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  • - David Edgar, Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment, David Greig, Tanika Gupta and Mark Ravenhill
    af Peter Billingham
    420,95 kr.

    At the Sharp End is a critical examination of the work of five leading dramatists who have made an indelible mark on today's theatre. An analysis of the work of David Edgar, Mark Ravenhill, David Greig, Tanika Gupta and Tim Etchells of Forced Entertainment is combined with an interview with each of the dramatists.

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    420,95 kr.

    This is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five Irish playwrights from the 1960s to the present written by a team of twenty-five eminent scholars from Ireland, the USA, Britain and Germany. It is the perfect companion for students of Irish literature and drama.

  • - The Guffin; Mobile Phone Show; What Are They Like?; We Lost Elijah; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Tomorrow I'll Be Happy; Soundclash; Don't Feed the Animals; Ailie and the Alien; Forty-Five Minutes
    af Howard (Author) Brenton
    309,95 kr.

    Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of established and current writers - National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study. Each play is specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department and reflects the past year's programming at the venue in the plays' ideas, themes and styles. The plays are performed by approximately 200 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional regional theatres where the works are showcased.The volume features an introduction by Anthony Banks, Associate Director for the National Theatre Discover Programme, and each play includes notes from the writer and director addressing the themes and ideas behind the play, as well as production notes and exercises.Published to coincide with the 2013 Connections festival, and the 50th anniversary of the National Theatre, this year's collection features work from Howard Brenton, Jim Cartwright, Lucinda Coxon, Ryan Craig, Stacey Gregg, Jonathan Harvey, Lenny Henry, Jemma Kennedy, Morna Pearson, and Anya Reiss.

  • - New Critical Essays
     
    1.915,95 kr.

  • - The Theatre of Peter Barnes
    af Brian (Author) Woolland
    774,95 kr.

    This book offers a major critical appraisal of playwright Peter Barnes. It argues that many of his plays have remarkable contemporary relevance, and are formally far more innovative than has hitherto been recognised.

  • - Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy
     
    777,95 kr.

    This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists, of the past and present, have drawn on Greek myths and used these stories, which have travelled across 3000 years, to bring new insights on the world in which we now live.

  • af Maxim Gorky
    223,95 kr.

    Includes a selection of plays and non-dramatic writing by Gorky.

  • af Bertolt Brecht
    769,95 kr.

    Brecht is an important lyrical voice of the 20th century, and is honoured as Germany's greatest modern poet. Yet his poetry is relativley little known in the English speaking world. This title takes its cue from a poem about the artist's legacy and looks at how Brecht's work might read today.

  • af Antonin Artaud
    288,95 kr.

    Founder of the Theatre of Cruelty and a strong influence on Peter Brook, Artaud dedicated his life and sanity to purging the French theatre of its enervating bourgeois tendencies. This book includes his major writings about theatre.

  • af Linda Fitzsimmons
    456,95 kr.

    This is a study of the work of Caryl Churchill who wrote "Fen", "Top Girls" and "Serious Money". Linda Fitzsimmons examines the development of Churchill's powerful style from her earliest work to the major plays.

  • af Stephen (Author) Unwin
    410,95 kr.

    A guide to all of Brecht's key plays that sets them in their historical, dramaturgical and political contexts

  • af Martin Esslin
    309,95 kr.

    Updated to cover Harold Pinter's most recent plays, including "Mountain Language", "The New World Order" and "Party Time", this revised edition offers a comprehensive survey of the whole span of Pinter's writing career.

  • - Women Playwrights on Playwriting
     
    297,95 kr.

    Women playwrights speak about their art and the theatre in this collection of interviews about a key decade of British drama

  • af Kenneth McLeish
    319,95 kr.

    This title offers a survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece. It provides an author-by-author examination of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes and Menander plus how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out and who watched them.

  • - How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen
    af Martin Esslin
    309,95 kr.

    A unique book of criticism that brings both theatre and film studies within a single theoretical framework

  • - British Theatre Today
    af Aleks (Author Sierz
    423,95 kr.

    A perfect companion to British theatre from 2000-2010 that examines the burgeoning 'new writing' system, provides a study of the principle theatres associated with it and explores in themed chapters the key concerns being addressed by the main playwrights who have gained acclaim in the last ten years.

  • af J. Michael Walton
    333,95 kr.

    Euripides Our Contemporary is a major assessment and study of all of Euripides' plays organised by theme. For students, teachers and practitioners it's a perfect companion to Euripides' work and will lead to a deeper appreciation of the timeless appeal and the connections between his plays.

  • af Jonathan Croall
    404,95 kr.

    Containing over a hundred interviews conducted over the last fifteen years with leading directors, actors and writers at the National Theatre, Buzz Buzz! is a fantastic compendium that offers unrivalled insight into the work and practice of the best theatre talent.

  • - Peter Nichols
    af Peter Nichols
    235,95 kr.

    Contains the plays, television plays and screenplays of the writer Peter Nichols, as well as his non-dramatic writing. The book also has a chapter in which Nichols discusses his work.

  • - Adventures with the Cottesloe Company
    af Mr Jack Shepherd
    420,95 kr.

    This is the story of the Cottesloe Company of actors, operating from the National Theatre, told by two of its leading members. It includes accounts of all the major productions including The Mysteries and Larkrise to Candleford.

  • af Margery Mary Morgan
    223,95 kr.

    Part of a series which assembles vital facts about playwrights and their work, this book on Oscar Wilde offers a checklist of all his plays, a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of Wilde's own comments on his work drawn from essays, interviews, letters and diaries.

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    296,95 kr.

    One in a series of magazine-style reviews of the performing arts, this book presents an introduction to the writers who are helping to shape the future of the British theatre. They range from Sarah Kane's controversial "Blasted" to Patrick Marber's humorous "Dealer's Choice".

  • af Albert Bermel
    346,95 kr.

    Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty is a frequently misunderstood concept. This study looks closely Artaud's work as a playwright, director, actor, designer, producer and critic. Tracing the theatre of cruelty's earliest orgins, it examines Artaud's six plays for form and meaning.

  • af John Willett
    321,95 kr.

    The second revised edition of this study in which Willett sets in context not only Brecht the theatre practitioner but Brecht the writer and man of his time, with chapters on his relationships and attitudes to politics, English and American literature, Expressionism, music, art and cinema, as well as to figures such as Auden, Kipling and Piscator.

  • af Martin Esslin
    309,95 kr.

    A brilliantly perceptive study of the most ambiguous and perceptually fascinating figure of the twentieth-century European theatre

  • - An A-Z of Contemporary Playwriting
    af Dominic Dromgoole
    351,95 - 626,95 kr.

    Dominic Dromgoole, a key figure in new British drama, witnessed the explosion of new writing that took place at the end of the millennium. In a series of profiles of over 50 British playwrights this title looks at new plays and theatres which have changed the shape of contemporary British drama.

  • af Susan Painter
    233,95 kr.

    "The best review I've ever had was when Michael Billington said, 'like Balzac, David Edgar seems to be a secretary for our times'...I'd like to be a secretary for the times through which I'm living." (David Edgar)

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    223,95 kr.

    This volume contains a comprehensive checklist of the work of Michael Frayn; a detailed performance history of each play; excerpts from contemporary and subsequent reviews; Frayn's own comments on his work drawn from interviews, essays, letters and diaries; and a chronology.

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