When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say 'No'. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she place…
"At the turn of the 20th Century, the great cruise liner Virginia shuttles back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, transporting passengers from old Europe to the New World. When an abandoned baby is found on board the sailors christen Novecento -…
Part clown manual, part storytelling and part rant - The Clown Manifesto covers the experiences, philosophies and methods of the clown performer/director/teacher Nalleslavski.A book for clowns, physical comedians, actors, musicians, jugglers, puppet…
In an oak-paneled room in Oxford, ten young punks with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, de…
"Sir Hugo Baskerville was the picture of aristocratic excess, drunkenness and debauchery until he was struck down by a demonic hound sent to punish his wickedness - or so the legend tells. Two hundred years later his descendant Sir Charles apparentl…
Two seemingly upstanding couples find their friendships enveloped by scandal and tragedy, as the facade of wealth and privilege falls away and details of their indiscretions emerge.
'Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.' The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed on all sides by - among many other tendencies - flexi…
Nothing is much more than a series of monologues. It is about - among other things - cupcakes, action films, crap television, shitting, sex, buses and stalking. It is about alienation and being young. Initially written as eight monologues by Lulu Ra…
The National Theatre's Costume department is one of the theatre's largest departments. Their skilled practitioners work in a number of areas including tailoring, dyeing, costume props, costume production and maintenance to produce over 10,000 costum…
Three generations of women. For each, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful legacy. "I have Stayed. I have Stayed - I have Stayed for as long as I possibly can."
"Dickens' unforgettable characters are exuberantly made flesh." London Times
Natalia Osipova: Becoming a Swan is an intimate portrait of the work of a ballet superstar, and the story told in pictures of how she prepares for the most iconic role in all of ballet. Features over 150 black and white images of Osipova behind the…
The first-ever biography in English of Pina Bausch: perhaps the most influential performer and choreographer of the twentieth century. Bausch was notoriously shy about discussing her work, yet Mayer's accessible account penetrates the mystique and m…
Bryony Lavery's new stage adaptation of Angela Carter's story.When a 17 year old virgin marries a mature and charismatic Marquis it seems like a fairy tale. But when the Marquis is called away on their wedding night, leaving her only her only his ke…
Forty days below the decks of a ship in relentless storms. Squalid conditions, a cargo of animals, and the man in charge claims he is acting on God's orders. An ensemble cast tells the exhilarating and gripping story of the world's first natural dis…
Pentheus has banned the wild, ritualistic worship of the god Dionysos. A stranger arrives to persuade him to change his mind. Euripides' electrifying tragedy is a struggle to the death between freedom and restraint, the rational and the irrational,…
"A book that will stand the test of time" - Pierce Brosnan An essential guide to the Stanislavski technique, filtering out the complexities of the system and offering a dynamic, hands-on approach. Provides a comprehensive understanding of character,…
A new gripping psychological drama, The Girl in the Yellow Dress, centers on a love story set in Paris between two apparently disparate characters, one a UK teacher and the other her Congolese student.
A new play about our prejudices and identity in the age of suicide bombings in Europe by award-winning Swedish playwright and novelist Jonas Hassen Khemiri. A car has exploded. A city has been crippled by fear. Amor wanders around the city, doing hi…
In a farmhouse at the edge of Salisbury Plain, a family is falling apart. Stephen can't afford to put his mother into care; Arthur can't afford to stop working and look after his wife. When a young stranger with blue hair moves in to care for Edie a…
A searing triptych of three monologues all exposing the ugly truth behind the headlines of the current situation in Iraq. In America, a disgraced female soldier defends the chaotic events that took place in Abu Ghraib prison. In England, weapons ins…
This volume is a collection of all nine plays Kristof wrote; five full length plays and four shorter plays.This collection contains the plays: John and Joe, The Lift Key, A Passing Rat, The Grey Hour or the Last Client, The Monster, The Road, The Ep…
"Punishment without Revenge is a dark and thrilling drama, an audacious blend of unbearable tension and delicious comedy, which both terrifies and delights. Regarded as the greatest tragedy of the Spanish Golden Age and the finest play of its presid…
"A clockwork mouse and his child are discarded by children on Christmas Day. Lost and alone, they desperately want to get back home to the toyshop. Russell Hoban's masterpiece The Mouse and his Child is the tale which has inspired a thousand wonderf…
Steve's worried. He's put on a few pounds and thinks he's looking 'wobbly'. So he's at the gym with his mate Terry but he's wrestling with a much weightier issue than pumping iron! But Terry's spotted Dan, a huge powerhouse of a man who loves nothin…
The religious fraud Tartuffe has wormed his way into the affections and household of the rich merchant Orgon, with pantomime piety and counterfeit zeal. So comprehensively has he hoodwinked Orgon that he looks set to succeed in driving away the son,…
A collection of short essays and reflections on poetry which illustrate Maxwell's poetic philosophy. With examples from canonical poets, this is a beautiful, accessible guide to the most ancient and sublime of the realms of literature.
This critically acclaimed book by contemporary British playwright and poet Glyn Maxwell, explains the craft and charm of poetry, and has been described as 'The best book on poetry I've ever read' by the Guardian
"Fin's bright. Some would say gifted. But school isn't going well. While he is busy coping with his mum's depression and his younger brother's drug problem, he can feel his future slipping away. The few jobs that are available in North London are pa…
In Dublin city, people are more connected than you think. It will only take something small for six lives to become entwined. A bookshop employee; a restaurant manager; an English movie star; a sales team leader; a journalist; a Japanese florist. Wh…
Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, presented at the Coronet in its first major UK production.A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the glare…
It's 1967 in Detroit. Motown music is getting the party started, and Chelle and her brother Lank are making ends meet by turning their basement into an after-hours joint. But when a mysterious woman finds her way into their lives, the siblings clash…
"The Heyst family live under a shadow. The father is in prison for embezzlement and the daughter, Eleanora, has been committed to an asylum. Mrs Heyst and her son Elis live from day to day on the edge of collapse. They fear that they are on the brin…
Set over a single evening, Jam is a relentless, incendiary new drama that interrogates social fault-lines in Britain today, and the tension between truth and justice.
A wonderful book for aficionados, actors, academics, and audiences alike. This is a unique introduction and guide to Shakespeare's life and times, a uniquely modern take on Shakespeare by a man uniquely qualified to write about him. Imagines Shakesp…
In The Playwright as Rebel, Nicholas Dromgoole's collected essays in theatre history not only examine particular plays as key moments in drama history, but set them in their cultural and historical context. Theatre is seen as playing a key part in d…
The Soft of Her Palm is a devastating exploration of domestic violence, telling the story of Phil and Sarah's troubled and complex relationship. It begins in the present day, moments after Sarah has crashed her car outside Phil's house - by accident…
William Wycherley's famous classic has been adapted by Tanika Gupta into a contemporary farce which tells the story of twenty-something friends and rivals on their journey through love and liberation. On his return to London, Hardeep begins broadcas…
In 2011, throughout the Arab World, veiled women took to the streets to protest. Their calls for change were briefly celebrated, soon derided, then ignored. The Singing Stones gives voice to their extraordinary stories. These are the women who snitc…
John Osborne (1929-1994) was the leading playwright of the post-war British theatre revival: a rennaissance that is said to have started when his Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre. It led to the coining of the phrase…
Features two plays in one book, written by an award-winning playwright.
"In Scribe's Le Puff (1848) - translated here as Believe It or Not - an honourable cavalry officer returns to Paris after five years abroad to find his countrymen happily addicted to exaggeration, dissimulation and downright lying. Can he find happi…
A murdered King. A usurped Prince. A promise of revenge. Returning to court to find his father murdered and his mother married to the murderer, Hamlet faces a terrible dilemma. An undisputed masterpiece of world theatre, "Hamlet", Shakespeare's grea…
Starring BAFTA and Olivier Award winner Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Birdland, Cock, Pride) as the Danish Prince, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude (until 1 July), and Jessica Brown Findlay as Ophelia, Hamlet is brought to the stage by the critically acclaime…
Brutally finny new play from award-winning writer.
"Ranging across the years, In Search of Jerusalem conjures up the spirited encounters of Michael Kustow's many-sided life: a tender evocation of his parents; portraits of actors, stage directors, painters, film-makers; vivid descriptions of post-war…
The astonishing adaptation, by Malcolm McKay, of Max Arthur's bestselling and acclaimed book, "Forgotten Voices", is based on the spoken testimony of veterans of the First World War, collected by the Sound Archive of the Imperial War Museum in 1970.…
Sex, political violence in Stockholm, Tel Aviv and Paris. Political murder in suburban London. Death, love and homicide in New York. War in the belly of a whale. These are the themes in Julia Pascal's latest collection which takes place in London in…
Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage - his version of the modern world with all its hideous but hilarious but contemptible but unavoidable contradictions and ironies and tragedies and pleasures, his world but also ours, even if we rarely ch…
"A very tough piece of goods-dynamite, hard-edged and brilliant."-New York PostNew York is hell. Daughters are murder. Vietnam was a war that America shouldn't have started. Today history replays in the Middle East. Same talk, same struggle, and mor…
Crossing Jerusalem: twenty four hours in the life of an Israeli family in March 2002. Varda an estate agent, is preparing a birthday lunch party for Yael, her daughter in law. Her husband Serge, a Russian emigre, is helping her clinch a tricky prope…
Kenny Glynn is the world's biggest Saints fan and for twenty-five years he has been locked in a game of football against the world. On his 26th birthday the world steps up its game and Kenny Glynn faces the match of his life as he takes on women, mo…
