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This novella sized book is based on the script and songs from the
successful stage show 'Alice The Musical'. It is a modern twist on
the much loved classic story by Lewis Carroll which will appeal not
only to children but to all generations. Its unique selling point
is that it offers a free download of eight songs from the original
musical and the lyrics can be found in the text of the book. Ideal
for a family sing-a-long! Readers can follow teenager Ali on her
journey through the land of wonders and they will meet the
fantastic characters that have delighted children and adults alike
for more than a century.
A practical guide to writing radio drama and getting it produced,
by a leading radio dramatist and a hugely experienced radio drama
producer who have both created award-winning dramas for the BBC.
For writers, radio drama offers a remarkable degree of creative
freedom, a unique relationship with an audience listening at home
or on the move, and a wealth of opportunities to earn a living. But
writing for radio is also a very particular craft, with its own
distinctive conventions, techniques and pitfalls. And you need to
know how the industry works to stand the best chance of getting
your play commissioned. This book, written from the dual
perspective of a writer and a radio drama producer, tells you all
you need to know about: What works well on radio, and what doesn't
How to hook listeners from the start, and how to keep them
listening How to format your script How to research and contact the
right producer for your play What to expect after you've received a
commission What happens when you're in the recording studio Full of
practical advice, tips and invaluable inside information about the
industry, it also includes extracts from many outstanding radio
dramas and a series of writing exercises to help put ideas into
practice. So You Want To Write Radio Drama? is an essential guide
for anybody who wants to write a radio play, whether you're a
first-time writer or one currently working in a different medium.
It will also be of help to those already involved in making radio
drama, or who simply want an insight into how it is written and
made.
LONGLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2021 The business world
is currently experiencing fundamental disruption, in part driven by
the technology enabled Fourth Industrial Revolution. Corporate
value is created and lost in breathtakingly short periods, and the
rise of 'unicorns' against the demise of once-venerated
organizations has shown that how firms compete has changed.
Management and Leadership in the 4th Industrial Revolution presents
a framework for managing and winning in the new accelerated world
of business, focusing on the key capabilities organizations now
need to achieve competitively superior performance. Building on the
'dynamic capabilities' approach already familiar to strategists and
based around his own research, Stephen Wyatt shows how executives
can assess the dynamic capacity of their organization - a leading
indicator of future performance in comparison to their industry
peers. Written in an accessible style with best practice examples
from companies and quotes from executives to support each insight,
this book includes a self-assessment questionnaire to measure the
dynamic capacity of your organization and advice on how to
strengthen areas of relative weakness. Management and Leadership in
the 4th Industrial Revolution offers timely insights on driving
innovation and emphasizes the importance of long-term strategy,
change management and new models of dynamic leadership.
LONGLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2021 The business world
is currently experiencing fundamental disruption, in part driven by
the technology enabled Fourth Industrial Revolution. Corporate
value is created and lost in breathtakingly short periods, and the
rise of 'unicorns' against the demise of once-venerated
organizations has shown that how firms compete has changed.
Management and Leadership in the 4th Industrial Revolution presents
a framework for managing and winning in the new accelerated world
of business, focusing on the key capabilities organizations now
need to achieve competitively superior performance. Building on the
'dynamic capabilities' approach already familiar to strategists and
based around his own research, Stephen Wyatt shows how executives
can assess the dynamic capacity of their organization - a leading
indicator of future performance in comparison to their industry
peers. Written in an accessible style with best practice examples
from companies and quotes from executives to support each insight,
this book includes a self-assessment questionnaire to measure the
dynamic capacity of your organization and advice on how to
strengthen areas of relative weakness. Management and Leadership in
the 4th Industrial Revolution offers timely insights on driving
innovation and emphasizes the importance of long-term strategy,
change management and new models of dynamic leadership.
When a junkmail robot invades the TARDIS, the Doctor gets led down
an unnervingly familiar path. Meanwhile, space beatniks Kingpin and
Juniper Berry just want to hitch rides and busk - until a greater
purpose calls. The Doctor's past and Kingpin's future are entangled
by malevolent forces. The Psychic Circus is just beginning: it may
bring back clowns, but it already has a Master....
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A stage version of Ivan Goncharov's dark comedy about the ultimate
Russian couch potato.
Told Look Younger is a provocative, frank and perceptive comedy
about sex, love, friendship and growing old. Three encounters
between three gay men in their early sixties in a restaurant where
neither the menu nor the decor are ever the same. It premiered at
the Jermyn Street Theatre to great critical acclaim in June 2015.
An imaginative stage treatment of the amazing life and enchanting
fairy tales of the Countess d'Aulnoy "the most famous French writer
of fairy tales after Perrault."
A sparkling stage version of Balzac's witty comedy about a
financial speculator on his uppers. The perfect comic fable for our
financial times!
The text of the highly successful version of L'ASSOMMOIR produced
at the West Yorkshire Playhouse by the acclaimed team of Jane
Gibson, Sue Lefton, Anthony Ingle and Stephen Wyatt. An ensemble
piece in words, music and movement. Cast of five women and four
men. "Zola's teeming, remorseless view of labouring life in
19th-century Paris translates excellently into vivid theatrical
terms.. The story is told with superb economy and invention and
without any recourse to a spoken, linking narrative." Jeffrey
Wainwright in The Independent. "Theatre is swarming with
adaptations of novels. Some are better than others and Stephen
Wyatt's version of L'Assommoir is amongst the best I've seen"
Michael Schmidt in The Dialy Telegraph. "This fine stage version."
Michael Coveney in The Observer
The script of my radio play about Fabian Ware and the creation of
the Imperial War Graves Commission successfully broadcast in
November 2007 on BBC Radio 4. Nominated for a Sony Award. From the
BBC website - "Stephen Wyatt's Memorials truly was radio drama at
its best; dynamic, informative and beautifully moving. I, like many
others, wept while listening." "A superb, touching, well written
and historically accurate play." "A wonderful experience. It is
rare that any play is that powerful and involving." "The best Radio
4 play in twenty years!"
The texts of six adaptations for radio of stories by W.S.Gilbert
dramatized by Stephen Wyatt. Broadcast on Radio 4 and highly
acclaimed. The contents - The Finger of Fate, The Elixir of Love,
The Burglar's Tale, Wide Awake, Mr Foster's Good Fairy, A Sensation
Novel.
Monologues for theatre and radio. "Highly recommended" Sue
Dunderdale, Head of M.A. Studies at the Royal Academy of Dramatic
Art and first director of RIP MARIA CALLAS. Included - R.I.P. MARIA
CALLAS. A tragi-comic monologue about a man who loves opera and
public lavatories and comes to accept his gayness too late. THE
STANDARD BEARER. A beleaguered Shakespearean actor on tour in West
Africa. THE LIMO FROM HELL. The rise and fall of a male model. plus
radio monologues commissioned for performers such as Dora Bryan,
Bernard Cribbins and Paul Scofield on subjects ranging from a woman
who accompanied the silent movies to a dying hero of the Armada, a
defrosted Ice Man and a disgruntled Santa Claus.
CREEPY. That's what Ace thinks of clowns. But the Doctor insists on
entering the talent contest at the Psychic Circus, the
self-proclaimed Greatest Show in the Galaxy, on the planet Segonax.
What has reduced Segonax to an arid wasteland? Why have the
happy-go-lucky circus folk stayed here so long? And why are they no
longer happy? Above all, what is the dreadful truth about the
'talent contests' run by the sinister Ringmaster and his robot
clowns? The Doctor and Ace need all their death-defying skills in
the big top to uncover a brooding, ancient evil that has broken the
spirit of the Circus and demanded the sacrifice of so many lives.
Sophie Aldred, who played Ace in Doctor Who, reads Stephen Wyatt's
complete and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target
Books in 1989. 4 CDs. 4 hrs 45 mins.
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