Series: Oberon Books

Five specially commissioned discussions of verbatim theatre - in the words of the people who make it. What a verbatim play does is flash your research nakedly. It’s like cooking a meal but the meat is left raw. – Max Stafford-Clark Plays which use people's actual words as the basis for their drama are not a new phenomenon. But from...

There is a mystery in every play that is written, no matter whether classical and poetic or modern and demotic, and it is the sound and the rhythm of the writing which take us there. Cicely Berry, the Royal Shakespeare Company's Voice Director, has been working alongside some of Britain's greatest actors and directors for over fifty years and is...