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Across Acting & Auditioning, Theater, Drama, and History & Criticism — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Acting The Basics by Bella Merlin.

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Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Acting The Basics.

Not Magic But Work An Ethnographic Account of a Rehearsal Process — Gay McAuley

Not Magic But Work An Ethnographic Account of a Rehearsal Process

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Immigration and Contemporary British Theater Finding a Home on the Stage — Victoria Sams

Immigration and Contemporary British Theater Finding a Home on the Stage

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

A History of Installation Art and the Development of New Art Forms Technology and the Hermeneutics of Time and Space in Modern and Postmodern Art from Cubism to Installation — Faye Ran

A History of Installation Art and the Development of New Art Forms Technology and the Hermeneutics of Time and Space in Modern and Postmodern Art from Cubism to Installation

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Key Concepts in Drama and Performance — Kenneth Pickering

Key Concepts in Drama and Performance

Kenneth Pickering

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Harold Pinter’s Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Influence on the Work of Harold Pinter — Charles Morton

Harold Pinter’s Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Influence on the Work of Harold Pinter

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting — Tom Stern

The Philosophy of Theatre, Drama and Acting

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Impersonations The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England — Stephen Orgel

Impersonations The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Bourdieu in the Studio Decolonising and Decentering Actor Training Through Ludic Activism — Evi Stamatiou

Bourdieu in the Studio Decolonising and Decentering Actor Training Through Ludic Activism

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change Activist Aesthetics — Emer O’Toole

Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change Activist Aesthetics — Emer O’Toole

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

National Theatre All about Theatre — Marina McIntyre

National Theatre All about Theatre

Marina McIntyre

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Actors and Performers Yearbook 2019 Essential Contacts for Stage, Screen and Radio — Lloyd Trott

Actors and Performers Yearbook 2019 Essential Contacts for Stage, Screen and Radio

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

100 Acting Exercises for 8 – 18 Year Olds — Samantha Marsden

100 Acting Exercises for 8 – 18 Year Olds

Samantha Marsden

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Shakespeare The Man who Pays the Rent — Judi Dench

Shakespeare The Man who Pays the Rent

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Acting in Film An Actor’s Take on Movie Making — Michael Caine

Acting in Film An Actor’s Take on Movie Making

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

The Expressive Actor Integrated Voice, Movement and Acting Training — Michael Lugering

The Expressive Actor Integrated Voice, Movement and Acting Training

Michael Lugering

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

An Actor Prepares — Constantin Stanislavsky

An Actor Prepares

Constantin Stanislavsky

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

The Young Actor’s Handbook — Jeremy Kruse

The Young Actor’s Handbook

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Thinking Shakespeare A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else who Wants to Feel More Comfortable with the Bard — Barry Edelstein

Thinking Shakespeare A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else who Wants to Feel More Comfortable with the Bard

Barry Edelstein

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Playing Joan Actresses on the Challenge of Shaw’s Saint Joan : Twenty-six Interviews — Holly Hill

Playing Joan Actresses on the Challenge of Shaw’s Saint Joan : Twenty-six Interviews

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Actors and Acting in Shakespeare’s Time The Art of Stage Playing — John H. Astington

Actors and Acting in Shakespeare’s Time The Art of Stage Playing

John H. Astington

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Pronouncing Shakespeare’s Words A Guide from A to Zounds — Dale F. Coye

Pronouncing Shakespeare’s Words A Guide from A to Zounds

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

Award Monologues for Women — Patrick Tucker

Award Monologues for Women

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

The Student Actor Prepares Acting for Life — Gai Jones

The Student Actor Prepares Acting for Life

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

The Count is Home The Development of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, from First Rehearsal to Opening Performance by the Saint Albans Repertory Theater, Washington, D.C., 1970: A Journal — David C. Newcomb

The Count is Home The Development of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, from First Rehearsal to Opening Performance by the Saint Albans Repertory Theater, Washington, D.C., 1970: A Journal

David C. Newcomb

Themes: Acting & Auditioning • Theater • Drama

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Acting The Basics by Bella Merlin. Connected by Acting & Auditioning, Theater, Drama. Authors featured include Gay McAuley, Victoria Sams, Faye Ran, Kenneth Pickering, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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