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Nick Hern Books

Biography & General

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My First Play

My First Play

An Anthology of Theatrical Beginnings

Compiled by Nick Hern

A unique collection of pieces by playwrights, actors and theatre directors - candid, hilarious, and often sharply revealing.

How Musicals Work

How Musicals Work

And How to Write Your Own

By Julian Woolford

Why do some musicals work, while others just don't? And what should you do if you're thinking of writing your own? Julian Woolford, a successful writer and director of musicals and lecturer in writing musicals at the University of London, explores the musical-theatre canon to answer these and many other questions.

Chekhov on Theatre

Chekhov on Theatre

By Anton Chekhov Compiled by Jutta Hercher and Peter Urban Translated by Stephen Mulrine

A unique collection of everything that Chekhov wrote about the theatre - including newspaper articles and letters - revealing his instinctive curiosity about the way theatre works and his concerns about how best to realise his own intentions as a playwright.

Shakespeare's Lost Play

Shakespeare's Lost Play

In Search of Cardenio

By Gregory Doran

A thrilling act of literary detection as Gregory Doran attempts to rediscover Shakespeare's lost play.

My Life in Pieces

My Life in Pieces

An Alternative Autobiography

By Simon Callow

An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.

So You Want To Do A Solo Show?

So You Want To Do A Solo Show?

By Gareth Armstrong

A unique guide to every aspect of putting on your own solo show: choosing the subject, raising the finance, booking the venue - and performing it!

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Talking Theatre

Talking Theatre

Interviews with Theatre People

By Richard Eyre

A superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it.

Ken Campbell: The Great Caper

Ken Campbell: The Great Caper

By Michael Coveney

The first, authorised biography of the anarchic comic genius, much cherished for his performances on stage and screen.

Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good

Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good

A Study Guide

By Max Stafford-Clark and Maeve McKeown

An invaluable and authoritative guide for anyone studying, teaching or performing Timberlake Wertenbaker's play, Our Country's Good.

Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater

Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater

By Richard Foreman

Includes essays and playscripts: The Cure, Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good, Symphony of Rats, What Did He See? and Lava, with a Foreword by Peter Sellars

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A Moment Towards the End of the Play...

A Moment Towards the End of the Play...

An Autobiography

By Timothy West

A revised and expanded edition of the autobiography that has delighted readers and theatregoers since its first publication in 2001.

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The Reluctant Escapologist: Adventures in Alternative Theatre

The Reluctant Escapologist: Adventures in Alternative Theatre

By Mike Bradwell

An unrivalled unofficial history of the rise – and partial fall – of fringe theatre, Mike Bradwell's deadpan account of his adventures is one of the funniest and angriest books to come out of theatre today.

The American Theatre Reader

The American Theatre Reader

Edited by American Theatre magazine

A compendium of the best essays and interviews from twenty-five years of American Theatre magazine.

My Life in Pieces

My Life in Pieces (Hardback edition)

An Alternative Autobiography

By Simon Callow

An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.

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Beside Myself

Beside Myself

An Actor's Life

By Antony Sher

A remarkably candid autobiography, utterly involving and often startlingly revelatory - an inspiration to young actors and a treat for seasoned theatregoers.

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Spider Speculations

Spider Speculations

A Physics and Biophysics of Storytelling

By Jo Carson

An investigation into how stories work in our bodies and our lives, from the author of Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet.

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Kenneth Tynan: Theatre Writings

Kenneth Tynan: Theatre Writings

By Kenneth Tynan Edited by Dominic Shellard

The best of Kenneth Tynan's theatre criticism, selected and edited by his biographer Dominic Shellard - with a foreword by Tom Stoppard.

Profiles

Profiles

By Kenneth Tynan Edited by Kathleen Tynan

The only collection of Tynan's star-studded profiles, his incisive pen-portraits of many of the most significant performers and writers of his day.

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