Reviews Archive Part 2
STAGE COMBAT-UNARMED, NHB, 5Star.
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.
FELDENKRAIS, 4Star****, Book
Book
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
ACTING IN MUSICAL THEATRE, 5*****, Rutledge
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
@Rod_Dungate
@ReviewsGate
Good sense, compete sense, remarkable comprehensive
SO YOU WANT TO BE A THEATRE DESIGNER?: NHB
Book
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.
101 GREATEST PLAYS - Book
Book
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.
FACING THE FEAR: An Actor's Guide to Overcoming Stage Fright, Book
Book
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.
BALANCING ACTS, 5Star*****, Book
Book
Balancing Acts
By Nicholas Hytner
5Star*****
Jonathan Cape £20
Review: William Russell, 12 May 2017
This is a really good read.
ACTIONING AND HOW TO DO IT, Book, Nich Hern Books
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
BRICUSSE’S (auto) BIOGRAPHY.
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.
SECRETS OF SUCCESS NHB
Book
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.
ADVICE FROM THE PLAYERS: NHB
ADVICE FROM THE PLAYERS: Laura Barnett
Pub: NHB, September 2014
ISBN: 9 781848 423589
Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 04 12 14
What a gorgeous little book.
THE ACTOR AND THE CAMERA: Denis Lawson. NHB
THE ACTOR AND THE CAMERA: Denis Lawson
NHB
Published: 2014
ISBN: 9 781848 423459
Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 17 11 14
One of the most important new books on camera acting for the young actor
ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE: Icon Books
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
THE EXCELLENT AUDITION GUIDE: NHB
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
WHAT DO I KNOW? NBH
WHAT DO I KNOW? Richard Eyre
Pub: NHB Autumn 2014
ISBN: 9 781848 424180
Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 06 December 2014
Intelligent, informative, insightful
SALAD DAYS: Recording of Tete a Tete recent revival
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
ANIMALS To 2 May.
London.
ANIMALS
by Emma Adams.
Theatre 503 above The Latchmere 503 Battersea Park Road SW11 3BW To 2 May 2015.
Tue-Sat 7.45pm Sun 5pm. (Pay what you can Sun.)
Runs 2hr 30min One interval.
TICKETS: 020 7978 7040.
www.theatre503.com
Review: William Russell 13 April.
A glorious Grimm black comedy.
100 Great Plays for Women: Nick Hern Books
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.
DRAMA MENU - NHB
Book
DRAMA MENU: Glyn Trefor-Jones
NHB
ISBN: 9 781848 422858
Rec Price: 12.99
Review: Alexander Ray Edser
A great companion
THE CONFESSION ROOM: Concept CD
THE CONFESSION ROOM: A concept CD of a new Musical
SIMG Records
Review: Alexander Ray Edser, 22 07 13
Lively and unusual.