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Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays

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Finding Me: The Grammy-winning Memoir

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Contemporary Performance Lighting: Experience, Creativity and Meaning

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Just Different: A Memoir

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The Art and Practice of Musical Theatre Choreography

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My Lady Parts: A Life Defying Stereotypes

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Musical Theatre Auditions and Casting

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Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

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The Commedia dell’Arte (Forms of Drama)

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Tragicomedy (Forms of Drama)

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THEATRE AND RACE

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A Beginner's Guide To Devising Theatre

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French Cooking for One

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Great Trees of London Map

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The Moving Body (Le Corps Poet)

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The Art of Writing for the Theatre

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Modern Tragedy (Forms of Drama)

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Race and Entertainment:

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IN DEFENCE OF HISTORY

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1606 Shakespeare and the Year of Lear

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Performance Costume: New Perspectives and Methods

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Didion & Babitz

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The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them

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Did I Ever Tell You This?

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Shakespeare & Co

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Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotes

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So You Want To Be A Theatre Designer?

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The Theatrical Notebook of Samuel Beckett: The Shorter Plays

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Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World's Greatest Writer

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Writing the Murder: Essays in Crafting Crime Fiction

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The English Table: Our Food Through the Ages

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So You Want To Act On Screen?

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The Lodger, Shakespeare on Silver Street

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Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose

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I Haven't Been Entirely Honest with You

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Cat Mania Embroidery: Zany and Fun Feline Motifs

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Ain't I A Woman

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Ten Poets Charm the Pants Off Ten Historical Figures

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Actioning and How To Do It

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Applied Theatre

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African American Perspectives in Musical Theatre

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Adaption for Screenwriters

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