 | Theatre and the Good: The Value of Collaborative Play by Mark Fearnow
Buy new: $79.95 / Used from: $60.00 Social and personal value of theatre. Topics: the decline of community, rise of passive entertainments, theatre as a remedy to isolation and loneliness.
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 | Aristotle's Poetics (Dramabook,) by Aristotle
Buy new: $9.24 / Used from: $0.01 Not a set of rules for how plays should be written; rather, it is a description of what kind of plays that affect us most deeply and help us to lead balanced lives.
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 | The Handbook of Dramatherapy by Sue Jennings
Buy used from: $29.98 Combines insights from developmental psychology with theatrical ideas of the Antonin Artaud to create what she calls a Theatre of Healing.
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 | Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings by Antonin Artaud
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $11.01 With illuminating introductions by Susan Sontag. The Theatre and Its Double and "No More Masterpieces"--Theatre's ability to break open our complacency.
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 | I And Thou by Martin Buber
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.64 Leads one to see the importance of entering into trusting relationships with other people and to beware of using others as objects.
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 | The Philosophy Of Existentialism by Gabriel Marcel
Buy used from: $4.46 Encounter with others as the force that can break down the hard shell that each of us exudes to protect ourselves from the world.
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 | Performance Theory (Routledgeclassics) by R. Schechner
Buy used from: $15.49 Schechner's brilliant essays on the relation of theatre and other performance to ritual, the hunt, shamanism, scapegoating, and play.
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 | The Rainbow of Desire: The Boal Method of Theatre and Therapy by Augusto Boal
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $28.50 A fascinating and immediately useful set of exercises and examples of how this brave and innovative Brazilian director uses theatre to empower the poor and oppressed.
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 | Towards a Poor Theatre (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback)) by Grotowski
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $18.18 A classic work of modern theatre, in which the late Polish director argues persuasively for a theatre that restores the sacred to everyday life.
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 | Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
Buy new: $20.70 / Used from: $6.95 Is play "a free activity standing quite consciously outside 'ordinary' life as being 'not serious,' but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly"?
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 | The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $5.82 What is the difference between love and dependency? Fromm calls us to enter into cooperative, trusting relationships such as theatre practice demands.
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 | Prison Theatre: Perspectives and Practices (Forensic Focus, 4)
Buy new: $37.03 / Used from: $50.93 A knockout. The words of prisoners are very moving. The liberating power of theatre in prison is in many ways a more intense model of what theatre can do for any us.
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 | The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre And The Thirties (Da Capo Paperback) by Harold Clurman
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $5.54 Perhaps the best theatrical memoir ever. About the power of collaboration and shared commitment. As engrossing as any novel. I recommend it to everyone.
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