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Wit by Margaret Edson
RRP: £10.99£8.15A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned specialist in the brilliantly difficult Holy... -
Margot Fonteyn by Meredith Daneman
RRP: £18.99£13.61Margot Fonteyn - born plain Peggy Hookham - was dreamed into existence by the architects of British ballet: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton and Constant Lambert. Carried to fame on a wave of wartime patriotism, Margot's sense of duty rather than... -
Film Music: A Very Short Introduction by Kathryn Kalinak 9780197628034
RRP: £8.99£6.65The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema. The first projected moving images were accompanied by music through a variety of performers--from single piano players to small orchestras--that brought images to life. Film music has... -
Mr. B: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century by Jennifer Homans
RRP: £35.00£24.68LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2023 From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an intimate portrait of the man behind the mythology, set against the vibrant backdrop of the century that... -
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
RRP: £9.99£6.90The Book of Illusions, written with breath-taking urgency and precision, plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, and the violent and the tender dissolve into one another. One man's obsession with... -
Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell by Tom Bower
RRP: £8.99£2.44Illuminating the life of Simon Cowell and delving into backstage scandal, tabloid rumour and the cut-throat worlds of music and television, Tom Bower leaves no stone unturned in this must-read biography. This is a detailed insider's account of... -
Alien by Roger Luckhurst
£10.04A legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, Alien (1979) is one of the most enduring modern myths of cinema - its famously visceral scenes acting like a traumatic wound we seem compelled to revisit. Tracing the constellation of talents that came... -
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity by Edward Dimendberg
RRP: £34.95£28.19Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and '50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism... -
The Improv Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond by Tom Salinsky
RRP: £26.99£24.39The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews,... -
Ten to Win . . . And the Last Man In: My Pick of Test Match Cliffhangers Henry Blofeld 9781529359954
RRP: £20.00£13.55'Is there anything in sport to compare with the sustained excitement of a cricket match, especially a Test match, in which the advantage continually fluctuates one way and then the other, and when the match enters its last few minutes, all four results... -
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J. K. Rowling 9781408708989
RRP: £16.99£11.95J.K. Rowling invites you to explore a new era of the Wizarding World . . .When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic... -
Theatre in Practice: A Student's Handbook Nick O'Brien (The Stanislavski Experience, UK) 9781032420820
RRP: £38.99£34.62Theatre in Practice, third edition, is an accessible and wide-ranging exploration of the central practices and key practitioners covered on the various syllabi at A level, IB, and at undergraduate level.Exploring Stanislavski, Brecht, Artaud, Lecoq,... -
Telling the Truth: How to Make Verbatim Theatre by Robin Belfield
RRP: £14.99£11.30A practical guide to creating and producing verbatim theatre, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner. Verbatim theatre is fashioned from words actually spoken by real people in real situations, and reproduced by actors in performance. An... -
stoning mary by Debbie Tucker Green
RRP: £10.99£8.15Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology. 'So what happened to the bitches that gotta conscience? The underclass bitches, the... -
Decade by Various
RRP: £19.99£14.48Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, an immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre... -
Invisible Friends by Alan Ayckbourn
£11.42Alan Ayckbourn's play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy. With her father glued to the cowboys on the telly, her mother preoccupied with neighbourly gossip and her brother enclosed in his ear-phones, no one wants to know about her place in... -
Eight by Ella Hickson
RRP: £11.99£8.83Eight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage. From Millie, the jolly-hockey-sticks prostitute who mourns the loss of the good old British class system, to Miles, a 7/7 survivor, and Danny, an ex-squaddie who... -
Could You Survive Midsomer?: Can you avoid a bizarre death in England's most dangerous county? by Simon Brew
RRP: £12.99£7.89All is not well in the beautiful county of Midsomer. On the eve of its first Villages In Bloom competition, a man lies dead, smelling of damson jam. Who could have done it?Well, that's where you come in. Step into the shoes of Midsomer CID's newest... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9780571237357
RRP: £10.99£7.54I know now, Kostya, I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure.The Seagull is one of the great plays about... -
Disney The Vintage Poster Book by Walt Disney 9781800787193
RRP: £14.99£11.31With 28 vintage posters featuring artwork from popular Disney films, interior design enthusiasts and Disney collectors will love decorating their walls with these nostalgic, large-sized posters.Tapping into the current trend of displaying nostalgic... -
Don't Look Now by Mark Sanderson
£14.68Don't Look Now, released in 1973, confirmed director Nicolas Roeg as one of themost stylish and innovative British directors of the postwar period. Adaptedfrom a short story by Daphne du Maurier, it is both a complex study of howpeople come to terms with... -
Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 1: The Enemy Within; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Loves of Cass McGuire; Lovers (Winners and Losers); Crystal and Fox; The Gentle Island by Brian Friel
RRP: £19.99£13.45This marks the first of five volumes collecting together the complete work of Brian Friel. The Enemy Within (1962) Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1964)The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966) Lovers (Winners and Losers) (1967) Crystal and Fox (1968) The Gentle... -
Thunderbirds: The Vault by Marcus Hearn
RRP: £40.00£31.79Celebrating over 50 years of the classic TV series, this beautiful, lavish hardback written by Thunderbirds expert Marcus Hearn. Contains exclusive, never before published behind the scenes material and interviews with cast and crew and tells the story... -
Stanislavski: An Introduction by Jean Benedetti
RRP: £16.99£16.38'A small jewel of a book, a knowleageable introduction to both Stanislavski's personal development and to the content and range of his writings' Theatre Journal '...shows the System to be a practical process - drama school students and actors will be... -
The Right Light: Interviews with Contemporary Lighting Designers by Nick Moran
£30.39How do theatre lighting designers decide what is 'the right light' for each moment of a production? What informs their choices? Why does the audience respond more strongly when the lighting feels 'right'? By interviewing nineteen prominent lighting... -
There'll Be Peace When You Are Done: Actors and Fans Celebrate the Legacy of Supernatural by Lynn S. Zubernis
RRP: £12.99£10.01Fifteen years. Two brothers. Angels and demons. A story like no other. And one of the most passionate fan bases of all time. That's Supernatural. There'll Be Peace When You Are Done: Actors and Fans Celebrate the Legacy of Supernatural is an... -
The Art of Raya and the Last Dragon by Kalikolehua Hurley
RRP: £30.00£22.69With never-before-seen development art, character sketches, storyboards, and color scripts, The Art of Raya and the Last Dragon gives fans a front-row view of the making of the Walt Disney Animation Studios' animated feature. * Art book from the new... -
The Gospel According to Blindboy by Blindboy Boatclub 9780717181001
RRP: £10.99£8.61Sunday Business Post Book of the Year Blindboy Boatclub is one half of the Rubberbandits, Ireland's foremost satirist and now the talented author of a collection of brilliant short stories and visual art. Published to critical acclaim, his first... -
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful . . . compulsively readable' - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?When Robert McCrum began... -
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism Nicholas Baer 9780520398825
RRP: £25.00£19.59Historical Turns reassesses Weimar cinema in light of the "crisis of historicism" widely diagnosed by German philosophers in the early twentieth century. Through bold new analyses of five legendary works of German silent cinema—The Cabinet of Dr... -
Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
RRP: £25.00£16.83From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world's favourite fictional detective. ... -
Ultimate 70s Collection, The: Iconic Musicians and Albums, Movies that Defined a Generation, Legendary Toys and Videogames by John Romero 9781497103788
RRP: £9.99£6.70How do you remember the seventies? Whether it's as the "Me Decade," the heatwave of 1976, or the Winter of Discontent, you'll find something in these pages to stir up nostalgia for the pop culture that defined the decade. Cinemas were showing... -
Sound and Music for the Theatre: The Art & Technique of Design Deena Kaye 9781138023437
RRP: £36.99£31.80Covering every phase of a theatrical production, this fourth edition of Sound and Music for the Theatre traces the process of sound design from initial concept through implementation in actual performances. The book discusses the early evolution of sound... -
Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation by Susannah Shaw 9781138779310
RRP: £35.99£33.64Stop motion animation is a challenging and time-consuming skill that requires patience, adaptability, and a close eye to detail. Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, 3rd Edition is the essential guide to help stop motion animators overcome... -
The World of the Dark Crystal by Brian Froud 9781789095326
RRP: £34.99£23.94The World of The Dark Crystal invites fans to delve into the creation and lore of the Jim Henson classic through the evocative illustrations of Brian Froud, concept designer on the original film. Since its original release in 1982, Jim Henson's... -
House of Games (revised edition) by Chris Johnston
RRP: £14.99£11.30A treasure trove of drama games and exercises, House of Games has proved itself an immensely valuable resource for teachers, theatre directors and drama workshop leaders. Following on from Keith Johnstone's famous Impro and Augusto Boal's Games for... -
Drama Games for Actors: Exploring Self, Character and Text by Thomasina Unsworth
RRP: £12.99£9.50From the bestselling Drama Games series, this dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book offers dozens of games to serve as a rich source of ideas and inspiration for all actors - and those teaching or directing them. This must-have companion is... -
The Wire: The Complete Visual History Brandon Easton 9781803363516
RRP: £50.00£37.62Celebrate the greatest television show of all time with this definitive tribute to The Wire. Twenty years after the debut of The Wire, HBO's landmark crime drama remains one of the most celebrated and beloved television shows of all time. Now, this... -
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb
RRP: £16.99£12.47Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist ideals? 'Beautiful, difficult, and compelling.' VANITY FAIR 'Don't think, dear,' said Balanchine. 'Just do.' For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin, obedient... -
Decolonizing the Theatre Space: A Conversation by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway 9781350205130
RRP: £19.99£16.802020 was a year in which global politics radically shifted, catalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. This book is a response to that year, asking: was it a moment or is it a movement, and what fundamental changes within...