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Keeping It Active: A Practical Guide to Rhetoric in Performance

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Performance Lighting Design

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Drama Games For Exploring Shakespeare

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Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre

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Theatre and Festivals

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200 Plays for GCSE and A-Level Performance: A Drama Teacher's Guide

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Bevan: Creator of the NHS

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Theatre and Empire

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Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 2: Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht

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Everything You've Always Wanted To Know About Acting

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Learning Your Lines

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How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

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Shakespeare's Words

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Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance

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Theatre and the Rural

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THE PLAYWRIGHT'S JOURNEY: FROM FIRST SPARK TO FIRS

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The Improviser's Way

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The Drama Teacher's Survival Guide

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Speaking Shakespeare

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 5: Grotowski, Brook, Barba

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6: Littlewood, Strehler, Planchon

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 4: Reinhardt, Jessner, Barker

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 3: Copeau, Komisarjevsky, Guthrie

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 1: Antoine, Stanislavski, Saint-Denis

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Free for All: Why the NHS is Worth Saving

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SIGNED Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

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Careful the Spell You Cast: How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the American Musical

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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

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Making Your Solo Show: The Compact Guide

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Directing Your Heart Out: Essays for Authenticity, Engagement and Care in Theatre

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Theatre Lighting Design: Conversations on the Art, Craft and Life

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Getting Into Drama School

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A Practical Guide to Ensemble Devising

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The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer

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An Actor Prepares

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Playing by Ear: Reflections on Sound and Music

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My Character Wouldn't Do That

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Staging Ancient Greek Plays

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So you want to be in musicals?

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Shakespeare in the Theatre: The National Theatre, 1963–1975: Olivier and Hall

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The Moment of Speech

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200 Themes for Devising Theatre with 11-18 Year Olds: A Drama Teacher's Resource Book

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