The epic story of Peer's quest for the meaning of life as he staggers from the fjords of Norway to the deserts of Africa and back. Written in 1876.
Set in the 18th century, this is a tale of two cities, two boys and also a tale of fathers and sons. This is the story where the National Theatre has chosen its Christmas show on its biggest stage.
Jo Clifford's beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels brings it thrillingly to life for the stage. Eminently actable and stageable, this version is also ideal for schools and amateur theatre companies.
Set in a Mother and Baby Home in 1964 in the north of England and peppered with songs from the period, the book follows the fortunes of Mary Adams, unmarried and seven months pregnant. Forcibly sent to the home by a mother intent on keeping up appearances, Mary has to cope with the drawing realisation that the baby has to be given up for adoption.
Full of fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays, this is the ideal guide for actors of all ages and experience. As an actor at any level you are likely to be called upon to perform a speech from Shakespeare. A great deal will depend on your coming up with something fresh that is suited both to your particular performing skills and to the purposes of the audition. This is where this volume of The Good Audition Guides comes in.Drawing on his extensive experience as a theatre director and in drama training, Luke Dixon has chosen fifty monologues for female actors from across the whole of Shakespeare's canon. Featured here are some of the very best-loved works (such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry V and Hamlet) alongside many less well-known (and often more intriguing) speeches from plays like Love's Labour's Lost and The Merchant of Venice. Each monologue is prefaced with a neat summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and to perform it to maximum effect and in your own unique way. The volume also features a user-friendly introduction on the whole process of selecting your speech, tackling Shakespeare's language and approaching the audition itself.'Sound practical advice for anyone attending an audition' Teaching Drama Magazine on The Good Audition Guides.
Full of fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays, this is the ideal guide for actors of all ages and experience. As an actor at any level you are likely to be called upon to perform a speech from Shakespeare. A great deal will depend on your coming up with something fresh that is suited both to your particular performing skills and to the purposes of the audition. This is where this volume of The Good Audition Guides comes in.Drawing on his extensive experience as a theatre director and in drama training, Luke Dixon has chosen fifty monologues for male actors from across the whole of Shakespeare's canon. Featured here are some of the very best-loved works (such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry V and Hamlet) alongside many less well-known (and often more intriguing) speeches from plays like Love's Labour's Lost, King John and Titus Andronicus. Each monologue is prefaced with a neat summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and to perform it to maximum effect and in your own unique way. The volume also features a user-friendly introduction on the whole process of selecting your speech, tackling Shakespeare's language and approaching the audition itself.'Sound practical advice for anyone attending an audition' Teaching Drama Magazine on The Good Audition Guides.
Six brilliantly funny and perceptive monologues about the stresses of modern female life, from the author of the National Theatre and West End hit, Honour.
Covers three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists. This title presents a play-by-play introduction, key dates and a guide to pronunciation.
Drawing on diaries, photos, and interviews, this book recreates the evolution of nine of Max Stafford-Clark's famous and influential productions, three from each of his three main companies. It not only assesses Stafford-Clark's own role as director, but also the roles of actors and writers in this essentially collaborative creative process.
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding. Alceste, the misanthrope, hates all mankind, and despairs of its hypocrisy and falseness. He believes that the world could be perfected if people were more honest with each other. But when his honesty starts to make him enemies, and the target of malicious gossips, it is his world and his life which suffer. He alienates his love, elimene, and reproaches her coquettish, flirty ways; he is summoned before the court of marshals to defend a candid opinion about Oronte's terrible poetry - a case which he knows he will lose despite the justness of the cause. He begins to realise that the only way to be left out of gossip is to get out of society - but will elimene go with him, or is she just like everybody else? Translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine
Lulu is the personification of the spirit of unbridled nature. Each of the first four acts of the play sees her married to a different man, each one of whom dies at the end. In the fifth act, Lulu has become a prostitute in late-Victorian London where she encounters Jack the Ripper.
Neil is a TV reporter struggling to re-integrate into domesticity. Back from Darfur with a head full of nightmares, he takes a hammer to his life - and his 15 years of marriage. But is his extra-curricular relationship with Sarah going to mend anything... This hilarious play is set in modern-day Dublin, a city full of celebrity chefs.
Following on from Keith Johnstone's famous "Impro" and Augusto Boal's "Games for Actors and Non-Actors", this book provides ideas and guidance for drama groups of various kinds. It is intended for teachers, theatre directors, and drama workshop leaders.
David Edgar's breakthrough play, Destiny (1976), looked at the rise of racism and the National Front - and wondered about the future shape of a multicultural society in Britain. Now, thirty years on, Edgar looks at the realities of this multiracial nation in a brilliantly layered new play.
Features an investigation - with exercises and techniques - into the wellsprings of improvisation in theatre, dance and music by the author of "House of Games". This book also looks at many famous shows, events and performers with improvisation at their core, ranging from "Commedia dell' Arte" to "The Living Theatre", John Cage, and Lenny Bruce.
In BEDBOUND a father and daughter share a small bed. He talks frantically about his past in furniture sales; she talks no less compulsively about anything at all. In "misterman" we enter the head of Thomas Magill, an unstable man whose mission is to bring God to his fellow townsfolk.
An electrifying, bittersweet love story with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, set in a society divided by racial bigotry and a world rocked by terrorism. Adapted from Malorie Blackman's best-selling novels.
Maureen is a pensioner in search of passion. Since her heart was broken by David from Aberdeen - who happened to be a millionaire as well as the world's best lover - she is finding it difficult to meet anyone who can satisfy her. This book was developed using the author's verbatim theatre technique.
In a trendy wine bar - Bella, 29, is celebrating her birthday with her best friend, Emily, two of her exes, and another, rather loud friend, Sandy. Intercut with their bantering conversation are edgy scenes between Bella and her father, with whom she has a classically difficult relationship, not helped by his having an inoperable brain tumour.
An almost unbearably moving story of veiled emotions running deep, based on the true life situation of Rex Harrison's wife, Kay Kendall, and her early death from cancer.
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding. In The Alchemist Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice in Lovewit's house they promise miraculous services that cost their customers dear. Everything goes swimmingly, until Lovewit returns and the three turn against each other. Edited by Simon Trussler, with an introduction by Colin Counsell.
Plays only release their true meaning on stage. After an introduction to the historical background of Ibsen's play, the reader is conducted scene by scene through the Action of the play, followed by a discussion of the Characters, the Setting, Staging, Lighting, Costumes Props and Furniture.
A biting, heart-warming comedy of love and fate in contemporary Montreal, in a version by Rona Munro.
An irreverent and provocative drama questioning the basis of Christianity, by the author of The Romans in Britain.
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