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Inside the Rehearsal Room

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Finding Me: The Grammy-winning Memoir

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Adaption for Screenwriters

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Stage Management: Communication Design as Scenography

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Towards A Poor Theatre

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Artaud on Theatre

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Shakespeare and Queer Theory

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The Dream Factory: London's First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare

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Staging Shakespeare

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Get the Job in the Entertainment Industry: A Practical Guide for Designers, Technicians, and Stage Managers

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From Craft to Career

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Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History

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Your Rep Book: How to Find, Choose, and Prepare Successful Audition Songs

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The Improv Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre and Beyond

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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power

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Acting Professionally: An Essential Career Guide for the Actor

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Staging Musicals

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Shakespeare's Kings

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Boy From the Valleys: My Unexpected Journey

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Black Britain: A Photographic History

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Directing Amateur Musical Theatre: A Practical Guide for Non-Professional Theatre

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Black British Drama: A Transnational Story

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Deep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre

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Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan's Girl from the North Country and Broadway's Rebirth

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The Theatre and its Double

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Evoking Shakespeare (and forgetting!)

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Drama Menu at a Distance

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Character Breakdown

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Livecasting in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre: NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materials

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An Actor's Guide to Corporate Role Play: The Best Side-Job for Actors

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Chekhov on Theatre

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Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion

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Comedy Acting For Theatre

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Ibsen on Theatre

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What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century

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Screenwriting: The Craft and The Career

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Everyday Shakespeare

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Play the Game: A Drama Workshop Guide

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Work: The Last 1,000 Years

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Theatre and Migration

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Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays

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Contemporary Performance Lighting: Experience, Creativity and Meaning

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The Art and Practice of Musical Theatre Choreography

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Musical Theatre Auditions and Casting

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Theatre and Race

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Cabaret: Forms of Drama

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The Art of Writing for the Theatre

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