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Mary Shelley: daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft; lover of Shelley; author of Frankenstein... Helen Edmundson's compelling play explores a crucial episode in the early life of Mary Shelley - her meeting and scandalous elopement aged sixteen with Percy...

THE BALLET COMPANION is the first complete, illustrated reference book for the dancer. With more than 150 stunning photographs of ballet greats Maria Riccetto and Benjamin Millepied demonstrating perfect execution of positions and steps, THE BALLET...

Written in a blaze of rhyming couplets, La Bete is an exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. Elomire, high-minded head of the Royal theatre troupe,...

Take a journey through the makers and shapers of celluloid history. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, Western to new wave, this selection gathers the greats of 20th-century cinema into one indispensable guide to movie gold...

A powerful and straightforward dramatisation of Orwell's enduring parable on the perils of totalitarianism. Ian Wooldridge's dramatisation of Animal Farm remains faithful to Orwell's original, retaining both its affection for the animals and the...

It's finals day for the Class of 2011. Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their five bedroom flat tomorrow morning; five bedrooms, five chairs, four boys - and one hell of a party. Stepping into a world that doesn't want them, these boys start to...

The vital building blocks of movement training - a key sourcebook for actors, directors, students and teachers. In precise detail, Darley sets out the exercises and techniques she developed with her own drama-school students. She deals with the vital...

Movement Direction in contemporary theatre production is increasingly recognised and valued as a significant component of the expressive art of bodily communication in live performance. From scene changes, to character development, to dance sequences,...

Bleak, funny and excruciatingly accurate, Sex with a Stranger examines what it is to be in your twenties, lonely, hollow and uncertain. Adam meets Grace in a club. They go back to hers. Earlier that day, his girlfriend watches as he prepares for his...

A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain. Mary Adams, aged 19, is unmarried and seven months pregnant. Forcibly sent to a Mother-and-Baby Home in the north of England by a mother intent on keeping up appearances, Mary -...

A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway's pungent commentary on life and...

The White Rabbit is late for the Duchess. The Cheshire Cat won't stop grinning. And the Hatter is, well, mad. In the middle of it all is Alice, a young girl with a vivid imagination and a family life that's less than perfect. In this new adaptation by...

Nicholas Wright's play about the controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein is a haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships. In 1934 the son of Melanie Klein, Britain's most admired psychoanalyst, was reported killed in a climbing...

Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the story of the British music hall. John Major shares memories of his performer father Tom and...

The full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance...

The full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907359804Author Georgiana KeableFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Hawthorn PressPublisher Hawthorn PressWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 225mm *...

The Bury St Edmunds Market Cross stands at the heart of the town. Designed in 1774 by the celebrated architect Robert Adam, this 'neat and beautiful theatre' is celebrated as a brilliant example of decorative neoclassical architecture. The Market Cross...

Long Live Hookey Street ...Ménage et trois! It's been more than 40 years since John Sullivan's Only Fools and Horses first graced our television screens. In this official guide, updated with new and never-before-seen material, Mike Jones and Jim Sullivan...

The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits. From the writing partnership behind A Little Night Music. Victim of a gross injustice that robbed him of his wife and child, Sweeney Todd...

The true-life drama of the extraordinary bond between two identical twin girls and their struggle to find a voice. Refusing to speak to adults, identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons communicate in their own private language, their only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983098Author Mary LefkowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1066gDimensions(mm)...

The full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance...

Four full-length plays and two previously unpublished shorts from the multi-award-winning author of Jerusalem. Jez Butterworth burst onto the theatre scene aged twenty-five with Mojo, 'one of the most dazzling Royal Court main stage debuts in years'...

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) 375gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Amy's found another body in a hotel bedroom. There's a funny smell coming from one of Jim's storage units. And Kate's losing it after spending all day with the police. There's no going back after what they've seen. Breathing Corpses was first...

THE GOOD AUDITION GUIDES: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills Each Good Audition Guide contains a range of fresh monologues, all prefaced with a summary of the vital information you need to...

These are the two new volumes in NHB's successful series of "Good Audition Guides".It is full of fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays. It is ideal for actors of all ages and experience. It features uniquely formatted potted intros to each...

An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting. 'Death never used to be for the young. You get up. You go bout your business. You expect to come back...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861662890Author Alan MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Knockabout ComicsPublisher Knockabout ComicsWeight(grams) 1000g

This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in that system.This book explores a "New Humanism" in the performing arts, unique in the sense of human's ability to co-create and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816643868Author James CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

How do you ask your mate for that GBP50 back?When is OK to trump in front of your partner?And what should you do if you've accidentally sexted your boss?William and Jordan are from very different worlds.William's an etiquette expert, with his tongue...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917382045Author David TomlinsonFormat PaperbackImprint Dean Street Press LimitedPublisher Dean Street Press Limited

A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists. At the opening of the play, a young girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar; by the end, several years later, the whole world is...

The moving account of the life and early death of a young female activist, adapted from her own writings. Why did a 23-year old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between an Israeli army bulldozer and a Palestinian home in the Gaza...

Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas's best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is his first collection solely of short stories, published in 1940. These two works show...

A comprehensive 'how to' book on the Laban system of movement - from the author of Laban for Actors and Dancers. Laban for All offers a simplified version of Rudolf Laban's system for analysing - and annotating - the way the human being moves. It...

This comprehensive guide, from the author of Acting in Musical Theatre, will equip aspiring directors with all of the skills that they will need in order to guide a production from beginning to end. From the very first conception and collaborations with...

Cinema has likely never been written off so often. In the decade of the 2010s, it is true, much has changed - both in how we watch movies, and in how we see ourselves. Social media and the internet have shaped a new understanding of the self and the...