The Methuen Book of Duologues for Young Actors
Author(s): Anne Harvey
Ranging from Renaissance to contemporary plays, this text brings together a range of pieces varied in subject, tone and style for young actors. It provides a resource book for teachers and performers alike, for auditions, acting classes, festivals, examinations or performance.
First published 1995.
B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w126mm x s14mm 168g notes
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Duologues: "Anne Boleyn", Peter Albery; "The Cuckoo Sister", Vivien Alcock; "It's Not the End of the World", Judy Blume; "The Sea", Edward Bond; "Skungpoomery", Ken Campbell; "Split Down the Middle", David Campton; "Top Girls", Caryl Churchill; "Easy Virtue", Noel Coward; "Kate and Emma", Monica Dickens; "Middlemarch", George Eliot; "Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home", Lisa Evans; "Walking Through Seaweed", Ian Hamilton Finlay; "The Virtuous Burgler", Dario Fo; "'Tis Pity She's a Whore", John Ford; "Alphabetical Order", Michael Frayn; "My Children, My Africa", Athol Fugard; "Warrior", Shirley Gee; "A Proper Little Nooryeff", Leonard Gregory (from the novel by Jean Ure); "Murmuring Judges", David Hare; "The Day After the Fair", Frank Harvey (from a short story by Thomas Hardy); "Beautiful Thing", Jonathan Harvey; "The Children's Hour", Lillian Hellman; "The Wakefield Mysteries", Adrian Henri; "The Silver Sword", Stuart Henson (from the novel by Ian Serraillier); "Across Oka", Robert Holman; "The Constant Nymph", Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean; "My Sister in this House", Wendy Kesselman; "Wait Until Dark", Frederick Knott; "Tartuffe", Moliere; "Two Weeks with the Queen", Mary Morris (from the novel by Morris Gleitzman); "A Game of Soldiers", Jan Needle; "The Goalkeeper's Revenge", Derek Nicholls and Ray Speakman (from the writings of Bill Naughton); "P'tang Yang, Kipperbang", Jack Rosenthal; "Blood Brothers", Willy Russell; "Kindertransport", Diane Samuels; "St Joan", George Bernard Shaw; "A Trip to Scarborough", Richard Brinsley Sheridan; "Journey's End", R.C. Sherriff; "Rutherford and Son", Githa Sowerby; "Home", David Storey; "Spring Awakening", Frank Wedekind; "Frost in May", Antonia White; "Effie's Burning", Valerie Windsor.
General Fields
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- : A & C Black Publishers Ltd
- : Methuen Drama
- : 0.168
- : 14 August 1995
- : 198mm X 126mm X 14mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Anne Harvey
- : Paperback
- : 792.028
- : 240
- : Acting techniques; Drama texts, plays; Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
- : notes