Overview
Playwrights featured include Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, Caryl
Churchill, Sam Holcroft, Anna Jordan, Lucy Kirkwood, Rona Munro, Evan
Placey, Jessica Swale and Jack Thorne, and the plays themselves were
premiered at the very best theatres across the UK including the National
Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, the Traverse in Edinburgh,
Shakespeare's Globe, and the Almeida, Bush, Hampstead and Royal Court
Theatres.
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.