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Eight

Eight

By Ella Hickson

Eight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage.

Eileen Atkins on Viola

Eileen Atkins on Viola

Performing Shakespeare

By Eileen Atkins and Julian Curry

Eileen Atkins discusses playing Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, in this ebook taken from Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2 - Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles.

Electra

Electra

By Sophocles Translated by Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton

A tragic tale of duty, retribution and fate, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Electric Rosary

Electric Rosary

By Tim Foley

A sharp, timely and gloriously funny play that asks what faith really means in the age of artificial intelligence. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize Judges' Award.

Elektra

Elektra (West End edition)

By Sophokles Translated by Anne Carson

The timeless Greek tragedy, in a magisterial translation by award-winning poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson. Published alongside the West End production in 2025.

The Elemental Actor

The Elemental Actor

How to Release Your Hidden Powers

By Mel Churcher

A practical guide for actors, giving you the tools to harness each of the elemental energies, and use them to make your acting work more powerful and alive. Full of games, exercises and practical tips. From an international acting, dialogue and voice coach who has worked with some of the biggest stars of stage and screen.

Elephants

Elephants

By Rose Heiney

A sharp black comedy with a tender heart that explores the paths we take in life and their repercussions on the people we love most.

Elizabeth Gordon Quinn

Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (National Theatre of Scotland version)

By Chris Hannan

A contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.

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Kevin Elyot: Four Plays

Kevin Elyot: Four Plays

By Kevin Elyot

A collection of plays from the acclaimed author of My Night With Reg, spanning twenty years of work from a playwright who brilliantly captured the comedy of pain.

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Emma

Emma (stage version)

By Jane Austen Adapted by Doon MacKichan and Martin Millar

A bold, witty and fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's novel which, while thoroughly modern, retains the spirit and much of the language of the original.

Emperor and Galilean

Emperor and Galilean

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Ben Power

A thrilling version of Ibsen's epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.

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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.