Key Stage 5 Reading List (Copies maybe held in school – ask your teacher or the library) *Current text being studied at Coloma Student Textbooks • AQA Drama and Theatre Studies, AS Coursebook by Su Fielder and Pat Friday (Nelson Thornes 2008) ISBN: 978-0-7487-8291-8 (publication March – May 2008) (Old course) • AQA Drama and Theatre Studies, A2 Coursebook by Su Fielder and Pat Friday (Nelson Thornes 2008) ISBN: 978-0-7487-8290-1 (publication Dec 2008 – Feb 2009) • Drama and Theatre Studies by Simon Cooper and Sally Mackey (Nelson Thornes 2000) ISBN: 978-0748751686 • Drama & Theatre Studies at AS & A Level by Jonothan Neelands and Warwick Dobson (Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 2000) ISBN: 978-0340758601 (Old course) AQA Set text choices Set play studied for Component 1 (List A) Antigone - Classical Greek tragedy Much Ado About Nothing - Elizabethan comedy The Servant of Two Masters - Commedia dell’Arte *Hedda Gabler - 19th century naturalistic tragedy The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Post World War II epic Accidental Death of an Anarchist - 20th century political farce Jerusalem - 21st century anarchic realism
Set play studied for Component 1 (List B) Yerma - Early 20th century Spanish tragedy The Glass Menagerie - 20th century American memory play Metamorphosis - 20th century Expressionism Cloud Nine - 20th century political parody *Our Country’s Good - Historicisation Brontë - 21st century feminist drama Suggested additional theory reading for Independent Learners
Beyond Stanislavsky by Bella Merlin (Nick Hern Books 2001) ISBN: 978- 1854596130 Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone (Methuen 1981) ISBN: 978-0713687019
The Actor and the Text by Cicely Berry (Virgin Books 1993) Applause Acting Series, 2000 – ISBN: 978- 1557831385
The Art of the Actor by Jean Benedetti (Methuen 2005) ISBN: 9780413773364
Devising Theatre: A Practical and Theoretical Handbook by Alison Oddey (Routledge 1994) ISBN: 978- 0415049009
Modern Drama in Theory and Practice Vol.1: Realism and Naturalism by John Louis Styan (Cambridge University Press 1983) ISBN: 9780521296281
Modern Drama in Theory and Practice Vol.2: Symbolism, Surrealism and the Absurd by John Louis Styan (Cambridge University Press 1983) ISBN: 978-0521296298
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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice Vol.3: Expressionism and Epic Theatre by John Louis Styan (Cambridge University Press 1983) ISBN: 978-0521296304
Systems of Rehearsal: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Grotowski and Peter Brook by Shomit Mitter (Routledge 1992) ISBN: 978-0415067843
Suggested additional play reading for Independent Learners
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? By Edward Albee A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn Lysistrata by Aristophanes Scenes From An Execution by Howard Barker Cock by Mike Bartlett King Charles III by Mike Bartlett The Container by Clare Bayley Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett The History Boys by Alan Bennett East by Steven Berkoff London Road by Alecky Blythe/Adam Cork Saved by Edward Bond Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht Hobson’s Choice by Harold Brighouse Black Watch by Gregory Burke Mojo by Jez Butterworth The Cagebirds by David Campton Road by Jim Cartwright Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov The Seagull by Anton Chekhov Serious Money by Caryl Churchill Top Girls by Caryl Churchill Mnemonic by Complicite The Street Of Crocodiles by Complicite Private Lives by Noel Coward Attempts On Her Life by Martin Crimp Death And The Maiden by Ariel Dorfman Everyman Carol by Ann Duffy Rita, Sue And Bob Too by Andrea Dunbar The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt Medea by Euripides/Ben Power The Trojan Women by Euripides The Beaux Stratagem by George Farquhar ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore by John Ford
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Democracy by Michael Frayn Dancing At Lughnasa by Brian Friel Bouncers by John Godber Shakers by John Godber Tory Boyz by James Graham Dunsinane by David Greig Dead Dog In A Suitcase by Carl Grose/Kneehigh The Absence Of War by David Hare Stuff Happens by David Hare 100 by Christopher Heimann/Neil Monaghan A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco King Ubu (Ubu Roi) by Alfred Jarry Yen by Amanda Jordan 4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman/Tectonic Chimerica by Lucy Kirkwood Angels In America by Tony Kushner Elmina’s Kitchen by Kwame Kwei-Armah Frozen by Bryony Lavery Stockholm Bryony by Lavery/Frantic Assembly Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz Guys And Dolls by Loesser/Loewe The House Of Bernada by Alba Federico Garcia Lorca The Cripple Of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh The Seafarer by Conor McPherson Closer by Patrick Marber Edward II by Christopher Marlowe Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller The Wonderful World Of Dissocia by Anthony Neilson Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris The Colour Of Justice by Richard Norton-Taylor Loot by Joe Orton What The Butler Saw by Joe Orton Look Back In Anger by John Osborne Constellations by Nick Payne Betrayal by Harold Pinter
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The Caretaker by Harold Pinter Girls Like That by Evan Placey Enron by Lucy Prebble Monsters by Niklas Radstrom Pool (no water) by Mark Ravenhill/Frantic Assembly Art by Yasmina Reza Brief Encounter by Emma Rice/Kneehigh No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller As You Like It by William Shakespeare Hamlet by William Shakespeare Henry V by William Shakespeare Buried Child by Sam Shepard The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Riots by Gillian Slovo Talking To Terrorists by Robin Soans Oedipus by Sophocles Tusk Tusk by Polly Stenham Harper Regan by Simon Stephens Punk Rock by Simon Stephens Five Kinds Of Silence by Shelagh Stephenson Arcadia by Tom Stoppard Miss Julie by August Strindberg The Playboy Of The Western World by J M Synge Machinal by Sophie Treadwell Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade Posh by Laura Wade The Duchess Of Malfi by John Webster Spring Awakening by Franz Wedekind/Anya Reis Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss For The Love Of A Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker Chips With Everything by Arnold Wesker An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde Our Town by Thornton Wilder Days Of Significance by Roy Williams Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams Unprotected by Esther Wilson/John Fay
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