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Edited by Catherine Weate
Contemporary Monologues for Young Men and Women: Volume II
Oberon:

Building on the success of Contemporary Monologues for Young Men and Women, LAMDA has collected together more material from plays written since 1985, suitable for the teenage and young adult performer. The selections vary in content, tone and style and are accompanied by a brief outline of the context and setting. The compilation will provide any performer with opportunities for exploring a range of contemporary characters and stories.

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by Penny Cherns, David Shirley and Stephen Unwin
reActing: a fresh approach to key practioners
Oberon:

reACTING provides an overview of three key practitioners of acting methodology: Stanislavski, Laban and Brecht. The authors are experts in their fields and offer useful advice for the performer, bibliographies for further reading, and points for additional discussion. reACTING is an essential tool for teachers and students of speech and drama and an indispensible guide for candidates undertaking Unit 1 of the LAMDA Diploma in Dramatic Art.

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by Nicholas Dromgoole
Performance Style and Gesture in Western Theatre
Oberon:

Until the beginning of the 20th Century, when naturalism began to assert its powerful influence on western theatre, acting was a very different business indeed. Rather than attempting to reproduce realistic behaviour, actors conveyed their characters' feelings and intentions by using a vocabulary of minutely prescribed and highly stylised movements and gestures, each with it's own meaning and significance. In this wide-ranging, illustrated survey, Nicholas Dromgoole traces the origins and evolution of this lost 'language of gesture' from ancient Greece to the contemporary stage, and asks what it would actually have been like to watch the great plays - and the great actors - of western theatre in their own day.

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by Howard Barker's alter-ego Eduardo Houth
A Style and its Origins
Oberon:

Howard Barker's alter-ego Eduardo Houth first materialised as the photographer of publicity images for Barker's theatre company The Wrestling School, one among many fictional identities assumed by him to screen a range of his activities, including set and costume design. Writing of himself in the third person and in the historic tense, Barker/Houth achieves a fluency and an uncommon measure of objectivity, though objectivity is scarcely part of the intention. The result is a unique exercise in self-description, partisan but without the shrill self-justification so common in authentic autobiography. Barker/Houth's 'A Style and Its Origins' is a literary creation, as befits its authorial origins; it is also a document of total originality and a rich source of dramatic and aesthetic history.

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by Robert Butler
The Alchemist
Oberon:

The Alchemist Exposed follows the company and creative team of Nicholas Hytner's new NT production as they strip back the years to reveal the dark arts of Ben Jonson's play 'The Alchemist'.

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by Jonathan Croall
The Coming Of Godot
Oberon:

A Short History Of A Masterpiece

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by Bella Merlin
With the Rogues's Company : Henry IV at the National Theatre
Oberon:

The making of Henry IV Parts 1 & 2

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by Peter Hall
Shakespeare's Advice to Players
Oberon:

interpret the clues in Shakespeare

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by Peter Hall
Shakespeare's Advice to Players
Oberon:

interpret the clues in Shakespeare

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