Speak to Achieve
Learn Necessary Skills to Become a Better Communicator and Achieve Genuine and Impactful Connections Many people struggle with public speaking or conveying their desired message directly and genuinely, even though such skills are essential to success in many spaces. In Speak to Achieve, author Elaine A. Clark shares her forty years of earned wisdom as an actor and voice-over coach on how to improve your communication style to achieve your individual goals, whether addressing an audience of one or one thousand, in person, in a podcast, on a livestream, or in a short-form video. Clark's proven Making It M.I.N.E.(R) performance method coaches aspiring speakers to get out of their heads; access their emotions; connect with their personal truth; incorporate authoritative body movements; comfortably share their history, uniqueness, and personality; and sustain listener attention. With Speak to Achieve, become a better communicator using the following steps: Acknowledge and overcome roadblocks.Build trust between yourself and your audience.Construct a genuine bridge of connection.Use your personal journey to empower others.Captivate audiences.Motivate the audience to think, feel, and take action!This interactive guide gives readers small assignments to acknowledge, test, and apply Clark's techniques. With Speak to Achieve, learn to own your inherent authority and intelligence, feel empowered by your message, and communicate genuinely with others to achieve your desired results.
Broken Arrow
An insightful history and analysis of the importance Delmer Daves' film Broken Arrow has in the western film genre. It was, for its time, a breakthrough in how Native Americans were depicted in the movies. The release of Broken Arrow in 1950 represented a turning point in Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans. Film scholars have often cited director Delmer Daves's movie as the first sound film to depict the Native American sympathetically, and it appealed to a postwar ideal of tolerance and racial equality that became prominent in later Westerns. Yet Broken Arrow certainly has its flaws: the Apache speak English, whites are cast in leading Apache roles, and Apache culture is highly romanticized. Additionally, many scholars agree that the movie lacks the polish of Daves's later Western 3:10 to Yuma (1957), with its evocative cinematography and psychological undertones. Despite its inaccuracies and the many artistic liberties it takes, the movie contains powerful political and social statements about Hollywood and its attitude toward Indian/white relations. Author Angela Aleiss breaks down the way Broken Arrow probed these attitudes and influenced a long series of films with Native heroes that followed, marking a transformation in Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans.
A Room And A Voice
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." - Virginia WoolfA Room And A Voice: Performance Edition reimagines Virginia Woolf's landmark essay A Room of One's Own as a work for the stage, classroom, and voice. Adapted by Querida Funck, this edition blends Woolf's timeless words with new commentary, historical context, and performance notes designed for actors, educators, and storytellers.Part literary adaptation and part rehearsal guide, this Performance Edition includes: Historical and literary context to frame Woolf's visionStory and character arcs for performance readingActor and voice techniques for bringing the text to lifeBonus excerpts from Woolf's essays that deepen the conversationIdeal for readers' theatre, classroom study, and solo performance, this edition celebrates Woolf's call for creative freedom while offering practical tools for performance.Querida Funck, playwright, stage director, and voice artist, brings fresh insight to Woolf's exploration of women, writing, and voice-making this a unique resource for students, teachers, performers, and literature lovers alike.
The Art & Making of DreamWorks Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie
Go behind the scenes of Dreamworks Animation's first live-action animation hybrid film. DreamWorks Animation brings its global smash streaming series Gabby's Dollhouse to the big screen. The Art & Making of DreamWorks Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie showcases never-before-seen production art, insider perspectives, and the elaborate artistry involved in making the live-action/animation cinematic adventure. Join Gabby and her irresistible Gabby Cats as they venture through the real world and their magical mini-world to save the dollhouse before it's too late. Includes: - Foreword by singer, songwriter, actress, and author Gloria Estefan, who plays Grandma Gigi - Preface by actress Laila Lockhart Kraner, who reprises her role of Gabby from the Netflix television series - Hundreds of character designs, concept art, sketches, storyboards, color keys, and final frames from the making of the movie - Exclusive interviews with the artists, filmmakers, and key creators
Feeding Crows
Farhad, an ambitious young man and his wife Zenobia move into the sophisticated Malabar Hill area but their devoted old maid Savitri resists modernity repeatedly clashing with a neighbour Malti.Farhad wants to chat up Malti's husband Sudhir, chairman of a bank who can help his business but a carefully planned social evening ends in bedlam as wives clash over Zenobia's beloved dog and Savitri's middle class ways. A budding friendship abruptly ends.Till Farhad's cousin Rustom arrives from America bringing a welcome reconciliation.Suddenly the light hearted story takes a dark turn.
The Hellraiser Chronicles
The only official Hellraiser book, featuring exclusive imagery and an Introduction by the legendary horror writer and the film's director Clive Barker. In 1987, writer/director Clive Barker unleashed Hellraiser, an instant classic which changed the face of horror cinema forever. The Cenobites soon returned, and their leader, the chilling Pinhead (played by Doug Bradley), rapidly became a worldwide icon. The Hellraiser Chronicles is a beautifully produced, full colour photographic companion to Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II and Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth--featuring stunning, specially shot portrait photography unavailable elsewhere, and also script extracts, design sketches, behind-the-scenes stills and interviews. It is the only official Hellraiser book, with an Introduction by Clive Barker, and a must for all fans of the series.
Emerging Technologies in Media and Entertainment
The media and entertainment (M&E) industry encompasses a diverse range of businesses involved in the creation, production, distribution, and monetization of content across various platforms. This includes film, television, music, gaming, sports, publishing, and digital media. The M&E industry is diverse and quite complex, including sectors such as movies, gaming, advertising, music, sports, content creation, etc.Technology has been the main driving factor for the media and entertainment industry and it is modernizing the industry. The industry has always been a hub of innovation, captivating audiences with groundbreaking technologies. Technology innovations are transforming the media and entertainment industry, affecting every aspect from content creation to distribution and consumption.This book is a comprehensive text on the emerging technologies in the media and entertainment industry. It is organized into 10 chapters that summarize emerging M&E technologies: artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, cloud computing, big data, blockchain, Internet of things, immersive technologies, 5G network, and biometrics. It provides an overview of each emerging technology in a way that beginners can understand. It is a must-read for those interested in media and entertainment and its future.
The Choral
You don't have to believe it. I always took the Matthew Passion with a pinch of salt.Ramsden, Yorkshire, 1916. The ambitious local Choral Society is depleted as men volunteer for the front and plans for their St Matthew Passion by German composer J. S. Bach are scuppered by patriotic fervour. Dr Guthrie, the mysterious, exacting new Chorus Master, finds a replacement in Elgar's Dream of Gerontius and swells the choir's numbers with teenage boys and girls. Together they discover the urgency of desire and the joy of singing as the new boys come to terms with their imminent conscription, and friendships and summer trysts are suffused with a melancholy sense of all that might soon be lost.The screenplay will be published alongside the film's UK release (on 7 November 2025), and includes a preface by the author and an introduction from Nicholas Hytner.
28 Years Later
Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 YEARS LATER, a terrifying new 'auteur horror' story set in the world created by 28 Days Later.It's been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on an island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well. The cast includes Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams and Ralph Fiennes.
Coraline 2026 Planner Calendar (Includes Stickers)
Transform your planner into a portal to the Other World with the official Coraline 2026 Planner Calendar. Explore the world behind the little door with the official Coraline 2026 Planner Calendar. Featuring cute-as-a-button art from the hit stop-motion animated movie, this planner with stickers includes your favorite twitchy witchy girl and the "other" residents of the Pink Palace Apartments. Includes stickers! Moon phases 6.5" x 9" size fits book bags, totes, and backpacks (13" x 9" when open) Spiral binding Two-page weekly spreads with plenty of room to add appointments and reminders Includes major official world holidays Nostalgic art that's great for home and safe for work
Static
The challenge is to live in this world, not a new one A veteran US astronaut is about to land back on Earth after completing his very last space flight. A lonely ham radio operator in Donegal is surfing frequencies in want of some company. This unlikely pair of conversationalists collide with life-altering consequences. Static is a lyrical, searching play about isolation and the painful contradictions that surface when people try to connect. Written by Jimmy McAleavey, this edition was published to coincide with the world premiere production directed by John King at the Abbey Theatre in June 2025.
The Art Gallery on Stage
Winner of the AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) Book Prize 2024 The Art Gallery on Stage is the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage and to discuss how playwrights have begun to regard it as inspiration, location, focus or theme in an ever-more intense game of cross-fertilization. The study analyzes the impact on dramatic form and theatrical presentation of what has been a paradigmatic shift in the way art galleries and museums display their collections and how these are perceived, establishing a hitherto unexplored connection between modes of exhibiting and modes of representation. It traces a trajectory from plays that were initially performed in traditional theatres in accordance with a naturalistic play structure to plays that favour of a radical reconfiguration of visual representation. Indeed, since the beginning of the new millennium, playwrights and theatre-makers have increasingly experimented with new dramatic forms and site-specific venues, while forging collaborations with art makers and curators. The book focuses on plays from the 1980s onwards, such as Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution, Nick Dear's The Art of Success, Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Three Birds Alighting on a Field and The Line, David Edgar's Pentecost, Martin Crimp's Attempt on Her Life, Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Shoreditch Madonna and The Painter, David Leddy's Long Live the Little Knife, and Tim Crouch's My Arm, An Oak Tree and England, and considers the vital contribution to the field made by set designers. Ultimately, through this study, we come to understand how modern drama can offer a set of interpretative tools to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the social construction of art and, furthermore, the potential of theatre and the gallery space to question our fundamental cultural assumptions and values.
Druid Theatre 1975-2025
Marking the 50th anniversary of one of the world's leading theatre companies, this book collects six of its most impactful plays together in one volume for the first time. Druid Theatre is Ireland's leading theatre company. Since their origin in 1975 they have surprised, delighted, and inspired audiences worldwide, touring from their home city of Galway in the west of Ireland to countless other locations nationally and internationally. Under the leadership of Garry Hynes, the first woman to win a Tony Award for directing, the company has revitalised the Irish dramatic tradition by staging seminal new plays and by breathing life into neglected classics. This anthology celebrates that tradition by gathering together six key plays from Druid's fifty-year history. Featuring an exciting blend of established and unjustly forgotten playwrights this collection also provides insight into the company's history. Edited by Barry Houlihan, Patrick Lonergan, and M獺ir矇ad N穩 Chr籀in穩n, each play is accompanied by a short introduction and production images (many of them never published before) from Druid's archive at the University of Galway. The plays include: The Wood of the Whispering by MJ Molloy Same Old Moon by Geraldine Aron Conversations on a Homecoming by Tom Murphy At the Black Pig's Dyke by Vincent Woods The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh The Beacon by Nancy Harris The selection of plays allows key themes from Druid's history to be seen more clearly - to allow readers to understand how the company has so fearlessly charted the boundaries between the realistic and the fantastic, the past and the present, and the individual and the wider society. It also presents six plays that are of huge value in their own right: these are original and daring dramas that have shaped and defined a half-century of Irish playwriting.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musicals
What is the tie that binds a show like the Gershwin Brothers' Of Thee I Sing to Michael R. Jackson's AStrange Loop? Did you know that the Pulitzer Prize for Drama has been awarded to just ten musicals since the award's inception in 1917? Why have certain musicals captured the imagination and hearts of the Pulitzer Prize committee? Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musicals takes a chronological look at the ten musicals that have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Deep diving into the development of each show, this accessible study unpacks the creation, production, and reception of each musical. Each chapter traces a different Prize-winning show from its inception to its opening night. It introduces the reader to each musical's key creators and company members and places them in the larger context of Broadway history. Published in Methuen Drama's Essential Musicals series, this book is perfect for students of Musical Theatre, drawing together different resources to dig into the backstories of Broadway's biggest hits and mining the historical record for nuggets of information that illuminate our understanding and enhance our enjoyment of musical theatre's unique brand of magic.
Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities
How can theatre and Shakespearean performance be used with different communities to assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals? Employing an integrative approach that draws from science, actor training, therapeutical practices and current research on the senses, this study reveals the work being done by drama practitioners with a range of specialized populations, such as incarcerated people, neurodiverse individuals, those with physical or emotional disabilities, veterans, people experiencing homelessness and many others. With insights drawn from visits to numerous international programs, it argues that these endeavors succeed when they engage multiple human senses and incorporate kinesthetic learning, thereby tapping into the diverse benefits associated with artistic, movement and mindfulness practices. Neither theatre nor Shakespeare is universally beneficial, but the syncretic practices described in this book offer tools for physical, emotional and collaborative undertakings that assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals. Among the practitioners and companies whose work is examined here are programs from the Shakespeare in Prison Network, the International Opera Theater, Blue Apple Theatre, Flute Theatre, DeCruit and Feast of Crispian programs for veterans, Extant Theatre and prison programs in Kolkata and Mysore, India.
A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary
A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary provides a new lens through which to revisit the history of Latin American cinema and proposes three approximations to the study of women's documentary produced between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s.With a focus on documentaries with clear political intents, this book illustrates some of the thematic interests, authorial modes, production practices, formal devices, and aesthetic strategies employed by women filmmakers. Through analysis of the contexts, processes, and forms of a selection of films, the author shows how these non-fiction films shed light on the precarious conditions that characterised women's greater entry into the workforce, on the circulation of feminist ideas, and on the inevitable questioning of identity that resulted from migration and displacement.This volume will appeal to scholars and students interested in women's and feminist cinema, documentary history, theory, and practice, and Latin American history and culture.
Applied Theatre
This book explores and critiques the concept of participation in applied theatre both theoretically and practically. Participation is one of the concepts central to applied theatre practice, but it's mostly considered when engaging with communities in applied theatre, while the term itself is under-theorized in applied theatre discourses. This study examines and unpacks participation as a tool to foster community engagement and decolonize research and knowledge production in applied theatre practice, especially regarding representation, equity and access. What does participation even mean? What are the new and existing paradigms and frameworks in participation discourses? How do these frameworks impact participation from ethical, sociocultural, economic and aesthetic perspectives? And in what ways can applied theatre practitioners re-conceptualize and re-position participation meaningfully in their work? Through case studies drawn from a diverse range of places including Kenya, Brazil and Canada, this book presents discourses on and experiences of participation for the purpose of repositioning it.
Acting Emotions
Actors and actresses play characters such as the embittered Medea, or the lovelorn Romeo, or the grieving and tearful Hecabe. The theatre audience holds its breath, and then sparks begin to fly. But what about the actor? Has he been affected by the emotions of the character he is playing? What's going on inside his mind? The styling of emotions in the theatre has been the subject of heated debate for centuries. In fact, Diderot in his Paradoxe sur le comedien, insisted that most brilliant actors do not feel anything onstage. This greatly resembles the detached acting style associated with Bertolt Brecht, which, in turn, stands in direct opposition to the notion of the empathy-oriented "emotional reality" of the actor which is most famously associated with the American actingstyle known as method acting. The book's survey of the various dominant acting styles is followed by an analysis of the current state of affairs regarding the psychology of emotions. By uniting the psychology of emotions with contemporary acting theories, the author is able to come to the conclusion that traditional acting theories are no longer valid for today's actor. Acting Emotions throws new light on the age-old issue of double consciousness, the paradox of the actor who must nightly express emotions while creating the illusion of spontaneity. In addition, the book bridges the gap between theory and practice by virtue of the author's large-scale field study of the emotions of professional actors. In Acting Emotions, the responses of Dutch and Flemish actors is further supplemented by the responses of a good number of American actors. The book offers a unique view of how actors act out emotions and how this acting out is intimately linked to the development of contemporary theatre.
Do It Yourself
A unique guide to creating political theatre, produced by one of the UK's most exciting companies. Do It Yourself is a vital resource for anyone interested in exploring theatre culture grounded in and produced by working-class communities. Designed for artists, activists and community organisers, the book offers a step-by-step guide to creating political theatre that is relevant, impactful and rooted in the lives of everyday people. Common/Wealth have spent fifteen years working at the cutting edge of political theatre. In Do It Yourself, they share their experimental and activist approach to performance-making, based on DIY principles and the belief that ground-breaking theatre can be made with anyone, anywhere, in ways that truly resonate with the communities it serves. Do It Yourself introduces Common/Wealth's artistic and political ethos, provides unique insights into their most significant performances and offers practical exercises for creating your own work. But this is not just a manual. It is a celebration of culture as a collective endeavour, one that can challenge the status quo and inspire change.
Nye
2025 Revised and Updated Edition One man's dream of the NHS. From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence on our country without ever being Prime Minister. Confronted with death, Nye's deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life, from childhood and mining underground to Parliament and fights with Churchill, in an epic Welsh fantasia. Written by Tim Price (Teh Internet is Serious Business), this celebration of the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain's welfare state premiered at the National Theatre in 2024. This revised and updated edition was published to coincide with the National Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre co-production in July 2025, with Michael Sheen (Under Milk Wood) reprising his role as Nye Bevan.
Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts, Season 1
Go deeper into the groundbreaking Emmy-winning series with the complete, authorized scripts of Stranger Things: Season One, including an exclusive introduction from the Duffer Brothers. A high-pitched shrieking sound suddenly fills the shed. We don't see what happens to Will; we just watch that naked dangling light bulb. It glows brighter and brighter and brighter, filling the shed with overwhelming white light. We think the glass of the bulb is going to shatter but then -- The terrible shrieking sound abruptly stops.The bulb dims. Returning to normal wattage.We pull away from the light.The shed is empty.Will has vanished. When young Will Byers disappears, the sleepy little town of Hawkins, Indiana, is awakened to a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and a strange little girl with a tattoo of the number eleven on her arm . . . and the ability to move objects with her mind. The Duffer Brothers' critically acclaimed series, Stranger Things, took the world by storm with its 80s nostalgia, dimension-hopping secrets, and charming cast of characters. Season One introduced us to our favorite friend squad--Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and Will--plus their new Eggo-loving friend, El, and to the terrifying "Upside Down," an evil alternate dimension with a species of humanoid predators roaming the landscape. Collected here for the first time, the complete scripts of Stranger Things: Season One include the scenes, dialogue, and character directions for all eight episodes as well as an exclusive introduction from the creators and showrunners, Matt and Ross Duffer. Season One's scripts reveal a unique insight into the foundational story that immediately captivated viewers and popular culture.
Temporary Stages III
Theatre activities ask adolescents to empathize with those who are different from themselves. Recognizing divergence invites self-reflection and kindles compassion. These actions tap students' inner cores while at the same time deepening their understanding of privilege, a key component of critical consciousness.Through the lens of critical pedagogy and feminist theory, this book explores the mutually reinforcing development of spirituality and emerging critical consciousness fostered by high school theatre experience. By examining her own public high school theatre program through description, analysis and interpretation, Gonzalez explores why and how theatre work can simultaneously fortify teens' spiritual growth while activating dawning awareness of the socio-political dynamics in their own lives and the world around them. The book includes the original one-act play Free to Fly, which introduces young people to the dangers of sex trafficking of minors.Temporary Stages III will appeal especially to secondary theatre teachers, theatre education pre-service teachers, and graduate students studying theatre pedagogy and critical cultural theory.
Jaws: Memories from Martha's Vineyard (Updated and Revised Edition)
The 1st account of the making of Jaws to focus on the production's local participants, featuring 100s of never-before-seen photos, accounts and anecdotes, and a Foreword by Steven Spielberg. Updated with new material for the film's 50th anniversary. You're gonna need a bigger coffee table! The filming of Jaws was a landmark event in the history of both movies and the quaint New England island of Martha's Vineyard, where the geographic isolation necessitated hiring 100s of locals to work as cast and crew. Among them were many professional and amateur photographers with full access to the production. Memories compiles their photos and stories for the 1st time into a unique compendium. Movie buffs, SFX enthusiasts, and fans of Jaws will thrill in this definitive volume's special features: - Updated edition includes +100 new photos, most previously unseen and many in colour, new interview material with local cast and crew, and an Afterword by Wendy Benchley, wife of Jaws author Peter Benchley.- Foreword by Steven Spielberg.- 100s of previously unpublished photos taken by local participants and bystanders, and a detailed account of how the filmmakers chose Martha's Vineyard as their shooting location.- Recollections of local crew and cast, including Lee Fierro (Mrs. Kintner), Chris Crawford, real-life captain of the Orca, and Craig Kingsbury, the inspiration for Robert Shaw's portrayal of maniacal shark hunter Quint.- Newly illustrated schematics by Jaws Production Designer Joe Alves, explaining the intricacies of the revolutionary sea sled fin mechanism, and his original 1974 storyboards.- Insight on adapting Jaws from page to screen from Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, Location Casting Director Shari Rhodes, and more.
Serial Thrillers
'The BBC seems bent on turning the children into a new kind of drug addict for ... serial thrillers ...' (The Times - 17 December 1946) Following the end of the Second World War, a new form of radio entertainment would explode across Britain - the adventure serial. Whether solving murders, foiling conspiracies or journeying into space, the heroes of these radio serials would be the idols of an entire generation of post-war radio listeners. Dick Barton, Paul Temple, Dan Dare and Jet Morgan were once among the most famous names in British fiction. However, today they are almost forgotten. With detailed episode guides and behind-the-scenes stories, it is now once again possible to relive the excitement of one of radio's most addictive formats and enjoy again the exploits of its most daring adventurers. With a special introduction by Nicholas Parsons Covers the Serials: DICK BARTONPAUL TEMPLEDAN DAREJOURNEY INTO SPACE 'I recommend it to anyone who is interested in these heroes of radio.' Steve Winders, Bear Alley 'If you were a British radio fan in the late 40's through to the mid 50's (as I was) this is the book for you. It brings back memories of the Paul Temple, Dick Barton, Dan Dare and Journey Into Space radio serials. it describes behind the scenes background information as well as storylines and production details. A throroughly enjoyable read for British Old Time Radio fans.' Cliff Lamb, Amazon
Sahir Ludhianvi - The People's Poet
Sahir Ludhianvi is probably the only songwriter in Hindi films whose poetry was accepted in its purest form and incorporated as a film song. So great was his stature as an Urdu poet that he never had to mould his poetry to suit the demands of film songwri
Travesty Actors
Examining theatrical performance under Stalinist cultural mandates Talk of Joseph Stalin's "show trials," the public prosecutions in Moscow's Hall of Columns in the late 1930s, is so familiar as to obscure the relationship between actual shows--in the Soviet Union's major theaters--and politics. Travesty Actors: Self and Theater in Stalinist Culture examines theatrical performance within the context of the Soviet cultural establishment's fashioning of a "genuine Soviet person." Boris Wolfson focuses on prominent and controversial plays by artists including Aleksandr Afinogenov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Yuri Olesha, and Natalia Sats and the efforts of theater companies, like the Moscow Arts Theater, the Meyerhold Theater, and the Central Children's Theater, to adhere to this cultural mandate while grappling with repression, censorship, and conflicting interpretations of its aims. Drawing on archival materials, diaries and memoirs and eyewitness accounts, Wolfson greatly illuminates the achievements of Soviet theater during this harsh period and the cultural significance of artistic theories and practices for articulating and enacting ideological programs.
Darlingji
Many years later, their daughter Jaddanbai moves to Bombay, and becomes a star of the early talkies, Chateau Marine on Marine drive is famous for its evenings mehfils and for the dreams it nurtures. Regular visitors include Dilip Kumar, Mehboob and Kamal Amrohi. It is also the home of Fatima Jaddanbai's daughter who will set the screen ablaze as Nargis. Then comes the moment that transform their lives: During the making of "Mother India", Nargis is trapped in a circle of flames, and Sunil Dutt, the male star, risks his life to save her. They fall in love, and so starts one of the legendary love story of India's film world.
The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai is an accessible collection that explores the cultural, industrial, and historical impact of that beloved American sitcom. Edited by Taylor Cole Miller and Alfred L. Martin, Jr., this anthology brings together a diverse range of voices that model different media studies approaches to researching and critically analyzing television texts. The Golden Girls reclaims the production history and development of the show, opens new conversations about audiences-especially Black, queer, and female audiences-and provides new insight into the meteoric rise in popularity of The Golden Girls as a 2020s cultural phenomenon. With twelve original chapters and extensive original interviews offering readers rare insights behind the scenes, the book is a long day's journey into the marinara of The Golden Girls-an immersive, engaging opportunity for readers to learn more about the show. It truly is the golden age of The Golden Girls.
The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy
The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy offers a rich sampling of the most current research and evolving trends in a vast and growing field-the study of humor and comedy in movies, television, streaming content, social media, and other forms of mediated comedy. The thirty new essays in this volume, written by leading scholars and emerging researchers, are guideposts to where the field is now and where it is heading. By its very nature, comedy eludes definition and crosses boundaries. Trying to grab the wriggling creature and subject it to analysis presents special challenges. The contributors featured in this volume apply a range of methods to analyse case histories, interpret trends, and theorize the changing face of comedy. Some celebrate the diverse pleasures of laughter; some critique its more nefarious practices and warn of salient dangers. Together, they bring insights from feminist, black, and queer studies, focus on issues of identity and ideology, extend and revise notions of historical development, and follow the emergence and migration of comic forms in Latin America, China, North Korea, and South Africa. The broad aim of this book is to increase awareness of these exciting studies and inspire more productive exploration as the field continues to grow.
Shakespeare's Heartbeat
This updated and revised edition of Shakespeare's Heartbeat offers a step-by-step guide detailing how to demonstrate, play and perform sensory games based on two of Shakespeare's most popular plays designed for autistic people of all ages. The original games of heartbeats, eye contact and spatial awareness were created at the Glebe School, Beckenham, with a group of twelve autistic teenagers who met and played with Kelly Hunter once a week over three years, 2002-2005. This second edition brings the book up to date with the additional knowledge Kelly Hunter has gained since then as the founding artistic director of Flute Theatre, the world's only Shakespearean troupe to focus on the needs of autistic audiences. The book includes the following: A new chapter dedicated to performing A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest with autistic audiences, including Hunter's adapted, interactive performance texts of both plays. A new resource for playing with younger autistic children and their families. A new resource for playing with those who require a lower demand approach. A new chapter with targets and techniques to understand the autism puzzle more clearly. New games based on A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest which have been created over the last ten years, in addition to the original games detailed in the first edition. This book provides an indispensable learning tool for theatre practitioners, drama students, applied theatre students, teachers, autistic people and their families.
The Routledge Companion to Performance-Related Concepts in Non-European Languages
Investigating more than 70 key concepts relating to the performing arts in more than six non-European languages, this volume provides a groundbreaking research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for theatre, performance, and dance studies worldwide.
Theatre Responds to Social Trauma
This book is a collection of chapters by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves representing, theorizing, and performing social trauma.Chapters explore how psychic catastrophes and ruptures are often embedded in social systems of oppression and forged in zones of conflict within and across national borders. Through multiple lenses and diverse approaches, the authors examine the connections between collective trauma, social identity, and personal struggle. We look at the generational transmission of trauma, socially induced pathologies, and societal re-inscriptions of trauma, from mass incarceration to war-induced psychoses, from gendered violence through racist practices. Collective trauma may shape, protect, and preserve group identity, promoting a sense of cohesion and meaning, even as it shakes individuals through pain. Engaging with communities under significant stress through artistic practice offers a path towards reconstructing the meaning(s) of social trauma, making sense of the past, understanding the present, and re-visioning the future.The chapters combine theoretical and practical work, exploring the conceptual foundations and the artists' processes as they interrogate the intersections of personal grief and communal mourning, through drama, poetry, and embodied performance.
The Legacy of Stylistic Theatre in the Creation of a Modern Sinhala Drama in Sri Lanka
This book explores the development of Sinhala stylistic drama from its earliest manifestations to the post-independence era.Bulathsinghala examines the impact of indigenous and imported folk theatrical forms on the work of the most significant postcolonial stylistic dramatists and on key plays that they produced. In the process, the book explores a number of myths and misunderstandings regarding Sri Lanka's folk heritage and seeks to establish more reliable information on the principal indigenous Sri Lankan folk dramatic forms and their characteristics. At the same time, by drawing connections between folk drama and the post-independence stylistic theatrical movement, the author demonstrates the essential role of the former in Sinhala culture prior to the advent of Western and other influences and shows how both continue to inflect Sri Lankan drama today.This book will help to open the field of South Asian drama studies to an audience consisting not only of scholars and students but also of general readers who are interested in the fields of drama and theatre and Asian studies.
The Shakespeare North Playhouse
This collection celebrates the opening of the Shakespeare North Playhouse (SNP). After discussion of its genesis and development by four people pivotal to its progress at different stages of the project, this book explores different aspects of the SNP's purpose and functions across three broad categories: buildings and spaces, practices and performance, and community arts and education. Various chapters offer answers to fundamental questions about replica theatres, including: Why do we build them? What do they do? How do we use them? In the course of these discussions, the purposes, potential, and programming of the SNP are discussed in relation to other Globe-type replicas in the UK and beyond. Contributors to this collection analyse key academic and practice-based concerns within their fields of expertise connected to the use (and misuse) of replica theatres to suggest the ways in which they can be used to drive research and practice in contemporary Shakespearean performance, connect with young people, and serve local communities.This book will appeal to academics, students, and practitioners interested in historical and contemporary approaches to Shakespeare in the fields covered. It should also appeal to general readers with an interest in the topics, particularly in Merseyside and the North-West region.
Translating Silent Cinema
Translating Silent Cinema examines closely the translation, adaptation, and reception of three silent films in English, German, and Yiddish to argue that the study of film translation should extend beyond textual translation to a wide selection of primary materials and the consideration of social, economic, cultural, and historical contexts.Close readings of Der Kaufmann von Venedig [The Merchant of Venice] (1923), Das alte Gesetz [The Ancient Law] (1923), and Ost und West [East and West] (1923) raise a theoretical question: Can we discuss films in the same way that we discuss theater productions, regarding each individual screening as a performance, and compose a "performance history" of different films? As no two film screenings are the same, the author highlights the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to translation that combines insights from film studies, translation studies, and cultural and historical contexts. Furthermore, in linguistic comparison and in the study of the reception of the films in each language, this book argues that each film is the subject of very different receptions under very different circumstances. It also analyzes the relevance of films that were made in Austria and in Germany during the 1920s on Jewish themes to a contemporary debate about immigration, racism, and discrimination.This book's pioneering analysis of the study of film translation encompasses a wide context of multiplicity of ideologies, economic interests, and historical contexts. It will be of interest for readers in translation studies (particularly in audiovisual translation), film studies, German studies (and German cinema), and Jewish studies (and cinema).
New York Animation 1966-1999
Focusing on a specific period in New York's rich animation history, this book examines the unique styles, movements, personalities, and projects that emerged in the city from 1966 to 1999. During this era, New York became a hub of significant stylistic, cultural, and market transformations, playing a crucial role in nurturing the rise of independent animation as well as the development of digital production platforms and methods. This shift ultimately led to the decline of cel and film techniques, which had been the dominant means of animation production until that time. Nonetheless, it also provided independent artists with opportunities to influence the future direction of animation. A central theme of this work links the efforts in New York to today's creator-driven animation, illustrating a direct connection between New York independents and properties such as Sesame Street, MTV, Adult Swim, and The Simpsons.
Shakespeare's Heartbeat
This updated and revised edition of Shakespeare's Heartbeat offers a step-by-step guide detailing how to demonstrate, play and perform sensory games based on two of Shakespeare's most popular plays designed for autistic people of all ages. The original games of heartbeats, eye contact and spatial awareness were created at the Glebe School, Beckenham, with a group of twelve autistic teenagers who met and played with Kelly Hunter once a week over three years, 2002-2005. This second edition brings the book up to date with the additional knowledge Kelly Hunter has gained since then as the founding artistic director of Flute Theatre, the world's only Shakespearean troupe to focus on the needs of autistic audiences. The book includes the following: A new chapter dedicated to performing A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest with autistic audiences, including Hunter's adapted, interactive performance texts of both plays. A new resource for playing with younger autistic children and their families. A new resource for playing with those who require a lower demand approach. A new chapter with targets and techniques to understand the autism puzzle more clearly. New games based on A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest which have been created over the last ten years, in addition to the original games detailed in the first edition. This book provides an indispensable learning tool for theatre practitioners, drama students, applied theatre students, teachers, autistic people and their families.
The Art of Assembly
The Art of Assembly surveys theatre today to demonstrate its political potential in both form and content. Drawing on numerous examples from around the world in performance, visual art, and activist art, curator and author Florian Malzacher examines works that draw on the particular possibilities of theatre to navigate the space between representation and participation, at once playfully and with sincerity. In a time of wide-ranging crisis, The Art of Assembly is a plea for a strong definition of the political and for a theatre that is not content merely to reflect the world's ills, but instead acts to change them.
The First Christmas Morning
Dan Fogelberg's beloved Christmas CD, "The First Christmas Morning", transcribed for sheet music. "Since my own childhood, Christmas has always been my favorite time of year. Not just theChristmas season, but winter in general. For me, a large part of Christmas is the music, and I have always been drawn to the Christmas songs, carols, and hymns of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque times. It has been one of the great pleasures of my life as a musician to write, assemble and perform the music that comprises this album. I hope in my own small way I have added to the body of music that has been composed throughout the ages to glorify the Birth of Christ and the Spirit of Christmas. I wish you and yours a very merry holiday season and may the light and love of Christmas time fill your heart all the year 'round." Dan Fogelberg
A Gambler's Guide to Dying
See that feeling that you might have won? Why wouldn't you want that to last for as long as possible. That's best bit! What are the odds of living an extraordinary life? This is the story of one boy's granddad who won a fortune betting on the 1966 World Cup and, when diagnosed with cancer, gambled it all on living to see the year 2000. An intergenerational tale of what we live for and what we leave behind. This edition of A Gambler's Guide to Dying was published to coincide with the run at the Traverse Festival in August 2025.
Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England
Football. It's what defined my happiness. It's what filled my soul with joy and occasionally... despair. It's the EURO 2020 Final at Wembley and Billy's gone viral for sticking a flare up his arse! Billy and his best pal Adam are die-hard football fans. It's how they spend every weekend, without fail. It's their escape, their religion and their life. But when they encounter a new group of mates, they start to take their support one step further. Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England is a blisteringly funny play which debuted to both audience and critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2023. In 2024 it won the prestigious Holden Street TheatreEdinburgh Fringe Award and ran at Australia's Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2025. Written and originally performed by Alex Hill, the play asks what it means for young men to find belonging and the lengths to which it might drive them. This edition was published to coincide with the run at Underbelly's Cowbarn, Edinburgh Fringe Festival in July 2025.
Spy Movie
Through the magic of cinema, you are about towitness The Greatest Spy Movie (n)Ever Made! Agent Blonde has 24 hours to save the world.The only things standing in her way aredastardly villains, an outrageous plot, and...a lack of funding. When Hollywood rejects her script, a frustrated screenwriter invites you, an audience of producers, to a one-night-only presentation of SPY MOVIE: The Play! From two of the minds behind The New Musketeers (Trinity Theatre) and stars of The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Spy Movie: The Play! is a new hilarious homage to espionage movies. This edition was published to coincide with the production run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in July 2025.
Choir
Morgan runs a community choir who meet weekly in a room above the local pub to sing great pop songs, chat and drink. There's Paul, a former West End performer who now does local radio voiceovers; Esther and Joy, best friends who can't stand each other; Anna, whose seemingly perfect life hides a secret; Ken, good egg and perennial loser; and Sheila, dark horse and pathological liar. The choir are busy rehearsing a concert to raise money for young Freddie to go to music college. And when a TV producer invites them to perform on national television, Morgan seizes her opportunity to hit the big time.But - are her eccentric group up to it? And what is Morgan prepared to sacrifice to get the acclaim she so desires? Home truths are revealed and secrets laid bare in this feelgood comedy with music, which explores loneliness and connection while celebrating the joy and power of community art. This edition of Choir was published to coincide with the production at Chichester Festival Theatre in August 2025.
Ironman vs. Gladiator
Asa Hoffmann and Jay Bonin are very talented people who could have become very successful in other fields than chess. They give a part of their soul to every chess game and every analysis session. Chess to them is not just the 32 pieces and 64 squares, but life itself. Without Asa Hoffmann and Jay Bonin, the game would be poorer. Their devotion to chess showcases the elastic bands that have drawn an ancient game through history, and they inspire new generations to appreciate one of the finest human endeavors.
Stranger Things
Go deeper into the groundbreaking Emmy-winning series with the complete, authorized scripts of Stranger Things: Season Two, including an exclusive introduction from the Duffer Brothers. EXT. DOWNTOWN HAWKINS - THE PALACE (THE UPSIDE DOWN)Will steps outside. Scared. Cautious.It's a very familiar nightmare landscape. Fog. Spores. Nether growths. Only. . . it's worse now. The spores are heavier; the growths, thicker, smothering the buildings. If the Upside Down is a supernatural cancer . . . then that cancer has spread. Nearly a year after the Demogorgon attacked Hawkins and Eleven sacrificed herself to save her friends, life has largely returned to normal for everyone. Mike and his friends are competing for high scores at the new arcade. Hopper is dealing with locals complaining about rotting crops. And Joyce is dating super nice guy, Bob. But Will is still being plagued with terrifying visions of the Upside Down, and the rot affecting local crops is spreading . . . and stemming from Hawkins Lab. The Duffer Brothers' critically acclaimed series, Stranger Things, took the world by storm with its 80s nostalgia, dimension-hopping secrets, and charming cast of characters. Season Two brings a cool new kid Max and her jerk brother, Billy, to Hawkins along with TV dinners for El and Hopper; Bob's heroics; the cute-but-suddenly-not-cute demodogs; and the terrifying Mind Flayer. Collected here for the first time, the complete scripts of Stranger Things: Season Two include the scenes, dialogue, and character directions for all nine episodes as well as an exclusive introduction from the creators and showrunners, Matt and Ross Duffer.
All Memories Great & Small
A companion guidebook to the classic BBC drama "All Creatures Great & Small", told through memories from 75 cast and crew. Beloved stars Christopher Timothy, Peter Davison, Carol Drinkwater and the late great Robert Hardy are joined by dozens of guest actors and members of the production team, sharing fascinating insight into how this iconic series was made. Originally published in 2016 for James Herriot's centenary celebrations, this greatly expanded edition features fifteen new interviews, dozens more previously unpublished photographs and extensive material from the archives, enhancing production notes for multiple episodes, listing previously uncredited cast and crew, locations and dates for filming, rehearsals and studio recordings. This edition also features an updated foreword by Rosie Page, daughter of Alf Wight, the real James Herriot.
Neuroaesthetic Stage Lighting Design
Neuroaesthetic Stage Lighting Design redefines stage lighting through the lens of neuroaesthetics, exploring how light shapes human perception, emotion, and experience. Interweaving science, philosophy, and art, it reveals the power of lighting to enhance beauty and meaning on the stage.
