A reworking of Shakespeare's great love story. Re-imagining some of Shakespeare's greatest poetry, it presents an account of the depth and power of the capacity for love.

First staged at the national theatre in 1988, this title is reissued in a new edition alongside the 21st anniversary revival at the Almeida Theatre in the autumn.

Actors need actions. They cannot act adjectives, they need verbs; they need an aim to achieve, an action to perform. This is a thesaurus of active verbs with which the actor can refine the action-word until she or her hits exactly the right one to help make the action come alive.

A dramatic take on the story behind the creation of one of the great literary horror stories of the Gothic movement, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.

A masterpiece from one of the great dramatists of the Spanish Golden Age, Pedro Calderon de la Barca.

Serves as a guide to Stanislavsky's famous 'System' that illustrates, with exercises, each of his acting techniques. This title is organised into three sections - Training, Rehearsal, and Performance. It brings together the terms and ideas explored and modified by Stanislavsky throughout his life from the early 1890s until his death in 1938.

Features interviews with some of the 20th century's most celebrated practitioners of the performing arts. This title includes such interviewees as Dame Judi Dench, Sir John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave and Sir Ian McKellen, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller and Alan Bennett; Cameron Mackintosh, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim.

The Drama Classics series is gaining ground each year and is actively sought after by many schools and teachers.

A play that explores the life of an Eastern European woman forced into the sex trade in London.

A play showing the impact of Stalin's reign of terror on the people of a Ukrainian village - premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

When Eva's parents fail to escape Germany, the child changes her name and begins the process of denial of her roots. It is only when her own daughter discovers some letters in their attic that Eva is forced to confront the truth about the past.

Reproduces the text of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) in modern type.

This edition of Henry V reproduces the First Folio of 1623, the most authoritative edition of Shakespeare's plays. There is no editorial interference, and there are no quaint typographical quirks. To aid understanding, the same text appears on each opposite page in a modernised version.

This edition accurately reproduces the first folio of Shakespeare's play, Measure for Measure , letter for letter, dot for dot, but does so in modern type. As a further aid to understanding, on each opposite page, the same text appears but this time in a fully modernized version.

A guide that helps students prepare for and improve their chances of getting a place in one of the UK's many drama schools. It sets out the steps that can be taken to ensure that potential acting students present the best possible audition they can when applying to drama school.

Suitable for school, youth theatre and community groups, this book includes games for adults to play in workshop or rehearsal settings. It explores a wide range of core drama skills such as: energy, focus, teamwork, trust, character, storytelling, imagination and improvisation, as well as warming up and cooling down.

When a woman disappears, four marriages become entangled in a web of love, deceit, sex and death. Who will survive?

A stage adaptation of one of Jacqueline Wilson's most popular novels.

Great Expectations is one of Dickens's best-loved novels - and, say some critics, his greatest. Covering the story of one man's life - with many autobiographical elements - it tackles big questions of identity while mustering a cast of unforgettable characters, Miss Havisham and others. This dramatisation is the RSC's mainstage Christmas Show.