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Welcome to more of our 2011 Bestsellers
This time we’re offering you a 10% Discount off our Top 10 Acting titles
And the winner is …
BESTSELLER – 1
Comedy Scenes for Student Actors – Short Sketches for Young Performers
Laurie Allen
Price: £11.65
** 10% Off **
These real-life, juvenile dilemmas for kids to perform are popular because the actors can portray characters like those they see every day. All the situations are believable and easy for timid and eager actors to perform. Ideal for classroom practice or for an evening of entertainment.
BESTSELLER – 2
Acting – The First Six Lessons
1 Male, 1 Female
Beau Bridges & Emily Bridges
Price: £8.75
** 10% Off **
Not a regular “How-to” manual, but a two-hander, dramatic comedy providing a unique approach to the art & craft of acting. Beau Bridges, winner of three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes, teams up with his daughter Emily Bridges, a recent college grad, to create this stage version of Richard Boleslavskyís 1933 narrative about a dedicated acting teacher and his pupil.
BESTSELLER – 3
112 Acting Games – A Comprehensive Workbook of Theatre Games for Developing Acting Skills
Gavin Levy
Price: £13.50
** 10% Off **
A collection of the best acting exercises to help develop playing acting skills for young performers.
BESTSELLER – 4
Acting for Love & Money
Paul G Gleason & Gavin Levy
Price: £13.50
** 10% Off **
Sub-titled Connecting the Craft to the Industry, this collection of seventy-five acting exercises is designed to prepare actors and acting students for a professional career.
BESTSELLER – 5
60 Seconds To Shine – 221 One-Minute Monologues For Women – Volume 2 John Capecci & Irene Ziegler – eds
Price: £13.50
** 10% Off **
Actresses looking for short pieces to work on in class or to use for auditions need look no further. This volume is loaded with choices from contemporary and classic plays, novels, and stories – Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov are represented, along with contemporary writers such as Jane Martin, Christopher Durang, Caridad Svich, Beth Henley, and Wendy MacLeod.
BESTSELLER – 6
30 Ten Minute Plays for 3 Actors
Michael Bigelow Dixon & Tanya Palmer & Brendan
Price: £13.50
** 10% Off **
This volume features 30 outstanding ten-minute plays written for 3 actors in their teens, twenties, and thirties. This collection illustrates the dramatic power of the ten-minute play format. It provides to teachers, directors, and actors a cornucopia of characters, themes and styles organized by gender and cast-size.
BESTSELLER – 7
111 One-Minute Monologues – The Ultimate Audition Book for Teens
1 Male, 1 Female
Jane B Milstein
Price: £8.20
** 10% Off **
111 original monologues, all about one minute long, to be used by male and female teenage actors in auditions. Award-winning material, embracing hilarious situations and heart-felt confessions, full of wit, pain, charm and struggle – all designed to showcase your talent!
BESTSELLER – 8
Voices of Color – 50 Scenes and Monologues by 30 African American Playwrights
Woodie King (editor)
Price: £16.15
** 10% Off **
A trailblazing collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights. This major omnibus of contemporary American writing will serve as a primary resource for African American artists in search of their own voice for the stage. Actors and directors will now have access to a much larges spectrum of work in which to shine.
BESTSELLER – 9
The 7 Steps to Stardom + DVD
Christina Ferra-Gilmore
Price: £15.30
** 10% Off **
Sub-titled How to Become a Working Actor in Movies, TV, and Commercials, this user-friendly workbook includes a two hour DVD and features the best practical information on making it in the entertainment business.
BESTSELLER – 10
An Attitude for Acting – How to Survive (and Thrive) as an Actor
Andrew Tidmarsh & Tara Swart
Price: £11.70
** 10% Off **
A ‘how to’ book for actors who want to develop a ‘can do’ attitude to their profession in the face of rejection and intense competition. Feeling despondent about the acting profession? Been out of work for longer than you care to remember? Starting to resent the injustices of the job and the success of other actors? If so, An Attitude for Acting will inspire you to break out of the cycle of despondency and start to view yourself as a creative and autonomous individual who is valuable and employable.
BARGAIN BASEMENT
Our Bargain Basement offers Discounts of up to 50%
Here’s one of them from the internationally acclaimed Theatre de Complicite -
The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol
5 Male, 2 Female
Theatre de Complicite – Simon McBurney & Mark Wheatley from John Berger
Price: £3.50
** 50% Off **
Lucie Cabrol is a wild, tiny woman born into a peasant family in France in 1900. Abandoned by her lover, Jean, and banished by her family, she becomes an outcast. She survives her second life by smuggling goods across the border. But it is not until her third life – her afterlife – that she discovers the survival of something more than bare human existence – the survival of hope and love.
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