The first performance of Look Back in Anger in 1956 ushered in a new period of British theatre, and its success established the previously unknown John Osborne as a new playwright of the first rank.
'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 Live Art Almanac Volume 3 is a collection of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art that were originally published, shared, sent, spread and read between January 2010 and December 2011.
Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the NT by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw.
Moving, powerful, ethereal; Mind Walking is a celebration of the life of one extraordinary man, the enduring love story of a mature couple and their family.
This new version of William Wycherley 's most famous classic, The Country Wife has been adapted by Tanika Gupta, one of the country 's leading playwrights.
Programme Notes: Case Studies For Locating Experimental Theatre is a collection of commissioned essays, case studies and interviews reflecting the exciting and complex relationships between ‘mainstream’ stages and ‘experimental’ theatre practices.
Includes the plays A Bitter Herb, Absolution, Identity, The Far Side, Mary Seacole, and Urban Afro-SaxonsThis second and sister volume to Hidden Gems showcases a further range of plays by Black British writers whose work reaches beyond themes too-often perceived by mainstream theatre commissioning as defining Black people's experiences.
If one of the problems facing new playwrights is the expectation that each of their plays should be similar in style, Wade proved that you could radically change both form and content Not every writer delivers on their early promise.
In The Taming Of The Shrew two, disguised, competing suitors clamour for the hand of beautiful Bianca whilst gold-digging Petruchio agrees to wed her viciously ill-tempered sister Kate sight-unseen.
Includes the plays The Mentalists, Under the Whaleback and The God Botherers"e;The Mentalists confirms Richard Bean as a writer of beguilling originality with a gift for both laugh-out-loud dialogue and a sympathetic understanding of the darker recesses of the human heart"e; - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph on The Mentalists"e;An instant modern classic"e; - Kate Bassett, The Guardian on Under the Whaleback"e;Richard Bean must have had a hell of a life"e; - Michael Billington, The Guardian on The God Botherers
Out of Joint Presents: A Dish of Tea With Dr JohnsonIrritable, generous, seriously depressed yet a great wit: meet Samuel Johnson poet, essayist and lexicographer.
When Mark Styler, a writer of glossy true crime paperbacks, tries to get an interview with Easterman, a notorious serial killer, he has no idea what he s walking into.
Winner of 'Best Off West End Production' at the 2011 What's On Stage AwardsWinner of 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for "e;Best New Opera Production"e;The writer, the lover, the artist, the flirt.
It's the middle of the night when 21-year-old Leo arrives on the doorstep of the West Village apartment where his feisty 91-year-old grandmother Vera lives.
Set at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the English Reformation, The Seduction of Almighty God describes the spiritual ascendancy of an adolescent priest and the apalling discovery that he possesses the power of life and death over others, both religious and secular.
