Product Description: 'Once upon a time, the London theatre was a charming mirror held up to cosiness. Then came Joan Littlewood, smashing the glass, blasting the walls, letting the wind of life blow in a rough, but ready, world. Today, we remember this irresistible force with love and gratitude...read more

Surrounded by the Jewish intellectual milieu of North London from birth, Jonathan Miller's early years were shaped by the unique combination of a pioneering child psychologist father and a brilliant young novelist mother. He shot to fame with 'Beyond the Fringe'. This is a biography of renowned theatre director and polymath.

This book is a brief desk reference that also serves as a self-contained course in teaching writing across the curriculum.

Product Description: Keith Johnstone entered the Royal Court Theatre as a new playwright in 1956: a decade later he emerged as a groundbreaking director and teacher of improvisation. His decisive book Impro (1979), described Johnstone's unique system of training: weaving together theories and techniques to encourage spontaneous, collaborative creation using the intuition and imagination of the actors...read more

Product Description: Di Trevis is a world-renowned director, whose work with Britain’s National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and directing productions worldwide, has deeply informed her knowledge of the director’s craft. In Being a Director, she draws on a wealth of first-hand experience to present an immersive, engaging and vital insight into the role of a director...read more

Product Description: From acclaimed director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (The Normal Heart, The Beatles’ Let It Be, Brideshead Revisited, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, etc.), son of glamorous Warner’s movie star Geraldine Fitzgerald: a magical dreamscape memoir of his boyhood, coming-of-age, and making his way in the worlds of theater, film, and television...read more

Product Description: John Rich (1692-1761) was a profoundly influential figure of the eighteenth-century London stage. As producer, manager, and performer, he transformed the urban entertainment market, creating genres and promotional methods still with us today...read more

Product Description: This book is a personal testament of everything that outspoken writer, film, television, and theater producer Michael Kustow stands for, in a year in which he also finds himself battling cancer. A defiant cultural activist facing mortal danger, he embarks on a year-long spiritual journey to revisit the places, people, and ideas that have formed his beliefs...read more

Born into a Jewish family, Braham Murray struggled against his parents' expectations that he should follow them into the world of commerce; instead he became at twenty-two the youngest artistic director in the country when he took over Century Theatre, a theatre company based in Manchester. This biography details his theatrical successes.

Contains the wry and witty memoirs of a satirist, radio presenter and theatre director - read by himself. In this hilarious and frank autobiography he looks back on his life and career with a good deal of wisdom. His autobiography offers insights into the worlds of British film, radio, TV and theatre since the 1960s.

An authorized portrait of the master director, published to coincide with his eightieth birthday, offers insight into his artistic idea about 'empty space' theater, his direction of noteworthy Shakespearean and other productions, and his personal and professional relationships. 15,000 first printing.

Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) lived one of the most intriguing theater lives of his century. A brilliant writer, critic, and agent provocateur, he made friends or enemies of nearly every major actor, playwright, impresario, and movie mogul of the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s. He wrote for the Evening Standard, the Observer, and the New Yorker; served eleven years as dramaturg for Britain’s newly formed National Theatre, and spent his final years in Los Angeles. This biography offers the first complete appraisal of Tynan’s powerful contribution to post-war British theater, set against the context of the fifties, sixties, and seventies and his own turbulent life.Dominic Shellard highlights Tynan’s writings of 1952–1963, when the coruscating young critic came to prominence. He discusses how Tynan took his place at the vanguard of the new realist movement, helped to establish subsidized theater, fought censorship, and assisted in the creation of such groundbreaking theatrical phenomena as Oh Calcutta! in 1970. The book reveals both the public and private Tynan, an outspoken, explicit, and sometimes savage critic who became one of the most influential theater figures of the twentieth century.

Product Description: A vivid polemic about the dangers theatre faces in the digital ageIn a personal journey that takes different narrative guises - reportage, memoir, conversations and critical analysis - Michael Kustow teases out answers to a fundamental question: Why is theatre such an enduring part of our being no matter how hard it is pressed? Starting from his own personal perspective and with war in Kosovo as a backdrop, Kustow begins with a sobering and often funny account of his Sisyphean efforts to produce Tantalus, a fifteen-hour theatre epic about the Trojan War by John Barton...read more

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Product Description: Steven Berkoff's name is associated with a particular vision of the world he navigates: always bizarre; often hilarious; frequently poignant; sometimes ugly but never mundane. He has been at the cutting age of the British stage for 25 years but in this book turns his talents to the world stage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This updated edition includes a new introduction by Peter Hall.

The noted director traces his career, from directing Shakespeare's dramas, to London's West End, to his work with Laurence Olivier, Salvador Dali, and other giants

Product Description: This biography of one of the most influential figures in British theatre, Peter Hall, charts his career from his earliest days. He has been director of three major theatre companies, The Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and his own company, and has directed some of the most controversial performances in the theatre or the opera house...read more

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Product Description: A biography of Edith Craig, lesbian daughter of Ellen Terry and brother of Edward Gordon Craig. She spent her theatrical apprenticeship at a major London theatre, coming of age with the New Woman and the experimental drama of Ibsen and Shaw...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents the details of director Stephen Daldry's work on the acclaimed play, 'An Inspector Calls,' in an attempt to reveal his intepretative approach to theater (view table of contents)

Product Description: A close look at the Irish theater world is presented in this extraordinary story of Edward and Christine Longford and their association with the Dublin Gate Theatre and the acting/producing duo of Micheal Mac Liammoir and Hilton Edwards, as well as with their own theater company, Longford Productions, which presented plays for twenty-five years and achieved success in Dublin, London and Irish country towns...read more