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Drama games for those who like to say no
A rich resource for hard-pressed drama teachers, workshop leaders and directors.
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Cherry blossom
A new play by young Edinburgh writer, Catherine Grosvenor, following her acclaimed debut.
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Anna karenina
An exemplary adaptation' (The Times) of Tolstoy's classic is a vibrant and deeply moving meditation on the nature of love.
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Facing the fear
The first book of its kind, designed to help performers overcome the crippling fear of stage fright.
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Good things
New romantic comedy from "Scotland's greatest dramatist"(Scotland on Sunday)
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Blackout songs
A chance encounter at an AA meeting and they're drawn to one another. Then later, once they're drinking again, they both have this almost-feeling that they might have met before – could even have been together, sometime in the past... They should really get sober together and figure it all out: t...
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Take me away
A laugh-out loud black comedy in the tradition of O'casey.
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Ladybird
Tough but tender new play by the Russian "Most Promising Playwright" of Plasticine.
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Battlefield
The internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Helene Estienne and Jean-Claude Carriere together revisit the great Indian epic The Mahabharata 30 years after Brook's legendary production took world theatre by storm.
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Scuttlers
A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester.
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Greek tragedy
Announcing a new series of Drama Classic Collections.
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Age is a feeling
2022 Edinburgh Fringe First AwardYour life from the day you turn twenty-five through to your death. All the chances you get to change course and all the things you leave unsaid.Inspired by interviews with hospice workers, conversations with mystics and trips to the cemetery, Age is a Feeling is a...
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Mighty atoms
Inspired by Hull’s original female boxing champ, Barbara Buttrick, Amanda Whittington's play Mighty Atoms premiered at Hull Truck Theatre in 2017, as part of Hull UK City of Culture.
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Pressure
An intense real-life thriller centered around the most important weather forecast in the history of warfare.
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Old fools
Tristan Bernays’ Old Fools is a surprising and touching play about a couple, their experience of Alzheimer’s, and their enduring efforts to hold their relationship together through the years.
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Shining souls
"A seriously funny play."--The Independent (London)
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Oil
Epic new play from an award-winning writer, exploring our reliance on a dwindling energy source.
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Once upon a time in nazi occupied tunisia
A brutally comic play about home and identity, marriage and survival, blood and feathers.
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Life is a dream
A new translation of Calderón's most popular mystery.
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Princess & the hustler: the gcse study guide
An essential resource for anyone studying Princess & The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba for GCSE English Literature – featuring a complete guide to the text, plus sample questions and answers to help you prepare for assessment.Get to grips with Princess & The Hustler with expert, easy-to-f...
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Samuel takes a break… in male dungeon no. 5 after a long but generally successful day of tours
It is 2019, the Year of Return, marking four hundred years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. We are at a slave castle in Ghana. Samuel is our tour guide. It's his job to give tourists a really, really authentic experience of the castle's dark history, and to do it all with a s...
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My life in pieces
Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for theatre biography and Theatre book of the Year, 2010The Times.
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Black milk
Winner of the Evening Standard Most Promising Award for first play, Plasticine
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Still
Gaynor's got to leave the house if she wants to meet her newborn grand-daughter. Stillness has been the only way to deal with her chronic pain but now it's time to move.Gilly's not sure what her dying dad is feeling but she knows, from experience, that it's best not to Google it.Dougie and Ciara ...
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Restoration comedy
Announcing a new series of Drama Classic Collections.
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Too much world at once
On his fifteenth birthday, Noble transforms into a bird. Thousands of miles away, his sister Cleo is stationed on a remote island with the British Antarctic Survey.But the birds have disappeared and Noble needs to reach her. Lying low until it's safe to take flight, he finds solace in misfit Elli...
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The three lions
A sharp, hilarious behind-the-scenes glimpse of diplomacy in action, centering on England's bid for the 2018 World Cup.
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Bad girls
Authorized dramatizations with proven track records on stage.
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Shakespeare monologues for young women
Forty fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays, hand-picked for young women and prefaced with easy-to-use guides.
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Exploring shakespeare: a director's notes from the rehearsal room
In Exploring Shakespeare, acclaimed theatre director Bill Alexander takes us inside the rehearsal room to reveal – in unprecedented and captivating detail – exactly what happens there. He examines the key relationship between the actors and the director, how they work together to bring Shakespear...
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The real & imagined history of the elephant man
Arriving from his East Midlands beginnings into a London thick with the grime of industrialization, Joseph Merrick is an anomaly. In a city of factories that churn out uniformity, there is no place for someone like him.But Merrick and the city are evolving into something new. We follow him throug...
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Parlour song
A new play by award-winning stage and screen writer, premiered by the mega-successful Almeida Theatre.
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Love the sinner
Follows the very successful Happy Now? as a high-profile new play in the National’s Cottesloe Theatre, Spring 2010.
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Mayakovsky and stalin
The newest work from celebrated poet-playwright Murray Mednick.
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Hipsters in distress
Six plays about life on the edge by one of America's leading avant garde playwrights.
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Naked in the streets: a memoir in prose, poems & stories
The celebrated poet and playwright Murray Mednick recounts his journey from an impoverished childhood in the Catskills to the poetry cafes and storefront theaters of the Lower East Side during the turbulent 1960s, and from there to Los Angeles where he became a leading figure in the theater m...
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Mangus the motherf*cker and other plays
This volume brings together recent work by the West Coast master playwright writing in his signature combination of Beckett and the Beats. Poetic and inspiring, fine enough to be read as literature, these plays provide everything adventurous theater-makers need to bedazzle audiences anew. Fea...
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Beneath the dusty trees
American Theater Critics Association Citation winner and the LA Drama Critics Circle’s Margaret Harford Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre.
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Outlaw theatre
A new collection of essays from participants in the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival that reflects on the legacy of the Off-Off Broadway movement.
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Theater criticisms
Stanley Kauffmann is the theater critic of Saturday Review and was theater critic of The New York Times and The New Republic. He has received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, as well as the Guggenheim, Ford, and Rockefeller fellowships. He teaches at the Yale School of Drama a...
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From ritual to theatre
Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience . . . We must admire him for this.-Times Literary Supplement
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New europe
These plays address terrorism, immigration, disaffected youth, media and globalization, corporate culture, and post-communist life.
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Explosion of a memory
The most important German playwright since Brecht.-John Rockwell, New York Times
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Russian satiric comedy
Highly recommended for all serious drama programs." --Choice 8.75 6 Trade Paper 14.95 CUSA 200 Original y
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Lessons for the professional actor
Extraordinary lectures, including exercises.--Call Board
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Mary lucier
The first book published on the work of video artist Mary Lucier.
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Richard foreman
The first critical edition devoted to Foreman's work.
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Dandyism
"The pivotal work upon which the history of the dandy tradition turns." —Ellen Moers What is a dandy? Carlyle said he was a man whose "existence consists in the wearing of clothes." Isak Dinesen worshipped the freedom of the aesthete as a special Satan. But even these definitions are not enough ...
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Hawk moon
Good for acting exercises and auditions. --Village Voice
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Fever dreams
The seminal LA-based group brings the Off-Off Broadway tradition to the twenty-first century in ten new plays.
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Languages of the stage
Builds bridges between such diverse forms as mime, avant-garde, and classical theatre. --Modern Language Notes
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Three plays
This anthology presents the most recent work of Padua's founder, Murray Mednick.
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Dada performance
The only collection of its kind, this volume includes writings by leading Dadaists.
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Villon and other plays
Four new plays from the off-off-Broadway pioneer and Obie Award-winner Murray Mednick.
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Shatterhand massacree and other plays
The first volume of plays by one of the most innovative writer-director/media artists in America.
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Letters from cuba and other plays
"You would be taxed to find a show with a sweeter temper" -New York Times
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Futurist performance
This is the definitive text on the radical contributions of Futurism in theatre, dance, radio, cinema, music, and scenography. It includes thirteen manifestos (such as "The Art of Noise," "The Futurist Synthetic Theatre") by Marinetti, Prampolini and Russolo, and forty-eight performance texts (si...
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Timelines
A wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews on art and performance from a leading cultural critic.
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Padua
The Padua Playwrights Festival, a stronghold of fiercely intelligent, contemporary theatre.
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I might be the person you are talking to
Short plays from twenty cutting-edge Los Angeles playwrights make up this powerful and entertaining anthology.
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Performance, technology and science
The author's writings are widely known in the United States and Europe.
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Lawrence after arabia
Explores the afterlife of a legend, when being a hero has become a burden.
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Run sister run
Sisters Connie and Ursula were once everything to each other. Years on, they're almost strangers. When a family bombshell is dropped, Connie is forced to retrace forty years of sisterhood and confront a web of secrets and conflicting loyalties. Run Sister Run was first produced in 2020 by Paines ...
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Broken biscuits
A bittersweet comedy about growing up as outsiders while finding your groove in music.
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The way old friends do
In 1988, two Birmingham school friends tentatively come out to one another: Edward as gay; Peter, even more daringly, as an ABBA fan.Nearly thirty years later, they meet again – and take a chance by forming the world's first ABBA tribute band in drag. It's a riot of platform boots and dodgy beard...
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Crushed shells and mud
A vibrant dystopian drama from the first winner of the Bruntwood Prize, the UK’s largest and most high-profile playwriting award.
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Shakespeare on stage: volume 2
A follow-up to Curry's popular Shakespeare On Stage.
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The drama school handbook
Take the first steps toward your career as a professional actor Is your ambition to be an actor in films, TV shows and plays? Do you want to train at a drama school to start making that ambition a reality? Are you looking for honest, expert advice to boost your chances of success and beat the co...
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Contemporary monologues for men: volume two
A new collection of 40 contemporary monologues for men.
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Big big sky
A tender new play that explores nature’s influence on love, friendship and family.
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One night stands
A classic of theatre criticism re-issued to mark Michael Billington's thirtieth year as a drama critic.
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Northanger abbey
A delightful new stage version of Austen's mock Gothic romance.
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Terminus
Fringe First winner at Edinburgh Festival 2008 and a hit in Ireland, London and New York.
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Testing the echo
A provocative, satirical look at the overwhelming difficulty of defining what it is to be British.
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Lemons lemons lemons lemons lemons (west end edition)
The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out.Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is a tender and funny rom-com about what we say, how we say it, and what happens when we can't say anything any more.This s...
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Joanne
Five powerful, interconnected monologues for women that explore pressures both personal and universal.
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Bacon
It's Year 10's first day back at school. Mark is new and too scared to make friends. Darren is out of control and too scary to make friends. The two of them need each other – but neither would ever admit it.Worlds apart, but more similar than they realise, the pair form a complex and manipulative...
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Pride and prejudice* (*sort of)
This unique take on Jane Austen's beloved novel is an adaptation like no other, drawing on over two hundred years of romantic pop history, and featuring five young women with a story to tell.You might have seen them before, emptying the chamber pots and sweeping ash from the grate; the overlooked...
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Scottish shorts
Mostly with casts of two or three, these plays are especially well suited to performance in schools and at festivals.
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Improv beyond rules
A new book on improv from the co-creator of the hit Showstopper! The Improvised Musical.
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Inter alia
A scalding examination of modern masculinity and motherhood Jessica Parks is smart, compassionate, and a true maverick at the peak of her career as a London Crown Court Judge. The system needs to change, and she's challenging it one case at a time. Behind the robe, Jessica is a loving wife, a s...
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Ayub khan din: plays one
The first volume of collected work from the author of the smash hit play East is East.
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Jekyll & hyde
Written for the National Youth Theatre, and first performed by the company at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End in 2017, Jekyll & Hyde offers a full range of parts for schools and youth-theatre groups looking for a contemporary reinvention of a macabre classic.
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Nine night
Natasha Gordon’s debut play Nine Night is a touching and very funny exploration of the rituals of family.
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The southbury child
Raffish, urbane and frequently drunk, David Highland has kept a grip on his remote coastal parish through a combination of disordered charm and high-handed determination. When his faith impels him to take a hard line with a bereaved parishioner, he finds himself dangerously isolated from public o...
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Mydidae
An unflinching examination of a young couple struggling to move on from the death of their infant daughter.
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Cinderella (chichester festival youth theatre version)
In this spellbinding retelling of the classic folk tale, we’re introduced to some familiar characters: a young, neglected heroine, a wicked stepfamily, and a handsome prince in search of a wife and a missing slipper. But wait! There are also three magical dresses, a wish-giving tree, and help for...
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Boys will be boys
An all-female cast takes on the roles of the big boys of the city, in a wickedly funny satire.
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Great expectations
Jo Clifford’s incredible adaptation brings this beloved novel vividly to life on stage.
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Carthage must be destroyed
"Spectacular... persuasive and chilling... exposes the very sinews of power."-London Times
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Six acts of love
A bittersweet play about the rich complexities of life, love and death.
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Puppetry: how to do it
A practical, accessible and inspiring guide to using puppetry in theatre -- the perfect entry point for anyone looking to use puppets in their productions, to explore what puppets can do, or to develop their puppetry skills.
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We anchor in hope
A new play from the award-winning writer of Yen.
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In event of moone disaster
Winner of the 2016 Theatre503 Playwriting Award, In Event of Moone Disaster premiered at Theatre503, London, in 2017.
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The noble spanish soldier
Addition to the prestigious Globe Quartos series of "lost" plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries
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Curtain up!: how to stage great youth productions
This comprehensive, hands-on guide to making theatre – perfect for any school, college, youth group or amateur-theatre company – gives you the knowledge you need to take your productions to the next level.Curtain Up! is packed with invaluable advice and practical tips on every aspect of putting o...
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Bang bang bang
New play from Royal Court stalwart Stella Feehily, whose previous Royal Court hits include Duck and O Go My Man.
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Invisible
A new play exploring the dreams and harsh realities about migration, from the award-winning author of Fragile!
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House + amongst the reeds
Edinburgh debut for two explosive plays from women, about the need to be seen.
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The tamer tamed
An irreverent sequel to Taming of the Shrew, written in 1611.
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