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Drama Games for Actors
Exploring Self, Character and Text
From the bestselling Drama Games series, this dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book offers dozens of games to serve as a rich source of ideas and inspiration for all actors – and those teaching or directing them.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Creating Worlds
How to Make Immersive Theatre
By Jason WarrenA practical guide to creating successful immersive theatre productions, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Twelfth Night: A User's Guide
An intensely practical account of the way Twelfth Night actually works on stage, by an acclaimed actor and director.
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£9.99£7.99
Playing 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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£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£11.99Brecht: 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£10.39Puppetry: 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£13.59Improv 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£11.99The Actor and the Target & The Actor and the Space - BUNDLE DEAL
Limited-time offer: both books for just £25!
A special bundle deal: Declan Donnellan's bestselling theatre book The Actor and the Target and its follow-up, The Actor and the Space, at a special discounted price
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£33.98£25.00
Drama 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£8.79What 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£11.99Shakespeare 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£13.59Keeping 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£11.99Making 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£7.99Staging 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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Drama 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£10.39Exploring 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 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£13.59
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