Performing Arts

COMEDIAN RACHEL PARRIS WAS ASKED TO GIVE AN INSPIRING GRADUATION SPEECH. WHO DID SHE ASK FOR ADVICE? TOTAL STRANGERS... Over the course of a year award-winning comedian Rachel Parris asked members of her live audience for advice. Here she takes those...

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel & EduqasLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: Modern LanguagesFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Film analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to...

Learn to play the fiddle? Easy. Tackling a new instrument can be intimidating, but with this easy-to-use guide, you'll have no trouble at all! From selecting, tuning, and caring for your fiddle to mastering various music styles, Fiddle For Dummies walks...

Unofficial and unauthorised. 'When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, "No, I went to films"'. From the set of 1993's Pulp Fiction, to a bar room meeting with Robert Rodriguez and an inspirational lunch with Leonardo di Caprio, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250058706Author Alisa SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 28mm

Michael Powell lived intimately, and abundantly, with the movies - entering the business at the end of the silent era, growing up in the industry, becoming one of Britain's most respected and influential directors. This first volume of his autobiography...

When it releases this fall, Rapunzel (new title forthcoming) will be the 50th animated feature produced by Walt Disney Animated Studios. Featuring the stunning concept art behind the newest Disney masterpiece-from sketches and character designs to...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could deliver' James Acaster'Brilliantly observed' Romesh Ranganathan'Beautifully written, cleverly crafted and charmingly funny' Adam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852731458Author Rudolf LabanFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Dance Books LtdPublisher Dance Books LtdWeight(grams) 385gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm...

From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perhaps the most successful collaboration in horror film history. In its revised and expanded second edition,...

Based on the popular MUNCHIES and VICELAND television series Bong Appetit, this cannabis cookbook features 65 'high'-end recipes for sweet and savoury dishes as well as cocktails to satisfy all your catering needs! Bong Appetit is for a...

A celebration of the fearless, fabulous actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age - illustrated with stunning photographs from a world-class collection. Lauren Bacall, Louise Brooks, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Lillian Gish, Gloria...

With more than 100 inventive lists, charts, and timelines, The Big Bang Theory Book of Lists offers fans a creative way of looking at and celebrating the iconic and beloved early 2000s sitcom. Revisit some of your favorite moments, pairings, cameos, and...

The definitive text for today's and tomorrow's lighting designers, covering the complete history, theory and practice of lighting design. With over four hundred illustrations and nearly sixty colour photographs, as well as interviews with many...

Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and...

The perfect partner for lovers of the nation's favourite TV reality lovefest. Since day dot, Love Island has had its finger on the pulse of modern dating. Through the endearing chaos of infectious one-liners, fanny flutters and dramastic chats the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633227736Author Preston BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Walter Foster PublishingPublisher Walter Foster Publishing

After its completion in 1598, The Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting) began a four-hundred-year course of transmission and dissemination in China and around the world. Within China, the play's wide popularity propelled its appearance in numerous editions,...

My wife is a magician, yesterday she turned our car into a tree.A big white horse walks into a pub. The barman says, 'we have a drink named after you.' The horse says, 'what? Eric?'I said, 'waiter, what's that in my soup?' he said, 'I'd better call the...

For too long the world of corporate role play has felt like a closed shop that only a few privileged actors have had access to. Now, this book provides any actor with what they need to start and build a side-career in corporate role play, utilising all...

Within seventeen years of the first public broadcast in Britain, the nation again found itself at war. As the Second World War progressed, the BBC eventually realised the potential benefits of public radio and the service became vital in keeping an...

A chronicle of the "life," times, and travels of the famous puppets, this survey examines Punch and Judy's moral and cultural significance as well as the people who played them behind the curtain. Scholarly yet entertaining, it includes 30 illustrations...

Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the...

How to write a play and get it produced - a manual for playwrights. Playwright and former literary manager Tim Fountain guides the budding playwright over the many hurdles involved in getting a play on - from finding a story that only you know,...

"The ultimate guide to mastering the art of magic." -Business Insider"A must-have for any aspiring magician." -Mashable Learn to perform 50 unbelievable magic tricks that will impress and astonish any audience! Features QR codes with links to trick...

Micky Flanagan is one of Britain's best-loved cheeky-chappy comedians, thanks to his stand-up routines about how he's gone from growing up in London's East End in the 1970s to his life now in middle-class suburbia. To date he has two sell-out tours under...

The official behind-the-scenes art book for Marvel Studios' Emmy Award-nominated Disney+ animated series What If...? The Art of Marvel Studios' What If...? takes fans behind the scenes of Marvel Studios' first animated series. Reimagining famous events...

'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking chunks out of the Berlin Wall when it fell...draped in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648049760Author James KaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Avenue House Press Pty LtdPublisher Avenue House Press Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

Samuel Beckett directed Krapp's Last Tape on four separate occasions: this volume offers a facsimile of his 1969 Schiller-Theater notebook.Professor Knowlson writes that in these notes 'we see Beckett simplifying, shaping and refining, as he works...

'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finest actor appearing in the world right now' - A. A. GillWill She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in...

Discover what goes on behind the curtains of your favorite musical Do you want to know more about the fascinating history of Broadway musicals, the stars of yesterday and today, and what goes on behind the curtain of a musical production? In Musical...

'The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and that's why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.'New York Times on Quartermaine's TermsSimon Gray: Plays 1 includes Quartermaine's Terms; Stage...

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in...

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Follow the wisdom of Buffy, Willow, Xander, Spike, and others with this beautifully illustrated tarot deck inspired by the beloved series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In every generation, there is a chosen one--explore your destiny like Buffy the...

Explore the beginning of Steven Spielberg's remarkable career with this definitive retrospective that covers Duel, The Sugarland Express, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1941, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. In the...

The Exorcist Effect is a fascinating historical study of the ongoing relationship between horror movies and Western religious culture, with a focus on the period from 1968 to the modern day. Taking its name from the 1973 film The Exorcist, which was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647225131Author Tom ShoneFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 1878gDimensions(mm) 295mm * 249mm *...

One of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Walt Disney created a unique and unrivaled imaginative universe. Like scarcely any other classics of cinema, his astonishing collection of animated cartoons revolutionized storytelling on screen and...