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SECRETS OF STAGE SUCCESS: Louse Dearman, Mark Evans
NHB
ISBN: 9 781 848 423756
RP: 8.99

Review: 26 07 15, Alexander Ray Edser

It’s all real – real answers to real questions about work in Musical Theatre.

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SO YOU WANT TO BE A THEATHRE DESIGNER? Michael Pavelka
NHB
ISBBN 9.781848 423541
RP: £12.99
Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 09 08 15

Practical, informative, philosophical; an impressive book.

BRICUSSE’S (auto) BIOGRAPHY.
Pure Imagination, a sorta-biography by Leslie Bricusse
Faber Music £25.

Review: William Russell

Reading this so-called “sorta-biography” is a bit like being force fed a diet of pavlova and panna cotta washed down with something excessively bubbly and just possibly pink.

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101 GREATEST PLAYS: Michael Billington
Guardian Faber
ISBN: 978 1 78335 030 8
September 2015

Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 20 10 15

A splendid book.

ACTIONING: AND HOW TO DO IT. Nick Moseley
Nick Hern Books (NHB)
ISBN: 9 781848 424234
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Price £10.99

Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 18 04 19

A much needed and much welcome book

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FACING THE FEAR: An Actor's Guide to Overcoming Stage Fright
Bella Merlin
Nick Hern Books (NHB)
ISBN: 9 781848 423138
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Price £12.99

Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 07 06 16

A special book, invaluable contribution to acting.

STAGE COMBAT, UNARMED: Roger Bartlett
Nick Hern Books (NHB)
5Star*****

ISBN: 978-1-84842-470-8
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Price £14.99

Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 22 09 16

Characters often do terrible things; here's how to make them more terrible, and have safe fun.

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Feldenkrais for Actors: How to Do Less and Discover More by Victoria Worsley
Nick Hern Books (NHB)
4Star ****

ISBN: 9781848424173
Price: £12.99

Review: Samuel James Crawford, 05/04/2017

A breath of fresh air

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Balancing Acts
By Nicholas Hytner
5Star*****
Jonathan Cape £20

Review: William Russell, 12 May 2017

This is a really good read.

Routledge
ACTING IN MUSICAL THEATRE: Joe Deer and Rocco Dal Vera
Published in a new version by Routledge
Publication 2017
5*****

ISBN: 9 780415 713246
www.routledge.com

Review: Rod Dungate, 02 July 2017

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Good sense, compete sense, remarkable comprehensive

In Two Minds, a biography of Jonathan Miller
Published: Oberon Books Ltd
Also available online.
ISBN: 978 1 84943 451 5

Review: Carole Woddis

Never at peace, but many revelations.

THE CONFESSION ROOM: A concept CD of a new Musical
SIMG Records
Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 22 07 13

Lively and unusual.

ACTING THROUGH SONG: Paul Harvard
NHB (Nick Hern Books)
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Pub: 2013
ISBN: 978 1 84842 229 2
Review: Alexander Ray Edser

A significant book for performing in music-theatre.

THE EXCELLENT AUDITION GUIDE: Andy Johnson
Nick Hern Books
RRP: £9.99
ISBN 978 1 84842 297 1

Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 09 09 13

This EXCELLENT AUDITION GUIDE is excellent

SPEAKING THE SPEECH: An Actor’s Guide to Shakespeare
Giles Block: Foreword by Mark Rylance
Nick Hern Books

ISBN 978 1 84842 191 2
RRP: 14.99

Review: Alex Taylor

Tools not Rules

OLIVIER: Philip Ziegler
MacLehose Press, Quecus Books

ISBN: 978 0 85705 119 6
RRP: 25 gbp

Review: Alex Taylor, 25 09 13

Always readable, frequently brilliantly insightful.

MY FIRST PLAY: An Anthology of Theatrical Beginnings
Nick Hern Books
Published 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84842-339-8
RRP: 9.99 gbp

Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 02 11 13

Fascinating glimpses.

THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE: Mark Forsyth
Icon Books
www.iconbooks.net
Published: November 2013

Hardback: 978 1848 316218 (RP 12.99)
eBook: 978 1848 316225 (RP 7.99)

Review: 25 11 13, Alexander Ray Edser

Better than a box of chocolates

SALAD DAYS: Julian Slade, Dorothy Reynolds
Tete a Tete Recording
Mountview Records
Information: www.tete-a-tete.org.uk

Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 01 12 13

Looking back or forwards, it’s good to feel good

100 GREAT PLAYS FOR WOMEN: Lucy Kerbel
Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 978 1 84842 185 1
Rec Price: 10.99

Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 12 12 13

A book much bigger than the sum of its parts.