{"product_id":"the-theatre-of-laura-wade-henry-bell-9781350282100","title":"The Theatre of Laura Wade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the first full-length exploration of the work of Laura Wade, providing critical and performance perspectives on one of the UK's most frequently staged female playwrights.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Laura Wade is one of the most exciting, challenging and commercially successful playwrights in the UK. Her work has been widely translated and performed across the globe, but despite the prolific appearance of her plays on professional stages, in university studios and school classrooms, she is a writer who is yet to have a book dedicated to her award-winning oeuvre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout the volume, key creative practitioners add rehearsal room insight, alongside the perspective of Laura Wade herself and a foreword by Tamara Harvey, Co-Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Regular collaborators Harvey, Katherine Parkinson, Lyndsey Turner and Samuel West provide perspectives on Wade's work, including the Olivier Award-winning \u003ci\u003eHome, I'm Darling\u003c\/i\u003e, the frequently staged \u003ci\u003eAlice\u003c\/i\u003e and her inventive adaptation of \u003ci\u003eThe Watsons\u003c\/i\u003e. Actor Natalie Dormer also provides new insights which connect together \u003ci\u003ePosh \u003c\/i\u003eand the subsequent film adaptation, \u003ci\u003eThe Riot Club\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Teachers, lecturers and theatre-makers are given resources to explore Wade's plays in detail, including \u003ci\u003ePosh\u003c\/i\u003e, with key thoughts from the original production's director as well as Cressida Carré, director of the first all-female staging in 2017. Those working with the increasingly popular early plays, \u003ci\u003eBreathing Corpses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColder than Here\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOther Hands\u003c\/i\u003e, have access to fresh scholarship deconstructing the narrative ingenuity and dark themes contained within. Each chapter draws attention to a range of international and performance contexts from which the plays can be explored.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry Bell,Sophie Bush\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350282103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350282100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d","brand":"Henry Bell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48216456495359,"sku":"9781350282100","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_20580e63-4665-4888-94a3-49c60513337e.jpg?v=1771991120","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-theatre-of-laura-wade-henry-bell-9781350282100","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}