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Playing Commedia

Playing Commedia

A Training Guide to Commedia Techniques

By Barry Grantham

A practical guide to the skills, characters and history of Commedia Dell'Arte through graded games and illustrated exercises - a useful tool in any actor's training and a discipline for all forms of physical theatre.

Stage Director's Handbook

Stage Director's Handbook

Opportunities for Directors and Choreographers

Edited by David Diamond and Terry Berliner

An essential handbook for student and professional directors, covering training and courses, grants and fellowships, companies and organisations, agents and managers, and much more.

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Poetics

Poetics

By Aristotle Translated by Kenneth McLeish

A clear and authoritative edition of one of the most influential tracts in world theatre, a text that is crucial to an understanding of how drama works, and how it has evolved.

The Necessary Theatre

The Necessary Theatre

By Peter Hall

A distillation of Sir Peter Hall's thinking on the state of theatre. Part of the Dramatic Contexts series.

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Contemporary American Monologues for Women

Contemporary American Monologues for Women

Edited by Todd London

Monologues selected from more than 100 new American plays produced in the past twenty years.

Contemporary American Monologues for Men

Contemporary American Monologues for Men

Edited by Todd London

Monologues selected from more than 100 new American plays produced in the past twenty years.

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The Production Notebooks: Volume 1

The Production Notebooks: Volume 1

Theatre in Process

By Mark Bly

Detailed case-studies of four major productions by leading American theatre companies.

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The Singing Voice

The Singing Voice

An Owner's Manual

By Pat Wilson

Concise, intelligent, helpful and eminently readable, this book shows how to keep your singing voice in good trim and how to tackle the tough world of auditions, rehearsals, long runs, tours, sound studios and other tests and trials.

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Letters to George

Letters to George

By Max Stafford-Clark

A unique insight into the working methods of one of today’s most influential directors.

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Hamlet: A User's Guide

Hamlet: A User's Guide

By Michael Pennington

An intensely practical account of the way Hamlet actually works on stage, by an acclaimed actor and director.

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People Who Led to My Plays

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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Don't Just Applaud, Send Money!

Don't Just Applaud, Send Money!

The most successful strategies for funding and marketing the arts

By Alvin H. Reiss

A hundred new ideas for raising money to fund the arts - of enormous value to all arts organisations.

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A Good Night Out

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.

Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (incl. Slavs!)

Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (incl. Slavs!)

By Tony Kushner

A collection of essays, poems, a prayer and a play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.

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Masterclass: Men

Masterclass: Men

The Actor's Audition Manual

By Dean Carey

An extensive guide to acting, followed by close to a hundred audition pieces chosen from the whole of world drama.

Masterclass: Women

Masterclass: Women

The Actor's Audition Manual

By Dean Carey

An extensive guide to acting, followed by close to a hundred audition pieces chosen from the whole of world drama.

Conversations With Pinter

Conversations With Pinter

By Mel Gussow

Detailed interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, conducted over twenty years from 1971-1993 by the Drama Critic of the New York Times.

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Letters & Texts 1972-1984

Letters & Texts 1972-1984

By Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard

A collection of letters and collaborative texts written by playwright Sam Shepard and director Joseph Chaikin, covering one of the richest periods of contemporary American playmaking.

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