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Bryden & Clark
Bill Bryden is one of the true mavericks of British theatre. He has directed some of the greatest stage shows in popular memory, including the world premiere of Glengarry Glen Ross and the Olivier Award-winning cycle The Mysteries. With characteristic wit he shares his favourite memories of some the 20th Century's biggest stars of stage and screen: including Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Laurence Olivier and Helen Mirren. Each is accompanied by exclusive photographs by Nobby Clark – the result is an intimate and often hilarious portrait of lives in the theatre.
Willie Rough
Bill Bryden's play is set on Red Clydeside in the dark days of 1914-1916. It tells of working-class life against the political background of the Clyde shipyards. The play is a landmark of Scottish theatre, penned by the writer of "The Big Picnic" and "The Ship". The action takes place mostly in various locations in Greenock, Scotland.
Shell-Shocked
Bill Bryden describes his wartime experiences in South-East Asia and his slow recovery from shell-shock. In doing so he pays tribute to the brave men who fought alongside him for a better world - a world which many of them would never live to see.
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Benny Lynch
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Impossible Plays
Bill Bryden's Cottesloe Company, which flourished at Peter Hall's National Theatre, was the English theatre's only true ensemble of the last thirty or so years. Impossible Plays tells the story of the company and the many actors and musicians connected to it. Co-written by Keith Dewhurst, author of eight plays for the group, and Jack Shepherd, a founder-actor, it explains the ideas behind the company's work and how the work was staged, and provides an idiosyncratic, lively and deeply personal take on the company. "The search was always to find a popular theatre, a form of theatre that would draw into it people from all backgrounds, not just the cultured and the educated." Beginning with a Royal Court Theatre Sunday night performance in 1970, the story of one company's aim to create a popular theatre form includes such milestone productions as The Mystery cycle of plays and Lark Rise to Candleford. With photographs by John Haynes, Michael Mayhew and Nobby Clark, Impossible Plays is a glorious and timely tribute to one of theatre's most innovative companies.
Played in Britain
Published in collaboration with the V&A, Modern British Theatre in 100 Plays explores the best and most influential plays from 1945 to date. Fully illustrated with photos from the V&A's collections, the book includes essays, review excerpts, plot summaries, extracts and insight into stage and costume designs.
Scotland's Books
From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature.
Twentieth-Century British Theatre
In this book, Claire Cochrane maps the experience of theatre across the British Isles during the twentieth century through the social and economic factors which shaped it. Three topographies for 1900, 1950 and 2000 survey the complex plurality of theatre within the nation-state which at the beginning of the century was at the hub of world-wide imperial interests and after one hundred years had seen unprecedented demographic, economic and industrial change. Cochrane analyses the dominance of London theatre, but redresses the balance in favour of the hitherto marginalised majority experience in the English regions and the other component nations of the British political construct. Developments arising from demographic change are outlined, especially those relating to the rapid expansion of migrant communities representing multiple ethnicities. Presenting fresh historiographic perspectives on twentieth-century British theatre, the book breaks down the traditionally accepted binary oppositions between different sectors, showing a broader spectrum of theatre practice.
The Guinness Book of Theatre Facts & Feats
Gathers little known facts about theater history, actors, actresses, plays, playwrights, musicals, comedians, theater companies and directors, and critics.
