A vital companion for actors in rehearsal - a thesaurus of action-words to revitalise performance, with a foreword by Terry Johnson.

101 great drama games for use in any classroom or workshop setting. Part of the Nick Hern Books Drama Games series.

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.

Forty 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.

Forty 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.

A step-by-step introduction to the key features of the Meisner Technique, including a full set of practical exercises.

An impassioned and invaluable guide for actors and students of musical theatre.

An engaging, upbeat guide for any student thinking of applying to drama school.

An inspiring, practical handbook for anyone working with young people to make devised theatre.

An 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.

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.

A revised and updated edition of Bella Merlin's essential guide to Stanislavsky's terms and ideas.

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.

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.

A 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.

A 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.

Four urgent and explosive plays by award-winning playwright Evan Placey, each tackling issues facing young people today.

An inspiring, practical guide to working with young people on their voices, by a highly experienced teacher, actor and director.

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.

A practical guide to the Feldenkrais Method, for actors. Written by an experienced actor, theatre-maker and Feldenkrais practitioner.

A unique theatrical investigation into how teenagers' brains work, and why they’re designed by evolution to be the way they are.

A practical guide to creating successful immersive theatre productions, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.

The indispensible guide for anyone studying, teaching or performing Jessica Swale's hit play, Blue Stockings.

A practical guide to creating and producing verbatim theatre, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.

Essential warm-up exercises for anyone who wants to use their voice more effectively.

A 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.

A practical, accessible and inspiring guide to using puppetry in theatre, by a leading expert in the field.

An 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.

The 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.

Forty fantastic female speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today.