Writing
Then What Happens?
Storytelling and Adapting for the Theatre
A practical investigation into story-theatre and the art of telling stories through theatre, by the renowned director who founded Shared Experience Theatre Company.
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£20.99£16.79Add to basketEbook£20.99£16.79My First Play
An Anthology of Theatrical Beginnings
Compiled by Nick HernA 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£3.99How Musicals Work
And How to Write Your Own
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.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59Chekhov 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£8.79Inventing 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 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£11.99Spider Speculations
A Physics and Biophysics of Storytelling
By Jo CarsonAn investigation into how stories work in our bodies and our lives, from the author of Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet.
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So 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£10.39Taking 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£11.99The Playwright's Voice
American Dramatists on Memory, Writing and the Politics of Culture
By David SavranInterviews with 15 key American playwrights, including Edward Albee, Tony Kushner and Paula Vogel.
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In Their Own Words
Contemporary American Playwrights
By David SavranInterviews with 20 leading American playwrights, each with a substantial introduction.
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