NIYA NIKOLOVA
Actress-Writer
Contacts:
Phone + 359 896776506
Email niyanicole98@yahoo.com
Socials https://www.instagram.com/niya.nicole/
Poetrytok https://www.tiktok.com/@poems.and.cherries
ABOUT
Niya is a Bulgarian actress-writer, who is currently working in the Bulgarian film industry with her most recent acting role in a Bulgarian film I Want a Telephone, whose premiere is set for March 2025, as for the film she was appointed a Unit Production Manager too. Niya has also devoted herself to writing stage and screenplays, poetry, fiction and non-fiction she is now working to publish.
N I Y A 'S A R T I S T S T A T M E N T
‘My art is writing stage and screenplays, poetry and prose together with acting for stage and screen. My art is my safe and happy place. I make art which mirrors the beauty and truth I see in the world. My poems, my plays, and my characters are written and performed with grace and a sensitivity, as they are a reflection of a life which is lived to the fullest. I love writing about love, because it is my favourite subject, emotion, and ignition of my heart, but I also draw on fundamental subject matters such as politics, religion, and immigration. As for my acting – I write, create, and perform various characters, who all have a story, which they lyrically portray through their actions.
I am greatly inspired by Konstantin Stanislavski and his System, as his aim is showing the truth on stage, rather than the choreographed mechanism we do not encounter in real life. I support Tennessee Williams’s idea that a supreme play or film tells us something about humans and life, and our complicated colourfulness as unique individuals, as his works are my biggest playwriting inspiration. My poetry, in its turn, is inspired by William Shakespeare, who fascinatingly writes about love and life’s encounters, Rupi Kaur who is my favourite poetess and turns ordinary words into magic, and Courtney Peppernell, whose lyrically-sensational sequence Pillow Thoughts is what has not only gotten me through dark seasons of life but also given me the inspiration to start writing poetry.
I write and act, because it is my divinely creative way of being, I do not perceive life without the presence of art in it. I write every day on subject matters, thoughts, views, little moments that make me feel – I subject the emotion or the perception into a work of art. I write and act because it brings me joy, fulfilment, and liberation; it allows me to express emotions that become art, through which I connect with other individuals my art touches, where the touch in its turn creates the artistic bond this world needs – poems, theatre art, films, and stories, where humans find love, happiness, comfort, and support.’
- Niya Nikolova
Education
2021-2022
MA Acting
University of East London
'My Master's degree has equipped me with professional skills in acting and it has provided me with the necessary training and experience in acting on stage and screen. This education has also developed my writing to an exceptional level as the course has been a fusion of practice, research, and academic writing. I have worked with inspiring co-artists to act in, create, and develop performances and research projects, and I have learnt how to lead workshops on a professional level. '
2017-2021
BA (Hons) English and Drama
Birmingham City University
'My Bachelor’s degree has equipped me with a strong knowledge in the English language. I have developed the ability to work as an independent researcher and to communicate effectively through speech, writing, presentations, and performances. I am able to critically evaluate the work of others and apply my creativity and imagination to original briefs. I enjoy opportunities where I can initiate, manage, and complete research projects. In my final year, I was awarded the Drama Prize 2021 from the Arts, Design and Media Faculty.'
- Niya Nikolova
Acting Work Experience
Niya holds a 1st Class Bachelor's degree in English and Drama, the Drama Prize 2021 from Birmingham City University, and a Masters Degree in Acting. Niya is a Stanislavski's System trained actress who also has experience with postmodern and immersive performances. She is a highly motivated and talented young woman, who has studied in depth Shakespeare's works and theatre practitioners and groups such as Edward Gordon Craig, Bertolt Brecht, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Augusto Boal, Stella Adler, the Wooster Group, DV8, and their theories of performance, combined with practical exercises.
Niya has performed in renowned plays such as William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, April de Angelis's The Positive Hour, and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters.
Niya's debut for the big screen came with her role as the Hairdresser in a new Bulgarian film I Want a Telephone written and directed by Plamen Velikov.
Creative Work Experience
May 2024 - November 2024
Unit Production Manager for a Bulgarian film I Want a Telephone written and directed by Plamen Velikov
'As an appointed UPM for the film, it was part of my duties to compose and prepare all contracts and documents for the production. I attended professional meetings with actors and all members of the crew, mayors, and administrative personas in order to prepare all documents. I organised locations, created a detailed list of pick-up points for everybody and lists on food allergies and specific diet requirements. I also managed the set and the cast and crew members. After the production was finished, I worked with the producer and the accountant in order to process the payments and finish the necessary documentation. I also translated the script of I Want a Telephone, the director's statement, the annotation and the synopsis from Bulgarian to English in order for the producer to apply with for international funding. '
November 2023 - March 2024
Assistant Production for a Bulgarian Film Take Me Home for Christmas, Produced by The Bulgarian National Television (Worked on the project from November 2023 to March 2024)
'Working as an Assistant Production for a film has deepened my knowledge and work ethic for the professional film industry. I have learnt important skills such as organising set locations and managing the work process. I have learnt the importance of time keeping, discipline, and professionalism on set, as well as managing different artists, designing and writing call sheets.'
- Niya Nikolova
Original Poetry by Niya Nikolova (Introduction)
this is the romantic wandering of a berry fairy through art and cherries written in a lyrical attraction taking her to purest satisfaction of a soulful interaction
this is her becoming
unapologetically herself.
welcome to the romance of my life
let me take you
to a new
and
mesmerising world
gently touched
with kindness and affection
radiating waves of magic
fairy world
a cherry orchard
here where art is
only constant
only currency
and only cure
you are magic
melting through the lyrics
of my heaven-scented soul
took me years
to find the words
and put them
here on paper
just so they can reach you
and divinely guide you
to the ways i healed
my lonely heart
i was stuck in centuries
of tortured heartbreak
and progressed emotion
nothing coming
nothing going
nothing changing
meanwhile
feeling
all of them are leaving
all of it is changing
nothing’s ever coming back
why am i still buried in this constant lack
is it me who begs for love that is not real
is it them for not allowing me to feel
is it me who’s gone completely mad
so it turns out that i recklessly forgot
never was this story about someone else
never should i let them force me to be less
did i really fall asleep in foolish ignorance
where i fell for tales of arrogance
did i really let another break my mythic heart
when i knew it is my greatest work of art
and it wasn’t there for anyone to play
but for me to make it slay
inside pages
outside cages
never will i for another day tuck it in demands
let it cry and wriggle in somebody else’s hands
how could i have ever been so cruel
to my own outstanding source of fuel
my heart is my greatest victory
here you’ll read it in my story.
welcome to the heaven of my soul. i have named the first compilation of my poems art and cherries to inspire all those mesmerising fairies who have gone out in the wild to look for their passions and desires and have found the way home to their own fairy kingdoms all through art.
- written by niya nikolova
Original Poems by Niya Nikolova
is it me
or did it use to be
another universe of dreams all coming true
i must be dreaming cause it’s all of you
written by niya nikolova
multitasking
that’s the thing with multitasking
you can only do so much
i can only juggle just a certain number
of emotions fears and thoughts
right before i drop them all over my head
that’s the thing with lusting hating and adoring you
i can only do so much
while trying in between
to love you still
and since you are into multitasking too
would you kindly tell me what to do?
written by niya nikolova
read my mind
he moans ‘what you sayin’
i say read my mind
he then looks at me with flames
playing up and down his blue and frisky eyes
do you wanna do me dirty?
is that why you’re looking in my eyes this way?
let’s play games and lose our sense is all you say
that’s the moment when i look away
knowing that i want way more
cause it’s you i’ve started to adore
but you prefer to play a never-ending game
where you’re trying to put out an everlasting flame
written by niya nikolova
be authentic
in a world which constantly tries to deny you the freedom
to be the wildest happiest and most liberated version of yourself
go against all odds
take all so-called impossible shots
but do not ever try to change yourself
if you are kind and loving and are trying to devote your heart to all the beauty that brings out the best in you
whether it is art or maths or sports or people or anything that shows the magic that is hidden inside you
when you recognise that there is something so exciting magical and new
any time you’re closer to this thing
it is what’s meant for you, you lovely human being
written by niya nikolova
tortured masochism
then again
we would have ended anyway
maybe not like this
but with some more guilt-calculated tax to pay
for we were really in a contest who
whom hurt more viciously
so we really should be grateful
that we got out
rather
than succumbing to this tortured masochism
even though it could have really been something real
don’t you know i love you still?
would it really have been harder to stay
or is that just easier to say
written by niya nikolova
pieces
nevertheless,
i’ll try again
i might have failed a million times
i might have given up and started all over again
i might have lost another piece of me this time
but nevertheless,
i will try again
for all the pieces,
that are worth keeping
all the parts which help me build a better me
will always find their way to be
written by niya nikolova
peel me like an orange
peel me like an orange
take my stockings off
so softly
and undress me with your tongue
i’m unable to resist you
now you whisper to my citrus
and you play it with your tongue
what you do to me so crazy
that it turns me from an orange to lyrical synthesis
written by niya nikolova
silence in between us
i like silence but i like it most with you
sounds of kissing those attractive honey lips of yours
make the silence in between us play my most insatiable chords
written by niya nikolova
i love my curves <3
we are taught to hate our bodies
for a fine line
or a vision of perfection
but who are you to define what’s perfect
when your own thoughts jail you
to follow
and worship
a statue of a wrong defined
perfection
curvy body, curvy mind
i am not a flat idea
of what someone else once said
i define my productivity
and i curve my individuality
for i dream in curls and pretzels
not in cubicles and damaged vessels
i feel passions in a lyrical affection
and not some summoned imperfection
i will always be an outworld fairy
for my curvy thoughts and touches i like very
written by niya nikolova
Some Poetry Uploads on TikTok
More Original Poetry by Niya on: https://www.tiktok.com/@poems.and.cherries
Original Plays by Niya Nikolova
White Jasmine (2023) - A Stage Play, 80 pages
Aliens, Drugs & Feelings (2023) - A Stage Play, 80 pages
Call Girls (2023) - A Stage Play, 90 pages
The Fortune Teller (2023) - A Stage Play, 90 pages
Madhouse Escapism (2024) - A Stage Play, 90 pages
Players of the Saving Grace (2024)- A Stage Play, 90 pages
Modern Loneliness (2021) - a Screenplay (written for a short film asssignment 10 mins)
Once Upon an Us (2021) - a Screenplay (written for a short film assignment 10 mins)
Original Essays by Niya Nikolova
(Graded with a First)
'Konstantin Stanislavski and the System'
'Violence versus Religion in Romeo and Juliet'
'Was Shakespeare an Idealist or a Realist?'
' The Wooster Group's Troilus and Cressida - a Case Study'
'Developing Emma's Character in The Positive Hour by April de Angelis utilising Stanislavski's System'
'Building Characters through an Intercorporeality in an Immersive Theatre Performance If I Could Tell Them'
'Finding my Characters' Truths through Chekhov’s Reality and Stanislavski’s Realism in Three Sisters'
'Building my Own Acting Technique as an Introvert in the Theatre World'
Gallery
H E A D S H O T S
P E R F O R M A N C E S
List of Films I have seen, I have learnt from, I can provide a thorough analysis of, and I can act as any of the characters in them:
🎬 Interstellar (2014) directed by Christopher Nolan
🎬 Pulp Fiction (1994) directed by Quentin Tarantino
🎬 Apocalypse Now – Final Cut (1979) directed by Francis Ford Coppola
🎬 Schindler’s List (1993) directed by Steven Spielberg
🎬 The Greatest Showman (2017) directed by Michael Gracey
🎬 The Prestige (2006) directed by Christoper Nolan
🎬 Inception (2010) directed by Christopher Nolan
🎬 A Star Is Born (2018) directed by Bradley Cooper
🎬 Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) directed by Bryan Singer
🎬 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), directed by Quentin Tarantino
🎬The Matrix (1999) directed by the Wachowskis
🎬 La La Land (2016) directed by Damien Chazelle
🎬Grease (1979) directed by John Randal Kleiser
🎬Fly Me To The Moon (2024) directed by Greg Berlanti
🎬 Meet Joe Black (1998) directed by Martin Brest
🎬 Oppenheimer (2023), directed by Christopher Nolan
🎬 The Wolf of Wallstreet (2013), directed by Martin Scorsese
🎬Coyote Ugly (2000) directed by David McNally
🎬 Batman Begins (2005) directed by Christopher Nolan
🎬 The Dark Knight (2008) directed by Christopher Nolan
🎬 Batman Rises (2012) directed by Christopher Nolan
🎬 Shutter Island (2010) directed by Martin Scorsese
🎬 Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), directed by Martin Scorsese
🎬Moulin Rouge! (2001) directed by Baz Luhrmann
🎬Dirty Dancing (1987) directed by Emile Ardolino
🎬Closer (2004) directed by Mike Nichols
🎬 Bullet Train (2022), directed by David Leitch
🎬 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) directed by Jonathan Demme
🎬 Troy (2004), directed by Wolfgang Petersen
🎬 Avatar (2009) directed by James Cameron
🎬 Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) directed by James Cameron
🎬 Eat Pray Love (2010) directed by Ryan Murphy
🎬 A Man Called Otto (2022) directed by Marc Foster
🎬 Angel Has Fallen (2019) directed by Richard Roman Waugh
🎬 Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) directed by Brian Taylor
🎬 Dirty Angels (2024) directed by Martin Campbell
🎬 Love, Rosie (2014) directed by Christian Ditter
🎬 Derailed (2005) directed by Mikael Håfström
🎬 White Oleander (2002) directed by Peter Konsminsky
🎬 Titanic (1997) directed by James Cameron
🎬 The Reader (2008), directed by Stephen Daldry
🎬Pride and Prejudice (2005) directed by Joe Wright
🎬Sense and Sensibility (1995) directed by Ang Lee
🎬Much Ado About Nothing (1993) directed by Kenneth Branagh
🎬Richard III (1955) directed by Laurence Olivier
🎬Hamlet (1948) directed by Laurence Olivier
🎬The Theory of Everything (2014) directed by James Marsh
🎬Les Misérables (2012) directed by Tom Hooper
🎬 The Mexican (2001) directed by Gore Verbinski
🎬 Fight Club (1999) directed by David Fincher
🎬Rambo: First Blood (1982) directed by Ted Kotcheff
🎬Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) directed by George P. Cosmatos
🎬Rambo III (1988) directed by Peter MacDonald
🎬Rambo: Last Blood (2019) directed by Adrian Grunberg
🎬The Breakfast Club (1985) directed by John Hughes
🎬 Primal Fear (1996) directed by Gregory Hoblit
🎬 Sixth Sense (1999) directed by M. Night Shyamalan
🎬American Psycho (2000) directed by Mary Harron
🎬 Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) directed by Blake Edwards
🎬 Gone With the Wind (1939) directed by Victor Fleming
🎬 Mamma Mia (2008), directed by Pyllida Lloyd
🎬 Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (2018) directed by Ol Parker
🎬 Mona Lisa Smile (2003) directed by Mike Newell
🎬 Erin Brokovich (2000) directed by Stephen Soderbergh
🎬 ET (1982) directed by Steven Spielberg
🎬 Ghostbusters (1984) directed by Ivan Reitman
🎬 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) directed by Steven Spielberg
🎬 Jurassic Park (1993) directed by Steven Spielberg
🎬 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) directed by Steven Spielberg
🎬 Mrs Doubtfire (1993) directed by Chris Columbus
🎬 Heartbreakers (2001) directed by David Mirkin
🎬 Pretty Woman (1990), directed by Garry Marshall
🎬 Taken (2008) directed by Pierre Morel
🎬 Black Swan (2010) directed by Darren Aronofsky
🎬Freud’s Last Session (2023) directed by Matt Brown
🎬Gone With the Wind (1939) directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
🎬Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) directed by Blake Edwards
🎬It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) directed by Frank Capra
🎬 Just Go with It (2011) directed by Dennis Dugan
🎬 The Ugly Truth (2009) directed by Robert Luketic
🎬 Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) directed by Sharon Maguire
🎬 Bridget Jones : The Edge of Reason (2004) directed by Beeban Kidron
🎬 Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016) directed by Sharon Maguire
🎬 Electra (2005) directed by Rob Bowman
🎬 What Happens in Vegas (2008) directed by Tom Vaughan
🎬 My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), directed by Joel Zwick
🎬 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) directed by Kirk Jones
🎬 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023) directed by Nia Vardalos
🎬 Hot Chick (2002) directed by Tom Brady
🎬 Deuce Bigalow : Man Gigolo (1999) directed by Mike Mitchell
🎬 The Hangover (2009) directed by Todd Phillips
🎬 The Hangover Part II (2011) directed by Todd Philips
🎬 The Hangover Part III (2013) directed by Todd Philips
🎬 Blended (2014) directed by Frank Coraci
🎬 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) directed by Donald Petrie
🎬 Notting Hill (1999) directed by Roger Michell
🎬 Bad Moms (2016) directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
🎬 A Bad Moms Christmas (2017) directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
🎬 Little Women (1994) directed by Gillian Armstrong
🎬 Little Women (2019) directed by Greta Gerwig
🎬 Just Married (2003) directed by Shawn Levy
🎬 Bride Wars (2009) directed by Gary Winick
🎬 The Devil Wears Prada (2006) directed by David Frankel
🎬 Along Came Polly (2004) directed by John Hamburg
🎬 We’re The Millers (2013) directed by Rawson Mashall Thurber
🎬 Pirates of the Caribbean (1-3) directed by Gore Verbinski
🎬 Ocean’s Eight (2018) directed by Gary Ross
🎬 Blow (2001) directed by Ted Demme
🎬 Brokedown Palace (1999) directed by Jonathan Kaplan
🎬 Romeo + Juliet (1996) directed by Baz Luhrmann
🎬 In Time (2011) directed by Andrew Niccol
🎬 Magic Mike (2012), directed by Stephen Soderbergh
🎬 Magic Mike XXL (2015), directed by Gregory Jacobs
🎬 The Notebook (2004), directed by Nick Cassavetes
🎬 Stutterer (Short 2015), directed by Benjamin Cleary
🎬 Coco Before Chanel (2009) directed by Anne Fontaine
🎬 Ride Along (2014) directed by Tim Story
🎬 Ride Along 2 (2016) directed by Tim Story
🎬 21 Jump Street (2012) directed by Phil Lord
🎬 22 Jump Street (2014) directed by Phil Lord
🎬 Allied (2016) directed by Robert Zemeckis
🎬 The Tourist (2010) directed by Florian Henckel von Donnermarck
🎬 Thelma & Loise (1991) directed by Ridley Scott
🎬 Babylon (2022) directed by Damien Chazelle
🎬 Silver Linings Playbook (2012) directed by David O. Russell
🎬 Poor Things (2023) directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
🎬 The Holiday (2006) directed by Nancy Meyers
🎬 Love Actually (2003) directed by Richard Kurtis
🎬 Eyes Wide Shut (1999) directed by Stanley Kubrick
🎬 Moulin Rouge! (2001) directed by Baz Luhrmann
🎬 Knight and Day (2010) directed by James Mangold
🎬 Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) directed by George Miller
🎬 The Shrews (Opurnichevite) (2019) directed by George Kostov
🎬 Legends (2014) directed by Nicky Iliev
🎬 Home Alone (1990) directed by Chris Columbus
🎬 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) directed by Chris Columbus
🎬 Home Alone 3 (1997) directed by Raja Gosnell
🎬 Last Christmas (2019) directed by Paul Feig
🎬 Shrek (all of them), directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson
🎬 The Animal (2001) directed by Luke Greenfield
🎬 13 Going on 30 (2004), directed by Gary Winick
🎬 Clueless (1995) directed by Amy Heckerling
🎬 One Day (2011) directed by Lone Scherfig
🎬 Dirty Grandpa (2016) directed by Dan Mazer
🎬 Neighbours (2014) directed by Nicholas Stoller
🎬 Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising (2016) directed by Nicholas Stoller
🎬 Definitely, Maybe (2008) directed by Adam Brooks
🎬 Bridesmaids (2011) directed by Paul Feig
🎬 Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson
🎬 Fifty Shades Darker (2017) directed by James Foley
🎬 Fifty Shades Freed (2018) directed by James Foley
🎬 Stardust (2007) directed by Matthew Vaughn
🎬 How to Be Single (2016) directed by Christian Ditter
🎬 50 First Dates (2004) directed by Peter Segal
🎬 The Proposal (2009) directed by Anne Fletcher
🎬 Friends with Benefits (2011) directed by Will Gluck
🎬 Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (2018) directed by Ol Parker
🎬 The Break-Up (2006) directed by Peyton Reed
🎬 He’s Just Not that Into You (2009), directed by Ken Kwapis
🎬 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) directed by Gil Junger
🎬 Taken 2 (2012) directed by Olivier Megaton
🎬 Stardust (2007) directed by Matthew Vaughn
🎬 DUNE (2021) directed by Denis Villeneuve
🎬 Beauty and the Beast (2017) directed by Bill Condon
🎬 All Roads Lead to Rome (2015) directed by Ella Lemhagen
🎬 Failure to Launch (2006) directed by Tom Dey
🎬 Sex and the City (2008) directed by Michael Patrick
🎬 Sex and the City 2 (2010) directed by Michael Patrick
🎬 You, Me and Dupree (2006) directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
🎬 Fool’s Gold (2008) directed by Andy Tennant
🎬 Duplex (2003) directed by Danny DeVito
🎬 Meet the Parents (2000) directed by Jay Roach
🎬 Meet the Fockers (2004) directed by Jay Roach
🎬 Vacation (2015) directed by John Francis Daley
🎬 There’s Something About Mary (1998) directed by Bobby Farrelly
🎬 Pirates of the Caribbean (film series) directed by Gore Verbinski (1-3)
Rob Marshall (4) Joachim Rønning (4) Espen Sandberg (5)
🎬 Runaway Bride (1999) directed by Garry Marshall
🎬 My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) directed by P.J Hogan
🎬 Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023), directed by Stephen Soderbergh
🎬 Barbie (2023), directed by Greta Gerwig
🎬 Jumanji (1995) directed by Joe Johnston
🎬 Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) directed by Jake Kasdan
🎬 Monte Carlo (2011) directed by Thomas Bezucha
🎬 Coco Chanel (2008) directed by Christian Duguay
🎬 Forever Amber (1947) directed by Otto Preminger
🎬 No Hard Feelings (2023) directed by Gene Stupnitsky
🎬 Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) directed by George Miller
🎬 Bill (2015) directed by Richard Bracewell
🎬 Baywatch (2017) directed by Seth Gordon
🎬 Valentine’s Day (2010) directed by Gary Marshall
🎬 Interview with the Vampire (1994) directed by Neil Jordan
🎬 House of Gucci (2021) directed by Ridley Scott
🎬 The Hunger Games (film series) directed by Gary Ross (1) and Francis Lawrence (2-4)
🎬 The Godfather (1972) directed by Francis Ford Coppola
🎬 Anyone But You (2023) directed by Will Gluck
🎬 The Comeback (2019) directed by Nicky Iliev
🎬 The Comeback 2 (2022) directed by Nicky Iliev
🎬 Lost in Translation (2003) directed by Sofia Coppola
🎬 The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) directed by Justin Chadwick
🎬 The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009) directed by Robert Schwentke
🎬 Me Before You (2016) directed by Thea Sharrock
🎬 The Crow (2024) directed by Rupert Sanders
🎬 Closer (2004) directed by Mike Nichols
🎬 Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
🎬Голата истина за група Жигули (2021) (The Naked Truth About Zhiguli Band directed by Victor Bojinov)
🎬 Cold Mountain (2003) directed by Anthony Minghella
🎬 Fatal Attraction (1987) directed by Adrian Lyne
🎬 Romeo + Juliet (1996) directed by Baz Luhrmann
🎬 Brokedown Palace (1999) directed by Jonathan Kaplan
🎬Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) directed by Tim Burton
🎬 Dune: Part One (2021) directed by Denis Villeneuve
🎬 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) directed by Andrew Adamson
🎬The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) directed by Andrew Adamson
🎬The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) directed by Michael Apted
🎬Parent Trap (1998) directed by Nancy Meyers
🎬 Allied (2016) Robert Zemeckis
🎬 Coming to America (1988) directed by John Landis
🎬 Coming to America 2 (2021) directed by Craig Brewer
🎬 Gone Girl (2014) Directed by David Fincher
🎬 The Girl on the Train (2016) Directed by Tate Taylor
🎬 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) Directed by Ron Howard
🎬 Last Christmas (2019) directed by Paul Feig
🎬 Dragonfly (2002) Directed by Tom Shadyac
🎬 Horrible Bosses (2011) directed by Seth Gordon
🎬 Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) directed by Sean Anders
🎬The Great Gatsby (2013) directed by Baz Luhrmann
🎬Mean Girls (2004) directed by Mark Waters
🎬 Mean Girls 2 (2011) directed by Melanie Mayron
🎬 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) directed by David Fincher
🎬 Elizabeth (1998) Directed by Shekhar Kapur
🎬 The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) directed by (Justin Chadwick)
🎬 Bill (2015) directed by Richard Bracewell
🎬 Thelma & Louise (1991) directed by Ridley Scott
🎬 Alice in Wonderland (2010) directed by Tim Burton
🎬 Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1981) Directed by Just Jaeckin
🎬 Black Swan (2010) directed by Darren Aronofsky
🎬 Pearl Harbour (2001) directed by Michael Bay
🎬 Anna Karenina (2012) directed by Joe Wright
🎬 Colette (2018) directed by Wash Westmoreland
🎬Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) directed by George Miller
🎬Burlesque (2010) directed by Steve Antin
🎬Oblivion (2013) directed by Joseph Kosinski
🎬Abduction (2011) directed by John Singleton
🎬I Origins (2014) Directed by Mike Cahill
🎬Lost in Translation (2003) Directed by Sofia Coppola
🎬Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) directed by Shawn Levy
🎬Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) directed by Adam Shankman
🎬Bringing Down the House (2003) directed by Adam Shankman
🎬The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) directed by Steven Spielberg
🎬Mrs Doubtfire (1993) directed by Chris Columbus
🎬Heartbreakers (2001) directed by David Mirkin
🎬Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) directed by Jeannot Szwarc
🎬The Santa Clause (1994) directed by John Pasquin
🎬The Santa Clause 2 (2002) directed by Michael Lembeck
🎬The Crow (2024) directed by Rupert Sanders
🎬Spider-Man (2002) directed by Sam Raimi
🎬Spider-Man 2 (2004) directed by Sam Raimi
🎬Spider-Man 3 (2007) directed by Sam Raimi
🎬Falling for Christmas (2022) Directed by Janeen Damian
🎬Our Little Secret (2024) Directed by Stephen Herek
🎬Deck the Halls (2006) Directed by John Whitesell
🎬Love Actually (2003) directed by Richard Curtis
🎬The Sweetest Thing (2002) directed by Roger Kumble
🎬Sixth Sense (1999) directed by M. Night Shyamalan
🎬Top Gun (1986) directed by Tony Scott
🎬Twas the Text Before Christmas (2023) directed by T. W. Peacocke
🎬Robin Hood (2010) directed by Ridley Scott
🎬Гунди: Легенда за Любовта (Gundy: A Legend of Love) (2024) directed by Dimitar Dimitrov
🎬Чалга (Chalga) (2023) directed by Marian Valev
List of Books and Works I have read and learnt from:
📖 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
📖 The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
📖 Tobacco by Dimitar Dimov
📖 Doomed Souls by Dimitar Dimov
📖 Lieutenant Benz by Dimitar Dimov
📖 Love in Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
📖 The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
📖 Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
📖 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
📖 Salome by Oscar Wilde
📖 A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
📖 An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
📖 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
📖 Tartuffe by Molière
📖 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
📖 Inferno by Dante Alighieri
📖 Who’s Afraid by Virginia Woolf? By Edward Albee
📖 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
📖 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
📖 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
📖 Lord Byron’s Love Letter by Tennessee Williams
📖 Salome by Oscar Wilde
📖 Hans, the Witch and the Gobbin by Alan Cullen
📖 Duck Duck, Goose by Caitríona Daly
📖 Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell
📖 Pillow Thoughts II by Courtney Peppernell
📖 Pillow Thoughts III by Courtney Peppernell
📖 Pillow Thoughts IV by Courtney Peppernell
📖 milk and honey by rupi kaur
📖 the sun and her flowers by rupi kaur
📖 home body by rupi kaur
📖 You’re Doing Just Fine by Charlotte Eriksson
📖 Poems for Love introduction by Joanna Trollope
📖 Metamorphosis by Ovid
📖 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
📖 Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
📖 It Ends with Us by Collen Hoover
📖 It Starts with Us by Collen Hoover
📖 Ugly Love by Collen Hoover
📖 All Your Perfects by Collen Hoover
📖 Maybe Someday by Collen Hoover
📖 Maybe Now by Collen Hoover
📖 Confess by Collen Hoover
📖 Never Never by Collen Hoover
📖 Ugly Love by Ana Huang
📖 One Day by David Nichols
📖 The Christmas Holliday by Philipa Ashley
📖 Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
📖 The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
📖 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
📖 Me vs Brain by Hayley Morris
📖 The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
📖 The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
📖 The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
📖 A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
📖 True Believer by Nicholas Sparks
📖 Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
📖 The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
📖 Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
📖 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
📖 Atomic Habits by James Clear
📖 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
📖 Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
📖 The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho
📖 By the River Piedra I Sat Down & Wept by Paulo Coelho
📖 Manual of the Warrior of Light by Paulo Coelho
📖 Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
📖 How to be a Christian by C. S. Lewis
📖 Superlife by Darin Olien
📖 This is Vegan Propaganda by Ed Winters
📖 How Not to Die by Michael Greger, MD
📖 Men are from Mars Women are from Venus by John Gray
📖 Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
📖 All about Love by Bell Hooks
📖 Conditions of Love by John Armstrong
📖 Quiet by Susan Cain
📖 The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
📖 A Wonderous Summer Night and Seven Short Stories by Yana Borisova
📖 The Rover by Aphra Bhen
📖 Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (watched the film with Emma Thompson on BBC, I like the portrayed characters and the light and humour they gave of the play)
📖 As You Like It by William Shakespeare
📖 The Taming of The Shrew by William Shakespeare
(watched a masterful performance by the Royal Shakespeare Company, recorded and uploaded on Digital Theatre + )
📖 The Tempest by William Shakespeare
📖 Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
📖 The Tragedy of King Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
📖 The Tragedy of Julius Caeser by William Shakespeare
📖 The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
📖 The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
📖 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
📖 The Tragedy of Richard the Third by William Shakespeare
📖 A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
📖 Private Fears in Public Places by Alan Ayckbourn
📖 The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright
📖 Equus by Peter Shaffer
📖 April de Angelis: Plays, including Ironmistress, Hush, Playhouse Creatures, The Positive Hour
📖 Things We Do for Love by Alan Ayckbourn
📖 Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp
📖 Pornography by Simon Stephens
📖 Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill
📖 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
📖 The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht
📖 After Darwin by Timberlake Wertenbaker
📖 A Taste of Honey by Shelah Delaney
📖 The Weir by Conor McPherson
📖 Oh, What a Lovely War! By Joan Littlewood
📖 The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
📖 A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
📖 Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
📖 The Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
📖 Hard Times by Charles Dickens
📖 Shakespeare’s Sonnets
📖 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (one of my favourite books. I was impressed with Charlotte Brontë’s style of writing and storytelling, as she is )
📖 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
📖 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
📖 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
📖 Tess of the D’urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
📖 Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
📖 Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
📖 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
📖 The Monk: A Romance by Matthew Gregory Lewis
📖 Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
📖 Factotum by Charles Bukowski
📖 After Dark by Haruki Murakami
📖 My Name is Leon (gifted to us during first week of uni, the author guest-lectured then too) by Kit De Waal
📖 In the Falling Snow by Caryl Philips
📖 The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
📖 Brick Lane by Monica Ali
📖 The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
📖 Antigona and Me by Kate Clanchy
📖 Poems by Emily Dickinson
📖The London Magazine December - January 2025
📖The London Magazine October - November 2024
📖The London Magazine August - September 2024
The London Magazine June - July 2024
📖The London Magazine April - May 2022
📖The London Magazine June - July 2022
📖The London Magazine October- November 2022
📖The London Magazine December 2022 - January
📖 The London Magazine August - September 2020
📖 The London Magazine Colombian Issue
📖 The Bar by the Sea by Venetia Welby
https://thelondonmagazine.org/article/fiction-the-bar-by-the-sea-by-venetia-welby/
📖 A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu
📖 Leaves by RZ Baschir
📖 Poetry by Miruna Fulgeanu
📖 Poetry | Aphorisms on Poetry by Lee Seong-Bok
📖 Sky Soldier by Jay Gao
📖 Spurious Language by James Appleby
📖 Revisions by James Appleby https://thelondonmagazine.org/article/poetry-two-poems-by-james-appleby/
📖 Writing as Transformation by By Louise Glück https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/writing-as-transformation-louise-gluck
📖 The Panners & The Walnut Tree by Isabel Bermúdez Ospina https://thelondonmagazine.org/article/poetry-the-panners-by-isabel-bermudez-ospina/
📖 English Literature in Context (Second Edition) by Paul Poplawski
📖 Introduction to Creative Writing by David Morley
📖 Introducing Language in Use (Second Edition) by Andrew John Merrison, Aileen Bloomer, Patrick Griffiths and Christopher J. Hall
📖 Semiotics: the basics by Daniel Chandler
📖 Writing Black Britain 1948-1998 by James Procter
📖 Testimonial Plays ed. By Alison Forsyth
📖 Cut the Eyeball by Norith Soth
📖 An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavski
📖 My Life in Art by Konstantin Stanislavski
📖 Building a Character by Konstantin Stanislavski
📖 Stanislavski and the Actor by Jean Benedetti
📖 Beyond Stanislavski by Bella Merlin
📖 Naturalism in Theatre by Kenneth Pickering and Jayne Thompson
📖 A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
📖 The Empty Space by Peter Brook
📖 Acting and Stage Movement by Edwin White and Marguerite Battye
📖 Contemporary Monologues for Women: The good audition guides ed. By Trilby James
📖 William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction by Stanley Wells
📖 Shakespeare’s Language by Frank Kermode
📖 Beckett’s Creatures by Joseph Anderton
📖 The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
📖 Barrett, F. and FORA.tv (2014) Punchdrunk: Making a Show as Addictive as Candy Crush. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r-V5fMCUqg (Accessed: 5 December 2021).
📖 Boyle, M.S., Cornish, M., & Woolf, B. (2019). Introduction: Form and Postdramatic Theatre. In M.S. Boyle, M. Cornish & B. Woolf (Eds.). Postdramatic Theatre and Form (pp. 1–19). London: Methuen Drama. Retrieved January 7, 2022, from http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350043190.ch-001.
📖 Gardner, L. (2014) Immersive Theatre & Performance. Available at: https://edu.digitaltheatreplus.com/content/guides/immersive-theatre-and-performance (Accessed: 5 December 2021).
📖 Harvie, J. and Lavender, A. (2010) Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
📖 Barrett, F. and FORA.tv (2014) Punchdrunk: Making a Show as Addictive as Candy Crush. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r-V5fMCUqg (Accessed: 5 December 2021).
📖 Boyle, M.S., Cornish, M., & Woolf, B. (2019). Introduction: Form and Postdramatic Theatre. In M.S. Boyle, M. Cornish & B. Woolf (Eds.). Postdramatic Theatre and Form (pp. 1–19). London: Methuen Drama. Retrieved January 7, 2022, from http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350043190.ch-001.
📖 Gardner, L. (2014) Immersive Theatre & Performance. Available at: https://edu.digitaltheatreplus.com/content/guides/immersive-theatre-and-performance (Accessed: 5 December 2021).
📖 Harvie, J. and Lavender, A. (2010) Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
📖 Jackson, A. and Lev-Aladgem, S. (2004) ‘Rethinking Audience Participation: Audiences in Alternative and Educational Theatre’, in Cremona, V.A., Eversmann, P., Maanen, H., Sauter, W., Tulloch, J. (ed.) Theatrical Events: Borders Dynamics Frames. New York: Editions Rodopi, pp.207-236.
📖 Lehmann, H. and Munby, K. (2006) Postdramatic Theatre. Oxon: Routledge.
📖 Philip, A. (1997) From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism. London: Routledge.
📖 Schulze, D. (2017) Authenticity in Contemporary Theatre and Performance : Make It Real. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Available from: ProQuest Ebook Central. [4 December 2021].
📖 Snyder-Young, D. (2013) Theatre of Good Intentions : Challenges and Hopes for Theatre and Social Change. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. Available from: ProQuest Ebook Central. [3 December 2021].
📖 Tanaka, S. (2017) ‘Intercorporeality and aida: Developing an interaction theory of social cognition’, Theory & Psychology, 27(3), pp. 337–353. doi: 10.1177/0959354317702543.
📖 White, G. (2013) Audience Participation in Theatre: Aesthetics of the Invitation. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
📖 http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/culture/litterms.htm (Accessed 28 December 2021). Allain, Paul, and Harvie, Jen. The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. Accessed December 8, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central.
📖 Carlson, Marvin. “A Concise Introduction to: The Wooster Group.” Digital Theatre+. Accessed December 1, 2020. https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/s/the-wooster-group.
📖 Cartelli, Thomas P. “"The Killing Stops Here": Unmaking the Myths of Troy in the Wooster Group / RSC "Troilus & Cressida" (2012).” Shakespeare Quarterly 64, no. 2 (2013): 233-43. Accessed December 1, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24778460.
📖 Dawson, Tom. “Atanarjuat - the Fast Runner (2002).” BBC. January 21, 2002. http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/01/22/atanarjuat_review_2002_review.shtml.
📖 Fowler, Benjamin. "Culture Clash: What the Wooster Group Revealed about the RSC (and British Theater Hegemony) in Troilus & Cressida." Shakespeare Bulletin 32, no. 2 (2014): 207-33. Accessed December 5, 2020.https://doi:10.2307/26355023.
📖 Greenhalgh, Susanne, Elizabeth LeCompte, and Kate Valk. Shakespeare Bulletin 31, no. 4 (2013): 749-54. Accessed December 7, 2020. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26355001.
📖 Holland, Peter. “Shakespeare’s Two Bodies.” In A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance. Edited by BarbaraHodgton and W. B. Worthen, 36 – 56. Williston: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2007. Accessed January 1, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central.
📖 Homer, and Michael Hartwell. "Iliad." In The Dead, edited by Thomas Riggs, 50-53. Vol. 1 of Supernatural Literature. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2017. Accessed December 6, 2020. Gale eBooks.
📖https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3662100027/GVRL?u=uce&sid=GVRL&xid=65d73a6d.
📖 Jablonsky, Linda, Linda Yablonsky, and Elizabeth LeCompte. "Liz LeCompte and the Wooster Group." BOMB, no. 37 (1991): 42-47. Accessed December 7, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40424265.
📖 LeCompte, Elizabeth. “Interview with Elizabeth LeCompte.” In The Art of the Rehearsal, Conversations with Contemporary Theatre Makers, edited by Barbara Simonsen. London: Methuen Drama: 2017. Audio: 7:11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwnqoL0mZnQ.
📖 LeCompte, Elizabeth, Kate Valk, Ari Fliakos, and Maria Shevtsova. “A Conversation on The Wooster Group's Hamlet.” New Theatre Quarterly 29, no. 2 (2013): 121–31. https://doi:10.1017/S0266464X13000237.
📖 LeCompte, Elizabeth, Kate Valk, and Maria Shevtsova. “A Conversation on The Wooster Group's Troilus and Cressida with the RSC.” New Theatre Quarterly 29, no. 3 (2013): 233–46. https://doi:10.1017/S0266464X13000432.
📖 Marranca, Bonnie. “The Wooster Group: A Dictionary of Ideas.” In The Wooster Group and Its Traditions, edited by Johan Callens, 109-127. Brussels: P.I.E.- Peter Lang, 2004.
📖 O'Brien, Nick, and Sutton, Annie. Theatre in Practice : A Student's Handbook. Milton: Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. Accessed December 15, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central.
📖 Quick, Andrew. The Wooster Group: Work Book. New York: Routledge, 2007.
📖 Savran, David. “Obeying the Rules.” In The Wooster Group and Its Traditions, edited by Johan Callens, 63-69. Brussels: P.I.E.- Peter Lang, 2004.
📖 Stanislavski, Constantin. An Actor Prepares. London: Theatre Arts, 1937.
📖 Thomas, Kevin. “Stylish ‘Signals’ a Bittersweet Comedy About Friendship.” Los Angeles Times. June 26, 1998. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-26-ca-63611-story.html.
📖 The Wooster Group. “CRY, TROJANS! (Troilus & Cressida).” Accessed December 8, 2020. https://thewoostergroup.org/cry-trojans.
📖 The Wooster Group. “Troilus and Cressida.” Accessed December 1, 2020. https://thewoostergroup.org/troilus-and-cressida-rsc.
📖 Braun, Edward. “Stanislavsky and Chekhov.” In The Director and the Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski, 59-77. London: Methuen London Ltd, 1982.
📖 Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Ghosts." Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 15, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ghosts-by-Ibsen.
📖 Ibsen, Henrik, and Frank McGuinness. “Ghosts”. In Ghosts. London: Faber and Faber, 2010. 3–98. Accessed November 3, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780571286430.00000005.
📖 Malague, Rosemary. An Actress Prepares : Women and “the Method.” London: Routledge, 2012.
📖 O'Brien, Nick. “Stanislavski in Practice (Part 2).” In Routledge Performance Archive. Taylor and Francis, 2016. Accessed November 3, 2020. https://www.routledgeperformancearchive.com/video/stanislavski-in-practice-part-2.
📖 Smeliansky, A., Craig, M. and Stanislavski, K. “Stanislavsky and The Russian Theatre”. In Routledge Performance Archive. Taylor and Francis, 2016. Accessed November 3, 2020. https://www.routledgeperformancearchive.com/video/stanislavsky-and-the-russian-theatre.
📖 Stanislavski, Constantin. An Actor Prepares. London: Theatre Arts, 1937.
📖 Stanislavski, Konstantin. Building a Character. London: Methuen Drama, 2008.
📖 Stanislavski, Konstantin. “Stanislavski in Practice (Part 1).” In Routledge Performance Archive. Taylor and Francis, 2016. Accessed November 3, 2020. https://www.routledgeperformancearchive.com/video/stanislavski-in-practice-part-1.
📖 Whyman, Rose. “A Concise Introduction to: Konstantin Stanislavsky”. In DT+ FUNDAMENTALS. Accessed November 3, 2020. https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/s/konstantin-Stanislavsky.
📖 Whyman, Rose. Stanislavski: the Basics. Oxon: Routledge, 2013
📖 Aston, Elaine. Feminist Theatre Practice : A Handbook. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 1999. Accessed April 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central.
📖 Benedetti, Jean. Stanislavski and the Actor: The Final Acting Lessons. London: Bloomsbury, 1998.
📖 BOB. “Theatre of the Abused.” BBC Radio 4. December 4, 2014. Accessed March 5, 2021. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/0831610C?bcast=11464156.
📖 Butler, Robert. “The Positive Hour.” Independent, March 9, 1997. https://wwwtheatrerecordcom.ezproxy.bcu.ac.uk/downloads/pdf.php?issueid=917&page=1#page=20.
📖 De Angelis, April. “The Positive Hour.” In April De Angelis : Plays. London: Faber and Faber, 1999.
📖 Digital Theatre Plus. “In Defence of Character - Hamlet - The Interrogation.” Accessed February 11, 2021.https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/digital-theatre/in-defence-of-character-hamlet-the-interrogation.
📖 Gaskell, Ronald. Drama and Reality: the European Theatre since Ibsen. London: Routledge, 1972.
📖 Goodman, Lizbeth. Contemporary Feminist Theatres : To Each Her Own. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 1993. Accessed April 9, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central.
📖 Harris, Geraldine. “Post-postfeminism? Amelia Bullmore’s Di and Viv and Rose, April de Angelis’s Jumpy and Karin Young’s The Awkward Squad.” Contemporary Theatre Review, April 04, 2014. DOI: 10.1080/10486801.2014.885898.
📖 Hebert, Laura A. “Taking ‘Difference’ Seriously: Feminisms and the ‘Man Question.’” Journal of Gender Studies 16,no.1 (April 2007): 31-45. DOI: 10.1080/09589230601116141.
📖 Merlin, Bella. Beyond Stanislavsky: The Psycho-Physical Approach to Actor Training. London: Nick Hern Books, 2001.
📖 Radio 4, BBC. “Theatre of the Abused.” BOB, December 2014, 29:02 – 29:45, https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/0831610C?bcast=114641506.
📖 “Script Analysis: Stella Adler’s Feminist Subtext.” In An Actress Prepares : Women and the Method. Florence, edited by Rosemary Malague, 72-110. Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. Accessed March 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central.https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bcu/detail.action?docID=958346.
📖 Stanislavski, Constantin. An Actor Prepares. London: Theatre Arts, 1937.
📖 White, Edwin and Marguerite Battye. Acting and Stage Movement: For Amateurs and Professionals. Colorado Springs: Meriwether Publishing, 1963.
📖 Bate, Jonathan and Eric Rasmussen. William Shakespeare: Complete Works. London: Macmillan, 2007.
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📖 Digital Theatre Plus. “As You Like It, A Royal Shakespeare Company Production.” Accessed May 9, 2021. https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/rsc/as-you-like-it.
📖 Digital Theatre Plus. “Comparing Comedy: Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing.” Accessed April 2, 2021. https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/study-guides/comparing-comedy-loves-labours-lost-and-much-ado-about-nothing.
📖 Digital Theatre Plus. “Love’s Labour’s Lost, A BBC Production.” Accessed May 2, 2021. https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/bbc-studios/loves-labours-lost.
📖 Digital Theatre Plus. “Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Stratford Festival Production.” Accessed May 12, 2021. https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/stratford-festival/loves-labours-lost.
📖 Digital Theatre Plus. “Shakespeare Uncovered: Joely Richardson on Shakespeare's Women.” Accessed April 4, 2021. https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/bbc-studios/shakespeare-uncovered-joely-richardson-on-shakespeares-women.
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📖 Hooks, Bell. The Will to Change : Men, Masculinity, and Love. New York: Atria Books, 2003. Accessed April 23, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bcu/detail.action?docID=5654175.
📖 Mackenzie, Sir George, 1636-1691. Reason an Essay / by Sir George Mackenzie London, Printed for Jacob Tonson .., 1690. https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bcu.ac.uk/books/reason-essay-sir-george-mackenzie/docview/2240951949/se-2?accountid=10749.
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📖 "OBSERVATIONS upon the TRAGEDY of ROMEO and JULIET." The British Magazine, Or, Monthly Repository for Gentlemen & Ladies, 1760-1767 8, (12, 1767): 619-622. https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.bcu.ac.uk/historical-periodicals/observations-upon-tragedy-romeo-juliet/docview/5372650/se-2?accountid=10749.
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📖 "reality, n.". OED Online. March 2021. Oxford University Press. https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/158934?redirectedFrom=reality (accessed April 2, 2021).
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📖 Smith, James M. "Does Art Follow Life or Does Life Follow Art? A Controversy in Nineteenth-Century French Literature." Studies in Philology 53, no. 4 (1956): 627-38. Accessed May 10, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4173184.
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