Theatre direction and production

Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production of Bernard Shaw's plays in America.

Post-war European adaptations of Hamlet are defined by ambiguities and inconsistencies.

This book examines how a predominantly negative view of community has presented a challenge to critical analysis of community performance practice.

This transnational and transcultural study intimately investigates the theatre making practices of Indigenous women playwrights from Australia, Aotearoa, and Turtle Island.

What is the role of costume in Shakespeare production?

Directors have long been the main figures on Eastern European stages.

This book marks a significant methodological shift in studies of black British women's theatre: it looks beyond published plays to the wealth of material held in archives of various kinds, from national repositories and themed collections to individuals' personal papers.

In the Anthropocene, icy environments have taken on a new centrality and emotional valency.

This book examines the history, ethics, and intentions of staging personal stories and offers theatre makers detailed guidance and a practical model to support safe, ethical practice.

This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core.

Do you have to be an extrovert to succeed as an actor?

This long-awaited book is the first full-length study of the work of the extraordinary contemporary black British playwright, debbie tucker green.

This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media.

This book examines the history, ethics, and intentions of staging personal stories and offers theatre makers detailed guidance and a practical model to support safe, ethical practice.

Anarchy in High Heels is not a state of dress; it's a state of mind.

"e;A truly fun, emotional, and sometimes magical first experience .

"e;A master at engaging students in the process of performing a Shakespearescene.

This book is a fascinating cri de coeur and made me questioneverything I think about musicals Alan CummingA book for those who can t stand musicals, those who love them, and every theatregoer, academic, practitioner and student in between.

With a new foreword by Stewart Pringle, Playwright and Dramaturg of the National Theatre of Great Britain.

War Horse is the most successful show in the National Theatre's history.

Although he never left his native Krakow except for relatively short periods, Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907) achieved worldwide fame, both as a painter, and Poland's greatest dramatist of the first half of the twentieth century.

In Two Minds is the first comprehensive biography of Jonathan Miller the story of one of post-war Britain's most intriguing polymaths.

Lolly Susi's interviews with the actor and teacher George Hall are a unique insight into the mind of a great all-round theatre practitioner.

'Of course that's how it begins: a harmless fairy tale to pass the hours'When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the original Alice in Wonderland came face to face with the original Peter Pan.

The story of a railway worker's son who became one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre.

This is the tale of Jonah, Sophie, and a fox called Scruffilitis.

"e;I've made four thousand six hundred medium-sized quiches and personally baked two tons of light crust pastry.

Writing Master Class is a biography of David Pownall s play, Master Class (1983), from conception to coming of age.

"e;There is a mystery in every play that is written, no matter whether classical and poetic or modern and demotic, and it is the sound and the rhythm of the writing which take us there.

The White Rabbit is late for the Duchess.

This practical handbook takes us on a step-by-step journey from pre-production through the rehearsal process, followed by focused advice on each genre from comedy to tragedy, Shakespeare to new plays and musicals.

Includes the plays Victory, The Europeans, The Possibilities and Scenes From An Execution.

"e;I walked in and she's sat in the coffin.

'There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend.

A striking, design-led reference book.

This book on Gems has a thesis or a 'backbone' which elicits the title 'Queer Mythologies'.

For the last ten to fifteen years, many disciplines of scholarship have been involved in the study of consciousness, often on an interdisciplinary basis.

Numerous plays have professionals as major characters, but academia has ignored them to a large extent.

Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfered to London and New York, and has toured Britain as well as Europe and Australia.

Directors and Designers explores the practice of scenography - the creation of perspective in the design and painting of stage scenery - and offers new insight into the working relationships of the people responsible for these theatrical transformations.