academic & professional list 2013-14
Oberon Books is the UK’s most exciting independent publisher specialising in drama and the performing arts. With a backlist of over 1000 titles, Oberon publishes in all areas of the performing arts perfect for Drama, Performance Studies, Theatre Studies, English Literature and Creative Writing Students. For full details of all the titles in our list, please go to www.oberonbooks.com THEATRE & PERFORMANCE STUDIES
THEATRE PRACTITIONERS Neil Bartlett is 'a writer who can change the way people feel’ (Observer). An icon of radical queer theatre, he also rejuvinated the Lyric Hammersmith as Artistic Director. Solo Voices: Monologues 1987 - 2004 Includes A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep, Night After Night and The Seven Sacraments of Nicolas Poussin. PB • £12.99 • 9781840024654 (eBook ISBN: 9781849439558)
The Suspect Culture Book New Edited by Graham Eatough and Dan Rebellato Surveys the history of Scotland’s leading experimental theatre company. Between 1993 and 2009 Suspect Culture was a major creative powerhouse. Includes three previously unpublished plays by David Greig: Timeless, Mainstream and Lament.
Queer Voices Five provocative and highly actable new works from one of British theatre’s most idiosyncratic voices. PB • £9.99 • 9781849431668 (eBook ISBN: 9781849435536)
Ontroerend Goed
PB • £29.99 • 9781849430876 (eBook ISBN: 9781849439398)
The Live Art Almanac: Volume 3 New Edited by Lois Keidan and Aaron Wright The Live Art Development Agency presents a collection of ‘found writing’ from January 2010 to December 2011, which represents the most engaging, provocative and thoughtful writing about Live Art and its cultural landscape. PB • £ 12.00 • 9781849433969 (eBook ISBN: 9781849438845)
Programme Notes: Case Studies for Locating Experimental Theatre (Revised and Expanded Second Edition) New Edited by Lois Keidan and C J Mitchell A collection of case studies, interviews and essays which explore how contemporary theatre is changing through new relationships between mainstream venues and experimental practices. This expanded edition reflects some of the key shifts that have taken place since 2007. PB • £ 10.00 • 9781849434591 (eBook ISBN: 9781849438094)
That Was Us: Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance Edited by Fintan Walsh New A wide, rich range of critical essays and artist reflections that strive to make sense of some of the most significant shifts and trends in contemporary Irish theatre and performance. In bringing together critics and artists to think side by side, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary practices and cultural politics.
Coming soon – Aug '14 All Work and No Plays: Blueprints for Nine Performances Ontroerend Goed is a Belgian, Ghent-based theatre performance group with international renown. These are their blueprints for immersive theatre.
PB • £14.99 • 9781783191055 (eBook ISBN: 9781783196043)
Complicite is Britain’s most influential devised theatre company. A Disappearing Number PB • £9.99 • 9781840028300 (eBook ISBN: 9781849432993)
Light
PB • £9.99 • 9781840022032 (eBook ISBN: 9781849439947)
Frantic Assembly creates thrilling, energetic physical theatre. Hymns by Chris O’Connell PB • £9.99 • 9781840025484
Othello by Shakespeare / Graham and Steven Hoggett PB • £9.99 • 9781840028560
Lovesong by Abi Morgan
PB • £9.99 • 9781849431613 (eBook ISBN: 9781849432634)
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
PB • £16.99 • 9781783190355 (eBook ISBN: 9781783195343)
The Forest and The Field Coming soon – April '14 Chris Goode A polemical thinking-through of the whole concept of theatre as a ‘space’, and a politically motivated exploration of how, and where, that theatrical space meets the real world that surrounds and suffuses it. PB • £ 12.99 • 9781849434751 (eBook ISBN: 9781849438605)
The Well Read Play Stephen Unwin Clear and practical guidance helps the reader to understand the workings of a play, spot clues that the playwright has planted, imagine how it can be staged, and decide whether it will stand the test of time. Absorbing and informative. PB • £14.99 • 9781840027709 (eBook ISBN: 9781849433785)
Desdemona Toni Morrison With lyrics by Rokia Troaré and a Foreword by Peter Sellars The Nobel laureate transports one of the most iconic, central, and disturbing treatments of race in Western culture into the 21st century. The reimagined story of Desdemona, Shakespeare’s doomed heroine from Othello, speaks of the traumas of race, class, gender, war — and the transformative power of love. PB • £9.99 • 9781849433891 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436359)
Sports Play Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Penny Black
Spanish Golden Age theatre in the English-speaking world.
This remarkable and provocative play by Austrian playwright and Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek is a post-dramatic theatrical exploration of the making, marketing and sale of the human body and of emotions in sport. Sports Play explores contemporary society’s obsession with fitness and the body culture.
Translating the Theatre of the Coming soon – Aug ‘14 Spanish Golden Age: a story of Chance and Transformation David Johnston The story of a love affair between a translator and a dramatic tradition whose riches are only now becoming apparent to theatre audiences; it is also an exploration of the ways in which translation itself takes plays that are distant from us in time and space
PB • £9.99 • 9781849434027 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436380)
Trash Cuisine & Minsk 2011 Belarus Free Theatre Banned from performing in their own country, Belarus Free Theatre serve up food, music, dance and Shakespeare as they share true stories from inmates, executioners, human rights lawyers and families of the executed. PB • £9.99• 9781783190171 (eBook ISBN: 9781783195169)
Bogusław Schaeffer: An Anthology Bogusław Schaeffer, translated by Magda Romanska Bogusław Schaeffer is a Polish playwright, composer, musicologist and graphic designer. A universal artist, unafraid to explore a range of fields, forms, and subject matter, Schaeffer creates theatre that defies previous, established conventions and techniques.
PB • £25.00 • 9781840028157
PB • £10.99 • 9781783190362 (eBook ISBN: 9781783195350)
Europe On Stage: Translation and Theatre Gunilla Anderman A comprehensive study of the history of European plays in translation on the English stage. Tackles varying approaches to the foreign text as well as the need for new versions of the same play, and discusses the influence of European drama in translation and its contribution to, and enrichment of, English playwriting. PB • £19.99 • 9781840022209
CONTEMPORARY DRAMA THEMES
PB • £16.99• 9781849434645 (eBook ISBN: 9781849437226)
Mixed Company: Three Early Jamaican Plays Maskarade by Sylvia Wynter, Bedward by Louis Marriott and The Creatures by Cecily Waite-Smith Edited by Yvonne Brewster Published to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Jamaican independence, these three plays look back at pre-independence days and each has a distinguished place in the history of Jamaican theatre. Each is accompanied by an introduction by the playwright. PB • £15.99 • 9781849432160 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436342)
The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays Various, edited by Mark Subias Four new American plays by Bathsheba Doran, Will Eno, Itamar Moses and Jenny Schwartz. With a foreword from Andre Bishop, Artistic Director of the Lincoln Center Theater, each play is introduced by a critically-acclaimed writer. PB • £16.99 • 9781849431538 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436182)
The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Irish Plays Various, edited by Thomas Conway Eight new plays by Irish writers, premièred since 2006. Refusing the pigeonhole of the identifiably Irish play, these pieces focus instead on identity and, in particular, sexual identity. Includes plays by Grace Dyas, Mark O’Halloran, Lynda Radley, Phillip McMahon, Amy Conroy, Una McKevitt, Simon Doyle, Gavin Quinn, Neil Watkins. PB • £16.99 • 9781849433914 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436724)
Spanish Classical Drama David Castillejo With over 2000 plays, Spain’s seventeenth-century Golden Age is Europe's richest theatrical heritage. To help actors, directors and researchers cope with such vast material, Castillejo has classified 1000 of these plays as Good, Minor or Mediocre, giving a brief plot and character summary for each. This survey will help make this enormous wealth of drama available to the world at large. HB • £65.00 • 9781849430012
The Spanish Golden Age in English: Perspectives on Performance Edited by Catherine Boyle and David Johnston with Janet Morris In 2004 the RSC produced a ground-breaking season of Spanish Golden Age plays in English. Each play was assigned an academic advisor, and in these essays they explore the issues that emerged from this challenge and provide new perspectives on performing
The Bomb: A Partial History Various (Tricycle Theatre) A cycle of plays charting the history of the Nuclear Bomb. Plays by Zinnie Harris, Ron Hutchinson, Lee Blessing, Amit Gupta, John Donnelly, Colin Teevan, Diana Son, Ryan Craig and David Greig. PB • £16.99 • 9781849431521
The Great Game: Afghanistan Various (Tricycle Theatre) Explores the political history of Afghanistan. Plays by Stephen Jeffreys, Ron Hutchinson, Amit Gupta, Joy Wilkinson, David Edgar, Lee Blessing, David Greig, Colin Teevan, Ben Ockrent, Abi Morgan, Richard Bean, Simon Stephens and Naomi Wallace. PB • £16.99 • 9781840029222
Sixty-Six Books: 21st Century writers speak to the King James Bible Various (Bush Theatre) A radical reimagining of the King James Bible for the new millennium. Sixty-Six poets, playwrights and novelists reinterpret each book of KJV. Contributors include Jeanette Winterson, Neil LaBute, Billy Bragg, Rowan Williams and Carol Ann Duffy. 'Nothing short of miraculous… the written word has turned to the flesh of living theatre' The Times PB • £16.99 • 9781849432276 (eBook ISBN: 9781849432986)
Theatre Uncut: A Response to the Countrywide Spending Cuts Various The best short plays written for a national theatrical protest in response to austerity cuts. Includes plays by David Greig, Dennis Kelly, Clara Brennan, Lucy Kirkwood, Laura Lomas, Anders Lustgarten, Jack Thorne and Mark Ravenhill. 'Varied in tone and approach. Succinct and stirring.' Financial Times PB • £14.99 • 9781849430630 (eBook ISBN: 9781849439718)
OBERON MODERN PLAYWRIGHTS
Richard Bean is one of the UK's most prolific playwrights, winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best New Play and author of One Man Two Guvnors, the fastest selling show in West End history. Bean: Plays One PB • £16.99 • 9781840025699 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436533)
Bean: Plays Two PB • £16.99 • 9781840026627 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436694)
Bean: Plays Three PB • £16.99 • 9781840029130 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436854)
Bean: Plays Four New Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. His theatre is characterised by its tragic scale and its distinctive way of exposing the unconscious resistances that underlie apparent social unanimity, both in the sexual and political spheres. Barker: Plays One PB • £16.99 • 9781840026122 (eBook ISBN: 9781849433310)
Barker: Plays Two PB • £16.99 • 9781840026481 (eBook ISBN: 9781849433471)
Barker: Plays Three PB • £16.99 • 9781840026764 (eBook ISBN: 9781849433631)
PB • £16.99 • 9781849434935 (eBook ISBN: 9781849439367)
Dennis Kelly is from the school of 'In-Yer-Face' theatre, yet has successfully wrongfooted critical expectations by constantly changing the form and content of his plays, while remaining true to his own distinctive individual voice. Dennis Kelly: Plays One PB • £16.99 • 9781840028034 (eBook ISBN: 9781849433143)
Dennis Kelly: Plays Two New PB • £15.99 • 9781783190126 (eBook ISBN: 9781783195114)
Barker: Plays Four PB • £16.99 • 9781840028515 (eBook ISBN: 9781849433792)
Barker: Plays Five PB • £16.99 • 9781840028867 (eBook ISBN: 9781849432689)
Barker: Plays Six
Tim Crouch’s plays are philosophical, formally experimental and often controversial. They have had a profound impact on critics and audiences alike.
PB • £16.99 • 9781849434010 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436977)
Tim Crouch: Plays One Includes: The Author, ENGLAND, An Oak Tree, My Arm. With an introduction by Stephen Bottoms, Professor of Contemporary Theatre & Performance, University of Manchester.
Barker: Plays Eight Coming Soon – Aug ‘14
PB • £16.99 • 9781849431095 (eBook ISBN: 9781849435192)
PB • £16.99 • 9781840029611 (eBook ISBN: 9781849432849)
Barker: Plays Seven PB • £16.99 • 9781783190874 (eBook ISBN: 9781783195862)
The Ecstatic Bible: A New Testament PB • £16.99 • 9781849434171 (eBook ISBN: 9781849433488)
Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker Edited by David Ian Rabey & Karoline Gritzner International academics offer illuminating interpretations of what Barker has called the Theatre of Catastrophe. Fifteen essays which analyse the political, moral and historical aspects of Barker’s writing, its poetry and eroticism, its depiction of the figure of the artist, and its engagement with performance. PB • £17.99 • 9781840026726 HB • £30.00 • 9781840026948
A Style and its Origins Eduardo Houth / Howard Barker Writing of himself in the third person and in the historic tense, Barker’s alter-ego Eduardo Houth achieves a fluency and an uncommon measure of objectivity. The result is a unique exercise in self-description, a totally original literary creation and a rich history of the dramatist and his aesthetic. PB • £10.00 • 9781840027181 (eBook ISBN: 9781849433006)
Tanika Gupta was awarded an MBE for services to drama in 2008. Her political plays offer a fresh perspective on race relations, generational divide and sexual politics. Foreword by Aleks Sierz. Tanika Gupta: Political Plays PB • £16.99 • 9781849432474 (eBook ISBN: 9781849435215)
The Empress New PB • £9.99 • 9781849434904 (eBook ISBN: 9781849438360)
Mind Walking New PB • £9.99 • 9781849435062 (eBook ISBN: 9781849438209)
Adler & Gibb Coming Soon – Jun ‘14 PB • £16.99 • 9781849431095 (eBook ISBN: 9781849435192)
Laura Wade is a critically-acclaimed young dramatist, who shot to fame with her Bullingdon Club satire Posh. Her first collected volume of plays comes with a foreword by Aleks Sierz. Laura Wade: Plays One PB • £16.99 • 9781849432238 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436823)
Jon Fosse is perhaps the most frequently produced playwright in Europe and his plays have been translated into forty languages. Fosse was made a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007 and received the International Ibsen Award in 2010. Fosse: Plays One PB • £16.99 • 9781840022704
Fosse: Plays Two PB • £16.99 • 9781840023848
Fosse: Plays Three PB • £16.99 • 9781840024784
Fosse: Plays Four PB • £17.99 • 9781840024791
Fosse: Plays Five PB • £18.99 • 9781849430746 (eBook ISBN: 9781783194537)
Fosse: Plays Six Coming Soon – May ‘14 PB • £16.99 • 9781783190867 (eBook ISBN: 9781783195855)
The Luminous Darkness: the Theatre of Jon Fosse Leif Zern, translated by Ann Henning Jocelyn A study of Jon Fosse’s writing for the theatre. Leif Zern finds his way to the core of Fosse’s dramatic world, analysing the basic insights on which his writing is based and the way various European directors and theatres have chosen to stage his plays. PB • £14.99 • 9781849430586
SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players New format Sir Peter Hall, Foreword by Dan Stevens This best-selling guide to acting Shakespeare is now available in a new smaller and lighter handbook size. This new format is an essential text for classical training at drama school and an invaluable reference book for actors and directors working on Shakespeare productions. Shakespeare’s plays are full of textual clues; telling the actor when to go fast or slow; when to pause, when to heed a cue and when to accent a word. Here the founder of the RSC gives expert insight on how to read, understand and act Shakespeare. 'Indisputably wise and true... Wonderfully illuminating' Telegraph PB • £9.99 • 9781840029192 (eBook ISBN: 9781849433556)
Exposed by the Mask Sir Peter Hall Hall argues that form and structured language give paradoxical freedom to power of thought and feeling, much as the masks of early Greek drama enabled actors to express extreme emotion. Focusses on the precise language of Beckett and Pinter, the classical form of Mozart’s operas, and Shakespeare’s verse. 'The wisest and most stimulating short book about theatre since Peter Brook’s The Empty Space' Sunday Telegraph PB • £12.99 • 9781840029932 (eBook ISBN: 9781849432603)
Acting Shakespeare's Language Coming soon – Jan '15 Andy Hinds Focusing on the ‘acting of the text’ and not on technical voice work, this new manual from theatre director Andy Hinds, lucidly outlines a number of key, practical guidelines to speaking and acting the work, essential for all students and actors tackling Shakespeare. PB • £14.99 • 9781783190089 (eBook ISBN: 9781783195077)
Covering Shakespeare: A Saga of Near-Misses and Dogged Endurance Coming soon – Aug '14 David Weston David Weston has spent a lifetime acting in Shakespeare’s plays, and has been directed by the likes of Sir Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn and Michael Croft. As well as essential advice for young actors written in his inimitable style, the book also contains a synopsis of each play and table outlining the total number of lines per character in each of Shakespeare’s plays PB • £14.99 • 9781783190645 (eBook ISBN: 9781783195633)
Propeller Shakespeare Series Propeller is an all-male Shakespeare company, led by director Edward Hall. These editions reveal how the company approaches each production from text choices down to doubling schemes, costume, design and sound. Henry V • PB • £9.99 • 9781849434188 (eBook 9781849435697) The Taming of the Shrew • PB • £9.99 • 9781849434386 Twelfth Night • PB • £9.99 • 9781849434225 (eBook 9781849436595) The Winter’s Tale • PB • £9.99 • 9781849434508 The Comedy of Errors • PB • £9.99 • 9781783190119 Richard III • PB • £9.99 • 9781783190102 A Midsummer Night's Dream • PB • £9.99 • 9781840023633 Rose Rage • PB • £9.99 • 9781840022131
THEATRE PRACTICE
In-Depth Acting Dee Cannon An essential guide to the Stanislavski technique, by a former RADA Senior Acting Tutor. Provides a comprehensive understanding of character, preparation, text, subtext and objectives. 'A wonderful, succinct book that no student or professional actor should be without.’ Jenny Lipman, LAMDA PB • £14.99 • 9781849432320 (eBook ISBN 9781849435420)
Acting – Cut the Crap, Cue the Truth New Natalie Burt Starting from the final stages of training, and on to life as a professional, this book moves systematically through the challenges that every actor faces; from making strategic career decisions, to the logistics of TV and film sets and voice over work, to personal matters such as finance and well-being. PB • £14.99 • 9781849434799 (eBook ISBN 9781849434959)
The Voice Over Book: Don't Eat Toast David Hodge & Stephen Kemble Coming soon – Apr '14 A concise handbook outlining the skills, the know-how and the business of voiceovers, with a particular focus on the UK industry. Specialist advice on all areas of voiceover work, including commercials, narration, audio books, animation and dubbing. PB • £12.99 • 9781783190546 (eBook ISBN: 9781783195534)
The Oberon Book of Comic Coming soon – May '14 Monologues for Women Katy Wix, with a Foreword by Jennifer Saunders This collection provides female performers with the kind of wonderfully warm and interesting audition pieces that they need – and deserve. A comedian and TV writer, Wix has written audition speeches for students at drama schools including RADA, LAMDA, Drama Centre and The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. PB • £9.99 • 9781849434287 (eBook ISBN: 9781849439423)
How To Do Accents (Second Revised Edition) Edda Sharpe & Jan Hadyn Rowles A groundbreaking textbook from two of the UK’s leading voice coaches. The principle of the method involves analysing your own voice and breaking it down into component sounds, then, listening along to the free MP3 to replicate new accents. 'Excellent and easy-to-follow' Lyn Darnley, Head of Voice, RSC PB • £18.99 • 9781840029574
How to Do Standard English Accents: From Traditional RP to the New 21st-Century Neutral Accent Edda Sharpe & Jan Hadyn Rowles A complete course in how to do a Neutral Standard English Accent and all Upper and Upper-Middle Class Varieties. With free MP3 audio tracks, featuring sample sentences. 'Detailed, practical and witty' Jeannette Nelson, Head of Voice, National Theatre PB • £18.99 • 9781840029901
Classic Voice Catherine Weate Provides comprehensive preparation for the vocal demands of classical texts. Greek Tragedy, Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration drama are given a particular focus.
PORTRAITS OF KEY FIGURES & INSTITUTIONS
PB • £14.99 • 9781840028270
Modern Voice Catherine Weate Focuses on the demands within contemporary drama. Provides an accessible approach for understanding speech rhythm and presents an overview of different types and styles of contemporary text. ‘Inestimable… superb detail…order without delay its predecessor, Classic Voice’ Society of Teachers of Speech & Drama Journal PB • £14.99 • 9781849431712 (eBook ISBN: 9781849435376)
From Word to Play: A Handbook for Directors Cicely Berry The RSC's legendary Voice Director presents her manifesto for a return to the words themselves: moving away from an overconceptualised, over-literal view of language and rediscovering the meaning in its sounds and rhythms. A concise, practical guide for directors. Foreword by Michael Boyd, Artistic Director of the RSC. PB • £14.99 • 9781840026016 (eBook ISBN: 9781849433624)
How to Direct a Play: A Masterclass in Comedy, Tragedy, Farce, Shakespeare, New Plays, Opera and Musicals Braham Murray The Founding Artistic Director of the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre Company offers a complete guide to directing every genre of play. With special chapters on how to deal with difficult actors, and what being an Artistic Director involves, this book is an indispensible guide to the director's art. PB • £12.99 • 9781849430418 (eBook ISBN 9781849433457)
How to Produce a West End Show Julius Green This is an insider account that demystifies the working world of live theatre and highlights the practical hurdles that face anyone looking to stage a play. Essential reading for anyone who wishes to work in the theatre, as an amateur, student or professional. PB • £14.99 • 9781849430258 (eBook ISBN 9781849435239)
The Oberon Glossary of Theatrical Terms 2nd edition Edited by Colin Winslow Explanations of over 1,300 technical, backstage, acting, musical, dance and show business terms in common usage. Completely revised and updated PB • £14.99 • 9781849430913 (eBook ISBN 9781849437103)
The Oberon Modern Monologues series Edited by Catherine Weate Each collection contains over fifty speeches from some of the best plays of the last twenty five years. Arranged according to age suitability with each monologue introduced in its dramatic context. The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues For Men Volume One PB • £9.99 • 9781840028256
The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues For Men Volume Two PB • £9.99 • 9781849434362 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436052)
The National Theatre Story New Daniel Rosenthal The definitive history of the National Theatre, published to mark its 50th anniversary. The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs – and the occasional disaster. Rosenthal has interviewed over 100 actors, directors, playwrights and producers; and enjoyed unprecedented access to the National’s archives and previously unpublished correspondence. A fascinating behind-the-scenes account of Britain’s most influential and successful theatre. 'The story of the National Theatre is as packed with drama as anything it has staged' The Sunday Times 'This weighty tome is the definitive history... this is a story with guts, great actors, laughter, disaster, and other properties that most books don't possess' Independent HB • £35.00 • 9781840027686 (eBook 9781849439435)
In Two Minds: A biography of Jonathan Miller Kate Bassett The first comprehensive biography of Jonathan Miller. A star in the ground-breaking satirical revue Beyond The Fringe, he shot to fame alongside Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. His expertise encompasses many areas, from medicine to the history of art, Mozart, atheism and the nature of laughter. 'A remarkable portrait of a complex and Coleridgean figure' Telegraph 'Compelling... a dense, exhaustively well-researched portrait' The Sunday Times HB • £20.00 • 9781849434515 (eBook 9781849437387) PB • £20.00 • 9781849434515 Coming Soon – Sept '14
The Royal Court: Inside Out Ruth Little and Emily McLaughlin An overview of the most notable productions in the history of the Court. Includes interviews with actors, writers, designers, and directors. Lays bare the truth about controversial productions like Look Back in Anger, Saved, and Shopping and Fucking. Illustrated with photographs, original production documents and rehearsal notes. PB • £20.00 • 9781840027631
'Most of What Follows is a Complete Waste of Time': New Monologues, Duologues and Selected Sketches N.F. Simpson This collection presents the best of Simpson’s short works for audiences new and old. Featuring more than sixty pieces from across six decades, the full spectrum of an extraordinary career is brought together for the first time: monologues, sketches, criticism and poetry, written for radio, television, stage and print.
The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues For Women Volume One
PB • £14.99 • 9781783190232 (eBook 9781783195220)
PB • £9.99 • 9781840028263
Tennessee Williams: Selected Letters Volume 1, 1920-1945 Edited by Albert Devlin and Nancy Tischler 330 letters written to nearly 70 correspondents, including Clifford Odets, William Saroyan and Christopher Isherwood. Williams wrote with piety, wit and self-knowledge; the letters reflect on his
The Oberon Book of Modern Monologues For Women Volume Two PB • £9.99 • 9781849434522 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436212)
The Oberon Book of Modern Duologues PB • £12.99 • 9781840028287
unhappy home life in St Louis, his sister Rose’s instability, the emergence of his own sexuality and problems with alcohol - all in parallel with the advancing knowledge of his art. HB • £19.99 • 9781840022261
Tennessee Williams: Selected Letters Volume II, 1945-57 Edited by Albert Devlin and Nancy Tischler Extends the record of Williams' correspondence through the most successful and intensely creative period of his life, which saw the production of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo and Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Featuring letters to (and sharp portraits of) Elia Kazan, Carson McCullers and Gore Vidal among others. HB • £25.99 • 9781840022278
Edward Albee: A Singular Journey Mel Gussow Proclaimed as the playwright of his generation, Albee went on to win three Pulitzer Prizes for his searing, innovative plays. Gussow, author, critic, and writer for The New York Times, has known Albee and followed his career since its inception, and has created a compelling and colourful portrait of a uniquely American life. HB • £18.99 • 9781840021318
The Autobiography of Peter Hall: Making an Exhibition of Myself Sir Peter Hall Peter Hall is one of the greatest theatre, film and opera directors of our time. Here he tells the story of how he rose, at dazzling speed, from his humble origins as a railway worker's son to become one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre. PB • £25.00 • 9781840021158 (eBook ISBN 9781849436861)
Athol Fugard: His Plays, People And Politics Alan Shelley Fugard’s plays have done more to document and illuminate Apartheid-era South Africa than any other writer. Alan Shelley’s study is an accessible but profound analysis of the man, his work and its influence, the social injustices that drive him, and the lives of those who people his remarkable plays. PB • £16.99 • 9781840028218 (eBook ISBN: 9781783194155)
Journey's End: The Classic War Play Explored New Robert Gore-Langton R C Sherriff’s Journey’s End is a syllabus text and the most famous play about World War One. A meditation on Journey’s End’s achievement as a war document, its fascination for audiences and its continuing grip on theatregoers and students today.
the author’s 25-year writing career. PB • £10.99 • 9781783191031
On Poetry Glyn Maxwell A collection of short essays and reflections which forms a beautiful and accessible guide to the most ancient and sublime of the realms of literature. Maxwell has long been regarded as one of Britain’s major poets. He has been awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Prize, and the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as being shortlisted three times for both the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. 'The most compelling, original, charismatic and poetic guide to poetry that I can remember' – Simon Armitage 'The best book about poetry I’ve ever read' – Guardian 'A cogent, engaging, elegantly structured, and, at times, inspiring account and defence of the poet’s art and calling.' – Times Literary Review PB • £12.99 • 9781849430852 (eBook ISBN: 9781849435314)
The No Rules Handbook for Writing Lisa Goldman An antidote to prescriptive writing guides which will inspire playwrights, screenwriters and novelists and offer fresh insights to teachers, editors, dramaturgs, directors and producers. Focussing on the craft, context and process of writing, the book weaves together industry experiences, psychological observations and practical advice from 40 rule-breaking writers, including: Dennis Kelly, Philip Ridley, Roy Williams, Lucy Prebble, Tanika Gupta, Bryony Lavery and Anthony Neilson. ‘Personal, well-written, clearly thought out and resonant. Its advice is passionately felt but perfectly controlled. And its ideas sing and inspire.' Aleks Sierz (author of In-Yer-Face Theatre) 'Feisty, helpful, liberating stuff' The Stage 'Full of sensible advice' Lyn Gardner, Guardian PB • £14.99 • 9781849431118 (eBook ISBN: 9781849433013)
Writing 'Master Class' New David Pownall A biography of Pownall’s play, Master Class (1983), from conception to coming of age. A fascinating insight into the playwright’s craft. PB • £10.99 • 9781849434782 (eBook ISBN: 9781849434942)
FOCUS ON BLACK BRITISH THEATRE
PB • £10.99 • 9781849433952 (eBook ISBN: 9781849438728)
POETRY & CREATIVE WRITING
How to Write Everything New David Quantick A practical and humorous guide to script-writing, from sketches to films scripts, from musical books to movie screenplays, How To Write Everything is a step-by-step guide to the nuts and bolts of putting dialogue, character and story together, from start to finish. It’s also illustrated by stories, examples and awful warnings from
The Oberon Series of Monologues for Black Actors New Edited by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway Inspired by both classical and contemporary plays, these of monologues for black actors will give an insight into some of the best cutting-edge plays written by black British playwrights, over the last sixty years. Each collection features over twenty speeches from playwrights such as Barry Reckord, Lydia Adetunji, Roy Williams, Courttia Newland, Errol John, Ade Solanke, Trevor Rhone, Inua Ellams, Biyi Bandele, and Arinze Kene. The monologues represent a wide-range of themes, characters, dialects and styles.
For Men • PB • £9.99 • 9781783190577 (eBook ISBN: 9781783190577) For Women • PB • £9.99 • 9781783190560 (eBook: 9781783195558)
Alfred Fagon: Plays Alfred Fagon Jamaican-born Fagon came to England aged18 and soon became a leading figure in black theatre. His characters struggle to live in a hostile British culture as exiles from their spiritual home. This collection spans the whole of Fagon’s remarkable writing career. PB • £16.99 • 9781840021370
Hidden Gems: Contemporary Black British Plays Edited by Deirdre Osborne Two volumes of new plays by the most significant black voices in British theatre, such as Kwame Kwei-Armah, Courttia Newland and Valerie Mason-John. Each play is introduced by a leading academic. Hidden Gems Volume One
Crowning Glory New Somalia Seaton Seven women explore identity, ethnicity and beauty in the Western World. PB • £9.99 • 9781783190676 (eBook ISBN: 9781783195664)
ZHE: [noun] Undefined New Chuck Mike, Antonia Kemi Coker & Tonderai Munyevu Traveling from idyllic Harare, Zimbabwe to London’s gritty inner city; this is a humorous yet haunting drama encompassing the multiplicity of our cultural, gender and sexual identities. PB • £9.99 • 9781783190720 (eBook ISBN: 9781783195718)
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PB • £16.99 • 9781840028430
Hidden Gems Volume Two PB • £16.99 • 9781849431484 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436984)
For The Reckord: Three Plays by Barry Reckord Edited by Yvonne Brewster Among the first modern Caribbean playwrights to have work produced in England in the ‘50s, Reckord laid a solid foundation for successive Caribbean playwrights such as Trinidadian Mustapha Matura, Guyanese Michael Abbensetts and Jamaican Alfred Fagon in the ‘70s. This is the first volume of Reckord's major plays. Includes an introduction by Diana Athill PB • £16.99 • 9781849430531 (eBook ISBN: 9781849437042)
Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One Mojosola Adebayo These plays queer the boundaries of sex and race, fact and fiction, history and geography, poetry and politics, with a dynamic African Diasporic aesthetic that leaps off the page. PB • £16.99 • 9781849430753 (eBook ISBN: 9781849433778)
Oladipo Agboluaje: Plays One Oladipo Agboluaje This is the first collection of plays by a significant force in Black British drama. Agboluaje demonstrates his versatility to write plays that transcend African and British cultures. ‘An exciting, vital new voice’ Time Out PB • £15.99 • 9781849432399 (eBook ISBN 9781849436687)
Monologues by Inua Ellams Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright, performer and visual artist. His writing for the theatre is characterised by intricate wordplay, poetic storytelling and cinematic imagery. Black T-Shirt Collection PB • £9.99 • 9781849431910 (eBook ISBN 9781849432955)
Knight Watch PB • £9.99 • 9781849434041 (eBook ISBN 9781849435550)
Verbatim: Contemporary Documentary Theatre Edited by William Hammond and Dan Steward Verbatim or documentary theatre is written using only the precise testimony of people speaking on the record. Leading directors and playwrights talk polemically about this controversial form, including David Hare, Max Stafford-Clark, Nicolas Kent, Richard NortonTaylor and Robin Soans. PB • £14.99 • 9781840026979 (eBook ISBN: 9781849436656)
The Tricycle: Collected Tribunal Coming soon – Oct '14 Plays 1994-2012 Richard Norton-Taylor, Nicolas Kent, Victoria Brittain, Gillian Slovo Features a foreword by Michael Billington 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the Tricycle Theatre’s first Tribunal Play – Half the Picture. This collection celebrates a remarkable and enduring body of work. Includes The Riots, The Colour of Justice, Called to Account, Srbenica, Bloody Sunday, Justifying War, Guantanamo, Tactical Questioning, Nuremberg and Half the Picture, alongside introductory essays. PB • £24.99 • 9781783190683
The Colour of Justice: The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Edited by Richard Norton-Taylor PB • £9.99 • 9781840021073 (eBook ISBN 9781849437219)
Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry Edited by Richard Norton-Taylor PB • £9.99 • 9781840025682 (eBook ISBN 9781849437530)
Called to Account: The Indictment of Anthony Blair for the Crime of Aggression Against Iraq – A Hearing Edited by Richard Norton-Taylor and Nicolas Kent
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PB • £9.99 • 9781840027457 (eBook ISBN 9781849436892)
PB • £9.99 • 9781849431170 (eBook ISBN 9781849439084)
Srebrinica Edited by Nicolas Kent Based on the UN Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Cape PB • £9.99 • 9781783190669 (eBook ISBN 9781783195657)
New single editions by black British writers Chewing Gum Dreams New Michaela Coel A one-woman play about growing up in inner-city London, which tackles difficult themes with warmth and wisdom. Winner of the Alfred Fagon Award 2012. PB • £9.99 • 9781783190140 (eBook ISBN: 9781783195138)
PB • £9.99 • 9781840026276
The Riots Edited by Gillian Slovo PB • £9.99 • 9781849431996 (eBook ISBN 9781849432979)
Tactical Questionning: Scenes from the Baha Mousa Inquiry Edited by Richard Norton-Taylor PB • £9.99 • 9781849430319 (eBook ISBN 9781849437059)
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