New LAMDA Exams Acting and Verse & Prose Anthologies

We’re thrilled to announce that LAMDA Exams are collaborating with Nick Hern Books, the UK’s leading specialist theatre publisher, to publish two new anthologies on 25 April 2024.

These anthologies – Acting Anthology: Volume 5 and Verse and Prose Anthology: Volume 20 – contain monologues, duologues, poems and prose extracts for LAMDA Exams Learners to use during their exams, and are now available to pre-order in paperback from the Nick Hern Books website at a special discounted price.

These two new anthologies have been carefully crafted with the new LAMDA Exams syllabi in mind, connecting to the new exam specifications for Learners completing their Acting, Introductory, and Speaking Verse and Prose examinations. Both anthologies feature texts that are on the GCSE and A-Level curriculum, have been chosen to help Learners demonstrate their breadth of skills and acting range, and can be used and enjoyed by teachers and Learners of LAMDA Exams, as well as general audiences and those interested in the performing arts.

LAMDA Acting Anthology: Volume 5 contains the set selection of 100 solo and duologue scenes for Learners entering LAMDA Graded Examinations in Performance: Acting from Grade 1 to Grade 5, and includes a foreword by actor and LAMDA graduate Ruth Wilson.

LAMDA Verse and Prose Anthology: Volume 20 contains the set selection of pieces for Learners entering LAMDA Graded Examinations in Communication: Speaking Verse and Prose from Entry Level to Grade 8, and LAMDA Introductory Graded Examinations from Stage 1 to Stage 3 (Solo and Group), and includes a foreword by Joseph Coelho, Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2022-24. The Verse and Prose Anthology also contains the winners and runners up from the LAMDA Learners’ Poetry Prize 2023.

Both Acting Anthology: Volume 5 and Verse and Prose Anthology: Volume 20 are now available to pre-order in paperback from the Nick Hern Books website, where you currently get your copies at the special discounted price of £20 each (RRP £22). They will also be available to order via other major and specialist bookshops in store and online soon.

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