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Death Off Stage
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Author : Richard Grindal
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-12-14
Death Off Stage written by Richard Grindal and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-14 with Fiction categories.
The Dashkova Ballet Company - a visiting Russian troupe led by Inspector Gautier's charming Soviet mistress, Princess Sophia - is about to become the toast of Paris when the famous Judge Prudhomme is found with a bullet in his heart in a squalid hotel room. And when the corpse of the beautiful prima ballerina Nicola Stepanova turns up equally cold, the company's once sparkling future pales considerably. Gautier has to solve the murders to save the troupe and salvage his great romance - all of which he undertakes with his customary élan, éclat and joie de vivre.
Death Off Stage
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Author : Richard Grayson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Death Off Stage written by Richard Grayson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Gautier, Jean-Paul (Fictitious character) categories.
Inspector Gautier investigates blackmail and murder involving a visiting Russian ballet company in turn-of-the-century Paris.
Death Off Stage
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Author : Carlene Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Death Off Stage written by Carlene Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Community theater categories.
Tandy Byers has a problem. Her name is Captain Tory Gordon, and she's investigating Tandy's parents for murder. She's also investigating Tandy... but for a far more personal reason. The Palm Theater - once owned by the sleazy Raymond Grady - is well on its way to becoming the new home of the Royal Palm Community Theater Company. The renovations from to an abrupt halt when Grady is found murdered in the gutted building. A searing attraction to Tory and her parents' strange behavior the day of the murder cause Tandy more than her fair share of anxiety. Snooping into the lives of people she's known for years doesn't exactly increase her comfort level, but she's determined to clear her parents' names. Tory is having a run of trouble as well. Too many suspects and a profound attraction to Tandy - who is by turns annoyingly meddlesome and totally irresistible - make this investigation one her toughest yet. Can Tory keep Tandy at arm's length during the investigation, possible for her own safety, and still expect to warm Tory's bed once the suspect is apprehended?
Dying Acts
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Author : Fiona Macintosh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Dying Acts written by Fiona Macintosh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Drama categories.
Death By Shakespeare
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Author : Kathryn Harkup
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-03-05
Death By Shakespeare written by Kathryn Harkup and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-05 with Science categories.
William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions – shock, sadness, fear – that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? In the Bard's day death was a part of everyday life. Plague, pestilence and public executions were a common occurrence, and the chances of seeing a dead or dying body on the way home from the theatre were high. It was also a time of important scientific progress. Shakespeare kept pace with anatomical and medical advances, and he included the latest scientific discoveries in his work, from blood circulation to treatments for syphilis. He certainly didn't shy away from portraying the reality of death on stage, from the brutal to the mundane, and the spectacular to the silly. Elizabethan London provides the backdrop for Death by Shakespeare, as Kathryn Harkup turns her discerning scientific eye to the Bard and the varied and creative ways his characters die. Was death by snakebite as serene as Shakespeare makes out? Could lack of sleep have killed Lady Macbeth? Can you really murder someone by pouring poison in their ear? Kathryn investigates what actual events may have inspired Shakespeare, what the accepted scientific knowledge of the time was, and how Elizabethan audiences would have responded to these death scenes. Death by Shakespeare will tell you all this and more in a rollercoaster of Elizabethan carnage, poison, swordplay and bloodshed, with an occasional death by bear-mauling for good measure.
The Death Of The Actor
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Author : Martin Buzacott
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-31
The Death Of The Actor written by Martin Buzacott and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Performing Arts categories.
In The Death of the Actor Martin Buzacott launches an all-out attack on contemporary theatrical practice and performance theory which identifies the actor, rather than the director, as the key creative force in the performance of Shakespeare. Because actors are absent from the site of Shakespearean meaning, he argues, the illusion of their centrality is sustained only by a rhetoric of heroism, violence and imperialism.
Playing Offstage
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Author : Sidney Homan
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-02-01
Playing Offstage written by Sidney Homan and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Fourteen scholars who work on campus or in the theater address this issue of what it means to play offstage. With their individual definition of what “offstage” could mean, the results were, predictably, varied. They employed a variety of critical approaches to the question of what happens when the play moves into the audience or beyond the physical playhouse itself? What are the social, cultural, and political ramifications? Questions of “how” and “why” actors play offstage admit the larger “role” their production has for the world outside the theater, and hence this collection’s sub-title: “The Theater As a Presence or Factor in the Real World.” Among the various topics, the essays include: breaking the “fourth wall” and thereby making the audience part of the performance; the theater of political protest (one contributor staged Waiting for Godot in Zuccotti Park as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests); “landscape” or “town” theater using citizens as actors or trekking theater where the production moves among various locations in the community; the way principles of the theater can inform corporate management; the genre of semi-scripted comedy and quasi-impromptu spectacle (such as reality TV or flash mobs); digitalized performances of Shakespeare; the role of Greek Theater in the midst of the country’s current economic and political crisis; how the area outside the theater became part of the performance inside Shakespeare’s Globe; Timothy Leary’s Psychedelic Celebrations designed to reproduce the offstage experience of LSD; WilliamVollmann’s use of Noh theater to fashion a personal model and process of life-transformation; liminal theater which erases the line between onstage and off. The collection thus complements through actual performance criticism those studies that see the theater as a commentary on issues—social, political, economic; and it reverses the Editor’s own earlier collection TheAudience As Player, which examined interactive theater where the spectator comes onstage.
Agatha Raisin And The Quiche Of Death
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Agatha Raisin And The Quiche Of Death written by and has been published by Dramatic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Drama categories.
Selling her public relations firm to take early retirement and fulfil her childhood dream of a cottage in the Cotswolds, Agatha Raisin soon discovers reality does not quite match the dream. Used to the pace of London and an all consuming career, Agatha finds it difficult to settle in a village where anyone of less than twenty years standing is an 'incomer.' However, she decides entering the village quiche competition is just the thing to help. It is here that her real problems start. With no talent for cookery, Agatha cheats by buying a quiche from a London delicatessen. Not only does she fail to win but the competition judge, Reg Cummings-Browne, is found dead the next morning. The prospect of being labelled cheat and murderess determines Agatha to get to the bottom of the mystery.
The Show Won T Go On
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Author : Jeff Abraham
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2019-09-03
The Show Won T Go On written by Jeff Abraham and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with Performing Arts categories.
There has never been a show business book quite like The Show Won't Go On, the first comprehensive study of a bizarre phenomenon: performers who died onstage. From the comedy magician who dropped dead on live television to the amateur thespian who expired during a play called The Art of Murder, the book is a celebration of lives both famous and obscure, as well as a dramatic and accurate recounting of events leading to the moments they died "doing what they loved." The Show Won't Go On covers almost every genre of entertainment and is full of unearthed anecdotes, exclusive interviews, colorful characters, and ironic twists. With dozens of heart-stopping stories, it's the perfect book to dip into on any page.
Shakespeare On Page And Stage
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Author : Stanley Wells
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-08
Shakespeare On Page And Stage written by Stanley Wells and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare, and over his lifetime he has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance. The volume is introduced by Peter Holland, and its thirty chapters are divided into themed sections: 'Shakespearian Influences', 'Essays on Particular Works', 'Shakespeare in the Theatre', and 'Shakespeare's Text'. An afterword by Margreta de Grazia concludes the volume.