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Plays of Impasse: Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions by Charles Rosen 9780691613260
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £50.43This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society's dead ends the hospitals, insane asylums, prisons, and military... -
Anger and After (Routledge Revivals): A Guide to the New British Drama John Russell Taylor (NFA Statement returned, we have bank details on SAP requested up to date address) 9780415727945
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and has since... -
Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts: The Staging of Illusion Across Time and Cultures Ann C Hall 9781350371736
Booksplease Price: £30.54Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the... -
The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton by Robert Knopf 9780691004426
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.46Famous for their stunts, gags, and images, Buster Keaton's silent films have enticed everyone from Hollywood movie fans to the surrealists, such as Dali and Bunuel. Here Robert Knopf offers an... -
One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the Nineties by Jack Temchin 9781557831521
Booksplease Price: £9.68Over 75 monologues for women from the contemporary stage written by these and other major dramatists: David Mamet U Brian Friel U Steve Tesich U Harold Pinter U Alan Ayckbourn U Timberlake... -
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One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the Nineties by Jack Temchin 9781557831521 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.18Over 75 monologues for women from the contemporary stage written by these and other major dramatists: David Mamet U Brian Friel U Steve Tesich U Harold Pinter U Alan Ayckbourn U Timberlake... -
Twentieth Century British Drama by John Smart 9780521795630
Booksplease Price: £9.94Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Looking back on 20th century British drama from its' historical, social and political perspective enables the reader to set each play... -
Granta 91: Wish You Were Here by Ian Jack 9780903141802
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.29LAST GASPS Thoughts about Alan while waiting for Harold, by Simon Gray The author of the celebrated and widely-acclaimed The Smoking Diaries returns to print with a tender, affecting, and of course... -
Tragedy by Clifford Leech 9780415045995
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Professor Leech considers the significance of the term 'Tragedy' as it has been used from classical times to the present day. He gives examples of tragic writing from a wide variety of dramatic... -
W. S. Graham: Speaking Towards You by Ralph Pite 9780853235798
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.54Graham's work was published by T. S. Eliot in the 1940s and 50s, but as a major post-war poet, his work has received astonishingly little critical attention given its prestige and influence. This... -
Pinter at 70: A Casebook Lois Gordon 9780415936309
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.80This comprehensive and authoritative casebook includes cornerstone essays on Pinter's creative process, his politics, film adaptations, and acting career. It also includes a collection of photos... -
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British Writers by British Library 9780712305419 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.67Booksplease Price: £2.86This three CD compilation forms part of the British Library's series of documentary recordings by English-Language authors and playwrights. Around 30 writers will be represented, talking about their... -
Martine by Jean-Jacques Bernard 9781783191444
Booksplease Price: £14.24The Great War is over. It is the summer of 1920, in rural France. By a dusty road, a girl is sitting under the shade of an apple tree. She sees someone walking towards her. He is a young man, just... -
Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama by Ruby Cohn 9780521035286
Booksplease Price: £32.12The 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,... -
Walden by Amy Berryman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95It's ridiculous - we're investing in this place light years away that we don't even know if our species can survive on -After returning from a year-long Moon mission, Cassie, a NASA botanist, finds... -
Comedy Acting for Theatre: The Art and Craft of Performing in Comedies by Sidney Homan 9781350012769
Booksplease Price: £85.65Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience, this book enables actors to create memorable - and hilarious - performances... -
If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep by Anders Lustgarten 9781472513571
Booksplease Price: £14.80"I believe that open markets and free enterprise are the best imaginable force for improving human wealth and happiness. And I would go further: where they work properly, they can actually promote... -
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If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep by Anders Lustgarten 9781472513571 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.28"I believe that open markets and free enterprise are the best imaginable force for improving human wealth and happiness. And I would go further: where they work properly, they can actually promote... -
Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Lawrence Graver 9780521840040
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63This 2004 volume offers a comprehensive critical study of Samuel Beckett's first and most renowned dramatic work, Waiting for Godot, which has become one of the most frequently discussed, and... -
Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Lawrence Graver 9780521549387
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76This 2004 volume offers a comprehensive critical study of Samuel Beckett's first and most renowned dramatic work, Waiting for Godot, which has become one of the most frequently discussed, and... -
A Life Remembered: A Memoir of Anew McMaster by Mary-Rose Aranson 9781788746847
RRP: £26.75Booksplease Price: £25.05«Perhaps the greatest actor-manager of his time», wrote the distinguished playwright Harold Pinter, whose first job in the theatre was with Anew McMaster’s classical theatre company and whose little... -
British Realist Theatre: The New Wave in its Context 1956 - 1965 by Stephen Lacey
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The British `New Wave' of dramatists, actors and directors in the late 1950s and 1960s created a defining moment in post-war theatre. British Realist Theatre is an accessible introduction to the New... -
The Drama of the Double: Permeable Boundaries by Katherine H. Burkman 9781137566065
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores the way in which doubling takes place in several novels, films, and dramas, primarily focusing on modern drama and exploring how five Greek myths - Oedipus, Narcissus, Dionysus,... -
Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World by Lucy Popescu 9780814767436
Booksplease Price: £30.78The freedom to write is under threat today throughout the world, with more than 1,000 writers, journalists, and publishers known to be imprisoned or persecuted in more than 100 countries. Writers... -
Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World by Lucy Popescu 9780814767429
Booksplease Price: £90.87The freedom to write is under threat today throughout the world, with more than 1,000 writers, journalists, and publishers known to be imprisoned or persecuted in more than 100 countries. Writers... -
The Pinter Ethic: The Erotic Aesthetic Penelope Prentice 9780815338864
Booksplease Price: £47.69The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists, The Pinter Ethic penetrates the mystery of Harold Pinter's work with compelling... -
Pinter and the Object of Desire: An Approach Through the Screenplays by Linda Renton 9781900755535
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Harold Pinter was fascinated by film ling before he began writing for the theatre, but the importance of his screenplays, based on the work of other authors, has been overlooked. Renton traces his... -
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Phantom Variations: The Adaptations of Gaston Leroux's ""Phantom of the Opera"", 1925 to the Present by Ann C. Hall 9780786442652
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59This book examines the themes and variations of ""Phantom of the Opera"", demonstrating why Phantom has appealed to multiple generations through numerous incarnations. After discussing Gaston... -
Tremor by Brad Birch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49This is the person I am now. It's the person I want to be, should have been for a long time. We got dark, Sophie. Things got dark, and I...I'm better now. I'm in a better place... Once our lives... -
Neil LaBute: Stage and Cinema by Christopher Bigsby
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44Neil 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... -
The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.39The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark,... -
A Companion to Post-War British Theatre (Routledge Revivals) Philip Barnes 9780415639415
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23First published in 1986, this compilation offers a guide to the major aspects of contemporary British theatre. In the period covered, Britain was among the world leaders in theatre as the post-war... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the Absurd by Michael Y. Bennett 9781107053922
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Michael Y. Bennett's accessible Introduction explains the complex, multidimensional nature of the works and writers associated with the absurd - a label placed upon a number of writers who revolted... -
Perfect Crime by Warren Manzi 9780573691522
Booksplease Price: £16.14This cat and mouse thriller is one of OffBroadway's longest running hits. Margaret Thorne Brent psychiatrist and author has returned to America with her husband also a psychiatrist and settled in... -
Timebends by Arthur Miller
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.38'A beautifully structured narrative: tough, very moving, a political testimony of considerable force' - Harold Pinter 'As wise and witty and funny and brave as any of his plays' - Louis... -
Each Slow Dusk by Rory Mullarkey 9781474228626
Booksplease Price: £14.80The Private misses the farm. The Captain dreams of painting. The Corporal relishes the fight. And a hundred years later, The Woman seeks to understand. 1916 - In the darkness of the French... -
Staging Technology: Medium, Machinery, and Modern Drama by Craig N. Owens 9781350168572
Booksplease Price: £96.35Through an examination of a range of performance works ranging from Jean Cocteau's ballet The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party (1921) to Julie Taymor's monumental production of Spider-Man: Turn off the... -
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"Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.68New York, summer 1954 Criminal Courts Building A man is dead The life of another is at stake A "guilty" verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more... -
Field of Large Desires: A Greville Press Anthology 1975-2010 by Anthony Astbury 9781847770509
Booksplease Price: £17.01Launched in 1979 by Anthony Astbury and Geoffrey Godbert, with the support of Harold Pinter, the Greville Press has quietly established itself as indispensable to those who love poetry. Its pamphlets... -
A Companion to British-Jewish Theatre Since the 1950s by Jeanette R. Malkin 9781350135963
Booksplease Price: £103.11The first of its kind, this companion to British-Jewish theatre brings a neglected dimension in the work of many prominent British theatre-makers to the fore. Its structure reflects the historical...