Performing Arts

First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette's beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of the remaining kings and queens of Europe--paraded in chains like animals, made to brawl over a barrel of crackers, and finally obliterated by a spectacular volcanic eruption....

Author: Youssef DaoudiPublisher: 23rd St.Published: 05/06/2025Pages: 272Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781250805942About the AuthorYoussef Daoudi is a comic artist and illustrator living in France. He worked as an art director for multinational advertising firms for fifteen years before committing himself to writing and drawing graphic novels,...

Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past, written by the indomitable Leah Purcell. Henry Lawson's story of the Drover's Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent'it's our frontier myth captured...

In the 1978 horror film classic Halloween, little Tommy Doyle asks his babysitter Laurie Strode "what is the Boogeyman?" This book answers this question by assessing the qualities that create the Boogeyman persona in Western popular culture particularly in the fairytale and the modern...

This definitive illustrated survey of all of Alfred Hitchcock's films is a book no movie buff or Hitchcock fan can afford to be without. The monumental scope of Alfred Hitchcock's work remains unsurpassed by any other movie director, past or present. So many of...

The ultimate guide to stage fighting technique and basic swordplay, this book covers everything an actor must do to give a dynamic and convincing performance as a stage combatant. "âThis bookã is more than a manual... A necessity! Richard Lane's concepts are vital...'Why' and...

Now in paperback, fully revised and updated with characters from Disney+ shows including The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and The Acolyte, as well as The High Republic, Jedi: Fallen Order, and more, this is the essential celebration of the powerful female characters of Star Wars. They...

Set your tastebuds to stunned! These Star Trek cocktail recipes will take you where no one has gone before. From Kirk's Old Fashioned to Picard's Earl Grey Martini - They're cocktails, Jim, but not as you know them... Do you want to Live Long...

Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Caribbean, Staging the Lyric seeks to explain the 21st-century resurgence of Anglophone...

Author: Halee R. R. HernandezPublisher: Halee Karnofski PublishingPublished: 01/06/2025Pages: 36Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.25dISBN: 9798218550288Audience: Ages 9-12This title is not returnable

As the popularity and diversity of participatory theatre productions increase, scholarly and artistic attention toward the audience as agentive contributors and interpreters must keep pace. Simultaneously, the COVID-19 pandemic has added urgency to the collective artistic encounter and its value to individual and community...

Author: Dawn QuigleyPublisher: Youth Large PrintPublished: 12/11/2024Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.58h x 5.51w x 0.55dISBN: 9781420519082Audience: Ages 9-12

Phyllis Coates was a Texas beauty with grace and a drive to succeed. Her introduction to show business was at seven years old when she impersonated Shirley Temple on stage. As an adult, she had to change her original name (Gypsie Ann Stell) to...

"Taylor is the Marshall McLuhan or the Neil Postman of our new digital economy, the lonely voice raising urgent questions we need to answer together . . . If The People's Platform doesn't spark the conversation about the kind of democracy and culture we...

Author: K NiesPublisher: Edward PublishingPublished: 12/01/2024Pages: 362Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81dISBN: 9798218537814

The newspaper headline from July 18, 1972 read Lightning Kills Elephant: Knocks Keeper 30 feet, but that's just part of the story. Norma Jean is a picture book based on the actual event that occurred in the tiny village of Oquawka, Illinois on the...

Discover the world's greatest myths and legends - from Greek mythology to Oceanic mythology - in this comprehensive guide Humans have always told stories, and myths have been used for millennia as a means of storytelling. A good tale can deliver an important message,...

Mother Trouble traces white maternal angst in popular culture across a span of more than fifty years, from the iconic Rosemary's Baby to anti-vaxx mom memes and HGTV shows. The book narrows in on popular media to think about white maternal angst as a...

The three films comprising The Matrix have become a geniune cultural phenomenon; More Matrix and Philosophy enriches both the enjoyment of the films and the understanding of life today. Broken down into several Scenes More Matrix and Philosophy tackles issues of fate, the concept...

Postmodern theatre is dead. A new theatre is rising - one that combines the well-worn postmodern aesthetics of irony, detachment, and deconstruction with a paradoxical interest in authenticity, engagement, and re-construction. Whilst recent scholarship has treated these evolving interests as unrelated shifts in performance...