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Sweet William: A User's Guide to Shakespeare
An exploration of Shakespeare's life and work by a leading actor who has spent twenty thousand hours working on the plays.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Singing With Your Own Voice
By Orlanda CookA comprehensive instruction manual, full of practical exercises, which starts with overhauling our attitude to our voice.
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Being a Dancer
Advice from Dancers and Choreographers
Some of the best dancers and choreographers in the world, crossing the fields of ballet, contemporary, South Asian dance and hip hop, draw on their own experience to offer advice in the most revealing and instructive book yet on what it means to be a dancer.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Beside Myself
An Actor's Life
By Antony SherA remarkably candid autobiography, utterly involving and often startlingly revelatory - an inspiration to young actors and a treat for seasoned theatregoers.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£12.99£10.39Contemporary Duologues: One Man & One Woman
Edited by Trilby JamesA selection of the best contemporary scenes for two actors, one man and one woman. In the Good Audition Guides series.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Contemporary Duologues: Two Men
Edited by Trilby JamesA selection of the best contemporary scenes for two male actors. In the Good Audition Guides series.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Voice Exercise Book
A Guide to Healthy and Effective Voice Use
The National Theatre's Head of Voice shares the voice exercises she uses with many of Britain's leading actors to help to keep their voices in shape.
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Playing the Mask
Acting Without Bullshit
By John WrightA wonderfully accessible introduction to a fresh and innovative acting technique, from the co-founder of Trestle and Told by an Idiot.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Brecht: A Practical Handbook
By David ZoobA bold and exciting new approach to Bertolt Brecht, making his theories and ideas about theatre accessible to a new generation of actors, directors, students and theatre-makers, and showing how they can be put into practice.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Audition Songs for Men
Edited by Paul HarvardA wide range of fantastic audition songs for men, each accompanied by detailed textual, vocal and musical analysis, and a practical performance guide to ensure you perform it to maximum effect in your own unique way.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Audition Songs for Women
Edited by Paul HarvardA wide range of fantastic audition songs for women, each accompanied by detailed textual, vocal and musical analysis, and a practical performance guide to ensure you perform it to maximum effect in your own unique way.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Contemporary Monologues for Teenagers: Female
Edited by Trilby JamesForty fantastic female speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Contemporary Monologues for Teenagers: Male
Edited by Trilby JamesForty fantastic male speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Drama Games for Exploring Shakespeare
Dozens of games to help bring Shakespeare’s plays to life in the classroom or rehearsal room – making them fun and accessible to actors, students, directors and teachers.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39What Actors Do
Advice to the Players in Seven Paradoxes and a Manifesto
By Mike AlfredsRevered theatre director Mike Alfreds explores the wellspring of the actor's craft. Frank, uncompromising and full of sharply focused insights, this book will show you how to generate truthful performances by trusting your inner creativity and remaining radically open, responsive and present in every moment.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Stage Combat: Unarmed (with Online Video Content)
Everything you need to know in order to create and perform unarmed stage fights that are compelling, realistic and, above all, safe.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Way of Acting
By Tadashi Suzuki Translated by J. Thomas RimerA landmark collection of the writings of one of the world's foremost contemporary theatre artists, offering Western audiences long-overdue insight into Suzuki's singular artistry.
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Playing Joan
Actresses on the Challenge of Shaw's Saint Joan
By Holly HillInterviews with 26 actresses who have played George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, including Eileen Atkins, Elisabeth Bergner, Judi Dench, Wendy Hiller, Barbara Jefford, Siobhan McKenna, Sarah Miles, Joan Plowright.
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