Product Description: Michael Pennington takes us on a fascinating journey through King Lear from the point of view of the play's characters. Part memoir, part analysis, part adventure story, this book delves into the unique production of Lear that Pennington led in New York in 2014...read more

Eccentric Jarvis lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking the tube line, compiling his obsessive history of the Underground. A group of misfits are also drawn towards his strange house: Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her; truant Jasper, who finds his terrifying thrills on the tube; and enigmatic Axel, whose deadly secret casts a shadow over all their lives. Damaged, dispossessed, outcasts, they are brought together in violent and unforeseen ways by London's dark and dangerous underground system.

Product Description: “It is his range of knowledge—along with a gift for writing clearly and memorably—that makes him such a fine guide.”—Times Literary SupplementThis widely experienced actor and director takes us scene-by-scene through Shakespeare’s much-performed comedy, elucidating how it actually works on stage, what choices are open to performers, and what impact those choices will have...read more

Product Description: When a teenage girl turns up missing in the small southern town of Prescott, Missouri, it's up to a slick and temperamental sheriff and a unique psychic to solve the utterly horrifying case.

Plays only release their true meaning on stage. After an introduction to the historical background of Chekhov's play, the reader is conducted scene by scene through the Action of the play, followed by a discussion of the Characters, the Setting, Staging, Lighting, Costumes Props and Furniture.

Michael Pennington's work on his solo show about Anton Chekhov has taken London's "Russian Actor" from the Trans-Siberian Railway to Soviet and post-Soviet Moscow, into the repertoires of the National Theatre and the Old Vic and across Europe. Are You There, Crocodile? also includes accounts of his work on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tolstoy's Strider and other Russian projects, as well as essays on Chekhov's four masterpieces.

Product Description: (Limelight). "Michael Pennington...is sharply intelligent, scrupulously careful, hugely knowledgeable and, above all, wonderfully readable." The Shakespeare Institute

First published in 1995 and now available in paperback, an insider's view of the world famous Shakespeare play, Hamlet.

The authors of this book provide an account of the adventures of the theatre company that they founded. By the spring of 1988 the ESC was performing the complete eight-play cycle of Shakespeare's histories, in venues both in the UK and abroad. This book provides a record of the birth and survival of this ambitious artistic venue.