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Dramatherapy and Social Theatre: Necessary Dialogues considers the nature of drama, theatre and dramatherapy, examining how dramatherapy has evolved over the past decade and how the relationship between dramatherapy and social theatre has developed as a result.

In this book Sue Jennings brings together international dramatherapists and theatre practitioners to challenge, clarify, describe and debate some of the theoretical and practical issues in dramatherapy and social theatre. Contributors cover topics including:

• dramatherapy in communities
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Sixteen-year-old Kelly has never known her Dad. Turns out he's from Iraq, which her mum never mentioned, and he's brought an ancient Mesopotamian vase as some kind of present. But Kelly doesn't want a vase. She wants her dad to stay and get to know her. It's not the reunion either of them expected and for Kelly, it's the beginning of an epic and dangerous journey.

Mike Bartlett has been described as 'One of the most exciting new talents to emerge in recent times'. (The Stage).

His first play My Child was called 'Brutal, thrilling, unmissable' (Evening...

In the 1990s playwright Anthony Neilson garnered a reputation for hard-hitting, morally disturbing plays that saw him labelled as one of the 'In Yer Face' dramatists who emerged from that decade.

This second volume of plays showcases the comic, surreal and gloriously off-kilter side of his more recent work. Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness (Theatre Royal, Plymouth, 2002) mixes Victorian melodrama with a catalogue of grotesque comic tales; The Lying Kind (Royal Court, 2002), a black farce set at Christmas involving two hapless policeman who must...

Contractions, a new play by Mike Bartlett, will be published to coincide with the production at the Royal Court Theatre, London, from 29 May - 14 June 2008.

'Come in. Sit down. How are you?'

Emma's been seeing Darren. She thinks she's in love. Her boss thinks she's in breach of contract. The situation needs to be resolved.

An ink-black comedy about work and play, which invites the audience to a meeting at the centre of the Royal Court building.

Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is an epic cycle of plays exploring the personal and political effect of war on modern life.

The plays that make up Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat began life at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe as Ravenhill for Breakfast (producedby Paines Plough), winning a Fringe First award, and the Jack TinkerSpirit of the Fringe award. They form a collage of very differentscenes, with each taking its title from a classic work. The plays werepresented in April 2008 in various venues across London, from NottingHill to a Victorian warehouse in...

These largely sane plays feature people alone or in pairs, or both, attempting to present themselves in the best light, or ultimately, desperately, in any light. Inadvertently vulnerable, or unconsciously callous, or both, the characters here realize they are stuck in a body and try to put the best face on it.

Aaron and Anita are in lust. They're the last to think there could be any long-term future in the relationship. At thirty, Anita is, according to her mother Chitra, past her sell by date, whilst Aaron is, according to his mother Leticia, a heartless ladykiller. But despite their own uncertainties, the couple can't help but eventually fall for each other.
As their relationship deepens, they have to introduce their families to each other and Anita's mother is not impressed when she meets her future Jamaican born son-in-law for the first time. Aaron and Anita come face to face with the...