The Feldenkrais Method uses movement to enable a performer to feel, adapt and respond in new ways ? not just in limited, habitual patterns ? thereby increasing physical, emotional, and mental potentia
Insightful, empowering and always reassuring, Facing the Fear provides all the tools actors need to understand, confront and ultimately overcome stage fright and its effects, thereby regaining control
A guide that helps students prepare for and improve their chances of getting a place in one of the UK's many drama schools. It sets out the steps that can be taken to ensure that potential acting stud
Wedding night in the palace of King Shahrayar. By morning the new Queen Sharazad is to be put to death, like a thousand young brides before her. She has one gift that could save her - the gift of stor
'If I'm asleep, don't let me wake. If this is real, don't let me dream.'To protect the country from the horrors prophesied, the young Prince Segismundo is condemned for all eternity to be shut away fr
Discusses what it is to be an actor, describing the journeys the author undertakes in order to inhabit the roles for which he is famous including "The History Man" (his TV breakthrough), "Macbeth", th
A book for actors, directors, students and teachers of movement in the theatre, "The Space to Move" is bursting with energy and ideas, passion and commitment. In it, the author describes an inspiring
Working-class Alan, upper-class Catherine and middle-class Tom are part of a social litmus test, reunited every seven years to expose themselves on television to the nation. But waiting on the sofa f
In her Yorkshire council house, no-nonsense Mari is having a clear out before the 'Big Move' brought on by cancer. There's a lifetime of clutter to be sorted, the house to clean from top to bottom, a
On her release from prison, Lorraine heads straight to Marie's. On the inside they used to share everything, but the friendship that once protected them now threatens to smother the fragile freedom t
West Anglia. The new name for Wales. Three bumbling terrorists cling to their values as the modern world invades the land of their fathers. An archaeological discovery in the valleys leads to the sci
He's old, rich and determined to find the perfect wife. She's young, innocent and in debt to him. He'll have her by any means possible ...Liz Lochhead's new Scots-inflected adaptation of Moliere's The
When a young executive reaches breaking point and decides to disappear, he pays a visit to a master of the craft in a seafront fortune teller's in Southend. Haunted by visitations from a pathologist
In Ukraine, Victor had a business, a family and a home, but things have changed and he's fled to the UK in search of a better life. Now he's doing everything from gutting fish to picking carrots.But V
This is an intensely practical handbook for students, actors, and teachers on how to cope with text, character, and situation. Barbara Houseman’s method is to state a precept and devise an exercise to
A manual for would-be playwrights - how to develop your play from first idea to first night. Tim Fountain guides the aspiring playwright over the many hurdles that must be cleared - from finding a st
The wedding feast is over and the bridegroom's father is dancing the bhangra, but the groom himself is curiously reluctant to make his way to the bedroom. In fact he's so woefully inhibited by the pro
Reformed womaniser Nick is approaching thirty and has fallen head over heels with the girl he wants to marry and have kids with. But then a dark little fling he'd rather forget comes back to threaten
England 1873, a country in a state of turmoil. A young girl is propelled on a journey from the London slums to the servants' quarters of a great house - and from first love to murder.In her flight fr
Chicago's South Side in the 1920s Struggling to keep his dreams alive and his family together, Victor Mason is an educated black man reduced to working on building sites. His loyalty to Marcus Garvey
Taxes have risen and there doesn't seem to be as much money around for wine, villas and boys with good complexions. The Senate is under pressure to make Rome rich again.Consul Cato is a practical man
The year is 1913 and war with Germany is imminent, Rudyard Kipling's determination to send his myopic son to war triggers a bitter family conflict which leaves Britain's renowned patriot devastated b
As an actor at any level - from school exam to professional casting - you are likely to be called upon to perform one or more audition pieces - often a 'classical' piece is specified. A great deal wil
Thirteen-year-old Violet has plenty to wish for. She wishes Will, her older brother, would be kinder to her. She wishes beautiful charismatic Jasmine would be her friend for ever. Most of all she wis
Three short plays for one (female) actor - all featuring mothers on the edge. Two have been staged to great acclaim, the third - a new piece by Catherine Johnson - has yet to be performed. Jordan by
Eight actors and directors who have worked with Harold Pinter in the theater talk candidly about what it is like to appear in a Pinter play, to direct a Pinter play, to be directed by Pinter, to work
When the defiantly northern Wyverdale District Council fails to satisfy a government audit, a New Labour fixer is despatched from the capital to formulate a robust recovery plan. But resources spent o
Everyone wants to get to the executive suite. Everyone wants the Delhi job. Everyone wants sex, everyone wants love. So they push for it. Published alongside the U.K. premiere at the Royal Court, a s
From his overcrowded and famously filthy East Village apartment, England's most famous ex-pat wit is waiting to tell you how to be happy.As he awaits the arrival of the mysterious Mr Brown and Mr Blac
Frank is a forty-something failed writer. He is in the grips of an undeclared passion for his best friend’s 17-year-old son, whom he has saved from drowning with mouth to mouth resuscitation. Af
Plucked from obscurity to be Hitler’s architect and Minister of War, Albert Speer became the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany and the closest Hitler had to a friend. David Edgar’s panoramic ad
The best-loved English comedy of the 18-century mocks the snobbery of London through the manipulations of the country, embodied in Tony Lumpkin. She Stoops to Conquer also celebrates the virtues of "
Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. The new versions remain faithful to the original Greek, yet the language has all the immediacy of contemporary Eng
