Extraordinary Actors: Essays on Popular Performers.

Jane Milling and Martin Banham, eds, Extraordinary Actors: Essays on Popular Performers. Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2004, 288pp. Jane Milling and Graham Ley, Modern Theories of Performance: From Stanislavski to Boal. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2000. 198pp. Articles and Chapters.

Chambers, Colin and Steed, Maggie (2004) Playing on the front foot: actors and audience in British popular theatre, 1970-1990. In: Milling, Jane and Banham, Martin, (eds.) Extraordinary actors: essays on popular performers: studies in honour of Peter Thomson. Exeter, U.K.: University of Exeter Press. pp. 191-209. ISBN 0859897354.

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Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook follows them around the world, from the bunraku puppetry of Japan to the masked topeng theatre of Bali to South African political satire, the San Francisco Mime Troupe's comic melodramas, and a 'Fun Palace' proposed for London. The book features essays from the archives of The Drama Review and other research.

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The book concludes with Paul Murray's extraordinary meditations on the Seven Last Words from the Cross in which the wealth of his pastoral experience is fully brought to bear.Scars is the account of men and women of all ages who have survived major crises or tragedies of one kind or another: the scourge of drug addiction, the misery of long.

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