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Argonuts by Scott Lynch-Giddings 9780874403077
£11.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874403077Author Scott Lynch-GiddingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Baker's PlaysPublisher Baker's PlaysWeight(grams) 101gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Dance Medicine in Practice: Anatomy, Injury Prevention, Training by Liane Simmel
RRP: £49.99£43.50Dance Medicine in Practice is the complete physical textbook for dance, written specifically to help dancers understand the anatomy, function and care of their bodies. Specific chapters are devoted to focusing on the spine, pelvis, hips, knees, feet,... -
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing: Adapted for the Stage by Eimear McBride
RRP: £10.99£6.75Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche of a girl with... -
Elmina's Kitchen: 60 Years of Modern Plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah
RRP: £15.00£14.35You can't just walk into dis bad man t'ing, you gotta learn the whole science of it. You step into that arena and you better be able to dance wid death til it mek you dizzy. Kwame Kwei-Armah's ground-breaking play about British black male identity... -
Braids and Cheer Up Slug by Tamsin Daisy Rees
£11.05Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain's "Best Play for Young Audiences" Award (2022) "Don't you ever get sick of it?" "Being the only one?" "Yeah. Being the Ambassador of Blackness?" Abeni is new to college. She's putting purple... -
All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago by Ethan Mordden 9780190651794
RRP: £29.99£24.27In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths - the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamor of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob Fosse and Gwen... -
A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre by Christopher Innes 9780415152297
RRP: £36.99£32.53A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides essential primary sources which document one of the key movements in modern theatre. Christopher Innes has selected three writers to exemplify the movement, and six plays in particular: * Henrik Ibsen - A Dolls... -
Listen to This by Frayn 9780573691799
£11.81This varied collection of short sketches and monologues by the author of NOISES OFF, BENEFACTORS and others is essential to any actor's library. Most pieces are comic and all are perfect for classes and auditions. Contents: At the Sign of the Rupture... -
Sense of Occasion by Harold Prince 9781495013027
RRP: £25.00£20.14In this fast-moving candid conversational and entertaining memoir Harold Prince the most honored director/producer in the history of the American theater looks back over his seventy-year (and counting!) career.TH In 1974 Prince released his first... -
No Quarter by Polly Stenham
RRP: £10.99£7.32You were brought up on mythology. Hollow mythology. That's why you're all stuck, all angry, a prince in the wrong story. A prince with a black eye.Fleeing a world he has rejected, Robin finds solace in his music and the sanctuary of his remote family... -
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill 9780573630231
RRP: £18.95£14.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573630231Author Caryl ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French IncWeight(grams) 136g -
Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History by Robert Stagg 9780192863270
RRP: £28.99£24.42Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History is a study both of Shakespeare's versification and of its place in the history of early modern blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). It ranges from the continental precursors of English blank verse in... -
The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2019 by Lawrence Harbison 9781493053315
RRP: £14.99£13.03Renowned editor Larry Harbison brings together approximately one-hundred never-before-published women's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both... -
The Age of Shakespeare by Sir Frank Kermode
RRP: £9.99£6.80'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays.Shakespeare made his unique contribution to British and world culture in the midst of... -
The Hidden Plot: Notes on Theatre and the State by Edward Bond 9780413725509
£25.45Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Upfront Theatre: Why Is John Lennon Wearing A Skirt?; Arsehammers; The Year of the Monkey; Hard Working Families by Claire Dowie
RRP: £23.99£22.85An anthology bringing together a selection of Claire Dowie's plays for young people, which are ideal for performance with a large cast. The anthology includes the following plays and an introduction by the author. Why Is John Lennon Wearing A... -
The Poltergeist by Philip Ridley
RRP: £11.99£11.02'Art's my hobby too.' Hobby?! Sasha was destined to take the art world by storm. At the age of fifteen pop stars wanted his paintings, and a new exhibition was going to make him a rich man. But now he serves in a stationers, and no one's even heard... -
Three Renaissance Usury Plays: The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, the Hog Hath Lost His Pearl by Lloyd Kermode
RRP: £19.99£17.61This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabethan and Jacobean 'usury plays' - The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, and The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl. The edition includes an... -
The Sneeze by Anton Chekhov 9780573625244
£11.81Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest precursors of modern drama. First published in 1989, this... -
Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti 9780573700286
£12.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573700286Author Marc CamolettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 109g -
Venice Saved by Simone Weil
RRP: £16.99£15.11Towards 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... -
Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography by Jane Collins
RRP: £39.99£35.46Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography is an essential resource for those interested in the visual composition of performance and related scenographic practices. Theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and... -
The Theatre of Visions: Robert Wilson by Stefan Brecht 9780413495907
RRP: £22.99£22.85Robert Wilson's theatre is the stuff of legend. He has taught theatre-goers to see the world with different eyes. Stefan Brecht's book provides detailed documentation and analysis of a number of Wilson's earliest groundbreaking works including The Life... -
Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre & Film by Martha Ruskai
RRP: £135.00£112.90Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre and Film, Second Edition is the one-stop shop for the knowledge and skills you need to create and style wigs. Covering the basics, from styling tools to creating beards, it ramps up to advanced... -
Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage by Laura Edmondson
RRP: £21.99£17.54In Performance and Politics in Tanzania, Laura Edmondson examines how politics, social values, and gender are expressed on stage. Now a disappearing tradition, Tanzanian popular theatre integrates comic sketches, acrobatics, melodrama, song, and dance to... -
The Fellowship by Roy Williams
£11.05Where's the glory Mum? Where's that perfect world for us, your kids? Children of the Windrush generation, sisters Dawn and Marcia Adams grew up in 1980s London and were activists on the front line against the multiple injustices of that time. Decades... -
Directing Amateur Theatre by Helen E. Sharman 9780713668070
£22.37In the world of amateur theatre, the role of director is challenging and wide-ranging. As the leader of a team, you can face problems on any aspect of the production which you will be expected to solve. This book contains all the advice you will need to... -
Playwriting: A Writers' and Artists' Companion by Fraser Grace 9781472529329
£26.89Full of inspiration and practical advice, Playwriting: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is a comprehensive companion to writing for the stage. PART 1 includes reflections on the art and the craft of playwriting, guidance on writing for a full range... -
Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette
RRP: £32.00£27.39Celebrating its 25-year anniversary in 2020, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette's Grammy-Award winning album Jagged Little Pill has come to define a generation. In the "triumphant and moving" (Variety) Broadway musical of the same name, Morissette's... -
The Vortex by Noël Coward 9781350421936
RRP: £10.99£10.77The roaring twenties. A world in flux. The magnetic Florence Lancaster draws people to her like moths to a flame. But when her son Nicky arrives home from Paris with an unexpected fiancee and a secret, it sets off a chain of events which threatens to... -
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... -
Rebecca Lenkiewicz: Plays 1: The Night Season; Shoreditch Madonna; Her Naked Skin; The Painter by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
RRP: £16.99£11.58The Night Season'The Night Season is unusual; no politics, no issues, no history - just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy nature of living. It's also delightfully, rudely funny.' Financial Times'Look out for the name Rebecca Lenkiewicz. It's once... -
The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre And The Thirties by Harold Clurman
RRP: £13.99£12.44The Group Theatre was perhaps the most significant experiment in the history of American theatre. Producing plays that reflected topical issues of the decade and giving a creative chance to actors, directors, and playwrights who were either fed up with... -
The Active Text: Unlocking Plays Through Physical Theatre by Dymphna Callery
RRP: £14.99£11.13Many theatre practitioners think of physical theatre as one thing and text-based theatre as another. In this book, Dymphna Callery, author of Through the Body: A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre, shows how exercises and rehearsal techniques associated... -
The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: £14.99£11.54This 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... -
The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre by Peter Brook 9781400077878
RRP: £19.00£13.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400077878Author Peter BrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Affair of the Heart: British Theatre from 1992 to 2020 by Michael Billington
£33.39"The best theatrical read of the year." - British Theatre Guide A book of selected theatre reviews from 1992 to 2020 from one of the foremost authorities on British theatre. Each chapter starts with a brief commentary on the developments of that... -
The Production Notebooks: Volume 1: Theatre in Process by Mark Bly 9781559361101
RRP: £19.99£13.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361101Author Mark BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today by Simon Goldhill
RRP: £16.00£15.77From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constantly in production. This global revival, in addition to delighting audiences, has highlighted both the promise and... -
Elizabethan Jacobean Drama: The Theatre in Its Time by Blakemore G. Evans
£30.04Treats, through excerpts from contemporary opinion and official documents, various aspects of the little world of theatre in the full context of Elizabethan-Jacobean life and times.Book InformationISBN 9780941533133Author Blakemore G. EvansFormat...