This sequel to the popular The Theatre Audition Book" features over 130 monologues from classical Shakespeare period modern & contemporary plays & a new chapter on musical theatre & the medium including commercial & film auditions. The monologues -- some taken from non-dramatic sources like novels & poems -- are organised by historical times & provide an overview of acting styles & audition expectations for playing each time period. The collection features well-known playwrights including Ntozake Shange Athol Fugard Christopher Durang John Patrick Shanley Edward Albee August Wilson Beth Henley Terrence Mc Nally & Paula Vogel -- & a number of exciting new writers who have contributed original monologues written especially for classroom study & performance. There are also a number of original duologues & musical monologues from standard classics -- The Man of La Mancha Big River & You're a Good Man Charlie Brown." ...

There’s nothing like a live stage performance & with so many different shows to choose from going to the theatre really is a treat. You can choose from 38 venues across the country including some of the most impressive in the West End. There is a wide variety of top shows to suit the tastes of any audience. Your £50 Theatre Freedom Voucher offers you flexibility & choice & is easy to use. Once you have registered for your voucher simply call the number provided to find out the exact list of shows available at your chosen venue then use your voucher as full or part payment. Whether you fancy a comedy drama or musical you are bound to find something to guarantee an entertaining night out! ...

It is 1942. The theatres of war are North Africa & Italy. All eyes follow the front but behind the scenes a messier war continues an improvised game of snatched triumphs terrible mistakes & terrifying uncertainty. Cabaret singer by night spy by day Richard risks his life to help British servicemen escape occupied France & get back to Engl&. Rose leads a group of dancers with mixed morals high-kicking to entertain the troops as Hitler's bombers roar in the skies above. Then she is given orders to join the forces in the field destination unknown. Meanwhile a phantom pianist who has lost the love of his life is following Montys soldiers across the African desert mocking the enemies guns by playing Beethoven between the lines. ...

The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle against fate. King Oedipus" tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he doesn't realise he has committed & then inflicts a brutal punishment on himself. It is a devastating portrayal of a ruler brought down by his own oath. " Oedipus at Colonus" provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged & blinded king while " Antigone" depicts the fall of the next generation through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience & a king too confident in his own authority." ...

When Janie at sixteen is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams who offers not diamonds but a packet of flowering seeds.. .' For me THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD is one of the very greatest American novels of the 20th century. It is so lyrical it should be sentimental; it is so passionate it should be overwrought but it is instead a rigorous convincing & dazzling piece of prose as emotionally satisfying as it is impressive. There is no novel I love more' Zadie Smith ...

THEM began as a book about different kinds of extremists but after Jon had got to know some of them -- Islamic fundamentalists neo-Nazis Ku Klux Klansmen -- he found that they had one oddly similar belief: that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In THEM Jon sets out with the help of the extremists to locate that room. The journey is as creepy as it is comic & along the way Jon is chased by men in dark glasses unmasked as a Jew in the middle of a Jihad training camp & witnesses international CEOs & politicians participate in a bizarre pagan ritual in the forests of northern California. THEM is a fascinating & entertaining exploration of extremism in which Jon learns some alarming things about the looking-glass world of 'them' & 'us'. Are the extremists on to something? Or has Jon become one of THEM? ...

Movie rights in the HATER series were snapped up by PANS LABYRINTH/HELLBOY director Guillermo del Toro & producer Mark Johnson (The NARNIA movies). Perfect for fans of HBOs THE WALKING DEAD the series reaches a shattering conclusion... The war which has torn the human race apart is finally nearing an end. The population has been devastated & the earth has been reduced to a poisoned ruin. Most of the towns & cities are uninhabitable & with the country in the grip of a savage nuclear winter both Haters & Unchanged alike struggle to survive. Hundreds of Hater fighters have settled in the east in the relatively undamaged coastal town of Lowestoft under the command of the ruthless Hinchcliffe. His fledgling society is harsh & unforgiving & hell stop at nothing to eradicate the last few Unchanged & consolidate his position at the top of this new world order. Danny Mc Coyne is the exception to the rule. His ability to hold the Hate has given him a unique position in Hinchcliffes army for he uses his unique skill to hunt out the remaining Unchanged. But as the enemys numbers shrink so the pressure on Mc Coyne increases until he finds himself at the very centre of a pivotal confrontation. The outcome will have repercussions on the future of everyone who is still alive. Its down to him alone: will it be Them or Us? ...

In Then"
- Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War
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An intimate memoir by one of America's most acclaimed & beloved actresses. From the woman know to millions as Annie Hall Then Again is the fascinating story of an actress's rise to fame of her relationships with brilliant talents such as Woody Allen & Al Pacino & her struggle with bulimia. But it is also an account of her family a lively group of siblings growing up on the West coast in the 1960s & above all of her mother Dorothy Hall
- a woman restless with intellectual & creative energy struggling to find an output for her talents. A brilliant insight into the life of a legendary actress Then Again is also an unforgettable memoir of family dreams & the bonds that tie us to those we love the most.
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Tony Miglione is thirteen & his family lives in a cramped house in New Jersey. But then his Dad invents something that makes them rich & they move to a luxury home in Long Isl&. But being rich brings its own problems
- Tonys Grandma feels useles when she doesnt have to cook any more & his mum is obsessed with impressing the neighbours but Tony knows the boy next door isnt as perfect as he looks. The only upside to his new life is that his neighbour Lisa keeps undressing with the light on. As he tries to adjust to his new life Tony starts to suffer from anxiety attacks & wishes everything would just be normal again?
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