Author: Michael Bloom
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Keywords: handbook, practical, director, thinking
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-10-17
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0571199941
ISBN-13: 9780571199945

Bloom draws on nearly twenty years of directing and teaching experience to convey the full experience of directing for the stage, as well as the mindset that all successful directors possess. More than a mere set of guidelines, Thinking Like a Director details a technique that covers every facet of theatrical production, from first reading through final rehearsals. The key to directorial thinking, Bloom asserts, is a dual perspective--an ability to focus on both the internal lives of the play’s characters and the external elements of the play’s structure. In this illuminating, engaging, an

Authors:G.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, Kallistos Ware,
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Keywords: holy, mountain, makarios, corinth, nikodimos, compiled, complete, text, vol, philokalia
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1986-08-25
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0571175252
ISBN-13: 9780571175253

The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, then translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised an influence in the recent history of the Orthodox Church far greater than that of any book apart from the Bible. It is concerned with themes of universal importance: how man may develop his inner powers and awake from illusion; how he may overcome fragmentation and achieve spiritual wholeness; how he may attain the life of cont

Authors:Frank Wedekind,  Jonathan Franze,
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Keywords: play, awakening, spring
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2007-09-04
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 086547978X
ISBN-13: 9780865479784

First performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind’s controversial play Spring Awakening closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better part of the twentieth century Wedekind’s intense body of work was largely unpublished and rarely performed. Yet the play’s subject matter—teenage desire, suicide, abortion, and homosexuality—is as explosive and important today as it was acentury ago. Spring Awakening follows the lives of three teenagers, Melchior, Moritz, and Wendl, as they navigate their entry into sexual awaren

Author: Andrew Motio
Publisher: Faber Faber Inc
Keywords: keats
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2003-02-17
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0571172288
ISBN-13: 9780571172283

Whitbread Prize-winning biographer Andrew Motion (Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life) aims to broaden our understanding of John Keats (1795-1821) by paying close attention to the historical context in which he wrote and the political opinions he voiced. The poet was "of a sceptical and republican school," Motion argues, and Keats’s work reflected his experiences "not just as a private individual, but socially and politically as well." This bracing reinterpretation stresses the vigor of Keats’s character as well as his verse, burying for good the sentimental cliché of a sickly dr

Authors:Werner Herzog,  Paul Croni,
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Keywords: herzog
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-07-09
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0571207081
ISBN-13: 9780571207084

An invaluable set of career-length interviews with the German genius hailed by François Truffaut as “the most important film director alive”Most of what we’ve heard about Werner Herzog is untrue. The sheer number of false rumors and downright lies disseminated about the man and his films is truly astonishing. Yet Herzog’s body of work is one of the most important in postwar European cinema.His international breakthrough came in 1973 with Aguirre, The Wrath of God, in which Klaus Kinski played a crazed Conquistador. For The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Herzog cast in the lead a man who had

Author: Courtney Love
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Keywords: love, courtney, diaries, blonde, dirty
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-10-30
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0865479739
ISBN-13: 9780865479739

A multi-textual memoir chronicling the life of one of our most potent pop iconsGroundbreaking rock musician. Award-winning actress. Perceptive songwriter and author. Mother. Wife of a rock god. Fashionista and trendsetter. Provocateur. In each and every one of these roles Courtney Love has demonstrated a wholehearted commitment to her art, and an intense drive and a lust for life that have made her a star and a celebrity icon—but have also led her into some unwise, uncharted, and even dangerous territory. Simultaneously candid and enigmatic, Love has a mordant wit and vivid intelligence matc

Author: Lawrence Durrell
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Keywords: islands, greek
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2002-04-08
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 0571214266
ISBN-13: 9780571214266

As every reader of Durrell knows, his writing is steeped in the living experience of the Mediterranean and especially the islands of Greece. This text weaves together evocative descriptions, history and myth (including flowers and festivals) with his personal reminiscences.