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Adrian Lester and Lolita Chakrabarti: A Working Diary

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The Chronicle of Western Costume: From the Ancient World to the Late Twentieth Century

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Costumes for the Stage: A Complete Handbook for Every Kind of Play

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Shakespeare for Young People

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Strong Female Character

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Women Are Angry

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Sweet William: A User's Guide to Shakespeare

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How to Put on a Community Play

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The Musical Theatre Composer as a Dramatist

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Feminist Theatre - Then and Now

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South Bank: Architecture & Design

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Acting Through Song

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Applied Theatre

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Shakespearean Rhetoric

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Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through The Ages

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Who Wants Normal?: The Disabled Girls' Guide to Life

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Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution

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The Loki Variations

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The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

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I, Shakespeare Playtext

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Every Man: Why Violence Against Women is a Men's Issue, and How You Can Make a Difference

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We're Falling Through Space

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So You Want to be a Theatre Producer?

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The Invisible Actor

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What's Done Cannot Be Undone: A memoir of a life off balance

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

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How To Be Disabled and Proud: (or at least kinda sorta okay with it...)

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Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions

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Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism

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Fashion Since 1900

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20th-Century Fashion in Detail

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Vintage Fashion: A Sourcebook

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19th-Century Fashion in Detail

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18th-Century Fashion in Detail

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The Story of Costume

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If the Song Doesn't Work, Change the Dress: The Illustrated Memoirs of Broadway Costume Designer Pat

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So You Want To Act On Screen?

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Fragile Minds: Stories from an NHS mental health ward

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Fighting for Life: The Twelve Battles that Made Our NHS, and the Struggle for Its Future

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Staging the End of the World: Theatre in the Time of Climate Crisis

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Documentary Theatre and Performance

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Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences

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Beyond / Tu Hwnt - anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled Writers

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Critical: Stories from the front line of intensive care medicine

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Theatre of Simon Stephens

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