Don Watson’s Theatre With A Purpose, available now in paperback in a joint publication with Methuen, provides an original account of the range and diversity of amateur drama during the inter-war years. Watson builds on current scholarship and makes use of archival sources, local newspapers, unpublished scripts and the records of organizations not usually associated with the theatre.
A SENSE OF THEATRE is an eye-witness account of the birth and subsequent triumph of one of the world’s most famous theatres by Richard Pilbrow, pioneer lighting designer and member of the building committee of the National Theatre.
This lavishly illustrated hands-on account of the creation of new theatre spaces spanning a century, by theatre practitioner and designer Iain Mackintosh, offers a compelling history that is part memoir, part impassioned call to rethink the design of our theatre spaces and the future of live theatre.
This biography of Doris Hare by Kate Crehan describes a career that spanned almost the entire twentieth century, beginning as a child actor in travelling theatres and encompassing radio, cabaret and revue, the RSC and popular television.
The book presents extended extracts from the Barker-Huntington correspondence, together with unfamiliar short essays, taken from an extensive Granville Barker archive at the British Library.
Steve Nicholson’s important four-part analysis of British Theatre censorship from 1900-1968 is published in a new paperback edition with contextualising timeline and biographies.
Volume One of Steve Nicholson’s important four-part analysis of British theatre censorship covers the years 1900-1932, and includes contextualising timeline and biographies.
Volume Two of Steve Nicholson’s important four-part analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968 covers the period from 1933 to 1952, and includes contextualising timeline and biographies.
Volume Three of Steve Nicholson’s The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 covers the 1950s and demonstrates the extent to which censorship shaped the theatre voices of this decade.
Volume Four of Steve Nicholson’s four volume revised paperback edition of The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968, covers the 1960s, a significant decade in social and political spheres in Britain, especially in the theatre.
Sarah Baker was an illiterate fairground performer who became one of the most successful self-made women of her time. By presenting her unlikely transformation from strolling player to wealthy entrepreneur in relation to the pressures under which she operated, this book casts new light not only on the role of Georgian provincial theatre but also on the volatile times in which Sarah Baker lived.
For New Members only: the Society is offering any five books in the catalogue* for only £25, plus a small…
For New Members only, the Society is offering any five books in the catalogue* plus a copy of The Theatric…
Based on extensive archival research and lavishly illustrated, The Holdens: Monarchs of the Marionette Theatre explains why the Holden family were the most celebrated English marionette performers of the 19th century
The Soho Theatre 1968-1981 is a detailed study of the development of one of the most successful theatres …
Only the second book ever published on Sir Philip Ben Greet (1857-1936), this is the first to study his U.S. and Canadian tours, and the significance of his productions of Shakespeare