A collaborative theatre piece created by playwrights Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime with theatre director Katie Mitchell, s mall hours is an intimate dissection of the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.It was first performed at Hampstead Theatre in 2011.

The Director’s Craft is a unique and completely indispensable step-by-step guide to directing for the stage.Written by one of the most adventurous and respected directors working today, this book will be an essential item in every student and practitioner’s kitbag. It provides detailed assistance with each aspect of the varied challenges facing all theatre directors, and does so with startling clarity. It will inspire everyone, from the beginner just starting out to the ex...

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010.'I expect you have been told fairytales before. But you have never really heard a fairytale until you have heard it told by a real fairy.'The theft of a single rose has monstrous consequences for Beauty and her father. Because this is no ordinary rose...and this is no ordinary fairytale. Narrated b...

Wind in tall trees. White sky. Rain soon. Hooves on earth. Twigs. Snap. Wait. Listen.A new experiment in performance from Katie Mitchell, Nina Segal and Melanie Wilson. Using only sound and no words, a quartet of performers and Foley artists evoke the lives of two animals – a cow and a deer.Cow | Deer is an invitation to enter the more-than-human world.Co-created by Katie Mitchell (Bluets, Anatomy of a Suicide), Nina Segal (Sh...

A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores, featuring a selection of shops around the country alongside essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, with an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni.ST. LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY PRIZE HONORABLE MENTION • ONE OF BCALA LITERARY AWARDS’ OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO PUBLISHING CITATIONBlack literature is perhaps the most powerful, polarizing force in the mo...

An homage to Black bookstores, featuring a selection of shops around the country alongside essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, with an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni.Black literature is perhaps the most powerful, polarizing force in the modern American zeitgeist. Today—as Black novels draw authoritarian ire, as Black memoirs shape public debates, as Black polemics inspire protest petitions—it’s more importan...