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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781911630258 | ISBN 10: 1911630253
There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.’ Hannah Gadsby, NanetteÂ
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us th ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780863569364 | ISBN 10: 0863569366
1920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed – a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all backgrounds came together as a passionate group of art ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398707474 | ISBN 10: 1398707473
‘There was none like her before and there’s been none like her since’
~ Dawn FrenchÂ
In the five years since Victoria Wood’s death, one great sadness has been the realisation that we will never again be surprised by new material from he ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784703486 | ISBN 10: 1784703486
The ground-breaking, firebrand playwright who changed our cultural and social landscape and put working-class lives centre stage.
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On 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London. Written by a nineteen-year-old bus dri ... more
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£15.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780762466641 | ISBN 10: 0762466642
A celebration of the most groundbreaking women in comedy who used humor to shake up the status quo and change perceptions of gender and comedy forever.
The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women celebrates the outstanding contributions of fifty ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780525574545 | ISBN 10: 0525574549
A charmingly illustrated and timely tribute to the women who broke glass ceilings in film and television, debuting during an historic time of change in the entertainment industry.
Renegade Women in Film and TV blends stunning illustrations, ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571342440 | ISBN 10: 0571342442
In recent years, the television landscape has seen the glorious rise of women to key positions of power within the industry, from writers to producers to directors. Successes like Shonda Rhimes’s Holy Trinity of shows as a producer — Grey’s Ana ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781633536173 | ISBN 10: 1633536173
"...but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he (Fred Astaire) did, backwards and in high heels."(Bob Thaves)
Women in film: When it comes to early Hollywood and the women who worked in it, it can be tough to sort out the exact truth. ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784533724 | ISBN 10: 1784533726
Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from S ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780956632906 | ISBN 10: 0956632904
• Includes exclusive interviews with women directors
• Essential resource for film students, gender studies courses and film fans alike
Now Kathryn Bigelow has made history as the first woman to win an Oscar for directing, is ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783190843 | ISBN 10: 1783190841
‘My only gift is to grow a show,’ said Joan Littlewood, annoyed by what she had not achieved. Even so, her ability to do just that put her and her company, Theatre Workshop, head and shoulders above mid twentieth-century theatre.
In the year ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780755355280 | ISBN 10: 0755355288
The Stand-Up while Sitting Down Years...
Jo Brand tells the story of how she crawled to fame and fortune, managed to persuade someone to marry her and had some children at an age when she should have been in a bath chair on the seafront. ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571251278 | ISBN 10: 0571251277
Sarah Silverman’s father taught her to curse - at the age of three. She was a chronic bedwetter - until she was old enough to drive. She lost her virginity at age 19 - but didn’t really know it.
These are just a few of the outrageous true tales ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906582081 | ISBN 10: 1906582084
An exploration of the creative explosion that
occurred when the campaign for the vote brought
together the talents of so many female writers
and artists at the start of the 20th century.
An overview of the artists, designers, writers ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780755355259 | ISBN 10: 0755355253
Jo Brand is one of Britain's funniest and best-loved comedians. With a sharp eye for the absurd and in her own unique voice she tells her story for the first time. What possessed her to become a professional comedian in the cut-throat world of stand ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906582005 | ISBN 10: 1906582009
Staged in theatres by successive generations and proving relevant to contemporary audiences, these plays demonstrate the wit, theatrical skill and innovation of their creators in exploring timeless topics from marriage, morality and money to class co ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099519478 | ISBN 10: 009951947x
Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career that has spanned nearly three decades. Loved for her irreverant humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge ster ... more
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£21.50 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781841502038 | ISBN 10: 1841502030
In the post-war period, theatre provided an important critique of the way in which British society engaged with issues of the politics of gender and sexuality. Sex on Stage examines how British playwrights brought gender politics including women’s se ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780755317851 | ISBN 10: 0755317858
National treasure Lorraine Kelly has been great company for years: a sunny, vivacious and loveable presence in your home. Now you can get to know her even better as, for the first time, she opens up about her life and tells her story in her own words ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780340932797 | ISBN 10: 0340932791
Linda Smith (1958-2006) was a national treasure and voted ‘wittiest person alive’ on Radio 4.
From her childhood in Erith – featuring her ‘sweet smiling fascist grandmother’ and holidays abroad (to the Isle of Wight) – to her early stand-up days ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780753824344 | ISBN 10: 0753824345
Helen Mirren has been an internationally acclaimed actress and the recipient of many awards, transferring without obvious effort from stage, cinema and television for over 40 years. Known in her youth for a forthright style, a liberated attitude and ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780954702311 | ISBN 10: 095470231x
This unique book published 11 years after ETS’s death will rekindle an awareness of the cultural dynamism, activism and Diasporic connections that Efua Theodora Sutherland achieved through her lifetime’s work.
Efua Sutherland, Ghana-born ed ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845112462 | ISBN 10: 1845112466
The sexual politics of television culture is the territory covered by this ground-breaking book - the first to demonstrate the ways in which third wave feminist television studies approaches and illuminates mainstream TV. Leading voices in third wav ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781862079175 | ISBN 10: 186207917x
Rachel DeWoskin arrived in Beijiing in 1994 to work for an American PR firm. Before long, though, she was starring as 'foreign babe' Jiexi in a twenty-episode television drama that was watched by an estimated six hundred million viewers. In Foreign ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781854599766 | ISBN 10: 1854599763
When Simon Callow first met Peggy Ramsay he could hardly have suspected that his encounter with the play agent would blossom into passionate love. There was the age difference for one thing: Callow was barely 30, Peggy was in her seventies. And then ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781854598707 | ISBN 10: 1854598708
This is the first of two volumes in a series offering fresh audition pieces for actors at all levels - selected and commentated by a greatly experienced teacher and director. As an actor at any level - from school exam to professional casting - ... more
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£22.00 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780859897600 | ISBN 10: 0859897605
This book is the first in-depth study of Theatre Workshop, perhaps Britain's most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company's aims and achievements in their social, political and theatrical contexts, and explores the el ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904456483 | ISBN 10: 1904456480
'Don't shoot the clowns!' As a circus performer in a war zone these are the fist words you need to know in English and Arabic, especially if you are trying to help wounded civilians in a city under siege. Don't Shoot the Clowns is Jo Wilding's accoun ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845111793 | ISBN 10: 1845111796
The L Word captured international attention when it first appeared on American screens in January 2004. The groundbreaking primetime drama from Showtime is about a group of lesbian & bisexual friends living & loving in Los Angeles, and challenges tr ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780340823118 | ISBN 10: 0340823119
The story of Joan Bakewell's life and times spans the Blitz in Manchester, Cambridge during the glittering era of Michael Frayn, Peter Hall, Jonathan Miller et al, London at its most exciting in the swinging sixties and the world of the media and the ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780751526332 | ISBN 10: 0751526339
"Here's where I'm supposed to say all kinds of hip, Whoopi-esque stuff to get you to buy the book... when I tell you in my own inimitable way, how uproarious and provocative this book is, how OUT THERE and cutting edge... Or, I could say things like, ... more
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£23.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780801488368 | ISBN 10: 0801488362
In a study that explodes the assumption that early modern comic culture was created by men for men, Pamela Allen Brown shows that jest books, plays, and ballads represented women as laugh-getters and sought out the laughter of ordinary women. Disputi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780753511244 | ISBN 10: 075351124x
Victoria Wood's wit and humour have endeared her to millions of TV viewers for over three decades. Writer, producer and actress on television shows such as As Seen on TV and Dinnerladies, Victoria Wood has been voted the funniest woman in Britain and ... more
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£27.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780415238328 | ISBN 10: 0415238323
A Director Prepares aims to offer a thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly of the courage required to create "art with great presence". Each chapter tackles one of the seven major a ... more
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£14.99 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780719047633 | ISBN 10: 0719047633
In 1994 the Arts Council of Great Britain brought together a number of theatre directors as part of the City of Drama celebrations. This is a collection of interviews and discussions with directors who have helped shape the development of theat ... more
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