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)