Drama category: 27605 books
Acting Stanislavski
A practical guide to Stanislavski’s approach and legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Stanislavski was the first to outline a systematic approach for using our experience, imagination and observation to create truthful acting. 150 years after his birth, his approach is more widely embraced and taught throughout the world – but is still often rejected, misunderstood and misapplied.
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by William Shakespeare
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Hamlet é uma tragédia de William Shakespeare, escrita entre 1599 e 1601.A peça traça um mapa do curso de vida na loucura real e na loucura fingida — do sofrimento opressivo à raiva fervorosa — e explora temas como a traição, vingança, incesto, corrupção e moralidade.
The Recruiting Officer
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
The Beaux Stratagem
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
Edgar Plays: 2
Ecclesiastes, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Entertaining Strangers
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian)
Nicholas Nickleby: "With uncommon audacity Nicholas Nickleby not only takes on Dickens' sprawling novel, it fractures all the petty limitations we have imposed upon the stage as well...A landmark"...
Edgar Plays: 3
Teendreams; Our Own People; That Summer and Maydays
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian)
Our Own People: "A courageous and intelligent discussion of race and industrial relations" (City Limits); Teendreams (written with Susan Todd of Monstrous Regiment theatre company) is about the...
by Alex Oates
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
Laurence likes pizza.
Laurence is about to go to school.
Laurence thinks it's okay to wee on mummy's pillow.
Like any couple, Tamora and Martin have big hopes and dreams. But when your child is autistic, non-verbal, and occasionally violent, ambitions can quickly become a pipe dream.
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Aahuti (Hindi Drama)
आहुति
Language: Hindi
Release Date: May 9, 2013
तरुणी हेमा और राजीव का आपसी प्रेम हेमा को समय से पहले गर्मवती बना देता है। राजीव के ठुकराने पर हेमा आत्म हत्या के लिए...
Aaj Abhi (Hindi Drama)
आज अभी
Language: Hindi
Release Date: March 20, 2013
इस पुस्तक के तीनो नाटकों में एक बहुत ही सामयिक और महत्त्वपूर्ण थीम को उठाया गया है। दहेज के सवाल पर हर स्तर पर कुछ न कुछ...
Aap Na Badlenge (Hindi Drama)
आप न बदलेंगे
Language: Hindi
Release Date: July 10, 2013
इस पुस्तक के पांचो नाटकों में एक बहुत ही सामयिक और महत्त्वपूर्ण थीम को उठाया गया है। दहेज के सवाल पर हर स्तर पर कुछ न...
by Trevor Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Winner of a Royal Television Society Award, this is the text of the television drama broadcast by the BBC starring Brian Cox and Sinead Cusack. Food for Ravens is a powerful political drama about one of the great politicians of the Twentieth Century, Aneurin (Nye) Bevan.
by Brendan Behan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
An essential text in the development of modern British drama
First staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man...
Granville Barker on Theatre
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Granville Barker on Theatre brings together some of the most important critical theatrical writings of Harley Granville Barker, a major figure of 20th-century British theatre.
Known as a pioneer of the National Theatre and Repertory Movement, and remembered mainly for his Prefaces to Shakespeare,...
The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence
Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This is the first major book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book to give an in-depth analysis of Lawrence's interaction with the theatre industry during the early twentieth century. It connects and examines his performance texts, and...