Benedict Cumberbatch captivated audiences as Marvel's Doctor Strange. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Cumberbatch's life, acting career, and experience playing Doctor Strange.

Tom Holland captivated audiences as Marvel's Spider-Man. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Holland's life, acting career, and experience playing Spider-Man.

Learn how this Emmy-winning host, producer, and television personality became the world's most famous drag queen. RuPaul Andre Charles always knew he was meant to be a performer. Even as a young child, he loved to dress up and imitate the glamorous women he saw on television. When he turned fifteen, he began studying theater in a performing arts school in Atlanta and never looked back. Ru developed his drag-queen personality and launched his career in the 1980s. He now hosts and judges the widely popular and long-running show RuPaul's Drag Race, which has raised the profile of the art of drag, and drag queens around the world.

Harper and her fellow Dance Starz are headed to New York City for the big national competition! Not only will they be up against their arch-rivals, the Belles, but Harper will also face off against her old dance team. Does Harper have what it takes to finally prove that she belongs on the big stage?

The Competition, written in collaboration with Julia Devillers, is the third and final book in the glittering trilogy from international dance superstar Maddie Ziegler.

In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of femininity, Disney films both reflected and helped shape the attitudes of the wider society, both at the time of their first release and subsequently. Analyzing the construction of (mainly human) female characters in the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio between 1937 and 2001, she attempts to establish the extent to which these characterizations were shaped by wider popular stereotypes. Davis argues that it is within the most constructed of all moving images of the female form the heroine of the animated film that the most telling aspects of Woman as the subject of Hollywood iconography and cultural ideas of American womanhood are to be found."

Travel back in time to find out what life was like before television. Historical photographs, helpful infographics, and a "Blast from the Past" special feature provide readers an engaging overview of ways people got news and entertainment before TV was invented.

Tom Holland captivated audiences as Marvel's Spider-Man. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Holland's life, acting career, and experience playing Spider-Man.

This title invites readers to discover what is fun about dancing. Simple text, straightforward photos, and a photo glossary make this title the perfect primer on dancing.

Chris Pratt captivated audiences as Marvel's Star-Lord. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Pratt's life, acting career, and experience playing Star-Lord.

Winner - Maskew Miller Longman 2014 Literature Awards. Eli libali elilungiselelwe umdlalo weqonga. Usomashishini oselula nodumileyo okwidolophu yaseNgcobo unoshishino oluxube nokulukuhlwa kwabantwana abangamantombazana aselula, uwafundisa ukusebenzisa iziyobisi, aze kamva awaxhaphaze ngokwesini, andule ke ukuwafaka kushishino lwakhe lokuthengisa ngemizimba. Kumaxhoba singabalula intwazana entle kakhulu, eselula kwaye ekrele-krele ibikhula kwaye ibonisa inkangeleko elandelwa koko kufunwa yintliziyo yayo. Le ntwazana igqibele ngokuba neengcwangu, umsindo, inzondo nentiyo engummangaliso kwaye iqinisekile ngokuziphindezela. Kazi yozala nkomoni na le ntiyo? Masizivele! The story is about a young school girl who disobeys her parents and dates a cruel businessman who is engaged in illegal activities. The businessman dismisses the girl and she moves to Cape Town with a broken heart. She becomes the warder at a prison and this is where she starts to have a feeling of revenge.

How do I choose a play to perform with my students that meets the curriculum requirements and also interests my class? What can I introduce my students to that they might not already know? If you're asking these questions, this is the book for you! Written specifically for drama teachers, this is a quick, easy-to-use guide to finding and staging the best performance material for the whole range of student abilities and requirements for 15 - 18-year-olds. It suggests 200 plays suitable for students of all abilities and requirements, providing sound advice on selection and realisation, and opening up plays and playwrights you may have never known existed. Structured in 2 parts, Part 1 consists of 8 easy-to-read chapters, explaining how to get the most out of the resource. Part 2 is a vast resource listing 200 plays suitable for study/performance at GCSE and A Level. The details of each play are set out in an easy-to-navigate chart that offers introductory information on: Play Playwright Casting numbers Gender splits Ability Genre description Brief Summary Exam level Workshop ideas Warnings/advice (where necessary) Suggested scenes for study Performance notes including lighting, sound, costume and space

Jason Momoa captivated audiences as DC's Aquaman. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Momoa's life, acting career, and experience playing Aquaman.

Structuring Drama Work is the only drama resource that explores 100 dramatic conventions and techniques and provides ideas for how to practise them. This book explains dramatic conventions and what they do, explores how dramatic techniques can be used, provides cultural connections and global contexts and includes examples of the techniques in the context of plays and texts. The compact size and simple format make this book convenient and easy to use. Suitable for IGCSE (R) students up to A Level, IB Diploma and beyond, this resource will give inspiration and ideas to students and save teachers valuable planning time by providing numerous examples in a global context.

This title introduces readers to Disney, covering its history, franchises and products, and worldwide impact. The title features engaging infographics, informative sidebars, vivid photos, and a glossary.

Premiered at the National Theatre and winner of both the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play, Alan Bennett's The History Boys confronts issues of education, sexuality, and peer pressure through a group of boys preparing for their Oxbridge exams. Written specifically for Key Stage 4 students, this GCSE Student Guide offers a critical commentary on the text through an overview of the play and extensive analysis of themes, characters, contexts, dramatic technique, critical reception and related works. In addition, there is a section on how to write about the play, a glossary of dramatic terms and new interviews with Alan Bennett and the play's original director, Sir Nicholas Hytner. Throughout the guide are suggestions for activities and exercises pitched at the GSCE student, making this an indispensable resource for anyone studying the play at this level.

A new edition of the ultimate and most essential guide to Doctor Who, now updated to include all thirteen incarnations of the Doctor and covering all her newest adventures from Series 11. With fascinating facts from all of space and time, as well as information on the Doctor's helpful companions and fearsome foes, this book will tell all about the Doctor's TARDIS, her regenerations, and much, much more!

Learn what it means to be a stand-up comic and discover the best places to perform. Find out about famous stand-up comics and their styles. Find out how to start on the road to a career in comedy. Then read the story 'Jess Terr's Funny Life', about how Jess, the college joker, turns the tables on her teacher. Glitz! Glamour! Drama! Delve into the fantastic world of the performing arts with this book from the Starstruck series. A non-fiction section is followed by a fiction story on the same topic. Filled with striking photographs and illustrations, this book is ideal for any child who has an interest in an aspect of the world behind the stage curtain.

Community Shakespeare Company Editions make Shakespeare's plays instantly accessible to everyone, from children through Shakespeare-shy adults. These unique performance scripts, developed in a youth theater company, inspire student actors and captivate their audiences. Award-winning playwright Richard Carter delivers the best of the Bard in original verse adaptation. CSC Editions represent a dynamic model that can be used in schools, clubs, camps, and communities worldwide. With nearly thirty years experience working with young people, Carter is Artistic Director of the Community Shakespeare Company.* Its mission: "to enrich young lives and cultivate community, with theater as the means and Shakespeare the inspiration." (*www.communityshakespeare.org)

"This is to recommend Richard Carter with a full heart. We have enthusiastically shared many ideals and passions, especially regarding theatre by, with and for youngsters." -Lenka Peterson O'Connor, author: "Kids Take The Stage "(Backstage Books)

"I take my theatre very seriously and I know what I am talking about when I say that we are indeed blessed to have Community Shakespeare in our midst." -Kenneth W. Jenks: Director Emeritus, University of Utah Playwriting Program

"Having taught all over the world, I can imagine how excited teachers would be to have the opportunity to introduce a Shakespeare play to their students, knowing they would be able to grasp meaning and still retain the Shakespearian experience." -Ann H. Goss: Retired International School Teacher