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Additional Dialogue: An Evening With Dalton Trumbo

Christopher Trumbo

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LA Theatre Works

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...In 1947, witty, outspoken, irascible Dalton Trumbo - the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Roman Holiday and Spartacus - went to prison for defying the House Committee on Un-American Activities and became one of the framed Hollywood...

The Chicago Conspiracy Trial

Peter Goodchild

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LA Theatre Works

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...Reality is stranger than fiction when seven 1960’s radicals refuse to behave in Judge Julius Hoffman’s courtroom. Based on actual trial transcripts and starring a cast of top Chicago actors, this play centers on events following...

The Whipping Man

Matthew Lopez

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LA Theatre Works

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...Tensions run high as Caleb de Leon, a young Jewish Confederate soldier, celebrates Passover with his family’s newly-freed slaves in the de Leons’ crumbling antebellum mansion. This gripping drama explores a little-known aspect of the Civil...

The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial

Peter Goodchild

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LA Theatre Works

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...The Scopes Trial, over the right to teach evolution in public schools, reaffirmed the importance of intellectual freedom as codified in the Bill of Rights. The trial, in a small-town Tennessee courtroom in 1925, set the stage for ongoing...

As You Like It

William Shakespeare

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The Royal Shakespeare Company

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..."LOVE IS MERELY A MADNESS" Rosalind is banished from Court. With her best friend Celia by her side, she journeys to a world of exile. But not before catching the eye of love-struck Orlando, who is also forced from the Court into the Forest....

Vsevolod Meyerhold: Rhythm Not Metre

Eilon Morris

Eilon Morris is a core member of DUENDE and OBRA Theatre Co, in which he works as a performer, composer and trainer. A percussionist and theatre practitioner, Eilon completed a PhD at Huddersfield University in 2013 examining the role of rhythm in psychophysical actor training and has contributed to the book Encountering Ensemble (2013) as well as having work published and presented in Stanislavski Studies, Total Theatre Magazine and at various international conferences. Eilon performs and teachers throughout Europe, presenting workshops and masterclasses at universities and other training centres. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Rhythm in Acting and Performance : Embodied Approaches and Understandings

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017

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...Jonathan Pitches proposes that for Meyerhold, ‘rhythm is the glue which binds all the other skills of the actor together’ (Pitches 2003:115). Operating as a central principle throughout his career, rhythm informed almost every aspect...

Antigone

Sophocles

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Don Taylor

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National Theatre

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...Age recommendation: 15+ (some strong, bloody images) This archive recording was captured on 4th July, 2012. In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring...

‘Performance is a kind of will or testament’

Gary Watt

Gary Watt is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick, UK. He is a National Teaching Fellow and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2009 he was named national ‘Law Teacher of the Year’. He is the founding co-editor of the journal Law and Humanities and his previous books include Trusts and Equity (2003) and Equity Stirring: The Story of Justice Beyond Law (2009). He is also co-editor of the collection Shakespeare and the Law (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare’s Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance

Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016

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...This book is about the way words work. It is about words written and words spoken and how they relate to the speaker’s silence, gesture and movement through space. We are concerned with the metre and rhythm of spoken and written lines...

Olly's Prison – Stage Version

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Edward Bond

~playauthor~Written by~ Edward Bond

Methuen Drama, 2003

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 17

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...Edward Bond's Olly’s Prison is a hard and painful vision of a selfish and disconnected society from which is it impossible to escape. An ordinary city flat. Evening. A man, Mike, tries to talk to his daughter, tries to get...

Beauty and the Beast

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Charles Way

~playauthor~Written by~ Charles Way

Aurora Metro Books, 2002

Aurora Metro Books

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

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...A play about overcoming fear, where the subconscious world is represented through imagery and movement. The play begins with a startling dream sequence and then segues into the drawing-room world of a Jane Austen novel, before moving...