Books in the Backstage series

This text provides step-by-step guidelines for achieving a wide variety of grotesque and outlandish effects, including bullet holes, body fluids and burns. In addition, there is a chapter on specialised character make-up, ranging from Dracula to the Terminator.

A complete guide to working in theatre, detailing the key roles and responsibilities and complete with interviews with many of the leading practitioners from British theatres.

Every period in history has its classic hairstyles. If you need to create a period hairstyle for a film, stage production or fashion shoot, this book is a most trusted companion. With clear instructions and close-up photography showing how to create more than a hundred vintage styles this is a welcome resource for the dressing room.

Theatre Artisans and Their Craft: The Allied Arts Fields profiles fourteen remarkable artists and technicians who elevate theatre production to new dimensions, explore new materials and technologies, and introduce new safety standards and solutions.

Pattern Cutting for Men's Costume is a practical guide featuring patterns for the most important garments worn by men between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Described as an encyclopedia of stage technology terms, this book embraces all aspects of the technical operation of the stage, covering sets, props, stage equipment and machinery. It is arranged in alphabetical form to provide quick and easy access to the information.

In this guide, Peter Maccoy examines the qualities and skills necessary for effective stage management, stressing the importance of understanding both the creative and the technical processes involved in theatre. The advice featured covers such topics as contracts, rehearsals and performance.

For anyone producing costumes on a small budget, whether for schools, colleges or amateur, semi-professional or professional groups, this basic introduction offers practical advice for every kind of play, together with drawings, diagrams and patterns from which to work.

Following the careers and approaches of 14 female theatre directors, this book describes how they strove for success in what was once a male preserve. They discuss their working methods and their most celebrated productions, their influences and their network of support.

Off Headset is a collection of essays by a richly diverse group of stage management professionals and educators covering the challenges stage managers face on the job, in their lives, and in their careers.