Drama

Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged burgers. A burger was thrown at Travis Alabanza on Waterloo Bridge in 2016. From this experience they have created a poetic, passionate performance piece based around the 'burger': the texture, and taste of being...

How do you decide what stories an audience should hear? How do you make your theatre stand out in a crowded and intensely competitive marketplace? How do you make your building a home for artistic risk and innovation, while ensuring the books are...

'Do you love what you do? Because I loved making the photographs. I loved the feeling of taking charge. Putting things in the frame, taking them out again. Writing with my eyes.' During the First World War, seventeen-year-old Elsie Wright fools the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607969341Author Frances GoodrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint WWW.Snowballpublishing.comPublisher WWW.Snowballpublishing.com

We've got our little routines. She'll text me if she's hungry or wants anything. Or I'll say, 'Fancy an orange squash?' And she'll send me a thumbs up. Doreen and her two grown up daughters sit at the table eating fish and chips, distracted by their...

A searing thriller that asks how well we actually know those closest to us. Daniel Turner has it all. A devoted wife, two beautiful children and a teaching job he loves. But when allegations are made about his past, his world begins to crumble around...

Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom's suicide . . . Well, I'll tell you, there weren't too many Amens that Sunday. But who is a man who does not speak his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480360426Author Alisha GaddisFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Applause Theatre Book...

A collection of some of Edward Albee's earliest and most acclaimed works.Book InformationISBN 9780573042225Author Edward AlbeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010. 'I expect you have been told fairytales before. But you have never really heard...

The Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka has been hailed as `one of the finest poetic playwrights who have ever written in English' (Martin Esslin) and `a writer of genius' (Irish Times). The five plays in this collection are linked by their concern with the...

In Salford alone, 34,000 children are caring for someone. Adapted from real-life testimonies, this bold and pertinent piece of documentary theatre examines our failing care system, the impact of austerity and what happens when a child becomes the...

Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in...

Shows how Shakespeare portrayed working people with insight, compassion and purpose.Book InformationISBN 9781789146615Author Stephen UnwinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion Books

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Restless and discontented in her marriage, Hedda Gabler is drawn to a former admirer, Lovborg, now a brilliant writer. But he is more taken with Hedda's old schoolfriend. Driven by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913926274Author Alexa IspasFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Word BothyPublisher Word BothyWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.' Considered one of Shakespeare's most rich and enduring plays, the depiction of its hero Hamlet as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573709951Author Ben PowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

High King Agamemnon faces the most crushing dilemma of his life. Kill his beloved eldest daughter? Or forfeit victory in the Trojan War? A father's secret plot clashes with a girl's romantic dreams in this chilling classic play from Ancient Greece...

Now we don't want to start Christmas like this, do we?Cheating at snakes and ladders, fighting over comic books, a bungled infidelity beneath the tree. Christmas has arrived in the Bunker household along with family and friends. But as the children lurk...

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...

‘A Gay Century: Vol 2’ is a vivid portrait of gay life in recent history, using a series of seven playlets which are dramatic, angry, funny and heartbreaking in turn. A camp old man collides with Gay Liberation and gets a new lease of life; a gay...

This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes explaining difficult words and references. It contains:- The...

We are where we come from?' That's not true. That's not true because if that's true there's no hope for any of us.Lori is coming home from her first term at university. It's only been a few weeks and already things have gone badly wrong. But none of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111228Author James GossFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Frantic Assembly's electrifying take on Shakespeare's tragedy of paranoia, sex and murder, firmly rooted in a volatile twenty-first century. In a world of broken glass and shattered promises, of poisonous manipulation and explosive violence, Othello's...

This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the complete texts of fourteen plays by the major Irish playwrights: W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Conor McPherson, and Marina...

An electrifying drama about what happens to personal identity in an age of ubiquitous technology and social media. John is a twenty-seven-year-old teacher 'who probably wasn't allowed to teach at an all-girls' school' and Mark is his sixteen-year-old...

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: KS3Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2018Get straight to the heart of Shakespeare's Macbeth; students' confidence and understanding develop faster as they explore the plot, themes...

Matthew, I don't give a f*** who's Irish and who's not. I'm just thinking about what's best for your career. And that's how themmuns in London'll see you. Calling yourself British just embarrasses them. The morning after his father's funeral, an...

An adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Racine's play of the same name. Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, is made to believe that it is Hippolytus who is lusting after Phedre, and begs Neptune to kill his son,...

'His drama is a piece of expert dramatic construction. Mr. Miller has woven his characters into a tangle of plot that springs naturally out of the circumstances of life today.' NEW YORK TIMES Three years on from the disappearance of his son,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411081Author Odon von HorvathFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 368g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573627132Author William FinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573115554Author Christopher HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

We're opposites, even though we came from the same, she's nuttin like me, an that shames me. Teenagers Muna and Iqra catch the same school bus. They were both born in Somalia but their backgrounds are very different. What they share is a painful secret...

Nigeria, England, America, Jamaica; are you proud of where you're from? Dark skinned, light skinned, afro, weaves, who are your true brothers and sisters? When two brothers from different continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk, they lift the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111662Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Look at it Carly, look at our dream. No one's happy Denise. There are two sides to every story. Grieving the loss of the family shop and their dreams destroyed, Denise and daughter-in-law Carly are left to pick up the pieces of their relatives'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780763643447Author Gareth HindsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Candlewick Press,U.S.Publisher Candlewick Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 516gDimensions(mm)...