Performance art

Packed full of games, activities and exercises, this book is designed to be a drama teacher's best friend.

Nightclub, theatre, creative hub, party place, and one of the most important venues in Scotland, Britain and Europe: for almost 25 years, The Arches was the beating heart of Glasgow.

Dinomania?

Critics and fans alike often mistake theatrical song and dance as evoking a sweeping sense of simplicity, heteronormativity, and traditionalism.

Critics and fans alike often mistake theatrical song and dance as evoking a sweeping sense of simplicity, heteronormativity, and traditionalism.

"e;These are stories to cherish, as brilliant and charming as the writer himself.

It's 1989 in Lagos.

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, shortly after the millennium.

When little Conrad Van der Bosch claims he has an invisible tiger called Sigmund hiding on his wardrobe, his child-psychologist father sees the lie as a deliberate act of juvenile defiance.

Stage version of the popular novel, first performed at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow before two West End productions and one on Broadway, winning an Olivier award on the way.

The first performance in The Space, Tanika Gupta's Fragile Land is about what nationhood means for second generation immigrants: revealing the complexities of life for a new generation of young Londoners.

'In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired.

Widely accepted to have been inspired by Shakespeare s Macbeth, Boris Godunov recounts the tragic conflict between Tsar Boris and the pretender Dimitri.

Includes the playsThe Firstborn, A Phoenix Too Frequent, A Sleep of Prisoners, Thor, With Angels, The Boy With a Cart, Caedmon Construed and A Ringing of BellsThe third volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work brings together his only fully-fledged tragedy - The Firstborn, a vivid, urgent retelling of the Biblical story of Moses and the plagues of Egypt - and his six one-act plays, each revealing Fry's unique blend of humour and humanity.

South African born internationally acclaimed director and playwright, Ya l Farber, sets her explosive new adaptation of Strindberg s Miss Julie in the remote, bleak beauty of the Eastern Cape Karoo.

We need the theatre, couldn t, couldn t do without it.

On a glorious summer's afternoon, young Alice happens upon a smartly dressed rabbit looking at his watch and muttering 'I'm too late!

Includes the plays Venus Observed, The Dark is Light Enough and CurtmantleThis volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work concludes his 'Season Plays' with Venus Observed ('Autumn') and The Dark is Light Enough ('Winter').

'The past is a very dangerous place' Two people, united by blood and separated by time, weave the tapestry of their lives.

'A magnificently readable tour of theatrical history conducted by our best-informed living critic.

The Yiddish Queen LearNew York in the late 1930s: a once-famous Yiddish actress gives her theatre business over to her three daughters.

Two little known Priestley plays, which, while they are quite different, have important features in common.

Includes the plays The Lady's Not for Burning, A Yard of Sun and SiegeIn this volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work, his most famous play The Lady's Not for Burning - 'Spring' in his set of 'Seasonal Plays' - is joined by the 'Summer' play A Yard of Sun, written in the mid-1930's.

With his louche air and a developed taste for smoking, gambling, port and women, it s hard to believe Cis Farringdon is only fourteen.

Acclaimed as one of the classics of 20th century children's literature, The Mouse and His Child is a moving story about two clockwork mice thrown on a scrap heap who then have to begin a dangerous quest for a place to belong.

You know sometimes when you re drinking, you feel a bit ill and you dread every swig, but you do it anyway because you want to get drunk?

Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for the stage by two of Britain s leading playwrights.

A modern-day version of Euripides' anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison.

You have to laugh.

Set in the backdrop of early 60's London, Telstar is the story of the World's first Independent record producer, Joe Meek.

'Tell me, please - is this a dream?

What will become of us?

'I took my tears and turned them into paintings' In the electric calm of a blue-painted room, a dying woman reassembles the images of an extraordinary life.

"e;All I ever wanted was a man who wouldn't ask me questions"e;Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expensive prostitute in town.

Paris, 1870.

What if four children had been kept locked away in darkness and complete isolation since birth?

Collected for the first time in print, over a decade of texts from one of British theatre s fiercest and most individual voices, documenting the extraordinary site-specific solo performances which have run parallel to Bartlett s acclaimed work as a mainstream director.

"e;He's a beast I tell you - a real animal"e;What happens when you've lived only for pleasure, and you finally run out of time?

Helen and Danny keep themselves to themselves.

Fraser and Dougie are watching a suspect.

When the canal burst its banks and a holy statue arrived through her bedroom floor, no one was more surprised than 12-year-old Veronica.

Kneehigh now finds itself celebrated as one of the UK's most exciting theatre companies.

Bitch Boxer was the winner of the Holden Street Theatres Awards 2013 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

London Wall is a wryly comic look at the life of women office workers in the 1930s.

Includes the plays Fanghorn, Edred, the Vampire and Lucifer's FairFanghorn is a darkly-surrealistic comedy, which pokes fun at the Theatre of Cruelty.

Can you be a hero if you fought for Nazi Germany?

"e;This isn't a village.

Original illustrations by Jean Cocteau and Andrzej KlimowskiTwo of the seven monologues by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) in this edition were written for dith Piaf.

Tom Jones was Henry Fielding s greatest work.

Following their acclaimed shows On Ego, On Religion, On Emotion and On Love the On Theatre now tackle empathy, in an exploration of the expanse and limits of our capacity to understand one another.