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This collection celebrates the opening of the Shakespeare North Playhouse (SNP). After discussion of its genesis and dev......more

This new edition of Macbeth includes helpful annotations, unique illustrations, and a commentary on the birds hidden in ......more

Unleash the magic of your very own theatre! Dive into the exhilarating world of stagecraft, where your unique skills and......more

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

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In Bajazet and Mithridate Racine depicts the tragedies of characters who either wield tyrannic power or are subjected to......more

This book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction, theorising such practices as re......more

Originally published in 1973, the history of French tragedy and tragicomedy from their origins in the sixteenth century ......more

Revolutionary feminism, queer, and trans activist movements are traversing Latin America and the Caribbean. Bodies on th......more

Revolutionary feminism, queer, and trans activist movements are traversing Latin America and the Caribbean. Bodies on th......more

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This book confronts and analyzes the systemic racism that confronts actors of color in the USA through interviews with l......more

While Ibsen’s plays were seldom performed in Romania in the first half of the 20th century, historical sources highlight......more

In Western neo-liberal society, the human body is increasingly used as an identity project and designable object . Antje......more

This comprehensive, accessible introduction to one of Britain’s leading contemporary playwrights and filmmakers outlines......more

This book is a collection of chapters by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves......more

DreamWork: A Training for Directors provides a theoretical basis and a highly detailed, practical, step-by-step blueprin......more

In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and lo......more

In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and lo......more

In tracing the course of French comedy from the Renaissance, through the age of Louis XIV and the 18th century, to the e......more

Thank You for Abusing Me: Why Did She Stay? is the second book in the Thank You for Abusing Me series by Coleen Liebsch.......more

Thank You for Abusing Me: View From Behind the Couch is a look at domestic violence from the perspective of the child hi......more

One night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will becom......more

The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the no......more

The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the no......more

Times are tough for the family in the wood. They’d eat like kings if only they could.But hunger gnaws - famine stalks th......more

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This volume examines the work of directors Jacques Copeau, Theodore Komisarjevsky and Tyrone Guthrie. It explores in det......more

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What links the popular songs "You’ll Never Walk Alone", "Send in the Clowns", "Memory" and "I Am What I Am"? They all or......more

"Koogler’s characters are earnest, idiosyncratic, and suspicious of hierarchy. Often bitingly funny, Koogler’s plays...r......more

"Koogler’s characters are earnest, idiosyncratic, and suspicious of hierarchy. Often bitingly funny, Koogler’s plays...r......more

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

It’s 1671, and the charismatic and unpredictable Colonel Blood is planning the greatest heist of all time: stealing - in......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

The early hours of Wednesday 14 June 2017. The north-west corner of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. A twent......more

The story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin... Follow half-orphan Pip’s extraordinary explo......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 in love with King. But King is a superhero. After an unexpected encounter, David plunges himself into a world o......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

After the breakout success of his early work for stage and screen, Jack Thorne turned for inspiration to his own family ......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

Summer 1945. Hitler is dead, but the war in the Pacific rages on. When six of Germany’s top nuclear scientists - includi......more

They don’t seem an obvious match. Joanne is spiky, defensive, a survivor; Paul is quiet, considered - and hiding profoun......more

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

In May 1926, Britain grinds to a halt, as workers down tools for the General Strike. With the printing presses shut down......more

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

Years and years ago, Hope disappeared. Now, she’s back. To find something she left behind. But in the People’s Republic ......more

Dan is a carpenter. A Geordie through and through. He had a heart attack recently, but he’s on the mend now. Katie has j......more

An irrepressible fraudster known only as the Maniac is brought into Police Headquarters just as the officers are prepari......more

Two couples each invite a stranger into their homes in the hope of sparking new life. Instead, they find themselves thre......more

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

This dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, part of the bestselling Drama Games series, offers dozens of games......more

In Exploring Shakespeare, acclaimed theatre director Bill Alexander takes us inside the rehearsal room to reveal - in un......more

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Lyrical, funny and moving, this is Dylan Thomas’s masterwork and a beloved Welsh classic. It is spring, moonless night i......more

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DESCRIPTION Inspired! A Drama With Music is a theatrical event that tells the true stories behind the famous hymns we ha......more

In The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer Ball argues t......more

In The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer Ball argues t......more

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

London will do for you for now... And I will do for London. London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry ’Sir Galaha......more

A paralyzed young woman goes on the adventure of a lifetime when she seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps and becom......more

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