{"product_id":"the-theatre-of-laura-wade-9781350282100","title":"The Theatre of Laura Wade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the first full-length exploration of the work of Laura Wade, providing critical and performance perspectives on one of the UK's most frequently staged female playwrights.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Laura Wade is one of the most exciting, challenging and commercially successful playwrights in the UK. Her work has been widely translated and performed across the globe, but despite the prolific appearance of her plays on professional stages, in university studios and school classrooms, she is a writer who is yet to have a book dedicated to her award-winning oeuvre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout the volume, key creative practitioners add rehearsal room insight, alongside the perspective of Laura Wade herself and a foreword by Tamara Harvey, Co-Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Regular collaborators Harvey, Katherine Parkinson, Lyndsey Turner and Samuel West provide perspectives on Wade's work, including the Olivier Award-winning \u003ci\u003eHome, I'm Darling\u003c\/i\u003e, the frequently staged \u003ci\u003eAlice\u003c\/i\u003e and her inventive adaptation of \u003ci\u003eThe Watsons\u003c\/i\u003e. Actor Natalie Dormer also provides new insights which connect together \u003ci\u003ePosh \u003c\/i\u003eand the subsequent film adaptation, \u003ci\u003eThe Riot Club\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Teachers, lecturers and theatre-makers are given resources to explore Wade's plays in detail, including \u003ci\u003ePosh\u003c\/i\u003e, with key thoughts from the original production's director as well as Cressida Carré, director of the first all-female staging in 2017. Those working with the increasingly popular early plays, \u003ci\u003eBreathing Corpses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColder than Here\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOther Hands\u003c\/i\u003e, have access to fresh scholarship deconstructing the narrative ingenuity and dark themes contained within. Each chapter draws attention to a range of international and performance contexts from which the plays can be explored.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Bell\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Performance at University of the West of Scotland, UK where he also fulfils the role of Arts Lead of the Division of Arts and Media. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Bush\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Head in the Sheffield Creative Industries Institute at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, where she oversees courses in Acting and Performance, Film Studies, and Film and TV Production.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52058034274578,"sku":"9781350282100","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d6a02b6b-1a76-46d5-a1c2-0a610d35532e.jpg?v=1772021834","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-theatre-of-laura-wade-9781350282100","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}