Performing Arts

Explore the terrifying world of Gilead with this behind-the-scenes look at the Emmy award-winning show The Handmaid's Tale. The hotly anticipated debut of The Handmaid's Tale-Hulu's groundbreaking show based on Margaret Atwood's best-selling...

The essays collected in Tattooed Bodies draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate tattoos, tattooing, and our complex relations with marks on skin. Engaging with diverse disciplinary perspectives in art history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434650Author Wilfrid JonsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

MURDEROUS MATHS: The Magic of Maths is full of incredible tricks to wow children and teachers alike. With a fabulous brand-new cover design for 2019, children can: discover how to use the power of maths to beat the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756255228Author PIE InternationalFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

Each summer a small and glamorous part of the 1930s comes back to life, recreating magic from an era long past. Evoking a tradition common in the English countryside before the arrival of radio, cinema and television, since 2000 Giffords Circus has...

In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 - known colloquially as the 'Birthplace' - remains the chief shrine. It's not as romantic as Anne Hathaway's thatched cottage, it's not...

Chantal Akerman is widely acclaimed as one of cinema's boldest visionaries. A towering figure in women's and feminist film-making, she produced a diverse and intensely personal body of work ranging from minimalist portraits of the everyday to exuberant...

In But Enough About Me, legendary film actor and Hollywood superstar Burt Reynolds recalls the people who shaped his life and career, for better or for worse. From Robert Altman, Cary Grant, Clint Eastwood and Robert Mitchum to Bette Davis, Marlon...

With a foreword by Christian Slater A fully illustrated and highly visual guide to everything Archer-from storyboards to character sketches to script excerpts-making it a collector's item for Archer fans everywhere, and featuring a foreword by Christian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781963852Author Alan StaffordFormat PaperbackImprint Fantom Films LimitedPublisher Fantom Films Limited

Hope's leaving her home town up north for the bright lights of London. It's going to be mind-blowing. Attractive Hinge dates, mature new friends... A job at a dinosaur-themed bar? Hell. Yes. Several months in things are looking slightly less rosy. Her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956840905Author Tony HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Northern Lights LitPublisher Northern Lights LitWeight(grams) 375g

A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII's notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation's history. Traditionally seen as either the pawn of an ambitious family manoeuvred...

'She's hilarious' - Stylist'A social pioneer' - GlamourYOU ARE THE HERO THAT YOUR STORY NEEDS. I'm Fats/Fatima. I'm a comedian. I make jokes and videos. Sometimes I go on news programmes and tell men with bad tans what life is like for little people. I...

Starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta and Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction exploded on to the screen in 1994 and transformed the direction of contemporary cinema. Nominated for seven Oscars and winner of the BAFTA award, this triplet of masterfully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036708Author Chloe AngyalFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 498gDimensions(mm) 238mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767919869Author Roger EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

"Come for the engrossing content, and stay for the lessons that might just change how you talk, write, and lead." -Adam GrantLearn how to take any story and make it perfect-from storytelling expert Karen Eber, whose popular TED Talk on the subject...

The Way We Were is the definitive inside story of a landmark movie and its troubled making. Starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, this iconic movie won multiple Academy Awards, but its success followed a variety of financial challenges, creative...

What is the relationship between performance and play? Between performance and technology? Between performance and death?Certain Fragments is an extraordinary exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director...

A hilarious, family-friendly cookbook from the creators of the hit Netflix baking show Nailed It! Baking is not for the faint of heart. The perfect result may require overnight refrigeration, weighing different flours, a deft hand with a piping bag, and...

This book addresses one of the most exciting and innovative developments within higher education: the rise in prominence of the creative arts and the accelerating recognition that creative practice is a form of research. The book considers how creative...

This book is a compact guide to reading plays, and to the art and techniques of drama. Ranging from classical Greece to modern Drama and performance, but with particular emphasis on the playwrights (including Shakespeare) who are most widely taught and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993337178Author Mark BennisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Apex Publishing LtdPublisher Apex Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

A blackly hilarious exploration of deceit, paranoia and murderous desire, as the spirit of the Blues lands in leafy suburbia. Demolition expert Ned lives in a nice new house on a nice new estate on the edge of the English countryside. He loves his job...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756030Author Eve EnslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint VillardPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935498Author Peter ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 127g

Thirty years ago a promising young actor published his account of preparing for and playing the role of Richard III. Antony Sher's Year of the King has since become a classic of theatre literature. In 2014, Sher, now in his sixties, was cast as Falstaff...

'Groundbreaking' Amy Cuddy, bestselling author of Presence 'A roadmap for innovators, entrepreneurs and those seeking new avenues for exploring and reimagining the future' Deepak Chopra Musicians are masters of innovation, constantly finding new ways...

Noel Coward's Brief Encounter is remembered as one of the most haunting love stories on screen ever. Drawing on the characteristic wit and musicality of Kneehigh, Emma Rice, former Joint Artistic Director of the Company, has adapted Coward's classic 1945...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762471317Author Michelle MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Rp MinisPublisher Rp MinisWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 97mm * 74mm * 51mm

Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece charts love, politics, past and future, with plenty of twists thrown in for good measure. Rosmersholm is positioned against the backdrop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394469Author Andy MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress

Sweethearts and soulmates for 60 years, June and Leon Bernicoff had a lifetime of love and laughter together. We fell in love with them on Gogglebox, where their warmth, cheeky gags and unending love for each other shone through our screens. When Leon...

Five specially commissioned discussions of verbatim theatre - in the words of the people who make it. 'What a verbatim play does is flash your research nakedly. It's like cooking a meal but the meat is left raw.' - Max Stafford-Clark Plays...

Theatre is at its best when it is disobedient, when it argues back to society. But what enables it to achieve this impact? What makes it a force to be reckoned with? What are the principles and the tools of the trade that shape it to be effective,...

"Who doesn't know Paul Newman? The man with the beautiful blue eyes, the chiselled face and body, the 50-plus years of memorable acting and directing roles, the awards, the movie-star marriage. Well, it turns out, there is lots more to know." - Parade...

The first and only guide to the beloved and star-studded Star Trek: The Animated Series. The first and only guide to the beloved and star-studded Star Trek: The Animated Series, the in-canon (mostly) continuation of the iconic Star Trek: Original...

From reviews of the third edition:"Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology's consideration of the advantages and challenges...