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My Shakespeare: A Director’s Journey through the First Folio by Greg Doran
RRP: $32.25$24.37This book charts the personal and professional journey of Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2012 until 2022 and "one of the great Shakespearians of his generation" (Sunday Times). During his illustrious career, Doran... -
Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry by Richard Norton-Taylor
RRP: $18.05$17.35Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry is a verbatim reconstruction of the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry. Using only the words spoken at the Inquiry, the play deals predominantly with Part 2 which ran between January 2020 - July 2021 in... -
Opera: The Definitive Illustrated Story by Alan Riding
RRP: $32.25$25.83Experience the passion and drama of the world's greatest operas with this sumptuously illustrated visual guide.Immerse yourself in more than 400 years of the world's most celebrated operas and discover the fascinating stories behind them. Explore the... -
Drama Games for Young Children by Katherine Zachest
RRP: $19.34$14.01From the bestselling Drama Games series, this dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book - packed with over 200 individual games - is perfect for teachers, playgroup leaders and drama facilitators who want to inspire and entertain children, aged 3... -
Working On A Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown by Anais Mitchell
RRP: $16.76$11.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593182574Author Anais MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Cyprus Avenue by David Ireland
RRP: $15.47$15.05Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a newborn baby and successfully infiltrated my family home. Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. He believes his five-week old granddaughter is Gerry Adams. His family keep telling him to stop living in the past... -
Creating Back to the Future: The Musical by Michael Klastorin
RRP: $38.70$24.91Premiering at the Manchester Opera House in February 2020 to rave reviews-including a notice from The Guardian that the show "sets a new standard of spectacle," Back to the Future: The Musical brings the classic 1985 film to life on the theatrical stage... -
Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training: A Beginner's Guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork (R) by Andrea Caban
RRP: $41.27$36.55Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is a beginner's guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork (R), a method that focuses on universal and inclusive speech training for actors from all language, racial, cultural, and... -
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction by Adrian Poole
RRP: $11.60$8.53What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists,... -
Stage Management by Diane Norburn
RRP: $29.03$23.71Working at the heart of theatre production, the stage management department is responsible for the smooth running of the show from day one of rehearsals to final curtain on the last performance. Stage Management examines, in depth, the roles and... -
Leave Taking: The GCSE Study Guide by Lynette Carr Armstrong 9781839041365
RRP: $14.18$9.95An essential resource for anyone studying Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock for GCSE English Literature - featuring a complete guide to the text, plus sample questions and answers to help you prepare for assessment. Get to grips with Leave Taking with... -
Les Miserables: The Official Archives by Benedict Nightingale
RRP: $38.70$27.09It is 150 years since Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables was first published. However, for the last 25 or so, the poignant saga of Jean Valjean, a villain to some, but a saviour to others, set in France during the early years of the nineteenth century,... -
Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion by Elizabeth S. Belfiore 9780691607382
RRP: $74.82$57.75Elizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the Aristotelian corpus and in the context of Greek culture in general. In Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Politics, and the ethical, psychological,... -
Once Before I Go by Phillip McMahon
RRP: $15.47$14.22You can paint your placards 'til the cows come home, but until you have marched through this town in five inch heels and fishnets, you will never know what it is to truly be a faggot on the front line. Told against the backdrop of Dublin's burgeoning... -
How Musicals Work: And How to Write Your Own by Julian Woolford
RRP: $21.92$15.84Musicals are the most popular form of stage entertainment today, with the West End and Broadway dominated by numerous long-running hits. But for every Wicked or Phantom of the Opera, there are dozens of casualties that didn't fare quite so well. In this... -
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $14.18$9.44Liubov Ranevskya, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just as she remembers, but hers is a diminishing world. Her vast and beautiful cherry orchard is soon to be sold off against her... -
Heroes by Gerald Sibleyras 9780571231003
RRP: $14.18$9.44One must strive a little for the epic, old boy.It's 1959 and Philippe, Gustave and Henri, three veterans from the first world war, dream of making their escape from the soldiers' home, if not to Indochina then at least as far as the poplar trees on the... -
Playwriting: A Backstage Guide by Prof. Dan Rebellato
RRP: $12.89$11.38This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus... -
Rebecca Lenkiewicz: Plays 1: The Night Season; Shoreditch Madonna; Her Naked Skin; The Painter by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
RRP: $21.92$14.94The 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 Director's Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre by Katie Mitchell
RRP: $34.82$30.26The Director's Craft is a unique and completely indispensable step-by-step guide to directing for the stage. Written by one of the most adventurous and respected directors working today, this book will be an essential item in every student and... -
That Face by Polly Stenham
RRP: $14.18$9.44I can't take care of you anymore. I can't take it. It's like an endless boxing match.Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls their... -
Volpone by Ben Jonson 9781350007796
RRP: $12.89$11.38The sharpest, funniest comedy about money and morals in the 17th century is still the sharpest and funniest about those things in the 21st. The full play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes which communicate the devastating comic energy of... -
American Moor by Keith Hamilton Cobb
$17.22The intelligent, intuitive, indomitable, large, black, American male actor explores Shakespeare, race, and America ... not necessarily in that order. Keith Hamilton Cobb embarks on a poetic exploration that examines the experience and perspective of... -
Looking Back by John Osborne
RRP: $25.80$17.36When John Osborne died at Christmas 1994, his obituaries cited his autobiographical writings as perfect examples of undiluted talent and acerbic wit. Now, Osborne's superb autobiographies, A Better Class of Person: 1929-1956 and Almost a Gentleman:... -
Good Grief by Ugly Bucket
RRP: $16.76$15.30Winner of New Diorama, Underbelly and Methuen Drama's Untapped Award 2022 A dying man's last wish: for his friends to create a show about death. Will it be subtle? Will it be sophisticated? Probably not, but it's his funeral. Literally. ... -
Tales of the Tricycle Theatre by Terry Stoller
$34.07Tales of the Tricycle Theatre provides an inside look at the history of the north London theatre which has achieved renown with its staging of black, Irish, verbatim and political drama. Co-published with the Society for Theatre Research, the book draws... -
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda 9781455539741
RRP: $64.50$43.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of George Washington Book Prize (Special Achievement) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781455539741Author Lin-Manuel MirandaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Grand... -
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: $14.18$10.02Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by... -
Foam Patterning and Construction Techniques: Turning 2D Designs into 3D Shapes by Mary McClung
RRP: $46.43$39.68Foam Patterning and Construction Techniques: Turning 2D Designs into 3D Shapes explains how to create your theatrical prop, puppet, or costume design using the unique and tricky medium of foam. Step-by-step instructions, photographs, and explanations... -
Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre by Nicholas Hytner 9781784704148
RRP: $14.18$10.02The Sunday Times BestsellerThis is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain's greatest theatre.It is a story of lunatic failures and spectacular successes such as The History Boys, War Horse and One Man, Two Guvnors; of opening the doors... -
Our Country's Good: Based on the novel 'The Playmaker' by Thomas Keneally by Timberlake Wertenbaker
RRP: $14.18$12.46Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal.... -
So You Want To Be A Theatre Director by Stephen Unwin
RRP: $19.34$14.01A hands-on, step-by-step guide to directing plays - by one of Britain's leading theatre directors. Stephen Unwin has worked with hundreds of different actors in a multiplicity of different venues. He is the ideal author of a 'how to' guide to... -
Stuff Happens by David Hare
RRP: $14.18$9.44Stuff happens... And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.'The famous response of American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the looting of Baghdad at a press conference in... -
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood 9780571239498
RRP: $14.18$9.44As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off... -
Martin Crimp: Plays 3: Fewer Emergencies; Cruel and Tender; The City; In the Republic of Happiness by Martin Crimp
RRP: $24.50$16.55Cruel and Tender'A mordantly knowing modernisation of Sophocles's Trachiniae... The approach here manages to be at once lethally level and capable of surges of anguished feeling... Highly recommended.' IndependentFewer Emergencies'A triptych of vicious... -
The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
RRP: $11.60$10.31This revised edition of the play is published alongside commentary and notes by Christopher Collins, Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. It includes information for today's students on the play's context; themes; dramatic... -
Stage Lighting: The Technicians' Guide: An On-the-job Reference Tool with Online Video Resources - 2nd Edition by Skip Mort
$42.25This practical guide covers all aspects of stage lighting equipment, special effects, lighting a performance space and lighting design. It is well illustrated with examples of equipment, diagrams, plans and technical data. It also features the work of... -
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $14.18$9.44Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.HAMM: Clov!CLOV: Yes.HAMM: Nature has forgotten us.CLOV: There's no more nature.HAMM: No more nature!... -
Impro for Storytellers by Keith Johnstone
RRP: $21.92$14.94Since the sixties, Keith Johnstone has led the work on improvisation in theatre, schools and universities. His unique ideas, set out in the classic text, Impro, have now been taken up by practitioners the world over. Impro for Storytellers builds on and... -
AQA Drama and Theatre: A Level and AS by Su Fielder
$64.85Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A Level Subject: Drama and Theatre First teaching: 2015 First exams: 2017 This student book comprehensively covers both the AQA AS and A Level Drama and...