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Harriet Walter's wonderfully practical - and personal - introduction to acting. "e;Acting is what I do with who I am"e;, writes Harriet Walter. And in this book she takes us step by step through the processes involved in performance. Each step of the way is illuminated with brilliantly precise examples drawn from her own experience. 'My advice to a young actor: read this book' Richard Eyre 'Buy it, and be delightfully and unhectoringly informed about exactly what it is that actors get up to and why... Harriet Walter is sharp, clear, elegant, sturdily sensitive' Observer 'A fascinating insight into the working life of an actor... very enjoyable' The Times

The Pulitzer-winning musical inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, celebrating the art of creation and the creation of art.

This text consists of two linked one-act plays set in a run-down hotel in Bournemouth. In one, a divorcee tracks down her former husband in order to resume a kind of half-life with him. In the other, a repressed young spinster offers moral support to a fake major accused of importuning women.

Dima, 19, lives with his alcoholic father in a block of flats near the cemetery. Tomorrow he'll join the army and go to fight in Chechnya. Tonight he's trying to have a party. Lera, 20, lives in the same block. She reckons she's won a fortune if she can just borrow 1000 roubles to enter a competition.

A comprehensive instruction manual on how to liberate the singing voice that is within each one of us. Full of practical exercises, the book starts with an overhaul of our attitude to our voice. Topics covered include: overcoming inhibition; sound and resonance; and using your imagination.

McPherson's four most recent plays in one volume: "The Weir", "Dublin Carol", "Port Authority" and "Come on Over".

The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding. Moliere's masterpiece The Miser is one of the most famous French plays of all time. This Drama Classics edition is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell, Professor of Literary Translation at the University of Exeter.

Fifteen-year-old Kerry and her mum have moved to a council estate. Kerry hates it. She hates her mum's new man too. When she meets a boy in the playground and asks him to do something about it, she finds herself adrift in a landscape of physical brutality, drugs - and eventually, love.

Jean Rhys was obsessed with Jane Eyre - and more particularly with Bertha Mason, the first Mrs Rochester and the "madwoman in the attic". Placing Bertha on stage throughout as Jean's alter ego, this dramatization of Rhys' life gives full vent to this obsession.

Yes, it's about that princess who is cursed to prick her finger and fall asleep for 100 years, but this "Sleeping Beauty" is seen through the eyes of the fairy who casts the spell in the first place - Goody, who is not such a bad lot after all as it turns out.

Listening through their walls, Amelia and Jason are drawn into the dark and compelling world of their mutal neighbour Jo in this play about voyeurism, power and guilt.

A blood-related black family. A dad, a mum, a daughter, two sisters, a brother. A family argument. A skeleton in the closet.

"Women Beware Women" is a major tragedy of the period, anatomising lust, hypocrisy and moral blindness. It is a play of people corrupted by greed for sex, wealth and position.

A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play. Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in the house of an English widow. Three years later he returns to Europe on the first step of a journey which will end in breakdown, death and immortality. Vincent in Brixton premiered at the National Theatre, London, in April 2002, before transferring to the West End. 'one of the best new plays ever presented by the National Theatre' >Sunday Times 'a brilliant portrait of the artist as a young man' Guardian 'Nicholas Wright has convincingly imagined himself into the life of the 20-year-old Vincent van Gogh... superlative... An evening to savour' Evening Standard</div>

A step-by-step guide to Physical Theatre in both theory and practice - full of detailed exercises and inspiring ideas. In Through the Body, based on twelve years of teaching physical theatre, Dymphna Callery introduces the reader to the principles behind the work of certain key 20th-century theatre practitioners (Artaud, Grotowski, Meyerhold, Brook and Lecoq, among others) and offers exercises by which their theories can be turned into practice and their principles explored in action. The book takes the form of a series of workshops starting with the preparation of the body through Awareness, Articulation, Energy and Neutrality. A section on Mask-work is followed by further work on the body, investigating Presence, Complicite, Play, Audience, Rhythm, Sound and E-motion. The book - and the work - culminates in sections on Devising and on the Physical Text. There is also a thorough bibliography and a contact list of training courses in the UK and abroad.

Two plays from the acclaimed playwright debbie tucker green.

Fifty monologues for women drawn from classical plays throughout the ages, all prefaced with a summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and to perform it to maximum effect in your own unique way.

Fifty monologues for men drawn from classical plays throughout the ages, all prefaced with a summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and to perform it to maximum effect in your own unique way.

John Gay's bawdy and burlesque pastiche of classical Italian opera, often regarded as the world's first ever musical.

You're young, free and single and haven't had sex for the last eleven and a half months, then one morning you wake up pregnant, and here is the Angel Gabriel on your doorstep claiming parentage. Things quickly spiral into farcical confusion with no fewer than three more potential fathers claiming parentage.

Elizabeth I is at death's door. Conspirators are everywhere. A politically-sensitive trade delegation is on its way to London. Who can be trusted to entertain them? Comedian Lucius Bodkin thinks he'll hit the big time but he's reckoned without the Tudor backstabbers and the City wide-boys.

Guides the would-be playwright over the many hurdles that must be cleared. This work raises - and provides answers to - over fifty topics ranging from 'Should you know which theatre you are writing for?' to 'What if you get stuck?' and on to 'Where do you send your script?' It also includes a directory of theatres and contacts.

An explosive and thought-provoking piece of play exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you. But when it comes to sex and consent, are there really any blurred lines?

This collection features four urgent and explosive plays by award-winning playwright Evan Placey, each tackling issues facing young people today. They provide ideal material for teenagers to read, study and perform.

A fierce, achingly tenders play that charts one farm's struggle to survive the march of history, from the bloodbath of the foot-and-mouth crisis to developers consuming land for real estate.

A funny and surreal family drama about the power of the individual in a world obscured by politics.

Based on Ian Kelly's award-winning biography, Mr Foote's Other Leg is a riotously funny play exploring our obsession with celebrities, through the true story of the Oscar Wilde of the eighteenth century.

The highly regarded actor training manual by a top movement teacher.