LibGuides: Stage 6 Drama: Studies in Drama and Theatre: Black Comedy

SJRC Library

Black Comedy by Frederic P. Miller; Agnes F. Vandome; John McBrewster
Call Number: 792 MIL
ISBN: 9786130296148
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Black Comedy by Pamela Faith Jackson (Editor); Thomas Wallace Jones (Preface by); Safiya Karimah (Editor); Hal Leonard Corp. Staff (Created by)
Call Number: 812 BLA
ISBN: 9781557832788
Publication Date: 2000-04-01
HSC drama topics. Volume 3
Call Number: 809.2 PAT
ISBN: 9781741303971
Publication Date: 2010
Table of contents includes: 2010-2012 HSC -- Site-specific, street & event theatre -- Approaches to acting -- Verbatim theatre -- Black comedy.
Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
ISBN: 9780413765000
Publication Date: 2008-04-25
The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
ISBN: 0571212468
Publication Date: 2002-07-08

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Behind the Scenes | MGC Futures
A West End production of Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore in 2018. Synopsis, production, characters and cast, rehearsal diary, gallery.
Directors Notes | New Theatre, Newtown
Production images, director's notes.
THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE: A Dark Comedy With a Serious Message
Review published in Stage Magazine (Theatre Exile).

Belvoir Resources

Black Comedy | Belvoir
Resources on past Belvoir productions to help with Black Comedy studies. The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh directed by Craig Ilott (2008). The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh directed by Neil Armfield (2003)

EBSCO Resources

Sheree Gregory 2017, ‘Review | The Lieutenant of Inishmore’, Newcastle Herald, The (includes the Central Coast Herald), 28 November, p. 0, viewed 21 November 2019, <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=anh&AN=DOC6XQQGVQH28XSK6LAMJB&site=ehost-live>.

The Shape of Things

theshape of things_atyp resource package
Behind the scenes of atyp's rehearsed reading of The Shape of Things. Classroom exercises to support the study of Neil LaBute's play.
Neil LaBute Has a Thing About Beauty
From The New York Times
A review (Variety magazine)

EBSCO Resources

Istel, J 2001, ‘WHO IS NEIL LABUTE and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About You?’, American Theatre, vol. 18, no. 9, p. 38, viewed 21 November 2019, <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=b6h&AN=5438089&site=ehost-live>.

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