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Keeping It Active: A Practical Guide to Rhetoric in Performance

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100 ACTING EXERCISES FOR 8-18 Year Olds

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SIGNED Acting: A Backstage Guide

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LAMDA Acting Anthology: Volume 5

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Speaking Shakespeare

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Thinking Shakespeare: A working guide for actors, directors, students... and anyone else interested

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Teaching Voice: Workshops for Young Performers

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The Chemsex Monologues

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Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre

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Monologues for Young Actors

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The Methuen Book of Comic Monologues for Women - Volume One

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Movement Training For Actors

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Everything You've Always Wanted To Know About Acting

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Alexander Technique For Actors

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Learning Your Lines

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Getting Into Drama School

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New Monologues for Men

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An Actor Prepares

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The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Monologues for Men

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SIGNED Centre Stage: Lessons from Actors on the Art of Charisma

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Getting, Keeping & Working With Your Acting Agent

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Audition Songs for Women: A Practical Performance Guide

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The Improviser's Way

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The Complete Brecht Toolkit

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Heretic Voices: Three Award-winning Monologues

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Drama Games for Rehearsals

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Listening and Talking: A Pathway to Acting

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Theatre and the Body

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Improvisation And The Theatre

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The Faber Book of Monologues for Women

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The Drama Workshop Leader: A Practical Guide to Delivering Great Sessions

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SIGNED Auditioning: A Backstage Guide

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A Practical Guide to Ensemble Devising

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Actor and the Camera

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Drama Games for Young Children

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Impro for Storytellers

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The Moment of Speech

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Voice into Acting

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The Monologue Audition: A Practical Guide for Actors

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The Vespers: 100 Monologues for Everyone

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The Actor's Career Bible

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The Elemental Actor

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The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer

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The Methuen Book of Classical Monologues for Men

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My Character Wouldn't Do That

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So You Want To Be In Musicals?

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