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Godzilla
An illustrated reference work to all things Godzilla, from the early days in black and white in Japan to the biggest blockbusters of the 21st century. Includes facts, figures, actors and locations.
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So you want to work in theatre?
A useful, informative career guide for students considering a career in theatre.
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Contemporary duologues: two men
A new addition to the Good Audition Guides, helping you select and perform the best audition piece for your skills.
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American theatre book of monologues for men
The best monologues from 15 years of American Theatre magazine plays.
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The ultimate bingewatching guide
100 of the best television series are rated and reviewed. Includes overviews, themes, characters, classic episodes, recommendations, and more.
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A new practical guide to rhetorical gesture and action
An exciting new volume based on Henry Siddons illustrated guidebook for actors originally published in 1807.
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Brecht: a practical handbook
A bold and exciting new approach to Bertolt Brecht, making his theories and ideas about theatre accessible to a new generation of actors, directors, students and theatre-makers, and showing how they can be put into practice.
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Conversations with peter brook: 1970-2000
An extended conversation with one of the giants of twentieth-century theater.
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The horror show guide
This cinefile’s guidebook covers the horror genre monstrously well! Find reviews of over 1,000 of the best, weirdest, wickedest, wackiest, and most entertaining scary movies from every age of horror! Atomic bombs, mad serial killers, zealous zombies, maniacal monsters lurking around every corne...
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The voice exercise book
The Head of Voice at the National Theatre shares the voice exercises she uses with many of Britain's leading actors.
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Lazzi
An important addition to the literature on Italian Commedia dell'Arte.--Choice
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Shakespeare on stage: volume 2
A follow-up to Curry's popular Shakespeare On Stage.
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Shakespeare monologues for young women
Forty fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays, hand-picked for young women and prefaced with easy-to-use guides.
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Teaching voice: workshops for young performers
An inspiring, practical guide to working with young people on their voices, by a highly experienced teacher, actor and director.
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Facing the fear
The first book of its kind, designed to help performers overcome the crippling fear of stage fright.
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Community engaged theatre
Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.
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The presence of the actor
Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today. This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the creation of some of the most exciting theatre of o...
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Miss you like hell
A new musical by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Water by the Spoonful.
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So you want to be a playwright?
A manual for would-be playwrights--how to develop your play from conception to opening night.
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Drama menu
Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.
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Speaking the speech
The most authoritative, most comprehensive book yet written on the practicality of speaking Shakespeare.
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Getting directions
Eight of the UK’s most exciting young directors provide unique insight into the creative process, from first rehearsal to opening.
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Advice from the players
A host of stars from stage and screen dispense invaluable advice for those just starting on an acting career.
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Ecologies of theater
Bonnie Marranca links ecology and art practice in this groundbreaking collection of essays, first published in 1996.
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Then what happens?
A practical investigation into story-theatre and the art of telling stories through theatre, by a renowned director.
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Training of the american actor
The handbook of the American actor's art and craft.
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Gary hill
A major work of scholarship on the inter-nationally celebrated video artist Gary Hill.
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Becoming an actor
A brilliant new handbook, full of insider information on the realities of attending drama school and pursuing an acting career.
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Advice to the players
"The best theatre book I read this year. The remarkable thing is its lack of bunk. Actors and watchers of actors will find it a book to mark up and read again."--Dan Sullivan, Los Angeles Times
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The actor and the camera
An invaluable practical guide for any young actor wanting to work in the film industry.
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Lincoln
A revealing drama about a great American president.
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So you want to do a solo show?
Comprehensive, step by step advice from a veteran of the solo show circuit, the first of its kind.
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Contemporary american monologues for women
Audition monologues from recent works by American playwrights.
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The working actor
A new book from the chair of the Actors Centre in London.
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The excellent audition guide
A reassuring, encouraging "how to" book that demystifies the often scary-looking process of applying to drama school.
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Audition songs for men
The Good Audition Guides: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills.
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So you want to be a theatre director?
A hands-on, step-by-step guide to directing plays--by one of Britain's leading theatre directors.
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Shakespeare's lost play
Gregory Doran spent years investigating the mystery of Shakespeare’s lost play. This is his story.
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All change please
This is a book about why change matters, its benefits, and how, with everyone's help, we can actually achieve it.
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Contemporary monologues for women
Fifty fantastic speeches for women, from top plays by some of the UK's most exciting contemporary dramatists.
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American theatre book of monologues for women
The best monologues from 15 years of American Theatre magazine plays.
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So you want to act on screen?
The essential guide for anyone wanting to know how to make a successful career as a film actor.
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Surviving actors manual
The essential, one-stop handbook for actors, with everything you need to survive and thrive.
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So you want to be a theatre designer?
The definitive guide to designing for theatre, by an award-winning designer with over 160 productions to his name.
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George f. walker
Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.
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Writing music for the stage
The latest in Nick Hern Books' hugely successful So You Want...? series.
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Being a dancer
The most revealing and instructive book yet on what it means to be a dancer.
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Medicine shows
Traces the work of a host of Canadian indigenous theatre artists over the past three decades.
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Theatre in scotland
A fascinating personal overview of Scotland and its culture from one of the country’s most acclaimed arts and political writers.
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Diane samuels' kindertransport
The ultimate guide to Nick Hern Books' bestselling play, written by the playwright.
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The viewpoints book
The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with—space and time—into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landa...
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The shifting point
"Peter Brook is one of the artistic geniuses of our time."--The San Francisco Chronicle¶The first paperback edition of this major collection of essays--the culmination of forty years' work by one of the most thoughtful directors in contemporary theatre.
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Doctor foster: the scripts
Bartlett's complete scripts for his superb television drama series, winner of Best New Drama at the 2016 National Television Awards.
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Contemporary duologues: two women
Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills.
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The acting book
The third of John Abbott’s essential guides to acting introduces young actors to the best performance techniques, old and new.
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An attitude for acting
Invaluable for student actors at the start of their career and for those whose careers have stalled.
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Contemporary duologues: one man & one woman
A new title in the Good Audition Guides series from Nick Hern.
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New canadian realisms
A collection of writing by celebrated scholars and artists that explores the state of political performance in contemporary Canada.
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Audition songs for women
The Good Audition Guides: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills.
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So you want to be a tv presenter?
An intensely practical and vocational guide to starting a career on TV as a presenter.
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The dream life
In what the New York Times's A.O. Scott called a "suave, scholarly tour de force," J. Hoberman delivers a brilliant and witty look at the decade when politics and pop culture became one. This was the era of the Missile Gap and the Space Race, the Black and Sexual Revolutions, the Vietnam War and...
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Shakespeare's advice to the players
A major new look at the art and process of Shakespeare for actors.
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Journal of the plague year
A truthful, personal and insightful exploration of the state of arts funding in the United Kingdom.
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Contemporary monologues for men
Fifty fantastic speeches for men, from top plays by some of Britain's most exciting dramatists.
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Ethnic, multicultural, and intercultural theatre
Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.
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Exposed by the mask
A major new exploration of the dramatic arts
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Daniel macivor
The first volume of essays dedicated to exploring the work of acclaimed Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor.
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The production notebooks, volume 2
Catalogs and describes the creative process.
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Feminist theatre and performance
Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.
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Dada performance
The only collection of its kind, this volume includes writings by leading Dadaists.
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An ideal theater
An inspiring collection of the dreams and visions of the founders of the American theater movement.
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Performing shakespeare
An authoritative, hands-on guide through the practical challenges involved in performing Shakespeare.
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100 great plays for women
This important, landmark survey dispels the myth that "there aren't any good plays for women."
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Cocaine fiends and reefer madness
From the very beginning, filmmakers have struggled to free themselves from censorship and manipulation by special-interest groups, and this struggle is clearly evident in the history of drug films. Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness is an exhaustive exploration of the history of the depiction of p...
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Stage management: the essential handbook
The basics of stage management in one handy, illustrated volume, now revised and updated.
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Make your own movies: a beginner’s guide to filmmaking with whatever equipment you have
A guide to making movies at home with whatever equipment you have, learning the basics of cinematographic and storytelling techniques.Filmmaking, we are told in the introduction, is the “reverse engineering of dreams… a spell that brings dreams and visions to life.” This book is a comprehensive p...
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Shakespeare monologues for young men
Forty fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays, hand-picked for young men and prefaced with easy-to-use guides.
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In their own words
Includes: Lee Breuer, Christopher Durang, Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, Charles Fuller, John Guare, Joan Holden, David Henry Hwang, David Mamet, Emily Mann, Richard Nelson, Marsha Norman, David Rabe, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Sondheim, Megan Terry, Luis Valdez, Michael Weller, August Wilson a...
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National youth theatre monologues
An invaluable new collection of audition speeches drawn from material produced by world-leading youth arts organization the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
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China on screen
In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors an...
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Talking theatre
Fascinating in-depth interviews with more than forty actors, writers, directors and producers in the theatre industry.
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Bill & ted's most excellent movie book
This bodacious companion to all three movies features photographs, quotes and interviews: a most excellent publication.
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Sweet william
A unique, personal guide to Shakespeare’s life and plays told through the experience of one of our leading classical actors.
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Lessons for the professional actor
Extraordinary lectures, including exercises.--Call Board
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Theater criticisms
Stanley Kauffmann is the theater critic of Saturday Review and was theater critic of The New York Times and The New Republic. He has received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, as well as the Guggenheim, Ford, and Rockefeller fellowships. He teaches at the Yale School of Drama a...
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The planetary gestures in eurythmy
Celebrated eurythmist Werner Barfod details the seven planetary gestures in eurythmy and outlines how each expresses a different relationship of the human being to the world. Eurythmy is an art form that makes sounds visible through movement. As well as gestures for speech and music, eurythmy al...
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Strasberg at the actors studio
"A fascinating close-up of Mr. Strasberg's philosophy of theatre and method of working with actors."--Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times Unavailable for over fifteen years, these transcripts of Strasberg's private acting classes provide a revealing look at one of the nation's most famous act...
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Theatre and performance in toronto
Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.
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How to speak shakespeare
In How to Speak Shakespeare, authors Cal Pritner and Louis Colaianni teach readers how to make sound and sense out of the Bard. Their methods have taught thousands of peoplefrom high school students to English literature and theater arts graduate students, from beginning actors to professional a...
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Actor's choice: monologues for teens, volume 2
A brand-new collection of unique and compelling monologues, carefully chosen to help savvy actors shine at auditions.
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Getting into drama school
A no-nonsense guide to applying for drama school.
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The fifth act
The scripts of award-winning film director Ingmar Bergman have been among the most important documents in film history. Though his vision in such films as Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal has shaped our thinking about the cinema, none of his most recent films have been shown in U.S. theate...
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Joseph chaikin & sam shepard: letters and texts, 1
This absorbing collection of letters and monologues by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor Sam Shepard and Obie Award-winning actor and director Joseph Chaikin provides an extraordinary opportunity to view the creative process of two of contemporary American theatre's great innovators. "I...
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The playwright's voice
A second volume of interviews with contemporary American playwrights by David Savran.
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Telling the truth
A practical guide to creating and producing verbatim theatre, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.
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Cinema sex sirens
With an introduction by Sir Roger Moore, Cinema Sex Sirens centres around a select number of actresses, from cinematic legends to some whose names are barely known by the general public who capitalised on their natural beauty during this era.Each chapter focuses on one actress, with a biography, ...
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Warring clans, flashing blades
Fifty more of the best samurai films--this time teamed up with yakuza and ninjas!
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Russian avant-garde theatre
A landmark volume which explores the remarkable flowering of radical, visionary and experimental design for performance in Russia from 1913-1933.
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