In this selection, we've rounded up a range of essential books for anyone in drama education – including collections of drama games, guides to help you learn and teach skills, explorations of key practitioners, inspiring audition materials and career guides for any student keen to work in theatre in any role, and more – all available at 40% off in our Sale.
Plus, £1 from every book sold in our Sale will go to the Theatre Artists Fund, which continues to provide emergency support for theatre-workers and freelancers across the UK affected by the devastating impact of COVID-19 on the theatre sector.
Remember, everything included in the Sale has been handpicked from the shelves at NHB HQ, and stock is strictly limited. So if you see something you want, move fast to avoid missing out – because once it's gone, it's gone!
Take a look at what's on offer below, and head back to our main Sale page to browse the whole range of playscripts and books currently available at a very special 40% discount, for a limited time only.
Looking for fantastic plays for your students to read, study and perform? Check out our Plays for Young People selection.
Contemporary Monologues for Teenagers: Female
Forty fantastic female speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today.
Contemporary Monologues for Teenagers: Male
Edited by Trilby JamesForty fantastic male speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today.
National Youth Theatre Monologues
75 Speeches for Auditions
Edited by Michael BryherAn exciting and invaluable collection of audition speeches, all chosen from plays produced by the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, spanning more than sixty years as one of the world’s leading companies for young performers.
Brecht: 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.
The Voice Exercise Book: The Warm-Ups
Essential warm-up exercises for anyone who wants to use their voice more effectively.
World Factory: The Game
By Zoë Svendsen and Simon DawA participative theatre experience about global consumer capitalism, offering readers the opportunity to play – as individuals or in teams – the managers of a clothing factory in China.
Jessica Swale's Blue Stockings
A guide for studying and staging the play
By Jessica Swale and Lois JearyThe indispensible guide for anyone studying, teaching or performing Jessica Swale's hit play, Blue Stockings.
Creating Worlds
How to Make Immersive Theatre
By Jason WarrenA practical guide to creating successful immersive theatre productions, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.
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.
Contemporary Duologues: Two Women
Edited by Trilby JamesA selection of the best contemporary scenes for two female actors. In the Good Audition Guides series.
Drama Games for Rehearsals
A dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book in the bestselling Drama Games series offering dozens of ideas and exercises to energise and inspire a bold, creative rehearsal process for any play, of any period or genre.
Drama Games for Young Children
From the bestselling Drama Games series, this dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book – packed with over 200 individual games – is perfect for teachers, playgroup leaders and drama facilitators who want to inspire and entertain children, aged 3 and up, with vibrant and engaging drama experiences.
Teaching Voice: Workshops for Young Performers
By Max HaflerAn inspiring, practical guide to working with young people on their voices, by a highly experienced teacher, actor and director.
Actioning - and How to Do It
By Nick MoseleyA step-by-step guide to 'actioning', one of the most widely used rehearsal techniques for actors. An indispensable companion to a vital component in every actor's toolkit.
So You Want To Be A Theatre Producer?
A comprehensive guide to every aspect of producing a show, from raising the money to creating a hit. Revised and updated.
Drama Menu
Theatre Games in Three Courses
Packed full of tried-and-tested theatre games, exercises and improvisation ideas, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers and workshop leaders.
So You Want To Be A Theatre Designer?
The definitive guide to designing for theatre – by an award-winning designer with over 160 productions to his name.
The Active Text
Unlocking Plays Through Physical Theatre
Dymphna Callery, author of Through the Body: A practical guide to physical theatre, shows how exercises and rehearsal techniques associated with physical and devised theatre can be applied to scripted plays.
The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit
By Bella MerlinA revised and updated edition of Bella Merlin's essential guide to Stanislavsky's terms and ideas.
The Complete Brecht Toolkit
A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercises to help put theory into practice.
Contemporary Monologues for Men
Edited by Trilby JamesFifty fantastic speeches for men, all written since the year 2000, by some of our most exciting dramatic voices. Each speech is prefaced with a thorough introduction including the vital information you need to perform the scene to its maximum effect. The result is the most comprehensive and useful contemporary monologue book now available.
Diane Samuels' Kindertransport
The author's guide to the play
The author's guide to Kindertransport, an invaluable and uniquely authoritative resource for anyone studying, teaching or performing the play.
100 Great Plays for Women
By Lucy Kerbel Foreword by Kate MosseAn inspiring guide to a hundred plays that put female performers centre stage, dispelling the myth that 'There just aren't any good plays for women'. With a foreword by Kate Mosse.
Making Theatre
The Frazzled Drama Teacher's Guide to Devising
An inspiring, practical handbook for anyone working with young people to make devised theatre.
The Excellent Audition Guide
By Andy JohnsonAn engaging, upbeat guide for any student thinking of applying to drama school.
So You Want To Work In Theatre?
By Susan ElkinAn essential guide for young people who want to work in the theatre - but aren't sure exactly what they want to do, or how to get to do it. By the Education and Training Editor of The Stage.
Acting Through Song
Techniques and Exercises for Musical-Theatre Actors
By Paul HarvardAn impassioned and invaluable guide for actors and students of musical theatre.
Shakespeare Monologues for Young Men
By Luke DixonForty monologues for young men drawn from across the whole of Shakespeare's canon, complete with summaries, ideas for consideration and a glossary. Part of the Nick Hern Books Good Audition Guides series.
Shakespeare Monologues for Young Women
By Luke DixonForty monologues for young women, drawn from across the whole of Shakespeare's canon, complete with summaries, ideas for consideration and a glossary. Part of the Nick Hern Books Good Audition Guides series.
So You Want To Be In Musicals?
By Ruthie Henshall With Daniel BowlingAn insider's guide to achieving that dream career – by one of the brightest stars in musical theatre.
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