Theatre Books
Keeping It Active: A Practical Guide to Rhetoric in Performance
A clear and concise guide to how rhetoric works in plays, and how actors can use it to bring their performances to life on stage.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99An Actor's Alphabet
An A to Z of Some Stuff I've Learnt and Some Stuff I'm Still Learning
A candid and empowering A–Z of being an actor which lifts the lid on the realities of life in today’s industry, and shows you how to navigate it.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99An Actor's Alphabet – SIGNED COPY
An A to Z of Some Stuff I've Learnt and Some Stuff I'm Still Learning
A candid and empowering A–Z of being an actor which lifts the lid on the realities of life in today’s industry, and shows you how to navigate it.
- Paperback
£9.99£7.99
The Playwright's Journey
From First Spark to First Night
A 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.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99300 Thoughts for Theatremakers
A Manifesto for the Twenty-First-Century Theatremaker
A practical, grassroots, self-empowerment book for theatremakers. An inspiring and unconventional collection of ideas and provocations designed to help anybody who wants to make live theatre.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Shakespeare on the Factory Floor
A Handbook for Actors, Directors and Designers
A passionate, illuminating exploration of Shakespeare's greatest plays and characters, from the director of the acclaimed theatre company Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59Mastering an American Accent: The Compact Guide
A step-by-step guide to learning and practising an American accent, for anyone who wants to use a General American accent with confidence in auditions and performance.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99100 Plays to Save the World
By Elizabeth Freestone and Jeanie O'HareA guide to one hundred brilliant plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate emergency.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Refractions: Scenes
Edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and Yvette NolanA collection of scenes from a wide range of contemporary works by Canadian playwrights, reflecting Canada's artistic landscape through a breadth of themes, styles, cultures, regions, and creative practices.
- Paperback£28.99
How Plays Work
By David EdgarDistinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99What Country, Friends, Is This?: Directing Shakespeare with Young Performers
By Max HaflerA highly practical, comprehensive guide to exploring Shakespeare with young people – ideal for directors, youth theatre leaders, workshop facilitators and teachers.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Alexander Technique for Actors: A Practical Course
An authoritative, step-by-step guide to the Alexander Technique, to help actors find new and beneficial ways of moving, thinking, breathing and performing. Written by an experienced teacher of the technique.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Hamilton and Me
An Actor's Journal
By Giles Terera Foreword by Lin-Manuel MirandaA unique, inside account of preparing for, rehearsing and performing in one of the most important cultural phenomena of our time – Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda – from London's original Aaron Burr.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59Getting, Keeping & Working with Your Acting Agent: The Compact Guide
By J BRThis empowering, informative guide explains everything actors need to know about agents – how to find one, what they do, and how to work with them effectively to help you succeed in your career.
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£8.99£7.19Add to basketEbook£8.99£7.19Learning Your Lines: The Compact Guide
By Mark ChannonAn accessible, systematic guide for actors who want to memorise their lines quickly and effectively, and let go of the fear of forgetting them – helping you build confidence and focus, and reducing anxiety and stress around auditions, rehearsal and performance.
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£8.99£7.19Add to basketEbook£8.99£7.19Contemporary Monologues for Men: Volume 2
Edited by Trilby JamesForty fantastic speeches featuring male roles, all written and premiered since the year 2014, by some of today’s most exciting dramatic voices from the UK and USA.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Contemporary Monologues for Women: Volume 2
Edited by Trilby JamesForty fantastic speeches featuring female roles, all written and premiered since the year 2014, by some of the most exciting dramatic voices writing today.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Writer's Toolkit
Exercises, Techniques and Ideas for Playwrights and Screenwriters
Almost two hundred practical exercises, techniques and ideas for every part of your process, designed to equip you with everything required to kickstart your creativity, develop your craft, and make your writing the very best that it can be.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39
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