| home | Steven Berkoff plays and DVDs are available in shops and libraries. You can also buy them on-line from Amazon. click on the images for more details
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Wittgenstein for beginners Berkoff does the voiceover in this audio cassette. |
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N-Trance:
Happy Hour CD features Berkoff on one track. |
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| Related books etc: sources | USA | UK/ Europe | ||
| Aeschylus: Agamemnon. |
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| Kafka: The complete short stories including Metamorphosis. |
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| Kafka: The complete novels (Trial, Amerika, Castle). |
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| Kafka: Metamorphosis and other stories. |
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| Kafka: The Trial. |
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| Kafka: Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony and other stories. |
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| Kafka: a biography. |
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| Kafka: the diaries. |
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| Edgar Allen Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems. |
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| Edgar Allen Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher and other Tales. |
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The
Passover Plot by Hugh Schonfield (Berkoff´s basis for Messiah). |
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Miss
Julie and other plays by August Strindberg. |
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| Oscar Wilde: Salome. |
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Salome by William Tydeman and Steven Price Analysis of performances of Salome, with 8 pages on Berkoff´s Salome. |
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| Related books etc including plays and videos mentioned in Shakespeare's Villains | USA | UK/ Europe | ||
| Shakespeare: Richard II |
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| Shakespeare: Richard III. |
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| Shakespeare: Coriolanus. |
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| Shakespeare: Macbeth. |
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| Shakespeare: Hamlet. |
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| Shakespeare: Othello. |
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| Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. |
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Richard
III, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. You can't
get any better. DVD. Recommended |
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Henry
V, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. Filmed during the second world war, this production received the support of the British government, to build up British morale. DVD. Recommended |
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Richard
III with Ian McKellen DVD A superb performance by McKellen, and sublime settings with St. Pancras Railway Station turned into a royal palace. Recommended |
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Rebecca.
Olivier directed by Hitchcock in one of the all time
great films. DVD. Recommended |
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| Related books etc: influences | USA | UK/ Europe | ||
| Artaud, The Theatre and its Double. |
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| Artaud for Beginners. |
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Artaud´s
Theatre of Cruelty by Albert Bermel. |
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Antonin
Artaud by Martin Esslin. |
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Reflections
on Theatre by Barrault. |
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The Empty Space by Peter Brook. |
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Gadamer,
History, and the Classics : Fugard, Marowitz, Berkoff,
and Harrison Rewrite the Theatre by Alison Forsyth "...Berkoff links his critique of the hermeneutic nihilism that allows intratextual imposition or aesthetic distanciation to take place" |
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Theory/
Theatre an introduction by Mark Fortier. A good introduction to the theory of theatre. |
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Jacques
Copeau: Biography of a Theatre by Maurice Kurtz. |
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Changing
Stages Twentieth Century Theatre including Artaud and (briefly) Berkoff by Richard Eyre. |
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| Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre. |
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The
Moving Body by Jacques Lecoq. "We begin with silence, for the spoken word often forgets the roots from which it grew". |
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Confessions
of an Actor by Laurence Olivier. |
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| Related books etc: upbringing | USA | UK/ Europe | ||
| A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson. |
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| East End Gangland by James Morton. |
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The
East End by Alan Palmer. The part of London ("East") where Berkoff grew up. |
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Our
Story by Reg Kray, Ron Kray and Fred Dinenage Berkoff knew the Kray twins, jailed for murder. |
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