Make Your Show a Success: Teach Yourself

Is this the right book for me?

Wherever your theatre interests lies, this is an essential book for you. It covers a wide range of key issues, from tips on coping with first night nerves, to a full section on health and safety, to funding and taxation. Illustrated with handy guides to lighting and staging and containing essential resources, this book will enable you to have a successful show.

Make Your Show a Success includes:

Part one: Community theatre: getting involved

Chapter 1: Community theatre

Chapter 2: The actors

Chapter 3: The director

Chapter 4: The stage manager

Chapter 5: The lighting designer/technician

Chapter 6: The sound designer/technician

Chapter 7: The set designer

Chapter 8: Wardrobe

Chapter 9: The props team

Chapter 10: Musical societies

Chapter 11: Festivals

Part two: Community theatre: from registration to rehearsal

Chapter 12: Setting up a new community theatre group

Chapter 13: Budgeting and fundraising

Chapter 14: Getting the boll rolling

Chapter 15: Making the play happen

Part three: Other societies and legal requirements

Chapter 16: Community theatre production companies

Chapter 17: Safety and other legal requirements

Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and added features:

Not got much time?

One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.

Author insights

Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.

Test yourself

Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.

Extend your knowledge

Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of amateur theatre.

Five things to remember

Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

Try this

Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.