 | Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
Buy used from: £4.66 the grandaddy of them all. still a treasure trove. status stuff is great...
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 | Plays : 1 (The Ruling Class, Leonardo's Last Supper, Noonday Demons, The Bewitched, Laughter, Barnes' People : Eight Monologues by Peter Barnes
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £4.39 the neglected genius of brit theatre. too anarchic, too gag-laden for the critics. please , someone, put on "the bewitched" again
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 | "Rhinoceros", "The Chairs", and "The Lesson" by Eugene Ionesco
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £4.69 absurd like a hatstand in milk.
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 | Von Horvath: Plays One: "Sladek" / "A Sexual Congress" (Modern Playwrights) by Odon von Horvath
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £8.55 writing epic anti-Nazi plays in 1928. a visionary. try to track down Don Juan Comes Back From The War as well
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 | Hay Fever (Modern Plays) (Modern Classics) by Noel Coward
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.55 hysterical, anarchic, subversive, a forerunner of absurdism: miles away from cowards slightly smug, fusty reputation
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 | Shakespeare Our Contemporary (University Paperbacks) by Jan Kott
Buy used from: £2.70 radical reassessment of Big Will. worth a read; then pretend the ideas are yours...
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 | True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor by David Mamet
Buy new: £6.14 / Used from: £3.49 provocative, inspiring polemic. i recommend this to all my students.
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 | No Man's Land by Harold Pinter
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £1.70 my fave HP play. possibly my favourite play ever.
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 | The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera by Angela Carter
Buy used from: £14.89 anarchic carnivals. her radio stuff is great for theatrical adaptation...
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 | Feydeau Plays: "The Girl from Maxim's", "She's All Yours", "A Flea in Her Ear", "Jailbird" v. 2 (Methuen World Classics) by Georges Feydeau
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £7.49 fleet of foot, incredibly modern. get both volumes.
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 | A Life in Letters (Penguin Classics) by Anton Chekhov
Buy new: £8.15 / Used from: £7.28 funny and insightful. worth dipping into. nice edition, too.
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 | Plays: The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard (Methuen World Dramatists) by A. P. Chekhov
Buy new: £9.39 / Used from: £0.01 but this is why we love him. makes mores sense as you get older. the drift, the drift...
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| Chekhov's 'The Seagull' by Martin Crimp
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £4.55 ...and try this recent visceral take on "the seagull"..angst and doomed lovers: perfect for sixth formers.
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| AC/DC (Playscripts) by Heathcote Williams
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £4.00 counterculture freak out! Artaud lives!
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 | Terrorism by Oleg Presnyakov
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £5.00 excellent brechtian chiller from the recent spate of Royal Court Russians (see also Black Milk)
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 | Iphigenia at Aulis (Classical Dramatists) by Euripides
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.82 great version of a heartbreaking play; seeing it at the NT in 04 moved me tears. quide liderally.
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 | Steven Berkoff: The Collected Plays Vol. 2 ("Decadence", "Kvetch", "Acapulco", "Harry's Christmas", "Brighton Beach Scumbags", "Dahling You Were ... You Were Marvellous", "Dog" and "Actor" Vol 2 by Steven Berkoff
Buy new: £8.95 / Used from: £7.11 big domehead's best collection, in my humble opinion
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 | Roberto Zucco (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists) (Modern Plays) by Bernard-Marie Koltes
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.36 jawdroppingly brutal, fighteningly clever, very french. koltes last work is a chilling, euphoric masterpiece
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 | Plays: Three: Bingo / The Fool / The Woman / Stone by Edward Bond
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £7.93 get past the bonkers intros, and his plays are wonderful. bingo is a particular favourite
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 | Towards a Poor Theatre (Eyre Methuen Drama Books) (Performance Books) by Jerzy Grotowski
Buy new: £9.73 / Used from: £6.50 not a system as such; but still a great sourcebook
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 | "Nights at the Circus" (Oberon Modern Plays) by Angela Carter
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £15.98 sexy, faithful and extremely funny...kneehigh are brilliant.
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 | Complicite - Three Plays: Street of Crocodiles / Mnemonic / Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (Methuen Modern Plays): "Street of Crocodiles"; "Mnemonic"; ... Lucie Cabrol" v. 1 (Contemporary Dramatists) by Theatre de Complicite
Buy new: £9.91 / Used from: £8.23 mcburney & co; street of crocodiles is a masterpiece.
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 | Volpone and Other Plays: "Volpone", "The Alchemist", "Bartholomew Fair" (Penguin Classics) by Ben Jonson
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.75 i love bartholemew fair; a real slice of jacobean england
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 | The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer by Patsy Rodenburg
Buy used from: £12.44 the best voice book available - lots of useful exercises
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 | Plays: "Some Voices", "Pale Horse", "Love and Understanding", "The Bullet" Vol 1 (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists) by Joe Penhall
Buy new: £11.49 one of the best in-yer-face writers; misanthropic and bleak. in a good way...
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