A modern classic about the bitter rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin and fellow ruler, Elizabeth I of England - retold by Scotland's most popular playwright.
The villagers of Fuente Ovejuna in rural Spain rise up against their cruel and sexually predatory Commander, eventually killing him. When agents sent by the King and Queen set about torturing the villagers to find out who did the murder, each one gives the answer: 'Fuente Ovejuna did it'.
One of Charles Dickens' best-loved and most autobiographical stories, dramatised for a cast of ten - including Dickens' marvellous creations, Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mrs Peggotty, Murdstone, Steerforth and Betsey Trotwood. This stage adaptation focuses on the essentials of the story while maintaining the colour, humour and drama of the book.
Hedda Gabler is one of the most controversial female characters in Western drama, with the meaning and value of her tragic fate hotly disputed. Free-spirited but trapped in a stifling marriage, intelligent and questing but consigned to a life of bourgeois idleness, she is caught between a disturbed sense of propriety and a desire for revolution.
A play set in the Dublin underworld of gambling, armed robbery - and taxi drivers. It explores the boundaries of loyalty, trust, betrayal and gambling.
A play about sexual politics, premiered in London's West End, by the author of "Honour".
A thrilling, funny and spectacular adaptation of Joan Aitken's classic novel.
Marie, twenty-something, and Lorraine, early fifties, have shared a cell. Now Marie is in her own bedsit, coping with life on the outside - just about. That is until poor, hopeless Lorraine shows up.
"The key British theatre work of the last decade." Time Out 2012. An Instant Modern Classic. A comic, contemporary vision of life in our green and pleasant land. BEST PLAY Evening Standard Awards BEST PLAY Critics Circle Awards.
Suitable for actors, directors, students and teachers of movement in the theatre, this work deals with the vital building blocks of movement training.
Kristin Miller's birthday should be a time for celebration but when her son Simon decides to deliver his version of the past, everyone must confront the cost of Kristin's commitment to her passions.
Two couples live side by side in identical houses. On the outside Ned is a confident demolitions expert: on the inside he's a mess. He is the victim of increasingly bizarre but recurrent theft, and his marriage to Joy is running out of steam. Eventually he is usurped by his neighbour, and Joy deserts him - literally and metaphorically.
101 great drama games for use in any classroom or workshop setting. Part of the NHB Drama Games series. A dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, packed with 101 lively drama games suitable for players of all ages, with many appropriate for children from age 6 upwards. Whilst aimed primarily at school, youth theatre and community groups, they are equally fun - and instructional - for adults to play in workshop or rehearsal settings. 'Small but perfectly formed, this is an essential purchase for classroom teachers and workshop leaders alike.' Total Theatre Magazine
Two old women, trapped in a remote Irish town of gossip and fish, obsessively relive the time when, as 17-year-olds, they were nearly seduced at the New Electric Ballroom by Roller Doyle, the singer in a touring band.
A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past - brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of 9 and brought to England with the promise of a new life. Kindertransport is a set text for GE Drama (AQA) and AS/A-Level English Literature (WJEC). This edition also includes several personal memoirs by German-born children whose lives were saved, and transformed, by the Kindertransport. Winner of the 1992 Verity Bargate Award 'Desperately harrowing... searing theatre that cuts across a continuum of suffering to the very heart of what unifies us as human' The Times 'A powerful contribution to Holocaust literature... presented with emotional clarity and intense sympathy' New Yorker
A play about the private life of prostitutes, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre.
Intended for students, graduates and various aspirants to stage management, amateur or professional, whether the production is on a large or small scale, this title offers the basics of stage management. Featuring charts and helpful checklists, it takes the reader through a typical production week by week.
Features a stage adaptation of Andrea who is condemned to shuttling between her Mum and Dad when each takes up with a new partner.
India compensates for her neglectful parents by burying herself in Anne Frank's Diary - and in her new friendship with Treasure, who has run away from home.
A work based on the author's experience as a director and actor and his scholarly knowledge of the Elizabethan stage.
A play about an ill-assorted trio (two men and one woman) and their near-fatal obsession with mountaineering.
First staged in 1676, "The Man of Mode" is perhaps the most typical 'Restoration Comedy'. This title is published alongside a revival of this play at the National Theatre, staged by the Artisitic Director, Nicholas Hytner.
The tragic story of how Rudyard Kipling sent his son to his death in the First World War. The year is 1913 and war with Germany is imminent. Rudyard Kipling's determination to send his severely short-sighted son to war triggers a bitter family conflict which leaves Britain's renowned patriot devastated by the warring of his own greatest passions: his love for children - above all his own - and his devotion to King and Country. My Boy Jack premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in October 1997. It was adapted for television in 2007, with a cast of Kim Cattrall, Carey Mulligan, Daniel Radcliffe, and the author himself as Kipling. 'dramatises Kipling's story beautifully. The family confrontations bristle with life' Financial Times
Work, love and life are just one long hard slog for the fish filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda. But their fortunes are set to change when Linda finds tickets to Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot the year it relocated to York.
Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between a bulldozer and a Palestinian home? This book tells the story of Rachel Corrie's short life and sudden death from the words she left behind.
A brand new adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic - one of the most loved short stories ever written. In one ghostly Christmas night, cold-hearted businessman Ebenezer Scrooge learns to pity himself and to love his neighbour - but is that enough? A brand new adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of the Christmas classic.
50 monologues by some of the greatest writers working today, each with a summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and perform it to the best of your ability.
50 monologues from some of the greatest writers working today, each prefaced with a summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and perform it to the best of your ability.
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