ideal for students, scholars, theatre professionals, amateur drama enthusiasts and theatre-goers, The Oxford Guide to Plays provides essential information including title, author, dates of composition and first performance, genre, composition of the cast, plot synopsis and a brief commentary on 1,000 of the best-loved and most important plays in world theatre. An index of characters helps the reader to find particular characters and to trace the trajectory of major historical and legendary characters, and an index of playwrights enables the reader to find details of all the plays included by the author. The most significant plays – from The Oresteia to Waiting for Godot – are dealt with in more detail. 560 pages
PLAYS		The Book of Everything Richard Tulloch/ Guus Kuijer Currency Press, April 2010. $18.95pb Thomas is nine and has started writing a book. His father says all important books are about God. Even so, Thomas writes down all the interesting things he sees that other people seem to ignore: tropical fish in the canal, a deluge of frogs, the Son of God popping in for a chat... He also writes down his greatest determination: When I grow up, I’m going to be happy. Featuring Jesus, the angels, the Bottombiter, the startling Mrs Van Amersfoort and a beautiful girl with a leather leg, this is a totally magical story about a child learning to act when faced with fear and wrong. 80 pages
PLAYS		The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht Methuen Modern Plays, 2010 $24.99pb The city burns in the heat of civil war and a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. But when peace is finally restored, the boy's mother comes to claim him. Calling upon the ancient tradition of the Chalk Circle, a comical judge sets about resolving the dispute. But in a culture of corruption and deception, who wins? Written by the grand master of storytelling and peopled with vivid and amusing characters, this is one of the greatest plays of the last century.  144 pages
PLAYS		The Complete Plays – Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov/ Laurence Senelick (trans) W. W. Norton, 2007 $32.95pb This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works interpreted and adapted internationally and beloved for their brilliant wit and understanding of the human condition. This volume contains work never previously translated, including the newly discovered farce The Power of Hypnotism, the first version of Ivanov, Chekhov's early humorous dialogues, and a description of lost plays and those Chekhov intended to write but never did. 1136 pages
PLAYS		The Habit of Art Alan Bennett Faber, 2009 $27.99pb Alan Bennett's first play since the runaway success of The History Boys is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. 112 pages
PLAYS		Japanese Plays: Classic Noh, Kyogen and Kabuki works A.L Sadler (trans., ed) Tuttle Publishing, 2010 $28.00pb Nothing reflects the beauty of life as much as Japanese theatre. It is here that reality is held suspended and emptiness can fill the mind through words, music, dance, and mysticism. A.L. Sadler translates the mysteries of Noh, Kyogen, and Kabuki in his groundbreaking book, Japanese Plays. A seminal classic, it provides a cross section of Japanese theatre that gives the reader a sampler of its beauty and power. 360 pages
PLAYS		Monks, Bandits, Lovers and Immortals: eleven early Chinese plays Stephen West (ed) Hackett Publishing, 2010 $31.95pb This magnificent collection of eleven early [1250–1450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic literature during an extraordinarily eventful period in Chinese history. Not only are the eleven plays in this volume expertly translated into lively, idiomatic English, they are each provided with illuminating, scholarly introductions that are yet fully intelligible to the educated lay reader. 512 pages
PLAYS		Bruckner’s “Pains of Youth” Martin Crimp Faber, 2009 $27.99pb A discontented post-war generation diagnose youth to be their sickness and do their best to destroy it. A shocking, erotically charged play by Austrian writer Ferdinand Bruckner, presented in a compelling new version by Martin Crimp. 96 pages
PLAYS		Scarlett O’Hara & Let the Sunshine David Williamson Currency Press, 2009 $24.95pb Scarlett is a 36-year-old waitress who lives with her mother, has no boyfriend, and spends too much time watching old romantic movies. As Scarlett drifts deeper into her reveries of Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart, she takes her place as the heroine in each of their movies. Let the Sunshine asks what happens when people of widely different political views are forced to co-exist. Toby, a maker of hard-hitting documentaries, flees Sydney with his wife after a blow up with the press. He arrives at his old childhood haven only to find the simple town has been transformed into a playground for the wealthy and his old friend has become married to a wealthy property developer. The scene is set for a vintage Williamson comedy. 160 pages
PLAYS		Strandline Abbie Spallen Faber, 2009 $27.99pb Following the recent death of her husband, Mairin, an artist and an outsider living in a small coastal village in Northern Ireland, gathers three local women to her house. Each of the women has a reason for being there and a bloody good reason not to be there. These women have secrets. This community has secrets. And, as the evening passes, Mairin learns more than she bargained for about the man she had loved. Abbie Spallen was awarded the Dublin City Council Bursary for Literature in 2005 and made the Sunday Tribune's annual 'Most promising young people in Irish Theatre' list in 2002. 96 pages
PLAYS		Tales of Ballycumber Sebastian Barry Faber, 2010 $27.99pb A startling and intimate portrayal of two unlikely companions connected more closely than they realise, both haunted by the plague of solitude and the Tales of Ballycumber. 96 pages
PLAYS		Tonight at 8.30: ten one-act plays Noel Coward Methuen Drama, 2009 $45.00pb A collection of Coward's ambitious series of ten one-act plays - a sparkling, fast paced and remarkably varied selection of theatrical gems. Written as a vehicle for Coward's own acting talents, alongside his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, Tonight at 8:30 is his ambitious series of ten one-act plays with which he breathed new life into the one-act form. 304 pages
PUPPETS		Asian Theatre Puppets: Creativity, Culture and Craftsmanship: From the Collection of Paul Lin Robin Ruizendaal & Wang Hanshun Thames & Hudson, 2009 $95.00hb This stunningly illustrated book introduces for the first time the beauty of theatre puppets from all major Asian traditions, taking the reader on an inspiring journey through hundreds of years of craftsmanship and creativity in nearly 350 glorious photographs. Asian Theatre Puppets will have immense appeal both to audiences with an interest in the Asian arts, as well as to the general reader, as it opens up a whole realm of artistic expression that has hitherto been largely unknown in the West. 336 pages
PUPPETS		Petrushka: the Russian carnival puppet theatre Catriona Kelly Cambridge University Press, 2009 $66.95pb Petrushka, the Russian equivalent of Punch and Judy, was one of the most popular spectacles at fairgrounds and in city courtyards for over a century. Kelly's study, the first to appear in English, traces the history of Petrushka, illustrating how it reflected the tensions of Russian urban life both before and after the Revolution. Written from a standpoint informed by literary theory, her book at the same time breaks open the categories traditionally applied, both in the Soviet Union and in the West, to the study of Russian literature and popular culture. Contemporary interpretations of Petrushka on the street, high-cultural appropriations of it for a bourgeois and intellectual readership (notably the famous ballet by Benois and Stravinsky), and adaptations made for agit-prop purposes are all analysed. Based on a wide range of unusual materials, this lively and very readable account will appeal not only to literary specialists, but also to those interested in cultural politics, folklore, women's studies and popular theatre. 312 pages
PUPPETS		Puppets and Puppetry: An Illustrated World History Eileen Blumenthal Thames & Hudson, 2005 $95.00hb Puppets have existed in one form or another in almost every culture throughout the history of man. In Puppetry: A World History, Eileen Blumenthal provides a comprehensive overview of the history and technique of puppetry and examines in depth and detail the unique nature and abilities of puppets and the countless roles they have played in human societies across the globe for thousands of years. Blumenthal draws examples from an astonishing array of puppeteers and performances, as well as works of art and historical artifacts to provide readers with a comprehensive view of the world of constructed actors and the eclectic, and often eccentric, artists who created them. From bunraku to Miss Piggy, from the shadow puppets of Java to Howdy Doody, from African marionettes with outsize genitalia to sweet and loveable Lamb Chop, from Senor Wences's famous hand (literally) puppet to the minimalism of Russian puppet master Sergei Obraztsov, whose puppets consisted of nothing more than two small balls, each stuck on the end of a finger - the spectacular range and variety of the world's puppets is explored through more than 300 illustrations and Blumenthal's lively, accessible prose. 272 pages
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