What Actors Do
Advice to the Players in Seven Paradoxes and a Manifesto
Revered 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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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£10.39The Wife of Cyncoed & Idyll: two plays
By Matt HartleyTwo plays by Matt Hartley: his entertaining one-woman play, The Wife of Cyncoed, premiered at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, in 2024; and Idyll, a captivating short play premiered by Pentabus Theatre in 2021.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39So 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£10.39MALAPROP: plays
By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP TheatreFour plays from the award-winning collective of Irish theatremakers: bold, playful, genre-spanning work, all premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival between 2017 and 2023.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Drama 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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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£13.59Curtain Up!
How to Stage Great Youth Productions
Edited by Charon Williams-RosA comprehensive, hands-on guide to making theatre – perfect for any school, college, youth group or amateur-theatre company.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59The 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£13.59The Actor and the Space
An inspirational book on acting, tackling the fundamental questions that face any actor. By a world-leading theatre director, the founder of Cheek by Jowl.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59The Elemental Actor
How to Release Your Hidden Powers
By Mel ChurcherA practical guide for actors, giving you the tools to harness each of the elemental energies, and use them to make your acting work more powerful and alive. Full of games, exercises and practical tips. From an international acting, dialogue and voice coach who has worked with some of the biggest stars of stage and screen.
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£18.99£15.19Add to basketEbook£18.99£15.19James Fritz Plays: One
By James FritzSix plays from a unique voice in British theatre, covering the first decade of his career. These plays confront the fault lines in our culture with thrilling imagination, an unflinching moral seriousness and a warm, compassionate sense of humour.
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£19.99£15.99Add to basketEbook£19.99£15.99Chris Bush Plays: One
By Chris BushFive plays by leading playwright Chris Bush: Steel; Faustus: That Damned Woman; Nine Lessons and Carols; Hungry (Paines Plough, 2021) and Not the End of the World (Schaubühne, Berlin, 2021).
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£19.99£15.99Add to basketEbook£19.99£15.99Heroes of the Fourth Turning
By Will ArberyA haunting play about a group of young conservative Catholics in America encountering crises of confidence in faith, country, and self. A finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Ivanov
Chekhov's character study of a man undone by his own spiritual malaise, in a brilliant translation by a world-renowned team of translators.
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LAMDA Acting Anthology: Volume 5
By LAMDA Exams100 speeches and scenes for Learners entering LAMDA Graded Examinations in Performance: Acting from Grade 1 to Grade 5.
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LAMDA Verse and Prose Anthology: Volume 20
By LAMDA ExamsAn anthology of the set selection of verse and prose pieces for Learners entering LAMDA Graded Examinations in Communication: Speaking Verse and Prose from Entry Level to Grade 8, and LAMDA Introductory Graded Examinations from Stage 1 to Stage 3 (Solo and Group).
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£22.00£20.00Add to basketEbook£22.00£20.00Fat Ham
By James IjamesWinner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' play reinvents Shakespeare's Hamlet in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.
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