Directing
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Curtain Up!
How to Stage Great Youth Productions
A comprehensive, hands-on guide to making theatre – perfect for any school, college, youth group or amateur-theatre company.
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£16.99£13.59Pre-orderEbook£16.99£13.59Available soonThe Drama Workshop Leader
A Practical Guide to Delivering Great Sessions
A comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to planning and delivering effective drama sessions, getting the best out of your participants, and developing an empowering leadership style that works for you.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59Running the Room
Conversations with Women Theatre Directors
Our most brilliant, fearless and creative women directors open the door on their craft, discussing their work in the theatre in intimate and illuminating detail.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39What Actors Do
Advice to the Players in Seven Paradoxes and a Manifesto
By Mike AlfredsRevered theatre director Mike Alfreds explores the wellspring of the actor's craft. Frank, uncompromising and full of sharply focused insights, this book will show you how to generate truthful performances by trusting your inner creativity and remaining radically open, responsive and present in every moment.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Drama Menu: Second Helpings
Another 160 Tasty Theatre Games
160 all-new games and exercises from the author of Drama Menu, the bestselling companion for drama teachers and workshop leaders.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59Exploring Shakespeare
A Director's Notes from the Rehearsal Room
A Shakespeare masterclass from an acclaimed theatre director, going inside the rehearsal room to reveal – in unprecedented and captivating detail – exactly what happens there. An essential book for directors and actors, and a fascinating insight for anyone interested in Shakespeare.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59Drama Games for Exploring Shakespeare
Dozens of games to help bring Shakespeare’s plays to life in the classroom or rehearsal room – making them fun and accessible to actors, students, directors and teachers.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Staging Story: Five Fundamentals for the Beginning Stage Director
By Robert Moss and Wendy DannEssential advice for theatre directors, focusing on five fundamentals for staging a play - Story, Intention, Character, Space and Theme.
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Making Your Solo Show: The Compact Guide
By Lisa Carroll and Milly ThomasA clear, accessible guide to creating and putting on a solo show, packed with inspiring, practical advice for writers, actors, directors and anyone who wants to know how solo shows are actually made.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Keeping 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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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Shakespeare on the Factory Floor
A Handbook for Actors, Directors and Designers
A passionate, illuminating exploration of Shakespeare's greatest plays and characters, from the director of the acclaimed theatre company Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59What 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.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Drama Menu at a Distance
80 Socially Distanced or Online Theatre Games
Created specifically to help anyone teaching drama during the COVID-19 pandemic, this collection features 80 games and exercises, all of which are safe and secure to play in this new era of socially distanced teaching and online learning.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Improv Beyond Rules
A Practical Guide to Narrative Improvisation
By Adam MeggidoAn inspiring, hands-on guide to narrative improvisation, by the co-creator and director of the Olivier Award-winning improv show Showstopper! The Improvised Musical.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Puppetry: How to Do It
A practical, accessible and inspiring guide to using puppetry in theatre, by a leading expert in the field.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59Brecht: A Practical Handbook
By David ZoobA bold and exciting new approach to Bertolt Brecht, making his theories and ideas about theatre accessible to a new generation of actors, directors, students and theatre-makers, and showing how they can be put into practice.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Telling the Truth
How to Make Verbatim Theatre
A practical guide to creating and producing verbatim theatre, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Playing the Mask
Acting Without Bullshit
By John WrightA wonderfully accessible introduction to a fresh and innovative acting technique, from the co-founder of Trestle and Told by an Idiot.
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