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Being an Actor, Revised and Expanded Edition

Simon Callow Picador

"Impassioned, intelligent, informative, and, quite simply, one of the best theatre books I have read."—Michael Coveney, Financial Times

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The Verbal Arts Workbook

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David Carey, Rebecca Clark Carey Methuen Drama

Written by tutors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and authors of the successful companion title, The Vocal Arts Workbook and DVD, this book trains actors to learn not only how to use their voice, but to use voice and language together and how to reach the expressive potential of language.
This book puts it all together using one classical and one modern scene as examples.

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Marina Carr: Plays 1 Low in the Dark, The Mai, Portia Coughlan, By the Bog of Cats... Marina Carr Faber and Faber, Inc. Marina Carr: Plays 1 introduces the work of a major new voice in playwrighting. Carr has been praised for the beauty and uniqueness of her language, was cited...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Tragedy of Mariam New Mermaids Elizabeth Cary; Edited by Karen Britland Methuen Drama First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name. Never performed during Cary's lifetime, and apparently never intended for performance, the Senecan revenge tragedy tells the story of Mariam, the second wife of Herod.

Trade Paperback : $12.95 Buy	The Cherry Orchard Modern Plays Anton Chekhov Michael Frayn Methuen Drama \u0022Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive…will be acted again and again\u0022 (New Statesman) In Chekhov's tragi-comedy...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	The Cherry Orchard A Comedy in Four Acts Student Editions Anton Chekhov Nick Worrall Methuen Drama 'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive . . . will be acted again and again' New Statesman In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps...

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	The Seagull Student Editions Anton Chekhov Methuen Drama A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When it opened in St Petersburg in 1896, The Seagull survived...

Trade Paperback : $12.95 Buy	Three Sisters Student Editions Anton Chekhov Methuen Drama Chekhov's widely performed classic study of provincial life explores the irony of hope and the inadequacy of consolation. Michael Frayn's hugely popular...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Top Girls Modern Classics Caryl Churchill Methuen Drama The dialectic of Top Girls is wide-ranging, covering universal dilemmas facing women, but focuses on major themes of contemporary life. The critique of...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Top Girls Student Editions Caryl Churchill; Commentary by Bill Naismith and Nick Worrall Methuen Drama Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a serminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of women's experience at a pivotal moment in British...

Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	Tonight at 8.30 Hands Across the Sea; Still Life; Fumed Oak; Ways and Means; The Astonished Heart; Red Peppers; We W Modern Plays Nol Coward Methuen Drama Written as a vehicle for Coward's own acting talents alongside his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, Tonight at 8:30 is Coward's ambitious series of...

Hardcover : $14.95 Buy	The Shoemaker's Holiday New Mermaids Thomas Dekker Jonathan Gil Harris Methuen Drama 'I know the trade: I learned it when I was in Wittenberg' Thus speaks Lacy, the gentleman who disguises himself as a simple shoemaker in order to win his true...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Roaring Girl New Mermaids Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton; Edited by Elizabeth Cook Methuen Drama This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents areal-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, whoprobably was among the first...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	A Taste Of Honey Student Editions Shelagh Delaney Elaine Aston Glenda Leeming Methuen Drama This mid-century play examined questions of race, class, gender and sexual orientation and ushered in a new era of modern dramatists. It was made into a highly acclaimed film in 1962.

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And Furthermore

Judi Dench St. Martin's Press

I can hardly believe that it is more than half a century since I first stepped on to the stage of the Old Vic Theatre and into a way of life that has brought...

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Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Marriage A La Mode New Mermaids John Dryden David Crane Methuen Drama Dryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, wouldhave been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession,Francophilia and...

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Wit

A Play

Margaret Edson Faber and Faber, Inc.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“Among the finest plays of the decade . . . An original and urgent work of art.”—David Lyons, The Wall Street Journal

Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Drama

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Trade Paperback : $26.95 Buy	The Methuen Drama Book of Royal Court Plays 2000-2010 Under the Blue Sky; Fallout; Motortown; My Child; Enron Methuen Drama Methuen Drama An essential anthology of five plays originally staged by what the New York Times described as “the most important theater in Europe”—The Royal Court.

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Man of Mode New Mermaids George Etherege John Barnard Methuen Drama Verbal brilliance, urbane sophistication and sexual conquest are the measures of success for the fashionable set who watched themselves being represented on...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Alcestis A Play Euripedes; Translated and Adapted by Ted Hughes Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His Tales from Ovid was...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Tamer Tamed New Mermaids John Fletcher; Lucy Munro Methuen Drama This comedic sequel and “reply” to THE TAMING OF THE SHREW by seventeenth century playwright John Fletcher switches the gender roles of the Shakespeare play:...

Hardcover : $75.00 Buy	The Tamer Tamed New Mermaids John Fletcher; Lucy Munro Methuen Drama This comedic sequel and “reply” to THE TAMING OF THE SHREW by seventeenth century playwright John Fletcher switches the gender roles of the Shakespeare play:...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins A Play Nick Flynn; With an afterword by the author Faber and Faber, Inc. "Flynn's talents are considerable—he has a compelling voice and a wry sense of humor."—Vendela Vida, The New York Times Book Review

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Accidental Death of an Anarchist Modern Classics Dario Fo Simon Nye Methuen Drama In its first two years of production in Italy, Dario Fo's notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been...