 | Exposed by the Mask: Form and Language in Drama by Peter Hall
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.68 A compelling account of 'form' in drama
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 | The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.87 My favourite play: a theatrical masterpeice - dark, funny, touching, absurd and shocking
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 | Brecht: A Choice of Evils (Methuen Modern Plays) (Plays and Playwrights) by Martin Esslin
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £0.01 Besides from some anthologies, this is the best study of brecht along with 'Post-Modern Brecht'
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 | Peter Hall's Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle (Oberon Book) by Peter Hall
Buy new: £13.59 / Used from: £9.00 A fascinating insight into the national theatre's turbulent past
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 | The Dog in the Manger: A Play by Lope De Vega (Absolute Classics)
Buy new: £6.56 / Used from: £7.47 An underated and rarely performed spanish gem - beats any Lorca to the ground!
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 | Huis Clos and other Plays: "The Respectable Prostitute"; "Lucifer and the Lord"; "Huis Clos" by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £8.22 / Used from: £5.00 Throeretically interesting realisations of his existentialism? If not, they're still great plays
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 | Plays: "Birthday Party", "The Room", "Dumb Waiter", "Slight Ache", "The Hothouse", "Night Out", Black and White (Prose), "The Examination" v. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics) by Harold Pinter
Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £3.97 Pinter - whether you invest in the theatrical hype or consider his work pretentious drivel - his landmark plays are essential reading
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 | Tom Stoppard Plays: "Arcadia", "Real Thing", "Night and Day", "Indian Ink", "Hapgood" v. 5 (Faber Contemporary Classics) by Tom Stoppard
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £6.99 Stoppard is a unique and skillfull dramatist - any of his work, not just this volume, demonstrates his greatness
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 | Collected Plays: "East","West","Greek","Sink the Belgrano!","Massage", "Lunch","The Bow of Ulysses","Sturm Und Drang" v.1: "East","West","Greek","Sink ... Bow of Ulysses","Sturm Und Drang" Vol 1 by Steven Berkoff
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £5.40 Berkoff is a theatrical phenomena - 'East' 'West' and 'Greek' are excellent plays which shock and humour with lyrical baseness, but avoid his more convoluted and pretentious works in other volumes
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 | Modern Theories of Performance: From Stanislavski to Boal by Jane Milling
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £17.50 Gives brief summery of the theories of the modern era but its main appeal is its critical discussion
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