Two Soviet cosmonauts, losing contact with the world they left behind; a Scottish civil servant in the throes of a midlife crisis; a Norwegian peace negotiator; a Russian erotic dancer; a French UFO
Written by the Head of Film and TV Acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and with contributions from working professionals, this insider's guide to TV and film acting is a must-have handbook for
In its first two years of production, Dario Fo's controversial farce, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world, and beco
Sleeping Around is by four top British playwrights from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Mark Ravenhill, Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn and Abi MorganSleeping Around is about love and sex in B
Athens in the fifth century BC produced a remarkable flowering of playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in tragedy, along with Aristophanes and, in the fourth century, Menander, in comedy.
The Stanislavski 'system' is still the only comprehensive method of actor training we possess. His theories can be hard to grasp, and many academic books are impenetrable on the subject. By contrast t
The Spanish Tragedy was the first great classic from the Elizabethan period of playwriting, along with Marlowe's Tamburlaine. Set during the 1580s in Spain, England's greatest enemy, for seventy years
A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends i
Chekhov’s 1901 play, Three Sisters is?part of the?naturalism movement in theatre where plays portrayed the lives of ordinary people in realistic settings.?Three Sisters?is?about the decay of the privi
A seminal text on the work of Jerzy Grotowski and Laboratory Theatre, recognised as one of the most important and influential studies of the Polish theatre practitioner.In 1984 Grotowski's Laboratory
Published to celebrate twenty years of Methuen's Royal Court Writers Series, this volume contains five ground-breaking plays of the eighties and nineties. Top Girls: "Builds to a superb, emotion-dra
A classic work of theatre history and criticism when first published, Arnold Aronson's formative study surveyed the phenomenon known as environmental theatre. Now updated in this richly illustrated se
A new collection of plays from Willy Russell, one of Britain's best-loved dramatists, features the smash hitsBlood Brothers, Our Day Out: The Musical and Shirley Valentine as well as the previously un
Brecht was never inclined to see any of his plays as completely finished, and this volume collects some of the most important theatrical projects and fragments that were always to remain 'works in pro
This unique anthology presents the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it t
Since it was founded in 1991, British theatre company Stan's Cafe has garnered an international reputation for artistic innovation, and prolific, eclectic performance projects. Their work has toured n
Despite strong evidence that playwriting is both an engaging and rewarding activity for young people, it is still under-utilised in the classroom. Teaching Playwriting is an essential resource for tea
Contemporary Plays from Iraq is a ground-breaking collection of Middle Eastern drama translated into English for the very first time. With works from both established and emerging male and female play
Islam in Performance brings together six contemporary plays from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan that highlight the political performance of Islam in South Asia, especially since the 1947 partition of
