Table of Contents

Introduction 19 One Act Plays: I Wanna AgentActor's LamentPurgatoryMediocrityHowlThis is an Emergency6 Actors in Search of a DirectorAdam and EveDavid and GoliathSamson's HairMosesHow to Train an Anti-SemiteRoastPound of FleshGasGuilt'EreExit

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An expansive collection of Berkoff's shorter works, including the critical successes of The Biblical Tales, and Six Actors in Search of a Director.

About the Author

Steven Berkoff was born in Stepney, London. After studying drama and mime in London and Paris, he entered a series of repertory companies and in 1968 formed the London Theatre Group. His plays and adaptations have been performed in many countries and in many languages. Among the many adaptations Berkoff has created for the stage, directed and toured, are Kafka's Metamorphosis and The Trial, Agamemnon after Aeschylus, and Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. He has directed and toured productions of Shakespeare's Coriolanus also playing the title role, Richard II, Hamlet and Macbeth, as well as Oscar Wilde's Salome. Geoffrey Colman works as a professional acting coach in Theatre, Film and TV, having been Professor/Head of Acting at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama for many years. http://www.geoffcolman.com

Reviews

Steven Berkoff is one of the major minor contemporary dramatists in Britain and - due to his self fashioning as a bad boy of British theatre and the ensuing attention of the media - a phenomenon in his own right'
*Modern Drama*

at its best his language has a demotic saltiness - as when Saul deploys Cockney rhyming slang to warn David he's suspected of being an "iron hoof"
*The Guardian*

A master doing what he does best . . . I loved it. I had a wonderful experience and I left the theatre happy and truly affected.
*What’s On The Fringe.com*