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Then What Happens?

Then What Happens?

Storytelling and Adapting for the Theatre

By Mike Alfreds

A practical investigation into story-theatre and the art of telling stories through theatre, by the renowned director who founded Shared Experience Theatre Company.

Jack Thorne Plays: One

Jack Thorne Plays: One

By Jack Thorne

The first collection of plays by one of the UK's most exciting young writers.

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

By Will Arbery

A haunting play about a group of young conservative Catholics in America encountering crises of confidence in faith, country, and self. A finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Coming to Terms: American Plays & the Vietnam War

Coming to Terms: American Plays & the Vietnam War

Edited by James Reston Jr.

An inspiring and often poignant collection of plays written in the era of the Vietnam War, from some of the most revered American playwrights, reflecting on the social and political ethos of a pivotal moment for America.

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My Life in Pieces

My Life in Pieces (Hardback edition)

An Alternative Autobiography

By Simon Callow

An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.

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Here We Stand

Here We Stand

Politics, Performers & Performance

By Colin Chambers

Here We Stand looks at the very different careers of Paul Robeson, Isadora Duncan and Charlie Chaplin and how their artistic work was affected by their determined stand for what they believed was right

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What Do I Know?

What Do I Know?

People, Politics and the Arts

By Richard Eyre

A collection of fifty short pieces written by the former Artistic Director of the National Theatre.

Two for the Show

Two for the Show

Scenes for student actors

Edited by Brian Kennedy

A fascinating collection of short scenes for two actors. Drawn from the work of Canada's premiere playwrights, the thirty-nine different scenes have been chosen by an experienced drama teacher, with easy directions and theatre terms explained.

Perfect Pie

Perfect Pie

By Judith Thompson

A potent drama set over the course of a single afternoon. A reunion between two long-estranged women brings to light a buried memory and two teenagers' wild secret.

Danny, King of the Basement

Danny, King of the Basement

By David S. Craig

A heartwarming play about a boy who creates an imaginary world to deal with the instability and hardship of his daily life.

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The Drawer Boy

The Drawer Boy

By Michael Healey

A multi-award winning, bitter-sweet tale of the power of storytelling, friendship, and the very thin line between truth and fiction.

Into the Woods

Into the Woods

By Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

A modern musical twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales.

A Dybbuk and other tales of the supernatural

A Dybbuk and other tales of the supernatural

By Tony Kushner and Joachim Neugroschel

The classic Yiddish tale by S. Ansky, adapted by Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America, and Joachim Neugroschel.

Out From Under

Out From Under

Texts by women performance artists

Edited by Lenora Champagne By various

A collection of provocative, ambitious texts by women performance artists.

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.

Pacific Overtures

Pacific Overtures

By Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman

Exploring the opening up of Japan to American influence and using motifs from Japanese theatre and music, this is one of Sondheim's most adventurous musicals.

Assassins

Assassins

By Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman

A dark and funny look at the end of the American dream - Stephen Sondheim lifts musical theatre to new heights of brilliance.

The Essential Bogosian

The Essential Bogosian

By Eric Bogosian

A collection of work by Eric Bogosian, one of America's leading performers and most original playwrights.

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