Drawing on the author's experience as an acting and audition coach, this title selects fifty monologues for men and another fifty for women drawn from across the Shakespeare canon. Each is prefaced with an easy-to-use guide to Who is speaking, Where, When and To Whom, What has just happened in the play and What are the character's objectives.
A darkly funny political thriller, which sets a deeply personal story against an epic historical landscape. The true story of two maverick Norwegian diplomats who coordinated top secret talks and inspired seemingly impossible friendships. Their quiet heroics led to the groundbreaking Oslo Peace Accords.
Sarah Burgess' breathtakingly witty and virtuosic comedy exploring the vision, the vulnerability, and the vilification of those shaping - and skewing - the economy.
In his new book, the world-famous theatre director Peter Brook illuminates his discussion of language - ranging from Shakespearean to Franglais - with insightful perceptions and haunting parables for our time, delivered in his customarily sagacious style.
Americans Zack and Abby are bright, young and recently married. He's a doctor combating infant disease. She's an actress, also teaching yoga. It's just before Christmas and they're living the expat highlife in bohemian Belleville, Paris. It's all a little too perfect. Amy Herzog's Belleville is a play about a romantic dream gone sour
An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard. Devised for, and first performed by, the Royal Shakespeare Company, this show has been a hit with audiences all over the world. It includes songs and sketches by Alan Bennett, Noël Coward, Stephen Sondheim, Fry and Laurie, Monty Python, Victoria Wood and many more.
A hilarious new stage adaptation of the classic comic novel.
A new version of The York Mystery Plays, a monumental dramatic cycle first performed over seven hundred years ago in the city of York.
A first collection of plays from the acclaimed British dramatist. Includes The Pride, Apologia, Faith Machine, Bracken Moor and Sunset at the Villa Thalia.
An exciting and wide-ranging collection of audition speeches, all chosen from plays produced by the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, offering rich and diverse roles ranging from teens to adults.