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A Practical Guide to Achieving Gender Equality in Theatre

A book about the need for change in theatre, to reflect the gender balance of the world it seeks to represent, and how, with everyone's help, we can achieve it.

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Going to the Theatre (But Were Too Sloshed to Ask, Dear)

By West End Producer

West End Producer, the masked man of theatreland and author of the definitive guide to acting, returns with the ultimate guide to the theatregoing experience – for anyone who's ever been to the theatre, or who thinks they might like to try it one day.

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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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Playing Joan

Actresses on the Challenge of Shaw's Saint Joan

By Holly Hill

Interviews with 26 actresses who have played George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, including Eileen Atkins, Elisabeth Bergner, Judi Dench, Wendy Hiller, Barbara Jefford, Siobhan McKenna, Sarah Miles, Joan Plowright.

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People Who Led to My Plays

By Adrienne Kennedy

A magical scrapbook of words, pictures and memories, capturing the life of a middle-class black girl growing up in the Midwest in the 1930s and 40s, aspiring to be a writer.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Naked Thoughts That Roam About

Reflections on Theatre

By John McGrath Edited by Nadine Holdsworth

A lifetime of polemical writing about the theatre from the socialist playwright, director, producer and founder of 7:84.

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A Good Night Out

Popular Theatre: Audience, Class and Form

By John McGrath

The classic manifesto on popular theatre by the founder of the 7:84 Theatre Companies.

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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.