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A practical guide to the principles of teaching and learning movement, this book instructs the actor on how to train the body to become a medium of expression. Starting with a break-down of the principles of actor training through exercises and theatre...

Bertolt Brecht's methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the most important contributors to the theory and practice of theatre. His work continues to have a significant...

Brecht's most important treatise on theatre The Messingkauf dialogues are the longest but in some ways the most light hearted of all Brecht's discussions of theatre. Here Actor, Actress, Dramaturg (or literary adviser) and Electrician argue with the...

Brecht's most important treatise on theatre The Messingkauf dialogues are the longest but in some ways the most light hearted of all Brecht's discussions of theatre. Here Actor, Actress, Dramaturg (or literary adviser) and Electrician argue with the...

An essential introduction to the British East Asian theatrical community, this is a collection of full plays, short plays and monologues from British East Asian writers, including Jingan Young, Kathryn Golding, Amber Hsu, Cathy Lam, Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen,...

The first collection of plays by one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary playwrights THE ACCRINGTON PALS The young men of a Lancashire mill town leave their homes and lovers for the trenches of the Somme. A moving and often comic evocation of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573613180Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackImprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc

Genre: Musical Characters: 7 males, 8 females, and chorus of 8 males and 5 females In the honky tonk world of marathon dancing in Atlantic City in 1933, a captivating assortment of depression era souls eager to dance their way into fame and prizes gather...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995516267Author Lynettte LintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Team Angelica PublishingPublisher Team Angelica Publishing

One of a series of plays by the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist, this was first staged in 1928. The play incorporates a stream-of-consciousness technique, numerous asides to express the unspoken thoughts of the characters, and draws on contemporary...

An explosive, gripping and disturbing play about the phenomenon of False Memory Syndrome. Anna Weiss is a hypnotherapist, specialising in revealing 'lost' memories. Under her care, twenty-year-old Lynn has begun to 'remember' a long history of sexual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708039Author Madeleine GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

This second volume of plays by Georg Kaiser contains five plays ranging from his early work through the time of his prolific maturity in the 1920s to his last period as an exile in Switzerland, where he died in 1945. David and Goliath is set in Denmark...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362542Author Spalding GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

It's Presidential Election Night 2016. As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton go head to head, the entire world holds its breath. Except for Vera, who has to focus on her breathing. She's in hospital, giving birth to a baby boy - and she has no idea that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707100Author Richard OberackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 216g

An almost unbearably moving story of veiled emotions running deep, Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love is based on the true life situation of Rex Harrison's wife, Kay Kendall, and her early death from cancer. Lydia is shielding her husband,...

A student edition of this challenging and popular tragedy with notes and commentary. The most controversial of the Greek tragedians, Euripedes is also the most modern in his sympathies, a dramatist who handles the complex emotions of his characters with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420933482Author Eugene OneillFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 3mm

Now out in paperback, this highly personal and comprehensive survey of contemporary drama which celebrates the plays and playwrights at the forefront of theatre today All the way from A-Z, Dromgoole's engaging and provocative short essays include his...

In a small Nigerian town, Ben and Obembe, along with their two older brothers, slip away to fish at a forbidden river. Unnoticed and carefree, they continue until one day the prophecy of a madman changes the course of their lives forever. Based on the...

Little Theatre Comedy Tom Stoppard Characters: 5 male, 3 female Complete Interior Set Riley's a dreamer with all sorts of off beat inventions and his latest one is a double gummed envelope that can be used twice used: once for sending and then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785435126Author Professor Christopher MarloweFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702570Author Joshua HarmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936839127Author Nicolai GogolFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

'They say we're like swans. Ruddy beautiful graceful things on the surface of a lake but underneath we're paddling like mad.' Maggie and Gordon first met, dancing to Rod Stewart songs, in 1971. Now in their sixties, and still very much in love,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016820Author N.J. CrispFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573615382Author Harry KurnitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

A revered modern classic about life in the closing days of World War II. Set in 1945 during the days between victory in Europe and victory in Japan, Touched follows the fortunes of a group of women in a working-class suburb of Nottingham. Stephen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763755Author Miles TredinnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger PlaysDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm...

"Cerebral and lyrical, he is the new crown prince of Ireland's majestic theatrical tradition" (Newsweek) Mai O'Hara lies in a Dublin hospital in 1953 attended by a young nursing Sister and visited by the uneasy figures of her husband Jack,...

Scottee grew up around strong, brave and violent men and boys. Bravado is his memoir of working class masculinity from 1991 to 1999 as seen by a sheep in wolf's clothing. Scottee grew up on a council estate in Kentish Town, where as a child he knew...

Citizenship is a bittersweet one-act comedy about growing up, following a boy's frank and messy search to discover his sexual identity. Tom dreams of being kissed, but he's not sure whether by a man or by a woman, and he feels he should choose pretty...

Harold Pinter's Betrayal received its premiere at the National Theatre, London, in November 1978. After an initially guarded response from the critics, the work was rapidly reevaluated and won the Olivier Award for Best New Play the following year. Set...

In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century swaggering carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and marries naive millworker Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and a desperately intent...

This Student Edition of Miller's play The Price is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled guide to Miller's classic play. It features an extensive introduction by Jane K. Dominik which includes: a chronology of Miller's...

The Patient, known as Mrs. Wingfield, has been horribly injured in a fall from her balcony. Unable to communicate, it could have been an accident, attempted suicide or worse still a coldblooded killer bent on murder. While relatives gather around her...

1665. As the plague runs rife through London, Reverend William Mompesson arrives in Eyam, Derbyshire, to lead the parish. But Eyam is no sleepy backwater; it is a village at war with itself. The community has dissolved, and neighbour feuds with neighbour...

Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they'll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must...

The play was intended as a tragedy on the purposeless of life imposed on the women of his time, both by their upbringing and by the social conventions which limited their activities. When it was first produced it met with misunderstanding and abuse. It...