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Drama -Wider Sixth Form Reading
Drama
Course Texts
Saved, Edward Bond
(Methuen ISBN 978-0-413-31360-7)
Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
(Methuen ISBN 978-0-413-77070-7)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens (Bloomsbury, ISBN: 978-1-4081-7335-0)
Theatre in Practice: A Student's Handbook
2nd Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1138289062,
ISBN-10: 113828906X
The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre
2nd Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1138777019
ISBN-10: 9781138777019
Recommended wider reading
Pre-1956
Absolute Hell, Rodney Ackland
The Persians, Aeschylus
Everyman, Anonymous
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
The Enchantment, Victoria Benedictsson
Mrs Warren’s Profession, George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht
The Seagull, Anton Chekhov
Blithe Spirit, Noël Coward
Hay Fever, Noël Coward
The Maids, Jean Genet
Servant of Two Masters, Carlo Goldoni
The Nativity, adapted by Tony Harrison
A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
Lady from the Sea, Henrik Ibsen
Volpone, Ben Jonson
The Bells, Leopold Lewis
Dr Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
All My Sons, Arthur Miller
Playboy of the Western World, John Millington Synge
Tartuffe, Molière
The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare
Antigone, Sophocles
The Dream Play, August Strindberg
Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Our Town, Thornton Wilder
The Corn is Green, Emlyn Williams
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
East Lynne, Ellen Wood
Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola
Post-1956
A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee
The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow
One Man Two Guvnors, Richard Bean
The Madness of George III, Alan Bennett
London Road, Alecky Blythe
Lear, Edward Bond
Two, Jim Cartwright
Red Velvet Lolita, Chakrabarti
Vinegar Tom, Caryl Churchill
A Taste of Honey, Shelagh Delaney
I Am the Wind, Jon Fosse
Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel
Small Change, Peter Gill
A History of Falling Things, James Graham
Amy’s View, David Hare
The Secret Rapture, David Hare
Humble Boy, Charlotte Jones
Stones in His Pockets, Marie Jones
My Mother Said I Never Should, Charlotte Keatley
Beautiful Burnout, Bryony Lavery
Clytemnestra, Gwyneth Lewis
Lungs, Duncan Macmillan
Decky Does a Bronco, Douglas Maxwell
The Weir, Conor McPherson
100 Neil Monaghan, Diene Petterle & Christopher Heimann
Lovesong, Abi Morgan
'night Mother, Marsha Norman
Loot, Joe Orton
The Entertainer, John Osborne
Amgen/Broken, Gary Owen
Constellations, Nick Payne
The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter
Say It With Flowers, Meic Povey and Johnny Tudor
Salt, Root and Roe, Tim Price
Deep Cut, Philip Ralph
Art, Yasmina Reza
The Red Shoes, Emma Rice
Tristan and Yseult, Emma Rice
Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell
Amadeus, Peter Shaffer
Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim
True West, Sam Shepard
Tusk Tusk, Polly Stenham
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard
Brontë, Polly Teale
The Street of Crocodiles, Theatre de Complicite
The Dark Philosophers, Gwyn Thomas
Bazaar and Rummage, Sue Townsend
The Ash Girl, Timberlake Wertenbaker
Jane Eyre, Adapted by the National Theatre (2015)