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16,013 results found.

Title ISBN Author Copyright
The Foundations John Galsworthy
Fanny and the Servant Problem Jerome K. Jerome
The Great Hunger Johan Bojer, W. J. Alexander Worster, C. Archer
Ghosts Henrik Ibsen, R. Farquharson Sharp
The Mob John Galsworthy
The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again (PDF) 9780006754022 J. R. R. Tolkien 2009
Murder on the Orient Express (Poirot) (PDF) 9780007119318 Agatha Christie 2007
Mugged (Collins National Theatre Plays) (PDF) 9780007210381 Andrew Payne, Anthony Banks, Suzy Graham-Adriani 2005
Mrs Dalloway (PDF) 9780007934409 Virginia Woolf 2013
Sophocles: The Classical Heritage (Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists) (PDF) 9780413424600 Sophocles, Translated By Taylor, Don 1986
The Good Person of Szechwan (Methuen Modern Plays) (PDF) 9780413582409 Bertolt Brecht 2009
Blood Brothers - A Musical (Methuen Drama Student editions) (PDF) 9780413695109 Willy Russell 1985
Performance Books: Stand Up - On Being a Comedian (PDF) 9780413703200 Oliver Double 1997
Antigone (Methuen Drama Student edition) (PDF) 9780413776044 Sophocles, Translated By Taylor, Don 2006
Signs of Performance: An Introduction to Twentieth Century Theatre 9780415106429 Colin Counsell 1996
History of European Drama and Theatre (PDF) 9780415180597 Erika Fischer-Lichte 2001
Routledge Performance Practitioners: Vsevolod Meyerhold 9780415258845 Jonathan Pitches 2003
Games for Actors and Non-Actors (2nd revised edition) (PDF) 9780415267083 Augusto Boal, Adrian Jackson 2002
Worlds of Performance: The Senses in Performance (New edition) 9780415281867 Andre Lepecki, Sally Banes 2006
Makers of Modern Theatre: An Introduction (PDF) 9780415312400 Robert Leach 2004
The Basics: Theatre Studies 9780415426398 Robert Leach 2008
The Pina Bausch Sourcebook: The Making of Tanztheater 9780415618014 Royd Climenhaga 2012
Management and the Arts (5th edition) (PDF) 9780415663298 William J Byrnes 2014
Cambridge School Shakespeare: Macbeth (2nd edition) (PDF) 9780521606868 Rex Gibson, William Shakespeare 2005
Billy Elliot: Screenplay (PDF) 9780571207039 Lee Hall 2000