J. M. Synge 
Riders to the Sea [PDF ebook] 

This revised edition contains several new speeches, many of which are taken from plays written and produced during the last five years. There are speeches for a variety of accents and ages to suit al …

The performing arts are uniquely capable of translating a vision of an ideal or sacred reality into lived practice, allowing an audience to confront deeply held values and beliefs as they observe a p …

Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre and Film, Second Edition is the one-stop shop for the knowledge and skills you need to create and style wigs. Covering the basics, from styling to …

Offering fresh studies of Samuel Beckett in pre-production, in rehearsal, as an innovator of the script form, and as a speculative director and designer, Beckett”s Laboratory reconsiders Beckett”s …

The spread of UK music festivals has exploded since 2000. In this major contribution to cultural studies, the lid is lifted on the contemporary festival scene. Gone are the days of a handful of formu …

First published in 2005. Written for the benefit of travellers to Japan, this concise guide explains all aspects of the Noh performance, including the layout of the theatre, music, masks and costumes …

Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have emerged in the last thirty years. Combining close attention to Shakespearean texts and the condition …

’I cannot think of a better book for aspiring and working actors, craftspeople, artists, and managers’ Kent Thompson, Artistic Director, Denver Center Theatre Company, Past President TCG Board of Dir …

Tragic Seneca undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca”s plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role in the evolution of the European theatrical tradition. Fo …

An Actor Prepares is the most famous acting training book ever to have been written and the work of Stanislavski has inspired generations of actors and trainers. This translation was the first to int …