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A comedy drama about an all-female theatre company touring Britain during the darkest days of World War Two, written by the well-known actress and premiered in the West End. While the men are fighting Hitler and the bombs are falling on London, a...

Four plays from award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy, created in parnership with Mulberry School in East London - ideal for performance by schools and youth groups. Tender, uncompromising, haunting and lyrical, these four plays together comprise a...

Written by the author of the beloved classsic, Ballet Shoes (1936), this wonderful picture book about a cat who lives in a theatre is available once again after 70 years! Pinkie the cat works at the ballet theatre as ...

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,...

An adaptation of the beloved, award-winning children's novel. It's 1940, and Britain is at war. Young Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in town, but desparately wants it to be the best. Amidst the bombs and air raids, Chas...

Love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes. Three generations of women. One extraordinary year. Amber has fierce bad indigestion and the sambucas aren't getting rid of it. Lorraine attacks a customer and her boss wants her to see a psychiatrist. Kay's...

'Ways to Wander' is your invitation to experiment with a whole range of different ways to 'go for a walk'. Rather than picking up a map and following a footpath, the book offers 54 intriguingly different suggestions, tactics and recollections, all...

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010. 'I expect you have been told fairytales before. But you have never really heard...

For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913926274Author Alexa IspasFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Word BothyPublisher Word BothyWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

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...

1920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed - a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all backgrounds came together as a passionate group of artists...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939828088Author Davy JonesPage Count 248Imprint Book's MindPublisher Book's Mind

The documentary, a genre as old as cinema itself, has traditionally aspired to objectivity. Whether making ethnographic, propagandistic, or educational films, documentarians have pointed the camera outward, drawing as little attention to themselves as...

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...

This updated 4th edition of Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods, integrating them chronologically or thematically, and showing how they have often...

Part handbook, part classroom this book has everything you need to make your story a reality. Nowadays, telling a story through video is a necessity. Video has become the new printed word. Creators must be able to craft video narratives using one of the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930452933Author Stephen SondheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

The first eight astonishing plays by Enda Walsh, 'one of the most dazzling wordsmiths of contemporary theatre' (Guardian). Bursting onto the theatre scene in 1996 with Disco Pigs, Enda Walsh has delivered a sustained fusillade of strikingly original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680227758Author Publications International LtdPage Count 256Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications International, Ltd...

The last decade of the 20th century consolidated once again the fascinating power of the silver screen, both by looking to the future and drawing on the past. It's no exaggeration to say that never before had there been a time when the cinema focused so...

Homer Vol. II. Iliad (Books XIII-XXIV)Book InformationISBN 9780198145295Author D. B. MonroFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 21mm

Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors are required to perform monologues regularly throughout their career: preparing for drama school entry, showcasing skills for agents or auditioning for a role. Following on from the...

Packed with ideas and inspiration, The Mystery Feast offers numerous pathways into the magical world of storytelling. Beginning with a poem, 'All we do', Booker prize-winning novelist Ben Okri presents his considered thoughts on the purpose and meaning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868280463Author Venetia DeardenFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 1407g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912480135Author Nancy MellonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Hawthorn PressPublisher Hawthorn PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 155mm *...

'I like London. I like the pavements. I like to walk out my door and not sink up to my tits in primordial sludge.' A comedy thriller from the author of the Olivier Award-winning Jerusalem. West waits in a burnt-out farmhouse, on Dartmoor, in the...

As fascination with the Rat Pack thrives in films and on television, Dean Martin remains one of the group's most enigmatic members. The Hollywood image of Dean Martin with a martini in one hand and a woman in the other continues to dominate public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Best Play, Tony Awards 2005 and Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781559362764Author John Patrick ShanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint...

A bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of the novel on stage. As a child, the orphaned Jane Eyre is taught by a succession of severe guardians to stifle her natural exuberance. A part of...

A funny, touching and at times savage portrait of a family full of longing that's losing its grip - The Last of the Haussmans examines the fate of the revolutionary generation. Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high-society drop-out Judy Haussman...

'I immersed myself in magic. I read every book I could get my hands on and practised and practised, day after day and night after night. Magic became my world...some might say an obsession.'When you're a kid life can seem tough; tougher for some than...

A brand-new collection of original audition pieces written by and for actors of colour, commissioned by Tamasha Theatre Company and edited by Titilola Dawudu, with a foreword by Noma Dumezweni. Hear Me Now is a unique collection of over eighty...

NFL Films changed the way Americans view football. Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media traces the subsidiary's development from a small independent film production company to the marketing machine that Sports Illustrated named...

This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies.Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the...

Harriet Walter's wonderfully practical - and personal - introduction to acting. 'Acting is what I do with who I am', writes Harriet Walter. And in this book she takes us step by step through the processes involved in performance. Each step of the way...

Following the tremendous success of his first book on the subject, The Queens of Burlesque, Len Rothe has again pulled from his collection of original photographs of entertainers this delightful selection of over 100 images of Burlesque stars. Together...

A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway. Winner of the 2003 Olivier Award for Best New Play. Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he...