Hailed by critics during the 1980s as the decade's 'Great American Playwright', Sam Shepard has since continued to produce work in a wide array of media including short prose, films, plays, performanc
Staging Musicals describes all the elements involved in putting on a musical production, including: choosing the right show, creating budgets and schedules, auditions, rehearsals and performances, as
The third collection of plays by "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel"James in The Morning After Opti
This collection includes four of the best plays from one of the leading playwrights of the 80sProgress: 'A small, anguished, hilarious masterpiece' Evening Standard; Fashion: 'One of the best plays of
For the first time, a collection of Britain's top comedy performer's plays and TV scripts in one volumeThis volume includes the Evening Standard award-winning play Talent 'Very funny - at times, too n
One of the preeminent Irish playwrights of his generation, published on the Methuen list alongside great contemporary Irish playwrights such as Sebastian Barry and Tom MurphyIncludes his widely acclai
Duncan McLean is one of Scotland's liveliest fiction and non-fiction writers - this is his first volume of playsJulie Allardyce rushes into the theatre like a fresh breeze off the North Sea. It is lou
"Louise Page's intimate, emotional dramas open up vast areas of feeling beneath the surface of ordinary lives" (Independent)Tissue: "The tissue of the title is a left breast and lymph node removed dur
Paul Godfrey is "so good, so nervy and alert with imagination and intelligence" (Sunday Times)Includes the plays: Inventing a New Colour "Godfrey's appealing first play is, with its ominous signs of d
"Young playwrights don't come much hotter than Phyllis Nagy" (Daily Telegraph)Includesher three Royal Court -performed plays Weldon Rising "Here is the bestnew play I have seen in many months...This p
The Lonesome West was first presented as a Druid Theatre company and Royal Court co-production in the summer of 1997.'The play combines manic energy and physical violence in a way that is both hilario
Ripen Our Darkness was the play that established Sarah Daniels as a writer; The Devil's Gateway carries the flavour of life in Bethnal Green in the 1980s; Masterpieces, Daniels' most controversial pla
From the bestselling author of The Right to Speak and The Need for Words comes this revised edition of the essential guide to voice work: The Actor Speaks. Beginning with what every first-year acting
Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify t
A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times)The Ruling Class "is a scorching and savage tragedy, yet its jokes are innumerable...they thro
In spite of my desperation I have been patient, in spite of my bewilderment I have been understanding, in spite of my feeling of utter abandonment ... I've been hanging on in there. Trying to help you
Pit the kettle oan mither, this is braw news!Scotland's most famous family, The Broons, are brought to life in this new stage adaptation by award-winning playwright Rob Dummond.Beloved of readers sinc
