Overview
Playwrights featured include Mike Bartlett, Howard Brenton, Jez
Butterworth, Alexi Kaye Campbell, Ella Hickson, Sam Holcroft, Anna
Jordan, Rona Munro, Jack Thorne and Tom Wells, and the plays themselves
were premiered at the very best theatres across the UK including the
Manchester Royal Exchange, Watford Palace, the Almeida, Bush, Hampstead,
Royal Court and Soho Theatres, and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Drawing on her experience as an actor, director and teacher at
several leading drama schools, Trilby James equips each duologue with a
thorough introduction including the vital information you need to place
the piece in context (the who, what, when, where and why) and
suggestions about how to perform the scene to its maximum effect
(including the characters' objectives).
The collection also features an introduction on the whole process of
selecting and preparing a duologue, and how to present it to the
greatest effect. The result is the most comprehensive and useful
contemporary duologue book of its kind now available.