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  • So You Want To Be A Theatre Director?

    by Stephen Unwin ...
    Series series So You Want To Be...? career guides
    A hands-on, step-by-step guide to directing plays – by one of Britain's leading theatre directors.Stephen Unwin has worked with hundreds of different actors in a multiplicity of different venues. He is the ideal author of a 'how to' guide to directing.As Unwin himself says: 'Directing plays is difficult. The aim of this book is to lay out what skills are needed, and to give some sense of how you ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All Our Children

    by Stephen Unwin ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'I used to be scared of them. They seemed so different. They don't scare me any more. They're just children, aren't they? Just children.'January 1941. A terrible crime is taking place in a clinic for disabled children. The perpetrators argue that it will help struggling parents and lift the financial burden on the mighty German state. One brave voice is raised in objection. But will the doctor ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ibsen's A Doll's House

    A Study Guide

    by Stephen Unwin ...
    Series Book 0 - Page to Stage
    The Nick Hern Books Page to Stage series – highly accessible guides to the world's best-known plays, written by established theatre professionals to show how the plays come to life on the stage.Director Stephen Unwin takes you scene by scene through the action of Ibsen's play A Doll's House, analysing moment by moment what is actually said and done, and how the staging of these moments affects our ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Brecht Toolkit

    by Stephen Unwin ...
    A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercises to help put theory into practice.The Complete Brecht Toolkit examines, one by one, Brecht's many, sometimes contradictory ideas about theatre - and how he put them into practice. Here are explanations of all the famous key terms, such as Alienation ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Ronde

    Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Arthur Schnitzler ...
    Translated by Stephen Unwin, Peter Zombory-Moldovan ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classics
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceArthur Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s.La Ronde is a play of ten scenes, each depicting a couple in a sexual liaison. There are ten characters altogether, each appearing in two adjacent scenes, forming an endless chain of sexual links across all the layers of Viennese society.This ... Read more

    $8.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare and Brecht

    A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers

    by Stephen Unwin ...
    Series series Arden Performance Companions
    This practical guide uncovers the roots of Brecht's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare and makes the case for reading the two together today. By connecting these two great playwrights, Stephen Unwin imagines new possibilities for Brechtian productions of Shakespeare and outlines practical suggestions for how to stage such productions.Drawing on directing and performance experience in over 60 ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Beautiful Lives

    How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong: The startling and rarely told history of learning disabilities

    by Stephen Unwin ...
    'Both heart-rending and gorgeous. He teaches us humanity' MIRIAM MARGOLYES'Thank you, Joey, for getting your dad off his arse to write this book' HUGH BONNEVILLE'A beautiful book - powerful, persuasive, illuminating, moving' GYLES BRANDRETH'Full of pain and joy, concern and celebration' SIMON RUSSELL BEALE'A powerful, multi-faceted, myth-busting account' SIMON JARRETT<p... ... Read more

    Was $3.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Laughing Boy

    (stage version)

    by Stephen Unwin, Sara Ryan ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'So much magic. So much love. So much laughter. So much work. So much rage. And so many tears.'Connor is, well, Connor. He loves buses, Eddie Stobart and Lego. He also has learning disabilities. When he dies an entirely preventable death in NHS care, his mum, Sara, can't get a straight answer as to how it happened.But Sara and her family won't stop asking questions and soon an extraordinary ... Read more

    $16.89 USD

  • A Guide To The Plays Of Bertolt Brecht

    by Stephen Unwin ...
    Series series Plays and Playwrights
    Stephen Unwin's A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht is an indispensable, comprehensive and highly readable companion to the dramatic work of this challenging and rewarding writer. Besides providing detailed accounts of nineteen key plays, it explores their context and Brecht's dramatic theory to equip readers with a rich understanding of how Brecht's work was shaped by his times and by his ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Poor Naked Wretches

    Shakespeare’s Working People

    by Stephen Unwin ...
    Was Shakespeare a snob? Poor Naked Wretches challenges the idea that our greatest writer despised working people, and shows that he portrayed them with as much insight, compassion and purpose as the rich and powerful. Moreover, they play an important role in his dramatic method.Stephen Unwin reads Shakespeare anew, exploring the astonishing variety of working people in his plays, as well as the ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Ghosts

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Translated by Stephen Unwin ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Oswald returns home from Paris to honour his dead father. As his mother begins to feel the presence of ghosts from the past around her, Oswald discovers that there is more to his mystery illness than he first thought. Only by uncovering the truth can they both be set free... ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Well Read Play

    by Stephen Unwin ...
    The Well Read Play, deepens our appreciation and enjoyment of drama. Clear and practical guidance helps the reader to understand the workings of a play, spot clues that the playwright has planted, imagine how it can be staged, and decide whether it will stand the test of time. Absorbing and informative, whether for purposes of study, staging or simply leisure, it is the ideal guide for students, ... Read more

    $19.69 USD