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To Be A Playwright by Janet Neipris
RRP: £31.99£29.53Originally published in 2005, To Be A Playwright is an insightful and detailed guide to the craft of playwriting. Part memoir and part how-to guide, this useful book outlines the tools and techniques necessary to the aspiring playwright. Comprised of a... -
A Beginner's Guide to Special Makeup Effects: Monsters, Maniacs and More by Christopher Payne
RRP: £31.99£29.53A Beginner's Guide to Special Makeup Effects: Monsters, Maniacs and More is an introduction to special effects makeup using cost-effective tools and materials that can be found in local stores.The book is divided into three sections - Simple Makeup,... -
Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving and Color-Changing Lights by Richard Cadena
RRP: £51.99£44.25Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving and Color-Changing Lights, Third Edition (formerly Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light) continues to be the most trusted text for working and aspiring lighting professionals. Now in... -
Mask Making Techniques: Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre, Cosplay, Film, and TV by Mary C. McClung 9781032379913
RRP: £36.99£33.84Features step by step instructions on how to create a variety of different masksDetailed full-color photographs illustrate each stepCovers a wide range of materials, including latex, paper and fabric mache, cold foam, thermoplastics, urethane and EVA... -
Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski by Phillip B. Zarrilli
RRP: £42.99£37.59Psychophysical Acting is a direct and vital address to the demands of contemporary theatre on today's actor. Drawing on over thirty years of intercultural experience, Phillip Zarrilli aims to equip actors with practical and conceptual tools with which to... -
What is Scenography? by Pamela Howard 9781138504783
RRP: £42.99£38.59The third edition of Pamela Howard's What is Scenography? expands on the author's holistic analysis of scenography as comprising space, text, research, art, performers, directors and spectators, to examine the changing nature of scenography in the... -
Theatre and Medicine by Stanton B. Garner, Jr.
RRP: £9.99£8.23Theatre and Medicine offers a tour of this interdisciplinary terrain. Organized into four distinct topics, each represents crucial ways of understanding the theatre-medicine relationship. From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that... -
Elizabethan Jacobean Drama: The Theatre in Its Time by G. Blakemore Evans
RRP: £14.99£13.03The purpose of this absorbing collection is to illuminate the world of the theatre by setting it squarely in its historical context. To that end, Professor Evans draws on the whole spectrum of Elizabethan-Jacobean writing, from official documents to... -
A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn 9780571315703
RRP: £10.99£7.32Well, that's one down, isn't it. Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? Let's have a crack at that one next, shall we? Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long. Moments after taking over his... -
On Bear Ridge by Ed Thomas
RRP: £11.99£11.95One minute we had customers, the next minute there was no-one. In a lost village, blurred by redrawn borders, hidden under a crumb on the map, Bear Ridge Stores still stands. After a hundred years, the family butchers and grocers - a place for odds... -
Dance History: An Introduction by Janet Adshead-Lansdale
RRP: £34.99£30.85Originally published in 1983 the first edition rapidly established itself as a core student text. Now fully revised and up-dated it remains the only book to address the rationale, process, techniques and methodologies specific to the study of dance... -
Journey's End: A Biography of a Classic War Play by Robert Gore-Langton 9781849433952
£11.42R C Sherriff's Journey's End is a syllabus text and the most famous play about World War One. First staged in 1928, this book tells the story of what went into the making of this extraordinary and powerful trench drama. It outlines Sherriff's career from... -
No Applause -Just Throw the Money by S.D. Trav 9780865479586
£12.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present by Marvin A. Carlson
RRP: £27.99£22.07Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new... -
Patti Lupone by Patti LuPone
RRP: £13.99£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307460745Author Patti LuPoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Art of Writing for the Theatre: An Introduction to Script Analysis, Criticism, and Playwriting by Luke Yankee
RRP: £21.99£19.41Filled with practical advice from an award-winning playwright, with a range of resources to guide you in the craft and business of theatre writing, The Art of Writing for the Theatre provides everything you need to write like a seasoned theatre... -
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen 9780571194292
RRP: £10.99£7.32The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.Dr Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to... -
Good Nights Out: A History of Popular British Theatre Since the Second World War by Aleks Sierz
RRP: £22.99£20.11London's West End is a global success story, staging phenomenal hit shows that have delighted millions of spectators and generated billions of pounds in revenue. In Good Nights Out, Aleks Sierz provides a thematic survey of such popular theatre shows... -
The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism by Elinor Fuchs
RRP: £15.99£13.41"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty... -
New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting by Mark Bly
RRP: £19.99£17.69In New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting, Mark Bly offers a new playwriting book with nine unique play-generating exercises.These exercises offer dramaturgical strategies and tools for confronting and overcoming... -
Albatross by Isley Lynn
£11.42"It's not just the choice It's never just the choice Choice is a fairytale." Tattoos are forever. Almost. And at Noodle Soup Tattoo there are strict rules: No names unless they're dead. Nothing on the face. Nothing you might get sued for later. ... -
Baghdaddy by Jasmine Naziha Jones
£12.15Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2024 Congratulations! Your pain is commercially viable. It's 1991 and the Gulf War rages three thousand, three hundred and twenty miles away. Darlee is 8 years old, crying behind the wheelie bookcase in... -
Epicene, or the Silent Woman: By Ben Jonson by Ben Jonson
RRP: £19.99£14.52Epicene is now one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. Brilliantly exploiting the Jacobean convention whereby boys played female roles, it satirises the newly fashionable and sexually ambiguous world of the West End of London, where courtly... -
One-Hour Shakespeare: The Early Comedies and Romances by Julie Fain Lawrence-Edsell
RRP: £36.99£32.53The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, The Early Comedies and Romances, includes the following plays: A Midsummer Night's... -
Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon 9780573702570
£11.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702570Author Joshua HarmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Live Art in the UK: Contemporary Performances of Precarity by Ms Maria Chatzichristodoulou
RRP: £24.99£21.78Since entering the performance lexicon in the 1970s, the term Live Art has been used to describe a diverse but interrelated array of performance practices and approaches. This volume offers a contextual and critical introduction to the scene of... -
The National Stage: Theatre and Cultural Legitimation in England, France and America by Loren Kruger 9780226454979
RRP: £28.00£27.39The idea of staging a nation dates from the Enlightenment, but the full force of the idea emerges only with the rise of mass politics. Comparing English, French, and American attempts to establish national theatres at moments of political crisis-from the... -
The Best Men's Monologues from New Plays, 2020 by Lawrence Harbison
RRP: £14.99£11.53Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published men's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The selections include monologues from plays by both... -
Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler
RRP: £10.99£8.38"Ziegler's thoughtful, empathetic play brings home with bitter comedy the unlovely male-domination of this world in the 1950s ... glorious." Independent London 1953. Scientists are on the verge of discovering what they call the secret of life: the DNA... -
Unti Conversations with Stephen Sondheim by D T Max
RRP: £20.99£11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063279810Author D T MaxFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 135mm *... -
The Outsider (L'Etranger) by Ben Okri 9781786826657
£12.15Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri. A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the glare... -
Simon Gray: Plays 4: Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept by Simon Gray
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.'Daily Telegraph on The Common Pursuit'Gray's stature as one of the handful of great tragi-comic... -
Disobedient Theatre: Alternative Ways to Inspire, Animate and Play by Chris Johnston 9781350014541
£27.99Theatre is at its best when it is disobedient, when it argues back to society. But what enables it to achieve this impact? What makes it a force to be reckoned with? What are the principles and the tools of the trade that shape it to be effective,... -
The Reason to Sing: A Guide to Acting While Singing by Craig Carnelia
RRP: £31.99£28.33In The Reason to Sing, renowned composer-lyricist and teacher Craig Carnelia provides musical actors with a step-by-step guide to making their singing performances more truthful, vivid, and full of life.Using a technique developed over decades of... -
Richard Bean Plays 6: One Man, Two Guvnors; Young Marx; The Hypocrite by Richard Bean
RRP: £21.99£20.59The sixth collection of plays from award-winning playwright Richard Bean, including the world-conquering hit One Man, Two Guvnors, as well as Young Marx, his riotous take on Karl Marx's life in London, which launched London's new Bridge Theatre and The... -
Stiletto Beach by Sadie Hasler
RRP: £11.99£11.95Best mates Leanne and Kelly have lived in Southend-on-Sea their whole lives. Larger-than-life Leanne is happy staying put, but Kelly secretly dreams of escaping her dull job and seeing the world. When out-of-towner journalist Helen can't afford... -
Taking on the Empire: How We Saved the Hackney Empire for Popular Theatre by Roland Muldoon 9781907352065
£15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907352065Author Roland MuldoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Just PressPublisher Just PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Making Musicals: An Informal Introduction to the World of Musical Theater by Tom Jones 9780879100957
RRP: £14.99£11.53The lyricist/librettist of EThe FantasticksE the longest-running show in the history of the American theater takes on a new role as your guide through the magical world of the stage musical.Book InformationISBN 9780879100957Author Tom JonesFormat... -
Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment by Rebecca Schneider
RRP: £39.99£35.06'At last, the past has arrived! Performing Remains is Rebecca Schneider's authoritative statement on a major topic of interest to the field of theatre and performance studies. It extends and consolidates her pioneering contributions to the field through... -
The Spaces of Irish Drama: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays by Helen Heusner Lojek 9780230115231
RRP: £44.99£32.48Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era increasingly aware of space.About the AuthorHELEN...