Drama

A new adaptation of Henry James's classic novella adapted for the stage by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. This adaptation was first staged at the Almeida Theatre, London, in January 2013.About the AuthorRebecca Lenkiewicz's plays include The Night Season (National...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111150Author Willy RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Mother Courage was first performed in Zurich in 1941 and is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the seventeenth century during the Thirty Years' War. The plot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018046Author Keith WaterhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own. Hench is sixteen, Bobbie is thirteen. They're home alone in Feltham with their dog Taliban;...

People find me. When it's dark. 1863. An asylum. A woman locked in a windowless cell, with no memory as to who she is, or how she arrived there. When spiritualist medium Mrs Lyall requires a new assistant, this nameless woman seems the perfect...

Model answers for four practice papers from ABRSM's 2021 Music Theory exams for Grade 6 Key features: - a list of correct answers where appropriate -a selection of likely options where the answer can be expressed in a variety of ways - a single exemplar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492334620Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The five plays collected here offer a unique insight into the role of theatre in a situation of oppression. They were produced in close collaboration with their original black amateur casts, drawing on their lives and everyday experiences in the...

This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amy's View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed.David Hare Plays 3, containing Skylight, Amy's View, The Judas...

'The sky turns the colour of a jay's eye. The sea turns a deep royal purple. The mist lifts in quick, lithe ribbons, like a conjuring trick. Before us lies the island...' It's 1935, and an eccentric English family - four children, their widowed...

The culminating drama of the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Three plays out the final breakdown of political and family affiliations. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Norman Sanders with an introduction by Gillian Day.'There, take the...

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror story, this dramatic adaptation shows the transformation of the mild-mannered Dr Jekyll into the fiendish Mr Hyde. When Jekyll discovers a drug that can transform him, he becomes able to unleash the dark...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573130076Author April De AngelisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Bryony Kimmings creates multi-platform art works which aim to provoke change. Through script and photographs this book documents the show I'm a Phoenix, Bitch, Kimmings' personal response to the trauma of having post-natal breakdown. In 2016, Bryony...

Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. The "lower class" but very much up and coming Hopcrofts are in their bright new, gadget filled kitchen anxiously giving a little party for their bank...

It is the Jubilee! Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887. At Tilbury Docks, Rani and Abdul step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second class citizen, the other forges an astonishing entanglement with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132292Author Simon ReadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'I, Daniel Blake, am a citizen, nothing more, nothing less.' Dan is a carpenter. A Geordie through and through. He had a heart attack recently, but he's on the mend now. Katie has just arrived from London. She's finally got a council flat,...

Dealer's Choice premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, in 1995 and subsequently transferred to the West End. It won the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and, the Writers' Guild for Best West End Play. 'An exceptionally accomplished...

Ella Hickson's version of J.M. Barrie's much-loved story puts the character of Wendy firmly centre stage, in an adaptation that is refreshingly modern but never loses the charm of the original. Winter 1908. Snow is falling across London. Wendy Darling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688210847Author L. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, A Servant to Two Masters, features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Editor Joseph Farrell's accessible Introduction includes a plot synopsis, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762512Author Chris HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762550Author Chris HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486414232Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 75gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420966572Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

This is not a story about the Yorkshire Ripper. It's 1975 and Sharon just wants to marry Donny Osmond. Her mum, June, is working to keep girls like Helen off the street, and Fiona is desperate to get inside the Milgarth Police Station incident room. ...

"This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco's everyman protagonist Jean Berenger. In 'The Killer', he comes across a "radiant city", an ideal civilization which is being terrorized by a killer, whom he tries to help apprehend. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571211227Author Rhona SilverbushFormat PaperbackPage Count 1092Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In this fascinating and accessible book, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre to students and enthusiasts interested in knowing how the plays were performed. Theatre was a ceremony bound up with fundamental activities in ancient Athenian life and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787804920Author John MarstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

Why teach drama? How can a newcomer teach drama successfully? How do we recognize quality in drama? Starting Drama Teaching is a comprehensive guide to the teaching of drama in schools. Exploring the aims and purposes of drama, it provides an insight...

'Who said smashing things up was a bad thing?' Three strangers are about to face their demons head on. Balanced precariously on the tipping point, they might just be able to save one another - if they can only overcome their urge to self-destruct. ...

They were all in the pub when the explosion happened. Louise wakes up to find herself trapped with Mark, who has saved her life. Mark is always prepared for the worst and has everything he thinks they will need to survive; tinned chilli, Dungeons and...

A slick and violent black comedy set in the Soho clubland of the 1950s. The hit debut play from the author of Jerusalem. In the seedy gangster underworld of the rock'n'roll scene, club owners fight for control of Johnny Silver, the latest young...

An absurd, hilarious and fast-paced comedy by the writer of some of Britain's most acclaimed TV comedies. Flight BA043 has crashed on an island. Stranded, four survivors wait. Surely somebody will find them. Planes don't just disappear, do they? And,...

Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.The fifth volume in the Brecht Collected Plays series brings together...

Zara has spent her adult life being two different people. The good Muslim daughter, all set to marry the man her family approves of - and a free-spirited British millennial, who parties as hard as she works. Over one dramatic weekend, the lies she's...

The play that gave birth to the smash-hit film - a wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford. The six Khan children, entangled in arranged marriages and bell-bottoms, are trying to find their way growing up in 1970s Salford. They are...