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The Dresser
4 Male, 3 Female
The British theatre today owes a lot to the tradition of the actor manager, often a powerful, tyrannical figure, who demanded hard work, devotion and loyalty from the members of his company Touring the…
Oroonoko
Large Mixed Cast Male, 3 Female
In 1688 the British writer and playwright Aphra Behn published her ‘true history’ called Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. It tells the story of an African prince, tricked into slavery and transported to the…
Sir Donald Wolfit - His Life and Work in the Unfashionable Theatre
“Sir Donald Wolfit, C.B.E - that was how he liked to think of himself, the actor-manager, the Victorian, distinguished, honoured, respected; it was, undoubtedly, the greatest handicap to his career…
Strindberg and Love
A biography of August Strindberg and the women who loved him - Siri von Essen, Frida Uhl, Harriot Bosse and Fanny Falkner Whenever he fell in love Strindberg always felt that he had surrendered his soul. …
August Strindberg - The Chamber Plays - Thunder in the Air & After the Fire & The Ghost Sonata & The Pelican & The Black Glove
Strindberg wrote these five chamber plays for the Intimate Theatre, which he established in Stockholm in 1907 In these minature masterpieces you will find the characteristic Strindbergian themes - the…
Christopher Hampton - Dramatic Ironist
Despite the many prizes he has won and the fact that he has written some of the most popular and widely performed plays of the last thirty years, there has been no full-length study of his work - until…
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
An idea for a play can be sparked off by a childhood memory, a snatch of conversation, a chance meeting, a newspaper headline… This guide offers a practical and comprehensive approach to every stage…
Sonic Harvest
For the past twenty-five years author and musician, Sam Richards, has been on a quest - a musical quest. How does music assimilate or express the concepts of democracy, equality and community? Challenging…
Theatre in a Cool Climate
Despite the onslaught of gevernment policies and media denigration, all the contributors to this book think it does They each present their own snapshots of what it’s like to be a professional in…
Stoppard - The Mystery and the Clockwork
The terms “mystery” and “clockwork” are scattered throughout Stoppard’s own writings and concepts and are encapsulated in Act II of Jumpers when George complains (unjustifiably…
Playwrights’ Progress - Patterns of Postwar British Drama
Established dramatists like Coward, Rattigan, and Priestley continued to write successful plays after the War yet without breaking new ground Experiment lay elsewhere - for example, in the work of Ewan…
Coriolanus in Deutschland
Steven Berkoff’s journal of directing Coriolanus in Germany makes fascinating reading as one of Britain’s most controversial figures of the theatre unfolds the agonies and pleasures of creating…
Motherly Love & Pariah & The First Warning
Motherly Love (cast 4f), Pariah (cast 2m) and The First Warning (cast 1m, 4f) are part of a series of nine one-act plays that Strindberg wrote for his own small touring company “[The Gate Theatre has]…
The Father & Lady Julie & Playing with Fire
The Father (1887) is one of the most gripping psychological dramas of the modern theatre. Strindberg was working on this and Lady Julie (1888) when his first marriage was breaking up, and he wrote Playing…
Society & Ours & Caste & Progress & School & Birth
Six important plays written between 1865 and 1870 by one of the most successful playwrights of the age. They represent the peak of Robertson’s achievements during this short but prolific period of his…
St James Blues & A Bed for the Knight & Waiting for the Barbarians
Three comedies for the modern age St James’s Blues: The gentlemen on the committee of the Mariners’ Club - the Commodores as they are known - are in a quandary. They discover that they are sitting on some…
Brief Candle & Stoney Bowes & Confessions of Zeno & Da Ponte’s Last Stand
The action of Brief Candle takes place between 1873 and 1884 in various cities across Europe. The play celebrates the fascinating and all too brief life and achievement of the painter and diarist Marie…
Making Waves
Mike, father of the Tnner family, is the coswain of the local lifeboat. The demands of his job take priority over the needs of his family But he’s a hero - what can they do ? “Theatre…
Raj
RAJ is set in India during British administration. It is a play about imperialism, about power and where it lies, about divided loyalties: loyalties born, nurtured and handed down over generations of British…
A Letter of Resignation
1963 was an amazing year. President Kennedy’s assassination. The Great Train Robbery. Beatlemania. The Profumo Affair. Life was changing Britain was becoming a different place and to many people the Prime…
The Best of Friends
This unusual play by the author of Breaking the Code is adapted from the letters and writings of Dame Laurentia McLachlan, Sir Sydney Cockerell and George Bernard Shaw, close friends who exchanged a flood…
