An essential, refreshingly accessible guide to Greek and Roman drama containing entries for forty plays by all the major dramatists in the classical world - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence and Seneca. Learn More

A collection of essays by many distinguished contributors, focused on the portrayal of rebel women in ancient Greek drama. Learn More

A brand new teaching folder to help you teach Dario Fo's plays for the new WJEC/Eduqas 2016 specification, Component 3. Learn More

A brand new teaching folder created specifically for the new WJEC/Eduqas' 2016 specification to help you teach Machinal for Component Three. Learn More

A brand new teaching folder created specifically for the new Eduqas/WJEC's 2016 specification, Component 3 Learn More

A brand new teaching folder to help you teach Euripides' play for the new WJEC/Eduqas 2016 specification, Component 3. NOW IN STOCK! Learn More

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 transgender theatre, Brechtian techniques, puppetry, post-dramatic theatre, rural village performance and avant-garde touring companies. Learn More

Content covered:
choosing an appropriate theatre space for this play, creating a ground plan and the design features to use/terminology on this ground plan, the actor/audience relationship for this play, using a composite set design, why adopting a minimalist set design might be beneficial for this play, the acoustics of the chosen performance space, creating sound cue sheets for extracts, using sound effects and the sound demands of this play, preparing costume plots and considering the main character representations through their costumes, colour symbolism and how it could be used with this play, Christopher's association with various colours, how to convey the changing depictions of Judy on stage, fabric and hairstyle choices for characters, depicting Christopher as a 'typical' teenager through his costume, the intensity, colour, form and movement of lighting choices, how to approach lighting choices when looking at an extract, type of lights available and their benefits, the positioning of lights, lighting angles, using the McCandless lighting system, using different lighting areas on a stage for various locations. Learn More

Over 50 years after his first appearance on the theatre scene, Edward Bond remains a hugely significant figure in the history of modern British playwriting. His plays are the subject of much debate and frequent misinterpretation, with his extensive use of allegory and metaphor to comment on the state of society and humanity in general leading to many academics, theatre practitioners and students trying - and often failing - to make sense of his plays over the years. Learn More