Three powerful and disturbing plays for the oppressed and dispossessed.

A new edition of the first volume of the collected plays of Steven Berkoff. It includes East , West , Greek , Sink the Belgrano! , Massage , Lunch , The Bow of Ulysses and Sturm und Drang (or Confessions of a Cad! ).

This is the second of two volumes of the collected plays of Steven Berkoff. The book includes Decadence , Kvetch , Acapulco , Harry's Christmas , Brighton Beach Scumbags , Darling You Were Marvellous , Pitbull and Actor .

Two powerful stage adaptations from the master of physical theatre.

This play charts Hamlet and Ophelia's love story beneath the surface of Shakespeare's play. With a muscularity of language tempered with tenderness, Berkoff's play is shot through with images of love, desire and intimations of future tragedy.

The third collection by Berkoff, comprised of three history plays. Ritual in Blood looks at the persecution of the Jews; Messiah pits Christ's transcendent goodness against the evil of his detractors; and Oedipus is a speakable adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.

From sensuous, stream-of-consciousness declarations of love to a brooding meditation on the wreckage of a relationship, this collection of an acclaimed playwright's verse gives us an intimate glimpse into his thoughts, pains and passions.

Subtitled 'Tales of an Actor', this is a collection of autobiographical short stories that chart the author's journey from youthful enthusiasm and success to raging despair, anger and final self-destruction.

A profile of the director, designer, writer and actor Steven Berkoff. Included in this volume are examinations of his individual versions of Kafka's The Trial and Metamorphosis , Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher , Aeschylus' Agamemnon , Wilde's Salome and his own East and Decadence .

Focusing on rehearsals for the 1992 production of Metamorphosis in Tokyo, Berkoff muses on the ten previous productions of his play over a 23-year span. He compares rehearsal techniques, acting styles between different cultures and the sexes, his own performance, and those of others.

Berkoff writes in detail about many of the legendary directors and actors he has worked with, including Stanley Kubrick, Sylvester Stallone, Roman Polanski and Joan Collins. This book provides an insight into the vivid and intense experiences that make up Berkoff's often surrealist world.

This volume offers a detailed analysis of Hamlet from the perspective of an actor and director.

The actor, director and playwright, Steven Berkoff, recounts his childhood in London's East End, the trips up west during his teenage years, a formative year with family in the USA, his early career in showbiz, and how he drew on his experiences to write his plays.

Steven Berkoff was asked to direct Shakespeare's Richard II in New York early 1994. It was a project he found fascinating: performing an Elizabethan play within the scrapers of Manhattan and the still rotting slums of the Lower East Side, between the steaming breath oozing out from the cracked pipes and the brutality of modern New York speak. New York became the backdrop and the energy centre ...