Biography & General
My First Play
An Anthology of Theatrical Beginnings
A unique collection of pieces by playwrights, actors and theatre directors - candid, hilarious, and often sharply revealing.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99How Musicals Work
And How to Write Your Own
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.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59Chekhov on Theatre
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.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Shakespeare's Lost Play
In Search of Cardenio
A thrilling act of literary detection as Gregory Doran attempts to rediscover Shakespeare's lost play.
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£14.99£11.99
My Life in Pieces
An Alternative Autobiography
By Simon CallowAn 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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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99So You Want To Do A Solo Show?
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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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£12.99£10.39Talking Theatre
Interviews with Theatre People
By Richard EyreA superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Ken Campbell: The Great Caper
The first, authorised biography of the anarchic comic genius, much cherished for his performances on stage and screen.
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£14.99£11.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£14.99£11.99Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good
A Study Guide
By Max Stafford-Clark and Maeve McKeownAn invaluable and authoritative guide for anyone studying, teaching or performing Timberlake Wertenbaker's play, Our Country's Good.
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£10.99£8.79
Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater
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...
An Autobiography
By Timothy WestA revised and expanded edition of the autobiography that has delighted readers and theatregoers since its first publication in 2001.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99The Reluctant Escapologist: Adventures in Alternative Theatre
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.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The American Theatre Reader
Edited by American Theatre magazineA compendium of the best essays and interviews from twenty-five years of American Theatre magazine.
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My Life in Pieces (Hardback edition)
An Alternative Autobiography
By Simon CallowAn 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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£20.00£16.00There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Beside Myself
An Actor's Life
By Antony SherA remarkably candid autobiography, utterly involving and often startlingly revelatory - an inspiration to young actors and a treat for seasoned theatregoers.
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£12.99£10.39There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£12.99£10.39Spider Speculations
A Physics and Biophysics of Storytelling
By Jo CarsonAn 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
By Kenneth Tynan Edited by Dominic ShellardThe best of Kenneth Tynan's theatre criticism, selected and edited by his biographer Dominic Shellard - with a foreword by Tom Stoppard.
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£9.99£7.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£9.99£7.99Profiles
By Kenneth Tynan Edited by Kathleen TynanThe 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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£14.99£11.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£14.99£11.99
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