James Seabright
Nick Hern Books
"A perfect handbook for beginners and a useful aide-memoire for those of us who've been at it for years" ~ Nicholas Allott, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd This is the first 'how-to' book of its kind It offers clea...
$19.99
Jim Volz
Methuen
Working in American Theatre is a coast-to-coast overview of the opportunities awaiting theatre practitioners in every discipline Featuring tips from America's top theatre professionals, this resource offers...
$22.99
John Dover Wilson
Used Copy
Professor Dover Wilson analyses the play very carefully; signifying each part of complex action and also deals with the background of Elizabethan beliefs Reprinted edition published 1967 by Cambridge Univers...
$24.00
Steve Waters
Nick Hern Books
A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes...
$24.99
Ian Watson
Used Copy
Pubj 1981 + interviews + production stills - with d/j
$29.99
Richard Krevolin - pub 2003
Used Copy
$22.99
Andrew Horton
University of California
Identifying the essential elements of comedy and classifying comedy as a perspective rather than merely as a genre, this is an invaluable book for those wishing to pursue a career in writing Blending hi...
$22.99
Edward Bond
Methuen
This collection of passionate and polemical essays deal with drama, from its origin in the human mind to its use in history and the present It elucidates on the hidden working of drama behind the state, reli...
$32.95
John Freeman
Palgrave Macmillan
Contemporary practitioners such as Orlan, Franko B, Robert Wilson and Tim Etchells are creating work that flies in the face of traditional thinking about what performance might mean New Performance/New Writ...
$39.99
Syd Field
Walker & Co
A generation of screenwriters has used Syd Field's bestselling books to ignite successful careers in film Now the celebrated producer, lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author has updated his classic guide...
$16
Linda Seger
Silman-James Press
This new addition to Linda Seger's indispensable collection of books combines advice on how to awaken creativity with a practitical knowledge of screenwriting Itv teaches writers how to be creative withi...
$15.99
Jonathan Dorf
Jonathan Dorf
Want to write plays that will actually get produced? Then meet your new best friend - Young Playwrights 101 will guide you through the playwriting process, from initial idea to submission Created with y...
$16.99
Gary Garrison
Focus Publishing
Gary Garrison's pioneering book on writing and producing the 10-minute play is now the most authoritative book on this emerging play formThe 10-minute play has become a regular and growing feature of theatre...
$19.99
J B Priestley
Oberon
In these passionate and witty essays on the theatre, J B Priestley distils his experience as a playwright, producer, director and just once actor Relishing the past, analysing the present, and predicting ...
$21.99
Dana Singer
Theatre Communications
Written in a straightforward manner, with complicated matters clearly explained, this is truly a work no writer for the stage can afford to be without Here, for the first time, Dana Singer gathers the inform...
$18.99
Nicholas Dromgoole
Oberon
What was it about ancient Greece, Elizabethan England and Racine's seventeenth-century France that made them particularly able to respond to and create the high points in tragic drama? Where do Molière's c...
$14.99
Jeffrey Sweet
Heinemann
This is a practical guide to being a working playwright The author discusses such matters as - the building blocks of playwriting; how characters relate to one another; the differences and similarities betw...
$14.99
David Edgar
Nick Hern Books
Distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning Written for playwrights a...
$21.99
Lisa Rosenthal
Chicago Review Press
Every writer, published or unpublished, needs inspiration, feedback, motivation, and the support of a like-minded community Many look for these things in professionally led workshops or classes, but a bett...
$15.99
Gill Foreman
Methuen
Live theatre is an exciting, challenging profession - but how is professional theatre actually made? What are the roles and what does each person do? Which pathways lead into the profession? What skills ...
$28.99
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