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.
The 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.
Wonder Boy
By Ross WillisA 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.
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.
When They Go Low
A play about everyday feminism, consent and the changing face of teenage sexuality in an online world. Written for the National Theatre Connections Festival.
What 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.
The Voice Exercise Book: The Warm-Ups
Essential warm-up exercises for anyone who wants to use their voice more effectively.
The Trials
By Dawn KingA searing play set in a near-future world, where those responsible for the climate emergency are being judged by a younger generation.
Too Much World at Once
An urgent coming-of-age story for our times, a lyrical, theatrical journey that spans continents and lives.
Telling the Truth
How to Make Verbatim Theatre
A practical guide to creating and producing verbatim theatre, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.
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.
Stuff
By Tom WellsA play about friendship and loss – and the way people try to do the right thing for their mates when there isn't really a right thing to do. Written specifically for young people as part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival.
The Small Hours
A National Theatre Connections play about teenagers, nightlife, and the small choices that have momentous consequences.
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.
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.
The Secret Garden (stage version)
By Frances Hodgson Burnett Adapted by Elizabeth NewmanA delightful stage adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's enduring tale of transformation and healing through nature.
Run, Rebel (stage version)
By Manjeet MannA 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.
Puppetry: How to Do It
A practical, accessible and inspiring guide to using puppetry in theatre, by a leading expert in the field.
Playwriting
Structure, Character, How and What to Write
An authoritative guide to playwrighting, by a true master of the craft. Indispensable for playwrights at every level of experience.
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.
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.
Orlando (stage version)
By Virginia Woolf Adapted by Neil BartlettA sparkling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's famous fantasy, premiered in the West End with Golden Globe winner Emma Corrin leading an ensemble company.
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.
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.
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 Maladies
By Carmen NasrA powerful, provocative play exploring psychogenic illness amongst groups of women throughout history, premiered by the Almeida Young Company.
Making Theatre
The Frazzled Drama Teacher's Guide to Devising
An inspiring, practical handbook for anyone working with young people to make devised theatre.
Little Women (stage version)
By Louisa May Alcott Adapted by Anne-Marie CaseyA joyful and spirited adaptation of one of the best-loved novels of all time.
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (West End edition)
By Sam SteinerA 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.
Learning 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.
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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