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A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing: Adapted for the Stage by Eimear McBride
RRP: $14.18$8.71Winner 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: $19.35$18.51You 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... -
York Realist, The by Peter Gill
RRP: $14.18$8.71Early 1960s, Yorkshire. Farm labourer George is cast in an amateur staging of the York Mystery Plays. His world is shaken when he falls for metropolitan assistant director John and the two men embark on a clandestine affair.Peter Gill's influential play... -
Braids and Cheer Up Slug by Tamsin Daisy Rees
$14.25Shortlisted 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... -
The Red Lion by Patrick Marber
RRP: $14.18$9.44'A beautiful play about the beautiful game.' Independent'At its heart a dark, tender and beautifully wrought study in male desperation.' Time Out'Patrick Marber is to modern British drama what Michael Owen was to our footie.' Daily Mail'Marber, in this... -
A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre by Christopher Innes 9780415152297
RRP: $47.72$41.96A 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
$15.23This 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... -
South Downs and Mere Fact, Mere Fiction by David Hare
RRP: $14.18$9.441962: A public school on the South Downs.John Blakemore is a solitary boy who finds it impossible either to understand or adapt to the ways of the school. His adolescent earnestness put off teacher and pupil alike. And now suddenly he seems to be in... -
My Sister in This House by Wendy Kesselman 9780573618727
$15.23Wendy Kesselman Full Length, Drama New Revised Version Characters: 4 female Combination Interior Set Winner of the Playbill Award. This extraordinary drama, produced to acclaim at the Actors Theatre of Louisville originally, and at NYC's Second Stage is... -
Sense of Occasion by Harold Prince 9781495013027
RRP: $32.25$25.98In 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... -
The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2019 by Lawrence Harbison 9781493053315
RRP: $19.34$16.81Renowned 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: $12.89$8.77'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... -
Agreement by Owen McCafferty 9780571385089
RRP: $14.18$9.44SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE'An outstanding evening, a landmark play, a thoroughly deserved five stars . . . Owen McCafferty's searing dramatisation is a political thriller with echoes of Greek drama.' Irish TimesOwen... -
Upfront Theatre: Why Is John Lennon Wearing A Skirt?; Arsehammers; The Year of the Monkey; Hard Working Families by Claire Dowie
RRP: $30.95$29.48An 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: $15.47$14.22'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... -
The Sneeze by Anton Chekhov 9780573625244
$15.23Comprising 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... -
The Judas Kiss by David Hare
RRP: $12.89$8.64Oscar Wilde's philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. The Judas Kiss describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and the night when the lover for whom he risked everything betrays him.With a... -
Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti 9780573700286
$15.66Apologies 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 -
Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography by Jane Collins
RRP: $51.59$45.74Theatre 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... -
Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre & Film by Martha Ruskai
RRP: $174.15$145.64Wig 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: $28.37$24.76In 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
$14.25Where'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... -
Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics by Anna Deavere Smith
RRP: $20.37$15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721745Author Anna Deavere SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Directing Amateur Theatre by Helen E. Sharman 9780713668070
$28.86In 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... -
The Vortex by Noël Coward 9781350421936
RRP: $14.18$13.89The 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... -
Positive Stories For Negative Times: Five Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely by Sabrina Mahfouz
RRP: $28.37$20.47Five exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools theatre company with guidance for staging the plays either online or live in the space. ... -
Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette
RRP: $41.28$27.88Celebrating 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... -
Directing the Decades: Lessons from Fifty Years of Becoming a Director by Sue Dunderdale
RRP: $41.27$38.62- Each historical chapter is followed by a process chapter giving the explication of a detailed rehearsal methodology useful to both directors and actors.- The process chapters include objectives, examples from the practice of other directors and actors,... -
The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre And The Thirties by Harold Clurman
RRP: $18.05$16.28The 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: $19.34$14.36Many 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 Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre by Peter Brook 9781400077878
RRP: $24.51$17.17Apologies 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
$43.07"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: $25.79$17.09Apologies 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... -
David Hare Plays 1: Slag; Teeth 'n' Smiles; Knuckle; Licking Hitler; Plenty by David Hare
RRP: $24.50$16.55This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British playwrights' (Independent on Sunday).The volume also includes the... -
How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today by Simon Goldhill
RRP: $20.64$20.34From 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... -
Theatre by David Mamet
RRP: $16.76$11.04If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, 'many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical'. As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and... -
Elizabethan Jacobean Drama: The Theatre in Its Time by Blakemore G. Evans
$38.75Treats, 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... -
A Taste of Honey: 60 Years of Modern Plays by Shelagh Delaney
RRP: $19.35$18.51It's chaotic -- a bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We don't ask for life, we have it thrust upon us. Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was 19, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s. ... -
Here's to the Ladies: Conversations with More of the Great Women of Musical Theater by Eddie Shapiro 9780197585535
RRP: $39.98$35.05A fascinating look at the careers of some of Broadway's greatest female performers in their own words In Here's to the Ladies, the follow-up to Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater, theatre journalist Eddie... -
Theatre Audiences by Susan Bennett
RRP: $47.72$41.96Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences. Published here in a brand...