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Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of thImprisoned for his revolutionary activities and championed by Checkov, Maxim Gorky ("the bitter") had his first play produced by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1902. Chekhov wrote, "Gorky is the fi...

So You Want to Be a Producer is packed with information and advice from top Hollywood producers, writers and directors and is a must-read for anyone interested in what it really takes to get a film made, including:- Finding your story- Obtaining the rights- Developing the script- Hiring your cast and crew- Distributing your movie Lawrence Turman, the producer of more than forty films, including The Graduate, The River Wild, Short Circuit and ...

This volume contains new translations to extend our image of one of the twentieth century's most entertaining and thought provoking writers on culture, aesthetics and politics. Here are a cross-section of Brecht's wide-ranging thoughts which offer us an extraordinary window onto the concerns of a modern world in four decades of economic and political disorder. The book is designed to give wider access to the experience of a dynamic intellect, ...

Dealing with the cutting edge of contemporary theatre. This book presents the results of a unique investigation, carried out in conjunction with the Royal National Theatre Studio, into the nature of performance itself.

Comprehensive introduction to the writers who are helping to shape the future of British theatre. Collection of twenty texts presenting an impressive portrait of a new generation of playwrights. 16pp b/w photos.

Subtitled, "20 Essential Steps From Rehearsal To Performance".

In The Shifting Point, his first book since The Empty Space, Brook assesses the lessons of his pioneering work from his brilliant debut at Stratford and the West End in the 1960s to the triumphant success of The Mahabharata.

This work brings together five of Moliere's finest and best known play Works such as "The Misanthrope" and "Tartuffe" have been skilfully translated into English rhyming couplet

This practical and accessible guide has been produced by The Gotham Writers' Workshop, which is America's leading private creative writing school. Their fresh and original approach has been adopted by universities across the US. Examples from major writers accompany the exercises and guidance. 'This is an excellent starting place for someone exploring the art and craft of fiction writing' "Publishers Weekly". An accompanying volume on writing ...

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Hugo, a young Communist Party member, is assigned the task of working for a "deviationist" Party leader, and shooting him. But has he camouflaged a political assassination as a "crime passionel"? On his release from prison, he tries to explain to a former comrade exactly what his motives were.

Three essays by one of the most influential figures in British theatre.

Written by a former teacher and author of "Stanislavski: An Introduction", this biography has been revised and updated to include new material now becoming available from the Russian archives, including a letter from Stanislavski to Stalin.

First staged in Britain in 1983, "Glengarry Glen Ross" is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992.

The screenplay from the film, revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, further complicated by a comic sub-plot. Shakespeare's romantic comedy has been adapted for screenplay by Trevor Nunn, for Renaissance films, responsible for "Much ado about Nothing" and "Hamlet

Fifty essential classical monologues by the great world dramatistsThese great dramatic monologues - from all periods and styles, all varied in tone and genre - make an indispensable actor's companion for auditioning, rehearsing and performing. Contains extracts from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Ford, Behn, Congreve, Wycherley, Sheridan, Vanburgh, Racine, Molière, Calderón, Buchner, Ibs...

The film script for a major film from Channel Four Films and Canal+ Image International, from director Karoly Makk and producer Marc Vlessing. Starring Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West and Luise Rainer.

Edward Braun's acclaimed study of the Russian stage director, Meyerhold, available for the first time in paperback.

A complete screenplay from the new film from Minghella, taken form the novel by Patrica Highsmith, and due for release in the UK in February, 2000. Stars Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, a small time conman who arrives in Italy from New York and gets away with murder. Full colour throughout with a film still on the front cover. 32.50% discount applies to this title.

A reissue in hardback of critic John Lahr's famous 1982 study of Noel Coward's plays