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Nikolai Demidov: Becoming an Actor-Creator by Nikolai Demidov 9780367737009
RRP: €51.16€44.73At the time of his death, Stanislavsky considered Nikolai Demidov to be 'his only student, who understands the System'. Demidov's incredibly forward-thinking processes not only continued his teacher's pioneering work, but also solved the problems of an... -
Cabaret by William Grange
RRP: €20.22€19.18Where did cabaret come from? What has it got to do with pre-war Berlin, decadent society and Nazis? How does it turn into media cabaret and the sisterhood of sleaze? Is cabaret a primary vehicle for exploring the range of sexual practices and... -
National Theatre Playscripts: Emil and the Detectives by Carl Miller
€17.22Working in partnership with the National Theatre, these new playscripts bring the theatre alive in the classroom. Each play has been carefully selected to ensure maximum impact and relevance to students, while the activities and teaching support are... -
David Hare Plays 3: Skylight; Amy's View; The Judas Kiss; My Zinc Bed by David Hare
RRP: €22.60€16.20This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amy's View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed.David Hare Plays 3, containing Skylight, Amy's View, The Judas... -
Chekhov: The Essential Plays by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €16.65€11.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761348Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
The Art of Is: Improvising as a Way of Life by Stephen Nachmanovitch
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608686155Author Stephen NachmanovitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend by Mark Glancy
RRP: €33.31€23.81A definitive new account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable, influential stars. Archie Leach was a poorly educated, working-class boy from a troubled family living in the backstreets of Bristol. Cary Grant... -
Alan Rickman: The Unauthorised Biography by Maureen Paton
RRP: €19.03€13.82In this revised and updated biography, Maureen Paton encompasses the private, professional and political life of this most enigmatic, charismatic and intensely private of actors.About the AuthorMaureen Paton is a freelance journalist specialising in... -
Theatre Royal Drury Lane: A Star Reborn by Pamela Hartshorne
RRP: €15.41€10.57The world's oldest theatre site in continuous use, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane has been at the heart of Covent Garden for more than 350 years. Audiences have flocked to the Lane to see the greatest stars of the day in spectacular productions ranging... -
Dance and Gender: An Evidence-based Approach by Wendy Oliver 9780813064680
€30.88Driven by exacting methods and hard data, this volume reveals gender dynamics within the dance world in the twenty-first century. It provides concrete evidence about how gender impacts the daily lives of dancers, choreographers, directors, educators, and... -
When the British Musical Ruled the World by Robert Sellers 9781493071333
RRP: €23.79€16.99For decades, British stage musicals struggled to compete against the dazzling Broadway productions that came roaring in from across the pond. But that tide was turned at last in 1978, when Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of Evita brought... -
Travesties by Tom Stoppard
RRP: €13.08€8.71'Tom Stoppard's Travesties is witty, playful and wise. Forty years on, it is starting to look timeless as well.' Sunday Times'It is a champagne cocktail, compounded of a balletic nimbleness of invention, a bewildering intricacy of design which reaches... -
Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England: Indelible Characters by D. Coleman 9780230535831
RRP: €53.54€53.51This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern... -
Harry Clarke by David Cale 9780573707308
€14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707308Author David CaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Romans in Britain by Howard Brenton
RRP: €13.08€9.97First staged at London's National Theatre in 1980, having been commissioned by Peter Hall, The Romans in Britain contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with the Saxon invasion of Romano-Celtic Britain, and finally Britain's... -
102 Great Monologues: A Versatile Collection of Monologues & Duologues for Student Actors by Rebecca Young 9781566081719
RRP: €21.41€13.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081719Author Rebecca YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 244g -
Commedia Plays: Scenarios, Scripts, Lazzi by Barry Grantham
RRP: €23.79€17.23A unique collection of performance pieces and improvisation exercises in the Commedia style, a companion volume to the author's best-selling Playing Commedia. Commedia Plays offers eight original short plays from across the different periods and... -
Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams 9781350200142
RRP: €15.46€14.97Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always... -
Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights by Michael Patterson 9780521277327
RRP: €52.35€45.39This volume provides a theoretical framework for some of the most important play-writing in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining representative plays by Arnold Wesker, John Arden, Trevor Griffith, Howard Barker, Howard Brenton,... -
The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett: Endgame by Samuel Beckett
RRP: €35.70€24.85'Pattern is as crucial to Beckett's eye as to his ear', writes Gontarski, 'and that patterning dominates his theatrical notes: motion is repeated to echo other motion, posture to echo other posture, gestures to echo other gestures, sounds to echo other... -
Walking, Writing and Performance by Roberta Mock
RRP: €34.45€33.47This collection charts three projects by performance-makers who generate autobiographical writing by taking walks. It includes performance texts and photographs, as well as essays by the artists that discuss processes of development, writing and... -
The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone 9780573618215
€14.01Drama Characters: 1 male, 1 female Interior Set Rose, a shy dimestore salesgirl whose life centers around reveries and daydreams, lives in a dreary Philadelphia apartment. Into her life saunters Cliff, a hard working, hard drinking truck driver. He is... -
Marina Carr Plays 1: Love in the Dark; The Mai; Portia Coughlan; By the Bog of Cats... by Marina Carr
RRP: €22.60€15.27The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark'One of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carr's writing is the manner in which the sexism of the language and... -
Performance Costume: New Perspectives and Methods by Professor Sofia Pantouvaki
€110.15Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new focus in recent years on research in the area of costume has connected this practice in vital and new ways... -
Sensory Theatre: How to Make Interactive, Inclusive, Immersive Theatre for Diverse Audiences by a Founder of Oily Cart by Tim Webb
RRP: €38.07€33.71Sensory Theatre: How to Make Interactive, Inclusive, Immersive Theatre for Diverse Audiences by a Founder of Oily Cart is an accessible step-by-step guide to creating theatre for inclusive audiences, such as young people on the autism spectrum or... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 1: The Real Inspector Hound, Dirty Linen, Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth & After Magritte by Tom Stoppard
RRP: €22.60€15.27The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. The author rounds off his brief... -
Performance Analysis: An Introductory Coursebook by Colin Counsell 9780415224079
RRP: €46.40€40.72This revolutionary introductory performance studies coursebook brings together classic texts in critical theory and shows how these texts can be used in the analysis of performance. The editors put their texts to work in examining such key topics as: *... -
The Drama Teacher's Survival Guide Matthew Nichols (Manchester Grammar School, UK) 9781350092679
RRP: €23.79€19.68"This is a terrific and instructive book, and an essential reminder of how inspiring and empowering a good drama teacher can be. I hope it's read widely and that new generations of pupils and teachers benefit from its wisdom and its verve." Nick Hytner ... -
David Ireland Plays 1: Half a Glass of Water; The End of Hope; Ulster American; Cyprus Avenue; Sadie by David Ireland
€22.86'Playwright David Ireland challenges people to draw lines between what they find funny and what they find outrageous' (Sydney Morning Herald) This first collection of plays by David Ireland brings together three of his most successful hits that have... -
Here in the Dark by Alexis Soloski 9781526661210
RRP: €20.22€14.61By night, Vivian Parry performs the role of Manhattan's sharpest theatre critic, immersing herself fully in every show she sees. By day, she uses work, sex, and psychotropic drugs to keep her comfortably numb. Desperate for a promotion and at the... -
Young Chekhov: Platonov; Ivanov; The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €20.22€13.78Anton Chekhov is one of the undisputed masters of world drama. He is usually thought to hide himself behind his characters and stories, keeping his own personality well off-stage. But when he was young he wrote three plays - Platonov, Ivanov and The... -
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Tim Kelly 9780573610417
RRP: €13.08€11.41Mystery Tim Kelly Characters: 5 male, 5 female Interior Set Holmes' most spine chilling mystery is placed in a modern setting in this version with suspense, humor and terror. Sir Henry is heir to the vast Baskerville fortune, a legacy that comes with a... -
The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan: 20th Anniversary Edition by Ian Bradley
RRP: €61.88€57.91Ian Bradley's Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan has established itself across the world as the authorized and definitive 'Bible' for all those interested in the Savoy operas. Originally published in two Penguin paperbacks in the 1980's, a... -
Polly Stenham: Plays 1: That Face; Tusk Tusk; No Quarter; Hotel by Polly Stenham
RRP: €22.60€15.27Polly Stenham's explosive That Face, written at the age of nineteen, was staged at the Royal Court before transferring to London's West End. Tusk Tusk and No Quarter followed, also for the Royal Court. Her fourth play, Hotel, opened at the National... -
Gays on Broadway by Ethan Mordden
RRP: €27.36€23.28A fascinating look at the gay and lesbian influence on the American stage by an internationally-recognized authority on the topic From the genteel female impersonators of the 1910s to the raucous drag queens of La Cage Aux Folles, from the men of The... -
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon
€14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573619410Author Neil SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc -
Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples by Friedrich Perzynski 9780486440149
RRP: €14.27€9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486440149Author Friedrich PerzynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Drag: A British History by Jacob Bloomfield 9780520393325
RRP: €29.75€23.31"A must-read for anyone interested in the history of drag performance."- Publishers WeeklyA rich and provocative history of drag's importance in modern British culture. Drag: A British History is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and... -
Being a Playwright: A Career Guide for Writers by Chris Foxon
RRP: €15.46€11.02The essential playwriting career guide, from the team behind acclaimed new writing theatre company Papatango. Writing a good play is only a small part of making it as a successful playwright; understanding the business side of building a career is... -
The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre: The First Four Hundred Years Aleks Sierz 9781350301764
RRP: €14.27€13.11British theatre is booming. But where do these beautiful buildings and exciting plays come from? And when did the story start? To find out we time travel back to the age of the first Queen Elizabeth in the 16th century, four hundred years ago when there...