SO YOU WANT TO DO A SOLO SHOW? Gareth Armstrong
Nick Hern Books
Published: 2011, ISBN 978 1 84842 084 7
Part of the ‘So You Want To’ series – see www.nickhernbooks.co.uk
Review: Rod Dungate 24 10 11

What a handy little book this is!

LUCKY BREAK: Esther Freud
Pub: Bloomsbury, 04 04 11
RRP: 11.99 gbp
Review: Rod Dungate 07 04 11

(A link to the book on Amazon is below.)

A tale of drama, with humour and a welcome lack of gloss.

AN ATTITUDE FOR ACTING (How to Survive and Thrive as an Actor)
Andrew Tidmarsh: Dr Tara Swart
Nick Hern Books
First published 2011: RRP 12.99

Review: Rod Dungate, 16 September 2011

There’s not an actor who wouldn’t find this useful.

SHAKESPEARE ON THEATRE: On Theatre Series
Ed: Nick de Somogyi
Nick Hern Books
Pub: 2012. ISBN: 978 1 84842 079
Cover price: 10.99

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Review: Rod Dungate, 06 06 12

It’s size is bigger than the sum of its parts.

STAGE MANAGEMENT: Gail Pallin
Nick Hern Books (New Edition)
Recommended Price: 14.99
ISBN: 9 781848 420144
Review: Rod Dungate, 23 June 2010

Simple, Marvellous, Simply marvellous.

SWEET WILLIAM (TWENTY THOUSAND HOURS WITH SHAKESPEARE):
Michael Pennington
Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9 781854 595683

Shakespeare’s in Pennington's blood as well as his brain.

Mike Bradwell's THE RELUCTANT ESCAPOLOGIST: ADVENTURES IN ALTERNATIVE THEATRE, has won the Theatre Book of the Year, it was announced yesterday. When we reviewed it, we said: ‘Detailed, witty, a first-hand experience account of long involvement in alternative theatre.’

Rod Dungate

BECOMING AN ACTOR Thomasina Unsworth
NHB, Pub 2012 (www.nickhernbooks.co.uk
ISBN: 978 84842 156 1
Rec Price: 10.99

Review: Alexander Ray Edser

Invaluable for Drama students present and future, and much for everyone else.

THE RELUCTANT ESCAPOLOGIST: Mike Bradwell
Nick Hern Books: 9 781854 595386
Pub: 2010

Review: Rod Dungate, 29 07 10

Detailed, witty, a first-hand experience account of long involvement in alternative theatre

SO YOU WANT TO BE A THEATRE PRODUCER
James Seabright

NHB
Rec Price: 12.99
ISBN: 9 781854 595379

Review: Rod Dungate 06 08 10

(Some useful links appear below.)

An excellent addition to the SO YOU WANT TO BE series

HOW MUSICALS WORK (and how you can write your own): Julian Woolford
Nick Hern Books
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Pub: 2012
Rec Price: £12.99

Review: Alexander Ray, 30 08 12

Informative in its theory, practical in its information. A seminal examination.

SO YOU WANT TO GO TO DRAMA SCHOOL? Helen Freeman
Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9 781848 420168
Published: 2010
(Part of the So You Want To . . . series.)
RRP 9.99 gbp

Review: Rod Dungate 02 04 10

So here’s a neat little book.

THE GOLDEN RULES OF ACTING that nobody ever tells you: Andy Nyman
NHB: pub 2012
Info: www.nickhernbooks.co.uk
Rec Price: 5.99
ISBN: 9 781848 422537

Review: Alexander Ray, 01 09 12

A complete joy, unique, a book for all seasons.

SHAKESPEARE’S LOST PLAY: IN SEARCH OF CARDENIO
Gregory Doran
NHB
ISBN: 9 781848 422087

Review: Rod Dungate 11 01 12

Magical mystery tour.

THE ACTING BOOK: John Abbott
NHB, Nick Hern Books
Pub: Aug 2012
ISBN: 9 781848 421448

Review: Alexander Ray, 10 09 12

If you’re involved in acting, you can’t afford to be without this book.

Ken Campbell: The Great Caper
Michael Coveney
Nick Hern Books
Pub: 2011
ISBN: 9 781848 420762
Recommended Price: 14.99

Review: Rod Dungate

A great read about a unique man

THE QUALITY OF MERCY: Reflections on Shakespeare. Peter Brook
Nick Hern Books

ISBN: 978 1 84842 261 2

Review: Alexander Ray Edser

A book you’ll not get tired of.

WORDS INTO ACTION: William Gaskill
Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9 781848 421004
Review: Rod Dungate 22.10.10

Opens so many doors to discovering the power of words

NOTES ON DIRECTING: Frank Hauser, Russell Reich
Published: Methuen Drama, in the UK, February 2010
RRP: 9.99 gbp
ISBN: 9 781408 125205
Review: Rod Elongate, 5 April 2010
Here's a link to methun: www.acblack.com/drama/Books/details.aspx?isbn=9781408125205&title=+Notes+on+Directing

I’ve just read it and I’m grinning with pleasure.

TALKING THEATRE: Interviews with Theatre People, Richard Eyre
Nick Hern Books
Recommended Price 20.00

Review: Rod Dungate, 27.12.09

Like Dr Who’s Tardis - bigger on the inside than on the outside.