George Bernard Shaw's witty comedy of manners, Pygmalion includes an introduction by Nicholas Grene in Penguin Classics. Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views.

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised i...

Discover the dramatic diversity of the Spider-Verse in this deluxe, fully-illustrated volume!

A must-have guide written by Otaku USA Magazine anime expert, collecting the most iconic, contemporary, and "essential" Japanese animated series and films of all time.

A classic bestseller by one of the most important theatre practitioners of the 20th and early 21st centuries. This handbook has sold over 90,000 copies to students, teachers and theatre makers, giving them a broad range of theatre exercises to use in classrooms, rehearsals and community projects. Makes social and community theatre fun, engaging and easily accessible for a broad audience.

No other book sets out all of Boal's methods in one place, not least in such a clear, practical manner.

The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch - a thrilling guide to cinema and psychoanalysis from the last giant of cultural theory in the twenty-first century.

Ideological heterogeneity in mass plays in Flanders and the Netherlands.

In many European countries mass theatre was a widespread expression of

'community art' which became increasingly popular shortly before the First

World War. From Max Reinhardt's lavish open-air spectacles to socialist

workers' Laienspiel (lay theatre), theatre visionaries focused on ever larger

groups for entertainment as well as political agitation.

Despite wide research on the Soviet and German cases, examples from

the...

The latest BDMP volume discusses Samuel Beckett’s late prose text Company/Compagnie. Company was first composed in English between the years 1977 and 1979, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this meticulously structured 59-paragraph masterpiece of his late prose. Its French companion, Compagnie, was translated in only two weeks, in August 1979, yet the French came into print in early 1980, some months before the English ‘original’. Bot...

This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies.

Renowned portrait photographer Mark Mann documents an impressive host of dancers their eloquent bodies in posed tranquility and vibrant motion representing years of excellence and varied disciplines of the art form.