“The Scientist Who Wasn’t There”, Joanne Briggs
[Joanne Briggs is an occasional contributor to this magazine. She has written a memoir of her father.] The Scientist Who
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“John Macfarlane Theatre Design and Studio”
Simon Jenner reviews this Graffeg publication 18 November 2024 I Open this book and it is not words that strike
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“What Was Shakespeare Really Like?” by Stanley Wells
Book review by Simon Jenner 3 December 2023 Now 93, pre-eminent Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells has recently written several short
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“Theatre Spaces 1920-2020” by Iain Mackintosh
Iain Mackintosh: “Theatre Spaces 1920-2020 – Finding the Fun in Functionalism” Methuen Drama (2023) – 242 pages Reviewed by Simon
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“My Shakespeare” by Greg Doran
My Shakespeare: A Director’s Journey through the First Folio by Greg Doran (Methuen Drama) Book review by Tom Bolton Covid
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“A Dictionary of Emotions in A Time of War” – edited by John Freedman
Book review by Dana Rufolo (The book has been translated into English by John Freedman, Natalia Bratus, John Farndon, and
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“Plays from Romania: Dramaturgies of Subversion” – edited and translated by Jozefina Komporaly (Methuen Drama)
Book Review by Dana Rufolo 12 January 2023 As in many of the recently-authored Romanian plays staged at Romanian theatre festivals
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“Good Nights Out” – Aleks Sierz
Reviewed by Simon Jenner 14 June 2022 Michael Billington is right. This is an absolutely necessary theatre book. Indeed it
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“Derrida | Benjamin: Two Plays for the Stage”
Derrida | Benjamin: Two Plays for the Stage John Schad and Fred Dalmasso Palgrave Macmillan Reviewed by Dana Rufolo I
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“The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage”
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage Edited by Jan Sewell and Clare Smout (Palgrave Macmillan) Reviewed
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“Shakespeare in a Divided America”
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James S. Shapiro – book review Reviewed by Jeremy Malies 1 September 2018 If
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“The Price of Bread”: Crysse Morrison
The Price of Bread by Crysse Morrison Book review by Dana Rufolo 1 September 2020 The novel The Price of
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“Real and Phantom Pains”: John Freedman
Book Review by Dana Rufolo Real and Phantom Pains; An Anthology of New Russian Drama Edited by John Freedman Publisher:
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“A History of Romanian Theatre”: Cristina Modreanu
A History of Romanian Theatre from Communism to Capitalism; Children of a Restless Time by Cristina Modreanu Routledge (London and
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“Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh”
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh by Alan Strachan Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reviewed by Jeremy Malies 1 December 2018
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