Theatre category: 6638 books
Changing Direction: A Practical Approach to Directing Actors in Film and Theatre
Foreword by Ang Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
The second edition of this elegant and accessible primer offers a helpful reference and resource for directing actors in film, television, and theatre, useful to directors, actors, and writers. Combining underlying theory with dozens of exercises designed to reveal the actor's craft, Lenore DeKoven...
Directing Tennessee Williams
Joe Hill-Gibbins on The Glass Menagerie
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Follow acclaimed theatre director Joe Hill-Gibbins throughout preparation and rehearsals for his production of The Glass Menagerie at the Young Vic, London, described by the Telegraph as ‘a deeply felt, beautifully judged production of a masterpiece’. First published as part of Getting Directions:...
by Sandi Toksvig
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
How unbelievably dull my life was. I did everything I was supposed to. I was such a good girl. I lived in the house he chose and cleaned a dead woman's furniture. I bought hats, who the hell wears a hat? And all the time I wanted to scream because I was so bored.
On one dark and stormy night...
Why Is That So Funny?
A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
A practical investigation of how comedy works, by a well-respected practitioner and teacher. With a Foreword by Toby Jones.
Comedy is recognised as one of the most problematic areas of performances. For that reason, it is rarely written about in any systematic way. John Wright, founder of Trestle...
Fists upon a Star
A Memoir of Love, Theatre, and Escape from McCarthyism
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Fists upon a Star is the hard-hitting memoir of Florence James, a pioneering American theatre director, whose devastating experience with McCarthyism led her to flee to Canada. The memoir is as epic as America itself. Born in 1892 in the frontier society of Idaho, she became a suffragette in New York...
Keith Johnstone
A Critical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Keith Johnstone entered the Royal Court Theatre as a new playwright in 1956: a decade later he emerged as a groundbreaking director and teacher of improvisation. His decisive book Impro (1979), described Johnstone's unique system of training: weaving together theories and techniques to encourage spontaneous,...
by Will Eno
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Originally premiered Off Broadway at Signature Theatre Company in the spring of 2017
Selected as a New York Times Critics’ Pick
“A Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation” — New York Times
Eno has been honored with the following awards:
Pulitzer Prize finalist...
Pussy Liberty
A One Act Play
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Blaire, an early twenty-something woman, struggles with the pain of a past trauma and loses herself in the fight for equality. Meanwhile her best friend Halle is stuck in a relationship defined by passé gender roles, which increasingly affects her friendship with Blaire.
In a melodic yet naturalist...
by David Greig
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
A man is found lying in the snow at the foot of the Pyrenees. He remembers nothing. He believes he is British. A young woman from the British Consulate is dispatched to confirm his nationality and to try to piece together his identity. When Vivienne, a middle aged woman from Edinburgh arrives, she...
Film and Television Acting
From stage to screen
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1997
Film and Television Acting offers solid techniques for creating a natural, believable performance for film and television. The reader will discover techniques for listening and reacting, blocking and business, character, focus, the closeup, and comedy as they pertain to acting in front of a camera....
The Oberon Glossary of Theatrical Terms
Theatre Jargon Explained
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Anyone who has ever had to call a plumber, let alone try to fathom a computer handbook, will be fatally familiar with the bewilderment of the outsider exposed to the shop-talk of professions other than his or her own. Do you know your Mirror Scrims from your Mirror Balls? Or your Get Outs from your...
Singing and Dancing to The Book of Mormon
Critical Essays on the Broadway Musical
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
One of the most successful shows in Broadway history, The Book of Mormon broke box office records when it debuted in 2011 and received nine Tony awards, including Best Musical. A collaboration between Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of the show South Park) and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q), the show...
The British Invasion of Broadway Continues
Revised and Edited from the British on Broadway Including a Chapter by Richard Eyre, Former Head of Britain’s National Theatre!
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Elizabeth Sharland THE BRITISH ON BROADWAY The Great White Way • Charisma in Action • Famous British stars on Broadway • Broadway versus the West End • Following in Noel Coward’s footsteps • Ivor Novello and the British musical • Cameron Mackintosh and Andrew Lloyd-Webber • Famous...
Connections 500
Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.
Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and...