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Playing Joan

Playing Joan

Actresses on the Challenge of Shaw's Saint Joan

By Holly Hill

Interviews with 26 actresses who have played George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, including Eileen Atkins, Elisabeth Bergner, Judi Dench, Wendy Hiller, Barbara Jefford, Siobhan McKenna, Sarah Miles, Joan Plowright.

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In Their Own Words

In Their Own Words

Contemporary American Playwrights

By David Savran

Interviews with 20 leading American playwrights, each with a substantial introduction.

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Strasberg at the Actors Studio

Strasberg at the Actors Studio

By Lee Strasberg Edited by Robert H. Hethmon

Transcriptions of actual tuition sessions by the originator of Method Acting - the next best thing to being taught by Strasberg himself.

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Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater

Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater

By Richard Foreman

Includes essays and playscripts: The Cure, Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good, Symphony of Rats, What Did He See? and Lava, with a Foreword by Peter Sellars

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Kenneth Tynan: Theatre Writings

Kenneth Tynan: Theatre Writings

By Kenneth Tynan Edited by Dominic Shellard

The best of Kenneth Tynan's theatre criticism, selected and edited by his biographer Dominic Shellard - with a foreword by Tom Stoppard.

Primo Time

Primo Time

By Antony Sher

Antony Sher's enthralling account of the struggle – and the triumph – of bringing Primo Levi's Auschwitz memoir to the stage.

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Chekhov's Three Sisters

Chekhov's Three Sisters

A Study Guide

By Michael Pennington

A highly accessible guide to the play, taking you scene by scene through the action, analysing moment by moment what is actually said and done, and how the staging of these moments affects our understanding of them.

Love Is Where It Falls

Love Is Where It Falls

An Account of a Passionate Friendship

By Simon Callow

Simon Callow's candid and moving memoir of his passionate friendship with legendary literary agent Peggy Ramsay.

Richard Foreman: The Manifestos and Essays

Richard Foreman: The Manifestos and Essays

By Richard Foreman

A collection of writings from the acclaimed and wildly inventive artist Richard Foreman.

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Year of the Mad King: The Lear Diaries

Year of the Mad King: The Lear Diaries

By Antony Sher

Antony Sher's account of researching, rehearsing and performing one of Shakespeare's greatest roles, Lear, in the 2016 Royal Shakespeare Company production. Winner of the 2019 Theatre Book Prize.

The Necessary Theatre

The Necessary Theatre

By Peter Hall

A distillation of Sir Peter Hall's thinking on the state of theatre. Part of the Dramatic Contexts series.

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The Ground On Which I Stand

The Ground On Which I Stand

By August Wilson

A passionate and controversial call for black cultural separatism, from the author of the Olivier award-winning Jitney and the Pulitzer Prize-winning King Hedley II.

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The Empty Space

The Empty Space

By Peter Brook

Peter Brook's seminal book, an acknowledged classic of theatre writing, setting out many of the ideas about theatre which informed his lifelong work as a theatre director.

Poetics

Poetics

By Aristotle Translated by Kenneth McLeish

A clear and authoritative edition of one of the most influential tracts in world theatre, a text that is crucial to an understanding of how drama works, and how it has evolved.

A Moment Towards the End of the Play...

A Moment Towards the End of the Play...

An Autobiography

By Timothy West

A revised and expanded edition of the autobiography that has delighted readers and theatregoers since its first publication in 2001.

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Gambon

Gambon

A Life in Acting

By Mel Gussow

A unique collection of interviews with Sir Michael Gambon, ranging over thirteen years, offering a fascinating picture of this most mischievously evasive of actors.

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Pinter in the Theatre

Pinter in the Theatre

By Ian Smith

An exploration of Harold Pinter's work in the theatre – through interviews with the man himself and with actors and directors who worked with him.

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Ibsen's A Doll's House

Ibsen's A Doll's House

A Study Guide

By Stephen Unwin

A highly accessible guide to the play, taking you scene by scene through the action, analysing moment by moment what is actually said and done, and how the staging of these moments affects our understanding of them.

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