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There are 26 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784703486 | ISBN 10: 1784703486
The ground-breaking, firebrand playwright who changed our cultural and social landscape and put working-class lives centre stage.
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On 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London. Written by a nineteen-year-old bus dri ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781138592018 | ISBN 10: 1138592013
This newly-updated volume looks at the scope of Augusto Boal's career from his early work as a playwright and director in Sao Paulo in the 1950s, to the development of his ground-breaking manifesto in the 1970s for a 'Theatre of the Oppressed'. Offer ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571294343 | ISBN 10: 0571294340
When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as compl ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782111085 | ISBN 10: 1782111085
Now is probably as good a time as any to make a full confession...
Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781631491115 | ISBN 10: 1631491113
An historic publication in which the legendary dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros.
Even in Germany, the scope and force of Bertolt Brecht’s poetry did not become apparent until long after his death and today, many of h ... more
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£20.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780253016522 | ISBN 10: 0253016525
Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099287568 | ISBN 10: 0099287560
A fresh look at Chaplin from the masterful Peter Ackroyd.
He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. But what of the man behind the mous ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780956632906 | ISBN 10: 0956632904
• Includes exclusive interviews with women directors
• Essential resource for film students, gender studies courses and film fans alike
Now Kathryn Bigelow has made history as the first woman to win an Oscar for directing, is ... 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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£14.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780753555149 | ISBN 10: 075355514x
For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson.
He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the w ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099569169 | ISBN 10: 0099569167
A masterclass in media studies from the creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks. Described in Parliament as 'excellent' by Ed Vaizey, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
GRANGE HILL
Swi ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571301867 | ISBN 10: 057130186x
How did the director of acclaimed cult British films become an Oscar-winner and the driving force behind the defining cultural moment of 2012, the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympic Games?
In this revelatory career-length biography, prod ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571254811 | ISBN 10: 0571254810
In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and went off to direct a loss-making opera about Jerry Springer.
How I Escaped My Certain Fate
details his return to live performance, and h ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848421714 | ISBN 10: 1848421710
An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre.
In My Life in Pieces, Simon Callow recaptures the multifarious people, productions and events which have fed into his lifeblood and left their indelible mark. Starting w ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781854595386 | ISBN 10: 1854595385
An unrivalled unofficial history of the rise – and partial fall – of fringe theatre, Mike Bradwell’s deadpan account of his adventures is one of the funniest and angriest books to come out of theatre today.
As he travels through a countercu ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141189222 | ISBN 10: 0141189223
In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance.
Here he describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as sm ... more
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£19.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781845115661 | ISBN 10: 184511566x
Philip French has called Alex Cox, 'British Cinema's oldest enfant terrible'; it's a description that its recipient fully approves of. He is a radical, international, independent filmmaker, who is also an insightful commentator on cinema now, and exp ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007197903 | ISBN 10: 000719790x
World-famous writer Bill Bryson brings us this brilliantly readable biography of our greatest dramatist and poet, William Shakespeare.
Examining centuries of myths, half-truths and downright lies, Bill Bryson tries to make sense of the man b ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141189291 | ISBN 10: 0141189290
When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media - though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and su ... more
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£25.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780713684902 | ISBN 10: 0713684909
The Worst It Can Be is a Disaster is the autobiography of Braham Murray, founding director of the Royal Exchange Manchester which in 2006 celebrated its thirtieth anniversary.
Born into a Jewish family, Braham Murray struggled against his pa ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781551522203 | ISBN 10: 1551522209
The history of gay and lesbian cinema is a storied one, and one that became much larger with the recent success of Brokeback Mountain, Capote, and Transamerica. But the history of gay and lesbian filmmakers is its own story. In The View from Here, qu ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780571234769 | ISBN 10: 0571234763
Michael Billington's engrossing biography takes Harold Pinter from his Hackney childhood to his current eminence. This new edition includes a full transcript of the Nobel lecture, as well as an additional chapter and accompanying photographs covering ... 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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£8.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780747565901 | ISBN 10: 0747565902
The riveting, star-studded journals from the former director of the National Theatre.
During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the Royal National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary — a record that disarmingly captured a l ... 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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£14.99 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780719047633 | ISBN 10: 0719047633
In 1994 the Arts Council of Great Britain brought together a number of theatre directors as part of the City of Drama celebrations. This is a collection of interviews and discussions with directors who have helped shape the development of theat ... more
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