Secondhand Drama Books

In his most famous book, An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski dealt with the imaginative processes. In the second book, Building a Character, he deals with the physical realisation of character on...

A collection of plays by one of Ireland's finest dramatists of the 80s and 90s Tea in a China Cup focuses on the differing experiences of three generations of women...

A collection of work by the great German dramatist, including the text of his classic piece of postdramatic theatre, Hamletmachine.The playwright Heiner Muller was born in East Germany in 1929....

Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who...

'We've got nothing to learn from anyone. We are who we are. We do what we do. No-one else can touch us' - except, that is, the horrific past of...

"Its aggressive high-octane style is like a shot of caffeine straight in the veins" - Lyn Gardner, Guardian Angel Cruz, a poor Puerto Rican, isn't sure why he's in jail...

The extraordinary debut play from the Royal Court by two brothers from Siberia.A series of seemingly unrelated scenes portray the ordinary frustrations of everyday life: office workers bickering, a couple...

A darkly absurd play from the authors of Terrorism.A young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong, he just wants a job. A...

I...think I mistake correspondence for contact sometimes.During the course of a routine shift on the content moderation floor of an unnamed social media company, Alan and Alannah, two moderators, will...