Drama

'I'll tell you what I really want. I want to jump clean out of my brain.' Essie's lost her job. Her girlfriend's left. But she's alright. Except lately she feels more like a chair than a person. One of those folding chairs. Solid one minute. And...

Includes the plays The Samson Riddle and Essay; The Bespoke Overcoat; The Hebrew Lesson; It Should Happen to a Dog; and The Mighty Hunter. When The Bespoke Overcoat was first performed in 1953, Wolf Mankowitz was immediately hailed as one of...

A country house is thrown into chaos as an innuendo-obsessed inspector disregards conventions and upsets everyone in thisfast-paced, uproarious satire. Murder. Mystery. And pipes. This spoof thriller requires no set.2 women, 3 menBook InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573130151Author Anthony MinghellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573706073Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

______________ 'Excellent ... a marvellous imagining of the life of Shakespeare's wife and a devastating exposure of the misogyny of the male biographers who have disparaged her' - Sunday Telegraph 'Greer dares to think the unthinkable ... this is...

This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works - dramatic and poetic - as a single, tightly integrated, evolving organism...

In a townhouse in Copenhagen works Hans Christian Andersen, a teller of exquisite and fantastic children's tales beloved by millions. But the true source of his stories dwells in his attic upstairs, her existence a dark secret kept from the outside world...

"You put it in the freezer, so when you transfer it to the boiling water it doesn't feel a thing. I suppose that this is how I've felt recently. I've been in some deep freeze and suddenly I can feel steam in my face, I'm falling headlong into scalding...

Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends Ed and Tim take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of...

Hilarious and heartwarming, Double Booked is perfect for fans of Beth O'Leary and Sophie Cousens, or anyone who's wished to try another life. Georgina Green thinks she has it all sorted: steady boyfriend, steady job, steady calendar. Then she meets...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763731Author Barry ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922819Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

He put this gun into my hand and made me human once again.Faced with an impoverished population, a shattered infrastructure and a volatile army, the first democratic president of Thebes, Eurydice, promises peace to her nation. Without the aid of Theseus,...

In Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare uses the most notorious murder in classical history to tell a tragic tale of friendship, ambition and betrayal. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with...

On a farmhouse at the edge of Salisbury Plain, a family is falling apart. Stephen can't afford to put his mother into care; Arthur can't afford to stop working and look after his wife. When a young stranger with blue hair moves in to care for Edie as her...

You're six years old. Mum's in hospital. Dad says she's 'done something stupid'. She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that's brilliant about the world. Everything that's worth living for. 1. Ice Cream 2. Kung...

"As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits ... the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality." The Guardian A play-within-a-play...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539435181Author Relax TeamFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short...

Doctor Faustus exists in two versions, both of which were edited from performances in the time of Marlowe. Both are considered to be authentic, but there are notable differences, both the b text containing additional scenes as well as different wording...

A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom. The four plays published here look back to the moments in history when women possessed - or achieved - power, and...

The leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eug ne Ionesco (1909-94) did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914927034Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Redbrick BooksPublisher Redbrick BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838462413Author Irvine WelshFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint ZANIPublisher ZANI

Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde...

I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work "personal, necessary, and important,"...

The Norton Critical Edition is again based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The volume includes a revised introduction and new annotations and textual notes. The Second Edition also includes the innovative feature "The...

Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology. 'So what happened to the bitches that gotta conscience? The underclass bitches, the...

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"Noel Coward's glittering gem" - The Times Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, recently divorced from one another after a five-year marriage, coincidentally arrive at the same French hotel... where they are both honeymooning with their respective new...

A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on Terence Rattigan's own experiences as a tail gunner in the Second World War. 1942. The Falcon Hotel, on the Lincolnshire coast. RAF bomber pilot Teddy is celebrating a reunion with his...

'History always ripples on. Even if we don't realise it.' In the Downing Street Press Office an emergency meeting has been called. The Prime Minister has been ad-libbing on live TV (again) and his words are going viral. There is a flurry of...

On the eve of his release from Feltham Young Offenders Institution Zahid Mubarek, a young British Asian man, was attacked by his cellmate. One week later he died of his injuries. Was he sharing a cell with a known racist? This new play traces his...

The official TV tie-in to accompany the ITV drama scripted by Andrew DaviesThe World of Sanditon delves behind the scenes of Sanditon, giving you the inside scoop on Jane Austen's unfinished masterpiece, adapted for television by Andrew Davies.Produced...

Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and "electability"... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares about principles and her community. Set away from the Westminster bubble in the party's traditional northern heartlands, this is a clash of...

In Shakespeare's thrilling and hugely influential tragedy, ageing King Lear makes a capricious decision to divide his realm between his three daughters according to the love they express for him. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of...

A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill. These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical adventures of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451473172Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 257gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...