Costume & Make-up Books

New and Published Books

1. The Mask Handbook

   A Practical Guide

   By Toby Wilsher

   This book, from Europe’s leading Mask director and co-founder of the Trestle Theatre Company, provides a fascinating demystification of the process of using masks. Full of simple explanations, and collating over twenty-five years’ experience of writing for, directing and acting in masks, The Mask...

   Published October 22nd 2006 by Routledge
2. Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs

   A Bibliography and Iconography

   By Sidney Jackson Jowers

   This is the first bibliography in its field, based on first-hand collations of the actual articles. International in scope, it includes publications found in public theatre libraries and archives of Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Florence, London, Milan, New York and Paris amongst...

   Published October 11th 2000 by Routledge
3. The Training of Noh Actors and The Dove^n

   By David Griffiths, D. Griffiths

   Published May 12th 1998 by Routledge
4. Broadway Theatre

   By Andrew Harris

   Series: Theatre Production Studies

   'Broadway' has been the stuff of theatrical legends for generations. In this fascinating and affectionate account of a unique theatrical phenomenon, Andrew Harris takes an intriguing look at both the reality and the myth behind the heart and soul of American Drama Broadway Theatre explores: * the...

   Published January 5th 1994 by Routledge
5. Corsets and Crinolines

   By Norah Waugh

   Corsets and Crinolines is a study of the changing shapes of women's dress and how these were produced, how simple laced bodices became corsets of cane, whale-bone and steel, while padding at shoulders and hips gave way to the structures of farthingales, hoops and bustles. Added are contemporary...

   Published December 30th 1990 by Routledge