Drama

My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred. Almost.South London in the late seventies. High unemployment, high inflation, food shortages and strikes. But despite the winter of discontent, 17-year-old Karim's life is about to explode into...

This volume contains everything Brendan Behan wrote in dramatic form in English Contains the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison ("In Brendan Behan's tremendous new play language is out on a spree, ribald, dauntless...

Me jumping out of the van, was the beginning of a very bad day for me. I just didn't know it, but I was going to know it, in about four minutes, I was going to know, fer trut. 2020. Delroy is arrested on his way to the hospital. Filled with anger...

In her first collection of plays, Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's talent for writing complex female characters is on dazzling display. Belongings (2011): "Malcolm's writing is sharp and witty but also very...

Love and sex are like politics: it's not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do. Patrick Marber understands this perfectly, and in Closer he has written one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right...

When someone tells you not to look, OPEN THE BLOODY DOOR! Blue Beard the Magician makes hearts flutter and pupils dilate. With a wink, a stroke and a flick - things just seem to vanish. Cards, coins, scarves... and women. Puff! Gone. Without a...

The ultimate field guide to the birds of Argentina, an indispensable companion for any traveller to the region. This spectacular new field guide is the ultimate reference to the birds of Argentina and the islands of the South-west Atlantic, essential...

A darkly comic debut play about confession and the gravity of young love. Ramona is sixteen, hates bananas, and she's totally cool. Honestly. She's completely cool. It's 1998, and Ramona, of Englandshire, is on a wet, midge-riddled geography field...

Love? What does EloveE mean in this fearsome drama? Not much that is affirmative. Not much to heat the heart of a sentimental spectator. It signifies a passion that amounts to illness an alternately aching and frantic desire that cannot be slaked. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874400915Author Brainerd DuffieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Baker's PlaysPublisher Baker's Plays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787800816Author Charles Heron WallFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

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April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell's fiction is often said to be...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1633 quarto (Q) text-the only authoritative version-with modernised spelling and silent alteration of obvious errors, of confusing punctuation and of word-form changes. A Textual Notes section follows the play...

I mean here I am in Spain with, like, a totally hot local Spanish guy from a tapas bar and we're drinking Rioja and I mean, if this isn't the ultimate romantic, like, you know, like Dos Equis guy fantasy? Do you guys have that commercial?Late one night...

A Student Edition of Wedekind's classic 1891 expressionist play about adolescent sexuality. Wedekind's notorious play Spring Awakening influenced a whole trend of modern drama and remains relevant to today's society, exploring the oppression and...

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Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for men a from contemporary plays all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35 a perfect for auditions or class. There are comic monologues (laughs) and dramatic monologues (no laughs). Most have...

'It's England really, isn't it? A climate without cloud and rain isn't honest.' In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope. Mike Bartlett's play Albion was premiered in...

Full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance of...

I am Heathcliff! Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. The Yorkshire moors tell an epic story of love, revenge and redemption. Rescued from the Liverpool docks as a child, Heathcliff is adopted by the Earnshaws and taken to...

'The end-of-the-world quiz waits for no man, literally. Onwards, ever onwards, to our fiery decline. Round three...' It's the end of the world. The last night on Earth. An asteroid is heading straight for us and there's nothing we can do about it. ...

It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young daughter, Amy, with a new boyfriend sets in train a series of events which only find...

Goldman, a boastful, self-made real estate mogul who enjoys a fully-staffed garden penthouse overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, is living the American Dream. As a German Jew who flaunts this fact far and wide, his inbred paranoia means a handgun is...

The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Spanish Tragedy was well known to sixteenth-century audiences, and its central elements-a play-within-a-play and a ghost...

Do you want to know why Harold Pinter is a figure of such influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Or do you teach Pinter and need a reliable guide to the plays? The Faber Critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789380816272Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Maple Press Pvt LtdPublisher Maple Press Pvt Ltd

Viewed through the eyes of those on the ground, Black Watch reveals what it means to be part of the legendary Scottish regiment, what it means to be part of the war on terror, and what it means to make the journey home.This book contains Gregory Burke's...

A punchy and provocative new play by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen. Georgie is thirty with dirty secrets. She drinks in her bedroom and hides from the sun. Leah is fifteen with teenage dreams. She practices her cum face and Veets. A lot...

Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the...

A modern love story inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is a single dad hanging on tight. Julie is fighting to follow her dream of studying at Cambridge. Two Welsh teens raised a few streets apart - but from entirely different worlds...

Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2024 Congratulations! Your pain is commercially viable. It's 1991 and the Gulf War rages three thousand, three hundred and twenty miles away. Darlee is 8 years old, crying behind the wheelie bookcase in...

This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves. -- .Book...

This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language.The collection includes The Real Thing, Night & Day, Hapgood, Indian Ink and Arcadia, about which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438505190Author Harold BrighouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Book JunglePublisher Book JungleWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm * 8mm

In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573033667Author David CamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Two comic plays by Lee Hall which have had success at the Edinburgh Festival and are coming to London in February 2000 Cooking with Elvis is a domestic play that is both farcical and upsetting. Mam and Jill live together in an uneasy calm. Jill is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960260714Author Ernst TollerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Berlinica Publishing UgPublisher Berlinica Publishing UgWeight(grams) 168g

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Stars, hide your fires!Let not light see my black and deep desires.' One of Shakespeare's darkest and most violent tragedies, Macbeth's struggle...