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The second collection of work by Olivier award-winning British playwright Laura Wade, bursting with her trademark satiri......more

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

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

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory offers a comprehensive introduction and overview of screenplay theor......more

This collection brings Crothers’s best plays back into the public eye, outside of archives, to prove their continued rel......more

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When Bob and Dick Sherman--two relatively unknown songwriters--first walked onto the Walt Disney Studios lot to pitch a ......more

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A very John Waters traveling show, replete with freaks, robbery, murder, sex, blasphemy, and savage shellfish--a lurid, ......more

"Burroughs famously dubbed Waters the Pope of Trash. Female Trouble, we might say, is his Summa Trashologica." --Ed Halt......more

Ghosts, a toy horse, an ostrich egg, and a menagerie of apocalyptic and chimerical beasts feature in these characteristi......more

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Acting Heightened Text: The Basics offers a foundational understanding of heightened text in drama, fused with a truthfu......more

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Harry Watkins was no one special. During a career that spanned four decades, this nineteenth-century actor yearned for f......more

Harry Watkins was no one special. During a career that spanned four decades, this nineteenth-century actor yearned for f......more

Scriptwriting for Theatre and Screen: A Practical Guide is an introduction designed to help readers understand the natur......more

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’So funny - Nabokov meets Spinal Tap.’ STEPHEN MERCHANT ’Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.’ TIM KEY ’Absolutely miraculou......more

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Love affairs of the young men from eminent families and the courtesans who were trained to entertain (and to fleece) the......more

This book presents a new theater play, For Three Refrigerators and a Washing Machine, along with a thorough introduction......more

This book explores the works of Humanist/Absurdist American playwright Jack Gelber (1932-2003), whose groundbreaking, im......more

This book is the first to explore Shaw’s full involvement with the twentieth-century British regional repertory movement......more

This book tracks dramaturgical affinities between some of Bernard Shaw’s late "extravagant" plays and those of Noël Cowa......more

The book examines how early twentieth century Black theatre artists depicted national mythologies of the United States. ......more

Drawing on qualitative research exploring the techniques of playwriting instructors, this book outlines signature pedago......more

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Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights Second Edition provides a revised and greatly expande......more

Offering a definitive approach by which any individual may learn to unleash the power of the personal, this book provide......more

Offering a definitive approach by which any individual may learn to unleash the power of the personal, this book provide......more

Adapted for the stage by acclaimed actor-writer-director Leah Purcell, Is That You, Ruthie? The Play brings Ruth Hegarty......more

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One half of the duo that co-wrote (with Yorgos Lanthimos) such cinematic masterpieces as Dogtooth, The Lobster, and Kind......more

Édouard Glissant has emerged as one of the major figures of 20th-century postcolonial literature, and his novels, poetry......more

This Malone Society edition of Barnabe Barnes’s The Devil’s Charter presents a photo-facsimile of the 1607 quarto, with ......more

A grotesque and hilarious satire about the American dream, suburban living, and the corrupting influence of power, set i......more

One part of John Waters’ iconic Trash Trilogy, Flamingos Forever is a dark-comedy screenplay about a drag queen trying t......more

"when I admire a film they say to me yes, it’s very pretty but it’s not cinema so I asked myself what it was" Phrases pr......more

An insightful presentation of Indian film scripts that explore alienation and loss in middle-class life. Renowned Indian......more

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How are plays constructed? Taking this essential question and looking at a broad range of Western plays, from Greek trag......more

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Black Playwrights and Heightened Text: When Shakespeare Ain’t Enuf breaks down the misconception that heightened text si......more

Black Playwrights and Heightened Text: When Shakespeare Ain’t Enuf breaks down the misconception that heightened text si......more

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In All Together Now (first published in 1984), Steve Gooch, himself a playwright with extensive experience of ’community......more

Collecting together Fin del Mundo, Valley of the Heart, and Adíos Mamá Carlota, this book compiles the latest plays of L......more

Presents the history and an analysis of the experimental theater works produced by Bodies in Flight. Based in Bristol an......more

Presents the history and an analysis of the experimental theater works produced by Bodies in Flight. Based in Bristol an......more

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This book explores Neil Bartlett’s groundbreaking contributions to queer cultural production in the UK. It adopts a rang......more

He’s coming to South Shields to help us........ Muhammad Ali is the people’s champion..... Jonny’s gone over there to te......more

The family is the foundation of a nation. Playwright, translator, and director Guelan Varela-Luarca’s three plays in Nat......more

A great deal has been written about early modern temporality, both by scholars of Renaissance drama and historians of ch......more

The only collection of Richard Schechner’s plays. This book offers a collection of Richard Schechner’s performance texts......more

The biggest impediment for a screenwriter is not talent, time or money but false assumptions about how to write-in other......more

The biggest impediment for a screenwriter is not talent, time or money but false assumptions about how to write-in other......more

The theory and practice of propaganda are of increasing interest in this century, as authoritarian regimes make growing ......more

Willy Russell’s 1983 play with music tells the story of twin brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot aff......more

I...think I mistake correspondence for contact sometimes. During the course of a routine shift on the content moderation......more

Two Lads. Two season tickets to Newcastle United needed. No cash. What could possibly go wrong? Gerry and Sewell live in......more