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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.

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Drama Menu: Second Helpings

Another 160 Tasty Theatre Games

160 all-new games and exercises from the author of Drama Menu, the bestselling companion for drama teachers and workshop leaders.

The Secret Garden (stage version)

A delightful stage adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's enduring tale of transformation and healing through nature.

When This Is Over

A Blueprint for Creating Your Own Production, and the Original Playscript

A theatrical celebration of hope, possibility and imagination, designed to be created and performed by teenage casts, drawing directly on their own life experiences and the stories they want to tell. Winner, Outstanding Drama Initiative at the Music and Drama Education Awards.

Drama 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.

Run, Rebel (stage version)

A fast-paced, mesmerising stage version of the prize-winning YA verse novel about a young woman beginning to take control of her life. Edition includes a range of teaching materials and resources.

Too Much World at Once

An urgent coming-of-age story for our times, a lyrical, theatrical journey that spans continents and lives.

Breaking Down Your Script: The Compact Guide

A Step-by-Step Guide for the Actor

A clear, concise and practical guide for any actor who wants a structured and effective method for breaking down and understanding a performance script.

Getting into Drama School: The Compact Guide (Revised and Updated Edition)

An encouraging, no-nonsense guide to the whole process of applying for drama school. Perfect for any aspiring actor, as well as anyone advising or coaching them. Revised and updated edition.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (West End edition)

A new, revised edition of Sam Steiner's startling play about what we say, how we say it, and what happens when we can't say anything any more. Published alongside the West End production starring Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner.

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.

Orlando (stage version)

A sparkling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's famous fantasy, premiered in the West End with Golden Globe winner Emma Corrin leading an ensemble company.

An 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.

Jekyll and Hyde (stage version)

An inventive, brilliantly theatrical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's darkly fascinating tale of male violence, guilt and privilege.

Blues for an Alabama Sky

A remarkable dramatic portrait of life in New York City in 1930, as the Harlem Renaissance starts to feel the bite of the Great Depression.

Othello (Frantic Assembly version)

Frantic Assembly's electrifying take on Shakespeare's tragedy of paranoia, sex and murder, firmly rooted in a volatile twenty-first century.

Happy Meal

A joyful trans rom-com for the stage, following two initial strangers on their journeys from teen to adult; from MySpace to TikTok; from cis to trans...

The Trials

A searing play set in a near-future world, where those responsible for the climate emergency are being judged by a younger generation.

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.

Little Women (stage version)

A joyful and spirited adaptation of one of the best-loved novels of all time.

300 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.

The Maladies

A powerful, provocative play exploring psychogenic illness amongst groups of women throughout history, premiered by the Almeida Young Company.

Wonder Boy

A play about the power of finding your own voice, revolving around a twelve-year-old boy with a stammer. Winner of the Best Play Award at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards.

The Bone Sparrow (stage version)

A stage adaptation of Zana Fraillon's powerful and deeply moving novel about the displacement and treatment of refugees and sanctuary seekers in Australia.

Mastering 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.

The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage (stage version)

The stage version of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage, which is set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy. Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt.

100 Plays to Save the World

A guide to one hundred brilliant plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate emergency.

The Ballad of Maria Marten

A thrilling play based on the nineteenth-century Red Barn Murder in Suffolk, rediscovering the lost story of the murder victim, Maria Marten.

Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers

An anthology of six brilliant plays, celebrating a multiplicity of stories authored by Black playwrights in the UK over the last decade. Selected and introduced by leading theatre director Natalie Ibu.

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.

What Country, Friends, Is This?: Directing Shakespeare with Young Performers

A highly practical, comprehensive guide to exploring Shakespeare with young people – ideal for directors, youth theatre leaders, workshop facilitators and teachers.