Othello by William Shakespeare; Jane Coles (Editor); Rex Gibson (Contribution by)

$7.95 AUD

Category: Music and Performing Arts | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare Ser.

The Sourcebooks Shakespeare brings the Shakespeare page to life. This remarkable edition of Othello is both the easiest way to understand the play and the best way to experience the full power and depth of the play. This dynamic book includes an integrated audio CD that showcases key scenes from great performances past and present. You'll experience the play like never before-it's the next best thing to seeing the play performed live. Each book offers: * The full play, with line notes and a concurrent glossary * Scholars and theatre producers discussing the play and popular culture * Comments from every cast member of a current production. This is also a very visual text, including: * Photographs from great performances * Costume designs and set renderings from different productions * Production notes that take you inside the stage experience Exclusive to The Sourcebooks Shakespeare and like no other edition of Othello, our audio CD and unique focus on the play as performed on the stage and on film brings the play to life. Hear: * One of the greatest Othellos of our time: Paul Robeson, from a 1944 production * An 1890 private recording of Edwin Booth reciting Othello's speech to the Senate * F. Scott Fitzgerald reciting Othello's speech to the Senate Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi Read: * About the seminal 1987 production in South Africa, in an essay written by the director herself, Janet Suzman * And see how the 2005 cast from Actors From the London Stage approaches the play See: * Photographs from the 1987 Johannesburg Othello * Photographs from The Shakespeare Theatre's 1997-98 season starring Patrick Stewart as Othello * Set designs from Orson Welles' 1951 production in London ...Show more

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare; Mary Berry (Editor); Michael Clamp (Editor); Rex Gibson (Contribution by)

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Category: Music and Performing Arts | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare Ser.

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brother, the bastard Don John, in a military engagement. Apparently reconciled, they return to the capital, Messina, as guests of the Governor, Leonato. There Count Claudio, a young nobleman serving in Don Ped ro's army, falls in love with Hero, Leonato's daughter, whom Don Pedro woos on his behalf. The play's central plot shows how Don John maliciously deceives Claudio into believing that Hero has taken a lover on the eve of her marriage, causing Claudio to repudiate her publicly, at the altar ...Show more

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

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Category: Music and Performing Arts | Series: Cambridge School Shakespeare Ser.

A new look at Shakespeare's play in accordance with the work of the Shakespeare and Schools Project, the National Curriculum for English, developments at GCSE and A-level, and the probable development of English and Drama throughout the 1990s. Cambridge School Shakespeare considers the play as theatre a nd the text as script, enabling pupils to inhabit the imaginative world of the play in an accessible, meaningful and creative way. Cambridge School Shakespeare approaches the plays in a new way, encouraging students to participate actively in examining them, to work in groups as well as individually, to treat each play as a script to be re-created, and to explore the theatrical/dramatic qualities of the text. The editorial comments cater for pupils of all ages and abilities, providing clear, helpful guidelines for school study. The format of the plays is also designed to help all teachers, whether experienced or inexperienced. ...Show more

Away by Michael Gow

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Category: Music and Performing Arts | Series: PLAYS

Three Australian families set out separately but are driven together by a storm (5 acts, 6 men, 4 women).

Andre Rieu: My Music, My Life by Marjorie Rieu

$9.95 AUD

Category: Music and Performing Arts

Explores the story of Andre Rieu's life, growing up in the Netherlands; the musical family he grew up in; his music studies and his extraordinary success story.

Monteverdi's Last Operas - A Venetian Trilogy by Ellen Rosand

$49.95 AUD

Category: Music and Performing Arts

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-century opera examines the composer's celebrated final works--Il ritorno d'Ulisse (1640) and L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642)--from a new perspecti ve. Ellen Rosand considers these works as not merely a pair but constituents of a trio, a Venetian trilogy that, Rosand argues, properly includes a third opera, Le nozze d'Enea (1641). Although its music has not survived, its chronological placement between the other two operas opens new prospects for better understanding all three, both in their specifically Venetian context and as the creations of an old master. A thorough review of manuscript and printed sources of Ritorno and Poppea, in conjunction with those of their erstwhile silent companion, offers new possibilities for resolving the questions of authenticity that have swirled around Monteverdi's last operas since their discovery in the late nineteenth century. Le nozze d'Enea also helps to explain the striking differences between the other two, casting new light on their contrasting moral ethos: the conflict between a world of emotional propriety and restraint and one of hedonistic abandon. ...Show more

Johnny Depp: A Retrospective by Steven Daly

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Category: Music and Performing Arts

Johnny Depp has captivated moviegoers for almost three decades. One of the most gifted actors of his generation, his charismatic screen presence has brought to life such characters as the tragi-comic "Edward Scissorhands," the compassionate but tormented Gilbert Grape, the edgy FBI agent Joseph D. Pisto ne (under cover as Donnie Brasco), the murderous Sweeney Todd, and, of course, the swashbuckling Captain Jack Sparrow--to name a few. Impeccably designed and lavishly illustrated with more than 200 stills and behind-the-scenes images from the movies themselves, "Johnny Depp: A Retrospective" is the definitive celebration of this uncompromising actor's intriguing and deeply personal moviemaking story. This timely retrospective, published to celebrate Johnny Depp's 50th birthday, charts his career from his first role in Wes Craven's classic horror "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984) through his legendary incarnation as Captain Jack Sparrow in all four "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, and the many roles he has brought to life with director Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands and the Mad Hatter among them), to his most recent role as Tonto in "The Lone Ranger" (2013). Movie by movie, journalist and author Steven Daly draws upon first-hand interviews, as well as his own in-depth knowledge of Depp's movies, to appraise the actor's remarkably varied career. ...Show more

The Prince of Egypt - A New Vision in Animation by Charles Solomon

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Category: Music and Performing Arts

This is a behind-the-scenes look at the film company DreamWorks SKG to find out out it created the story of Moses and Rameses in the film The Prince of Egypt. Pioneering a new kind of animation that is as versatile as live-action filmmaking, the style combines the illustrations of Gustave Dore, the pain tings of Claude Monet and the cinematogrophy of David Lean. ...Show more

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music by Percy A. Scholes

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Category: Music and Performing Arts | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference

Derived from the full Oxford Dictionary of Music and including over 10,000 entries on musical terms, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras, this is the most authoritative dictionary of music available in paperback. Fully up-to-date and clearly written, it is a rich mine of in formation for lovers of music of all periods and styles. 14,000 entries on musical terms, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras Comprehensive work-lists for major composers Generous coverage of living composers and perfomers Important ballets and operas Musical instruments and their history ...Show more

The Theatre : A Concise History by Phyllis Hartnoll

$7.95 AUD

Category: Music and Performing Arts | Series: World of Art

SP Take Ten: New 10 Minute Plays by Eric Lane

$6.50 AUD

Category: Music and Performing Arts

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The Overlander Songbook by Ron Edwards

$5.00 AUD

Category: Music and Performing Arts