Stage & Screen

What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila to understand movement as artistic practice and as affect. Through fifteen years ...

With 2500 questions covering the expansive Star Trek universe, this latest title in the wildly popular Obsessed With series is the Star Trek fan's ultimate challenge. More than just a trivia book, this interactive game includes an electronic scoring module that allows readers to quiz themselves or compete ...

Originally published: Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 1993.

"Writing Movies is the ultimate resource. It's like twenty of the best screenwriting books skilfully rolled into one." American Screenwriters' Association. A highly practical guide written by Gotham Writers' Workshop expert instructors, with step by step tasks and script examples.

The epitome of cool - Michael Caine: 1960s features stunning and groovy photography of the actor both on and off screen in this, his defining decade. As part of the swinging sixties scene in London, Caine was pictured with the hippest actors, models and photographers of the period. Also captured here ...

Across the following fifteen years he tries to cope with the ramifications of the tragic accident that tore his family apart and shattered their small American dream.

Adam Rapp's Nocturne received its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, in July 2008 and in August transferred to the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

As emotions run high, all four find themselves entangled in a web of hidden agendas and half-truths in their pursuit of a happy life.

A companion piece to the acclaimed Reasons to Be Pretty, Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Happy received its UK premiere at Hampstead Theatre, London, in March 2016.

Steven Berkoff plunders his own East End Jewish roots for this revealing comedy set around the tradition of sitting shiva - seven days of mourning after a loved one has passed away

Trapped in a loveless marriage, Ellida is consumed by her longing for the sea, by the promise of the unknown. Now Ellida must confront both the past and a desire for freedom that could destroy her.

Frank McGuinness's version of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in April 2008.

This book locates Richard II firmly amidst the late-sixteenth-century heated debates between champions of absolute monarchy and advocates of a more limited, democratic style of government; debates which culminated in the 1640s in the deposition and killing of an actual monarch - Charles I.

A romp through the worlds of fashion, film, and titillating journalism that made 1950s Rome the sexiest capital on the planet.

Traces the life and career of the legendary director, discussing the making of "Citizen Kane," his contributions to such films as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "The Lady from Shanghai," and his efforts in radio comedy, spectacular theater, and newspaper politics.

"Do You Mind If I Smoke? tells the story of Fenella Fielding's remarkable 65-year career in theatre, radio, TV and film. Best known for her 1960s film appearances in classic comedies such as Carry On Screaming, Doctor in Clover and Carry On Regardless, Fielding's sublime talents also brought her success ...

Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. Devised and first performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London in 1963, it received the acclaim of London audiences and critics. ...

Harley Granville Barker, the most influential theatre-maker of his time, finds himself adrift in America during the Great War.

London, the 1860s. Rose Trelawny is the brightest young star at the Sadler's Wells Theatre. Set amongst theatrical folk and the non-theatricals they seek to please and provoke, Trelawny of the 'Wells', by Arthur Wing Pinero, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 1898.

Neil LaBute is one of America's most provocative and lauded playwrights, and his darkly exhilarating talent is on glorious view in this new collection. "Things We Said Today" features the scripts for Neil LaBute's groundbreaking Directv project "10x10"--a series of short films written and directed by ...

- he hadn't forgotten i was there - he just didn't care whether i was there or not - it would've been better him forgetting rather than not caring at all

Gerry and Iggy face the ends of their lives in a London hostel.