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  Drama Games for Clowning and...

  Joe Dieffenbacher

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  This dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, part of the bestselling Drama Games series, offers dozens of games and exercises to explore the fundamental concepts of clowning and physical comedy, encourage playfulness, curiosity and collaboration, and help develop performance material.
  These active and engaging games focus on a wide range of core skills, including:
  
  - Building and strengthening connections through collaboration and ensemble work
  - Developing physical and mental flexibility
  - Using restrictions, problems and accidents to devise routines and scenes
  - Using props to reveal thoughts and emotions and deepen relationships
  Throughout, the focus is on how to develop a playful mind and body, listen to and observe the world around you, and improve your ability to express yourself physically.
  This essential book is invaluable for actors, improvisers, comedians, directors and teachers looking to explore the principles of clowning to enrich performance skills, generate original material or bring a fresh approach to scripted work.
  'There are eighty games in this book: eighty opportunities to capture a mood, provoke a response and excite creativity. They are a gift. I wish I'd had this book a couple of decades ago' John Wright, from his Foreword
  'The perfect companion for any director, this is the most imaginative and comprehensive book of theatre games I have seen' Cal McCrystal (comedy director for The Mighty Boosh, One Man, Two Guvnors and Paddington)
  Joe Dieffenbacher is a teacher, director, designer, author and actor known for his theatre, circus and cabaret performances under the name nakupelle. He has worked with companies and venues including Shakespeare's Globe, Disney and the Scottish National Opera, as well as co-creating sequences for the Closing Ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

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  A Rare Recording of Film Icon...

  Irene Dunn

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  Irene Dunne, born Irene Marie Dunn in Louisville, Kentucky(December 20, 1898 - September 4, 1990), was an American actress who appeared in 42 movies and was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress--for her performances in the western drama Cimarron (1931); the screwball comedies, Theodora Goes Wild (1936) and The Awful Truth (1937); the romance, Love Affair (1939); and the drama, I Remember Mama (1948). Dunne is considered one of the finest actresses never to have won an Academy Award.

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  My Life

  Richard Wagner

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
  What if a life in music were not merely remembered, but staged like a drama of ambition, exile, genius, and destiny? 
   
  In *My Life*, Richard Wagner offers one of the most revealing autobiographical documents in the history of music. Dictated over many years and covering his life from birth in 1813 to 1864, this memoir gives listeners Wagner’s own account of his childhood, artistic formation, early struggles, revolutionary years, creative conflicts, and relentless pursuit of a new musical drama. 
   
  From Leipzig, Dresden, Paris, Zurich, and Munich, Wagner recounts a life shaped by theatre, philosophy, politics, debt, controversy, friendship, exile, and visionary art. The narrative follows the making of a composer who sought not simply to write operas, but to transform music, poetry, myth, stagecraft, and emotion into a total dramatic experience. 
   
  The fascination of *My Life* lies in its intensity. Wagner writes with pride, defensiveness, brilliance, grievance, and theatrical force, making the work both a memoir and a self-portrait. It is essential listening for anyone interested in opera, Romanticism, nineteenth-century Europe, German music, artistic ambition, and the complex personality behind works such as *The Ring*, *Tristan und Isolde*, and *Parsifal*. 
   
  This AI-narrated audiobook offers a clear, polished, and immersive listening experience, helping modern listeners follow Wagner’s long reflections, historical details, artistic arguments, and dramatic voice with precision. 
   
  Enter the mind of one of music’s most influential and controversial figures, and hear the life he chose to tell in his own words.

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  Pumpkins All Around

  Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo...

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  “Pumpkins All Around” is a delightful story/song combination for children as they listen and follow along word-for-word in this adorably illustrated eBook. Fun music will entertain pre-readers as these rhymes reinforce early literacy skills needed for school success. This fall season, kids and parents alike will enjoy reading and singing along to “Pumpkins All Around” as they listen to this and follow” over and over again!

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  Wild Cities: Discovering New...

  Chris Fitch

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  'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 
  'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 
  'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT 
  The majority of the world now lives in some form of urban environment. But as the human footprint of brick, concrete and metal expands, our proximity to nature decreases. This is a problem; nature isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity. And it’s vital to our wellbeing. 
  From tiny urban forests in Tokyo and the star-rich skies of Flagstaff, to the meandering waters of Munich and prowling lions of Nairobi, this is a globe-spanning look at how to bring nature into the places we live – and how to create the wild cities of the future. 
  'Thought-provoking' GEOGRAPHICAL 
  'An excellent, meticulously researched book' COUNTRY LIFE 
  In this thought-provoking non-fiction science journey, Fitch explores the environmental sciences behind urban ecology, revealing how planning and architecture can rebuild ecosystems and safeguard habitats. With a travel writer’s eye and a conservationist’s urgency, he argues for protection of land and a special kind of ecotourism that helps us use cities as living, breathing refuges for nature. 
  For fans of Travis Elborough (The Writer's Journey), Derek Thompson (Hit Makers), Ezra Klein (Why We're Polarized), Robert Macfarlane (Is a River Alive?), and Caitlin Doughty (From Here to Eternity). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  Local Hero - Making a Scottish...

  Jonathan Melville

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  It's not a high concept movie, there's actually no story there really. It’s what happens in between the story that’s important' – Bill Forsyth  The story of an American businessman sent to buy the Scottish village of Ferness with the aim of turning it into an oil refinery, Local Hero is one of Scotland’s most beloved, and most misunderstood, films.  When Bill Forsyth’s incredible success with the low-budget That Sinking Feeling and Gregory’s Girl found him collaborating with Britain’s best-known film producer, David Puttnam, he soon found his independent ethos clashing with Hollywood’s desire for superstar actors and a happy ending.  Jonathan Melville checks into the MacAskill Arms and looks back at Bill Forsyth’s career with the help of new and archive interviews, before spending time with the cast and crew, including stars Peter Riegert and Denis Lawson, who made Local Hero on location in Houston and Scotland in 1982.  With access to early drafts of the Local Hero script (including hand-written notes) that reveal more about Mac and mermaids, excerpts from a previously unpublished interview in which Bill Forsyth explains why he refuses to call his film 'feel-good', and a look at long-lost deleted scenes with exclusive commentary from those involved, this is the definitive history of the Scottish classic.  ‘Genuine fairy tales are rare; so is film-making that is thoroughly original in an unobtrusive way. Bill Forsyth's quirky disarming Local Hero is both . . . it demonstrates Mr. Forsyth's uncanny ability for making an audience sense that something magical is going on, even if that something isn't easily explained’ – Janet Maslin, The New York Times  'Local Hero is kind of transcendent. It's poetic in a way that most films can't hope to be' – Frank Cottrell-Boyce  'Local Hero is one my favourite films of all time . . .  A timeless masterpiece' – Mark Kermode

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