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Chita: A Memoir by Chita Rivera
RRP: $48.75$32.04The long-awaited and wildly entertaining memoir of the star of stage and screen, the legendary Chita Rivera-three-time Tony Award-winner, Kennedy Centers honoree, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa... -
Technical Design Solutions for Theatre Volume 3 by Ben Sammler
RRP: $103.33$87.87Technical Design Solutions for Theatre is a collection of single-focus articles detailing technical production solutions that have appeared in The Technical Brief Collection, a publication of the Yale School of Drama's Technical Design and Production... -
Letters from an Actor by William Redfield 9781493084609
RRP: $37.03$26.54The legendary 1964 Broadway run of Hamlet directed by John Gielgud is one of the most famous productions of Shakespeare's most important play. Audacious for its time in concept and execution, it placed the actors in everyday clothes within an unassuming... -
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent by Judi Dench 9780241638200
RRP: $33.13$25.29THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERLet Dame Judi Dench take you behind the scenes of a life loving the Bard - as she shares her story with, and enduring affection for, William Shakespeare. 'A wonderful mixture of appreciation and anecdote' Financial... -
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent by Judi Dench 9780241632178
RRP: $48.75$32.23THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERLet Dame Judi Dench take you behind the scenes of a life loving the Bard - as she shares her story with, and enduring affection for, William Shakespeare. 'A wonderful mixture of appreciation and anecdote' Financial... -
Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart 9781398512948
RRP: $48.75$30.89THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'He writes as well as he acts, with insight, truth and passion' - Sir Ian McKellen 'Highly entertaining... You don't need to be a fan of Stewart the man of stage and screen to be as beguiled by the decades of professional... -
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
RRP: $87.75$58.99Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for DramaNow a major motion picture, available on Disney Plus.Goodreads best non-fiction book of 2016From Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda comes a backstage pass to his groundbreaking, hit... -
National Theatre: All About Theatre by National Theatre 9781406373394
RRP: $25.33$17.55Described by Benedict Cumberbatch as "a brilliant introduction to theatre", this fascinating book by the National Theatre shows how plays like War Horse and many others are made. Described by Benedict Cumberbatch as "a brilliant introduction to theatre",... -
Drama Menu: Theatre Games in Three Courses by Glyn Trefor-Jones
RRP: $33.13$23.75Drama Menu is a brand new concept for planning and delivering dynamic, progressive drama lessons and workshops. Packed with over 150 tried-and-tested theatre games, exercises and improvisation ideas, it's an essential resource for any drama teacher or... -
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
RRP: $19.48$15.03Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.Martha: Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you... -
The Empty Space by Peter Brook 9780141189222
RRP: $19.48$13.86Adapted from a series of four lectures, originally delivered as the first of the Granada Northern Lectures Peter Brook's The Empty Space is an exploration of four aspects of theatre, 'Deadly, Holy, Rough and Immediate', published in Penguin Modern... -
Diane Samuels' Kindertransport: The author's guide to the play by Diane Samuels
RRP: $19.48$13.77The author's guide to Kindertransport, an invaluable and uniquely authoritative resource for anyone studying, teaching or performing the play. Since it was first staged by the Soho Theatre Company in London in 1993, Diane Samuels' Kindertransport has... -
Skylight by David Hare
RRP: $21.43$14.27'There are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no shifting about in seats: the audience's attention is so tense it is almost palpable. This is because it is both thrilling and... -
Collins Complete Works Of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $33.13$24.32The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains the recognized canon of the bard's plays, and his sonnets and poems. The texts were edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, making it one of the most authoritative editions, recognized the world over for... -
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $21.43$14.27Professor Coghill was invited to prepare this annotated edition of Murder in the Cathedral by Eliot himself, and he approved his introduction. Coghill discusses Eliot's subject matter, and the play's importance in his oeuvre. Forty pages of notes... -
Out For Blood: A Cultural History of Carrie the Musical by Chris Adams 9781350320536
RRP: $42.88$35.30Featuring contributions from over eighty original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Out For Blood pieces together the surprising, hilarious and often-moving inside story of Carrie The Musical to discover how this 'horror of a Broadway... -
The Theatre: A Concise History by Phyllis Hartnoll
RRP: $25.33$17.55Acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design, the extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature - here is an all-embracing and richly illustrated history, global in scope and ranging from the ancient origins of the theatre in the... -
Colder than Here by Laura Wade
RRP: $21.43$18.84"I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing" Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be... -
The Kenneth Williams Diaries by Russell Davies
RRP: $37.03$26.85'I'll put you in my diary!' comedian Kenneth Williams was known to threaten on occasion, although tantalisingly he kept the journal to himself during his lifetime. Here at last, in one spellbinding volume, are four million words of it. For... -
Our Musicals, Ourselves - A Social History of the American Musical Theatre by John Bush Jones
RRP: $54.60$54.19Our Musicals, Ourselves is the first full-scale social history of the American musical theater from the imported Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas of the late nineteenth century to such recent musicals as The Producers and Urinetown. While many... -
Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade
RRP: $23.38$21.49Amy's found another body in a hotel bedroom. There's a funny smell coming from one of Jim's storage units. And Kate's losing it after spending all day with the police. There's no going back after what they've seen. Breathing Corpses was first... -
Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied with String by Michael Crawford
RRP: $21.43$15.15By turns hilarious, revelatory and desperately sad, here is the autobiography of the man whose TV and stage appearances such as Hello Dolly!, Some Mothers Do `Ave 'Em and The Phantom of the Opera have made him a national institution. The story of the... -
Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury
RRP: $23.38$22.74It's Grandma's birthday and the Frasier family have gathered to celebrate. Beverly just wants everything to run smoothly, but Tyrone has missed his flight, Keisha is freaking out about college and Grandma has locked herself in the bathroom. But something... -
Young Chekhov: Platonov; Ivanov; The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $33.13$22.58Anton 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... -
Harold Pinter Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Man's Land by Harold Pinter
RRP: $37.03$25.02This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare... -
Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto Boal
RRP: $70.18$61.80Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and bestselling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal.It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate... -
Swan Lake: Reimagining A Classic by Bill Cooper
RRP: $87.75$80.13Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans while out hunting. When one of the swans turns into a beautiful woman, Odette, he is enraptured. But she is under a spell that holds her captive, allowing her to regain her human form only at night. ... -
Global Queer Plays: Seven LGBTQ+ Works From Around the World by Danish Sheikh
RRP: $42.88$40.15A unique anthology bringing together stories of queer life from international playwrights, these seven plays showcase the dazzling multiplicity of queer narratives across the globe: the absurd, the challenging, and the joyful. From the legacy of... -
The Theatre and its Double by Mark Taylor-Batty 9781350288713
$34.01In The Theatre and Its Double, first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of experimentation. Containing the famous manifestos of the... -
Beyond Scenography by Rachel Hann
RRP: $70.18$61.80Focused on the contemporary Anglophone adoption from the 1960s onwards, Beyond Scenography explores the porous state of contemporary theatre-making to argue a critical distinction between scenography (as a crafting of place orientation) and scenographics... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9780140446364
RRP: $19.48$13.86One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that... -
Agnes of God by L. Fleischer
RRP: $21.43$18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573630224Author L. FleischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French, IncPublisher Samuel French Inc -
The Right to Speak: Working with the Voice by Patsy Rodenburg
RRP: $46.78$43.62"It shouldn't surprise us that politicians, clerics, rock singers as well as actors queue up to train their voices under the supervision of Patsy Rodenburg. This book will explain her popularity among her pupils." - Sir Ian McKellen Practical,... -
The Playwright's Journey: From First Spark to First Night by Jemma Kennedy 9781848425804
RRP: $29.23$21.18A clear, supportive and comprehensive guide to writing a play - based on the author's long-running playwriting masterclasses, as taught at the UK's National Theatre. This book leads you through everything you need to know, including: The theatrical... -
By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr
RRP: $19.48$13.07Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land. Tormented by the memory of a mother who deserted her,... -
National Theatre Playscripts: Treasure Island by Bryony Lavery 9780198418429
$28.31Working 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... -
The Essential Dave Allen by Graham McCann
RRP: $21.43$15.17When Dave Allen passed away in March 2005, we lost a true comedy great. Sitting cross-legged on a high stool, whiskey in one hand, cigarette in the other, Dave Allen's exasperated commentaries on the absurdities of modern life struck a chord with... -
The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre by Scott Graham
RRP: $64.33$56.86'This is a close companion to Frantic Assembly's practice and one that is written with an open and engaging, even disarming, tone ... A rich, rewarding and compelling text.' Stuart Andrews, University of Surrey As Frantic Assembly move into their... -
The Woman’s Voice by Patsy Rodenburg
RRP: $37.03$30.89Why are so many women still not properly listened to? Why do they sometimes feel that they're less interesting than they are? Why do they often rush when they speak? Why do some women feel the pressure to sound like little girls? From one of the... -
The Royal Court Theatre Inside Out by Ruth Little
$46.86'The Royal Court has been at the centre of British cultural life for the past 50 years, an engine room for new writing and constantly transforming the theatrical culture' - Stephen Daldry. For half a century the Royal Court has been at the cutting edge...