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August 2011
Contents
Book Nook Notes
by Karen
Click on the red text link to read the full review, or on the picture for the synopsis.
Clown, from Heart to Heart
...filled with tools and techniques, is richly illustrated and comes with extensive practical exercises. What marks this as an excellent resource, though, is the author’s focus on the clown’s sensitivity...
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Thursday’s Child
Thursday’s Child is a stunning example of a Youth theatre script, suited to upper Middle School and secondary students, though will appeal to adults of all ages.
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Prayer to an Iron God
... an insight into the rough lives of disenfranchised young people living in outback Country Towns, enduring and barely surviving their raw circumstances...
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FRESH S...KID...S
... 80 pages of short scenes ... attractive, illustrated and well-formatted ... suit Speech and Drama teachers, especially those needing pair and small group performance pieces ...
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House on Fire
From the play’s title onward, the plot builds deliciously towards a house on fire. Watch for House on Fire - it will go like hotcakes!
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About Monologues
A monologue is an uninterrupted speech by a character - speaking his or her thoughts, talking to another character or even addressing the audience. Since a monologue focuses on a single character, it allows an actor the opportunity to show off their acting skills and abilities...
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Covering Books
Please let us know if you need your books covered with contact. Our price is $1.80 per book (including the materials), and the service is conditional on being for ‘firm sales’ only - with no returns accepted.
Have you seen this exciting work?
Markwell Presents
...specialise in the integration of video with live dramatic performance ... captivating audiences and critics alike.
Book Nook sells their publications - search for ‘Markwell’ on our website.
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Welcome
The Book Nook shop is in Toowoomba, Queensland. Discover us online or visit us in person. You’ll find theatre books and play texts that capture your passion for theatre.
Toowoomba - The Garden City
New Postage Prices
Just a reminder to all customers of our new postal pricing, which will become effective Monday 22nd August 2011.
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Film Books
We've come across some gems of film books:
Additions to Website
The website has had new or expanded sections added.
Teenage Monologues
In response to a common request for monologues for that tricky in between stage “too cool” for children’s monologues but not ready to take on young adult roles, which often contain adult themes and sometimes strong language. We are constantly updating our catalogue...
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Indigenous Themed Plays
With the study of Indigenous plays gaining prominence in the new national curriculum and the availability of a great many excellent plays with indigenous themes and by indigenous playwrights we are seeing sales of all our indigenous plays increase significantly this year.
Our most popular item in the Commedia range continues to be the Complete Commedia Teaching Kit (plain) - not that it’s at all plain, just not painted. It contains 10 quality Commedia Masks made in lightweight, durable rubber plus the DVD, an intensive Commedia workshop featuring ‘mask maestro’ Ross Brown, character notes, lesson plans, scripts and a wall chart.
Teaching Commedia dell’Arte by Tony Kishawi has also been very popular this year.
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Masks and Clown Noses
We are excited to announce that we have found a supplier of clown noses which we’ve added to our catalogue to compliment Karen’s review of the delightful ‘The Clown, from Heart to Heart’. The word (from a professional clown) is that the clip-on plastic variety are best for student clowns...
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Best Sellers
In the shop we are frequently asked, "what are other people buying?" So we thought we’d share our bestselling plays for the past year:
- Topping the list this year is Ibsen’s perennial The Dolls House & other plays,
- Australian best seller is currently Angela Betzien’s Children of the Black Skirt,
- X-stacy by M Forde,
- Caucasian Chalk Circle by B Brecht,
- Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare,
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Living in Interesting Times
Retail businesses, and especially booksellers are certainly ‘living in interesting times’; with some buyers finding themselves on restricted budgets (personally or mandated by their school), while others may be attracted by some of our competition. We are gratified and encouraged by the loyalty shown by so many of our valued customers...
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