Writing
My First Play
An Anthology of Theatrical Beginnings
A unique collection of pieces by playwrights, actors and theatre directors - candid, hilarious, and often sharply revealing.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£4.99£3.99Diane 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.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Monty Python at Work
A fascinating account of the making of the Monty Python TV and stage shows, films, books and albums, drawn from Michael Palin's published diaries.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99Making 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£7.99Diaries 1969-1977
The revealing - and frequently hilarious - diaries of playwright Peter Nichols, covering the period of his life between his first real hit, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, to the stirrings of his masterpiece, Passion Play.
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Chekhov on Theatre
A unique collection of everything that Chekhov wrote about the theatre - including newspaper articles and letters - revealing his instinctive curiosity about the way theatre works and his concerns about how best to realise his own intentions as a playwright.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Conversations with Miller (Centenary Edition)
By Mel Gussow Foreword by Richard EyreMore than a dozen conversations between Arthur Miller, America's greatest playwright, and New York Times critic Mel Gussow, covering subjects personal and political.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Inventing the Truth: Devising and Directing for the Theatre
An invaluable guide to the difficult arts of devising plays and directing texts, by one of the UK’s leading theatre directors.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79So You Want To Be A Playwright?
By Tim FountainHow to write a play and get it produced - a manual for playwrights.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Being a Playwright
A Career Guide for Writers
By Chris Foxon and George TurveyThe essential guide to a career in playwriting, from the team behind the multi-award-winning Papatango, one of the UK's leading new-writing companies.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Writer's Toolkit
Exercises, Techniques and Ideas for Playwrights and Screenwriters
Almost two hundred practical exercises, techniques and ideas for every part of your process, designed to equip you with everything required to kickstart your creativity, develop your craft, and make your writing the very best that it can be.
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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£10.39The Secret Life of Plays
By Steve WatersA guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99So You Want To Write Radio Drama?
By Claire Grove and Stephen WyattA practical guide to writing radio drama and getting it produced, by a leading radio dramatist and a hugely experienced radio drama producer who have both created award-winning dramas for the BBC.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99Telling 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£11.99Taking Stock: The Theatre of Max Stafford-Clark
By Max Stafford-Clark and Philip RobertsInside accounts of the making of some of the most influential theatre productions of the last four decades.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99How Plays Work
By David EdgarDistinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning.
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£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£14.99£11.99The Playwright's Journey
From First Spark to First Night
A clear, supportive and comprehensive guide to writing a play – based on the author's long-running playwriting masterclasses, as taught at the UK's National Theatre.
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