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The funny, heart-warming sequel to the enormously successful Ladies' Day, following the lasses from Hull on their adventures down under. After hitting the jackpot at Ladies' Day in York, the fishfilleting foursome - Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda - are...

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,...

A landmark dramatisation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of one of the foundation stones of English literature. This two-play adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales encompasses all 23 stories. All the famous characters are here - as well as many...

Presents the screenplay of the classic cult film by Bruce Robinson, with an introduction by the director.Bruce Robinson was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay of "The Killing Fields".About the AuthorBruce Robinson was nominated for an...

The Costumes of Burlesque: 1866-2018 is the first volume to inclusively document burlesque costume from its birth in the 1860's through the global burlesque movement in 2018. This lushly illustrated book presents the history and development of this...

In The Reason to Sing, renowned composer-lyricist and teacher Craig Carnelia provides musical actors with a step-by-step guide to making their singing performances more truthful, vivid, and full of life.Using a technique developed over decades of...

This essential core textbook provides an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory, written by two highly experienced senior lecturers. Bringing a fresh, contemporary and accessible approach to what is often perceived to be a challenging and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913926243Author Alexa IspasFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Word BothyPublisher Word BothyWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Nina Raine's clever and subtle new play. Billy's family, like every other, is a club, with its own private language, jokes and rules. You can be as rude as you like, as possessive as you like, as critical as you like. Arguments are an expression of love,...

Learn 70 tricks that are easy to master and hundreds of techniques that are essential for every budding magician.Easy Card Tricks includes mathematical dupes, sleights of hand,'mind-reading' stunts, expert shuffles, and card predictions that will seem...

A contemporary thriller with ancient roots, by the winner of the Most Promising New Playwright 2024 award (OffWestEnd). The bark creeps up my body like a rising sea level. I wonder what will happen when it reaches my heart.When a woman tells a lie to her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorReginald Owen Morris was a British composer and teacher. He was born in York and was educated at Harrow School, New College, Oxford and the Royal College of Music...

Learn how emerging technologies benefit artists and performing arts organizations Raising the Curtain: Technology Success Stories from Performing Arts Leaders and Artists focuses on empowering artists and performing arts organizations in theater, dance,...

A gloriously illustrated celebration of one of the greatest movies ever made, this exclusive behind the scenes book documents a piece of cinema history. It is the true story of human endeavour and creativity that led to the production of one of the most...

Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual and performance. When this seminal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845832247Author Rob BagnallFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing Ltd

Discover music that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy - causing fascination and intrigue in some and rejection and scorn in others. This is what happens when people take tradition and rip it up.MusicQuake tells the...

Four early plays from the author of The Weir, with a foreword by the author. The plays in this volume - three monologues and a three-hander - were all written while Conor McPherson was in his twenties. In This Lime Tree Bower (Crypt Arts Centre,...

England is in crisis. Fields are flooded, food is scarce and fear grips the land. William Bloor, a foxfinder, arrives at Judith and Samuel Covey's farm to investigate a suspected fox infestation. The Coveys' harvest has failed to meet their target and...

Having largely given up on a career in film, Edward Yang had been working as a computer engineer for several years when he saw Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God. Inspired to return to film, Yang, along with a handful of other filmmakers, including the great...

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...

This is a small booklet of drum machine patterns, designed to fit in your pocket. It is a companion to other small travel-friendly music-making devices you might have.Book InformationISBN 9780359849086Author Paul WenzelFormat PaperbackPage Count...

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

Venue Stories is an anthology of creative non-fiction that remembers, celebrates and reinvigorates our complex and plural relationship with small and independent music spaces. Written by musicians, promoters, fans and academics who have a shared passion...

A powerful study of infidelity and interwoven lives, filmed as the award-winning Lantana. A woman disappears. Four marriages become entangled in a web of love, deceit, sex and death. Who will survive? Nine parallel lives - interlocked by four...

Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage. Twice filmed (with Michael Redgrave and Albert Finney) and frequently revived. Andrew Crocker-Harris'...

Whether you want to participate in ballet or just watch it, the ballet experience can excite and inspire you. Ballet is among the most beautiful forms of expression ever devised: an exquisite mix of sight and sound, stunning, aesthetics, and awesome...

In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female...

The essential guide to getting into drama school. Newly updated for 2019. Packed with sound advice and essential information for young people who want to train as actors and performers (including musical theatre), this clear and honest guide is written...

Six funny and perceptive monologues about the stresses of modern female life. Meryl Davenport - A mother who tells the story of her non-stop day in a rapid-fire internal monologue. Tiggy Entwhistle - A cactus lover bravely attempting to rise above...

A darkly comic stage adaptation of The Trial, relocating Kafka's classic novel to twenty-first-century London. On his thirtieth birthday, Joseph K has his sushi home-delivery intercepted by two unidentified men who inform him he is under arrest. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362405Author Ellen McLaughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789056995928Author Peggy HackneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)Publisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams) 521g

Arthur Ransome's famous and much-loved children's classic is brought thrillingly to life in Helen Edmundson's wonderfully theatrical adaptation, with 'delightfully catchy and often witty' (Telegraph) songs by Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy When...

A disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children. Kristin Miller is an eminent and successful art historian. As a young mother she followed her politics and vocation,...

For over ten years Jane Quinn has been sharing a cup of tea with some of the biggest names in the music and entertainment world as she has engaged them in a long running series of intimate interviews that go beyond the public image to reveal the person...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122270Author Tristan WoodFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 951g

Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training focuses on neuro and physical difference and dis/ability in the teaching of performance and associated studies. It offers 19 practitioners' research-based teaching strategies, aimed to enhance equality of...

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...