Theatre & Dramatic Art

Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig. Cavorting naked through the countryside painted green. Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head. These are just a few of the things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare.

This book concerns the foundation and development of the National Folk Theatre of Ireland, which has recently celebrated fifty years of performances.

The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. A Guardian, Times, Sunday Times and Independent Book of the Year. 

Costume Design for Performance offers a detailed insight into the creative process behind designing costumes for the performing arts, including theatre, opera, dance and film. 

Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of St. Louis. With a theater degree in hand, she was determined, she was confident, she was ready to work hard.

Pearse wrote and produced eleven plays and pageants that drew widespread attention at the time of their first production and wrote widely on theatre, performance and the politics of identity.

2017 1st Edition Hardback

This dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book in the bestselling Drama Games series offers dozens of ideas and exercises to energise and inspire a bold, creative rehearsal process for any play, of any period or genre.

Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland is an important contribution to the fields of Irish theatre and performance studies, and gender and performance in Ireland.

The zombie is cinema's most enduring horror icon, having terrified audiences for decades. Book of the Dead charts the history of the walking dead from the monster's origins in Haitian voodoo, through its cinematic debut in 1932's White Zombie up to blockbuster World War Z and beyond.

This collection of fourteen new essays by scholars of literature, theatre, historiography, psychology and political science explores aspects of feminism in Ireland four decades after the founding of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement.

Ibsen and Chekhov on the Irish Stage is a collective study of the intricacies of trans-cultural migration of dramatic works and a re-examination of irish theatre from 1890 to the present day.

2012 1st Edition Hardback. Slight tear on back dust jacket, hence reduced price.

The dramatic, poignant and revealing family biography of five generations of the Redgraves, one of the greatest acting dynasties of all time. 

Exploration of non-literary Irish drama prior to the opening of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin

The Belfast Empire, the Royal Hippodrome and the newly restored Grand Opera House, along with the cine-variety theatres such as the Gaiety and Colosseum, are all familiar names to the citizens of Belfast, yet they are only the tip of the iceberg.

For 35 years from the premier of The Seige of Rochelle in 1835, Michael William Balfe was the most important operatic composer in Victorian Britain. This definitive biography took seven years of research and documents the man, his work, his descendants, his legacy, and his influence.

In About Beckett Emeritus Professor John Fletcher has compiled a thorough and accessible volume that explains why Beckett's work is so significant and enduring.