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National Theatre Connections 2020: Plays for Young People Mojisola Adebayo (Author, Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 9781350161009
RRP: $28.37$25.55National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world... -
Voice and Speech in the Theatre by J.Clifford Turner 9780713681888
RRP: $29.66$29.48A practical handbook to help the actor develop a clear and powerful voice. It explains the theory and recommends proven exercises to ensure improvement in voice and speech. This is a classic text regarded as essential reference for anyone in voice... -
Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes by Gyles Brandreth 9780198749585
RRP: $29.66$23.35This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard... -
Side Show (2014 Broadway Revival) by Bill Russell 9780573704840
$15.23Apologies 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 -
Break a Leg: A memoir, manifesto and celebration of amateur theatre by Jenny Landreth
RRP: $12.89$8.41'With spot-on injections of humour and a frequently raised sardonic eyebrow, joy and warmth shine from this fascinating and funny book' Jo BrandA joyful celebration of amateur theatreFrom the Mystery Plays of the Middle Ages, via the Georgian aristocrats... -
A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre by Anne Bogart 9780415238328
RRP: $55.46$47.27A 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... -
The Absence of War by David Hare
RRP: $14.18$9.44The Absence of War offers a meditation on the classic problems of leadership, and is the third part of a critically acclaimed trilogy of plays (Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges) about British institutions.Its unsparing portrait of a Labour Party torn... -
The Reason to Sing: A Guide to Acting While Singing by Craig Carnelia
RRP: $41.27$36.55In 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... -
Brown Boys Swim Karim Khan 9781350347502
RRP: $14.18$12.46"We think we'll be alright - because we wade through air, not water, but that's not enough." Best friends Mohsen and Kash are gearing up for the biggest night of their lives - Jess Denver's pool party. There's just one problem... they can't swim. ... -
Designing Broadway: How Derek McLane and Other Acclaimed Set Designers Create the Visual World of Theatre by Derek McLane
RRP: $45.15$36.48Together 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... -
Theatre Lighting Design: Conversations on the Art, Craft and Life Rob Halliday 9781350295926
RRP: $37.40$30.39This book provides an insight into the life of a professional lighting designer, through interviews with lighting designers at different stages of their careers plus a group interview with the designer and lighting team of the hit musical Billy Elliot... -
Neil LaBute: Plays 1: Filthy Talk for Troubled Times; The Mercy Seat; Some Girl(s); This Is How It Goes; Helter Skelter; A Second of Pleasure by Neil LaBute
RRP: $24.50$16.55Filthy Talk for Troubled Time is one of his earliest plays. A downbeat night at a topless bar exposes the gulf between the twitchy clientele and the waitresses who serve but despise them. The Mercy Seat examines a couple who, on the day after a... -
The Globe Guide to Shakespeare: The plays, the productions, the life by Andrew Dickson
RRP: $25.79$24.01The 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... -
Gone Too Far! by Bola Agbaje
$14.25Nigeria, England, America, Jamaica; are you proud of where you're from? Dark skinned, light skinned, afro, weaves, who are your true brothers and sisters? When two brothers from different continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk, they lift... -
Steven Berkoff Plays 3 by Steven Berkoff
RRP: $24.50$16.55This is a collection of three history plays, each displaying the sparkling muscularity of language that marks Berkoff out as one of the foremost wordsmiths in the English language. Set in thirteenth-century England, Ritual in Blood looks at the... -
The Comedies of Machiavelli: The Woman from Andros; The Mandrake; Clizia by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780872209015
RRP: $25.79$21.21Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy more than fifty years before Shakespeare's comedies delighted English-speaking audiences. This bilingual... -
"Sexual Perversity in Chicago" and "the Duck Variations": Two Plays by David Mamet 9780802150110
RRP: $14.18$11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150110Author David MametFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Theatre and Ethics by Nicholas Ridout
RRP: $9.02$8.17What is ethics and what has it got to do with theatre? Drawing on both theoretical material and practical examples, Ridout makes a clear and compelling critical intervention, raising fundamental questions about what theatre is for and how audiences... -
One Man, Two Guvnors Richard Bean (Author) 9781350265998
RRP: $15.47$14.22Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect GBP6,000 from his fiancee's dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who's been... -
The Lamplighter by Jackie Kay
RRP: $12.89$9.38'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,... -
Reasons to Be Pretty by Neil LaBute
RRP: $14.18$9.44Greg is overheard admitting that his girlfriend Steph is no beauty, but that he wouldn't change her for the world. She is devastated; he can't see what he's done wrong. Meanwhile, Greg's friend Kent alternates between boasting about how gorgeous his wife... -
Racing Demon by David Hare 9780571161065
RRP: $14.18$9.44How do you fight without hate?Racing Demon reveals the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission. David Hare's play opened at the National Theatre, London, in 1990 to universal acclaim, and won four awards as Play of the Year. Racing... -
Race in American Musical Theater by Josephine Lee 9781350248212
RRP: $14.18$12.37While most discussions of race in American theater emphasize the representation of race mainly in terms of character, plot, and action, Race in American Musical Theater highlights elements of theatrical production and reception that are particular to... -
Costume Design for Performance by Bettina John 9781785009273
RRP: $25.80$21.19Costume Design for Performance offers a detailed insight into the creative process behind designing costumes for the performing arts, including theatre, opera, dance and film. Guiding the reader through the essential steps of the designing process,... -
Performance Studies: An Introduction Richard Schechner (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, USA) 9781138284562
RRP: $56.75$50.88Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global performance. The publication of Performance Studies: An... -
Still the Beast is Feeding: Fifty Years of Rocky Horror by Rob Bagnall 9781845832247
RRP: $25.79$23.23Apologies 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 -
Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance by Robert Cross 9780719062544
RRP: $25.79$22.99This book is the first substantial study of Steven Berkoff's career, examining the construction and projection of his notorious public persona through his plays and writings.About the AuthorRobert Cross is Professor in the Institute for Language and... -
National Theatre Connections 2017: Three; #YOLO; Fomo; Status Update; Musical Differences; Extremism; The School Film; Zero for the Young Dudes!; The Snow Dragons; The Monstrum Suhayla El-Bushra (Author) 9781350033597
$35.32Drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology features work by some of the most exciting and established contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays collected offer young ... -
The Boy Who Fell into a Book by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $14.18$9.44Rockfist Slim's enemies have just plunged him into yet another desperate situation when Kevin has to close his detective book and go to sleep. But his own adventure is only just beginning. Fast-moving, fun and full of special effects, Ayckbourn's... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Greek and Roman Drama by John Burgess
RRP: $16.76$11.04An essential, refreshingly accessible guide to Greek and Roman drama containing entries for forty plays by all the major dramatists in the classical world - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence and Seneca.Features... -
An Introduction to Rigging in the Entertainment Industry by Chris Higgs 9781904031123
RRP: $32.19$29.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904031123Author Chris HiggsFormat PaperbackImprint Entertainment Technology Press LtdPublisher Cambridge Media Group -
Production Management in Live Music: Managing the Technical Side of Touring in Today's Music Industry Matt Doherty 9781032138886
RRP: $41.27$36.55Production Management in Live Music: Managing the Technical Side of Touring in Today's Music Industry is a handbook for the aspiring production manager looking to forge a career in the live music industry. This book outlines the role that a production... -
Shakespeare on the Factory Floor by Andrew Hilton
RRP: $21.92$16.09A passionate, illuminating exploration of Shakespeare's greatest plays and characters, by the director of acclaimed theatre company Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory. Combining close textual analysis with practical insights based on his extensive... -
Certain Fragments: Texts and Writings on Performance Tim Etchells (Lancaster University, UK) 9780415173834
RRP: $50.30$44.14What 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... -
Verbatim, Verbatim: Contemporary Documentary Theatre Will Hammond 9781840026979
RRP: $20.63$18.42Five 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... -
The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays by John Lennard 9780198700708
RRP: $48.36$40.31This 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... -
Brief Encounter by Noel Coward
$16.00Noel 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... -
All My Sons Arthur Miller 9781350245822
RRP: $11.60$10.31'His drama is a piece of expert dramatic construction. Mr. Miller has woven his characters into a tangle of plot that springs naturally out of the circumstances of life today.' NEW YORK TIMES Three years on from the disappearance of his son,... -
Contemporary Scenes for Actors: Women by Michael Earley 9780413701107
$23.34This series of six volumes has been conceived to complement The Classical Monologue, The Modern Monologue and The Contemporary Monologue (by the same editors) Contemporary Scenes for Actors (Women) contains challenging scenes for actresses for two to... -
Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama Kenneth McLeish 9780413720306
RRP: $24.50$20.34A new and definitive guide to the theatre of the ancient world The Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is a meticulously researched and accessible survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece. It provides a comprehensive author-by-author...