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Top Titles
Below is a selection of our bestselling plays and theatre books.

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Contemporary Monologues for Women

Contemporary Monologues for Women

Edited by Trilby James

Fifty fantastic speeches for women, all written since the year 2000, by some of our most exciting dramatic voices. In the Nick Hern Books Good Audition Guides series.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Acting (But Were Afraid to Ask, Dear)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Acting (But Were Afraid to Ask, Dear)

By West End Producer

A witty, insightul and deliciously naughty guide on how to succeed in showbusiness, by the anonymous Internet sensation West End Producer.

Blue Stockings

Blue Stockings

By Jessica Swale

A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage.

Chimerica

Chimerica

By Lucy Kirkwood

A powerful, provocative play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. Winner of the Evening Standard Best Play Award (2013), the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award (2014), and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

The Excellent Audition Guide

The Excellent Audition Guide

By Andy Johnson

An engaging, upbeat guide for any student thinking of applying to drama school.

Girls Like That

Girls Like That

By Evan Placey

An urgent and explosive play that explores of the pressures on young people today in the wake of advancing technology.

Speaking the Speech

Speaking the Speech

An Actor's Guide to Shakespeare

By Giles Block Foreword by Mark Rylance

An invaluable book for actors and directors who want to improve their understanding of Shakespeare’s language in order to speak it better.

Acting Through Song

Acting Through Song

Techniques and Exercises for Musical-Theatre Actors

By Paul Harvard

An impassioned and invaluable guide for actors and students of musical theatre.

The Golden Rules of Acting

The Golden Rules of Acting

By Andy Nyman

A treasure trove of advice, support and encouragement that no performer should be without. Honest, witty and direct, The Golden Rules of Acting is every actor's best friend – in handy paperback form.

Love and Information

Love and Information

By Caryl Churchill

From one of the UK's most influential playwrights - a fast moving kaleidoscope in which more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.

How Musicals Work

How Musicals Work

And How to Write Your Own

By Julian Woolford

Why do some musicals work, while others just don't? And what should you do if you're thinking of writing your own? Julian Woolford, a successful writer and director of musicals and lecturer in writing musicals at the University of London, explores the musical-theatre canon to answer these and many other questions.

Boys

Boys

By Ella Hickson

Four boys face the tricky transition to adulthood in Ella Hickson's riot of a play.

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