Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
The Moving Body (Le Corps Poetique)
Teaching Creative Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
'In life I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq
Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers
of our age. The International Theatre School he founded in Paris
remains an unrivalled centre for the art of physical theatre. In The Moving...
From Stage to Screen
A Theatre Actor's Guide to Working on Camera
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The camera enables us to see right into a character's soul, revealing his or her innermost thoughts and emotions. Screen acting requires a more rigorously truthful and spontaneous performance than the stage, as well as very different technical expertise. From Stage to Screen is a handbook for the...
The Improv Handbook
The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate...
Comedy Acting for Theatre
The Art and Craft of Performing in Comedies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Analysing why we laugh and what we laugh at, and describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience, this book enables actors to create memorable – and hilarious – performances.
Rooted in performance and performance criticism,Sidney Homan and Brian Rhinehart provide a detailed...
Capek Four Plays
R. U. R.; The Insect Play; The Makropulos Case; The White Plague
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
"There was no writer like him. . . prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination" (Arthur Miller)
This volume brings together fresh new translations of four of his most popular plays, more than ever relevant today. In R. U. R.,...
by Matthew Floyd Jones, Mr Jon Brittain
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
A fun, silly and sad show for anyone whose brain isn't always on their side. Sally's a happy person. She doesn't let little things get her down and almost never cries. But she's got an illness. It makes her feel like she isn't the person she wants to be....But she doesn't want anyone to know about...
by Ms Deborah McAndrew, Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Imagine a world where imagination is forbidden. Coketown is such a place. Thomas Gradgrind will not permit fanciful thoughts in his school or his home. But what effect will this policy have on his own children, Tom and Louisa? How can he protect them from corrupting influences – especially when...
by Ms Deborah McAndrew
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Tomorrow morning, you and Frank Armitage are getting wed. In my opinion, marriage is blind optimism at any time, but especially in wartime. It's an act of faith.
Taking its title from a line in Philip Larkin's poem 'MCMXIV', An August Bank Holiday Lark explores the impact of the First World...
Six Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedies
The Spanish Tragedy; Doctor Faustus; Sejanus His Fall; Women Beware Women; The White Devil; 'Tis Pity She's A Whore
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This anthology contains scholarly and annotated editions of six major Elizabethan and Jacobean plays:
The Spanish Tragedy
Doctor Faustus
Sejanus
Women Beware Women
The White Devil
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
by Alex Oates
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
How is it delivered? That's the best bit! Royal Mail. Postman Pat brings your smack to your door with a smile and his black and white cat is none the wiser.
Bruce is nineteen, unemployed and living with his Nan. A struggling young Geordie tech-head, he's the unlikeliest international criminal...
by Stephen Unwin
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Stephen Unwin's A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht is an indispensable, comprehensive and highly readable companion to the dramatic work of this challenging and rewarding writer. Besides providing detailed accounts of nineteen key plays, it explores their context and Brecht's dramatic theory to...
The Need for Words
Voice and the Text
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Patsy Rodenburg explores how we speak, what we speak and the impact of the spoken word. As one of the world's leading voice coaches, she describes practical ways to approach language, and uses Shakespeare, Romantic poetry, modern prose and a range of other texts to help each of us discover our own...
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...
by Mr David Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
You didn't fancy it then?
Fancy what?
Getting in the taxi.
No.
Every story starts somewhere.
It's the early hours of the morning and Danny's the last straggler at Laura's party. The flat's in a mess. And so are they. One more drink?
David Eldridge (Market Boy, The Knot of the...