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This workbook draws together over 100 of the most frequently used and treasured exercises from playwrights across the wo......more

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Scenography in Musical Theatre answers the questions: What are the ways that scenography acts as a mode of storytelling ......more

’Tender and rigorous, this book invites readers to linger with difficult pasts and consider how best to grasp their haun......more

Speaking Our Selves brings together plays by women writers from the under-represented African countries of Tanzania, Moz......more

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Where is the line that separates the "normal" from the "abnormal"? Liubov, a young Ukrainian woman of small nobility, st......more

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Cultural politics in women’s performance art. This book uses the work of British live artist and Showwoman Marisa Carnes......more

"How can performance transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creatio......more

This fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural......more

With this book, Brooke O’Harra takes up directing as an artistic practice in and of itself. Speaking beyond and against ......more

With this book, Brooke O’Harra takes up directing as an artistic practice in and of itself. Speaking beyond and against ......more

In an adaptation of the classic Canadian novel, this epic play follows three generations of a Cape Breton Island family ......more

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic......more

Exploring reconciliation and connection through a story that spans seven generations, Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy) tell......more

In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, a......more

Jacq and Kas’s boutique restaurant has gone bust, and telling their oldest friends Adaego and her rich husband Tobin tha......more

For Charly, every day is the same. Things used to be different, when there was Clo, but now there isn’t Clo, and Charly ......more

"With great pleasure Layla & Joel Invite you to celebrate their marriage. Dress code is smart casual. Doors at 7.30 p.m.......more

July 1889, London. A flea bites a rat. A rat spooks a horse. A horse kicks a man. As the chain reaction continues, a boy......more

Casey’s new boyfriend Brett is handsome, romantic and devoted - a dream come true. He writes poetry! He makes quiche! Fo......more

1917: World War One is raging in Europe. In Britain, Sterling Ladies - known as the Dagenham Invincibles - are playing t......more

Mustapha Matura Award - 2022 Malachi’s been looking forward to a fresh start at uni for months. He’s settling in, he’s g......more

Our most brilliant, fearless and creative women directors open the door on their craft, discussing their work in the the......more

Edinburgh Fringe First Award - 2022 A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up comedian finally meets his Mr......more

What does it mean to be in a place and out of place at the same time? Gabrielle Civil explores this question by making b......more

Fifty Key Improv Performers highlights the history, development, and impact of improvisational theatre by highlighting n......more

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The Incomplete Amber Reed is a rigorously incomplete compendium of Amber Reed’s partial, unfinished, and excerpted plays......more

Among the longest continuously performed dramatic forms in the world, nō and kyōgen have a wealth of connections to Japa......more

This book examines one of the most pervasive and successful dramatic tropes of the Restoration and early eighteenth cent......more

Discover the cognitive, social, emotional, and other psychological benefits of learning how to act and perform. This boo......more

As experts in both applied theatre and education, Au Yi-Man and John O’Toole outline how applied theatre techniques can ......more

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Relational Improvisation explores the creative exchanges that occur between artistic disciplines through the practice of......more

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Sisters Sissy and Yewina have been on their own for who knows how long exactly. It’s just them (and their hens) in a wea......more

In 2019, a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter stood with their audience in a liminal space at the edge of the w......more

From Sumer and Babylon-the cradle of civilization; the lands between two rivers that birthed writing and drowned humanit......more

This Element explores how theatre responded to the death and loss produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by innovating forms......more

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It starts - like many stories - with a man. A man leaving - heard that before? A man going off to find his fortune. A ma......more

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This publication brings together current scholarship that focuses on the significance of performing arts heritage of roy......more

In the Downing Street Press Office an emergency meeting has been called. The Prime Minister has been ad-libbing on live ......more

When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle’s great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets.......more

Five wildly different women gather in the muddy fields of the Highland Games circuit to compete in the obscure art of Ba......more

Helen is forty when she loses her husband. Her daughter Becca is fifteen when her dad dies. Now it’s just the two of the......more

On his fifteenth birthday, Noble transforms into a bird. Thousands of miles away, his sister Cleo is stationed on a remo......more

Es and Flo fell fiercely in love in the eighties. They’ve been living as secret lovers ever since. As Es becomes more fo......more

David is gay, disabled and profoundly horny. He can’t eat, drink or shower by himself - or wank. Totally inexperienced, ......more

Mary has just been released from prison. She wants to come home and forget all about it - but Briana has other ideas. Ov......more

Sophie is about to become a single mum - a third-generation one - and she’s terrified. How will she afford to feed her b......more

When ’intimidating’ Rachel and eternal ’nice guy’ Nick meet at an awkward work Christmas party, what was meant to be a o......more

Amber is trapped - by her family’s rules and expectations, and by her own fears. But on the running track she feels free......more

It’s 1874, and Elizabeth Thompson stuns the artistic establishment with her painting The Roll Call. Five years later, sh......more

The short play - very traditional to Irish theatre - is a little jewel of a structure, a lightning flash on a different ......more

Crisis Theatre and The Living Newspapers traces a history of the living newspaper as a theatre of crisis from Soviet Rus......more

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So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib-tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish, audi......more