'An ear for reproducing everyday language has long been David Mamet's hallmark and he has now em...

The Austrian composer Hanns Eisler was Bertolt Brecht's closest friend and most politically commi...

'Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright...

Based on the latest research from the fields of neuroscience and mind-body psychology, Acting Wit...

Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and 'electability'... his constituency agent, Jea...

The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was fir...

'Love and sex are like politics: it's not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, bu...

What is ethics and what has it got to do with theatre? Drawing on both theoretical material and p...

The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what ...

Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwright...

In this guide, Peter Maccoy examines the qualities and skills necessary for effective stage manag...

'Oh do not jest thy doom'The Revenger's Tragedy is an intense tragic burlesque. Its hero, Vindic...

Work out what you want and go for it with all your conviction and don't care if you seem outrageo...

Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twenty-four realistic sk...

This collection brings together Philip Ridley's one-act plays for young people, known as The Stor...

Pornography is Simon Stephens' stark and shattering new play that powerfully captures a portrait ...

'How do you want to live here? I mean we could come and go and lead separate lives. Or we could r...

Peter Brook is the most consistently innovative director in Western theatre. In these three essay...

'I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degree...

Four short plays for young actors

Pinero Three Plays

Eric Bentley's Round 2 is a gay version of La Ronde set in New York in the 70s at a time when hom...

Volume Nine in Methuen's highly successful series of anthologies provides a stunning selection of...

All of Artaud's theatrical ideas collected in one volume

Tracing the history of tragedy and comedy from their earliest beginnings to the present, this boo...

'List of contemporary plays produced by Piscator between 1919 and 1930': p. 368-369.

The latest collection of David Storey's plays; including the newly revised and revived The Changi...

The third volume in an anthology series of the most original and exciting new plays for the nineties

Brings together the many diverse strands of Craig's theories, many of which influenced such indiv...

Sling Blade won the 1997 Academy Award for best original screenplayKarl has just been released fr...

A book on the cultural and revolutionary florescence of the American Theatre, circa 1963-1973

Edward Braun's acclaimed work on Meyerhold available for the first time in paperback

Stand-Up! is the first book to both analyse the background of stand-up comedy and take us inside ...

A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers

Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it's t...

Published to tie in with the legendary Live Theatre's thirtieth birthday celebrations

Set in Nigeria, amid the scenes of everyday racketeering and general disquiet, the police try to ...

Included in this volume are Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom, about witchcraft in the seventeenth ce...

In Sweet Panic a child psychologist's understanding of contemporary life is brought into question...

Exhilarating courtroom farce from America's finest playwrightRomance is an uproarious courtroom f...

'You know, Yossi, we couldn't dress like this in the Philippines. wear earrings, dye our hair, pu...

This country doesn't need a constitution, never has, never will. We have History as our guide. In...

Volume Ten in Methuen's highly successful series of Plays by Women provides the second selection ...

Hugo, a Communist Party member, is assigned the task of working for a 'deviationist' Party leader...

Theatre of Erwin Piscator

A collection of the best stage monologues of the eighties and nineties (including new translation...

This guide covers assessing the potential auditioner's skillsanalysing their voice, choosing and ...

How can actors bridge the gap between themselves and the text and action of a script, integrating...