For Actors Books

New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 49

(1997)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies. Topics covered in NTQ 49 include: Lmma Lyon, the 'Attitude', an...

New Theatre Quarterly 77: Volume 20, Part 1

(2006)

New Theatre Quarterly provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. Volume 77 includes: The 'Wicked City' Motif on the American Stage before the Civil War; An Eighteenth-Century Performance Analysis: Böttiger on Iffland; Practice as Research in Performance: a Personal Response; Jeremy Sandford: a Docu-Retrospect; British Radio Dramaturgy and the Effects of the New C...

New Theatre Quarterly 77: Volume 20, Part 1

New Theatre Quarterly 76: Volume 19, Part 4

(2003)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. Articles in volume 76 include: Street Scene: Berlin's Strasse des 17 Juni and the Performance of (Dis)unity; Whose Method? Culture, Commerce, and American Performer Training; Against Inclusivity: a Happy Heresy about Theory and Practice; The Sri Lankan Ritual of Devol Madu: Problematizing Dharm...

New Theatre Quarterly 76: Volume 19, Part 4

New Theatre Quarterly 75: Volume 19, Part 3

(2004)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. Articles in volume 75 include: Learning the Facts of Life: Forty Years as a TV Dramatist; The Limits of Theatre: Academic versus Professional Understanding of Theatre Problems; Glory Box: Tim Miller's Autobiography of the Future; 'As Rude As You Like--Honest': Theatre Criticism and the Law; Br...

New Theatre Quarterly 75: Volume 19, Part 3

New Theatre Quarterly 65: Volume 17, Part 1

(2001)

Articles in Volume 65 include: The Present and Future of Small-Scale Theatre: the Coventry Experience; Patterns of Theatrical Education: the National Council for Drama Training Report; Theatre of the Impossible: the Creation of a Jewish Theatre; Dramaturgy according to Daedalus; Forty Years of Theatre for the Cypriot Community: George Eugeniou and Theatro Technis.

New Theatre Quarterly 65: Volume 17, Part 1

New Theatre Quarterly 64: Volume 16, Part 4

(2001)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies. Articles in volume 64 include: The Artwork Judges Them: the Thea...

New Theatre Quarterly 64: Volume 16, Part 4

New Theatre Quarterly 61: Volume 16, Part 1

(2000)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies. Articles in volume 61 include: Animating Morecambe: Forkbeard F...

New Theatre Quarterly 61: Volume 16, Part 1

New Theatre Quarterly 58: Volume 15, Part 2

(1999)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies. Topics likely to be covered in NTQ 58 include: Risking Everything: Political Theatre, Mass Audiences, and the Critics in Rural Germany; Female Jewish Comedians: Using Grotesque Mimesis to Transgress Stereotypes...

New Theatre Quarterly 58: Volume 15, Part 2

New Theatre Quarterly 57: Volume 15, Part 1

(1999)

New Theatre Quarterly provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning.

New Theatre Quarterly 57: Volume 15, Part 1

New Theatre Quarterly 55: Volume 14, Part 3

(1998)

New Theatre Quarterly provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning.

New Theatre Quarterly 55: Volume 14, Part 3

New Theatre Quarterly 53: Volume 14, Part 1

(1998)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies. Topics covered in NTQ 53 include: Playing (with) Shakespeare: B...

New Theatre Quarterly 53: Volume 14, Part 1

New Theatre Quarterly 52: Volume 13, Part 4

(1998)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies. Topics covered in NTQ 52 include: Resistance and Resilience: th...

New Theatre Quarterly 52: Volume 13, Part 4

New Theatre Quarterly 51: Volume 13, Part 3

(1997)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies. Topics covered in NTQ 51 include: The Paradoxes of Gender in En...

New Theatre Quarterly 51: Volume 13, Part 3

New Theatre Quarterly 50: Volume 13, Part 2

(1997)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies. Topics covered in NTQ 50 include: Postmodernism, Capitalism, an...

New Theatre Quarterly 50: Volume 13, Part 2

New Theatre Quarterly 47: Volume 12, Part 3

(1996)

One of a series discussing topics of interest in theatre studies from theoretical, methodological, philosophical and historical perspectives. The books are aimed at drama and theatre teachers, advanced students in schools and colleges, arts authorities, actors, playwrights, critics and directors.

New Theatre Quarterly 47: Volume 12, Part 3

New Theatre Quarterly 44: Volume 11, Part 4

(1996)

New Theatre Quarterly provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet. Topics covered in number 44 include: 'Spectatorial Theory in the Age of the Media Culture', and 'The Company You Keep: Subversive Thoughts on the Impact of the Playwright and the Performer'.

New Theatre Quarterly 44: Volume 11, Part 4

New Theatre Quarterly 41: Volume 11, Part 1

(1995)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a valuable international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning.

New Theatre Quarterly 41: Volume 11, Part 1

New Theatre Quarterly 39: Volume 10, Part 3

(1994)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance.

New Theatre Quarterly 39: Volume 10, Part 3

New Theatre Quarterly 38: Volume 10, Part 2

(1994)

Topics in New Theatre Quarterly, 38, include Fulvia Guiliani, portrait of a futurist actress; ideological production and mass spectacle in popular front Britain; working in the margin: women in theatre history; Stanislavsky directing Chekhov; and the genesis of theatre anthropology.

New Theatre Quarterly 38: Volume 10, Part 2

New Theatre Quarterly 37: Volume 10, Part 1

(1994)

Based on a pair of comic dramas from ancient Rome, The Comedy of Errors presents a spectacle of pure farce in the spirit of utmost fun and - as the title suggests - hilarious confusion. Two sets of identical twins provide the basis for ongoing incidents of mistaken identity, within a lively plot of quarrels, arrests, and a grand courtroom denouement. One of Shakespeare's earliest dramatic efforts, the play abounds in his trademark conceits, puns, and other forms of fanciful wordplay. It also fo...

New Theatre Quarterly 37: Volume 10, Part 1

New Theatre Quarterly 35: Volume 9, Part 3

(1993)

Provides an international forum for the discussion of topics of current interest in theatre studies. This issue includes articles on women and theatre in Spain; Sarah Bernhardt in Vaudeville; Giorgio Strehler's 'Faust' project; Deborah Levy in interview; and social space in ancient theatre.

New Theatre Quarterly 35: Volume 9, Part 3

New Theatre Quarterly 33: Volume 9, Part 1

(1993)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to critical questioning. Articles in Volume 66 will include: Dario Fo, the Commune, and the Battle for the Palazzina Liberty; Dramaturgy according to Daedalus; 'Other' Spaces of Translation: the Theatre of Bernard-Marie Koltès; 'Everybody Got Their Brown Dress': Millennium Revivals of the Medieval Mysteries; 'Suffrage Shrews':...

New Theatre Quarterly 33: Volume 9, Part 1

New Theatre Quarterly 31: Volume 8, Part 3

(1992)

Part 31 of the New Theatre Quarterly, which provides a lively international forum for discussion of topics of current interest in theatre studies. This edition includes articles on 'The Four Horsemen' at the Citizen's Theatre, popular urban theatre in Uganda and body language.

New Theatre Quarterly 31: Volume 8, Part 3

New Theatre Quarterly 30: Volume 8, Part 2

(1992)

One of a series discussing topics of interest in theatre studies from theoretical, methodological, philosophical and historical perspectives. The books are aimed at drama and theatre teachers, advanced students in schools and colleges, arts authorities, actors, playwrights, critics and directors.

New Theatre Quarterly 30: Volume 8, Part 2

New Theatre Quarterly 29: Volume 8, Part 1

(1992)

Part of a series which discusses topics of current interest in theatre studies, from the perspective of theory, methodology, philosophy or history.

New Theatre Quarterly 29: Volume 8, Part 1

New Theatre Quarterly 43: Volume 11, Part 3

(1995)

This journal provides a forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet and where dramatic assumptions can be questioned. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology, and theatre criticism needs a language

New Theatre Quarterly 43: Volume 11, Part 3

New Theatre Quarterly 45: Volume 12, Part 1

(1996)

New Theatre Quarterly provides a forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet. Topics covered in number 45 include: Palimpsestus: Frank Wedekind's Theatre of Self Performance, and 'Leaking Bodies and Fractured Texts': Representing the Female Body at the Omaha Magic Theatre.

New Theatre Quarterly 45: Volume 12, Part 1

Devised and Collaborative Theatre: A Practical Guide

(2002)

This book is written for all companies, student and professional, who are interested in non-text-based theatre and shines a practical light on the passionate business of the devising process. It includes suggestions and advice on getting started and developing trust and communication within the devising company; how to research and use the results to stimulate ideas and discussion in the rehearsal period; encouraging, channelling, and developing ideas in the rehearsal room; discovering and incor...

Devised and Collaborative Theatre: A Practical Guide

Theatre Games: A New Approach to Drama Training

(2010)

Clive Barker's book is more than just a guidebook of improvisational games for actors: it is, rather a comprehensive exploration of acting techniques New York Theatre Review "Theatre Games is a massive contribution to the art of theatre...A bulging portfolio of credo, craft, advice and instruction... It is dazzlingly astute and a thrilling read - quite unlike a text-book, rather a long, fascinating chat into the small hours" The Stage Theatre games are a method of training actors that was dev...

Theatre Games: A New Approach to Drama Training

AWAKE AND SING. A PLAY IN THREE ACTS

(1935)

Awake and Sing! is a drama written by American playwright Clifford Odets. The play was initially produced by The Group Theatre in 1935. The play is set in The Bronx in 1933; it concerns the impoverished Berger family and their conflicts as the parents scheme to manipulate their children's relationships to their own ends, while their children strive for their own dreams.

The Jew of Malta

(1997)

One of the best-known works by the hugely influential English Renaissance dramatist Christopher Marlowe. The Introduction discusses the significance of this brilliant and major work, with detailed commentary provided for meanings of difficult words, lines, and references.

Doctor Faustus

(1991)

Marlowe's classic treatment of the myth of man's greed and ambition has contemporary reverberations that make it compelling drama. Plays for Performance Series.

A Myth of Shakespeare

(2010)

This play contains no thesis of Shakespeare's life, character, or genius, except that he was a born poet and working dramatist. The scenes included were intended, quite mythically, to represent barely possible incidents in his life, passages read to or by his friends, or performances in his theatre.-adapted from the Note Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable-the unseen world interpenetrates o...

The Theatre of Howard Barker

(2005)

In this second, fully revised edition of his acclaimed study of Barker's work, Charles Lamb sets out to make emotional sense of the characters and their interactions. This is a detailed exploration of the 'scene of seduction' - the challenge, the secret, the abject and the catastrophic, processes which dominate Barker's work. For Lamb, the power of Barker's plays is to be found in the exposure to the irrational and its promotion of a state of unknowing. This revised edition includes: *...

The Saint's Tragedy

(2006)

The writer of this play does not differ with his countrymen generally, as to the nature and requirements of a Drama. He has learnt from our Great Masters that it should exhibit human beings engaged in some earnest struggle, certain outward aspects of which may possibly be a spectacle for the amusement of idlers, but which in itself is for the study and the sympathy of those who are struggling themselves.

Plays and Puritans

(2010)

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Great Britain; Theater; Literary Criticism / Drama; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Performing Arts / Theater / History

A Christmas Carol

(2001)

Paul Sills, the master of improvisation and found of The Second City and creator of Story Theatre - and who has influenced some of theatre's most important directors, writers and actors - adapts for stage one of the classic works of literature, Charles Dickens' masterpiece, A Christmas Carol.Included as well are some of the exercises devised for Story Theater by Viola Spolin, renowned for her work with games and improvisation and whose best-selling text has become the definitive guide to improv...

The Chosen

(2000)

The Chosen is a novel/play written by Chaim Potok. It was published in 1967. It follows the main character Reuven Malter and his friend Daniel Saunders, as they grow up in New York in the 1940s. A sequel featuring Reuven's young adult years is titled The Promise.

The Methuen Book of Modern Drama: Plays of the '80s and '90s

(2003)

Published to celebrate twenty years of Methuen's Royal Court Writers Series, this volume contains five ground-breaking plays of the eighties and nineties.

The Methuen Book of Modern Drama: Plays of the '80s and '90s

Pinocchio

(2001)

Noted writer Leon Katz, the champion of the present day commmedia dell'arte, has written a brand-new stage adaptation for children's theatre. Included are the costume sketches, the stage cues and even a few of the stage tricks used to bring not just Pinocchio but all of the play to real life in its acclaimed original American Children's Theatre production.

A Heiner Muller Reader: Plays, Poetry, Prose

(2006)

Heiner Muller was born in Eppendorf, Saxony, into a working-class family. His father, a socialist, was beaten, arrested, and lost his job during the Nazi regime. Muller too became a socialist and was a civil servant in East Germany and later worked as a journalist and technical writer for the East German Writers’ Union. He honed his skills as a dramatist working at the Maxim Gorki Theater in East Berlin in the late 1950s. Muller wrote three plays with his wife, Inge Muller. The pair won th...

A Heiner Muller Reader: Plays, Poetry, Prose

The Man from Home

(2007)

Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis. He first attended Purdue University but graduated from Princeton University in 1893. While at Princeton he was the editor of the Nassau Literary Magazine and formed the Princeton Triangle Club. He was also voted the most popular man in his class. He was one of the most popular American no...

The Mother

(1994)

The Mother is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It is based on Maxim Gorky’s 1906 novel of the same name. It was written in collaboration with Hanns Eisler, Slatan Dudow and Günter Weisenborn from 1930–31 in prose dialogue with unrhymed irregular free verse and ten initial songs in its score, with three more added later. It premièred at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, opening on 17 January 1932. It was directed by Emil Burri and the scenic design was by...

Visions of Simone Machard, The: Schweyk in the Second World War

(1987)

Schweik in the Second World War is a play by German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht. It was written by Brecht in 1943 while in exile in California, and is a sequel to the 1923 novel The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek. It is set in Prague and on the Russian Front during World War II. It is a satirical tale of a common man, Schweyk, who is forced into war and manages to survive. He overcomes dangerous situations in Gestapo Headquarters, a military prison, and a Voluntary Labor Service. ...

Visions of Simone Machard, The: Schweyk in the Second World War

The Resistable Rise Of Arturo Ui

(2010)

In this savage and witty parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht recasts the rise of Hitler as a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. This prizewinning translation by Ralph Manheim skilfully captures the wide range of parody and pastiche in the original - from Richard III to Al Capone, from Mark Antony to Faust - without diminishing the horror of the real-life Nazi prototypes.

Saint Joan of the Stockyards

(1970)

"A major Brecht play in an outstanding translation with an expert and up-to-date preface." -- Eric Bentley "... a fine translation.... Jones has handled Brecht's meters with great skill." -- Choice

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

(1999)

Writing in exile in the USA during the Second World War, Brecht borrowed from an ancient Chinese story-echoed in the Judgement of Solomon-in which two women both claim the same child. Brecht's subversion of this tale provides a parable which seems to say that resources should go to those in whose hands they will be most productive. Thanks to the rascally judge, Azdak, one of Brecht's most vivid creations, this story, at least, has a happy outcome. The child is entrusted to the peasant Grusha, w...

Sejanus: His Fall

(2006)

We stand not in the lines, that do advance To that so courted point.

The Poetaster Or His Arraignment

(2008)

Johnson coined the term poetmaster, which he defined as "an inferior poet with pretensions to artistic value". Ben Johnson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. He is known for his satirical plays such as Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. Johnson was a great reader and lover of controversy. Johnson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets. In 1616 he received an annual pension, making him the first Poet Laureate of Engla...

Plays And Poems

(2007)

Ben Jonson’s “Song to Celia” is known to millions as “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes.” Jonson was educated at the prestigious Westminster School in London. He took up acting, and by 1597 he was writing original plays. Jonson’s first widely acclaimed play, Every Man in His Humour, included William Shakespeare in its cast.

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