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Neil LaBute: Stage and Cinema by Christopher Bigsby 9780521712859
Booksplease Price: $69.17Neil LaBute is one of the most exciting new talents in theatre and film to have emerged in the 1990s. Influenced and inspired by such writers as David Mamet, Edward Bond and Harold Pinter, he is... -
King Lear by William Shakespeare 9780393926644
Booksplease Price: $25.33"Sources" helps readers navigate King Lear's rich history and includes the nine essential primary sources from which Shakespeare borrowed significantly in creating his play, along with two additional... -
'Love Me or Kill Me': Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes by Graham Saunders 9780719059568
Booksplease Price: $45.90Blasted brought Sarah Kane to the theatre pages of the broadsheets, the front pages of the tabloids, and to the notice of the nation. Covers all Kane's major plays and productions, contains hitherto... -
Spring Awakening Charlotte Ryland 9781408140895
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $21.18A Student Edition of Wedekind's classic 1891 expressionist play about adolescent sexuality. Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening influenced a whole trend of modern drama and remains relevant... -
Shakespeare's Other Lives: An Anthology of Fictional Depictions of the Bard by Maurice J. O'Sullivan 9780786422807
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.20For generations scholars have labored scrupulously to try to separate the facts of William Shakespeare's life from the myths that have entangled them. However, those who have written fictions... -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1960s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Steve Nicholson 9781408181980
Booksplease Price: $218.65Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s... -
Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11: Patriotic Dissent by Jenny S. Spencer 9780415745703
RRP: $113.08Booksplease Price: $105.57This collection documents and examines political and protest theatre produced between the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and Obama's election in 2008 by British and American artists responding to their own... -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1960s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Steve Nicholson 9781408129579
Booksplease Price: $63.14Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s... -
Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama by Ruby Cohn 9780521472678
Booksplease Price: $176.61The provocative notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange within the medium of theatre is here imposed upon a dozen contemporary Anglo-American dramatists: Alan Ayckbourn and Neil Simon,... -
The Full Room: An A-Z of Contemporary Playwriting by Dominic Dromgoole 9780413771346
Booksplease Price: $48.59Now 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,... -
Contemporary British Drama by David Lane
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $42.98This book provides a critical assessment of dramatic literature since 1995, situating texts, companies and writers in a cultural, political and social context. It examines the shifting role of the... -
Peggy for You by Alan Plater 9780413748102
Booksplease Price: $27.77A new comic drama, starring Maureen Lipman, about the life of the famous play agent, Peggy Ramsay, who helped transform post-war British drama Alan Plater's play for the Hampstead Theatre in London... -
Radical Stages: Alternative History in Modern British Drama by D. Keith Peacock 9780313278884
Booksplease Price: $147.83This unique volume examines the evolution of British historical drama from the birth of modern British drama with John Osborne's Look Back in Anger in 1956 to the establishment of the right-wing... -
Brecht in La: A Play by Rick Mitchell 9781841501055
Booksplease Price: $48.24Bertolt Brecht, perhaps the most important dramatist/director/theorist of the twentieth century, is still widely studied and his plays and theories remain staples in the curricula of university... -
About Friel: The Playwright and the Work by Tony Coult
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top... -
Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent by Colin Chambers
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.14With a new foreword by Stewart Pringle, Playwright and Dramaturg of the National Theatre of Great Britain. Winner of the 1997 Theatre Book Prize Peggy Ramsay was the most admired British play... -
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre Mr Keith Johnstone 9781350069039
Booksplease Price: $47.97In this landmark work Keith Johnstone provides a revelatory guide to rediscovering and unlocking the imagination. Admired for its clarity and zest, Impro lays bare the techniques and exercises used... -
After Brecht: British Epic Theater by Prof. Janelle G. Reinelt 9780472084081
RRP: $46.70Booksplease Price: $45.38After Brecht: British Epic Theater is the first book to fully explore contemporary British drama in the light of the influence of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Focusing on the work of Howard... -
Words Into Action: Finding the Life of the Play by William Gaskill
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.83Packed with insights from a lifetime of directing theatre, Words into Action is a fascinating read and a vital masterclass for actors and directors. Renowned theatre director William Gaskill was... -
Adapting King Lear for the Stage by Lynne Bradley 9781138381148
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $95.63Questioning whether the impulse to adapt Shakespeare has changed over time, Lynne Bradley argues for restoring a sense of historicity to the study of adaptation. Bradley compares Nahum Tate's History... -
The Contemporary British History Play by Richard Hudson Palmer 9780313304972
Booksplease Price: $149.19British drama since 1956 has been particularly innovative. This volume investigates how recent British history plays reflect the methods and values of New History, in contrast to traditional... -
Pursuit: The Memoirs of John Calder by John Calder
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.73"Publish and be damned", Wellington's famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder's memoirs. He has been damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of... -
The Funfair by Simon Stephens
Booksplease Price: $28.90I kept telling myself I wanted something more out of my life, something brighter. I had all these ideas in my head. Thing is, I had to go down so low just to try to lift my life up a little bit... -
The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America by Linda Gordon
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $36.15Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Books for 2004The only book to cover the entire history of birth control and the intense controversies about reproduction rights that have raged in the United... -
The Tragic Imagination: The Literary Agenda by Dr. Rowan Williams
Booksplease Price: $51.89The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and... -
Fifty Playwrights on their Craft by Caroline Jester 9781474250887
Booksplease Price: $218.65In a series of interviews with fifty playwrights from the US and UK, this book offers a fascinating study of the voices, thoughts, and opinions of today's most important dramatists. Filled with... -
Fifty Playwrights on their Craft by Caroline Jester
Booksplease Price: $67.22In a series of interviews with fifty playwrights from the US and UK, this book offers a fascinating study of the voices, thoughts, and opinions of today's most important dramatists. Filled with... -
Arnold Wesker: Fragments and Visions by Anne Etienne
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.91This new collection will add significantly to the body of scholarship on this important dramatist. This is the first study of the whole body of Wesker's work, and will create new interest in this... -
A Practical Guide to Shakespeare for the Primary School: 50 Lesson Plans using Drama by John Doona
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $87.34Shakespeare is one of our key historical figures but so often he remains locked behind glass and hard to reach. The purpose of this book is to unlock Shakespeare, to remove the tag of 'high art' that... -
Ensouling Language: On the Art of Nonfiction and the Writer's Life by 9781594773822
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $34.03he first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form * Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and luminosity as great fiction * Develops processes to...