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  • Playwriting

    A Backstage Guide

    Series series National Theatre Backstage Guides
    This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus on those from the National Theatre's repertoire. The book embraces a range of different dramaturgical structures and styles popular today; plays ... Read more

    $13.69 CAD

  • 1956 and All That

    The Making of Modern British Drama

    by Dan Rebellato ...
    It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems?In this bold and fascinating challenge to the ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Playwriting

    A Backstage Guide

    Narrated by John Telfer ...
    Series series National Theatre Backstage Guides

    Unabridged

    3 hours 23 min

    Bloomsbury presents Playwriting by Dan Rebellato, read by John TelferThis book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus on those from the National Theatre's repertoire. The book embraces a range ... Read more

    $20.00 CAD

  • Contemporary European Playwrights

    Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent’s society and culture, and whose work is still in dialogue with Europe today.Traversing borders and languages, this volume offers a fresh approach to analyzing plays in production by some of the most widely ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Contemporary European Theatre Directors

    This expanded second edition of Contemporary European Theatre Directors is an ambitious and unprecedented overview of many of the key directors working in European theatre over the past 30 years.This book is a vivid account of the vast range of work undertaken in European theatre during the last three decades, situated lucidly in its artistic, cultural, and political context. Each chapter ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945

    Edited by Jen Harvie, Dan Rebellato ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance
    British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in the decades after World War II. This Companion explores the historical, political, and social contexts and conditions that not only allowed it to expand but, crucially, shaped it. Resisting a critical tendency to focus on plays alone, the collection expands understanding of British theatre by illuminating contexts such as funding, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Suspect Culture Book

    Suspect Culture was Scotland’s leading experimental theatre company between 1993 and 2009. Based in Glasgow, it was formed of a core group of associate artists who collaborated in making groundbreaking, high quality new work which gained an international reputation.Over the course of its 16-year history the company worked with some of the most respected artists and organizations in the UK and ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Chekhov in Hell

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    I don't know who he is but he's old, he's got to know stuff... he's got to be like wise and stuff yeah?Anton Chekhov, masterful playwright and mirror to Russian society, awakening from one hundred years of sleep, is thrust rudely into twenty first century Britain. Reality shows, fashionistas, Z-list celebrities, illegal immigrants, chuggers and wags. Pole dancing, YouTube, Twitter and 5-a-day. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Theatre and Globalization

    Series series Theatre And
    What is globalization? What role is there for the theatre in a globalizing world?This original and provocative book explores the contribution that theatre has made to our slowly evolving consciousness of our world as a whole. Drawing on sources from Aeschylus to The Lion King, Chekhov to Complicite, tragedy to advertising, the book argues for theatre's importance as a site of resistance to the ... Read more

    $12.59 CAD

  • Decadent Plays: 1890–1930

    Salome; The Race of Leaves; The Orgy: A Dramatic Poem; Madame La Mort; Lilith; Ennoïa: A Triptych; The Black Maskers; La Gioconda; Ardiane and Barbe Bleue or, The Useless Deliverance; Kerria Japonica; The Dove

    Poisoned cigars, seductive apparitions, minds and empires in the last of their decline and the most notorious kiss in dramatic history – decadent plays challenged the moral as much as the dramatic imagination of their own day, and continue to probe horizons of taste and the possibilities of stagecraft.In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many writers reacted to urban modernity by embracing ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009

    Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

    Series series Decades of Modern British Playwriting
    Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four/five key playwrights from that decade authored by a team of experts, together with an extensive ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    #Blessed and other stories of love and friendship

    13 BBC Radio Dramas

    Unabridged

    8 hours 32 min

    Thirteen plays about human connection, from some of BBC Radio's best writers exploring love, family, romances and life's ups and downsThis diverse collection of stories centres around family dynamics, relationships both romantic and platonic, and the diverse ways ordinary people navigate the vicissitudes of everyday life.Ranging from modern fairy tales to coming-of-age dramas, they feature a wide ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD