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The Wiz: The Adaptation of Frank Baum's "the Wizard of Oz" by Charlie Smalls
RRP: £11.99£10.95Musical / 11 Principals, Various small parts, Singers and Dancers / Various sets Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz have been set to music in a dazzling, lively mixture of rock, gospel and soul music. Everybody knows the story, but now it's a new... -
Alan Ayckbourn Plays 4 by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: £16.99£11.58The Revengers' ComediesA hugely entertaining pitch that recalls the old movies to which it frequently pays homage - Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Kind Hearts and Coronets - and expands after intermission to reveal an immensely disturbing vision of... -
Sunderland Empire by Judith Robinson 9780752443409
RRP: £12.99£9.62The Sunderland Empire is one of the grand old provincial theatres. This collection of more than 150 archive photographs is a comprehensive history of the building. It charts the evolution of the Empire from the days of Victorian music hall to the Girl... -
Theatre in Scotland: A Field of Dreams by Joyce McMillan
RRP: £14.99£11.13'She has, to my knowledge, an almost unblemished record in never having failed to spot a great new play...' Philip Howard, from his Foreword Joyce McMillan has been writing about theatre in Scotland for more than three decades. As drama critic... -
The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley
RRP: £12.99£11.78Drama Characters: 9 male Interior Set This seminal work of the Off-Broadway movement premiered in 1968 and was a long-running hit onstage, later filmed with the original cast. In 2010, the play made a triumphant return to New York City in an highly... -
Unarmed Stage Combat by Philip d'Orleans
RRP: £25.00£20.68Stage combat is a constantly evolving craft, responsive to the growing demands of an ever changing industry and an ever more perceptive audience. Experienced fight director, teacher and examiner Philip d'Orleans shows how to respond to this challenge... -
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better by Will Storr
RRP: £17.00£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419747953Author Will StorrFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Theatreland: A Journey Through the Heart of London's Theatre by Paul Ibell
RRP: £35.00£26.73Paul Ibell's "Theatreland" combines historical narrative with a unique exploration of how London's theatre works today. Covering the five centuries from Shakespeare's Bankside playhouses to today's West End, Paul Ibell's "Theatreland" explores the... -
Polko by Angus Harrison 9780571387700
RRP: £10.99£7.32I like this car.It's sort of horrible but I like it.It's a good place for something bad like abreakdown or -As teenagers, Emma, Joe and Polko thought they'd never grow apart. When Emma returns to the suburb of their childhood ten years later, she... -
Matchbox Theatre: Thirty Short Entertainments by Michael Frayn
RRP: £11.99£7.93Matchbox Theatre presents a sketch show in miniature: thirty short entertainments by Michael Frayn, author of Skios and Noises Off, 'the funniest farce ever written' (New York Times).These tiny plays are offered here for performance in the smallest... -
Syrian Refugees, Applied Theater, Workshop Facilitation, and Stories: While They Were Waiting by Fadi Skeiker 9780367654054
RRP: £18.99£17.69This book analyzes and theorizes the efficacy of using applied theater as a tool to address refugee issues of displacement, trauma, adjustment, and psychological well-being, in addition to split community belonging.Fadi Skeiker connects refugee... -
The Sound of Music: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical by Oscar Hammerstein 9781423490791
RRP: £12.99£11.29The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious life she is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed... -
A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Fit by Jeanette deJong
RRP: £22.99£20.16A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Fit explores the concept of fit in theatrical costumes - what it is, how to assess it, and how to achieve it.Being able to assess whether a costume fits or not is a learned skill, which takes practice as well as... -
The Art of Theatrical Sound Design: A Practical Guide by Victoria Deiorio
RRP: £25.99£22.76Emphasising the artistry behind the decisions made by theatrical sound designers, this guide is for anyone seeking to understand the nature of sound and how to apply it to the stage. Through tried-and-tested advice and lessons in practical application,... -
The Letters of Cole Porter by Cole Porter
RRP: £27.50£23.89The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth century From Anything Goes to Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter left a lasting legacy of iconic songs including "You're the Top," "Love For... -
P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! by James Kirkwood
RRP: £10.99£9.59James Kirkwood Full Length, Comedy Characters: 3 male, 1 female Interior Set In the West Village of Manhattan, Jimmy Zoole, a thirty-ish actor is having a run of bad luck. He's been robbed twice (they even took the only copy of his first novel), fired... -
Teaching Drama: Fundamentals and Beyond: A System Using more than 250 Exercises, Improvisations and Activities by Thomas Crockett 9780692254035
RRP: £18.95£15.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692254035Author Thomas CrockettFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Vision PressPublisher Vision PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Neil LaBute: Plays 2: The Shape of Things; Fat Pig; In a Dark Dark House; In a Forest, Dark and Deep by Neil LaBute
RRP: £18.99£12.83'LaBute takes us to shadowy places we don't like to talk about, sometimes even to think about.' NewsdayObsession with surface and secrets runs through this second collection of Neil LaBute's work. The Shape of Things peels back the skin of modern-day... -
Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical "Follies" by Ted Chapin
RRP: £18.99£16.58In 1971 college student Ted Chapin found himself front row center as a production assistant at the creation of one of the greatest Broadway musicals EFolliesE. Needing college credit to graduate on time he kept a journal of everything he saw and heard... -
Hela by Mari Izzard
£11.05"Do's dim hawl 'da ti adael, Do's dim hawl 'da ti anghofio pwy wyt ti" "You don't get to leave, You don't get to forget who you really are" Erin, a young mother, has lost her son - but no one will listen. Driven and desperate, she must find him... -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov 9781420964097
£6.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420964097Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm -
Nick Dear Plays 1: Art of Success; In the Ruins; Zenobia; Turn of the Screw by Nick Dear
RRP: £18.99£12.83This first collection of Nick Dear's work for the stage displays the breadth and achievement of one of the most talented and inventive dramatists writing in Britain today. The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art... -
The Secrets Of Noh Masks by Michishige Udaka
RRP: £25.00£16.78Noh master Michishige Udaka is the only living actor to continue to create masks while still performing and teaching. In this book he presents 32 of the more than 200 masks he's made to date, accompanied by compelling revelations about the masks and the... -
Replay by Nicola Wren
RRP: £11.99£11.95An intimate, moving and ultimately uplifting new monologue play. Replay is the story of a woman revisiting her childhood, coming to terms with the significant pain of her past and finally realising that she needs to embrace the memory of her brother in... -
Ibsen's A Doll's House: A Study Guide by Stephen Unwin
RRP: £9.99£7.27The Nick Hern Books Page to Stage series - highly accessible guides to the world's best-known plays, written by established theatre professionals to show how the plays come to life on the stage. Director Stephen Unwin takes you scene by scene through... -
Theatre and Dance by Kate Elswit
RRP: £7.99£7.58This succinct and engaging text explores the interdependence between theatre and dance. Making a compelling case for the significance of resisting genre distinctions in the arts, Kate Elswit demonstrates why and how the ampersand between theatre and... -
Stages of Reckoning: Antiracist and Decolonial Actor Training by Amy Mihyang Ginther
RRP: £29.99£26.64Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces.This book provokes embodied and intellectual discomfort for the reader to take risks with their ideologies, identities, and... -
Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig
£12.78Comedy / 5m, 3f / Unit set. In this hilarious comedy by the author of Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buffalo , two English Shakespearean actors, Jack and Leo, find themselves so down on their luck that they are performing "Scenes from Shakespeare" on the... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9780571237357
RRP: £10.99£7.32I know now, Kostya, I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure.The Seagull is one of the great plays about... -
Shakespeare's Tragic Justice by C. J. Sisson
RRP: £34.99£30.85The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom. In this book, first published in 1963, four aspects of the problems of justice in action in Shakespeare's great tragedies are explored. This study is based on... -
Via Dolorosa by David Hare
RRP: £9.99£7.11'My whole life, it's been assumed, Western civilisation is an old bitch gone in the teeth. And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they're fighting for something they believe in.' Via Dolorosa. In... -
Arrr!: A Very British Pantomime by Gareth John Jones 9781533333131
RRP: £9.95£8.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533333131Author Gareth John JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Writing The Broadway Musical by Aaron Frankel 9780306809439
RRP: £14.99£11.99Brimming with advice and techniques, this essential reference for book- and songwriters clearly explains the fundamentals of the three crafts of a musical,book, music, and lyrics. Using copious examples from classic shows, Frankel has created the... -
Theatre Histories: An Introduction by Bruce McConachie
£52.80This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers a critical overview of global theatre and drama, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods. Bringing together a... -
Color & Light: Navigating Color Mixing in the Midst of an LED Revolution, A Handbook for Lighting Designers by Clifton Taylor
RRP: £30.99£19.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935247197Author Clifton TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Silman-James Press,U.S.Publisher Silman-James Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 544g -
Jesus Christ Superstar - Revised Edition: A Rock Opera by Warner Bros.
RRP: £22.50£14.93Apologies 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 -
Venice Saved by Simone Weil
RRP: £16.99£12.48Towards the end of her life, the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (1909-43) was working on a tragedy, Venice Saved. Appearing here in English for the first time, this play explores the realisation of Weil's own thoughts on tragedy. A figure of... -
Peter Pan Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis
£13.88Tonight Neverland is fleshed out with plenty of plant life, certainly bettering 2011's production of Jack and the Bean-Cactus. So, with no further ado, please put your hands together for J.M. Barrie's Christmas classic: Peter Pan! The inept and... -
Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm 9781350200258
RRP: £12.99£11.86'A spicy work of biographical conjecture ... It's also a rousing reminder of the countless creative women who have been written out of history or have had to fight relentlessly to make themselves heard.' EVENING STANDARD 'The great virtue of Lloyd... -
Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance by Steve Dixon
RRP: £38.99£35.58Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from...