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
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The best contemporary plays from other countries can bring a strikingly fresh point of view to our English-language stag......more
The best contemporary plays from other countries can bring a strikingly fresh point of view to our English-language stag......more
The first play collection of Rifco Theatre’s work, this book is a celebration, a call to action, and an essential read f......more
The first play collection of Rifco Theatre’s work, this book is a celebration, a call to action, and an essential read f......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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Red Velvet uses imagined experiences based on the often-forgotten, but true, story of Ira Aldridge, an African-American ......more
"Bhuchar is a captivating storyteller, her words conjuring up visions of an antiquated India or a casual modern day home......more
"Bhuchar is a captivating storyteller, her words conjuring up visions of an antiquated India or a casual modern day home......more
A vibrant celebration of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning masterpiece that explores its rich history, includes i......more
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The screenplay of the latest film from Wes Anderson. THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME: The story of a family and a family business.......more
Go deeper into the groundbreaking, Emmy-winning series with the complete, authorized scripts of Stranger Things: Season ......more
The concluding volume of the Partition Quartet Screenplays of Ritwik Ghatak, Subarnarekha is a devastating critique of t......more
Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the Engl......more
"Chris writes dialogue that’s the easiest I’ve ever spoken, even though it’s the deepest feelings I’ve expressed as a ch......more
John Ford’s tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely ......more
Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, with such celebrated productions as The Hot l Baltimor......more
Bridging the worlds of psychology theory and visual storytelling, this book provides a unique and compelling guide for s......more
Bridging the worlds of psychology theory and visual storytelling, this book provides a unique and compelling guide for s......more
For the first time available to read, the screenplays for Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump’s award-winning, groundbreaking film......more
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory offers a comprehensive introduction and overview of screenplay theor......more
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Myung-Wha Kim is an acclaimed Korean playwright, critic, and director. This book marks the first translated play collect......more
Myung-Wha Kim is an acclaimed Korean playwright, critic, and director. This book marks the first translated play collect......more
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Originally published in 1952 this book assembles what the author called ’the basic jokes’ of theatrical burlesque. It tr......more
Owerri, Nigeria, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Sisters Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of ......more
This book is the first to use artificial intelligence, especially large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, to exami......more
How do female Chilean playwrights address historical trauma, gender critique and collective memory in post-dictatorship,......more
How do female Chilean playwrights address historical trauma, gender critique and collective memory in post-dictatorship,......more
What do a Dutch school drama and a Swedish royal tragedy have in common? TransLatin uncovers the unexpected journeys of ......more
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A fascinating exploration of the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare’s beloved plays. Shakespeare’s pla......more
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the writer’s four great plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, a......more
The facsimile typewritten and annotated script of the 1981 cult classic, together with the shocking never-before-publish......more
Making Muslimness explores how British Muslims navigate the UK’s sociopolitical and religious tensions through performan......more
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A NEW ’GOES WRONG’ PLAY FROM MISCHIEF The Cornley Amateur Drama Society are back with tidings of chaos and joy, ready to......more
’911, what’s your emergency?’ ’My husband... they shot him... they all did.’ July 10th, 1981, Missouri. Smalltown bully,......more
"Eldridge combines a hugely sympathetic sensibility with rare dramatic power, and one leaves this exceptional play rejoi......more
The Fever by Wallace Shawn follows a traveller who falls ill in a poor country, and plummets into a fever of self-examin......more
Wallace Shawn’s first new play in ten years, a dark moral fable. And so yes, well, I’d simply dropped that whole idea of......more
Examining historical play performances and texts, Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage demonstrates that seventeenth-century......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
"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
This collection brings Rachel Crothers’ best plays back into the public eye, outside of archives, to prove their continu......more
"The approach of mixing the factual with the fictional works brilliantly in delivering a spectacle that pulls off the di......more
But for me, it was love. It felt like love. Or the closest I’ve ever come to love. And I wanted to say thank you. For th......more
"The approach of mixing the factual with the fictional works brilliantly in delivering a spectacle that pulls off the di......more