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Drawing the Line: Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television by David McHenry
RRP: €52.35€47.46Drawing the Line: Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television is the essential resource for students and aspiring professionals studying and working in film and television design. The book covers all aspects of scenic drafting by hand - a technique... -
Deep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre by Stephen Bourne
RRP: €22.60€16.66Deep Are the Roots celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825, when Ira Aldridge made history as the first Black actor to play Shakespeare's Othello in the United Kingdom, and ending in 1975 with the success of Britain's first... -
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 9781350455498
RRP: €13.08€11.50'She's like no one I've ever met... She's like fire and water all at once.' Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together... -
The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia by Josephine Machon
RRP: €42.83€37.71The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia is the definitive book on the company's work to date, marking eighteen years of Punchdrunk's existence. It provides the first full-scale, historical account of one of the world's foremost immersive theatre companies, drawn... -
Lyonesse by Penelope Skinner 9780571389124
RRP: €13.08€8.71What I'm asking is, is she a sympathetic heroine? Are we going to be on her side?Elaine, a once-famous actress who disappeared thirty years ago in mysterious circumstances, is ready to tell her story. She summons Kate, a young film executive, to her... -
Jesus Christ Superstar - Revised Edition: A Rock Opera by Warner Bros.
RRP: €22.02€18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881885415Author Warner Bros.Page Count 80Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
Unti Conversations with Stephen Sondheim by D T Max
RRP: €24.98€14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063279810Author D T MaxFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 135mm *... -
Theatre and The Visual by Dominic Johnson 9780230246621
€9.58Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Johnson examines the spectator's role in the theatre, exploring pleasure,... -
Travesties by Tom Stoppard
RRP: €13.08€8.78'Tom Stoppard's Travesties is witty, playful and wise. Forty years on, it is starting to look timeless as well.' Sunday Times'It is a champagne cocktail, compounded of a balletic nimbleness of invention, a bewildering intricacy of design which reaches... -
Performance Lighting Design by Nick Moran
RRP: €38.07€34.47A practical guide to the art and technique of lighting for the stage, this book explains the complex mixture of craft, collaboration and creativity behind successful lighting design. The designer paints with light - revealing form and composing a living... -
A Beginner's Guide to Devising Theatre by Jess Thorpe
RRP: €27.36€24.10Winner of the 2021 Music & Drama Education Award for Outstanding Drama Education Resource Much of the theatre we make starts with a script and a story given to us by someone else. But what happens when we're required to start from scratch? How do we... -
Sucker Punch by Roy Williams
RRP: €13.08€9.70Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock-down no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go. In the red corner: Leon Davidson - Black British champ or... -
Jumpers by Tom Stoppard
RRP: €13.08€8.71The Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In this dark, exuberant comedy, Stoppard... -
Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr 9780199658770
RRP: €9.51€6.89The story of modern drama is a tale of extremes, testing both audiences and actors to their limits through hostility and contrarianism. Spanning 1880 to the present, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr shows how truly international a phenomenon modern drama has... -
Broadway Musicals: Show by Show by Stanley Green
RRP: €35.70€26.30This updated edition of one of the bestselling and comprehensive Broadway reference books, first published in 1985, has been expanded to include many of the most important and memorable productions of American musical theatre, including revivals... -
Theatre as Sign System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance by Elaine Aston
RRP: €42.83€37.71This invaluable student handbook is the first detailed guide to explain in detail the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practice of drama in performance. Beginning at the beginning, with accessible explanations of the meanings and... -
Stage Design: a Practical Guide by Gary Thorne
RRP: €17.84€14.63In Stage Design - A Practical Guide Gary Thorne, a freelance theatre set and costume designer, introduces the concept of art and design for performance, drawing on his considerable experience in a wide variety of theatres. The book begins from first... -
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1 by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: €22.60€15.27The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment.Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1 includes A Chorus of... -
Corsets and Crinolines by Norah Waugh 9781138665668
RRP: €41.64€38.43In this classic book, Norah Waugh explores the changing shapes of women's dress from the 1500s to the 1920s. Simple laced bodices became corsets of cane, whalebone and steel, while padding at shoulders and hips gave way to the structures of farthingales,... -
Theatre Studies: The Basics by Robert Leach 9780415811682
RRP: €23.79€21.05Now in a second edition, Theatre Studies: The Basics is a fully updated guide to the wonderful world of theatre. The practical and theoretical dimensions of theatre - from acting to audience - are woven together throughout to provide an integrated... -
The Art of Illusion: Production Design for Film and Television by Terry Ackland-Snow
RRP: €26.18€22.91Film production is a highly creative and collaborative industry, full of multi-skilled artists and craftsmen. The fast-moving pace of technology makes it hard to keep abreast of current practices in production design. However, the ethos and skills... -
Marina Carr Plays 1: Love in the Dark; The Mai; Portia Coughlan; By the Bog of Cats... by Marina Carr
RRP: €22.60€15.27The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark'One of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carr's writing is the manner in which the sexism of the language and... -
Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States by Oscar G. Brockett
RRP: €90.44€80.22Theatrical scene design is one of the most beautiful, varied, and lively art forms. Yet there are relatively few books on the subject, and almost none for a general audience that combine expansive scholarship with lavish design. Making the Scene offers... -
Simon Stephens Plays 5: Wastwater; Birdland; Blindsided; Song From Far Away; Heisenberg by Simon Stephens
RRP: €23.79€21.10"Stephens writes dramas set in uncaring, uncompromising worlds, whose characters speak in a language at once naturalistic and yet artificially pared-down and whose uncertain attempts to assert their own identities sometimes lead to gratuitous and brutal... -
Bond Plays: 10: Dea; The Testament of this Day; The Price of One; The Angry Roads; The Hungry Bowl by Edward Bond
RRP: €26.17€24.53Bond Plays: 10 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved, Lear, The Pope's Wedding and Early Morning. The volume comprises four previously unpublished plays, one previously published play and a comprehensive introduction... -
Stays and Corsets Volume 2: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body by Mandy Barrington
RRP: €46.40€41.20In this second volume of Stays and Corsets, Mandy Barrington continues to create historical patterns for a modern body shape. This book contains all new corset patterns with a range of silhouettes that span over 300 years, from the late 16th century to... -
Spider's Web by Agatha Christie 9780573702334
RRP: €22.55€17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702334Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Side Show (2014 Broadway Revival) by Bill Russell 9780573704840
€13.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573704840Author Bill RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Harry Clarke by David Cale 9780573707308
RRP: €13.08€11.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707308Author David CaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Death of England: Delroy by Roy Williams
RRP: €14.27€13.11Me jumping out of the van, was the beginning of a very bad day for me. I just didn't know it, but I was going to know it, in about four minutes, I was going to know, fer trut. 2020. Delroy is arrested on his way to the hospital. Filled with anger... -
Playwriting For Dummies by Angelo Parra 9781118017227
RRP: €22.60€15.65The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and... -
A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre by Anne Bogart 9780415238328
RRP: €51.16€44.73A Director Prepares is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly and with wisdom of the courage required to create 'art with great presence'. Each chapter tackles one of the seven major areas... -
Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow
RRP: €17.84€13.03A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the definitive Welles biography.Insightful, incisive &... -
Designing Broadway: How Derek McLane and Other Acclaimed Set Designers Create the Visual World of Theatre by Derek McLane
RRP: €41.65€28.60Together with other leading set design and theatre talents, McLane invites us into the immersive and exhilarating experience of building the striking visual worlds that have brought so many of our favorite stories to life. Discover how designers generate... -
Blackbird by David Harrower
RRP: €13.08€8.71Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship.They haven't set eyes on each other since.Now, years later, she's found him again.Blackbird premiered at King's Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, in August 2005, and transferred to... -
The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett 9780571255610
RRP: €13.08€8.71Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwise have had, and in this respect versification and fornication are not so different. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new... -
The Globe Guide to Shakespeare: The plays, the productions, the life by Andrew Dickson
RRP: €23.79€22.15The Globe Guide to Shakespeare is the ultimate guide to the life and work of the world's greatest playwright: William Shakespeare. With full coverage of the 39 Shakespearian plays, including a synopsis, full character list, stage history and a critical... -
Dunsinane by David Greig
RRP: €13.08€8.71Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors, the commanding officer attempts to negotiate the unspoken... -
1984 by George Orwell
RRP: €14.27€13.82April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell's fiction is often said to be... -
The Lamplighter by Jackie Kay
RRP: €11.89€8.40'Ambitious, defiant, angry and gripping . . . the bitter story of slavery through the experience of four women' Guardian'Jackie Kay's work, formally expansive and inclusive . . . is always about the opening up of our notions of identity' Ali Smith,...