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Orson Wells: The Road to Xanadu by 9780140254563
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.56As a man and an artist, Orson Welles was larger-than-life--vivid, energetic, unpredictable, and riveting. But in this first volume of his masterful, highly acclaimed biography, Simon Callow finally... -
Beyond Stanislavsky: The Psycho-Physical Approach to Actor Training by Bella Merlin 9781854596130
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A guide to Psycho-Physical Acting, complete with games and exercises. When Stanislavsky died, he was working on a new system, Psycho-Physical Acting. Previously he had taught that truthful... -
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts' Simon Callow, GuardianIn this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history... -
The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26With an introduction by Simon CallowJudgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity... -
Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance Maria Shevstova 9780415334624
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Including a foreword by Simon Callow, a dedicated admirer of the Maly, Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre provides both a valuable methodological model for actor training and a unique insight into the... -
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780691210148
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of... -
Diaghilev: A Life by Sjeng Scheijen
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05This magnificent new biography of the extraordinary impresario of the arts and creator of the Ballets Russes 100 years ago draws on important new research, notably from Russia. 'Scheijen... -
A Lion Was Learning to Ski, and Other Limericks by Ranjit Bolt 9781783340828
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.55When he came across an old-English limerick that made him laugh, playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing nonsensical verse to entertain his friends. On a whim he decided to staple some together and... -
Frontline Drama: Bush Theatre Book: v. 5 by Michael Boyd 9780413713209
Booksplease Price: £32.19A celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Bush Theatre Two new plays, Mackerel Sky by Hilary Fannin and Caravan by Helen Blakeman, are accompanied by highlights and reminiscences from Bush... -
Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word by Regina Buccola 9780875806853
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition... -
Theatre@risk by Michael Kustow 9780413766908
Booksplease Price: £26.90A vivid and passionate polemic about the importance of live theatre in a digital age, by a man at the cutting edge of drama and innovation For over thirty years Michael Kustow has been in the thick... -
With the Flow by Joris-Karl Huysmans 9781847498342
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37The lowly, downtrodden Paris civil servant Jean Folantin seeks respite from the boredom and isolation of his life in the small joys of food and the occasional embraces of a prostitute. But... -
Translations from the Flesh by Elton Glaser
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.32Translations from the Flesh, Elton Glaser's seventh full-length collection of poetry, is driven by the powerful engines of love and desire. In poems long and brief, playful and intense, Glaser evokes... -
Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word by Regina Buccola 9780875804675
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition... -
Shakespeare, Sex, and Love by Stanley Wells 9780199643974
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £11.87How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal... -
Are You There Crocodile? Inventing Anton Chekhov by Michael Pennington 9781840024586
Booksplease Price: £21.68Michael Pennington's work on his solo show about Anton Chekhov has taken London's 'Russian Actor' from the Trans-Siberian Railway to Soviet and post-Soviet Moscow, into the repertoires of the... -
The Final Curtain: Obituaries of Fifty Great Actors by Michael Coveney 9781911397625
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.68Michael Coveney has been writing theatrical obituaries alongside reviews for several decades and makes a telling, sometimes surprising, selection of the best performers of our time, from Laurence... -
Adventurer: Bernard Miles and the Mermaid Theatre by Alan Strachan 9781914228988
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.71Bernard Miles was a force of nature. Actor, writer, director, life peer and founder of the Mermaid Theatre, Bernard Miles was a visionary who made an indelible impact on British Theatre. In 1959, in... -
Exeunt: The Stage Door Project by Lloyd McDonagh
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.94In 2020, for the first time in centuries, heavy red curtains swept closed on stages across the West End; all theatres were closed. Two actors, keenly feeling the loss of their theatre homes, turned... -
Acting in Documentary Theatre by Tom Cantrell 9781137019714
Booksplease Price: £34.84Using new interview material with actors, directors and writers, this book explores the challenges of performance in documentary theatre. Through a series of high profile case studies, Cantrell uses... -
Tristan/Yseult by Harry Bonelle 9781911397908
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.83A duel on an empty island sets the course for one of the greatest romances ever told. As the lovers of legend meet, something new is born, and something eternal is revealed. Their names will forever... -
Story of the Century: Wagner and the creation of The Ring Michael Downes 9780571372003
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A PRESTO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'Gripping.' FINANCIAL TIMES'Breathtaking.' SIMON CALLOW'Vivid.' BBC MUSIC MAGAZINEA colourful and concise telling of the fascinating story behind Richard Wagner's... -
The Separate Heart by Simon Robson 9780099507581
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83If there is a thread running through Simon Robson's brilliant collection of stories it is the notion of separateness - of adults from each other, of children from adult knowledge, of adult... -
How Plays Work: New and Revised edition by David Edgar 9781839040313
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In How Plays Work, distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning... -
Conversations with Wilde: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts Merlin Holland 9781786782304
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12Renowned for his endlessly quotable pronouncements, Oscar Wilde cut a dashing figure in late Victorian London ... until his tragic downfall resulting from an ill-judged libel action. We remember him... -
Dancing In The Streets: A History Of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847080080
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In Dancing in the Streets Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history:... -
Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story by Stanley Wells
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Enjoyable, lively ... such a pleasure to read ... renders the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries more than fringe entertainment' Independent Shakespeare is one of the greatest of all English... -
Great Expectations (stage version) by Charles Dickens
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17A beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels, bringing it thrillingly to life for the stage. When the orphan Pip meets the convict Magwitch in a graveyard and is forced to... -
The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they... -
One Last Song by Nathan Evans 9781912620289
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61When a gentleman called Joan lands up in a care home, Jim doesn't know what's hit him-everything about his new neighbour is triggering. And Joan is a colourful, combustible cocktail-ticking. Battle... -
Upstaged: Making Theatre in a Media Age Anne Nicholson Weber 9780878301867
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.31How can theatre thrive in a culture dominated by film and television? Interviews with stage actors, playwrights, theatre directors and others, including Julie Taymor, Tony Kushner, Anna Deavere... -
At Freddie's by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780006542551
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28From the Booker Prize-winner of 'Offshore' comes this entertaining tale of a chaotic stage school and its singular headmistress. With a new introduction by Simon Callow. It is the 1960s,... -
![Kroetz Plays: v. 1: "The Farmyard, Request Programme", "The Nest", "Tom Fool", "Through the Leaves", "Desire" by Franz Xaver Kroetz 9780413774019](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5373499/5450756/9780413774019__84577.1725144526.jpg?c=1 "Kroetz Plays: v. 1: "The Farmyard, Request Programme", "The Nest", "Tom Fool", "Through the Leaves", "Desire" by Franz Xaver Kroetz 9780413774019")
Kroetz Plays: v. 1: "The Farmyard, Request Programme", "The Nest", "Tom Fool", "Through the Leaves", "Desire" by Franz Xaver Kroetz 9780413774019
Booksplease Price: £24.64This is the first collection of plays available in the UK by Germany's most famous living playwright. Spanning his work from 1972-94, the volume contains six of his most representative plays, some of... -
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The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780330458436 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.96Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? What makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? And how has Shakespeare come to be such a powerful symbol of genius? The Genius... -
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of... -
My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall by John Major 9780007450145
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the story of the British music hall. ... -
Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. But what of the man behind the moustache? The... -
Between the Wars: 1919-1939 Philip Ziegler 9780857055231
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was asked. "The First World War," was his bleak response.In Between the Wars... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage 9780571340163
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03When a mysterious green knight arrives unbidden at Camelot one Christmas, only the young and inexperienced Gawain is brave or foolhardy enough to take up his challenge . . .This story, first told in... -
Olivier Philip Ziegler 9781782067887
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Hollywood superstar; Oscar-winning director; greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. His era abounded in greats - Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole - but none could challenge...