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1	Stop the Show!: A History of Insane Incidents and Absurd Accidents in the Theater more books like this by Brad Schreiber add to wishlist "Stop the Show!" is the first book to assemble humorous, frightening and bizarre anecdotes about the history of all that went wrong during live theatrical productions in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. It is the publishing equivalent of TV bloopers for the legitimate stage. see all copies from $7.92! new only from $7.92!
2	Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception more books like this by Susan Bennett add to wishlist Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences. Susan Bennett advances a theory that brings spectators to the foreground, emphasizing their creative involvement and ... see all copies from $31.11! new only from $35.68! \| SVS
3	Drama Stage and Audience more books like this by John L Styan add to wishlist This book shows how a play 'works' in the theatre: how it generates life, meaning and excitement on the stage for the audience. It is self evident that a play must communicate or it is not a play at all. Professor Styan argues that, while communication in drama begins with the script, the value or power of a play must be tested upon an audience. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $48.70! \| signed copies \| SVS
4	Reading the Material Theatre more books like this by Richard Knowles, Tracy C Davis (Editor) add to wishlist Reading the Material Theatre develops and demonstrates a method of theatrical performance analysis that takes into account the entire theatre experience, from production to reception. Beginning with semiotic and cultural materialist theory, Knowles quickly moves into detailed politicized analysis of the ways in which specific aspects of theatrical ... see all copies from $9.04! new only from $9.04! \| SVS
5	Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama more books like this by Jeremy Lopez add to wishlist This book gives a detailed and comprehensive survey of the diverse, theatrically vital formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Besides providing readings of plays such as Hamlet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, and Titus Andronicus, it also places Shakespeare emphatically within his own theatrical context, and focuses ... see all copies from $36.59! new only from $42.11! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Rehearsing the audience : ways to develop student perceptions of theatre more books like this by Ken Davis add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! SVS
7	Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience more books like this by Timothy J Moore add to wishlist The Roman playwright Plautus (ca 200BCE) allowed his actors to acknowledge freely, the illusion in which they were taking part, to elicit laughter through humorous asides and monologues, and simultaneously to flatter and tease the spectators. Moore shows that Plautus employed these dramatic devices not only to entertain his audience but also to ... see all copies from $10.20! new only from $17.92! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare's England: A Collaborative Debate more books like this by Anthony B Dawson, Paul Yachnin add to wishlist How was the experience of watching a play influenced by practices beyond the walls of the playhouse, and what were the broader social and historical implications of the culture of playgoing? The book sets out to answer such questions. Interested first in what happened within the playhouse itself, the authors focus on the person of the actor, on ... see all copies from $37.90! new only from $37.90! \| SVS
9	Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event more books like this by John Russell Brown add to wishlist In his latest book, John Russell Brown offers a new and revealing way of reading and studying Shakespeare's plays, focusing on what a play does for an audience, as well as what its text says. By considering the entire theatrical experience and not only what happens on stage, Brown takes his readers back to the major texts with a fuller ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.49! \| SVS
10	Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood: Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse more books like this by Grace Ioppolo add to wishlist This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences. Grace Ioppolo argues that the path of the ... see all copies from $32.20! new only from $32.20!
11	Theatre Audiences PB more books like this by Susan Bennett add to wishlist Focusing on the non-traditional theatres of the last 30 years, theatres which demand an active and creative role of their audiences, the text offers insights into spectatorship which also apply to audiences of traditional theatres who often contribute subtly to theatrical events. This is a study of the audience looking at both theories of audience ... see all copies from $17.75!
12	Shakespeare, Theory and Performance more books like this by James C Bulman add to wishlist Shakespeare, Theory and Performance is a groundbreaking collection of essays which brings a full range of contemporary critical perspectives to bear upon the practical questions of performing Shakespeare. The volume offers a fascinating overview of the productive interplay between cultural materialism, theatre semiotics, feminism, deconstruction, ... see all copies from $19.99! new only from $45.33! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Audience and the Playwright: How to Get the Most Out of Live Theatre more books like this by Mayo Simon add to wishlist Have you ever noticed how clever you feel in the theatre? You get the joke when no one on the stage is laughing. You see the threat that no one on the stage seems to notice. You weep when leading characters do not shed a tear. Sometimes you feel an almost God-like understanding of people and events. Who put you in this privileged position? The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.01! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Feminist Spectator as Critic more books like this by Jill Dolan, Oscar Gross Brockett (Editor) add to wishlist Extends the feminist analysis of representation to the realm of performance see all copies from $4.85! new only from $15.55!
15 view cover	New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience and Asia more books like this by John Russell Brown, Russ Brown John add to wishlist New Sites for Shakespeare argues that an audience's understanding of Shakespeare is limited by the kinds of theatre it has seen. On repeated visits to Asia John Russell Brown sought out forms of performances which were new to him, and found that he gained a fresh and exciting view of the theatre for which Shakespeare wrote. New Sites for ... see all copies from $7.91! new only from $17.91!
16 view cover	Romantic Drama: Acting and Reacting more books like this by Frederick Burwick add to wishlist Drama in the Romantic period underwent radical changes affecting theatre performance, acting, and audience. Theatres were rebuilt and expanded to accommodate larger audiences, and consequently acting styles and the plays themselves evolved to meet the expectations of the new audiences. This book examines manifestations of change in acting, stage ... see all copies from $69.94! new only from $75.70!
17 view cover	Stage Directions Guide to Getting and Keeping Your Audience more books like this by Stephen Peithman (Editor), Neil Offen (Editor) add to wishlist In the late 1990s theatre competes with many other forms of entertainment for people's leisure time. So how does theatre attract and maintain the audience it needs? This book explains to the reader the many ways of doing this. It provides information on advertising to motivate ticket buyers, creating attention-grabbing mailouts, using newsletters, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.57!
18 view cover	Architecture, Actor and Audience more books like this by Iain Mackintosh, Ian Mackintosh add to wishlist Until recently the contribution of architecture to the theatrical experience was seldom analyzed. The evolution of theatre design, or the use of the dramatic space tended to be the sole concern of architects or directors. Seldom did critics or practitioners stop to consider the "metaphysical functionalism" of theatre design: its ability to ... see all copies from $14.82! new only from $44.56!
19 view cover	How to Enjoy Shakespeare more books like this by Robert Thomas Fallon add to wishlist Fallon explores Shakespeare in five sections dealing with language, theme, staging, character, and plot, each abundantly illustrated with episodes and quotations from the plays. He writes in easily accessible prose in a book designed to make modern readers and audiences feel comfortable with the Bard. Fallon knows his Shakespeare to the letter. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.48! \| SVS
20 view cover	The French Actress and Her English Audience more books like this by John Stokes add to wishlist For centuries English and French theatrical traditions have had an uneasy relationship with one another: mutual admiration, mutual envy, mutual distrust. Just as the fascination of difference lies in the potential for sameness, so these opposed traditions have observed each other at close quarters and invited each other back home. In an unusually ... see all copies from $13.63! new only from $42.03!
21 view cover	Shakespeare and Chekhov in Production and Reception: Theatrical Events and Their Audiences more books like this by Professor John Tulloch add to wishlist With a focus on the canonical institutions of Shakespeare and Chekhov, John Tulloch brings together for the first time new concepts of "the theatrical event" with live audience analysis. Using mainstream theatre productions from across the globe that were highly successful according to both critics and audiences, this book of case studies - ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $42.00!
22	Ibsen's Drama: Author to Audience more books like this by Einar Haugen add to wishlist "Ibsen's Drama "was first published in 1979. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "A dramatist for all seasons" Einar Haugen calls Henrik Ibsen in this series of lectures given in honor of the ... see all copies from $2.87! first editions \| SVS
23	Private Readings/Public Texts: Playreaders' Constructs of Theatre Audiences more books like this by Kenneth Krauss add to wishlist If readers are to comprehend playscripts as plays, they need to imagine the theater audience. This study examines what has been written about "playreading" and proposes four possible ways that playreaders may construct a sense of theater audiences by using an extensive analysis of Genet's Les Bonnes as an illustration. see all copies from $16.20! new only from $51.73! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	American Presidents Attend the Theatre: The Playgoing Experiences of Each Chief Executive more books like this by Thomas A Bogar add to wishlist Not every presidential visit to the theatre is as famous as Lincoln's last night at Ford's, but American presidents attended the theatre long before and long after that ill-fated night. As a young man in 1751, George Washington saw his first play, "The London Merchant", during a visit to Barbados. John Quincy Adams understood theatre well enough ... see all copies from $58.46! new only from $58.46! \| SVS
25	The Performer-Audience Connection: Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society more books like this by Judith Lynne Hanna add to wishlist see all copies from $5.99! first editions

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