The One-Act Play Companion: A Guide to Plays, Playwrights and Performance

by Colin Dolley and Rex Walford

The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers with plenty of material to offer, yet sourcing one-act plays to perform is notoriously hard.

This companion is the first book to survey the work of over 250 playwrights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713674288
• ISBN13: 9780713674286
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"