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There are 33 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786825018 | ISBN 10: 1786825015
Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the NHS, award-winning comedian and activist Mark Thomas takes a look at our NHS, what state it’s in, where it’s going, and what we need to do to keep it. ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781350014541 | ISBN 10: 1350014540
Theatre is at its best when it is disobedient, when it argues back to society. But what enables it to achieve this impact? What makes it a force to be reckoned with? What are the principles and the tools of the trade that shape it to be effective, po ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780264271 | ISBN 10: 1780264275
A collection of plays born from the great struggles of the Trade Union movement.
Characters from Tolpuddle to Trico, from the early struggles for organisation to the recent struggles to save the youth service, speak out in the dozen plays co ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781137443090 | ISBN 10: 113744309x
How does protest engage with theatre? What does theatre have to gain from protest? Theatre and protest are often closely interlinked in the contemporary cultural and political landscape, and the line between protest and performance can be diffi ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786940759 | ISBN 10: 1786940752
George Garrett’s autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, published here in full for the first time since it was written in the late 1930s, shines a light on the hardships and poverty endured by many in the years between the wars. Garrett was ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786821515 | ISBN 10: 1786821516
Selected and edited by the award-winning American playwright Reginald Edmund, who produced Black Lives, Black Words across the US, which premiered in Chicago, July 2015. The international project has explored the black diaspora’s experiences in som ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910463697 | ISBN 10: 1910463698
Funny, provocative and moving, The Liar’s Quartet includes the scripts with brand new commentary from Mark Thomas’ most acclaimed comic, political theatre. Layered with political insight (and insult), and peppered with anecdote, this is a bravura ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781138913820 | ISBN 10: 1138913820
What does it mean to study Shakespeare within a multicultural society? And who has the power to transform Shakespeare?
The Diverse Bard explores how Shakespeare has been adapted by artists born on the margins of the Empire, and how actors of ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783190843 | ISBN 10: 1783190841
‘My only gift is to grow a show,’ said Joan Littlewood, annoyed by what she had not achieved. Even so, her ability to do just that put her and her company, Theatre Workshop, head and shoulders above mid twentieth-century theatre.
In the year ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780957679252 | ISBN 10: 0957679254
They say I'm meddling in the foreign affairs of the United States Government. Now, that's too bad, 'cause I'm going to have to continue to meddle...
Paul Robeson is a world famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When over the yea ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781447227069 | ISBN 10: 1447227069
You know who's bugging me these days? The pro-lifers... if you're so pro-life, do me a favour - don't lock arms and block medical clinics. Lock arms and block cemetaries. A lot of Christians... wear crosses round their necks. Nice sentiment, but do ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780719085307 | ISBN 10: 0719085306
Performance in a Time of Terror offers a thought-provoking investigation of the way performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, as both a tactic of violence and a strategy of resistance.
The book focuses on an ... more
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£23.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780415549233 | ISBN 10: 041554923x
In Exercises for Rebel Artists, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes use their extensive teaching and performance experience with La Pocha Nostra to help students and practitioners to create ‘border art’.
Designed to take readers right into ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849430630 | ISBN 10: 1849430632
Across the UK thousands of people are involved in protests and debates, sparked into action by the largest cuts to publicspending since WWII – cuts which are the turning point of a generation, undermining the welfare state, higher education and the a ... more
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£19.50 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780472051564 | ISBN 10: 0472051563
Reverend Billy, the revivalist preacher created by performance artist Bill Talen, has attracted an international following as he has railed in white suit and clerical collar against the evils of excessive consumerism and corporate irresponsibility. I ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408131039 | ISBN 10: 140813103x
An uproarious new version of Dario Fo’s frenetic farce Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! which, although set in Italy, has an all too familiar ring to it.
Housewives Antonia and Margherita, fed up with high prices in the supermarket, take matters i ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848421073 | ISBN 10: 1848421079
Colourful, funny and thought-provoking. This exploration of the harsh realities of economic survival for the working-classes remains as relevant today as when the novel was first written.
Frank Owen is a socialist who believes that the capi ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906582081 | ISBN 10: 1906582084
An exploration of the creative explosion that
occurred when the campaign for the vote brought
together the talents of so many female writers
and artists at the start of the 20th century.
An overview of the artists, designers, writers ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780822347781 | ISBN 10: 0822347784
Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time.
Like her poetry, Sanchez’s plays voice her critiqu ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781840028812 | ISBN 10: 1840028815
'They're outside. Even if you write down what I tell you and you get the world to read the book, I don't think they'll be bothered. They're not frightened of the truth. What hope have we got?'
Chaotic, fast, and furious, ZERO is the new play fro ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780415472142 | ISBN 10: 0415472148
Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine ‘socially engaged performance’. It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a vari ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780230205239 | ISBN 10: 0230205232
What happens to politics when it takes the form of theatre? How has theatre both exploited and undermined politics both in society and on the stage?
Theatre & Politics explores the complex relationship between theatre and politics, questioning so ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780230205246 | ISBN 10: 0230205240
Act of violence or show of strength? In a world of spectacular suffering and power plays – large and small – what is theatre's role in protecting human dignity?
With its impassioned plays, inspired activism and outspoken artists, the thea ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780745328386 | ISBN 10: 0745328385
This new edition of Theatre of the Oppressed brings a classic work on radical drama fully up to date and includes a new foreword by the author Augusto Boal. Boal restores theatre to its proper place as a popular form of communication and expres ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780571232192 | ISBN 10: 0571232191
What is a political playwright? Does theatre have any direct effect on society? Why choose to work in a medium which speaks to so few? Is theatre itself facing oblivion? - all frequent questions addressed to David Hare over the last thirty-five years ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781854599209 | ISBN 10: 1854599208
Paul Robeson's international achievements as a singer and an actor made him the most celebrated black American of his day (he would have said 'Negro'). But his outspoken criticism of racism in the USA, his unflinching support of African independence, ... more
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£22.00 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780859897600 | ISBN 10: 0859897605
This book is the first in-depth study of Theatre Workshop, perhaps Britain's most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company's aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the el ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781842777336 | ISBN 10: 1842777335
Written by a leading authority on the subject, this book provides students with an introduction to the theory and practice of Theatre for Development. Since the 1970s, TfD has established itself as a process through which communities can address thei ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904456483 | ISBN 10: 1904456480
'Don't shoot the clowns!' As a circus performer in a war zone these are the fist words you need to know in English and Arabic, especially if you are trying to help wounded civilians in a city under siege. Don't Shoot the Clowns is Jo Wilding's accoun ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781845291112 | ISBN 10: 1845291115
'By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you ar ... more
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£26.50 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781841500546 | ISBN 10: 1841500542
Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfered to London and New York, and has toured Britain as well as Europe and Australia.
This book ex ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780413762405 | ISBN 10: 0413762408
In south side Chicago, Walter Lee, a black chauffeur, dreams of a better life, and hopes to use his father's life insurance money to open a liquor store. His mother, who rejects the liquor business, uses some of the money to secure a proper house for ... more
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£30.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780415229890 | ISBN 10: 0415229898
He is the inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system and 'Theatre of the Oppressed', including Image Theatre, Invisible Theatre, Rainbow of Desire and Legislative Theatre. He travels the world giving workshops and inspiration to te ... more
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