NEW YEAR! NEW BOOK!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

‘A Selection of Speech and Drama Solos, Duologues, Prose and Recitals’ has been published by the Irish Board of Speech and Drama. Compiled by Deirdre Galassi and Finola Ryan, the book contains a new and vibrant collection of pieces adapted and collated from works by Yeats, Joyce, Chekhov, Woolf and others.

Contents:

SOLOS
The Way of the World by William Congreve
The Two Faces of Jane Eyre
The Two Faces of Eliza Doolittle

DUOLOGUES
The Only Jealousy of Emer by W.B. Yeats
The Land of Heart’s Desire by W.B. Yeats
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

PROSE
Lines from
The Dead by James Joyce
The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

RECITALS
Deirdre of the Sorrows
St. Joan of Arc
William Butler Yeats

Advice on how to prepare a Solo Selection
Character Chart

To order from dramabooks.ie, go HERE

IBSD Library Catalogue

We added some books to our library over the summer months. Poetry books, monologues, LAMDA anthologies and quite a few theory books/ teaching guides.

We’ve updated our library catalogue and this is now browseable online, through a rather remarkable website called ISSUU. Here’s the link:

IBSD Library Catalogue September 2013

When you click on this link, you’ll be brought to the catalogue. You can scroll through it, enlarge it and search it using the icons on the screen.

If you want a copy, please contact us and we’ll email you one.

You are more than welcome to visit us and browse the books in person. Just phone us on 01-2164270 to arrange a time.

If we get time, we’re hoping to review some of our new accessions soon.

dramabooks.ie

Don’t forget to visit dramabooks.ie. Just click on the graphic at the bottom right of the home page.

We have an enormous selection of books and CDs for sale, covering everything from short plays to prose, monologues, duologues, mime, improvisation, theory and so on.

Many books are available for download, saving you postage costs.

New on the site is ‘Speech and Drama Material: a miscellany of solos, duologues and prose for seniors and adults‘. Details here

Also, revised Theory guidelines for Associate (Teaching) Diploma students. Available as 2 separate books (Book 1 and Book 2) or as a set (for a reduced price).