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Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place by Patrick Elliott
RRP: £22.99£15.57Joan Eardley (1921-1963) is one of Scotland's most admired artists. During a career that lasted barely fifteen years, she concentrated on two very distinct themes: children in the Townhead area of central Glasgow, and the fishing village of Catterline,... -
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See by Bianca Bosker 9781911630463
RRP: £20.00£13.86AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker trained her insatiable curiosity, journalist's knack for infiltrating exclusive circles and eye for unforgettable characters on the wine world as she trained to become a sommelier. Now she... -
The World of PostSecret by Frank Warren 9780062339010
RRP: £20.00£14.34New York Times Bestseller An addictive collection of new full-color postcard secrets and app secrets from the author of the smash the #1 New York Times bestselling PostSecret books-with more secrets than any previous PostSecret book! A decade ago,... -
Marina Abramovic: A Visual Biography by Katya Tylevich 9780857829467
RRP: £80.00£53.85The definitive guide to the life and work of Marina Abramovic, the world's most famous performance artist.Combining brand-new interviews, never-before-seen images and fascinating ephemera, this book is a testament to the extraordinary life and work of... -
Drag: The Complete Story by Simon Doonan
RRP: £30.00£20.40Drag is transformation, communication, and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. This fearless book observes this increasingly complex world by exploring drag's journey - from the surprising, to the sophisticated, to... -
Colder than Here by Laura Wade
RRP: £10.99£9.66"I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing" Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be... -
Many Moons by Alice Birch
£12.15Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is and Meg has resigned herself to never having it. As these four people move through a July day in London, they orbit each other, unaware that they are hurtling... -
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramovic 9780241974520
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' ObserverThis memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us... -
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs 9781399610353
RRP: £23.00£15.57'The best non-fiction book I've ever read. It's magical. Stunning' Dan Schreiber, No Such Thing As a Fish'A pop biography for people who don't read pop biographies' Dorian Lynskey, Guardian'Brilliant, discursive and wise' Ben Goldacre'Utterly... -
Studio 54 Night Magic by Matthew Yokobosky
RRP: £65.00£55.51There has never been and will never be another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. Now, in the first official book on the legendary club, co-owner Ian Schrager presents a spectacular volume brimming with... -
William Kentridge by Stephen Clingman 9781912520732
RRP: £30.00£25.17The South African artist William Kentridge Hon RA was born in Johannesburg in 1955 and lives and works there to this day. He is internationally renowned for the expressionism of his work in numerous media, among them charcoal, printmaking, sculpture and... -
Apollo's Angels: A History Of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
RRP: £22.50£15.42Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century... -
Actor Training by Alison Hodge
RRP: £39.99£35.46Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge's highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of... -
Untitled by Sue Hendra
RRP: £12.99£8.77A fee-fi-fo-festive treat for Supertato fans everywhere! It's showtime in the supermarket as Supertato and the veggies put on their very own production of Jack and the Beanstalk, starring The Evil Pea as Jack and Supertato as Jack's mum. There are... -
Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery by Roger Kneebone
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Roger Kneebone is a legend' Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters'Fascinating and inspiring' Financial Times'The pandemic has made the necessity of relying on experts evident to all . . . this is a rich exploration of lifelong learning' GuardianWhat... -
Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches by Kirsten Innes 9781913630980
RRP: £12.99£8.63Nightclub, theatre, creative hub, party place, and one of the most important venues in Scotland, Britain and Europe: for almost 25 years, The Arches was the beating heart of Glasgow. In 1991, former punk-turned-theatre director Andy Arnold walked... -
The Life of P.T. Barnum (Collins Classics) by P.T. Barnum 9780008277017
RRP: £3.50£2.66HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century... In 1834, desperate to create a better life for his family,... -
The Dinner Party Revisited by Katherine Araniello 9780957393875
RRP: £10.00£9.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957393875Author Katherine AranielloFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Live Art Development AgencyPublisher Live Art Development Agency -
Little Wimmin by Figs in Wigs
RRP: £14.99£9.88Come join Figs in Wigs for their live art feminist adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women. Blurring the boundaries of live art, music, theatre, comedy and dance Little Wimmin will examine how we think about the past, what's wrong... -
Auditioning for Film and Television: A Post #MeToo Guide by Nancy Bishop
RRP: £21.99£18.10"This is a terrific guide for young actors...I read it cover to cover and then went out and bought copies for all my kids because, truthfully, it puts an experienced eye on pretty much all of life's early encounters." - Donald Sutherland "When I was... -
The Circus: A Visual History by Pascal Jacob
RRP: £45.00£35.96Winner of 2019 British Book Design & Production Award for Scholarly, Academic & Reference Books This beautiful book charts the development of the circus as an art form around the world, from antiquity to the present day. Using over 200 circus... -
Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone by Bo Burnham
RRP: £14.99£9.80Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, mostly absurd collection of poetry and essays from comedy superstar and creator of Netflix phenomenon Inside Bo Burnham.Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting... -
Sun Ra: Art on Saturn by Irwin Chusid
RRP: £75.00£50.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683966586Author Sun RaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and Performance by Simon Smith
RRP: £75.00£67.74This edited collection of essays brings together leading scholars of early modern drama and playhouse culture to reflect upon the study of playing and playgoing in early modern England. With a particular focus on the player-playgoer exchange as a site of... -
Wicked: The Grimmerie by David Cote 9781401308209
RRP: £30.99£24.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401308209Author David CoteFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 1440gDimensions(mm) 310mm * 238mm * 30mm -
Dear Green Sounds - Glasgow's Music Through Time and Buildings: The Apollo, Glasgow Pavilion, Mono, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut and More by Kate Molleson
RRP: £15.00£13.56Glasgow has always been known for its live music, and at the heart of any music community it is the live venues and buildings that are important, and play host to local and touring acts. One of the main reasons for Glasgow's continued blossoming as a... -
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528649Author Shayda KafaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press -
Laura Wade: Plays One by Laura Wade
RRP: £21.99£19.41'If one of the problems facing new playwrights is the expectation that each of their plays should be similar in style, Wade...proved that you could radically change both form and content... Not every writer delivers on their early promise. As this... -
An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art: SELF/s by T. J. Bacon 9781789389593
RRP: £29.95£26.65This original and unique new book takes an integrated approach to interrogating the experience and location of the self/s within the context of performance art practice. In its framing and execution of practical exercises and focused snapshots of... -
The Outstanding Actor: Seven Keys to Success by Mr Ken Rea
RRP: £22.99£20.25Drawing on Ken Rea's 35 years' teaching experience and research, as well as interviews with top actors and directors, The Outstanding Actor identifies seven key qualities that the most successful actors manifest, along with practical exercises that help... -
Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage and Screen by Chris Head 9781350155756
RRP: £21.99£18.96This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online. ... -
Nine Ways of Seeing a Body by Sandra Reeve
RRP: £12.50£10.64This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the... -
Out from Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists by Lenora Champagne
RRP: £19.99£11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559360098Author Lenora ChampagneFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U... -
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh
RRP: £14.99£11.35NOW A MAJOR FILM BY RALPH FIENNES, THE WHITE CROW'A gripping account of an extraordinary life' Daily Telegraph Born on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9781849434256
£13.54"We need the theatre, couldn't, couldn't do without it. Could we?" A successful actress visits her brother's isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress... -
Dennis Kelly: Plays Two: Our Teacher's a Troll; Orphans; Taking Care of Baby; DNA; The Gods Weep by Dennis Kelly
RRP: £21.99£20.61Dennis Kelly is one of the UK's finest contemporary dramatists. This second volume of his work collects together: Our Teacher's a Troll, Orphans, Taking Care of Baby, DNA and The Gods Weep. Also features a foreword by journalist, author and critic, Aleks... -
Lovesong by Abi Morgan
RRP: £11.99£11.02'That is the story of our beginning. And this is the story of...the end' Lovesong is the story of one couple, told from two different points in their lives - as young lovers in their 20s and as worldly companions looking back on their relationship... -
Liars, Damn Liars, and Storytellers: Essays on Traditional and Contemporary Storytelling by Joseph Sobol
RRP: £42.95£35.52Joseph Sobol is one of a select few contemporary scholar-practitioners to chart the evolution of storytelling from traditional foundations to its current multifarious presence in American life. The years since his classic The Storytellers' Journey: An... -
In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance by Amelia Jones 9780367533762
RRP: £31.99£28.73This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.Addressing... -
Dance Vision: Dance Through the Eyes of Today's Artists by Joshua Teal
RRP: £25.00£16.77A breathtaking collection of contemporary photography, sculpture, illustration, and design that celebrates the world of danceThere's no question that humans have been fascinated by movement and dance for as long as we've been creating art, from...