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Playwriting: A Practical Guide by Noel Greig 9780415310444
RRP: $54.58$47.35Playwriting offers a practical guide to the creation of text for live performance. It contains a wealth of exercises for amateur and professional playwrights. Usable in a range of contexts, the book works as:a step-by-step guide to the creation of an... -
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528649Author Shayda KafaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press -
Theatre Studies: The Basics Robert Leach 9780415811682
RRP: $38.98$34.50Now 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... -
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett 9780571329656
RRP: $25.33$18.02Written in French and first performed at the Theatre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as Waiting for Godot. It was performed at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955, and first... -
The Girl On The Train by Rachel Wagstaff 9780573132131
$22.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132131Author Rachel WagstaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Chita: A Memoir by Chita Rivera
RRP: $48.75$32.04The long-awaited and wildly entertaining memoir of the star of stage and screen, the legendary Chita Rivera-three-time Tony Award-winner, Kennedy Centers honoree, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa... -
Stage Design: a Practical Guide by Gary Thorne
RRP: $29.23$24.47In 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... -
Legal Issues for Arts Organizations: A Practical Guide by Kristi W. Arth 9780367771133
RRP: $70.18$61.80Legal issues touch every aspect of organizations in the creative and cultural sectors. This book teaches non-lawyer, arts administration professionals and students how to identify and manage legal issues common to arts organizations.Legal Issues for Arts... -
Playwriting For Dummies Angelo Parra 9781118017227
RRP: $37.03$25.64The 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... -
Simon Stephens Plays 5: Wastwater; Birdland; Blindsided; Song From Far Away; Heisenberg Simon Stephens (Author) 9781350235670
RRP: $38.98$34.57"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... -
Character Costume Figure Drawing: Step-by-Step Drawing Methods for Theatre Costume Designers Tan Huaixiang (Tenured Associate Professor in Costume and Makeup Design, University of Central Florida's Conservatory Theatre, Orlando) 9781138211711
RRP: $87.73$76.36Character Costume Figure Drawing is an essential guide that will improve your drawing skills and costume renderings. Step-by-step visuals illustrate the how-tos of drawing body parts, costumes, accessories, faces, children, and different character... -
Art and Artifice: And Other Essays of Illusion by Jim Steinmeyer 9780786718061
$26.70From the author of Hiding the Elephant and The Glorious Deception comes a collection of five essays that shows how the great stage illusions were integrally products of their time, based on the traditions and fashions of the people, and the offspring of... -
Dead Now Of Course by Phyllida Law
RRP: $25.33$16.54'My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress. There's still something disturbing, I grant you, about the word "actress". If an MP or some other outstanding person plays fast and loose with an... -
Bond Plays: 10: Dea; The Testament of this Day; The Price of One; The Angry Roads; The Hungry Bowl by Edward Bond
RRP: $42.88$41.03Bond 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... -
Voice and Speech in the Theatre by J.Clifford Turner 9780713681888
RRP: $44.83$44.56A 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... -
Side Show (2014 Broadway Revival) by Bill Russell 9780573704840
$23.03Apologies 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 -
Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance by Sue-Ellen Case
RRP: $87.73$76.60The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver,... -
The Circus: A Visual History by Pascal Jacob
RRP: $87.75$72.13Winner of 2019 British Book Design & Production Award for Scholarly, Academic & Reference Books This beautiful book charts the development of the circus as an art form around the world, from antiquity to the present day. Using over 200 circus... -
This Restless House: an adaptation of Aeschlyus' Oresteia by Zinnie Harris
RRP: $25.33$16.69'Electrifying . . . This four-hour epic of ambition and power is a sinewy reworking of Aeschylus that explodes into a cacophonous climax.' GUARDIAN *****Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter to the gods; an act which sets in... -
A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre by Anne Bogart 9780415238328
RRP: $83.83$71.45A 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: $21.43$14.27The 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... -
Designing Broadway: How Derek McLane and Other Acclaimed Set Designers Create the Visual World of Theatre by Derek McLane
RRP: $68.25$55.15Together 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... -
Steven Berkoff Plays 3 by Steven Berkoff
RRP: $37.03$25.02This 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... -
Break a Leg: A memoir, manifesto and celebration of amateur theatre by Jenny Landreth
RRP: $19.48$12.71'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... -
National Theatre Connections 2021: Two Plays for Young People Miriam Battye 9781350233492
RRP: $25.33$23.13It is the scale and range of creative collaboration inherent in theatre that sits at the very heart of National Theatre Connections Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2021 features work by brilliant... -
American Psycho by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
RRP: $21.43$18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707230Author Roberto Aguirre-SacasaFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
"Sexual Perversity in Chicago" and "the Duck Variations": Two Plays by David Mamet 9780802150110
RRP: $21.43$17.76Apologies 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... -
Beyond The Canon's Plays for Young Activists: Three Plays by Women from the Global Majority Mojisola Adebayo (Author, Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 9781350294998
RRP: $42.88$37.85Nominated for Outstanding Drama Education Resource at the 2024 Music & Drama Education Awards A first-of-its-kind anthology, Beyond The Canon's Plays for Young Activists combines plays, toolkits, and an online guide to empower young people into... -
National Theatre Connections 2020: Plays for Young People Mojisola Adebayo (Author, Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 9781350161009
RRP: $42.88$38.63National 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... -
Theatre and The Body by Colette Conroy
$22.48What do we mean when we talk about bodies in theatre? And how does theatre affect the way we think about the human body?Bodies are vital elements of theatre production and spectatorship. But the body is not just physical, it is also conceptual. Drawing... -
The Lamplighter by Jackie Kay
RRP: $19.48$14.18'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,... -
Digital Costume Design and Collaboration: Applications in Academia, Theatre, and Film Rafael Jaen 9781138935723
RRP: $68.23$58.38Digital Costume Design and Collaboration gives in-depth instruction on how to draw, render, and fully design costumes using online tools and software. Grounded in the use of Photoshop, the book explains the process of building a costume design from... -
Reasons to Be Pretty by Neil LaBute
RRP: $21.43$14.27Greg 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: $21.43$14.27How 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... -
Notes to Future Self by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: $21.43$14.27Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age movement and the girls were raised in a series of ashrams, communes and impromptu raves.When Sophie gets ill, they return to Birmingham... -
Costume Design for Performance by Bettina John 9781785009273
RRP: $39.00$32.04Costume 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,... -
Still the Beast is Feeding: Fifty Years of Rocky Horror by Rob Bagnall 9781845832247
RRP: $38.98$35.12Apologies 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 -
The Free9 In-Sook Chappell 9781350258433
RRP: $21.43$18.84Nine teenagers flee North Korea, dreaming of a new life in the South. But the danger is far from over. With threats around every corner, perhaps the mysterious figure of Big Brother can help them? Or is he the very person they're running from? As... -
Notelets of Filth: A Companion Reader to MLM's Emilia by Laura Kressly
RRP: $68.23$60.16This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative... -
Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance by Robert Cross 9780719062544
RRP: $38.98$34.75This 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...