In this volume of the Good Audition Guides, you'll find fifty fantastic speeches for women, all written since the year 2000, by some of our most exciting dramatic voices.
Playwrights featured in Contemporary ...
Three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists - in modern, much-performed translations.
This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections series, ...
Lola is sixteen years old, sharp-witted and has her whole life ahead of her – until she's diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. Now her brilliant mind is rapidly turning into useless mush.
So she's ...
A striking play from Northern Ireland about two women and the childhood tragedy they'll never be allowed to forget.
For Emma and Clare, 1980 was the summer they met at the swings, the summer they built ...
Peter is putting on a show. He’s a bit stressed. In the show, he will read from a manuscript. It’s a large manuscript, but don’t worry, he’s only going to read the parts about him, and there aren’t ...
Harriet Walter's wonderfully practical—and personal—introduction to acting.
"Acting is what I do with who I am," writes Harriet Walter. And in this book she takes us step by step through the processes ...
Jesse is paranoid and frightened, and it's messing up his relationship, his job, his son and his life. But Jesse has every reason to be frightened; he is increasingly feeling the sting of rising prejudice ...
A blackly hilarious exploration of deceit, paranoia and murderous desire, as the spirit of the Blues lands in leafy suburbia.
Demolition expert Ned lives in a nice new house on a nice new estate on the ...
A fiercely funny play about what it's like to be a young woman living, working, drinking, loving and having sex in the 21st century.
It's Bella's 29th birthday. Friends and former lovers meet for a drink ...