Theatre studies

Published in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Musuem, Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays explores the best and most influential plays from 1945 to date.

Othello has a long history of provoking profound emotion in its audiences and readers.

David Barnett invites readers, students and theatre-makers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in this clear and accessible study of Brecht's theories and practices.

We train because we are human and we become human because we train.

Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view.

Set in a time of immense change, Dancing on the Edge tells the story of a black jazz group, the Louis Lester Band, as they rise to fame, entertaining guests at exclusive high society gatherings in 1930s London.

Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how?

Based on the latest research from the fields of neuroscience and mind-body psychology, Acting With Passion offers a revolutionary new approach to the age-old problems of the actor: dealing with nerves, engaging the body, quieting the inner critic, auditioning, creating a character, and even playing comedy.

He wants me to fuck about with paper clips in some office with a smile on my face, fuck him .

He wants me to fuck about with paper clips in some office with a smile on my face, fuck him .

Performance Studies in Motion offers multiple perspectives on the current field of performance studies and suggests its future directions.

Theatre in the Expanded Field is a fiercely original, bold and daring exploration of the fields of theatre and performance studies and the received narratives and histories that underpin them.

Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant impact in the U.

Actors' Yearbook is an established and respected directory that enables actors to find work in stage, screen and radio.

A 1967 obituary in The Times labelled Stephen Joseph 'the most successful missionary to work in the English theatre since the second world war'.

Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production provides theatre students and emerging theatre artists with the tools, skills and a shared language to analyze play scripts, communicate about them, and collaborate with others on stage productions.

Recent shifts in the theatrical landscape have had corresponding implications for dramaturgy.

Recent shifts in the theatrical landscape have had corresponding implications for dramaturgy.

"e;This is a profound and tragic vision of humanity at its bare, forked basics"e; (Patrick Marmion, Evening Standard)The Censor is "e;a gripping brief encounter between a pornographic film actress and the man with the licensing scissors.

South Africa has a uniquely rich and diverse theatre tradition which has responded energetically to the country's remarkable transition, helping to define the challenges and contradictions of this young democracy.

South Africa has a uniquely rich and diverse theatre tradition which has responded energetically to the country's remarkable transition, helping to define the challenges and contradictions of this young democracy.

Women playwrights speak about their art and the theatre in this collection of interviews about a key decade of British drama.

Published in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Musuem, Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays explores the best and most influential plays from 1945 to date.

Essential for students of Theatre Studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and reassessment of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present.

Essential 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 to 2009 in six volumes.

A haunting and brutally funny story of heroism and human valuesIn the bloody aftermath of the Wars of the Roses, Captain John Mallory leads a band of renegades across a war-torn landscape on a breathtaking quest in search of a dream - a dream of home.

Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900 2000 is a ground-breaking survey, tracking the advent of modern drama in Japan, India, China, Korea and Southeast Asia.

Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900 2000 is a ground-breaking survey, tracking the advent of modern drama in Japan, India, China, Korea and Southeast Asia.

Kill the Old Torture their Young is an urban tragi-comedy from the acclaimed writer of Knives in Hens, one of Scotland's most talented new playwrightsA documentary maker returns to the city of his birth.

This diverse anthology features eight contemporary plays founded in testimonies from across the world.

A companion volume to Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900 2000, this anthology contains nine emblematic scripts from twentieth and twenty-first century Asian theatre.

A companion volume to Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900 2000, this anthology contains nine emblematic scripts from twentieth and twenty-first century Asian theatre.

"e;As playwright, composer and director, Mr Wood has given children a self respecting art form"e; (The Times)The Gingerbread Man - 'The perfect children's play, with lots of superbly silly jokes and foot-tapping songs .

If there is anyone who should be the children's playwright laureate it is David Wood' (Evening Standard)The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See - '.

An important, urgent book of essays from Britain's most challenging dramatist: ".

This second volume of Edward Bond's notebooks covers the period from Restoration, his historic drama with songs, to Eleven Vests, his play for young people written for Big Brum Theatre-in-Education

"There is a cliché - which is also false - that all creative writing is autobiographical.

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century.