The Magic Tree is an exploration into human behaviour at a time when humanity seems determined to endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past. It looks at why good people are capable of doing bad things and asks if love alone can save us.

Alan Shelley’s study is an accessible but profound analysis of Athol Fugard, his work and its influence, the social injustices that drive him, and the lives of those who people his remarkable plays. Fugard’s work retains an insistent influence, and is studied and performed the world over.

These largely sane plays feature people alone or in pairs, or both, attempting to present themselves in the best light, or ultimately, desperately, in any light. Inadvertently vulnerable, or unconsciously callous, or both, the characters here realize they are stuck in a body and try to put the be...

Vibrant, stunning, and darkly entertaining, Adriano Shaplin's play presents a provocative and experimental voyage back in time to an age in which the theater was the new science and philosophy the new religion.

Classic Voice is an essential guide for teachers, students, and actors who are approaching classical texts. It is a unique resource that provides information, ideas, and plans for dealing with the vocal demands of classical text in workshop contexts. It includes sections on warming up the ...

"He's got zero empathy. You could be having a conversation and start choking to death and he'd just think, 'Well, this conversation's over.'He'd probably just sit there and finish eating whatever you were choking on."An inexperienced teacher is given the job of saving a disturbed and violent four...

Lost-in-translation business trips and global travel are put under the microscope in The Internationalist, a play of wit, romance, misunderstandings and the mysteries of communication. Lowell goes abroad on business. He thinks he's in one of those great American films where you go to a f...

At the heart of this book is a cry for change in attitude - to respect nature and all that it provides. Virginia McKenna has pushed aside the glamour of movie stardom, the West End and Broadway where she starred in major shows like The King and I and A Little Night Music. Instead she focuses rele...

A passionate clear-sighted look at the day-to-day life of a working actor, The Dream follows Leigh Lawson as he performs with the Royal Shakespeare Company, taking a brief excursion to America to appear in a Coward double-bill. Invited by the RSC to play both Oberon and Theseus in A ...

A record of the highly acclaimed multimedia work devised by Katie Mitchell, combined with the text of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

A woman lies dead on a bed in her wedding dress, a silver knife through her heart. The two men who loved her lie beside her.

Four plays by Richard Bean with an introduction by Chris Campbell. Includes: Harvest, In the Club, The English Game, and Up on the Roof.

Elaine Paige, the undisputed “First Lady of Musical Theatre” Celebrates 40 years on the stage this year. Memories is the remarkable story of her own life, on and off the stage, in words and pictures.She takes us through her extraordinary...

Two of the most performed and studied plays by the most important Spani...

n this witty cutting version of Le Misanthrope Molière’s angry hero Alceste becomes Alan - journalist, intellectual and free spirit- who finds himself adrift in a social whirl of false flattery and schmooze. In a world where nobody calls a spade a spade (or even knows what a spade is ...