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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... -
Between Two Silences: Talking with Peter Brook by Peter Brook 9780413755803
£30.34This unusually candid volume of Brook in dialogue provides an uninhibited encounter with contemporary theatre's most influential director The result of twelve hours of spontaneous question and answer sessions, Between Two Silences shows Brook responding... -
Intermedial Praxis and Practice as Research: 'Doing-Thinking' in Practice by Joanne Scott 9781349956364
RRP: £54.99£54.80Nominated for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize 2018In this book, Jo Scott shares writing and documentation from her practice as research (PaR) project, which explored and analysed a mode of performance she developed, called live intermediality. The... -
A Theory of Dramaturgy by Janek Szatkowski
RRP: £36.99£33.84A Theory of Dramaturgy is the first text of its kind to define concepts and combine arguments into a coherent dramaturgical theory supported by an operative systems theory. This is a wide-ranging theory with historical and contemporary perspectives on... -
The Life of King Henry VIII: All is True by Hannah Khalil
£11.05'Who knows yet But from this Lady may proceed a gem To lighten all this isle' You know the story: a King who turns his country upside down to try and secure a male heir. But it's never been told this way before. A Queen fights for justice. A Lady... -
All You Need is LSD by Leo Butler
RRP: £14.99£14.68The drug laws in this country- the drug laws IN THE WORLD - all stem from this attitude that pleasure is a bad thing... In 2015, acclaimed British playwright Leo Butler accepted an invitation from former Government drugs tsar, Professor David Nutt, to... -
Directing for the Stage: A Workshop Guide of Creative Exercises & Projects by Terry John Converse 9781566080149
RRP: £26.99£13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080149Author ConverseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 530g -
Costuming Made Easy: How to make Theatrical Costumes from Cast-off Clothing by Barb Rogers 9781566080484
RRP: £20.99£14.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080484Author Barb RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 380g -
Prop Building for Beginners: Twenty Props for Stage and Screen by Eric Hart
RRP: £35.99£32.97Prop Building for Beginners outlines the basic concepts of prop building by featuring step-by-step instructions to create twenty of the most commonly featured items in theatrical and filmed productions. This book uses a combination of projects to expose... -
The Beaux' Stratagem by Thornton Wilder 9780573650536
£12.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573650536Author Thornton WilderFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Pity by Rory Mullarkey 9781350093898
RRP: £11.99£11.66Two bombs in one day is a foul coincidence Don't forget the lightning strike A normal day. A person stands in the market square watching the world go by. What happens next verges on the ridiculous. There's ice cream. Sunshine. Shops. Some dogs. A... -
Marching Song: A Play by Orson Welles 9781538125526
RRP: £30.00£26.68Before The Cradle Will Rock, before War of the Worlds, before Citizen Kane-there was Marching Song. At the age of 25 Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. But this was not... -
Our Town: A Play In Three Acts by Thornton Wilder
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063003996Author Thornton WilderFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 175gDimensions(mm)... -
Contemporary Mise en Scene: Staging Theatre Today by Patrice Pavis
RRP: £46.99£40.97'We have good reason to be wary of mise en scene, but that is all the more reason to question this wariness ... it seems that images from a performance come back to haunt us, as if to prolong and transform our experience as spectators, as if to force us... -
Sam Mendes at the Donmar: Stepping into Freedom by Matt Wolf 9780879109820
£13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109820Author Matt WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
How Broadway Works: Building and Running a Show, from the People Who Make It Happen by Sharon Grace Powers 9781493059942
RRP: £17.99£13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493059942Author Sharon Grace PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 230mm *... -
Crouch Touch Pause Engage by Robin Soans 9781783192106
£12.31On the eve of one of the most important games of his career, Welsh rugby legend Gareth Thomas received a warning: The Sun newspaper was going to 'out' him as gay.This is the story of two Welsh names bruised, but not beaten, by media speculation: Gareth... -
Forest Festivities by Marion Baylis 9780992848231
RRP: £7.99£6.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992848231Author Marion BaylisFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint Beresford LeavensPublisher Beresford LeavensWeight(grams) 400g -
Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama by Mary Brewer 9780230303201
£32.28This indispensable overview of modern black British drama spans seven decades of distinctive playwriting from the 1950s to the present. Interweaving social and cultural context with close critical analysis of key dramatists' plays, leading scholars... -
O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance by Holly Hughes 9780802135704
RRP: £14.99£11.66O Solo Homo is a diverse, definitive, and hugely entertaining collection representing the cutting edge of queer solo performance. The pieces in O Solo Homo touch nerves that run deep from sex, politics, community, and health to the struggles and joys... -
Approaching Empty by Ishy Din
RRP: £11.99£11.95Forget friendship! This is business. In a scruffy minicab office, Mansha decides it's time to create his own destiny and offers to buy the business from his lifelong friend Raf. As the realities of the state of the company slowly come to light, these... -
Alexandra Exter Paints by Patricia Railing 9780946311200
RRP: £35.00£29.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946311200Author Patricia RailingFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Artists BookworksPublisher Artists Bookworks -
Robert Wilson by Maria Shevtsova
RRP: £36.99£32.53Robert Wilson is an American-European director who is also a performer, installation artist, writer, designer of light and much more besides - a crossover polymath who dissolves both generic and geographical boundaries and is a precursor of globalisation... -
Performing Site-Specific Theatre: Politics, Place, Practice by Anna Birch 9780230364066
RRP: £99.99£89.87This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our... -
Mugabe, My Dad and Me by Tonderai Munyevu
RRP: £11.99£11.02Something strange happens when the past comes crushing into you, right in the present. April, 1980. The British colony of Rhodesia becomes the independent nation of Zimbabwe. A born-free, Tonderai Munyevu is part of the hopeful next generation from a... -
Stage Managing Chaos: A Diary of the Old Vic Production of Fernando Arrabal's The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria by Jackie Harvey 9781476666648
RRP: £14.99£12.55In the early 1970s, London's National Theatre, led by Sir Laurence Olivier, launched an infamous avant garde production of The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria. Concerned that his classical approach would clash with the ""enfant terrible"" director,... -
How to Start Your Own Theater Company by Reginald Nelson
RRP: £14.95£11.32With advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide imparts backstage know-how for wouldbe playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and... -
Staging the Old Faith: Queen Henrietta Maria and the Theatre of Caroline England, 1625-1642 by Rebecca Bailey
RRP: £19.99£14.52Staging the Old Faith is the first book length study to examine Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic community are staged. Rebecca Bailey juxtaposes a detailed analysis of Queen Henrietta Maria's ground-breaking... -
A Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance: On and Beyond the Stage by Carol Martin 9780415106450
RRP: £48.99£43.06This work is a unique collection of key articles on feminist theatre and performance form The Drama Review (TDR). Carol Martin juxtaposes theory and practice to provide an exceptionally comprehensive overview of the development of feminist theatre. This... -
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945 by Gunter Berghaus 9781571819017
RRP: £27.95£22.58Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars waged against other countries. However, much less attention has... -
Performing in Comedy: A Student's Guide by Ian Wilkie
RRP: £36.99£33.84Ian Wilkie contends that comic acting is a distinct art form, and as such demands a unique skillset. By exploring the ways in which performance choices and improvised moments can work in conjunction with texts themselves, Performing in Comedy offers an... -
Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance: Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity by DeRon S. Williams
RRP: £19.99£17.61How are Black artists, activists, and pedagogues wielding acts of rebellion, activism, and solidarity to precipitate change? How have contemporary performances impacted Black cultural, social, and political struggles? What are the ways in which these... -
The Art of Theatre: Then and Now by William Downs 9781305954700
£59.52THE ART OF THEATRE: THEN AND NOW, 4th Edition, brings the fascinating world of theatre to life with lively coverage of the history, cultural diversity, creativity, controversy -- and even a typical day in the life -- of theatre. As the authors wrote each... -
Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity by Susan Broadhurst 9780230293656
RRP: £44.99£40.58This collection interrogates the interaction between new technologies and performance practice, linking the sensuous contact that must exist between the physical and virtual, together with the resultant corporeal transformation. It features writings from... -
Sound Effects: Hearing the Early Modern Stage by Laura Jayne Wright 9781526159182
RRP: £85.00£60.17This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant. Sounds are weighted with meaning, offering a complex system of allusions. Playwrights such as Jonson and Shakespeare developed increasingly... -
A Dirty Broth: Early Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English by David Cottis
RRP: £14.99£12.58A Dirty Broth Early Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English Edited by David Cottis With an introduction by David Cottis and Alyce von Rothkirch When Caradoc Evans' play Taffy was first performed in London, the Western Mail reviewer... -
Mime into Physical Theatre: a UK Cultural History, 1970-2000 by Mark Evans
RRP: £34.99£30.85This is the first book to investigate the social, political, cultural, artistic and economic forces which created conditions for the rise, success and decline of mime and physical theatre in the United Kingdom, from the 1970s to 2000.Unpicking the... -
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni 9781566635363
RRP: £7.99£6.14"First I've got no master, then all of a sudden I've got two!...I can't wait on both of them....Wait a minute....Get two pay packets, and eat and drink for two? Why not?" Carlo Goldoni's crafty servant who turns somersaults to please both his masters and... -
Between Two Fires by Rachel Holmes
RRP: £12.99£12.86You're between two fires... They're very warm sometimes. Noah Adamson is the first Leader of the Labour Party; frequently torn between his socialism and principled support for votes for women on the one hand and the more reactionary views of too many... -
Living the Lighting Life: A Guide to a Career in Entertainment Lighting by Brad Schiller
RRP: £31.99£28.33Living the Lighting Life provides practical tools and advice for a successful career in entertainment lighting. This easy-to-navigate guide offers real-world examples and documentation from the author and key industry experts, giving readers a...