Drama category: 27605 books

Lucy Kerbel's 100 Great Plays for Women is an inspiring guide to a hundred plays that put female performers centre stage, dispelling the myth that 'there aren't any good plays for women'. With a foreword by Kate Mosse. Women buy the majority of theatre tickets, make up half the acting profession...

A revised and updated edition of Bella Merlin's essential guide to Stanislavsky. The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit collects together for the first time the terms and ideas developed by Stanislavsky throughout his career. It is organised into three sections: Actor-Training, Rehearsal...

A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before... In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the direction of their future. Fosse’s...

Following in the footsteps of Nick Asbury's bestselling Exit Pursued by a Badger, actor and Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus Keith Osborn tells the story of the company's extraordinary 2008/9 season in Stratford and London, with much drama on and off stage. Keith appeared in Gregory Doran's...

Scenography Expanded is a foundational text offering readers a thorough introduction to contemporary performance design, both in and beyond the theatre. It examines the potential of the visual, spatial, technological, material and environmental aspects of performance to shape performative encounters....

I want, one more time, to be absolutely in the moment . . . I am going to try as hard as I can to not be a human being. A series of suggestions on desire, death and time. Nuclear War is the searing result of a groundbreaking and form-defying collaboration between Simon Stephens and the...

劇本要好看、故事要動人，不能光靠靈感和想像！ 你更需要寫，一下筆就能寫，一寫就能賣的關鍵寫作技巧！ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 《為什麼你的故事被打Ｘ》熱銷萬本新裝上市 現在開始，搶救你的爛故事、丟掉你的爛劇本！   寫劇本不只是在說故事，也在賣故事！ 那麼，好故事怎麼寫？ ◎一開始就要奪眼球 　‧故事要開始的正是時候，別拖泥帶水 　‧一定要有事情發生，讓故事往前推進 　‧即使事實不有趣，也要記得加以虛構 ◎製造戲劇張力 ‧來個爆發轉折點，讓戲劇化情節持續推展 ‧最有意思的經歷，都是那些你想忘記的事 ‧不一定要攸關生死才會有驚喜 ◎主角必須很有事 ‧苦頭越多，越能引起觀眾共鳴 ‧麻煩越多，情節越好看 ‧障礙越多，對觀眾來說越精彩 ◎衝突是對話的靈魂所在 ‧對白必須要揭露角色特質 ‧一定要製造衝突與爭吵 ‧不必要的絕不多說 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 劇本是否有趣吸引人，全在於故事是否夠起伏跌宕！ 你沒日沒夜、絞盡腦汁，好不容易完成一個故事，信心滿滿丟出你的劇本，結果卻總是「這個故事不有趣」、「無聊沒有梗」、「引不起共鳴」……而你也不知道這本「曠世巨作」出了什麼問題？ 本書作者以身為劇本諮詢顧問超過20年的經驗，告訴你43個連好萊塢編劇都買單的說故事關鍵技巧，從劇情架構、情節鋪陳、角色塑造、對白設定……一步步讓你丟掉爛劇本，最終成為電影公司搶拍，觀眾搶看的搶手貨。 【前言】這本書對於你的意義 【自序】你需要的不只是好劇本 本書將如何幫助你 PART...

This moving and eloquent historical drama depicts the conflict between a willful and arrogant poet of a king, Richard II, and his politically pragmatic cousin, Bolingbroke. Rich with memorable scenes and speeches, this lyrical history moves from a splendid medieval tournament to the poignant surrender...

First published in 1978, this book represents a study of the ways in which Shakespeare exploits the possibilities of metaphor. In a series of studies ranging from the early to the mature Shakespeare, the author concentrates on metaphor as a controlling structure — the extent to which a certain metaphoric...

  Two men.  One box.  The possibilities are endless. So forget everything you’ve ever learned and come on the hunt for Higgs Boson with two characters who may or may not be philosopher of language Ludwig Wittgenstein and quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger . Exploring...

The Warrior's Barrow (The Burial Mound), was Henrik Ibsen's second play and the first play to be performed. It is a three-act verse drama, written in 1850 when Ibsen was 22 years old. The play was first performed at the Christiania Theater on September 26, 1850, under Ibsen's Pseudonym Brynjolf Bjarme. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A boy wakes up in a field somewhere in London. He's a door-to-door salesman: a pedlar boy. An encounter with an old acquaintance sends him into a frenzied questioning of everything: his life, his world, where he's coming from and where he's going to. peddling received its world premiere at...

Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. He wrote in virtually every literary genre: in drama, comedy, tragedy and masque; in poetry, epigram, epistle and lyric; in prose, literary criticism and English grammar. He became...

Among the most studied, most read, and most admired works in world literature, the tragedies of Shakespeare constitute a body of work unrivaled in dramatic brilliance, beauty of language, and profundity of thought. This convenient and affordable volume—ideal for students and all lovers of literature—features...