American Set Design
An exploration of the careers and personal viewpoints of eleven major US set designers, combining research, commentary, extensive interviews and nearly 150 photographs, sketches, renderings and model designs.
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The Way of Acting
A landmark collection of the writings of one of the world's foremost contemporary theatre artists, offering Western audiences long-overdue insight into Suzuki's singular artistry.
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Playing Joan
Actresses on the Challenge of Shaw's Saint Joan
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
Contemporary American Playwrights
Interviews with 20 leading American playwrights, each with a substantial introduction.
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The Gospel at Colonus
Writing at the end of his own long life, in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles depicts his doomed hero's final hours; at the moment of his death the aged Oedipus is free at last. Envisaging this meditation on mortality as a rousing service in a black church, Lee Breuer has created a remarkable text based on Robert Fitzgerald's splendid translation.
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Advice to the Players
On Acting
A practical programme of study for the actor, by one of the founders of the famous Actors Studio.
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Love & Science
This selection of texts makes original and inimitable works of music-theatre accessible to a wide audience for the first time.
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Strasberg at the Actors Studio
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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Spunk
A dazzlingly entertaining dramatisation of three stories by the celebrated black iconoclast, Zora Heale Hurston: a rich folk tapestry of rural and urban black America in the 20th century.
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Pacific Overtures
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.
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Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet
Fifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.
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Fantasio and other plays
Four plays by the great French Romantic poet Alfred de Musset (1810-57) in accomplished modern translations by American theatre practitioners.
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Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater
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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Tales of the Lost Formicans and other plays
Four plays from one of America's finest playwrights, endowed with compassion, keen insight and an unfailing comic sensibility.
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The America Play and other works
A volume of work by the innovative African-American playwright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog.
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Raised in Captivity
The story of two siblings reunited at their mother's funeral.
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A Fair Country
A play in the tradition of Arthur Miller: an impassioned exploration of the impact of politics on an American family.
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Marisol and other plays
A collection of plays by the influential Puerto Rican playwright, bearing his hallmark traits of magic realism and expressionism.
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