Stage & Screen

Premiered in 1981, The Granny and the Heist (La estanquera de Vallecas) interweaves tense excitement, comic banter and moments of great tenderness in its examination of an area of Madrid equally ignored by Spain's nascent democracy as it had been under the Franco dictatorship. Contains a new critical introduction and language-teaching resources.

Premiered in 1981, The Granny and the Heist (La estanquera de Vallecas) interweaves tense excitement, comic banter and moments of great tenderness in its examination of an area of Madrid equally ignored by Spain's nascent democracy as it had been under the Franco dictatorship. Contains a new critical introduction and language-teaching resources.

Woven through it all is his decades long relationship with playwright Nicholas Wright.

At times hilarious and always deeply felt, David Lan's deft travels evoke a wildly varied life in theatre as well as a unique theatre of life.

Vivre Ici invites the reader on a journey through the vast viewing landscape of contemporary French documentary film, a genre that has experienced a renaissance in the past twenty years. The films explored are connected not just by a general interest in engaging the "real," but by a particular attention ...

Alongside Earnest, discover a biblical tragedy retold, Lady Windemere and her infamous fan and Wilde's take on an ideal husband, in this play.

Each sketch reveals the author's infectious delight in writing between the lines of theatre, fiction and comedy.Charmingly packaged and published with flair, Pocket Playhouse is the perfect gift for all theatre and comedy writers.

In this revised and updated paperback edition of Bond vs. Bond: Revised and Updated, you'll find side-by-side comparisons and contrasts of all the Bonds from Connery to Craig, now including the 2020 movie No Time to Die.

Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain's most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company's aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the elements which made its success so important.

The first book to document grass roots popular theatres which developed from within the working class Republican and Loyalist communities of Belfast and Derry during the latest phase of the four hundred year conflict between Ireland and Britain.

In this revised and updated paperback edition of Bond vs. Bond: Revised and Updated, you'll find side-by-side comparisons and contrasts of all the Bonds from Connery to Craig, now including the 2020 movie No Time to Die.

A bilingual edition of the text of Moliere's classic comedy.

"What would Harold have thought of Trump?" Antonia FraserThe Pres and the Officer was discovered by Antonia Fraser on one of the yellow pads Harold Pinter used for writing in autumn 2017. The pamphlet will include a Foreword by Antonia Fraser and a copy of the handwritten manuscript.

This inquiry into how Shakespeare is reproduced today examines how modern inter-cultural and cross-cultural productions reconfigure him for "alternative" performances. It attempts to speak across many divides - from literature to theatre, from theory to practice.

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 ...