Use code BACKTOSCHOOL until 1 October
The new academic year is here – and thanks to our Back to School Sale, you can get all the books you need to learn new skills, or brush up on existing ones, at great discounted prices.
Boost your resources with books about voice, improv, Shakespeare, puppetry, drama games, writing, Brecht, actioning, movement, Stanislavsky and more, plus great plays for young people to study and perform.
For the rest of this month only, you can save 30% on dozens of our top titles when you enter voucher code BACKTOSCHOOL at checkout, valid on both print and ebook formats (where available). Plus, get free UK postage and packaging on all orders over £40.
To take advantage of this great offer, just browse the selection below, make your picks and enter discount code BACKTOSCHOOL at checkout. This offer ends Sunday 1 October 2023.
Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus
A vital companion for actors in rehearsal - a thesaurus of action-words to revitalise performance, with a foreword by Terry Johnson.
Drama Games for Classrooms and Workshops
101 great drama games for use in any classroom or workshop setting. Part of the Nick Hern Books Drama Games series.
Drama Games for Devising
As part of the ever-growing, increasingly popular Drama Games series, Jessica Swale returns with another dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, packed with dozens of drama games that can be used in the process of devising theatre.
Shakespeare Monologues for Young Men
By Luke DixonForty monologues for young men drawn from across the whole of Shakespeare's canon, complete with summaries, ideas for consideration and a glossary. Part of the Nick Hern Books Good Audition Guides series.
Shakespeare Monologues for Young Women
By Luke DixonForty monologues for young women, drawn from across the whole of Shakespeare's canon, complete with summaries, ideas for consideration and a glossary. Part of the Nick Hern Books Good Audition Guides series.
Meisner in Practice
A Guide for Actors, Directors and Teachers
By Nick MoseleyA step-by-step introduction to the key features of the Meisner Technique, including a full set of practical exercises.
Acting Through Song
Techniques and Exercises for Musical-Theatre Actors
By Paul HarvardAn impassioned and invaluable guide for actors and students of musical theatre.
The Excellent Audition Guide
By Andy JohnsonAn engaging, upbeat guide for any student thinking of applying to drama school.
Making Theatre
The Frazzled Drama Teacher's Guide to Devising
An inspiring, practical handbook for anyone working with young people to make devised theatre.
100 Great Plays for Women
By Lucy Kerbel Foreword by Kate MosseAn inspiring guide to a hundred plays that put female performers centre stage, dispelling the myth that 'There just aren't any good plays for women'. With a foreword by Kate Mosse.
The Complete Brecht Toolkit
A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercises to help put theory into practice.
The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit
By Bella MerlinA revised and updated edition of Bella Merlin's essential guide to Stanislavsky's terms and ideas.
The Active Text
Unlocking Plays Through Physical Theatre
Dymphna Callery, author of Through the Body: A practical guide to physical theatre, shows how exercises and rehearsal techniques associated with physical and devised theatre can be applied to scripted plays.
Drama Menu
Theatre Games in Three Courses
Packed full of tried-and-tested theatre games, exercises and improvisation ideas, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers and workshop leaders.
The Domino Effect and other plays for teenagers
By Fin KennedyA second collection of plays by Fin Kennedy, author of How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found and The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays.
Actioning - and How to Do It
By Nick MoseleyA step-by-step guide to 'actioning', one of the most widely used rehearsal techniques for actors. An indispensable companion to a vital component in every actor's toolkit.
Girls Like That and other plays for teenagers
By Evan PlaceyFour urgent and explosive plays by award-winning playwright Evan Placey, each tackling issues facing young people today.
Teaching Voice: Workshops for Young Performers
By Max HaflerAn inspiring, practical guide to working with young people on their voices, by a highly experienced teacher, actor and director.
Drama Games for Young Children
From the bestselling Drama Games series, this dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book – packed with over 200 individual games – is perfect for teachers, playgroup leaders and drama facilitators who want to inspire and entertain children, aged 3 and up, with vibrant and engaging drama experiences.
Feldenkrais for Actors
How to Do Less and Discover More
A practical guide to the Feldenkrais Method, for actors. Written by an experienced actor, theatre-maker and Feldenkrais practitioner.
Brainstorm: The Original Playscript
And a Blueprint for Creating Your Own Production
A unique theatrical investigation into how teenagers' brains work, and why they’re designed by evolution to be the way they are.
Creating Worlds
How to Make Immersive Theatre
By Jason WarrenA practical guide to creating successful immersive theatre productions, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.
Jessica Swale's Blue Stockings
A guide for studying and staging the play
By Jessica Swale and Lois JearyThe indispensible guide for anyone studying, teaching or performing Jessica Swale's hit play, Blue Stockings.
Telling the Truth
How to Make Verbatim Theatre
A practical guide to creating and producing verbatim theatre, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.
The Voice Exercise Book: The Warm-Ups
Essential warm-up exercises for anyone who wants to use their voice more effectively.
The Fall
By James FritzA funny, moving and candid look at young people's relationships to older people, confronting the frightening prospect of ageing in a country undergoing crises of housing and care.
Puppetry: How to Do It
A practical, accessible and inspiring guide to using puppetry in theatre, by a leading expert in the field.
National Youth Theatre Monologues
75 Speeches for Auditions
Edited by Michael BryherAn exciting and invaluable collection of audition speeches, all chosen from plays produced by the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, spanning more than sixty years as one of the world’s leading companies for young performers.
Being a Playwright
A Career Guide for Writers
By Chris Foxon and George TurveyThe essential guide to a career in playwriting, from the team behind the multi-award-winning Papatango, one of the UK's leading new-writing companies.
Contemporary 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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