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Divine in The Neon Woman
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartDivine; Klaus Lucka
New York: Zarett Graphics, 1978.Promotional postcard for the 1978 New York run of Tom Eyen’s murder mystery comedy set in a seedy Baltimore burlesque house, starring Divine, the drag performer and longtime John Waters star. With a handwritten message to verso, posted from Seattle to California.
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Bernard Jay Presents Divine in The Neon Woman by Tom Eyen
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartDivine; Tom Eyen
San Francisco: Alcazar Theatre, [1979].Programme for the 1979 San Francisco run of Tom Eyen’s murder mystery comedy set in a seedy Baltimore burlesque house, starring Divine, the drag performer and longtime John Waters star. Outlines the cast and staff with short biographies of the stars.
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Bernard Jay Presents Divine, The Neon Woman: An Outrageous Comedy
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartDivine; Tom Eyen
San Francisco: Alcazar Theatre, [1979].Poster for the 1979 San Francisco run of Tom Eyen’s murder mystery comedy set in a seedy Baltimore burlesque house, starring Divine, the drag performer and longtime John Waters star.
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Sirop-au-Cul, ou l’Heureuse Delivrance, Tragedie Heroi-Merdifique
AU$550 Read MoreAdd to cartMr. *** Comedien Italien [Charles-Francois Racot de Grandval]
[Paris]: Au Temple du Gout, 1752.18th century French scatological theatre in which a king dying of diarrhoea is revived when his princess blows up his backside.
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Cirque Divers
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMichel Antaki
Bruxelles: Editions Lebeer Hossmann, 1986.Oversize self-documentation of the pataphysical cabaret and performance group / artist space in Liege, Belgium. Founded in 1977 by Michel Antaki, Jacques Jaminon, Brigitte Kaquet, Jacques Lizene, and Jean-Marie Lemaire, and operating until 1999. Though the cover states Tome 1, no further volumes were produced. This is the trade issue in wrappers; a deluxe issue of 15 artist copies was also issued. This copy with a trifolded two-sided A3 prospectus for the book, detailing the deluxe issue, a sponsorship card, and a 40 page booklet produced by the group likely in early 1987, largely reproducing mail art, including a contribution sent from Sydney.
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The Drag Scene: The Secrets of Female Impersonators
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartDesmond Montmorency
London: Luxor Press, 1970.A pictorial guide to drag performance and performers, ranging from a brief history of transvestism and a short guide to transformation, to where to see drag performance in London. More than half the book is given over to pictorial profiles of drag performers, including the Sydney duo Bruce Carter and Ken Keenan as Kate and Kathy Keenan.
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The Emperor Jones; Diff’rent; The Straw
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartEugene G. O’Neill
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921.First edition, first state binding, in the original pictorial jacket. The Emperor Jones was a watershed in American theatre, one of the first major Broadway productions to feature a Black actor in a leading dramatic role of such prominence, originally performed by Charles S. Gilpin and later by Paul Robeson in a role that helped establish his international stage reputation. A bold expressionist exploration of fear, power, and racial consciousness, the play remains a landmark text in both African-American theatrical history and the development of modern American drama. ATKINSON A 15-I-i.a. Also includes Diff’rent, a two-act study of sexual repression in a New England fishing village, and The Straw, a naturalistic drama drawn from O’Neill’s own experience in a tuberculosis sanatorium.
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Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartA. W. Stencell
Sydney: Pluto Press, 1999. -
The Performing Arts: Music and Dance
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn A. R. Blacking; Joann Keali’inohomoku
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979. -
Salome. Drame en un acte.
AU$4,000 Read MoreAdd to cartOscar Wilde
Paris et Londres: Librairie de L’Art Independant and Elkin Mathews et John Lane, 1893.First edition, one of 600 copies, the title page device by Felicien Rops. MASON 348. This copy rebound in a fine signed art nouveau binding by Hatchards, Piccadilly, without the wrappers, with a plentiful quantity of blank leaves at the rear to allow for the binding design.
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My Dear, Sweet Self: A Hot Peach Life
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartJimmy Camicia
Silverton: Fast Books, 2013.Biography of Jimmy Camicia, founder of New York drag performance group, Hot Peaches.
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An Exhibition of Kabuki Stage Costumes
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartShochiku; Tetsuya Okazaki
Tokyo: Shochiku, 1998. -
Nomen / Noh Masks
AU$3,000 Read MoreAdd to cartYasuo Nakamura; Naomi Maki
Kyoto: Shinshindo, 1979.A beautifully presented collection of masks used in the classical Japanese dance-drama Noh. Each plate, photographed by Naomi Maki, is mounted in an individual folder with tissue guard, housed in a portfolio case, and includes an index sheet. An accompanying explanatory volume written by Yasuo Nakamura goes into detail on the subject, as well as containing black and white photographs of the reverse sides of the masks. The portfolio and accompanying volume are housed inside of another cloth clamshell with two bone clasps, which in turn is housed in another box. Yasuo Nakamura (1919-1996) was a Japanese high school teacher, junior college professor, and Noh scholar, producing numerous works on the subject from the 1960s until his death. His scholarship on this collection of masks earned him the Geijutsu Sensho Prize from The Agency for Cultural Affairs.
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A Devil Pokes The Actor: Frankly Acting 2
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Nobbs; Peter Berkahn
Brisbane: Frank Theatre Press, 2010.“This is the second book about actor training by John Nobbs. The first, Frankly Acting, outlined the early development of the Frank Suzuki Performance Aesthetics (FSPA), as a western variant and translation of the classic Suzuki Actor Training Method (SATM). This devil’s logbook is a series of 25 provocations that poke further and deeper into the alchemical triggers and mechanisms that inform the one true actor training system originally devised by Tadashi Suzuki. Interspersed throughout the 25 provocations are revelations by some of the many actors that have used the FSPA to develop their acting spirit. Tadashi Suzuki, the inventor of the SATM, has stated that he believes that the training is not just for the actor’s craft, but that it should be a creative tool for making theatre performances . The FSPA follows on the traces of that purpose, and this book outlines its importance as the creative onestop shop of Ozfrank Theatre Matrix. It includes examples, with colour photographs, that illustrate how Ozfrank director Jacqui Carroll uses the FSPA to impel her productions.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Frankly Acting: An Autobiography of the Frank Suzuki Performance Aesthetics
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Nobbs
Brisbane: Frank Theatre Press, 2006.“John Nobbs’ Frankly Acting is the first Australian book espousing a uniquely homegrown theatrical performance theory. As Grotowski did in Poland and Artaud in France, Nobbs has articulated an Australian performance aesthetic which revivifies in a contemporary context the theatrical traditions of its geographic region. With illuminating references to popular culture, his Suzuki-inspired method is based on rigorous theatrical discipline, but with an ever-present and distinctively Australian sense of humour. Frankly Acting grounds its theory in the artistic heritage of the Asia-Pacific, with a theatrical resonance which is universal.” (Martin Buzacott)