Amy Lidster 
Wartime Shakespeare [PDF ebook] 
Performing Narratives of Conflict

Sadler’s Wells is the world’s leading Dance House. Sadler’s Wells has developed new audiences for dance, this powerful and emotive art, for performances shown within its theatre spaces and outside – …

Actor Julie Hesmondhalgh”s working diary begins in November 2016 at the end of a full and exciting year of theatre-making with her company, Take Back. The company is a northern-based collective crea …

The world of musicals is beautiful, complex, hilarious, hard-headed, and improbable. It is as hard to make a great musical as it is to fly a spaceship to the moon and there are at least as many movin …

Romeo and Juliet always use ”thou” to each other, but they are the only pair of lovers in Shakespeare to do this. Why? All the women in Richard III address Richard as ”thou”, but no man ever does …

The British musical in its formative years has appeared in strikingly different guises: from the lasting hits of Oliver!, and Me and My Girl , to the successes of The Dancing Years, Bless the Bride a …

First published in 2006. Kabuki is the most popular form of Japanese traditional theatre. More fast-moving than Noh, it is a colourful and exciting spectacle based around traditional, historical and …

"Three Men and a Maid" by P.G. Wodehouse is a delightful romantic comedy that centers around the humorous and complex interactions between its characters. Set in the world of British high s …

The volume reveals an astonishing richness in the theatrical approaches to Ibsen across the world: it considers political theatre, institutional ”high art”, theatre for development, queer and trans …

‘ A book which has remained seminal in its field as one of the key texts in dance education . Jacqueline Smith-Autard delves into the creative arena of dance with a logic unmatched by any other creat …

Programme Notes: Case Studies For Locating Experimental Theatre is a collection of commissioned essays, case studies and interviews reflecting the exciting and complex relationships between ‘mainstre …