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Theater for Beginners

Theater for Beginners

By Richard Maxwell

A unique meditation on the art and practice of theatre, from one of its most original thinkers and practitioners.

Thinking Shakespeare

Thinking Shakespeare

A working guide for actors, directors, students… and anyone else interested in the Bard

By Barry Edelstein

Practical advice on how to make Shakespeare’s words feel spontaneous, passionate, and real, from a leading American director and teacher.

This and Other Plays

This and Other Plays

The first collection from a major new voice in American theatre.

Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues

Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues

By Jon Robin Baitz

‘A work of burning anger and bruising emotional power’ about the foisting of powdered milk on Third World infants. Plus seven monologues.

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Three Sisters

Three Sisters

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Paul Schmidt

Paul Schmidt's clear, colloquial and accurate translation of the story of the Prozorov family's dream of returning from the provinces to an idealised Moscow.

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Tracy Letts

An energetic and vitalizing adaptation of one of Anton Chekhov's most beloved plays.

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Three Sisters (Chekhov/Nelson)

Three Sisters (Chekhov/Nelson)

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

A masterful new translation of Chekhov’s exploration of yearning and disillusionment.

Through the Leaves and other plays

Through the Leaves and other plays

By Franz Xaver Kroetz Translated by Roger Downey

Franz Xaver Kroetz is a controversial figure whose works have helped reshape world drama over the last two decades. His unsparing portraits of life in Germany's lower middle-class redefine the notion of realism on the stage.

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Time Stands Still

Time Stands Still

By Donald Margulies

A photojournalist is at home in Brooklyn recovering from serious wounds sustained whilst out covering war-torn Iraq, but longs for the adrenalin rush of her past.

Trying to Find Chinatown

Trying to Find Chinatown

By David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang is known for exploring the complex relationships which bridge Eastern and Western culture in modern America. It is a subject that has long haunted American drama: how, in a land of immigrants, does one deal with one's heritage and construct a sense of identity.

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Two Sisters and a Piano and other plays

Two Sisters and a Piano and other plays

By Nilo Cruz

Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban-American playwright in the US and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer Prize.

Two Trains Running

Two Trains Running

By August Wilson

A play set in a small restaurant in the Pittsburgh Hill District in 1969. Part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

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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

Uncle Vanya (Chekhov/Baker)

Uncle Vanya (Chekhov/Baker)

By Anton Chekhov Adapted by Annie Baker

A version of Chekhov's classic play by the celebrated US playwright, Annie Baker.

Undesirable Elements

Undesirable Elements

Real People, Real Lives, Real Theater

By Ping Chong

A collection celebrating twenty years of Undesirable Elements, the series of community-specific theatre works that examines the lives of people living cultures, either by choice or circumstance.

Venus

Venus

By Suzan-Lori Parks

A bold exploration of colonisation and objectification, based on the true story of the 'Hottentot Venus'.

The Vermont Plays

The Vermont Plays

By Annie Baker

The debut collection of celebrated American playwright Annie Baker, including her Obie award-winning play Circle Mirror Transformation.

Version 3.0

Version 3.0

Contemporary Asian American Plays

Edited by Chay Yew

A major anthology of contemporary Asian American drama, exploring the complexities of gender, sexuality, and family, and demonstrating the cultural and aesthetic diversity of the new generation of Asian American voices.

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