Biography & general

The Necessary Theatre

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

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

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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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

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.